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Year
Virtual Systems – Actual Objects: Rendition of Morphosis ' Compositional Principles in the mid 1980s
2018
Formal Analysis and Computer Process - Medley I/II
2018
Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand’s Clockwork
2018
Le squelette de la Maison du Peuple : hypothèse de restitution 3D
2017
Espaces de processus/Espaces d'analyse. Description graphique de mécanismes géométriques compositionnels et représentationnels. Los Angeles dans les années 1980 : morceaux choisis
2017
Jean Prouvé - 3D short movies
2016
Caractérisation de formes architecturales. Une approche expérimentale intégrant complexité et intelligibilité des représentations numériques
2016
Study and Rendition of Jean-Baptiste Hourlier's projection drawings
2016
Architectural Analysis & Computer Process IV
2016
Morphosis Drawings and Models in the Mid 1980s: Graphic Description of Graphic Thinking
2016
Architectural Analysis & Computer Process III
2015
Architecture « résolument » numérique : Paradigm Shift vs. paradigme albertien ?
2015
Immeuble Bessonneau à Casablanca - Hypothèse de restitution de l’état originel
2015
Reduce to Understand: a Challenge for Analysis and Three-dimensional Documentation of Architecture
2015
Analyse architecturale, modélisation 3D et narration filmique : un regard original sur quelques objets corbuséens
2015
Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand - Representation as Instrument
2015
Architectural Analysis & Computer Process II
2014
Education in Architectural Analysis through Hybrid Graphic Means: a Setup for Critical Thinking
2014
Architectural Analysis & Computer Process I
2013
Aménagement du Hall des Beaux-Arts par Lucien-Jacques Baucher
2013
Baucher-Blondel-Filiponne - 3D short movies
2012
La complexité inhérente aux modèles numériques et le paradigme de la représentation architecturale - Brèves considérations sur les pratiques contemporaines
2012
Jacques Dupuis & Albert Bontridder - 3D short movies
2011
Photomodélisation de la Maison de Verre de Paul-Amaury Michel
2010
Van Buuren House Orthophotographic Survey
2009
Al Taybeh 3D Photogrammetric Survey
2008
Architectural analysis and relevance of digital representation techniques - An educational experiment
2007
Peter Eisenman's Houses I to X
2002
EXPLORER: A Procedural Modeler Based on Architectural Knowledge
1997
POV-Ray: architectural analysis and computer rendering
1995

Analysis, Systems & Composition

Teaching Unit ARCH-P7123 - Master 1 & 2
Teachers: Denis Derycke (coordinator), Michel Lefèvre
Invited lecturers: Uri Wegman, Julien Rippinger

The Analysis, Systems and Composition module considers architectural composition as an operation primarily based on principles that are inherent to architecture itself, devoid of any form of contextualization, function or ideological content. It assumes that the purpose of architecture mainly lies in the shapes and spaces through which architecture reveals itself, as well as in the graphic means – drawings and models – through which architecture is designed, which are often its only mode of existence. In such an approach, the design is no longer meant to produce a concrete output; the creation of exploratory composition processes becomes an end in itself.

The Analysis, Systems and Composition module requires students to analyze a phenomenon – natural or human-made – from which they can extract recurrent rules and principles. Those rules and principles will be transcribed into a spatial environment so as to set up a system susceptible to generate numerous different formal outcomes. The whole process will be undertaken exclusively by the use of a set of graphic tools chosen by the students, analog and/or digital: hand drawing, axonometric projections, 3D modeling, 3D printing, computer coding, etc. Then, students will explore the potentialities of the system they have created by using it to deliver a few formal configurations, sometimes unexpected.

The module aims to challenge the classical notion of “parti architectural”, or function-oriented design, through a method of composition guided by production, sensitivity and serendipity, rather than intellectual and rational reflection. If the module is mainly based on hands-on production, it is also nourished by lectures about some post-modern architecture trends, as well as lectures about analog and digital graphic tools, so as to use means of representation according to their specific features. Eventually, this teaching intent to tickle students about a part of history of artistic and architectural composition of structuralist inspiration that foresees computational architecture.

2023-2024 theme
Minimalist/algorithmic/serial music. Selected composers: Delia Derbyshire, Laurie Spiegel, Brian Eno, Eliane Radigue, Terry Riley, Steve Reich.

Featured Projects:

Brian Eno, Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978)
Rose Jouslin & Paul Cruveillier

Eliane Radigue, Usral (1969)
Camille Dugué & Léa Favresse

Terry Riley, In C (1964)
Farid Mayyahian