CONTENT / This workshop is a spiritual and thematic continuation of ‘Texture, Rhythm, Pattern’ from the fall semester. Students once again use their photo cameras to capture their personal interpretation of human interaction with the architectural environment, and the potentials in visual storytelling through still images.
AIMS & METHOD / In a similar fashion to the previous semester, the workshop is structured into two photo exercises.
In the first exercise students seek for various unique and unusual scenarios in which the architecture of the urban setting influences the way people interact with buildings or the way they interact with each other. They try to capture these strange urban rituals that are characteristic only that one distinct environment, one special context or one micro location.
In the second exercise they try to find spatial (architectural) situations where the elements of the visual composition are created by light and shadow, or where light or the lack of it fundamentally changes how we perceive the space.
In the process, students further develop their visual compositional skills, learn to understand the compositional values of their built surroundings, and to explore the narrative potentials in their environment beyond the obvious.
SCHEDULE / Two-week workshop. Weekly on-line classes (+ individual work during the week) arranged with the students:
March 25th 2022 (Friday) – 2.00 pm (CET) – Introduction & Project Description
March 29th 2022 (Tuesday) – 9.30 am (CET) – Consultation (Project 1)
April 1st 2022 (Friday) – 10.00 am (CET) – Presentation & Critical Review (Project 1)
April 5th 2022 (Tuesday) – 9.30 am (CET) – Consultation (Project 2)
April 8th 2022 (Friday) – 10.00 am (CET) – Final Critical Review (Project 1&2)
EVALUATION / Evaluation is based on the fulfilment of workshop aims. Participating students are expected to gain a better understanding the visual characteristics of their urban surroundings and develop their visual compositional skills.
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Architecture (HUNGARY) /
Portschy, Szabolcs Dávid (portschy.szabolcs.david@epk.bme.hu)