The design is so innovative! Parang hybrid ng deconstruction, avant-garde saka vernacular-contextualism. Hmmm... How did you convince Manosa that your design is Filipino? hehe. By the way, ok 'yung colored-pencil rendering! Your concept was also elaborately presented. Knowing Thomasians as more "design-oriented" architecture students, its a good thing that your entry was widely expressed through words and creatively applied on concrete forms. I am from vision magazine so I happened to "examine" you work. hehe. Idol!
Thank You. I appreciate the comments, especially so that its coming from one of UST Architecture's establishments...
Forgive me if I toss in my 2 cents while were at it.
I really think that Vision should not just feature images... dapat din sana dig deeper into what the designer is trying to say... kadalasan kasi, if you ask them about why/how they designed their project... they end up saying something really cliche or pastiche... or worse... they say wala lang... feel ko lang. Give us the meat of the concepts, real ideas, and not just pretty drawings. It should be a balanced documentation of a project.
I know the page spaces are limited, but you'll be doing a great service to students, because you have no idea how huge your influence is on driving their work ethic/priorities, ask any serious arki student what his short term goals are... he'd say na gusto ko mafeature sa Vision, o maka-best thesis, all worthy goals, which become corrupted when the quest for these goals are driven by mere imagery.
Instead of modelling your magazine on Bluprint (which is driven by social issues/politicking, imagery and ads), try following Architectural Record or Architecture Review, those are 2 very good examples of high-standard architectural critique and journalism. Show the plan, the diagram/flow, the section, the concepts (not just design but business and social concepts as well) and critique the work on why its worthy to be on Vision, and why students should learn from it.
With that, you've already changed how a lot of people view the world. Believe me. ;)
I really respect your opinion. And I am really surprised of what you have commented. Actually, I really thought of "upgrading" the magazine to something that is mature, academic and above all, INTELLECTUAL. And you've guessed it! As a former subscriber of Architectural Record, I have and WILL try to emulate some of the magazine's profound elements like "educated" criticism and in-depth evaluation of certain structures.
Since there are no other student-published architectural magazine around which can line up, arguably, with the standards of visionmag, I have told my members to drive themselves with a SENSE of COMPETITION with other locally produced architectural magazines (And with that, Bluprint comes into the picture). And consistently since may of this year when I assumed my position as the new EIC, I took some rather RADICAL CHANGES with regards to the format and contents of the magazine. Under the theme INSTITUTIONS, which will come out hopefully by december of this year, visionmag will tackle the different perspectives on institutional architecture in the local and global scale.
To drive away from the stereotypical borrow-from-the-net articles, I have assigned several articles which will be more "academically" relevant. Of course, there will be the traditional "design feature." of which we will present the International School, Lyceum of Calamba and Instituto Cervantes. And believe me, we are also lucky enough to feature the Architecture Buildings of UP and University of San Carlos! And also, kung susuwertihin tayo, we may be featuring The College of St. Benilde Fine Arts Building earlier than Bluprint! FYI: CSB's Fine Arts dean is also our alumnus, Archt. Gerard Torres! Locally, but nonetheless extra-ordinarily, designed structures like the PETA and Colegio des San Agustin Makati Theatres are now already at the lay-out boards. The Top Universities were also well-represented. The Ateneo, with the GESU and Moro Lorenzo, La Salle, with the CSB building, UP, with their Archi and Physics buildings, and FEU ,with their new Technology building, articles are already finished nung summer pa. And most importantly, the UST Campus Manila, General Santos and Santa Rosa. Involvement of the faculty and the alumni are very evident in this issue. Archt. Noche (of course), Equipaje, Ferrer and Mercado contributed. Likewise, industry's bigwigs like Albert Yu, Dan Silvestre, Dominic Galicia, Recio+Casas will also be featured.
Tinatapos ko ngayon yung article about the evolution of UST Campus. I was told that I can obtain highly relevant facts and insights mula sayo kasi tinackle daw sa thesis mo yung history ng UST Sampaloc. I would also like to include your proposals on UST's Masterplan kaso nga lang baka hindi mag-parallel in due respect with the interests of Architects Bong Recio and Meloy Casas who are now the master planners of the redevelopment of the Manila Campus. Anyway, I was also thinking if we can criticize BEATO openly. Kaya nga lang it would sound so diminishing and downgrading sa mga Thomasian readers na yung sarili nating building nilalait tapos yung sa iba pinapaganda.
This year's visionmag will follow the concepts of the Massachussets Institute of Technology School of Architecture's publications, Perspecta and Retropsecta. Visionmag, starting this year, will also be having two issues. Yung institutions will be like the Perspecta which is the Academic Journal type. The articles which I have stated will fall under that. Yung other issue is yung "The Visionary" which, like yung retrospecta, will feature all the EXEMPLARY student works. This issue will be released by June of next year. Hinihintay pa kasi yung best thesis sa graduation kaya hindi kaagad marerelease.
Thank you for commenting. Your suggestions will be highly regarded.
hey fretburn! yes as a matter of fact I have to admit Sambo and Glen Murcutt were big influences for this project... as a piece of trivia... did you know Sambo was part of a team of consultants doing charrettes for the Philippine Expo in 1998... and he was inspired by the vernacular language of the bahay kubo... through some books lent to him by the local counterpart panel... possibly influencing his Butterfly house project with the Rural Studio?
nice entries, ang ganda ng proposals mo..
ReplyDeleteThanks very much ;) Although these are just small portions of the whole boards, I really do appreciate the compliment
ReplyDeleteThe design is so innovative! Parang hybrid ng deconstruction, avant-garde saka vernacular-contextualism. Hmmm... How did you convince Manosa that your design is Filipino? hehe. By the way, ok 'yung colored-pencil rendering! Your concept was also elaborately presented. Knowing Thomasians as more "design-oriented" architecture students, its a good thing that your entry was widely expressed through words and creatively applied on concrete forms. I am from vision magazine so I happened to "examine" you work. hehe. Idol!
ReplyDeleteThank You. I appreciate the comments, especially so that its coming from one of UST Architecture's establishments...
ReplyDeleteForgive me if I toss in my 2 cents while were at it.
I really think that Vision should not just feature images... dapat din sana dig deeper into what the designer is trying to say... kadalasan kasi, if you ask them about why/how they designed their project... they end up saying something really cliche or pastiche... or worse... they say wala lang... feel ko lang. Give us the meat of the concepts, real ideas, and not just pretty drawings. It should be a balanced documentation of a project.
I know the page spaces are limited, but you'll be doing a great service to students, because you have no idea how huge your influence is on driving their work ethic/priorities, ask any serious arki student what his short term goals are... he'd say na gusto ko mafeature sa Vision, o maka-best thesis, all worthy goals, which become corrupted when the quest for these goals are driven by mere imagery.
Instead of modelling your magazine on Bluprint (which is driven by social issues/politicking, imagery and ads), try following Architectural Record or Architecture Review, those are 2 very good examples of high-standard architectural critique and journalism. Show the plan, the diagram/flow, the section, the concepts (not just design but business and social concepts as well) and critique the work on why its worthy to be on Vision, and why students should learn from it.
With that, you've already changed how a lot of people view the world. Believe me. ;)
I really respect your opinion. And I am really surprised of what you have commented. Actually, I really thought of "upgrading" the magazine to something that is mature, academic and above all, INTELLECTUAL. And you've guessed it! As a former subscriber of Architectural Record, I have and WILL try to emulate some of the magazine's profound elements like "educated" criticism and in-depth evaluation of certain structures.
ReplyDeleteSince there are no other student-published architectural magazine around which can line up, arguably, with the standards of visionmag, I have told my members to drive themselves with a SENSE of COMPETITION with other locally produced architectural magazines (And with that, Bluprint comes into the picture). And consistently since may of this year when I assumed my position as the new EIC, I took some rather RADICAL CHANGES with regards to the format and contents of the magazine. Under the theme INSTITUTIONS, which will come out hopefully by december of this year, visionmag will tackle the different perspectives on institutional architecture in the local and global scale.
To drive away from the stereotypical borrow-from-the-net articles, I have assigned several articles which will be more "academically" relevant. Of course, there will be the traditional "design feature." of which we will present the International School, Lyceum of Calamba and Instituto Cervantes. And believe me, we are also lucky enough to feature the Architecture Buildings of UP and University of San Carlos! And also, kung susuwertihin tayo, we may be featuring The College of St. Benilde Fine Arts Building earlier than Bluprint! FYI: CSB's Fine Arts dean is also our alumnus, Archt. Gerard Torres! Locally, but nonetheless extra-ordinarily, designed structures like the PETA and Colegio des San Agustin Makati Theatres are now already at the lay-out boards. The Top Universities were also well-represented. The Ateneo, with the GESU and Moro Lorenzo, La Salle, with the CSB building, UP, with their Archi and Physics buildings, and FEU ,with their new Technology building, articles are already finished nung summer pa. And most importantly, the UST Campus Manila, General Santos and Santa Rosa. Involvement of the faculty and the alumni are very evident in this issue. Archt. Noche (of course), Equipaje, Ferrer and Mercado contributed. Likewise, industry's bigwigs like Albert Yu, Dan Silvestre, Dominic Galicia, Recio+Casas will also be featured.
Tinatapos ko ngayon yung article about the evolution of UST Campus. I was told that I can obtain highly relevant facts and insights mula sayo kasi tinackle daw sa thesis mo yung history ng UST Sampaloc. I would also like to include your proposals on UST's Masterplan kaso nga lang baka hindi mag-parallel in due respect with the interests of Architects Bong Recio and Meloy Casas who are now the master planners of the redevelopment of the Manila Campus. Anyway, I was also thinking if we can criticize BEATO openly. Kaya nga lang it would sound so diminishing and downgrading sa mga Thomasian readers na yung sarili nating building nilalait tapos yung sa iba pinapaganda.
This year's visionmag will follow the concepts of the Massachussets Institute of Technology School of Architecture's publications, Perspecta and Retropsecta. Visionmag, starting this year, will also be having two issues. Yung institutions will be like the Perspecta which is the Academic Journal type. The articles which I have stated will fall under that. Yung other issue is yung "The Visionary" which, like yung retrospecta, will feature all the EXEMPLARY student works. This issue will be released by June of next year. Hinihintay pa kasi yung best thesis sa graduation kaya hindi kaagad marerelease.
Thank you for commenting. Your suggestions will be highly regarded.
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ReplyDeleteCOOOL !
i can see samuel (sambo) mockbee's hand in here.........
ReplyDeletehey fretburn! yes as a matter of fact I have to admit Sambo and Glen Murcutt were big influences for this project... as a piece of trivia... did you know Sambo was part of a team of consultants doing charrettes for the Philippine Expo in 1998... and he was inspired by the vernacular language of the bahay kubo... through some books lent to him by the local counterpart panel... possibly influencing his Butterfly house project with the Rural Studio?
ReplyDeleteyeah! too bad he died! those were two of my favorites architects too..
ReplyDeletemurcutt and mockbee with his rural studio