WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR TTU-MAP SUMMER 2009
Monday
14h00 to 18h00 Building Urbanism Studio in Session
Tuesday
Work Day
Wednesday
10h00 to 12h00 Building Surfaces Workshop in Session
14h00 to 18h00 Building Urbanism Studio in Session
Thursday
Tour Day
Friday
10h00 to 12h00 Building Surfaces Workshop in Session
14h00 to 18h00 Building Urbanism Studio in Session
Sunday, May 31, 2009
First Day's Schedule : 01/06/09
We've got a busy day and three major things to do Monday. Make that four if you are in the ARCH4000 class.
Check out the weather for the day and dress for working around the weather- cool and cloudy with possible showers. We'll work around the weather and stay close to the schedule below. We will be outside whenever possible.
You will need your camera (if you have one) and your sketchbook and something to sketch with today. You will NOT need your computers.
11h00 Meet up at the Belvedere on Mount Royal. Meet inside the pavilion if is is raining.
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Break for lunch at 12h30.
Meet up at McGill SoA at 14h00. As you arrive go to the back of the first floor and look at the end of year exhibition.
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Break at 15h30.
Meet up at the project site, Place d'Youville, at 16h00.
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Break at 17h30.
The ARCH4000 class will meet again at the site at 19h00.
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We'll make the final break at 20h30.
Check out the weather for the day and dress for working around the weather- cool and cloudy with possible showers. We'll work around the weather and stay close to the schedule below. We will be outside whenever possible.
You will need your camera (if you have one) and your sketchbook and something to sketch with today. You will NOT need your computers.
11h00 Meet up at the Belvedere on Mount Royal. Meet inside the pavilion if is is raining.
View Larger Map
Break for lunch at 12h30.
Meet up at McGill SoA at 14h00. As you arrive go to the back of the first floor and look at the end of year exhibition.
View Larger Map
Break at 15h30.
Meet up at the project site, Place d'Youville, at 16h00.
View Larger Map
Break at 17h30.
The ARCH4000 class will meet again at the site at 19h00.
View Larger Map
We'll make the final break at 20h30.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Montréal Museums Day
On Sunday, 31 May, 30 museums will be free to the public.
Grant, Zach, Carrie, and I will be in the lobby of the Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal Museum of Archaeology and History, which is a focus of our studio study, at 10h00. We'll go to the Science Centre at 13h30 and we'll be at the Museé des Beaux Arts at 16h30 for a quick romp around the art.
The first venue visit is highly recommended.
Jeff, if you're coming along, your dad is very welcome both Sunday and Monday. We'll be mostly touring on Monday. Post to come about that.
Grant, Zach, Carrie, and I will be in the lobby of the Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal Museum of Archaeology and History, which is a focus of our studio study, at 10h00. We'll go to the Science Centre at 13h30 and we'll be at the Museé des Beaux Arts at 16h30 for a quick romp around the art.
The first venue visit is highly recommended.
Jeff, if you're coming along, your dad is very welcome both Sunday and Monday. We'll be mostly touring on Monday. Post to come about that.
je suis arriveé
Both Grant and I are in the city. If you need help setting up or have a question then this is the time to ask.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Residence Locations
I've made a map of residence locations for us. It is permanently linked to the left.
View MTL '09 Residences in a larger map
View MTL '09 Residences in a larger map
Sunday, May 17, 2009
MTL Addresses
I'd like to make a map of where everyone lives. Please leave your living arrangement as a comment to this post and I'll compile where everyone is at.
Comment freely.
Comment freely.
Arrival Dates and Times
Please put a comment on this post listing your date and time of arrival so we can share rides from the airport to our apartments. The cab ride (the only real way to make this trip) is 40$CDN+ whether it is one or three traveling.
My daughter Carrie and I arrive Thursday the 28th at 17h08 (5:08P) from Philly.
If you want to share then let the person know via email. In any case, link-ups should plan on meeting up after immigration, after we get our bags, after we go through customs, out where everyone waits for their loved ones and bosses to come out. Just follow the process and you'll know the place I'm talking about. It takes a while from when you land to get out to this place.
Comment freely.
My daughter Carrie and I arrive Thursday the 28th at 17h08 (5:08P) from Philly.
If you want to share then let the person know via email. In any case, link-ups should plan on meeting up after immigration, after we get our bags, after we go through customs, out where everyone waits for their loved ones and bosses to come out. Just follow the process and you'll know the place I'm talking about. It takes a while from when you land to get out to this place.
Comment freely.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Detailed Site Data ZIP FIle
I have uploaded a large zip file (175mb) of well organized research on your studio site for this summer. This is all material found by last year's Montréal students, Marti, and I at various libraries around the city. You will be responsible for identifying and explaining the contents of every file in this collection. It is HERE. You should start perusing it and getting to know the Place d'Youville (pronounced plahss dYEWVEEluh)
Site in 1917 - the Goad's Map
For every location in the U.S.A. and Canada there is a historical series of fire insurance maps that chronicle the buildings that sat in each location in the city. The maps run from about 1870 until about 1955. They are color-coded by construction type and always show how water could be delivered to the building to fight a fire. It shows where the hydrants are. It also names proprietors of businesses, when known. The maps are watercolour wash over black india ink and then notational systems are added over line work and wash. They were periodically modified and updated. Look closely at the enlargement of this file and look for the "cut in" chunks of water color paper glued to the sheet so an area could be updated. The splice lines become a relief of the history of change in the city. The maps were held in the insurance capitol of the world, New York, and from the data in the map a New York insurance broker would set the going rate on insuring a building against fire, which was much more common than it is today. Today these are the best record of localized change and shifts in a city's fabric.In the USA these maps are called SANBORN Maps. In Canada we call these GOAD'S maps.
Greatest Ride
The longest known ride by anyone on these trips was done by Marti and I last year- in the rain and it started after noon. Google Maps says it was over 70 miles.Take note of the land use patterns in the farm land surrounding Montréal. It is in strips rather than in rectangular plots. There certainly are no pivot irrigators either. Land, in French settled North American was divided up into thin strips of land that all touched a waterway. Water was the highway the French used to get around, not via horse and "pike" as the British did. This same land settlement pattern can be found in Missouri, Louisiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin; though Jefferson's grid did a lot to obscure it in ensuing centuries.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
St-Viateur Bagels
Soon my children, soon. This is in Mile End at St-Viateur and Clark. It is the best bagel in the world unless you prefer Farimount Bagels, which are one block away. The bakeries are both open 24/7.Go HERE. They are called one of the seven wonders of Canada.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
ARCH4000 Spring 2009 Grades
I have submitted grades for the one hour ARCH4000 acculturation course. Assume that the remaining two credit hours of this course will be run with great clarity, simplicity, and care. We're making a great class for you and we're excited about teaching it. The remaining two credits will be assessed with clarity of intent and an alignment of content and outcome. We look forward to working with you all this summer and delivering a pair of courses that are academically challenging, clear in intention, and managed in a professional and straight-forward manner.
You will not be pressed for your participation this summer. You will not be "forced" to grow professionally and intellectually through this coursework. Both of these courses will be driven by your daily performance of design, communication, and intellectual knowledge based exercises in architecture. Your performance will be informally evaluated and noted on a daily basis. We will not encourage or cajole you to participate if we see a lack of engagement and performance. If you don't perform in these courses and perform to the expected and articulated standards we set out then you'll be able to perform to that standard in this coursework at a later date. That's not punishment. That's a chance to make certain that you are learning and will be productive, ethically upright, intellectual, and professionally skilled architects.
The only way you will find us confronting you about your work in this course is when we find you impeding our teaching or the performance of a classmate in the coursework. The first time we find this the case we'll talk to you about it and ask you to take a leave from the class and classwork to reflect. The second time, as is outlined in the university's "Civility in the Classroom" documents, you will be dismissed from the course permanently with a grade of either F or W, depending on where in the calendar someone were to step across the line twice. I assume that this will never happen. We can assure that it will not by not even coming close to where the line might be. Err on the side of civility and professionalism in all that you do in an academic setting. Once across the line there's not claiming ignorance or misrepresentation. You are too mature and intelligent for that to be true.
Our role in the summer's coursework is to deliver to you, through an acceptable medium and method, a clear and simple set of lessons in architectural education that are focused on urban issues. Beyond that, at times, we'll try to enliven your experience in the city by pointing things out and illuminating key events. That's not core teaching but is our personal interest in seeing you get the same sort of study abroad experience that we all three were offered in our days in school. We all must keep those roles separate and clear.
You are responsible for the acceptable personal performance and daily engagement with the course material. You are responsible for adding as much as you take from the group dynamic and learning environment we all construct. We are going to engage you through teaching and assessment of your learning. You are going to engage us through performance and learning in the material set out. Its going to be a great summer experience. We're going to make coursework and events that will be challenging and stimulating.
See you on the mountain in a few weeks.
You will not be pressed for your participation this summer. You will not be "forced" to grow professionally and intellectually through this coursework. Both of these courses will be driven by your daily performance of design, communication, and intellectual knowledge based exercises in architecture. Your performance will be informally evaluated and noted on a daily basis. We will not encourage or cajole you to participate if we see a lack of engagement and performance. If you don't perform in these courses and perform to the expected and articulated standards we set out then you'll be able to perform to that standard in this coursework at a later date. That's not punishment. That's a chance to make certain that you are learning and will be productive, ethically upright, intellectual, and professionally skilled architects.
The only way you will find us confronting you about your work in this course is when we find you impeding our teaching or the performance of a classmate in the coursework. The first time we find this the case we'll talk to you about it and ask you to take a leave from the class and classwork to reflect. The second time, as is outlined in the university's "Civility in the Classroom" documents, you will be dismissed from the course permanently with a grade of either F or W, depending on where in the calendar someone were to step across the line twice. I assume that this will never happen. We can assure that it will not by not even coming close to where the line might be. Err on the side of civility and professionalism in all that you do in an academic setting. Once across the line there's not claiming ignorance or misrepresentation. You are too mature and intelligent for that to be true.
Our role in the summer's coursework is to deliver to you, through an acceptable medium and method, a clear and simple set of lessons in architectural education that are focused on urban issues. Beyond that, at times, we'll try to enliven your experience in the city by pointing things out and illuminating key events. That's not core teaching but is our personal interest in seeing you get the same sort of study abroad experience that we all three were offered in our days in school. We all must keep those roles separate and clear.
You are responsible for the acceptable personal performance and daily engagement with the course material. You are responsible for adding as much as you take from the group dynamic and learning environment we all construct. We are going to engage you through teaching and assessment of your learning. You are going to engage us through performance and learning in the material set out. Its going to be a great summer experience. We're going to make coursework and events that will be challenging and stimulating.
See you on the mountain in a few weeks.
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