The drawing class will not meet today at 10h00. Work on your 1:1 detail drawings.
We'll check each person's progress at 14h00 and determine how we'll adjust this list accordingly. Everyone we speak to during these reviews will have to have significant progress. We'll just cross people off who don't have progress (with good craft) and move the list up in time. Everyone should be in class until we leave for the day.
Marti List
14h00 Jeff
14h30 Micah
15h00 Katie
15h30 Brittney
16h00 Phil
16h30 Andy
17h00 Nichole
17h30
Brian List
14h00 Luis
14h30 Christina
15h00 Cameron
15h30 Cynthia
16h00 Edgar
16h30 Mike
17h00 John
17h30 Chelsea
Thursday, July 9, 2009
les Trois Etoiles
At "le fin de bout" (the end of the game) on Hockey Night in Canada they announce three stars of the game.
We (Marti and Brian) talked this evening and we have three stars from what we saw today:
La Troisieme Etoile : numero vignt-deux (22), Brittney "Tower of Doom" Molina
La Deuxieme Etoile : numero trieze (13), Eddie "Foam+Paper=Luv" Lacroix
La Premiere Etoile : numero null (0), Nichole "Itz ya Rolly Tee" Shook
Honorable Mentions: Chelsea and Jordan
I was very, very happy to see the informal interaction going on between you all today. I think many of you are aware of what your classmates are doing and how they are doing it. The way you all know what each other are doing is strange- you'd almost think...uh...you were learning from what each other are doing. In that spirit...
This post is intended to indicate to you who we think is on track.
We (Marti and Brian) talked this evening and we have three stars from what we saw today:
La Troisieme Etoile : numero vignt-deux (22), Brittney "Tower of Doom" Molina
La Deuxieme Etoile : numero trieze (13), Eddie "Foam+Paper=Luv" Lacroix
La Premiere Etoile : numero null (0), Nichole "Itz ya Rolly Tee" Shook
Honorable Mentions: Chelsea and Jordan
I was very, very happy to see the informal interaction going on between you all today. I think many of you are aware of what your classmates are doing and how they are doing it. The way you all know what each other are doing is strange- you'd almost think...uh...you were learning from what each other are doing. In that spirit...
This post is intended to indicate to you who we think is on track.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Thursday Ride
Swing Down Sweet Chariot Stop and Let Me Ride...
The funkadelic party starts today at 13h30 (1:30PM) just outside the entrance to the Grande Bibliotheque Nationale du Québec. (la GBNQ @ 475, Boulevard De Maisonneuve Est, across the street from the bus station)
It IS the Berri/UQAM subway station.
Then we'll go west to the Place Bonaventure (800, De La Gauchetière Street, West & also a subway station), KPF's IBM Building (very close by the Place Bonaventure), CIBC Tower (across the street from IBM at 1155, boulevard René-Lévesque Ouest).
That set done we'll go to Westmount Square by Mies van der Rohe (also its own subway station).
Then, to finish the day, we'll go to the CCA for some free Architecture Museum love. (also near a subway station).
This tour has lots to see for many of your projects. You can get almost everywhere we're going (maybe everywhere) en la Métro, en la pied, ou Vélo. Come gassed up and ready to Roulleé!
The funkadelic party starts today at 13h30 (1:30PM) just outside the entrance to the Grande Bibliotheque Nationale du Québec. (la GBNQ @ 475, Boulevard De Maisonneuve Est, across the street from the bus station)
It IS the Berri/UQAM subway station.
Then we'll go west to the Place Bonaventure (800, De La Gauchetière Street, West & also a subway station), KPF's IBM Building (very close by the Place Bonaventure), CIBC Tower (across the street from IBM at 1155, boulevard René-Lévesque Ouest).
That set done we'll go to Westmount Square by Mies van der Rohe (also its own subway station).
Then, to finish the day, we'll go to the CCA for some free Architecture Museum love. (also near a subway station).
This tour has lots to see for many of your projects. You can get almost everywhere we're going (maybe everywhere) en la Métro, en la pied, ou Vélo. Come gassed up and ready to Roulleé!
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Creative Questioning
The Truth is that in philosophy and even elsewhere it is a question of finding the problem and consequently of positing it, even more than of solving it...stating the problem is not simply uncovering, it is inventing...Invention gives bring to what did not exist, it might never have happened.
Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson
Wednesday Schedule
The drawing class will meet today at 10h00. Bring all of your drawings done to date and we'll pin them up.
We've revised the schedule for the afternoon. We're going to divide you all between us to afford a longer crit for each of you.
Marti List
14h00 Chelsea
14h30 John
15h00 Mike
15h30 Edgar
16h00 Cynthia
16h30 Eddie
17h00 Cameron
17h30 Christina
18h00 Ryan
18h30 Luis
Brian List
14h00 Jesus
14h30 Nichole
15h00 Andy
15h30 Phil
16h00 Jordan
16h30 Brittney
17h00 Katie
17h30 Micah
18h00 Jeff
18h30 Frank
We've revised the schedule for the afternoon. We're going to divide you all between us to afford a longer crit for each of you.
Marti List
14h00 Chelsea
14h30 John
15h00 Mike
15h30 Edgar
16h00 Cynthia
16h30 Eddie
17h00 Cameron
17h30 Christina
18h00 Ryan
18h30 Luis
Brian List
14h00 Jesus
14h30 Nichole
15h00 Andy
15h30 Phil
16h00 Jordan
16h30 Brittney
17h00 Katie
17h30 Micah
18h00 Jeff
18h30 Frank
Program
Urban Center :: Place d’Youville
The Urban Center is a meeting place and intellectual venue for architectural discourse in the city. The relationship between Use / Event / Program is critical to the Urban Center. How will one use the space? How will events happen in this space? What is the program of the place?
The Urban Center will present major lectures, symposia, exhibitions, supporting research and advocacy for urbanism. Using the program Exhibit : Present : Study : Distribute : Administrate how will the urban center relate to its formal context and geometry? How does the Urban Center directly engage Place d'Youville, its double facade, and its underground connection? The sewer will act as a passage between the Urban Center and the Archaeological Museum.
Program ::
Exhibit
Meet < individual & group
Study
Distribute
Administrate
You will create one new paper model, foam model, hybrid model (use both foam and paper), and develop a list of events that may happen at the Urban Center for Wednesday. Think about the types of events, their cycle, their duration, their intensity, and their audience and create a catalog using these terms. Look at your models and focus on the seeing the space of the event. Look at your models to create your event catalog. Use your program : Exhibit : Meet : Study : Distribute : and Administrate while building your models and your catalog.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Welcome Back
We have 3 weeks of class left in Montréal. The final MTL review is on 27 July.
When you talk about your work for this class you do not, most often, talk about the things we talk about nor do you seem to put observations, facts, discoveries, and "hunches" together in a logical and persuasive way. Would you rather listen to a list of problems and how they were solved or would you rather listen to a story about a place? You seem to have problems in all three phases of Aristotle's "De Rhetorica"- Discovery, Composition, and Style. Discovery requires a disciplined curiosity. Composition requires disciplined editing, and Style requires a disciplined projection. Discipline includes professional habit and custom, focus, thoroughness, and iterative considerations. We'll help if you'll engage the matter.
Monday 6 July 14h00 : Have all of your drawings pinned up and models displayed somewhere in the building hallways (1st, 3rd, and 5th) or in the studio. Have the site observation drawings, the three final models, the isos and planimetrics of the models, the new paper models, written out current project statements, and a catalog with your work.
If you expect to see any of your work done before the first assessment "reviewed" then post a sheet of paper to the left of your work that says what should be looked at in that regard for today. If your material is not complete, pinned up, and ready at 14h00 then we won't be talking about your work this week.
In class today we're going to take time to have people present their statements. Then we'll have a talk about these presentations and the project in general, then we'll present a new exercise.
There will be no class on Tuesday.
There will be Drawing class on Wednesday morning.
There will be Studio desk crits Wednesday afternoon.
There will be a Tour on Thursday.
There will be Drawing class Friday morning.
There will be Studio desk crits Friday afternoon.
When you talk about your work for this class you do not, most often, talk about the things we talk about nor do you seem to put observations, facts, discoveries, and "hunches" together in a logical and persuasive way. Would you rather listen to a list of problems and how they were solved or would you rather listen to a story about a place? You seem to have problems in all three phases of Aristotle's "De Rhetorica"- Discovery, Composition, and Style. Discovery requires a disciplined curiosity. Composition requires disciplined editing, and Style requires a disciplined projection. Discipline includes professional habit and custom, focus, thoroughness, and iterative considerations. We'll help if you'll engage the matter.
Monday 6 July 14h00 : Have all of your drawings pinned up and models displayed somewhere in the building hallways (1st, 3rd, and 5th) or in the studio. Have the site observation drawings, the three final models, the isos and planimetrics of the models, the new paper models, written out current project statements, and a catalog with your work.
If you expect to see any of your work done before the first assessment "reviewed" then post a sheet of paper to the left of your work that says what should be looked at in that regard for today. If your material is not complete, pinned up, and ready at 14h00 then we won't be talking about your work this week.
In class today we're going to take time to have people present their statements. Then we'll have a talk about these presentations and the project in general, then we'll present a new exercise.
There will be no class on Tuesday.
There will be Drawing class on Wednesday morning.
There will be Studio desk crits Wednesday afternoon.
There will be a Tour on Thursday.
There will be Drawing class Friday morning.
There will be Studio desk crits Friday afternoon.
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