Space Shaping Image Making
Course Description
Summary
Can architecture be understood in the same terms as a photograph? A piece of writing? A painting? A film? Or does it require its own vocabulary, rules, precedents, and sensibilities?
This course is an introduction to the architectural discipline through exercises in sketching, drawing and making (sketch and) scale models. Students will be exposed to built projects, works of ‘paper architecture’, and architectural theories and propositions as we learn how to draw in plan, section, and elevation to describe spatial conditions and move between two and three-dimensional modes of representation. In addition to a weekly sketching, drawing, and modeling practice, students will work toward a final project—a simple architectural proposal on a site that they can visit. Students who would like to enroll in this course are required to take the reading section as well.
Learning Outcomes
- - learning how to make and read architectural drawings
- learning techniques that designers use to represent three dimensional ideas in two dimensional images
- practicing scalar conversions and measurements.
- forming an idea about what we mean when describe things as architecture, or architectural
Corequisites
Students enrolled in this course must also enroll for "Space Shaping Image Making: Readings" or get permission from the instructor to be exempt from this requirement.
Cross List
- Design