archiV - das architektenverzeichnis The Socratic Method The Socratic Method:Teaching by Asking Instead of by Tellingby Rick Garlikov The following is a transcript of a teaching experiment, using the Socratic method, with a regular third grade class in a suburban elementary school. I present my perspective and views on the session, and on the Socratic method as a teaching tool, following the transcript. The class was conducted on a Friday afternoon beginning at 1:30, late in May, with about two weeks left in the school year. The experiment was to see whether I could teach these students binary arithmetic (arithmetic using only two numbers, 0 and 1) only by asking them questions. I had one prior relationship with this class. When I got to the classroom for the binary math experiment, students were giving reports on famous people and were dressed up like the people they were describing. "But what I am really here for today is to try an experiment with you. 1) "How many is this?" 2) "Who can write that on the board?" 4) Another way? 7) One more?
Porosity Bench by Steven Holl Architects Design Miami/Basel 08: Here are a few snapshots from the Johnson Trading Gallery in New York, showing a prototype for a bamboo bench designed by Steven Holl Architects. The photos were taken just before it was packed up for transportation to Design Miami/Basel which takes place this week (2-5 June) in Basel, Switzerland. Here are some details from the Johnson Trading Gallery: Porosity Bench, Constructed of solid bamboo planes with digitally cut interlocking edges, USA 2008. Prototype; edition of 10 to follow. 64w x 24 d x 38 h in 162w x 62d x 97h cm How To Study New York Tropolism is making connections. Today's relationships in news. First, the Dia Art Foundation--caretaker of rockin' artworks like the Earth Room and Broken Kilometer, in addition to an empty building on 22nd Street, and a huge factory-become-museum in Beacon, New York (it's north of the Bronx, which is north of Manhattan)--is not going to anchor the southern end of the Highline (as shown in the rendering above). One half second later, the New York Times reports that the Whitney is looking at expanding in this location. Second news: Norman Foster's creative expansion of a building on the Upper East Side is argued over (and mostly opposed by) at a Landmark Preservation Hearing. Which leads us back to the first article. Preservation: winning the battle for the neigborhood, at the expense of a culturally interesting neighborhood.
for sale: wolfson trailer house, marcel breuer — LiveModern: The Best Modern Homes by Justin — last modified Jan 04, 2012 02:54 AM by Justin — last modified Mar 02, 2008 For sale at auction: Located in Dutchess County, New York, the 10-acre property is an architectural assemblage composed of Marcel Breuer’s Wolfson Trailer House and a separate artist’s studio. For sale at auction: Located in Dutchess County, New York, the 10-acre property is an architectural assemblage composed of Marcel Breuer’s Wolfson Trailer House and a separate artist’s studio. Estimate: $1 - 1.5 million More photos and links after the jump.
Arcspace - architecture online Kieran Timberlake: Refabricating Architecture The Philadelphia architecture firm Kieran Timberlake is rethinking the way architecture is made. In their 2004 book, Refabricating Architecture, they discuss how they have drawn from the automotive and aerospace industries to learn how to streamline the process of making. Their goal is to re-realize the notion of Master Builder. They criticize the current, segregated model of design, where there primary parties involved (Architect, Contractor, Materials Scientist and Production Engineer) engage in only minimal, hierarchical communication. "The first act of design in this world beyond the old equilibrium is the redesign of the relations among those responsible for the making of things.