Studio 36

NGV_C

Anna Nervegna | CIVIC + CITIES

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

Studio Description

STUDIO AIMS: The studio will explore design processes for generating architectural form and space looking at graphic techniques and how they communicated experiences for the architectural experience. We will look at urban massing morphologies and gallery organisational logics while at the same time explore conceptual ideas in contemporary art which assist in designing and manifesting the final architectural proposition.

SITE: South-bank Melbourne

PROJECT: NGV_CONTEMPORARY: The students will be designing a gallery for contemporary art including exhibition spaces, art storage workshops, administration, gallery shops, café/restaurant, with video art projection spaces, a public plaza promenade which runs towards the NGV Spire and City.

Studio Outcome

The students shall develop a sound understanding of different spatial and graphic techniques designers adopt and how these may communicate ideas and concepts through architectural design. These studies shall be fostered and developed by each student after conducting site and brief investigations in order to establish a particular design process. The studio shall work in class through class discussions, lectures, and exercises adopting different medium which shall include: Research, mapping exercises, and various model making exercises (physical and digital -Rhino etc). All activities shall be work towards a final professional folio / booklet documenting the work in a professional manner including a final presentation layout which will explore various graphic techniques adopted by architects and designers in addition to a developed verbal and written design statement.

Studio Leader

Anna Nervegna is a director of the award winning practice Nervegna Reed Architecture. The firms architecture has been widely published includes projects in Australia and China. In addition to their commitment to higher education Nervegna Reed also works at the intersection of architecture, media and art such as their 2018 screening of films for the Mpavilion. Anna’s art practice has been awarded by the Australia Council and the Gertrude Comporary Art Studio Program where she was also a board member. www.n-r.com.au

Readings & References

• Richard Serra – Verb List Compilation
• Hal Foster – The Art Architecture Complex
• Omar Calabrese The Neo Baroque Sign of the Times
• Farshid Moussavi The Function of Style, The Function of Form
• Hal Foster – The Art Architecture Complex
• Paul Virillio The over Exposed City
• Guy Debord – The Society of the Spectacle
• Marshall McLuhan –

Schedule 12:00-15:00 Mondays and Thursdays

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