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How to open up to original ideas.

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Making Architecture

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Making architecture offers a unique insight into the mind and work of an Architect, starting with the basics of the profession and culminating with the production of a scaled site model. The course should act as ideal preparation for those interested in undertaking an undergraduate degree in Architecture, although its flexible, intriguing and enjoyable content makes it accessible for all those looking to increase their knowledge in the field. Delivered primarily by Professors from the IE School of Architecture and design in Segovia (Spain), the course begins by examining the mind-set of an Architect - asking how they think and what they do to train their creative minds, moving on to using inspiration from the environment to stimulate design ideas. Finally, the course concludes by looking at some of the more technical aspects of Architecture - such as composition, form, space and hierarchy - and stressing the importance of creating a story that helps define your design. This fascinating content is delivered principally from the stunning design studio at the IE school of Architecture and features external videos from a few beautiful locations in the city of Segovia. Finally, it includes interviews from Pritzker Prize executive director - and Dean of the school of Architecture and design at IE - Martha Thorne, with a number of award winning practising architects such as Sarah Wigglesworth and Cristoph Ingenhoven.

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AK

Jan 18, 2017

It was a combination of entertainment, developing various practical skills and getting new experiences. Bravo!

QL

May 03, 2019

can't wait to explore more about architecture! I'm applying architecture design as my undergraduate programme

从本节课中

Welcome to the Mind of an Architect

In this course, we're not just going to tell you what the architect does, we're going to show it to you. You're going to actually do, on a small scale, the work that an architect does.What the architect does is to have a certain vision about how things might be better. We're going to give you an introduction to that mindset and to that way of working. The study of architecture really engages all your skills. You learn how to work in teams, you learn how to communicate. You learn how to think critically and analytically. You develop all of your creative skills in the study of architecture. In this first module we are going to do three things. We're going to dispel some of the myths about what you need in order to be an architect. We're also going to talk about what an architect does and doesn't do. Then we're going to work on a short design exercise that begins to stretch your muscles to get you going on the design process.

Between people and trees.3:01

What I mean when I say ‘Architecture’.4:28

You are not alone.3:39

Synchronize your design.2:30

The secret art of mind-reading.3:44

Creativity starts by asking stupid questions.5:27

How to open up to original ideas.5:42

Use hands to think better.3:48

Architects do not just make buildings.5:25

Let’s play a game called finding Architects.3:44

Entrance to a life as an Architect.0:51

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Nenad Katic
Professor
Manuel Perez Romero
Professor
David Jeffrey Goodman
Director of Undergraduate Studies in Architecture

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In this video, I'm going to talk about creative thinking, and this wonderful place where in, design studio at our school, is a perfect inspiring environment to talk about creativity. Creativity is a capability to come up with original new ideas, and it's not something we usually learn in school, because in school, we learn how to find and remember one perfect answer to a question. This capability, this way of thinking, that tries to take our different possibilities and narrow down to one correct solution is called convergent thinking, because you are convergent for many possibilities into one solution, and it's good. Convergent thinking is really useful in school, as in everyday life. For example, while we're driving and we look at the traffic signs, we don't want to linger too long and think about what these signs could be. We want to say, "Okay this is the sign, I need to stop right now." Also for example, we don't want the doctors to get creative while they operate and try to rearrange organs to see how things can look like it, what could turn out. But this is exactly what designers do. What designers and architects normally do is not just trying to find one correct answer to a problem. Instead, what we do is we try to think in such way that we open up to new possibilities and new directions to solve a problem, because it's only from these unexpected new directions that the real new original solutions might come, and this way of thinking that open up possibilities it's called divergent thinking. Since divergent thinking is not something usually thought in school, it's something that the designers or architects should exercise themselves. There's many ways to exercise divergent thinking. I can give you one example of one exercise I like to call, "What stuff can be." That could be a good example of divergent thinking, and also an exercise in it. So the exercise I go like this. Take any regular object, for example a brick, and then try to think of as many uses of a brick that you can think of. So obviously, you can take a brick and stack it to build walls, but what else could brick become? So we can look at brick is heavy, so we can use it to press paper or it's red, so we can just use it as a chalk and draw, or we can take a look at a brick and see that usually bricks have these holes, so we can use it as a pencil holder may be. So the way we go about and think about all these new things and all these new uses for a brick, discovers a little bit of how the divergent thinking works. What we did here in this brick example is that, we looked at the brick and tried to forget everything we know about this object, and we try to observe this object with completely new eyes. So instead of looking at brick and look at the things we know about brick, we will be asking ourselves about. We're observing different properties of the bricks, so we've observed that. The shape, so that's why we can build walls. The weight, so that we can use it as a weapon. The color. That's why these observations that I mentioned in the last video, are really important for the creative thinking. Now, I don't want you to think that those designers just do divergent thinking. Actually, both create convergent and divergent thinking has their way in the design process. I can simplify the entire creative process in these couple of steps, following couple steps. At the beginning, there's always, as I said, observations. You try to look at the world and collect as many information that you can, and then you take these observations and then you try to imagine as many ways to combine them, and just to try to rephrase maybe the problem in as many different ways as you can. In other words, you diverge. Then when you have so many different options, and it's important that in this diversion phase, you don't want to judge. You just want to just think freely and open up as to as many things as you can. Typically, most of you may be know the concept of brainstorming, which is one of the most commonly use divergent thinking processes. Once when you are at a point that you have a lot of ideas, and a lot of them might be silly but that's okay, you're going to start thinking convergently. So you will try to think about all these ideas that you have, you will start to evaluate them, you will start to eliminate some of them, you will start to transform some of them, and very gradually basically, you'll start to narrow things down. It's never one solution, you want to narrow down to couple of solutions, but then you will get to test those things. So to summarize this. As a designer, you want to be able to think both divergently and convergently. So you observe, you go wide and silly, and then you converge to the right solution.

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