Studio 31

META

Jorge Ortega and Isaac Chen

This studio is available to students enrolled in ABPL90142 Studio C, ABPL90143 Studio D, and ABPL90115 Studio E.

Studio Description

We believe that creativity is the key to the future of human endeavour and critical thinking the key to success. Design, and the value it provides to society, is becoming increasingly more influenced by how it is produced; we believe the means of production should be secondary to the intangible values pursued by the design intent. As more processes within the design conception and production get automated, the true value of a designer is being able to find strategies that involve a non-linear, quasi-logical solutions to design challenges; solutions unable to be generated by automated processes/scripts or algorithms.

Studio Outcome

The aim of this studio is to provide a platform from which designers can detach themselves from their current intellectual restrains and explore an imaginative approach to the formation of creative solutions from a variety of creative models applied to design and architectural thinking while fostering a critical approach to problem solving.

Studio Leaders

Jorge (BSc. Arch. AA MA, ARB, RIBA) is a registered architect in Mexico and the UK with 20+ years of professional practice. Past professional experience includes Zaha Hadid Architects, Foster & Partners, Woods Bagot (Lon), Aedas (HK), Hassell and Bates Smart; currently Senior Associate at Architectus Melbourne. He is a keen archer, martial artist, glider pilot, skydiver… and loves cake.

Isaac (BAppSc. MArch.) is am Architect who studied at The University of Melbourne. Past professional experience includes Aedas (SG); currently works at Elenberg Fraser Architects, Melbourne. An avid photographer, traveller...and also loves cake.

Readings & References

• SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance, by Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner .published by William Morrow, 2009. USBN 0-06-088957-8
• The Art of War, by B. H. Liddell Hart (Foreword), Sun Tzu (Author), Oxford University Press, 1971, ISBN-10 9780195014761

Schedule Mondays 18:15-21:15 and Thursdays 18:15-21:15 in MSD Room 238

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