Angaben zur Professur

Lehrstuhl 

Professur M. Angélil

Typ 

Professur für Architektur und Entwurf

Standort 

ONA G 34

Webseite 

www.angelil.arch.ethz.ch

Assistierende 

Frederick Kim, Guillermo Dürig, Ciro Miguel, Michael Stünzi

Kontakt E-Mail 

kim@arch.ethz.ch

Angaben zur Entwurfsklasse

Typ 

Entwurf V-IX

Thema 

Los Angeles River

Beschreibung
des Entwurfs-programmes 

El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río Porciúncula Operating at the intersection of architecture, infrastructure, and landscape, the 2018 fall design studio of the Chair of Professor Marc Angélil will focus on the Los Angeles River – a water control channel in concrete (approximately 80 km in length) erected after major floods by the Army Corps of Engineering from the late 1930s to mid-1950s – and its potential revitalization as green corridor and integration within the urban fabric, or what historian and architectural critic Reyner Banham called in the early 1970s “the Plains of Id” in his book Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies. Acknowledging that the dry riverbed of the Los Angeles River has been repeatedly used as a backdrop for a number of Hollywood movies, including Chinatown (1974), Grease 2 (1982), To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), Terminator 2 (1991), Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), and The Italian Job (2003), to mention just a few, all contributing in part to the myth of Los Angeles as an out-of-the-ordinary place that transcends the everyday (by the way, a myth to which also Reyner Banham succumbed when exclaiming “I love Los Angeles”), the design studio exercise will focus on the ordinariness of everyday life, foregrounding reality as experienced by those living in the city day in and day out. While addressing the role of a piece of infrastructure within city, one incidentally rarely perceived when traversing the urban terrain, the design studio intends to particularly address how architecture as a discipline can and must engage in framing and reframing the future of Los Angeles’s ‘architecture of the city’; in so doing, the studio will engage in a discourse on the relation between design method and design outcome, that is, between process and product, particularly considering that techniques deployed in any undertaking always have a determining effect on what is produced, constructed, fabricated, or made. Participation in the seminar week is not obligatory, but highly recommended.

Thematische und methodische Schwerpunkte 

Entwurf, Konstruktion, Staedtebau, Modellbau, Visualisierungen

Lernziele 

Development of various analytical and notational techniques to understand culturally and conceptually designed architecture; theoretical engagement with social, infrastructural, and architectural utopias; identification of an inventory of architectural typologies along the Los Angeles River; critical evaluation of the ideas developed; designing contemporary, relevant architecture, including the design of processes and of programs based on the study of the local context.

LV-Nr. des Entwurfs 

052-1113-18

Zusätzliche integrierte Disziplin(en) 

Städtebau, Architektur und Kunst, Landschaftsarchitektur, Tragkonstruktionen

Unterrichts-sprache 

Deutsch / Englisch

Arbeitsweise 

Einzel- und Gruppenarbeit, davon 5 oder mehr Wochen Gruppenarbeit

Daten Zwischenkritiken 

2. Oktober, 16. Oktober, 20. November

Datum Schlusskritik 

18./19. Dezember

Einführungs-veranstaltung 

18. September, 13:30, ONA

Zusätzliche Kosten 

CHF 0 (Schätzung, ohne allfällige Seminarwochenkosten)

Verfügbare Plätze 

36

Plakat des Entwurfs-programmes 

Plakat ansehen (PDF Datei)

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