Architecture 1000 is offered in the Dalhousie University calendar and is open to all students of Dalhousie and other Halifax universities. No prerequisite course is required.

Intended both for students considering Dalhousie's professional study leading to the Master of Architecture degree and for those with a more casual interest in the field, Architecture 1000 is an introductory course providing insight into professional studies and contemporary architectural practice.

The course is loosely structured around the four streams of architectural study at the Dalhousie Faculty of Architecture: design, humanities, technology, and practice.

In the first term, drawing is studied. Conventions of representation are discussed and students complete a set of exercises intended to foster an interest in study and design through drawing and abstraction. Later in that term, discussion centres around the sources of architectural inspiration: site, material, history, use, and expression. A poster (design and production) is the required project.

In the second term, the course is more focused upon contemporary architectural practice.

Two assignments are given: one asks student to construct a container and the other asks for an elaborate series of descriptive and design drawings.

an introduction to the study and practice of architecture

Peter Henry, Adjunct ProfessorLiam Guitard, TA

September 2017 - April 2018Wednesdays 2:30 ~ 5:30 PM

Faculty of Architecture Dalhousie University

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Week F.01 (MA121) SE 06 • Introduction to course• Lecture (ph): Inevitably

recurring themes in architecture.

• Lecture (ph): The principles and conventions of architectural drawing.

• In Class Assignment: Ortho#1.

Week F.02 (MA121) SE 13 • Lecture (ph): Representation,

Layering and Orthographic Projection.

• In Class Assignment: Ortho#2.

Week F.03 (MA121) SE 20• Review previous assignment.• Introduction: Poster

Assignment• In Class Assignment: Ortho#3.

Week F.04 (MA121) September 27• Lecture (ph): Diagramming the

World. • Review previous assignment.• In Class Assignment: Ortho#4.

Week F.05 (MA121) OC 04• Review previous assignment.• In Class Assignment: Ortho#5.• 7:00 PM Portfolio Preparation

(for prospective students to the Faculty of Architecture and Planning) room HA.19.

Week F.06 (PkLn#4) OC 11• Lecture 1/5: History and

Memory, JEFFREY REED discusses ideas of historic reference in contemporary work.

• Tour: Heritage Expert JEFFREY REED conducts a tour of ST. GEORGE'S church, corner of Brunswick and Cornwallis Streets.

Week F.07 (PkLn#4) OC 18• Lecture 2/5 (ph): "Site as

Seminal Force".• Seminar Group R.

Assignments• Each assignment is assessed

on its academic rigour, artful expression, and originality.

• Evaluation is by Dalhousie's use of undergraduate grades (A+, A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C-, D, F, INC, ILL, W).

• Late assignments will be marked without penalty with a medical certificate.

• All course work is creative work.• Evaluation of such work cannot

be reduced to a checklist. • The evaluation will be rigorous,

but cannot be "objective".• Students are invited to question

their evaluation, and an appeal process is available.

AccommodationNEW: Student Rights and ResponsibilitiesPlease see the School of Architecture’s "Academic Regulations" page (http://tinyurl.com/dal-arch-regulations) for a summary of university policies affecting academic courses:• Accommodation Policy for Students• Academic Integrity• Code of Student Conduct• Services Available to StudentsStudents may request accommodation as a result of barriers related to disability, religious obligation, or any characteristic under the Nova Scotia Human Rights Act. Students who require academic accommodation for either classroom participation or the writing of tests and exams should make their request to the Advising and Access Services Centre (AASC) prior to or at the outset of the regular academic year.

Make a POSTERMake a poster advertising an exhibition of any architect, except the eight mentioned for special study in the Seminar Groups.

Specifics:• Poster VERTICAL format 11"

wide and x 17" high.• Poster is to advertise an exhibit

of an architect to be held at a gallery. Students are to select the gallery and the architect, using "real" galleries and architects (i.e. not inventing imaginary ones).

• Interpret (express) aspects of the architect's work, while being mindful that interpretation can be narrow/specific or broad/general.

• Research: - "Russian Constructivism" - "Tatlin Poster" - "poster art nouveau" - "poster art deco" - "poster MOMA" - "poster ICA"• Poster must be entirely hand

rendered (drawn or painted or carved or traced by hand), but the design of the poster may be photographically, digitally or otherwise influenced.

• Poster VERTICAL format 11" wide and x 17" high.

NOTE: last year, 9 posters were presented in the wrong format!

Make a CONTAINERFind, buy, or obtain an object which is in some way significant (to you). The object must be portable. Declare your object by emailing a description to Peter.Reflect on the extent to which all that architects ever do is make containers for objects. While the object may be an obvious concrete noun, like "book", or a "pocket knife", it might also be an abstract noun like democracy or justice.First make sketches and later drawings and then construct a container for this object.

Specifics:• Present container with object,• Present 10 sketches* from

your sketch book to illustrate the process of designing the container. Prepare these sketches before you make the container. These sketches may be "rough" as they are meant for you, not for a wider audience.

• Present 3 drawings** to scale, each on one sheet, which describe the container, and its construction.

• Present a 200 word essay, on a 5" x 7" card, describing the object and the container.

• Some drawings and sketches are to be hand drawn.

Nomenclature:* a sketch is an illustration used by

a designer to explore a design. It is meant as a way to remember and record information for the author. Think of the sketch as an étude (or study) rather than as a finished polished work.

** a drawing is an illustration meant to convey specific information, including dimension, material, and builderly information.

Design a PLACEEvery building has "threshold and procession" as central attributes.Consider a warehouse in which the in/out boundary and the entry (the threshold) is its very essence. Or examine the cathedral where the celebrated passage is seen in multiple expressions: secular to spiritual, earth and heaven, rebirth and re-entry.The assignment is to design the inauguration space for Halifax's new Mayor. The new Mayor will walk or motor ceremoniously about the city, and will arrive at the Grand Parade (the space in front of City Hall, between City Hall and St. Paul's Church) for the ceremony. For research, investigate inaugural and/or celebratory spaces such as synagogues, council chambers, Olympic podia, or funeral parlorsInvestigate other processionals, such as Beijing's Forbidden City, Mormon Temples, the Yellow Brick Road (really!) and the London Olympic marathon route.

Specifics:• The assignment is to design

a room, or a space, or an art installation or a building for the inauguration ceremony.

• The presentation must be five 11" x 17" boards, HORIZONTAL format (11" high and 17" wide).

• Final presentation will be (5 x 11 =) 55" high x 17" wide.• Board #1 (top) is to depict

the Grand Parade PLAN in its existing condition, use scale 1:500 (partial) to show most of the area or 1:600 (whole).

• Board #2 (second) must be the Grand Parade PLAN as you intend it, scale 1:500 (partial) or 1:600 (whole).

• Board #3 must show a detail plan of some portion of the Grand Parade at the scale of 1:100 or 1:50.

• Boards #4 and #5 must show other aspects of the work, such as sections, detailed plans, perspectival views, etc.

• In addition to the physical boards, carefully scan or photograph your work and submit as PDF(s).

AlhambraGrenada

Cultural Federations of Nova ScotiaHalifax

Barcelona PavilionBarcelona

Puente del Campo VolatinBilbao

Red ShedSecond Peninsula

BL houseHalifax

Tod's BuildingTokyo

Charles MacDonald houseCanada Creek

Guggenheim MuseumBilbao

Guggenheim MuseumNew York

Week F.08 (PkLn#4) OC 25• Lecture 3/5 (ph) : "Structure

and Material", The importance of structure and materiality as it relates to use and expression.

• Seminar Group G.

Week F.09 (MA121) NO 01• Studio with Desk Crits

Week F.10 (somewhere else) NO 08• Study Week ASSIGNMENT:

NEW: every student is to send peter one photograph taken during the study week. Each photo is to have a title and author added to the image.

Week F.11(PkLn#4) NO 15• Slide Show Study-break PICs• Lecture 4/5 (ph): "Useful

buildings" Functionality and programme as inspiration.

• Seminar Group B.

Week F.12(PkLn#4) NO 22• Lecture 5/5 (ph): "Architecture

as Social Commentary and Artful Expression".

• Recent work (TA)

Week F.13 (HB21) NO 29 • Assignment due: POSTER Gallery and Presentation in

Exhibition Room (TBC). Guest Critic (TBC):

Professor CHRISTOPHER KALTENBACH, NSCAD

Week F.14 DC 06• No Class, Examination Week.

Seminar GroupsThe class is divided into 8 Seminar Groups, each assigned a colour.Pin-ups and seminars are arranged by these groups.Each group is to present a seminar on the work of the following Pritzker Prize winners:Red (R): Eduardo Souto De MouraGreen (G): Zaha HadidBlue (B): Alejandro AravenaWhite (W): Peter ZumthorCyan (C): Jean NouvelMagenta (M) Luis BarragánYellow (Y): Shigeru BanBlacK (K): Frei Otto• Each seminar group is to

research the work of the selected architect.

• The seminar group is to produce a 45 minute (NOT LONGER) Keynote (preferred) or PowerPoint Presentation (slide show).

• One person in each ground is to be selected as the designer/editor of the slide show.

• Each student will prepare and present one "chapter" of the slide show.

• Analysis of the work is far more interesting than repeated and numerous pictures of the work.

• Consult with Peter two weeks before the presentation to confirm the direction, content and presentation technology.

• Original drawings/diagrams of the works are required form each student.

• Each person in the group must speak at the presentation.

• Each student is to include an "analytic" drawing.

• An analytic drawing is a diagram, or a chart, or an annotated drawing or an annotated photograph, etc.

• For students whose English language ability is not good, it is recommended that a written text be prepared and read aloud. Furthermore, the accompanying images (the slide show) should be highly annotated (lots of words).

Study Break PICs While on Study Break, each

student is to make one photograph which must have a title and an author added to the image. Email it to Peter on Sunday FB 25

"MUST HAVE" Materials • Small roll (12 or 18" wide) sketch

paper.• Sketch book: 4 x 6" approx.• Good quality drawing pencils. • Selection of colour media

(pencils, pens, crayons, etc.). • Rudimentary instruments:

measuring tape (3.6M minimum) straight edge, set square, scale with 1:100, big OLFA knife

"MAYBE HAVE" Materials • metal T-square, big sketch book,

good camera.

Week W.07 FB 21• Study Week ASSIGNMENT:

NEW: every student is to send peter one photograph taken during the study week. each photo is to have a title and author added to the image.

Week W.08 FB 28• Lecture: Recent Work, JUDY-

ANN OBERSI (TBC).• Study Week Slide Show• Seminar M.

Week W.09 MR 07• Lecture: Architect ANNE

SINCLAIR, access for persons with disability.

• Seminar Y.

Week W.10 MR 14• Lecture: EMANUEL

JANNASCH (TBC) anti-dome• Lecture: Architect RAYLEEN

HILL (TBC), Recent Work.

Week W.11 (D.501/413) MR 21• Studio and Crits: bring

sketches, models and ideas for inauguration space to class for discussion with Graduate Students, TA and ph.

Week W.12 MR 28• Seminar K.• Lecture (ph): Lunenburg

Academy, lessons from drawing (TBC). (FreeLAB 2013)

Week W.13 AP 04• Assignment Due: PLACE/THRESHOLD Gallery and Presentation in

Exhibition Room (TBC). Special Guest Critic (TBC) TYLER REYNOLDS

Week 2.14 April 11 No Class, Examination Week.

ORTHO 1: Draw a Scale PlanRead the description of the final project (Design a Place). Visit Halifax's Grand Parade.Working within the colour groups, prepare two drawings at the scale of 1:100: PARTIAL site plan and PARTIAL cross section. Use the measuring tools provided.Each colour group is to elect a recorder, someone who has made scale drawings before.Each group will have a masonite drawing pad and will have paper supplied.ALSO, a rudimentary site plan and aerial photo are provided .NOTE that this exercise is a prelude to the final exercise of the year (DESIGN a PLACE).Each group's recorder is expected to scan or photograph the measured drawing and distribute it to the other members of the colour groups. This exercise will be done on a fine day only.

ORTHO 2: Draw a Tool• Measure your tool (provided),• Draw a cross section (1:1),• Draw a longitudinal section,• Draw a plan (1:1), and• Draw a detail (2:1 or 4:1),

ORTHO 3: Remove Ambiguity• For each object, draw as few

ORTHOGRAPHIC drawings as required to remove ambiguity in depicting the object.

ORTHO 4: Platonic TablesStarting with the Platonic table drawings provided, develop a DESIGN which images which alter s the table by artfully considering: • a proportional change

Then start again, and do the same for each of these changes, • material • use, and • size.

ORTHO 5: DiagramBased upon scenarios presented, make a diagram or "info-graphic" which depicts each scenario.

Suggested Reading List(check SEXTON -and- KILLAM)• The Poetics of Space, Bachelard.• Body, Memory, Architecture,

Moore.• Brunelleschi's Dome, King.• Life Between Buildings, Gehl.• 101 Things I learned in

Architecture School, Frederick.• Translations from Drawing to

Building & Other Essays, Evans.• Place of Houses, Moore.• Studies in Tectonic Culture,

Frampton.• The Death and Life of Great

American Cities, Jane Jacobs.• The Future of Architecture,

Frank Lloyd Wright.• Complexity & Contradiction in

Architecture, Venturi.

Peter's Contact InfoPeter's coordinates are:• email phArchitects@eastlink.ca• voice 902.455.9884Peter has office hours on Friday afternoon from 13:00 to 16:00, by appointment only.

BROCHURE VERSION 2017.06.16Information subject to change

seminars

DRAWING

poster

container

SPACEABSTRACTION

sources

PRACTICE

academywork

Outer Cover Art:

Halifax Container

Port, Peter Henry

2009

Inner Background:

Gary Cooper as

architect Howard

Roark

Patricia Neal as

adulterous lover

Dominique Francon

in King Vidor's

1949 movie "The

Fountainhead",

based upon the novel

by Ayn Rand of the

same name.

Evaluation: Both of the above are unmarked. Grades in arch 1000 are awarded only to students who participate in (speak at) their seminar. If for any reason this is not possible, contact Peter before the presentation.

Evaluation: 10% of final grade, for attendance, with students missing two (2) or fewer classes to receive the mark 10/10, those attending fewer than half the classes will receiving the mark 0/10 and all others to receive the mark 6/10.

Evaluation: 20% of final grade, with each (ORTHO 1~5) assignment valued equally. Because students arrive with varied drawing abilities, ORTHO 1 ~5 are marked differently. Each is awarded the mark AVG, or F. F indicates minimal commitment and/or absence of work. The mark AVG indicates that the grade will become the average of the marks of the other 3 assignments (Poster, Container and Place).

Evaluation: 20% of final grade, with half the mark awarded for the design or idea of the poster, and half for the craft in its execution.

Evaluation: 25% of final grade, with half the mark awarded for the design or idea of the container, and half for the craft in its execution.

Mailing List It is mandatory to subscribe to the class mailing list. If students are not receiving regular emails about architecture 1000, email Peter at phArchitects@eastlink.ca.

Evaluation: 25% of final grade, with half the mark awarded for the design or idea of the inauguration facility, and half for the craft in its execution.

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Week W.01 JA 10• Dean's Lecture: CHRISTINE

MACY, "A Career in Architecture".

• Q+A: MARTHA BARNSTEAD, administrative secretary to the dean, and SUSANNA MORASH-KENT, departmental secretary.

• Q+A: JOANNE FIRTH, co-op coordinator.• Seminar (ph): Study

architecture?• Building tour (virtual).

Week W.02 JA 17• Introduction: Container Project.• Introduction: Threshold Project.• Presentation: WILLIAM

CAMPBELL Planner, Initiatives to humanize our cities.

Week W.03 JA 24• Lecture: LISA TONDINO (TBC),

Architect HOUDINI DESIGN.• Seminar W.• 7:00 PM Portfolio Preparation

(for prospective students to the Faculty of Architecture and Planning) room HA.19.

Week W.04 (venue TBA) JA 31• Studio and Crits, bring sketches,

models and ideas for container to class for discussion with Graduate Students.

Week W.05 FB 07 • Lecture: "Recent Work", NEIL

FORREST (TBC), Ceramist and Professor at KHIO and NSCAD.

• Seminar C.

Week W.06 FB 14 Assignment Due: CONTAINER Gallery and Presentation in

Exhibition Room (TBC). Special Guest Critic (TBC): NARYN DAVAR