ARCH 402A - Measured Representation

Institution:

Washington University in St Louis

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Description:

This course proposes to investigate and create a series of measured drawings. The drawings, as architectural objects, configure architectural knowledge, perception, and vision. We begin by studying precedent drawings in relation to each architect's theoretical framework, project description, and technique. The range of works relates different types of construction (perspectives, axonometrics, diagrams, ideagrams, assemblages, montages, descriptive geometry, and mapping) with integral and symbiotic theoretical agendas. Each student learns the techniques of representation in a case study and from this example constructs an interpretation of a specified site in this language. With a collection of theoretical frameworks and workshops on various techniques, the class qualifies a series of sites through drawing/interpreting the shadows present. Shadows may be thought of as reductions of the real object-in this sense, the drawings act as abstractions or reductions that promote vision. Instead of simply discussing qualities of space, narratives of metaphor, intangible phenomena, implications of constructed geometry, this architectural research project attempts to propose methods of seeing such that the representation may play a more active role in the shaping of design. This course centers on the creation of imaginative processes of representation.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wustl.edu

Phone Number:

(314) 935-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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