Class Info
- Date: Tuesday, October 6, 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 – 4 Agendas and SUBMIT to the appropriate link on the Assignment Posts page. Use the checklist of assignments emailed just prior to class to check for missing items.
Objectives
- Apply architectural concepts, principles, and vocabulary
- Introduce architectural section drawings
Activities
- Demonstrate understanding of concepts, principles, and vocabulary terms through application to a building analysis — Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water
- open class discussion
- write a few sentences about this building — how many ways does it express the themes of horizontality and integration with its natural setting? What do you like or dislike about the building and why?
- Study the Week 4-5 PowerPoint slides to understand architectural section drawings. Practice by sketching:
- the section through the pepper shown on the PowerPoint slide
- a section through the Whitney Museum building
- use proper line weights: heavy lines where material is cut through (wall of the pepper, and walls, floor and ceiling slabs of the building) and lighter lines for parts further away
- Slides related to the above activities are included in the Week 4-5 PowerPoint
- SUBMIT in-class writing and sketches at the link on the Assignment Posts page
To-Do After Class
- Complete the section sketches begun in class
- Practice by sketching sections and plans of a coffee mug, cooking pot, table, chair, or other simple objects at home (5 sketches)
- Add a SECTION to your measured drawings of the desk or item of your choice
- Write into your sketchbook the following vocabulary terms from class, with definitions in your own words (and/or an annotated sketch or image);
- cantilever
- eave
- waffle slab
- Search “tiny house” in Google images, choose the one that you find most interesting, and upload it to this “tiny house” folder
- Submit all in-class work and Class 5 homework to the appropriate link on the Assignment Posts page
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