Let’s Talk About Parti Diagrams - Vol. 02 | feat. Seattle Library and Chichu Art Museum

[@indilok]

I wish I had met these two champions during my first year. Much Love!

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks. Never too late

[@carmenbotha6132]

I love how they interact with each other, so pure. Also helping me a lot in my first year no lies

[@Archimarathon]

Good to hear

[@invencibletheory]

About the foam models you showed used to show the parti main concept gesture is always a last minute thing done at the end with extensive post-rationalization, at least at O/|/|A

[@relixofwar]

These two parti videos have cleared up a lot of questions for me. Especially with seeing clear dissection of intent.

[@Archimarathon]

Good to hear

[@laurenng2508]

Love the “love you” at the end 😆😆, thank you so much! The video is very informative and helpful!❤

[@legendl7254]

Great series! Please keep doing it. Again, thanks a lot for sharing.

[@Archimarathon]

Please share with your colleagues

[@legendl7254]

@@Archimarathon I definitely will! BTW, Andrew is so cute. Like an eight-year-old boy 😄

[@Archimarathon]

@@legendl7254 Yes. You know my pain lol

[@martinwander8295]

Your presentations bring me back to my best classes in architecture school. That was back in 1967-72. I’m retired now, but I’m really enjoying your thought process. It sparks my now somewhat dormant creative thoughts. Thank you.

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks for watching and commenting

[@GraemeChapman-d6z]

I think the modern designed library down near the harbour in Oslo Norway is really impressive architecture. It has wonderful study and reading areas.

[@aldrichjohn10]

I love that Tadao Ando's idea of the peculiar individual wall that features you intentionally of the art that is inside, I keep looking at that small thick line,feel some sort of an interest and intrigue, aside from the triangle. Great discussion as always, dissecting the elements of What, and the Main Thing.

[@Archimarathon]

Glad you enjoyed it and found it useful

[@gabybordino6024]

Yessss!! Great episode! You always talk about the things that are important not to forget, and thanks for that! Architecture is not just about organising spaces seems pretty obvious but it’s really important. Also you’ve shared a lot of beautiful examples. Thanks heaps for being an inspiration.

[@Archimarathon]

Yes I found that a lot of students would only focus on the bubble diagram of program or that they come up with programmatic idea and that’s it. Not thinking about the architectural moves (what) and their consequences (why). Have you seen that TED Talk before?

[@gabybordino6024]

Actually, not yet. I’m going to watch it and probably use on my Ted talks section of the course

[@WelcomeToSteph]

Have to agree that Episode V is totally badass. Also a great reminder to keep the main thing the main thing and how to work through that using parti diagrams. I definitely have succumbed to being sidetracked and over complicating my project! Some excellent points to keep in mind as I start the Master's soon.

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks for your comments. It’s also learning to see when good work seemingly appear to be random, you know it’s actually highly composed.

[@WelcomeToSteph]

@@Archimarathon totally. Dissecting Zumthor's zinc mines project on site while on study tour in Norway revealed so many layers to the project #archiflex

[@urbancolab]

Sendai is a great example. I would love to go there.

[@user-yk1cw8im4h]

amazing lessons here.

[@dominicdoyle2895]

You guys are fantastic

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks

[@jakelelievre8057]

Fantastic video, guys! That discussion on details being the manifestation of the bigger picture was a pertinent takeaway. Andrew talking about the distilling the main thing, else it being manipulated by others in the course of the project was really valuable too. It reminded me of a retired architect I used to work with, who would always talk about this phenomenon as the Camel - a horse designed by a committee. Loved the building examples too. Toyo Ito's Sendai Mediatheque has been on my bucket list for years - so cool! The insights in to Tadao's museum were also fascinating. Good work guys, keep it up!

[@Archimarathon]

🐫. So what does that make a platypus which is even weirder combination of features?

[@jakelelievre8057]

​@@Archimarathon An otter designed by a committee of ducks? ...Or just the ugliest duckling?

[@Archimarathon]

With a marsupial standards committee

[@cesarsandoval3379]

Dayum, thank you so much, i am in school now and you just synthesised a whole lot of it.

[@Archimarathon]

Glad you got something out of this

[@harpersherman2753]

Great discussion! Just shared with my studio.

[@Archimarathon]

Thank you 🙏. It would all make a lot more sense if they have watched part one as well as the What Why How episode

[@Fatlou_]

Love the discussion guys!!!!

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks Lou

[@sarahshum6490]

Love this channel, inspiring!!!!!

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks again. Please spread the word.

[@ryanstrijbis398]

So glad I stumbled onto your channel guys! Really, really great content, and your honest and thorough discussion about architecture has provided plenty of food for thought. As a student studying architecture in New Zealand (and having trawled through some of your own projects), I wonder if you could talk more specifically about your design philosophy/attitude to buildings you've been involved with? In particular, your approach to transition between levels and spaces (HOUSE House), use of materiality (RaeRae and Tower House) and integration of light into a building (King Bill). Once again, really appreciate your videos and content. Keep up the good stuff.

[@Archimarathon]

Glad you found our channel. Spread the word. I think a lot of episodes already you can hear a lot of what Andrew does and thinks it’s important to his practice and his projects. Check out all the other videos (yes it will take time). I suggest checking out the Chronological playlist

[@GraemeChapman-d6z]

I believe one shouldn’t make a design more complex than it needs to be. It’s really important to think function over form. Simplicity is clearly the key. But this can be very hard for any architect to fully achieve.

[@Nynke_K]

Another interesting one! I may be a Japan nut, but I'd say Sendai is definitely worth visiting if you're not only interested in modern architecture. It's less than two hours away from Tokyo by train, really close to amazing Matsushima Bay with its hundreds of pine covered islands, and a logical stop en route to the samurai mansions of Kakunodate, to name a few things. (And if I revisit, maybe I should finally go see that mediatheque... Maybe it's not as boring a box as I thought before watching this)

[@Archimarathon]

I heard there are some amazing seafood in Sendai... what's what I really want to go for!

[@Nynke_K]

@@Archimarathon oh, don't even get me started on Japanese food! Yum...

[@ПетроФостик-ж4д]

Blow me mind

[@Archimarathon]

🤯

[@mervinhulf6920]

So I am a young person interested in architecture and just want to try out to do something to explore what I can. I would realy want to practise architecture, but with almost no practical experience, so I don't know what to do and what to be inspired by. Could you give me any idea how to start designing a.building.

[@Archimarathon]

As Andrew said many a times, especially in the Post -Justified design episode, just start drawing. Design is not linear. There is no right way to start. Have you watched all the Design Fundamentals playlist?

[@mervinhulf6920]

So my problem is more about the purpose that is missing. I have an idea for a form and want to go into detail but don't know what this structure should be about.

[@mervinhulf6920]

But thanks for your answer. I love your view on the things

[@khositectdesign4098]

" S H R I N K - W R A P "

[@Archimarathon]

Shrink Rap

[@fisheater844]

Not enough shoe shots.

[@grandmasterplank]

More confused than ever.....moving from an adjacencies (bubble) diagram to a physical form (that doesn't suck) is simply voodoo magic. I don't think I'll ever under the process, no matter how hard or long I try. Every single architect describes the process differently, and this is also a huge failing in architectural education. The single biggest part of being an Architect is the ability to design well yet through 5yrs of Uni you are never actually taught how to design through practice and methodology lectures, just endless conflicting and contradictory messages from overly-sensitive and pretentious academic types.......It's like asking someone to go and pass their driving test without ever having had a single clear word of instruction.

[@Archimarathon]

Have you watched the WHAT WHY HOW episode from which the lexicon is drawn from and the first episode of the PARTI series? If you haven’t, it would make a lot more sense if you did. Link in the description

[@maynardarchitects]

We should do an episode about this Kev, as it shows a complete misunderstanding of what architectural education offers. It is a superb exploration of critical thinking and will never and should never be like taking a driving test. Critical thinking cannot be taught. It must be learned. University is about self directed critical thinking. Not vocational training. This viewer does not seem to understand the purpose of tertiary education. Let’s discuss.

[@Archimarathon]

@@maynardarchitects Yes that was one of the ideas I was floating but yes we could even have a more direct one that talks about this point. We will see how it goes with the length and depth of our rant

[@grandmasterplank]

@@maynardarchitects You're probably right. All these years in and I'm still (almost) none the wiser. I'll get my coat.

[@grandmasterplank]

​@@maynardarchitects Why not do an episode showing your individual workflows when taking a simple brief through to a form/massing and basic floor arrangements? This is the one big hole in architectural education. Of course, there are endless methodologies for pushing through this process (OK, the car analogy was off the mark) but being given ideas of varying approaches and loose methodologies in the form of lectures to enable students to form their own individual approaches (and therefore discover their own way) can only be a positive. Without it, some of us are left struggling and grasping for air. And this omission might go some way to explaining the reason for the huge dropout numbers from architecture schools (from confused and self doubtful students), therefore losing some talented people to other disciplines in the process. A good friend is a successful product designer and when we compare notes over a pint he's often talked about sitting through numerous design theory and process lectures. I see the requirement for this in Architecture as no different in this regard. It's a design discipline. Although you’ve harshly interpreted my clumsy musings otherwise, I totally get what tertiary education is all about having been through it/in it for over 9yrs. I see all of us non-bullshit architectural types as being in the trenches together fighting the good fight against pretentiousness and supporting each other without judgement. Isn’t this channel aimed at throwing off the preconceptions of condescending architectural attitudes and opening up the discipline for wider appreciation and understanding?......'archi-speak is bullshit'. You had me at 'archi-speak...'