Form and Inspiration

The Form and Inspiration course is a 10-week MSc2 elective (5 ECTS) that takes students on a journey from inspiration to form. Students will thoroughly explore a chosen Inspiration in order to design a detailed architectural element or space (e.g., window, ceiling, room), which we refer to as Form.

Guided by your personal inspiration, you will actively and deeply engage with artistic work to transcend the limits of the purely analytical. The process involves acts of sensing, documentation, association, abstraction, expression, translation, imagination, and innovation on a small scale. The course is a process of attentive observation and continuous material engagement, aimed at achieving experiential, sensitive, and material understandings beyond the superficial. These understandings serve as the foundation for the design of a specific and detailed interpretation of a classical architectural element or spatial archetype.

The final deliverables are:

• Artwork expressing the understanding of the chosen inspiration (medium of choice)

• A physical scale model (1:20) of the assigned architectural element/space (form)

• A textual description of the inspiration and a textual description of the final form and its relationship to the inspiration

• Documentation of the artistic process in a booklet