The Architecture of Observation

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This course articulates the power of in situ sketching for recording both the logos and pathos of place. More than observation, this pattern of documen- tation will be taught as a method of field work, or on-site data collection. The sketchbook is your arsenal for observation. Composition, catalog and collage will be employed to not only articulate tangi- bles but to perhaps also capture an ethos. The media by which the explorations will occur will be largely graphite, ink and watercolor and at a scale commen- surate with field work, the sketchbook. Precedent research will occur through analysis of the field work of notable architects. As the course instructs in the cataloging of place and less in the fundamentals of sketching, some freehand drawing aptitude is expected.