BRADLEY WALTERS ARCHITECT

ARCHITECTURE │ RESEARCH │ EDUCATION

Category: Material

  • Dwelling on Climate: Using Comparative Design Methodologies to Develop Responsive Architectures in Hot and Cold Climates

    Bradley Walters and Chang He “A well-designed house not only fits its context well but also illuminates the problem of just what the context is, and thereby clarifies the life which it accommodates.”1 In his Notes on the Synthesis of Form, Christopher Alexander frames the work of design as moving beyond solutions, allowing us to…

  • “Oculata Manus” published by Routledge

    The essay “Oculata Manus: On the Role of the Body in the Making of Creative Minds” was published as a chapter in Developing Creative Thinking in Beginning Design, edited by Stephen A. Temple and published by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group. The chapter was co-authored by Bradley Walters and Lisa Huang.…

  • Oculata Manus: On the Role of the Body in the Making of Creative Minds

    Bradley Walters and Lisa Huang Young designers and beginning design students are often motivated more by emotion, immediacy, and sensuality than by ideologies, theories, or abstract principles. Causal relationships that are remote in perception, time, or space are less relevant than those that are immediate, present, and concurrent. Even when students understand the presence of…

  • “Oculata Manus” published in Vorkurs Journal

    The essay “Oculata Manus” was included in the inaugural edition of the Journal Vorkurs, edited by Zachary Wignall and Elizabeth Cronin. The essay probes pedagogies based in materiality and making, with particular reference to a new curricular structure introduced in Graduate Program at the University of Florida School of Architecture. Citation:Walters, Bradley and Lisa Huang.…

  • Speculative Making: Engaging Mass and Matter

    Young designers and beginning design students are often motivated more by emotion, immediacy, and sensuality than by ideologies, theories, and/or abstract principles. Close and/or causal relationships that are remote in perception, time, and/or space are less relevant than those that are immediate, present, and concurrent. Even when students understand the presence of these remote relationships,…