Lineweights Over Coffee
Azhar Khan: Architect and Educator
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This episode is all about challenging your preconceptions - trying to think beyond our current understanding of how things are done, realizing that nothing is impossible and the importance of reaching out to other disciplines to achieve our goals.
In cities such as Dubai, buildings account for around 80% of the total energy consumption. How can designers and architects begin to change the way we think in order to mitigate our effects on the planet? How can we begin to challenge our preconceptions and adopt a mode of thinking that allows us to explore unconventional solutions to today's problems?
We will use the Flat Earth Theory as a point of departure to explore two concepts:
- the ability to imagine beyond our current understanding of physical reality and constraints
- eliminating self-doubt
We will use examples in recent history such as Henry Ford, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk and Boyan Slat to illustrate the myth of the 'impossible' as well as look at architects such as Jakob+MacFarlane, Frank Gehry and Santiago Calatrava who were able to utilize multiple disciplines to achieve their ideas.
In this episode we discuss:
- The concept of the 'impossible'
- Perseverance and success against negativity
- Architect's and their collaborations outside architecture
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Founding principal of Studio Gang and MacArthur Fellow, Jeanne Gang joins us this week to offer her advice and tips to architecture students to achieve a great studio design project.
Jeanne Gang was awarded the 2017 Louis Kahn Memorial Award for "individuals who have made a significant contribution to the field of architecture." She was also the 2013 Cooper Hewitt Design Museum's National Design Award Winner and was named the 2016 Architect of the Year by the Architectural Review.
Jeanne has taught architecture students around the country including Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Rice University, Columbia University and the Illinois Institute of Technology.
As an experienced architect who has maintained a long relationship with the academic world, her advice for architecture students draws from the common mistakes she observes most students making as well as her own design experiences.
She is here today on our show to talk about the studio design process at school. We are going to discuss how the design process evolves throughout the course of a project: from research to formulating a concept, developing ideas, process work, and finally presenting your work to a jury.
This is one of those episodes that I really wish I had available to me when I was a student and I sincerely hope that helps all of you achieve success in your projects.
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In this episode of the Lineweights Over Coffee Podcast we are talking about materiality, in particular, the importance of architecture students to be connected to the materials around them to understand their qualities and constraints with our guest Gaetan Kohler.
In this episode we discuss:
- the student perception of what an architecture career is
- Gaetan’s experiences in architecture school-don’t stay safe – experiment
- designing on a computer vs designing by hand
- Gaetan quitting his job and moving to China
- the importance of being able to work with your hands, to understand what a material can offer you
- the disconnect today between humanity and the goods and services that we use
Show Notes:
https://www.lineweights.coffee/channel/s1e11-reconnect-with-your-inner-artisan/883/
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In this episode of the Lineweights Over Coffee Podcast, we cover 8 great tips that can help you build your portfolio.
A portfolio is like an ambassador, it represents you in places you cannot go physically and embodies your design skills, qualifications, aspirations and dreams. The design of a portfolio is as critical as the content within it and should always be seen as a design project in an of itself: the challenge of how a portfolio can effectively represent you and your values to an audience that has never seen you before.
In this episode, the 8 tips we cover are:
1. start EARLY
2. record your PROCESS
3. use a TEMPLATE
4. know you AUDIENCE
5. understand PUBLISHING
6. limit your TEXT
7. effective ORGANIZATION
8. get FEEDBACK
Links mentioned in this episode:
ISSUU
A great online platform to upload your portfolio
issuu.com
My first website that served as a portfolio (back in 2015):
azharkportfolio.com
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