UBLMNV-15-2 : Research & Design Strategies The Department of Architecture & the Built Environment UWE, Bristol Task Six : structure Using a minimum of two pen-thicknesses and a maximum of three pen-thicknesses design a drawn analysis of the following problem. Make your drawings and diagrams crisp, clear and precise and write a short explanatory text of minimum 175-words to explain the argument you have set out in your drawings. [physical ] structure as structure [conceptual ] One definition of architecture is that "the architecture of a building […] is the underlying intellectual structure that has given it form" (Unwin 2007, 102). One central strategy for the organisation of form in any building is the arrangement of that building's structure. In many cases we can analyse a building's structure to understand the intellectual ideas that inhabit that building. With these thoughts in mind analyse the structures of three office buildings: Johnson Wax Administration Building, 1936-9 by Frank Lloyd Wright Willis, Faber & Dumas Headquarters, 1971-5 by Norman Foster Centraal Beheer Insurance Offices, 1967-72 by Herman Hertzberger Each of these buildings represents a different philosophy of office design. Make a diagram of each building's structure and research each building to understand the approach to office design it embodies. Use your diagrams to illustrate a written argument explaining the different ideas about office organisation and patterns of work that are embodied (and sometimes controlled) by these building's structural organisation. Simon UNWIN, 2007. Analysing Architecture Through Drawing. Building Research & Information 35(1), 101-110.