Intro - Drawing Canonical Ideas in Architecture

Lecture 1: Introduction, Concepts and LogisticsDrawing Canonical Ideas in Architecture471k & 571kSchedule: August 23– December 7, 2011Fall 2011Instructor: Sallie HambrightContact: salliehambright@gmail.com or shambri@email.arizona.edu636.339.6497 (only in EMERGENCIES)office hours – I am available for telephone conference or through any of the media weuse in the class.S. Hambright Drawing Canonical Ideas in Architecture UofA

Lecture 1: Introduction, Concepts and LogisticsThis seminar is a History/Theory course that attempts to uncover ideas in buildings using anarchitect’s medium: drawing. Drawing Canonical Ideas in Architecture will not teach studentshow to draw but how to draw what is thought. Using Peter Eisenman’s “Ten CanonicalBuildings” as a framework of learning how to understand and see architecture, students willlearn the relationships between analysis and design. Eisenman produced “Ten CanonicalBuildings.” This seminar will attempt to discover if Eisenman himself has a canonical work.Each student will choose a building designed by Peter Eisenman. They will analyze thebuilding throughout the semester. In the end, each student, will have composed a chapter oftheir own. Students will produce drawings, descriptions of their analysis, and learn to critiquedrawings from an analytical approach. This course attempts to teach through seeing,drawing what is seen, and writing/describing what is drawn. These are essential skills tobecoming an architect.Please review the syllabus. It is located on D2L and the blog.S. Hambright Drawing Canonical Ideas in Architecture UofA

Lecture 1: Introduction, Concepts and LogisticsThings you need to do IMMEDIATELY:• Familiarize yourself with D2L• Sign up for Wordpress and familiarize yourself with the blog platform – send me yourusername and email ASAP, so I can give you editing abilities. UofA emails please. The blogaddress is http://drawingcanonicalideasinarchitecture.wordpress.com/ .• Sign up to follow me on Twitter : salliehambright• Purchase “Ten Canonical Buildings” – This book is on back order. I am working to provide youwith the materials• Review the Google Calendar which can be found on the blog, DCIA – Fall 2011• Assignments 1 & 2 are given today. You can find them on D2L and the blog. Start Assignment2 today!S. Hambright Drawing Canonical Ideas in Architecture UofA

Lecture 1: Introduction, Concepts and LogisticsTeaching Platforms:D2L: I will post all course documents to D2L including syllabi, assignments, grades, lectures.This is where you will formally post your Assignments, Reading Responses, and BuildingExamples. COMING SOON!!!!Blog: Our blog address is http://drawingcanonicalideasinarchitecture.wordpress.com/ . Please,sign up for Wordpress and use your University of Arizona email. Email me your username andemail ASAP. We will use the blog for our Blog Responses, sharing our process and completedassignments, Peer critique, and class discussions. Please do not post HUGE files to the blog.Keep it at about 700KB per image.Google Calendar: I have created a Google Calendar, DCIA – Summer 2011. You can reach itfrom the blog. All due dates are listed here. If there need to be updates to the calendar, I willmake them here.Twitter: Please sign up to follow me on Twitter, salliehambright. I will make importantannouncements via my Twitter account. You can also see my Twitter comments on the blogand go to my Twitter page from the blog.Elluminate: We will only use Elluminate, live video sessions, if need be. I will keep you posted.If we use this platform, it will only be for a couple of sessions.S. Hambright Drawing Canonical Ideas in Architecture UofA

Lecture 1: Introduction, Concepts and LogisticsGraded components of the course will be:Assignments 1-7: These assignments will be drawing analyses based on different aspects of architecture : space, tectonics, context,program, and circulation. The students will be expected to not only depict what is physically existing but what is thought.Canonical Chapter: Graduate Students – Graduate Students will write a 3200-3500 word research paper (Chapter 11) using assignments3-7, any additional drawing analysis, and course readings to establish if their respective buildings are canonical. You must submit a final,hard copy, to me by mail that I will keep.Portfolio: Undergraduate Students – Undergraduate Students will compose their previous analyses into a portfolio that clearly expressesthe ideas discovered during the semester. While this is not a research paper, the portfolio should tell a complete story of the semester longanalysis. Students may also be required to develop the analysis further at the discretion of the professor. You must submit a final, hardcopy, to me by mail that I will keep.Reading Response: Graduate Students – Two page reading responses will be required for each of the chapters of “Ten CanonicalBuildings” on the respective lecture day. For the response, the students will choose a piece of architecture that also exemplifies the ideaspresented in the reading. It is also permissible to choose a building that is contrasted with the ideas in the readings. The submissionincludes one written page and one page of images of the chosen building. The responses are not finished papers but a reaction to whathas been read.Building Example: Undergraduate Students – Each student will compose a sheet showing an image of an existing building they thinkuses the same ideas as the building presented in Eisenman’s text. The student should write a short paragraph, 3-4 sentences, explaininghow the idea is legible in the image.Blog Responses: In the PowerPoint’s I post each week on the respective chapters, I will ask questions and pose ideas for thought. Youshould make two (2) comments on these or other aspects of the chapters. Once, these are posted you will respond to three (3) of yourclassmates’ comments. Note that your comments are due on Wednesday of each week and your responses to others comments is due nolater than Friday of each week. This is to ensure that we will have a vibrant online discussion.Peer Critique: You are required to comment on two (2) of your classmates’ assignment each time an assignment is due. You are to giveconstructive criticism, make suggestions, make links with your own analysis, etc… Please note that your critiques are due by Wednesdayof the corresponding week.Documentation: Each student will submit proper documentation at the end of the semester. There will be specific guidelines for thesubmission. Final copies of the Canonical Chapter and the Portfolio will also be kept and these should be turned in by the Final Submittaldate.S. Hambright Drawing Canonical Ideas in Architecture UofA

Lecture 1: Introduction, Concepts and LogisticsGrading: GraduateAssignments 1-7 35%Canonical Chapter 30%Reading Responses 10%Blog Responses 10%Peer Critique 10%Documentation 5%Total 100%UndergraduateAssignments 1-7 35%Portfolio 30%Building Example 10%Blog Responses 10%Peer Critique 10%Documentation 5%Total 100%Grading Scale:A (90-100): Excellence in most areas of evaluation, high competence in others.B (80-89): High competence in most areas of evaluation, competence in others.C (70-79): Fulfilled all course requirements with competence. Competence is the answering of all requirements; adequate ability,capacity; sufficient for the purpose.D (60-69): (Undergraduates only) Less than competent work in one or more areas of evaluation. One or more requirements lackingand/or sub-standard quality.F (below 59): (Undergraduates only) Substantially incomplete work and/or work of an unsatisfactory quality.F (below 69): (Graduates only) Substantially incomplete work and/or work of an unsatisfactory quality.Late Work: In order to develop good professional habits, work that is late will be marked one or more grades lower than similar workcompleted on time, depending on the degree of lateness.Incomplete: Work left incomplete at the end of the semester due to circumstances beyond the student’s control.S. Hambright Drawing Canonical Ideas in Architecture UofA

Lecture 1: Introduction, Concepts and LogisticsThis course owes its creation to Colin Rowe’s analysis/comparison of a Corbusian andPalladian villa. This analysis shows that there are hidden structures in architecture that canlink seemingly disparate buildings. These two buildings could not ‘look’ more different.S. Hambright Drawing Canonical Ideas in Architecture UofA

Lecture 1: Introduction, Concepts and LogisticsThrough an analysis of the plans, you can see how Rowe discovered similar underlyingproportions and spatial organizations. This is similar to what we will do this semester. We willbe discovering the hidden or latent ideas in the forms of Eisenman’s own work. We are notconcerned with the way the building looks optically (what we see with the eyes), but what wecan see visually (what we see with the mind).S. Hambright Drawing Canonical Ideas in Architecture UofA

Lecture 1: Introduction, Concepts and LogisticsCarlo Scarpa, existing buildingNotation and Spatial FormMovementProgram and Function Tectonics and Structure DetailExamples of a student’s work, Sarah Lin, in a similar class. She was analyzing a CarloScarpa building, the one in the upper left image.S. Hambright Drawing Canonical Ideas in Architecture UofA

Lecture 1: Introduction, Concepts and LogisticsI’m looking forward to a great semester!If you have any questions, please email me, post on the blog, post on Twitter, or any ofthe other ways I have set up for us to communicate.Drawing Canonical Ideas in Architecture471k & 571kSchedule: August 22 – December 7, 2011Fall 2011Instructor: Sallie HambrightContact: salliehambright@gmail.com or shambri@email.arizona.edu636.339.6497 (only in EMERGENCIES)office hours – I am available for telephone conference or through any of the media weuse in the class.S. Hambright Drawing Canonical Ideas in Architecture UofA