framing architectural exploration

The teaching of the architectural humanities at manchester school of architecture is characterised by a balance of traditional and innovative teaching and assessment methods developed from the research expertise of the staff. Since 2006 the medium of film has been used to broadcast undergraduate students’ experience and interpretation of the architectural and urban environment through the use of buildings as case studies. 

 

Following seminars on the history of recent architectural debates and their representation in different media, critical responses to architecture are developed in the time and space of a 5-minute film. These student contributions are Youtube films of buildings visited on study trips principally in major European cities. The 200 plus films so far submitted in this project are discussed at seminars within the cohort. Beyond this teaching function, though, the films continue to attract international interest so far having achieved well over a quarter of a million hits. These new methods of visualizing and presenting the connections of architecture and urbanism introduce the students to the exploratory culture of the post-graduate degree, a basis which is expanded upon in future research.


The limitations of the brevity of the film format are countered by the combination of media which can be composed in the film. Avoiding the seduction of complex editing for its own sake, combinations of film and still images, computer generated models, text, narration, the architect’s testimony or that of the end user and the careful choice of music together provide an augmented architectural experience. The opportunities presented by this mediated exploration include the foregrounding of the experience of architecture over the traditional hegemony of the scholarly text, the placing of the subject building in its context and, therefore, the overcoming of the isolation of the architectural object. 


Monday 22 October 2007

Spinningfields, Manchester


Continuity in Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture Year 5 2007-08
Linked from the Mancunian sitehttp://www.whathappenedlastnight.net

New Islington, Manchester


Continuity in Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture Year 5 2007-08 films.

Castlefield, Manchester


Continuity in Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture Year 5 2007-08 films.

City Centre Manchester


Continuity in Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture Year 5 2007-08 films.
Venezuelan Comment "Nice video! I like the first part with the titles, well done! I like the changes of speed and coloring. I don´t like the music, maybe is from Manchester, i don´t know, and it has no ending... I don´t get it!"
British comment "I'm visiting Manchester later today. Looking forward to it."
Italian comment "is msa(manch.scho.arch) a good school? do u know other unive. good at architecture?"

Friday 21 September 2007

Gio Ponti: Royal (Continental) Hotel Pool, Naples



A personal addition to the collection
Linked from the U.S. site http://www.culturenow.com

Richard Meier: Museo dell' Ara Pacis, Rome



A personal addition to the collection
Linked from the Dutch site http://www.architectenweb.nl
Linked from the site http://www.ara-pacis-museum.com
Linked from the Italian site http://www.stasera.org
Italian comment "meier un maetro per tutti noi giovani architetti...."
U.S. comment "A treasure. I've been to Rome three times and didn't know about this place. Next trip for sure. Thanks for the video."

Tuesday 8 May 2007

OMA: Dutch Embassy, Berlin


Linked from Albanian site http://archiedu.com
Chinese comment "hi,i am a student from china,i saw this videos and i am very interested in that architecture.do you have the quicktime vr file or 3d file showing in the videos ? i will very pleasure if you can send me it ."
Linked from the Dutch site http://www.architectenweb.nl
U.S. comment "This is the most thorough site visit I've seen on youtube yet! Great job! I love the pivoting diagram explaining the floorplan layout."

Monday 30 April 2007

Steven Holl: Sarphatistraat, Amsterdam


Linked from the Albanian site http://www.archiedu.com
Peruvian comment "Dios esta en los detalles , creo q Steven no lo sabia"
Linked from the Chinese site http://v.backchina.com

Peter Eisenman: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin


Venezuelan comment "This is a fantastic place to make a video, but this is a cold aproach to the monument, whwere is the music? Where are the deep feelings associate with this place?"
Linked from the Albanian site http://www.archiedu.com
Linked from the Spanish site http://www.videoplayer.es
Linked from the Italian site http://luisacariello.blogspot.com
Linked from the blog http://deputy-dog.com
Linked from the German site http://www.tolongawake.de
U.S Comment ' "Our memorial in Berlin has little or no iconography, nothing symbolic, and it is this absence, like the silence of a psychiatrist , that will allow people come to terms with thier repressed feelings." PE from an architectural record interview.'

Aldo Rossi: Tiergarten Housing, Berlin


Linked from the Albanian site http://www.archiedu.com
Linked from the Ecuadorean blog http://arquiteorias.blogspot.com

Jean Nouvel: Galeries Lafayette, Berlin


Linked from the Albanian site http://archiedu.com
Linked from the site http://www.netvibes.com
Linked from the Argentinian site http://arq-lab.vox.com
Linked from the blog http://architecturalvideos.blogspot.com
Linked from the Peruvian site http://lul-lab.blogspot.com/
Linked from the Mexican site http://www.myspace.com/neospazio
Linked from the Spanish site http://www.edgargonzalez.com
Linked from the Uruguayan site http://ante1schelotto.blogspot.com/
Linked from the U.S. site http://www.designboom.com

Daniel Libeskind: Jewish Museum, Berlin


Linked from the Dutch site http://www.architectenweb.nl
Linked from the Uzbek site http://www.archibase.net
Linked from the Spanish site http://arqhoy.blogspot.com
German comment 'This is your typical self-important propaganda piece, reducing 1700 years of Jewish History on German soil to 12 years of Nazi dictatorship and the Holocaust. Nothing about the parts of the permanent exhibition that show the important contributions that Jews have made to German culture throughout history. Better check out the museum's homepage or Wikipedia's encyclopedic article about this great museum.'
Hong Kong comment 'great!!!!!'

Ian Simpson: Beetham Tower, Manchester


Linked from the Albanian site http://www.archiedu.com
Mancunian comment "What a blot on the landscape!"
Further Mancunian comment "I live on the 33rd Floor of this building.
Now im worried, This video looks like on of them terrorist videos.
If your going to blow it up please do it on the 23rd March 2008, Im away but the mother in law is looking after the place"
Still further Mancunian comment "I stayed one night on the 9th floor of this tower in January, i am interested in Towers and Poshster, do you have a nice view? I did go up to the 23rd floor once and it was awesome!"

Steven Holl: Sarphatistraat, Amsterdam


Linked from the site http://architecturalvideos.blogspot.com/

Friday 30 March 2007

Phillippe Starck: Restaurant Teatriz, Madrid


Venezuelan comment "Nice video! Well done... The food was a nice surprise, but the Zeñoras toilets, the cherry on the cake."
American comment "Well done. i was there ages ago. glad it has held up! one of the best bathrooms in the world!"
American comment "this restaurant was amazing to eat in. like traveling back and forward in time, simultaneously (if that makes any sense)"
Linked from the Spanish site http://www.gomadrid.com

Harvey Lonsdale Elmes: St George's Hall, Liverpool


Linked from the video site http://u-tube.ws
Comment "good video, i could have said somthing about the minton tiles in the main hall"
British comment "Excellent building no wonder Prince Charles likes it.. I saw the door open the other day and thought Id sneak in. It turned out it is now open to the public and is really worth a visit"
Linked from the Liverpudlian site http://www.stgeorgeshall.eu

Michael Wilford: British Embassy, Berlin

Austin Smith Lord: F.A.C.T. Liverpool


Linked from the site http://www.skyscrapercity.com/

Hans Scharoun: State Library, Berlin

Monday 5 March 2007

Steven Holl: Sarphatistraat, Amsterdam


Linked from the U.S. site http://ecoastarchreview.blogspot.com

Richard Rogers: Barajas Airport, Madrid


Australian Comment "Nice video. I'm doing a study of the airport (and the design), and its good to get a feel for the place."
Linked from the Albanian forum http://archiedu.com/home/forum/
Linked from the Dutch site http://www.architectenweb.nl/
Linked from the Peruvian blog http://kleotisa.blogspot.com/
Greek comment "so nice!!! bravo madrid!!!"
Spanish comment "El mas bonito del mundo"
Guatemalan comment "Muy bonito, yo voy a viajar alla el 31 de octubre y soy de Guatemala. Mira mis videos son de el REAL MADRID... Q BUEN VIDEO!!!!"
Linked from the Polish site http://www.sztuka-architektury.pl
Filipino comment "this is a really nice creation form richard rogers. i just thought the dynamism of the airport wasn't there and that the lines were too horizontal for an airport."

K.F.Schinkel: Schauspielhaus, Berlin


Linked from the Dutch site http://www.architectenweb.nl
Linked from the Greek site http://ghteytria.blogspot.com/

Axel Schultes: The New Chancellory, Berlin

Carl Gotthard Langhans: Brandenburg Gate, Berlin


German comment "nice video".
U.S."whos is the musical artist and name of song?"

Balsanek and Polivka: Municipal House, Prague


Linked from the Czech site http://www.clixtv.cz

Wednesday 28 February 2007

Rene van Zuuk: ARCAM, Amsterdam


Linked from the Peruvian site http://www.buscatube.com

Abalos and Herreros: Usera Public Library, Madrid


Linked from Catalan site http://bauenblog.info
Linked from Italian site http://mimovdo.wordpress.com/

Mies van der Rohe: New National Gallery, Berlin


Brazilian Comment "Great video! Thanks for sharing it."
Linked to a Blog from Bolivia http://mundorealjmarquitectura.blogspot.com/
Linked from the Spanish site http://www.ofertilandia.com
American Comment "great job....i'd love to see more architecture videos on youtube"
Linked from the Argentinian blog http://arquitecturamashistoria.blogspot.com/
Linked from the American site http://www.musotik.com
Linked from the German site http://www.tu-harburg.de/b/kuehn/lmvideo.html
Linked from the Spanish site http://leolo.blogspirit.com/arquitectura/
Linked from the Basque site http://arkimia.nireblog.com/
Linked from the site http://arqandutopie.blogspot.com/
Linked from the site http://news.architecture.sk
Linked from the U.S. site http://www.greatbuildings.com
Italian Comment "good video meravigliosi LED ZEPPELIN"

Julius Raschdorff: Berlin Cathedral

H.P. Berlage: Beurs, Amsterdam


Linked from Peruvian site http://www.buscatube.com/
Linked from Japanese site http://dougakensaku.com
Linked from Dutch site http://www.kunstbus.nl

Giles Gilbert Scott: Liverpool Cathedral


See also film from "soundation" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAlX0vq9Ty4
and http://www.myspace.com/soundationuk
Linked from European site http://showcase.culture.info

Berger and Parkinnen etc.: Nordic Embassies, Berlin

Jo Coenen: Emerald Empire, Amsterdam


Venezuelan Comment "Is very interesting the editing and the music is cool...Nice trip!GOOD WORK!"
Mancunian comment '' 'quite a massive view of this... er... water, here' Brilliant."

Monday 26 February 2007

Alvaro Siza: 'Bonjour Tristesse' apartment building, Berlin


Linked from the Greek Blog http://datascape.blogspot.com/
Linked from the video site http://www.videoronk.com/
Linked from the German blog http://referendare07.blogspot.com/
Linked from the Portuguese / Swiss Blog http://paginapreta.blogspot.com/
U.S. comment "nicely done, I think siza would love it!"
Spanish comment "it is what i would have liked to do about this magic building and its story."
Iberian comment "Genial!"
Linked from the blog http://architectureinberlin.wordpress.com

OMA: Prada, New York


Dutch comment "If Nature fits you out with a brain and you don't use it, is Nature to blame for its excess?"
Another Dutch comment "Such a shame not to use the building to its full potential. If I had a top job in Prada New York, I would invest a bit more time in the architecture of the building and its potential."

I.M.Pei: German Historical Museum, Berlin


Linked from site http://api.u-lik.com/netvibes/utubeinter.php
Linked from the Japanese site http://www.houseco.jp/special/
Linked from the Uzbek site http://archibase.net
Linked from the Peruvian site http://www.buscatube.com

Helmut Jahn: Sony Center, Berlin


Linked from the Spanish blog http://aurora-blog.blogspot.com/
Linked from the American blog http://rafaelmarxuach.wordpress.com/
Italian comment "Very nice video! Do you know anything about the future development of Berlin?"
Portuguese comment "great work, thank you, it helped me in my architecture work for the university ehe"
German comment "ohh what a wonderful video and i think that the sony center the most wonderful building complex in the world."

Erich Mendelsohn: Metal Workers Union Building, Berlin


Linked from the American blog http://rafaelmarxuach.wordpress.com/
Linked from the Italian site http://architube.org

Peter Ellis: Oriel Chambers, Liverpool


British comment "Not the most inspiring of videos ............ but two awe-inspirng buildings. So far ahead of their time."
Linked from the site http://www.skyscrapercity.com
Mexican comment: Hello, I'm an architect from Mexico and I really liked the video of the Oriel Chambers, I found a building in my country very similar to the Oriel. I'm right now studying my master dregge with an investigation about the comercial architectural of the 19th century, and the Oriel Chambers is one of them, I'll be glad if you send me a copy of this video or let me download it from a website or so. Please send me an answer. Thank you, gracias."

Helmut Jahn: Sony Center, Berlin

Sauerbruch and Hutton: Fire and Police Station, Berlin


Linked from Italian site http://studentianabtorino.blogspot.com/
Linked from the Mancunian site http://deputy-dog.com/

K.F. Schinkel: Altes Museum, Berlin


Linked from the Turkish site http://www.piknik-tube.net/#

Paul Wallot / Norman Foster: Reichstag, Berlin


Austrian Comment "Great video."
Linked from the video site http://video.baamboo.com/
Linked from the Argentinian site http://www.depaginas.com.ar/
Brazilian Comment "Thanks for sharing this video!"
Linked from the Dutch site http://www.digischool.nl
Linked from the Uzbek site http://www.archibase.net
Linked from the Berlin page of the site http://www.phonebookoftheworld.com/phonebookofberlin.htm
Linked from the Vietnamese site http://360.yahoo.com
German Comment "great building".
U.S. Comment "WOW!"

Rafael Moneo: Atocha Station, Madrid


Linked from the Argentinian site http://architecturalvideos.blogspot.com
Linked from the Ecuadorean site http://www.arquiteorias.blogspot.com
Linked from the Spanish site http://noticiasarquitecturablog.blogspot.com
Spanish comment "..........RECUERDOS............"
Linked from the Mexican site http://arq.com.mx/

Steven Holl: Sarphatistraat, Amsterdam


Linked from the site http://www.pcplanets.com
Linked from the U.S. site http://ecoastarchreview.blogspot.com
Linked from the blog http://architecturalvideos.blogspot.com
Linked from the U.S. site http://architecture.myninjaplease.com
Linked from the Polish site http://www.polewa.net

Sauerbruch & Hutton: Photonics Centre, Berlin


Chilean comment "nice work! i like it a lot........"
Linked from the Italian blog http://studentianabtorino.blogspot.com/
Linked from the German site http://www.meinvideo.org
Linked form the Korean site http://blog.naver.com

Nicholas Grimshaw: Stock Exchange, Berlin

MVRDV: Silodam, Amsterdam


Tasmanian Comment - "Cool video , I like MVRDV works"
Linked from http://voragitectonique.vodpod.com/
Linked from the Czech blog http://stay3dayz.blogspot.com/
Barbadian Comment "good video! It gives a good idea of the building"
Argentinian Comment "Incredible.You are amazing! I am from Argentina and I love MVRDV..."
Linked from the Spanish site http://unopuntoseiscientosdieciocho.blogspot.com/
Italian Comment "great video, music's rythm goes well with image sequence. love most of mvrvd's work."

Sauerbruch & Hutton: GSW HQ, Berlin


Linked from the Italian blog http://studentianabtorino.blogspot.com/
Linked from the German site http://www.meinvideo.org
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