Published in 2A Architecture and Construction I editor Ahmad Zohadi 2012
Aghanistan: Architectural lessons in the field 2012
Stanley Ira Hallet
IIn turn, I have used these early investigations made in Afghanistan and the lessons learned to inspire graduate students in our own graduate studies in Cultural Studies here The Catholic University of America’s School of Architecture and Planning. The student proposals illustrated do in fact make reference to our earlier studies in Afghanistan and propose contemporary solutions to the continual problems of housing, health clinics and schools required of today’s Afghan population. As you will see, many of the lessons learned, such as the use of local materials, assemblies of construction understood by the inhabitants, response to climate and the ever important need to maintain privacy and define clear territories of family control are still present. Yet in almost every case, the work can be considered equally at home in our time, aware of the long established tenants of the Afghan culture while responding to the changing needs of a population in transition if not in crisis.
Published in 2A Architecture and Construction I editor Ahmad Zohadi 2012
The School of Architecture and Planning A Case Study 2005
International Symposium Becoming and Architect in the XXI Century
University of Rome “La Sapienza”
The School of Architecture and Planning A Case Study 2005
International Symposium Becoming and Architect in the XXI Century
University of Rome “La Sapienza” Stanley Ira Hallet
This article track the growth and development of what is now considered to be an increasingly vital and contributory school of architecture to both our university and community, especially in terms of how it defines and makes use of the unique talents of our faculty and the diverse mix of students our program attracts from the East Coast as well as from Central and South America where a Catholic tradition continues to send excellent students to our program.
With the continual growth of our program under subsequent Deans, several new opportunities will be discussed, one building upon our strong interests and proven capabilities of construction grounded in design build studios and furniture design and the other growing out of an increased and creative use of digital media to both explore and communicate our work. In addition, our existing programs addressing urban design problems at a local scale as well as cultural issues on a global scale, including the rethinking of sacred space, now suggest that we should offer stronger programs at the graduate level which could further raise the profile of our school within the community and nation.
Catalogue $30.00 2005
Architettura e film……Architecture and movie 2005
Stanley Ira Hallet and Lavinia Pasquina
Catalogue Design Giuseppi di Nicolla
The article consists of three parts documenting a studio in architecture exploring the relationship between architecture and film. Part One, an introduction to the studio, is drawn from a manuscript on Film and Architecture prepared by the author Professor Stanley Ira Hallet, FAIA. Part Two describes the studio structure and methodology used to explore the many issues involved. Part Three presents in more detail three projects drawn from the studio. The complete results from the studio and accompanying lectures were exhibited at the Palazzo d’Aumale in Sicily on August 22nd, 2004 and resulted in an Italian/English catalogue documenting the event.
“Cinema can never escape its context, whether its location or site is found, altered or invented. Although architectural settings have always existed as mere backdrops for the director’s tale, often these same landscapes move upstage and become a supporting actor, the principle protagonist or can even become the main story itself. When this occurs, the film director and architect, the scenographer or set designer and designer, end up manipulating the same material in order to orchestrate similar events. Although architect and filmmaker work in different media, if not in different worlds, sometimes our work crosses over and we both end up in the same business of inventing a context, real or imagined, a container for life’s unfolding narrative.
Understandably architecture is first obliged to solving the problem of shelter; however, once accomplished, there exists an equally long tradition of providing shelter for our dreams and aspirations. Perhaps in this pursuit, cinema and architecture can occupy common ground.” from the Introduction by Stanley Ira Hallet
1998 Residential Architect
Residential Architect 2000
Abiding light by cheryl weber
Cover story describing house designed by Stanley Ira Hallet, FAIA
The house is most simply described as a box, requiring a modest footprint on the site and a hopefully equally modest budget to build. A "thick" nine foot poche wall contains the stairs, utilities and particularly dense media and music rooms, acting in turn as a back drop to the more open public spaces. The house is further divided into the smaller more cloistered rooms to the "back" that serve the more expansive common spaces to the "front." Although the house reaches up three stories into the trees, each level is somewhat self-contained servings communal activities on the first, work activities on the second, and sleeping and retreat activities on the third. Although the first and second levels intermingle spatially, the third remains adamantly apart. At first, the house appears to "deconstruct" itself as the well-defined container appears to shed its "clothes" as internal spaces peer into each other until outside, the borrowed landscape becomes just another vegetal wall defining increasingly outdoor rooms. The character of the expansive north-east window wall shifts from day to night, first continuing space, then reflecting it. Cool in summer, semi-transparent shades descend during winter nights to reduce heat loss and radiation. Similarly, the box appears to fragment and dissipate as steel columns and wood beams climb skyward until only a few members lift glass roofs and metal rods that bend in the wind. The rods, sometimes compared to fishing poles, sway with the branches of the two great pin oaks which in turn become the final roof and exterior wall to the house.
Awards: Washingtonian, DC AIA Chapter award, 1998 Residential Architect, feature review, 2000 Il Projetto, Mia Casa, 2001 Washington Post, feature review, 2000
Apotheosis of St. Ignatius by Andrea Pozzo on ceiling of Church of Saint Ignatius
From The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover, 1989
Making Sacred Places 1997
Cincinnati, Ohio
Repositioning the Sacred in the Cinematic (Profane) Space of Peter Greenaway
Co-authored with Richard Ortega Loosle
Film director Peter Greenaway describes the Apotheosis of St. Ignatius by Andrea Pozzo covering the great ceiling of the Church of Saint Ignatius it in these words:
“A phenomenon of total spectacle, employing every means possible, but especially light, to fabricate illusion and make propaganda for an act of faith and for the suspension of disbelief – essential both for the Church and the Cinema. How could we believe…that such a crowd of figures could fly into heaven through the roof of a Roman church. And how could we accept that Cinema tries to attempt this sort of miracle every time the projector light is switched on.”
British film director Peter Greenaway’s film The Thief, the Cook, his Wife and her Lover (1989) best demonstrates his fastidious transformation of the “found” location into the sacred and profane. Reconstructing the bibliacal triad of earth, heaven (paradise) and hell into the environs of an extraordinary French restaurant, Greenaway transforms the “ordinary” into the sacred. Through the cinematic devises of the traveling shot and colored celluloid lighting, elaborate sets , music and narrative, the normative spaces of the service alley, the kitchen, dining rooms and bathrooms are transformed into their “sacred” counterparts where the forces of good and evil play out their roles.
Calligraphy in carved plaster Alhambra Granada Spain
The Role of Iconoclasm on Islamic Art and Architecture 1989
Response to Joe Migron
INternational Conference, UNiversity off Utah, College of Law
By Stanley Ira Hallet
Religion and Law: Biblical-Judaic and Islamic Perspectives edited by Edwin B. Firmage, Bernard G. Weiss and John W. Welsh published by Eisenbrauns Winona Lake 1990
1985 Faith and Forum Spring and Summer issues
A Design Studio in Religious Architecture 1985
The Temples Quarter Part One and Two
Architectural Record April 1985
A Design Studio in Religious Architecture 1985
Architectural Education: Temples and other religious themes - a design studio case study
“That theory, philosophy and symbolisim can be evocatively melded into studio teaching is effectively shown in the portions of eight student projects from Professor Hallet’s course illustrated on the following pages.”
Architectural Record, April, 1985
Jg2 Heft 2 Afghan Journal, Graz, Austria
