Aim
The aim of the course is to introduce experimental working processes related to spatial contexts in the field of architecture, interiors and furniture. Further, the course aims to train the creative ability of the students, in a process where each individual student finds her own way to creative design, at the same time as the realisation, in full scale, of a furniture prototype trains the ability of materially and technically carrying through a design concept.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

• show an understanding of the creative architectonic process

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

• design a piece of furniture as a result of an aesthetical, creative and experimental process

• present the project to teachers and classmates, using for the assignment relevant architectonical concepts and terms and by way of drawings, models and description of conceptual ideas

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

• compare and evaluate differens kinds of furniture, considering its architechtonic qualities and its relationship to an architectonic idea

• from given instructions, independently demonstrate an active and creative engagement with the process of design

Contents
The tasks of the course takes its point of departure in the human being, in human form and in the human conditions. Through the means of experiments, dreams and fantasies, as well as analyses and creative transformations of human conditions, a spatial context is formulated. This spatial context acts as the starting point for an aesthetically driven, creative and experimental design process, resulting in a full scale furniture prototype. Working in small scale enables the students to carry through their ideas to the material realisation of an object.

Literature
Reference literature:
Futurisms / Katalog, utställning i Venedig. Palazzo Grass. Pompinai.
Bauhaus 1919-1933 by Magdalena Droste (Taschen, 1991)
Bauhaus by Jeannine Fiedler and Peter Feierabend (Könemann, 2000)
10x10 Crtitcs
GA Document: modern architecture 1920 – 1940
Architecture Now by Philip Jodido
Functional architecture: International style 1925-1940
Parallax by Steven Holl
Starck by Conway Lloyd Morgan
1000 Chairs (Taschen)
Deconstructivist Architecture by Philip Johnson and Mark Wigley (Little Brown & Co, 1988)
Violated Perfection by Aaron Betsky (Rizzoli, 1990)
New Spirit in Architecture by Peter Cook and Rosie Llewellyn Jones (Rizzoli, 1991)
And movies about:
Mies van der Rohe, I.M. Pei, Steven Holl, Bauhaus, Jean Nouvel, Guggenheim museum, Futurismen, Santiago Calatrava, Jörn Utzon, Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Renzo Piano, Frank Gehry, Källemo, Bruno Mathsson, Funktionalsimen, Dekonstruktivismen, Frank Lloyd Wright