architectureSI658 Winter 2015

course overviewinformation

1. PURPOSE 2. STRUCTURE 3. ASSIGNMENTS 4. GRADING

501

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design

architecture

PLACES MADE OF INFORMATION

What's so special about architects and their ways of thinking and making?

What does it mean to be working in terms of architecture in and for

places made of information?

Develop an understanding of information architecture within and across contexts including digital products and services

Increase fluency in describing structures

Expand familiarity with architecture, architects, architectural and critical theory

1lecture

1/12 Strategy & Structure 1/26 Suchness 2/2 Dwelling & Place 2/16 Environment 2/23 Architecture 3/16 Complexity & Contradiction 3/23 Programming 3/30 Analysis

21/26 Alien Phenomenology 2/2 The Poetics of Space 2/16 Understanding Context 2/23 Information Anxiety 3/16 Intertwingled 3/23 The Timeless Way of Building 3/30 The Death and Life of Great American Cities

reading

31/26 Form Groups 2/2 Residential Examples 2/9 Building Visit 2/16 Context Model 2/23 Iconography 3/16 Intention Model 3/23 Pattern Language 3/30 System Map 4/6 Worksession

group

Reading Responses

- total pages / total students = # of chunks - your # on roster = your chunk # - pick an image and write a caption - send caption text and image by EOD friday

Example 420 pages / 50 students = 8 page chunks Student #20 responds to the 20th chunk of 8 pages, pp. 160 - 168

Group Presentation #1Students will work in groups to develop an understanding of the point of view and working practices of one of the following architects, as realized in a building or series of buildings that members of the group will analyze and present to the class. Analysis must include in-person visits to built structures.

Albert Kahn Eero Saaranen Minoru Yamasaki Paul Cret Mies van de Rohe Venturi Scott Brown Charles Moore

Group Presentation #2Students will work in groups to apply the point of view and working practices of the architect they focused on in the first half of the semester to the architecture of a digital product or service TBA. Each group will present a design concept to the class and rationalize its structures and aesthetics in terms that would be familiar and agreeable to their architect.

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Group Presentation 1Group Presentation 2Individual Reading Response

grading

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