This reading list is inspired by the Nuttallburg Studio, taught at the University of Virginia in the spring of this year and named as a winner of the 2017 Studio Prize awarded by Architect Magazine. The pedagogical charge of the studio was the exploration on construction, but our engagement was not the conventional one. The studio was not about “developing” a design. It was not about “detailing” a concept. It was not about carrying the larger of ideas of the building into the small. It was rather about the simultaneous pursuit of a design from both of its scalar ends, about beginning with both the large and the small, about working from the material to the form and the form to the material, about starting simultaneously with a detail and a concept. It was a process in which the inner life of materials, the varying levels of craftsmanship and the structural nature of the building were not considerations but determinants.
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