Class Info
- Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2020
- Meeting via Zoom: Link and passcode will be provided to all students via email
To-Do Before Class
Complete all To-Do items, Activities, and Assignments from the Class 1 – 3 Agendas and SUBMIT to the appropriate link on the Assignment Posts page
Announcement
- NO CLASSES on MONDAY, September 28
- Monday classes meet on Tuesday, September 29
- Our class WILL NOT MEET on Tuesday, September 29!
- Our next assignments will be due midnight, Monday October 5
Objectives
- Apply architectural concepts, principles, and vocabulary
- Practice sketching: 1-point and 2-point perspective, elevation, plan
- Understand the use of architectural scale
Activities
- Demonstrate understanding of concepts, principles, and vocabulary terms through discussion and application to a building analysis — Marcel Breuer’s Whitney Museum (aka Met Breuer)
- In-class sketching assignments — continue to develop architectural sketching techniques, practice 1-point and 2-point perspective, elevations sketches, derivation of plan from photographs of Breuer’s Whitney Museum
- Slides related to the above activities are included in the Week 4 PowerPoint (REVISED 09-27-20)
- SUBMIT in-class sketches at the link on the Assignment Posts page
To-Do After Class
- Complete the measured drawings of the furniture item — the desk or item of your choice — three views with border, title block, and graphic scale as shown in class and described in the Week 4 PowerPoint
- Write into your sketchbook the six tips from the video “Top 6 Architectural Sketching Techniques” if you have not already done so. Now illustrate each tip with a quick sketch, for example:
- several lines from very light to very heavy line weight
- a simple cube or rectilinear mass drawn in one-, two-, and three-point perspective
- etc. for tips #1 – #6
- Practice!
- SUBMIT in-class sketches and Class 4 homework to the appropriate link on the Assignment Posts page
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