Tag Archives: Housing

House Design

Posted on December 17, 2013 by Graham Shawcross

In the late 1960s and early 1970s the design of British Local Authority 2 and 3 story house types became so severely constrained that it became feasible to think about generating all possible house type designs. Three different groups became involved … Continue reading →

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A Dream World

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Graham Shawcross

A Dream World: A Celestial Geometer imagines a world made up entirely of the following diagram He asks a handy systems analyst newly arrived in heaven, after a life of endless toil working on CAAD, to design a computer database … Continue reading →

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Aesthetics

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Graham Shawcross

Aesthetics: Successor to Plain and Provisional investigating what sort of aesthetics might be appropriate and sustainable. implicit order Repetition, grouping, alternation etc of elements effects perceived order. pattern                         … Continue reading →

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Plain and Provisional

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Graham Shawcross

Plain and Provisional: A largely visual argument occasioned by 2 well known Manchester housing schemes. 1 Lovell East Manchester Exemplar Housing       In Venturi and Brown terms, this scheme is definitely a Duck. Plans manipulated to provide interesting … Continue reading →

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