Week 01 - Introduction

Week 01 - Introduction

Class Agenda Attendance Syllabus Review West Valley Policies Parking Security cheating and plagiarism Adds Introductory Lecture

Visual Studies as “Foundation”

Historical Background of “Foundation” Bauhaus School Germany. Chicago School of Design. Paul Klee. Pedagogical Sketchbook. 1925 Wassily Kandinsky. Point and Line to Plane. 1926 Gyorgy Kepes. Language of Vision. 1944 Numerous textbooks have appeared since World War II which describe the "language" of design as a "vocabulary" of elements (point, line, plane, color, texture) arranged according to a "grammar" of formal contrasts (dark/light, static/dynamic, positive/negative).

What the foundation year is about. Foundation year is (should be) about exploration. Students are exposed to different media , techniques, ideas. According to Bauhaus instructors, students have different sensibilities. Some are attuned to rhythm, some to material, some to contour, some to color. Combinations, of course. Additionally, an analogy can be made to teaching music. Music instruction starts out with teaching of scales. Exercises to be exposed to, learn, and understand the fundamentals first. Bauhaus educational system, is in some ways a reference point. (difference from old Beaux-Arts methods of instruction). Identify the strengths, and the weaknesses. Learn to give and receive criticism.

Difference between wvc and architecture school Trying to provide a similar experience. Perhaps wvc is more introductory level. Wvc does not have a 24 hour studio , as do most U.S. architecture schools. Students learn a lot from each other. (critiques , techniques )

Design Education The basics are the same. Some architectural schools are more “real world” nuts and bolts, some are more abstract. This course will combine both elements. Both attitudes and viewpoints are necessary and valid.

What is Architecture (from Ching Introduction) • Architectural Systems • 1. The Architecture of Space , Structure , Enclosure • 2. Experienced through Movement in Space-Time • 3. Achieved by means of Technology • 4. Accommodating a Program • In relationship with its Context • This class will touch on all 5 of these main points.

What is Architecture (from Ching Introduction) • Architectural Orders • PHYSICAL - Form and Space • Solids and voids • Interior and Exterior • PERCEPTUAL - Sensory perception and recognition of the physical elements by experiencing them sequentially in time. • CONCEPTUAL - Comprehension of the ordered or disordered relationships among a building’s elements and systems, and responding to the meanings they evoke. • A project can have a CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE , just as it can have a physical structure.

3 Tracks to Class • Reading Form Space and Order. Ching. Lecture and Discussion in class. • Projects - Architectural. Consisting of Program , Parameters, requiring a “rationale” or “concept” and graphical solution. • Exercises - Visual Studies. 2d and 3d Composition. Abstract.

Goals of Class • Experience the “Design Process”. Design = Process + Product • Craftsmanship skills. Quality “Products” • Learn to communicate design ideas graphically, in written form, verbally. Present ideas and products in class. • Explore various 2d and 3d media. Drawing, Ink, Google Sketchup • Conversant in vocabulary of architectural design. Abilitly to formulate and communicate a “rationale”. • Develop a sensibility of Composition in your work. • Begin to develop ability to engage architectural ideas conceptually.

Reading. Form Space and Order. Francis D.K. Ching • Primary Elements • Form • Form and Space • Organization • Circulation • Proportion and Scale • Principles

Projects Four Project Groupings Project 1: Introduction to Graphic Media and Composition three exercises - approx 1 per week for first 2.5 weeks Project 2: “Inside Out” Project 3: “Outside In” Project 4: 9 Square Grid Exercise Cartesian House.

Materials for studio work Parallel Rule and Board (recommended, not required). Illustration Board 15” x 20” . (a few sheets) Architects’ Scale Ink Pens (Technical Pens recommended) Tracing Paper. 18” roll and 12” roll #1 X-Acto Knife Rubber Cement Cutting Mat Board Metal Straight Edge Flexible Curve Technical Compass (ideally with beam extension and inking attachment). Sketch Pad Drafting Tape

Art Stores • West Valley College Bookstore has some items. • University Arts. San Jose and Palo Alto. • Michael’s Arts and Crafts • Arch. San Francisco

Parallel Rule 16” x 20” 18” x 24” Price around $50 Much better than T Square 24” x 30” $125

Tracing Paper 12” ok for now. Comes in yellow and white color.

Triangles

Illustration Board Crescent No. 1 Cold Press 15” x 20”

Inking Pens 005, 01, 02, 03, 05, 08 widths.

Kneaded Eraser

Electric Eraser (not required but nice!)

Architects Scale Triangular 1/8” and ¼” $10 or so

Bow Compass with Extension Should get 6” compass With 6” minimum beam extension. Around $30 - $40 Not required, but very useful in drawing larger diameter circles.

Universal Compass Adapter Used to attach technical pens and x-acto knives to compass. Around $5 to 9

Flexible Curve

Technical Pens Rapidograph Or Mars Staedtler Set of 4 is adequate; Can start out using disposable graphic pens (sakura or similar) less expensive

Inking Rule + Metal Straight Edge

Chipboard

Wood Dowels

Balsa Wood

Glue Gun

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