Textures

Spaces

Patterns

Actions

Brief

Exercise01>create content librarydue>9/4/08 before class goal>the establishment of a collection of source material for the course. These images will be used for multiple projects throughout the semester.  All images will be made available to every other student for future use in the course.  Projects and exercises will focus on process so source material chosen for each subsequent exercise will be of relative inconsequence.  A limited palette of sources for the coursework will create a control variable for in our research by again placing the emphasis on process.  However, the nature of a shared library does acknowledge that when beginning a project it may be fruitful or even essential to have the ability to intelligently select a source to appropriately test (and challenge) the intention(s) of the each student. product>Each student will gather eight (8) source images, two-per each of the following categories: Actions (images should represent an action or capture an action taking place), Patterns (the images must be entirely patterned or the pattern should at least be the dominant feature of the image), Spaces (each image should convey a single space), Textures (the images must be entirely textured or the texture should at least be the dominant feature of the image.  Students must own the rights to these images (meaning they must be created by the students, released by the author or part of the public domain) and the students must be willing to give up these rights upon inclusion to the course library (see syllabus for more information regarding ownership of work).  Images can be of any proportion as long as the smaller dimension is greater or equal to 1024 pixels. Images will be translated to jpeg (.jpg) format with little or no compression (ask quality 10-12).  Images will be stored in ttclass/INTERACT/CONTENT/…. and placed within the proper sub-folder according to category.  Name the files using the following scheme: lastname_category_#.jpg.  Example: “lostritto_texture_1.jpg”Things to think about>the “thesis fair,” aka “thesis match day,”  will be taking place in the evenings of Thursday and Friday this week.  What defines a thesis in architecture?  What is architectural research?  What means do you observe that thesis student’s use (or plan to use) in structuring their research?…. How do they control the process?  How to they plan to evaluate the outcome?  What are your goals for this course? How do your assumptions regarding the nature of the course overlap with the stated thesis of the course?