ARCH-881EP Projection(s); Cold Reading Architecture

3 Credits

  • ARCH-881EP-01

    Thursday

    9:30 am – 12:20 pm

    Higgins Hall Center, 016

Students will learn innovative methods for reading and understanding the buildings and Projects (capital P) of four Practices through short form writing, image selection and diagramming. As a launch point, the course uses a Cold reading framework (often used in Acting among other, often unorthodox, academic and non-academic practices) to frame and attentively observe qualities and behaviors of those Practices outputs and work. Students are required to develop a concise postulation on the Practices value to the discourse, discipline and profession solely based on what they see in the work. Using an iterative and repetitious method of writing four short (1000 word or less) essays, students will develop skills to ascertain their own work and their colleagues through the adoption of this methodology. A curated and designed booklet collecting the four Projections and a presentation of that composite artifact serves as the final deliverable of the course.