Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Architectural Design V(Jim Sullivan, Meredith Sattler)/Course description

Course description
Emphasis on programming, site analysis and planning, functional planning, and resolution of structural and architectural systems. Required field trip. Communication-Intensive Certified in writing and technology.

This semester, we investigate relationships between site, materials, construction and structure. Central to this investigation is the role of technique in the formation of architectural work. By this, we refer to the design potential of construction processes, selection and assembly of materials, and organization of structure. While the design potential of technique is frequently thought of as being self-referential (for example, the design potential of structure is found in the dictates of structure), we will cultivate this potential through our conceptualizations of site and context.

As part of this course, students will be exposed to Wikipedia's discussion pages. Students will talk about specific architecture related content via Wikipedia’s Chinati Foundation discussion page. Students will create Wikipedia user accounts and post considered comments and images to the discussion and images related to the Donald Judd architecture they visit on a field trip early in the term. In order to do so, students will upload their images into Wikicommons. Students will post their choice of a peer review contribution on the Wikipedia course page and then review their classmates posts. We will discuss opinion writing as part of a digital community and copyright issues.

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