(Snowy) Spring Break - Go Wild.

Hi Class,

Hope you're out of town enjoying the break - or hunkering down to relax while occasionally catching up on the semester. You should have all received your mid-semester evaluation by now. These were written before our desk-crits for Topic 4.

We're all set for our review on the 27th with the editor. Lauren and I are relying on you to orchestrate revisions/additions/printing of all case studies within the template with your partner, and that you will also develop a response statement to (2) of the (3) prompts given out in last weeks assignment sheet. Be bold and eloquent.

Once you solo-post your drafts as this week's blog post exercise, we'll be able to give you feedback before the review. Give yourself a solid 30 minutes for each and fire it out there for us to chat about as soon as possible.

We'll be following up with a synthesis of the conversations we've had as a class around the 'graphic criteria' component on the first page of the case studies - there may be a revision to that component of the template in the next few days.

Cheers, Kyle

BAC Lecture Tomorrow!

Hi all,

You might be interested in attending Diana Balmori's lecture tomorrow at 6 pm in Cascieri Hall.  We'll be reading from her book Groundwork this week!

Blog Exercise 5: The Architectural Detail

Hi all,

Please respond to the following prompt via the comments section by Sunday at 8 pm as soon as possible.  

BLOG EXERCISE 5

Ed Ford, in the introduction to The Architectural Detail, lays out five ways of thinking about a detail and offers his opinion about how architects should approach the work of detailing.  Choose one of the precedents you have studied thus far and think about what the detail you drew expresses relative to the overall project concept.  Which of Ford’s categories would it fit into?