Class 2 Agenda

Class Info

• Date: Saturday, 2/1
• Meeting Info: Voorhees V-305

To-Do Before Class

• Set up your OpenLab account (if you haven’t already) and join this course
• Sign the Academic Integrity Pledge
• Purchase required class materials (see syllabus for details)
• Daily Sketches (5 minimum) – Neighborhood Mapping
  • Identify places in your neighborhood that have some personal meaning to you (could be anything – a grocery store, a park, a friend’s house…) and sketch them. I suggest you pick at least 4 places.
  • From memory (not google maps), create a map of your neighborhood and include these places in your map. Think creatively here, it doesn’t have to be literal (refer to the reading in the link above).
  • Include a short narrative describing your map
  • Post to Miro, and be prepared to discuss next class

Topic(s)

Introduction to Architectural Drawings: Measuring, Drawing, Dimensioning

Activities

• Neighborhood Mapping Review
  • Mental Mapping: Image of the City
  • In class mapping activity
• Architectural drawings: plans, sections, elevations
• How to use an architectural scale
  • In class drafting exercise
• Architectural lettering
• Assignment 1 Overview

To-Do After Class

• Daily Sketches (5 minimum) – Objects in your home
• Reading
  • Francis Ching, Architecture: Form, Space, and Order
  • Chapters 2 – 4, be ready to discuss in two weeks (Class 4)
• We have a field trip next week, details to come…