Monday, March 31, 2008

Task for tutorial on Thursday week 3

Dear students this is the last tutorial before your presentation and review next week.
The task for this week is to add selected images of your work on your blog site. We would like to see the process you followed up to now showing (also if not finished yet) the following:

1. parti drawings
2. poche' drawings
3. model

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

TASK FOR TODAY - INDEPENDENT STUDY

TASK FOR THURSDAY TUTORIAL - WEEK 1

PROJECT 1
COMPLETE BY THE START OF THE NEXT CLASS

1. FORM GROUPS OF TWO FOR ALL THE VILLAS EXCEPT ADOLF LOOS' VILLA MULLER WHICH WILL BE ANALYZED BY THREE STUDENTS each group should have six subgroups of 2 students and one of 3 students.
2. RESEARCH THE VILLA ASSIGNED AFTER THE INTRODUCTORY LESSON USING THE LIBRARY AND OTHER SOURCES
3. COLLECT THE GRAPHIC INFORMATION AVAILABLE: SITE PLAN, FLOOR PLAN(S), SECTIONS AND ELEVATIONS
4. STUDY THE VILLA TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS THE ARCHITECT'S INTENT THROUGH HIS SKETCHES (IF AVAILABLE) AND HIS WRITINGS. ATTEMPT TO PRODUCE A SERIES OF PARTI SKETCHES AS PER PROJECT OUTLINE AND FIND SOME EXAMPLES OF PARTI AND POCHE' DRAWINGS TO SHARE IN CLASS
5. COLLECT HIS SKETCHES AND HIS WRITINGS + AT LEAST ONE ARTICLE WRITTEN BY AN ARCHITECTURE HISTORIAN AND CRITIC
TO DISCUSS IN CLASS

ARCH1201 WELCOME

Looking forward to seeing you in ARCH1201 this semester!