Michael Meredith is the Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He wrote Notes for those beginning the discipline of architecture. Some statements that I really liked from the reading:“You need to find a problem or methodology or technique that is smarter than you. Then this problem becomes what you use and compulsively repeat, instead of something that is already past, and it serves as your creative device”.
“Eventually you decide to scrap the entire endeavor, because you just can’t make your thoughts stick together into a beautifully constructed whole. You think maybe you should write your bildungsroman, something useful like a survival guide or Cliff Notes or an introspective user’s guide or something closer to Rousseau’s Confessions. But how could anyone possibly represent the recursive self-conscious mess of architecture? In the end, all you’re left with are your pathetic “Notes for those beginning the discipline of architecture””.
On a side note, I am taking Fairey’s studio this semester. At the beginning of the semester we each had to pick a word that described ourselves. The word that I picked was “exuberant”, so from then on I have had/ will have to incorporate my word into every project. I just finished my exuberant black and white composition this weekend and Meredith mentions exuberant compositions, which I find extremely cool.
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Michael Meredith is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He teaches in the architecture core design studio sequence.
His professional practice engages interdisciplinary discourses, ranging from art to technology, producing a spectrum of design work which includes furniture, products, sound, speculative architecture projects and residences in New York, Ontario, Texas, and California. Recently he was a finalist for the design of the Pentagon 9-11 memorial and the PS1/MoMA Young Architects competition. In 1998, he was a winner of the Young Architects Competition at the Architectural League of New York. His design work has been published in Architecture, Architectural Record, Casa Brutus, Competitions, McSweeney’s, the New York Times, Oculus, and Surface. His writings have appeared in A+U and Artforum. In 2003, he was a resident at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and in 2000 he received a residency at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas.
He received his BArch from Syracuse, his MArch with distinction from the GSD, and the Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship from Harvard University. In 2000, he was awarded the Muschenheim Fellowship from the University of Michigan, where he taught in 2000-2001. From 2001 he was an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Toronto Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design—where he was a corecipient of a Canadian Foundation for Innovation grant—before joining the GSD faculty in 2004.
His professional practice engages interdisciplinary discourses, ranging from art to technology, producing a spectrum of design work which includes furniture, products, sound, speculative architecture projects and residences in New York, Ontario, Texas, and California. Recently he was a finalist for the design of the Pentagon 9-11 memorial and the PS1/MoMA Young Architects competition. In 1998, he was a winner of the Young Architects Competition at the Architectural League of New York. His design work has been published in Architecture, Architectural Record, Casa Brutus, Competitions, McSweeney’s, the New York Times, Oculus, and Surface. His writings have appeared in A+U and Artforum. In 2003, he was a resident at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and in 2000 he received a residency at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas.
He received his BArch from Syracuse, his MArch with distinction from the GSD, and the Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship from Harvard University. In 2000, he was awarded the Muschenheim Fellowship from the University of Michigan, where he taught in 2000-2001. From 2001 he was an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Toronto Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design—where he was a corecipient of a Canadian Foundation for Innovation grant—before joining the GSD faculty in 2004.
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