M a g a z i ne issue 04

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M a g a z i n e issue04

Prepared by Anthony C.Antoniades, Architect-Planner , aantonia@tee.gr

MAGAZINΕ 04

Contents :

1. Personal note

2. General context and paedagogical Design goals

3. A Gallery of Projects

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Student Projects from the architectural design studios of Anthony C. Antoniades at UNM , UTA and Washington University in St.Louis

A.C.Antoniades presenting to his students exhibition "Simultaneity in the design Process and Product results"-his design process methodology to be followed , during semester introductory session.

Photo : Cyrus Roupfur , instructor's archive

Personal note

To my Former Students: When your projects and the fury of the studio was over, after I had sent my thanks notes to the "jurors" and guest reviewers who had helped us in our final reviews, I used to take my camera and with whatever little photography skills I possessed I managed to keep some record of the final product of your efforts. As you all know, I never burdened you with additional expenses and tasks that would eventually enrich an "instructor's" portfolio; I always tried to give you all I had and had learned from my own teachers (I am proud to name Victor F.Christ Janer , Percival Goodman ,and Jan Despo -of the Bauhaus- as the best), from my own employers ( I am also proud and thankful to Paul Rudolph, to Pattricia Swan and Roy Allen from SOM ), from my intellectual and Friendship mentors ( Göran Schildt and Ricardo Legorreta) and from my occasional clients . Your efforts , time and financial sacrifices were always sacred to me and so I treated them. In my solitary walks to document your projects , sometimes photographed in the studio, in the exhibition rooms or in the outdoors, where I carefully took the models out of your drawing boards and moved them back on my own, I never kept notes of the names as it had never occured to me my memory would ever fail me. Yet how wrong I was ! I wish I had kept notes systematically. So, If you see your project and not your name, you know the reason. Please send me your name and my memory will immediately Klik; I'll include missing names and re-publish the web at once...In the hopes you are all doing great, wherever you may be, and that some of your early efforts below may have found a place in the real world , I thank you for having trusted me at your early steps.

I also hope all the others who may see your projects may get some inspiration toward proportion, rhythm, light, mass, color and ..."primordial architectural sanity", and that both, you and them, whoever these "them" may be, may start a self-evaluating dialogue , contemplating what one went through in School , what the real world has permitted ( or forced) each and every one of us to do , how we reacted and "added our bit to up-grade the mundane " (as not all of us are ever going to have the ideal client or are going to become Le Corbusier, Meier, or Gehry) and what after all the right way could perhaps be for each and every one, hopefully the right thing for the "user" clients of our buildings.

Any way, remember ? : Alvar Aalto, Ricardo Legorreta, Luis Barragán, Hassan Fathy, Jörn Utzon , Antoine Predock , and the other inclusivist architects we talked about during your sacrifices and trials to the discipline? I deeply believe they are still valid and will always be sources for learning and inspiration for a human-sensitive and spirit up-lifting architecture .

General Context and Paedagogical Design goals

	Publication of "multiculturally inspired projects"projects from the Design Studios of A.C.Antoniades: "Kenchinku Bunka",7/1979, p.126(left); Same projects (Naoshima Kindergarten- from exhibition and subsequent publication in the Greek magazine "Technodomica"(Right), (Individual credits as appropriate in publications above) (70's-80's). others also published in other magazines(i.e "Anthropos+Choros" and in several books of the Instructor)
	Post-Design evaluation projects , i.e : Cultural Center in Pieksamaki Finland, Romote Post design evaluator, Kristian Gullichsen. Project by Javier Lucio (UTA,subsequently Harvard). Advocacy Proposals of Student Projects for Urban Infill projects in Texas Towns. From Publication of Project by Yukio Hamasaki in Instructor's article "Learning from Texas Towns",Perspective, Society of architectural Historians/Texas Chapter , v.x,no.1,pp.3-6
	Competition entries : " Transportation Center in Paris-France", and ACSA sponsored competition , Project by Jeff Krauss , UNM (early 70's) Juvenille Services Center: ACSA sponsored competition/Special Citation (Meileen Saad,Dean Smith, David Peckar ), Texas Architect, Nov-Dec.1980, v.10, no.6