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Was just in The Netherlands a week ago with my degree level students and came across this beauty. I miss big American cars!!! Go to www.degree-unit-d.net to more pics.

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I was in Paris this past week with my students from Degree Unit D. We had a great time! Here are some snaps from the trip. My favorite building was the National Communist Party H/Q by Oscar Niemeyer. I really have to go to Brazil!
Also there was a great exhibition on at Foundation Cartier by John Maeda. If you are in Paris go and check it out.

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Here is a site of one of my students in Degree Unit D, Taesik Seo. Here is a little blurb on what it is and all about. Go and have a look!!!!
http://www.baanchan.net
/Baanchan/ is the name of my future office that I will open with one of my friends. It means Sidedish in Korean, but there are some other meanings, something like "thesis-antithesis-synthesis". Anyway, I would like to express my ideas about architecture, my hobby and my study in U.K. through this blog.

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Here is a sample of some work my Degree Unit is currently working on. They are exploring the drawing of dynamic conditions on existing spaces.The existing spaces being the Case Study Houses from the 1950's. More to come!

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Yesterday the 18th Unit D had there final review on the 2 week project to design a glass house anywhere in London.
I would like to thank the guest Jurors Sybil Trigg, Andrew Taylor, and Mark Hayduk for taking part and for there criticisms.
As a whole the work seen was very exciting and all were impressed with the amounts produced in 2 weeks.

The new project brief was also given out yesterday. Everyone was given one of the Case Study House projects to study and redraw.
These drawings will act as there underlay to develop diagrammatic drawing techniques and to investigate the dynamics of the spaces.

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Today was the last day to discuss there 2 week project to design a Glass House.....
Some interesting ideas have been developing.
They have a Final review on Tuesday the18th!

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Everyone was in studio today working away on the first project of the term. (Design a Glass House!)
Some very good and ambitious ideas so far from the Unit.
We will see how things develope for Tuesday the 11th.
Phillip Johnson and MiesVan der Rohe are either shaking in there boots or turning in there graves!!!

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Degree Unit D started officially on Tuesday the 4th. A few changes this year from the past 2 years, unit staff member Antonio Lipthay has left us and moved back to Santiago, Chile with his wife Justine, (all the best guys!). The second change is we are joined by new unit staff member Thomas Modeen of Small Architecture (welcome aboard Tom)! The unit is very large this year with 20 students who come from a variety of countries around the globe.

Lightness-Houses: Case Studies for livable spaces of evanescence in public and private London!

“In this architecture of “lightness,” buildings become intangible, structures shed their weight, and facades become unstable, dissolving into an often luminous evanescence.”
Terence Riley

“Taken literally, the term private house might apply to any dwelling that shelters an individual or family, whether it is a palace or a tent. However, in Western culture the private house has been subject to tremendous interest and controversy in that it has been considered as a type of housing intended for a specific class of people: the bourgeoisie in Europe and the middle class in the United States. As such, the concept of the private house has become associated with a range of political, moral, social, and economic issues. “
Terence Riley

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