Elisa Jue

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Authors: Nina Rappaport and Leo Stevens Publisher: Yale School of Architecture Date: 2011 Editor-in-Chief: Elisa (Lui) Jue Publisher: Yale School of Architecture Date: 2006 Publisher: Images Publishing, Australia Date: March 2001 Author: Pierluigi Serraino Publisher: Birkhauser Date: September 2002

Sample Courses: This introductory course equips students with the fundamental understanding of our built environment, from the design of an object to a building to a city. Through a series of projects and lectures, the students will develop critical analytical skill in evaluating the different factors that influence our spatial experience. The development of basic skills in concept development, design methodologies and visual representation will be covered. Readings on the topics of architecture, landscape and urbanism will help students grasp the importance of holistic approach in design. The course is designed to introduce students to ideas, principles, and methods of solving architectural problems in a studio setting. Through a graduated sequence of exercises culminating in a major semester project, students explore the architectural concepts of space, form, function, and technology

For the first thirteen years of my life, I slept in a closet in Hong Kong. As I lay on my plywood bed, my family's garments hung suspended above me, forming my own undulating sky. Depending on the seasons, my sky changed its density, pattern, and smell. As a child, I would fall asleep imagining my own puppet show from the moving shadows of the clothes. Although the closet was the smallest room I have inhabited, its materiality offered the largest universe for my senses and imagination. More than a refuge for my body, the closet was the shelter for my reveries and memories. It was the haven for hidden treasure, childish amusement and concealed tears. Measuring only six feet by two and a half feet, my precious world was the only storage space for the six of us in our four hundred square foot apartment on the seventeenth floor. Underneath my plywood bed sat boxes of various sizes and colors, each containing a piece of my family's history

Unlike his contemporaries, Louis I Kahn did not leave a legacy of stylistic principles or theoretical manifestos to the architectural world. He made his mark by creating compelling buildings that could be labeled neither Beaux-Arts nor Modernist, but rather assumed a category of their own - a category that is based on the existential and spiritual quality of space. In Kahn's own words, this is "what the building wants to be." It represents the truth, the perfect form of a building that cannot take any other shape, and it is to the search for this perfection that Kahn devoted his life. Kahn's search for authenticity had led him away from his Beaux-Arts training, Like many Modernists, Kahn instead believed in disclosing the functional aspects of a building by making apparent the mechanical and structural components

Prison construction has become a booming business in the United States. Since the mandating of minimum sentencing for drug dealers and the "three strikes, you're out" policy passed during the 1990s, more and more people are being put behind bars. Currently, the prison population has reached the two million mark, making the United States the country with the highest incarcerated rate out of all the democratic nations. With such a dramatic increase, overcrowding has developed in the existing prison stock throughout different jurisdictions. Many facilities handle double their occupancy by housing two inmates in a cell. In the Dauphine County Women Work-Release Facility in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for example forty-three women are housed in a building designed for thirteen juvenilie offenders. A major source of the overcrowding problem is caused by the high return-rate of past offenders. Statistics show that more than 25

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