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Calendar / 2025 Spring


︎ 01 — March 28


10:30-Noon:
Introduction

Noon-14:50
Site Tour

 

︎ 02 — April 04


10:30-Noon:
Discuss Political Space Reader

Noon-14:50:
Transform the Catalog of Typologies into possible Schematic Arrangements

For next Friday:

Read:  Mental Ecologies 
Create:  Schematic Compositions

︎ 03 — April 11


10:30-Noon:
Guest Lecture: Casey Breen-Edelstein

Noon-13:00:
Review Schematic Arrangements and discuss the collection of found materials in preparation for modeling next week. 

For next Friday:

Read:  Geography of Capital
Create:  Refine at least one schematic arrangement, browse the Yves Brunier Monograph and gather a wide range of found materials for next week.
Write: Landscape Proposal draft (1 page)

︎ 04 — April 18


10:30- Noon:
Discuss Geography of Capital and Mental Ecologies

Noon-14:50 :
Tranform Schematic Arrangements into a 3D model at 1”=100’ (1:1200)

For next Friday:

Read:  Constructing the World
Create: Model at 1”=100’ (1:1200)
Write: Landscape Proposal revision (1 page)

︎ 05 — April 25


10:30-2:50pm
Review Landscape Proposals ︎

Present:
(a) Statement of Proposal
(b) Catalog of Typologies
(c) Schematic Arrangements
(d) Model at 1”=100’ (1:1200)

For next Friday:

Read: Notions of Nature
Create: Identify a site within the landscape for an Architectural Intervention.  This could be a connecting device, enclosing envelope, and/or structural framework.

︎ 06 — May 02


10:30- Noon:

Discuss Notions of Nature

Noon-14:50 : 
Developing schematic architectural interventions

For next Friday:

read: Ontological Practices
 create: Identify a site within the landscape for an Architectural Intervention.  This could be a connecting, enclosing, or structural extension of the park as an apparatus.
write: Draft Architectural Proposal (1 page)

︎ 07 — May 09


10:30- Noon:
Discuss Ontological Practices

Noon-14:50 :
Developing schematic architectural interventions

For next Friday:

read: Organization Space
create: Identify a site within the landscape for an Architectural Intervention.  This could be a connecting, enclosing, or structural extension of the park as an apparatus.
write: Architectural Proposal revision (1 page)

︎ 08 — May 16


10:30- Noon:
Discuss Organization Space

Noon-14:50:

Architectural Models

For next Friday:

read: Spatial Practices
create: Architectural Model 1”=8’ (1:96) †
write: Architectural Proposal final (1 page)

† Unless another scale is preferred.

︎ 09 — May 23


10:30- Noon:
Discuss Spatial Practices

Noon-14:50:

Developing Architectural Drawings from Models

For next Friday:

create: Architectural Drawings 1”=8’ (1:96) UNO, and revise Architectural Model(s) 1”=8’ (1:96) †.

† Unless another scale is preferred.

︎ 10 — May 30

10:30-14:50
Review Final Projects ︎

The review includes both (I) the overall landscape proposal and (II) zoomed in architectural interventions.  Recommended drawings and models include work already completed in addition to new work that might be completed or revised for the review:

I. Landscape Proposal / Process:

(a) Statement of Proposal (1 page)
(b) Catalog of Typologies
(c) Schematic Arrangements
(d) Model at 1”=100’ (1:1200)

II. Architectural Proposal / Process:

(a) Statement of Proposal (1 page)
(b) Drawings at 1”=8’ (1:96) †
(c) Model at 1”=8’ (1:96)  †

† Unless another scale is preferred.
2025 Spring — Second Nature