Week

Date

Topic

Chptr

Reading

Project

Wk 1

 

Object / Space Iterations: Intro to Computer Environment

 

 

 

 

8.23

Intro to the Lab, the Computer, the Net, and the Web

 

 

 

8.25

Intro to AutoCAD R.13

A-1

Wired: Bill Joy

Typeface Research

Wk 2

 

The Vector and the Dot: Objects in CAD and Imaging

 

 

 

 

8.30

AutoCAD Basic Objects in ACAD Space

A-2

 

 

9.01

PhotoShop 1 / OLE: Moving Objects Between Spaces

P-1

Wired:Steve Jobs

Monogram Project

Wk 3

 

The Word on the Web: the Space of Characters & Fonts

 

 

 

 

9.06

Labor Day - FREE SPACE

 

 

 

9.08

AutoCAD Basic Editing

A-3

Postman:Technopoly

 

 

9.10

Monogram Project Development

 

 

 

Wk 4

 

Specificity in the Virtual World: Selecting / Placing Objects

 

 

 

 

9.13

AutoCAD Drawing Organization

A-4

Monogram due

 

9.15

PhotoShop 2

P-2

Mitchell:Reconfigured Eye

Modulor Research

Wk 5

 

The Figure, Space and Scaled Objects: Virtual Modulors

 

 

 

 

9.20

Advanced Editing in AutoCAD

A-5

Modulor Project

 

9.22

Modulor Project: Researching the Figure in Virtual Museums

 

Le Corbusier: Modulor

 

Wk 6

 

Model Space, Paper Space, and Scale

 

 

 

 

9.27

Complex Curves, 3D Forms and Surfaces

A-12, 13

 

 

9.29

Modular Project: Scaling the Figure

 

Mitchell:City of Bits

 

Wk 7

 

Constructing the Virtual Space of the Figure

 

 

 

 

10.04

Editing in 3-D AutoCAD, 3D Forms + Surfaces

 

 

Modulor 3D

 

10.06

Modulor Project: Constructing the Space of the Figure

A-15

 

 

Wk 8

 

Researching Architectural Information on the Web

 

 

 

 

10.11

Researching Architectural Information on the Web

A-16

 

 

10.13

Solid Modeling & Regions

 

Baudrillard:Ecstacy of Comm.

Modulor Due

Wk 9

 

Virtual Architecture: Creating Objects in the Virtual Office

 

 

 

 

10.18

Solid Modeling Tutorial

A-18

Detail Project 

 

10.20

2-D Drawings from 3-D Objects

 

McLuhan:Global Village

Wk 10

 

Virtual Details

 

 

 

 

10.25

Rendering Models in AutoCAD

A-17

 

 

10.27

Project Development

 

DeLeuze:Similacrum

Detail Due 

Wk 11

 

Modeling Objects / Modern Space 

 

 

 

 

11.01

Visualizing 3D Space in AutoCAD

 

 

Studio Model Project 

 

11.03

Project Development

 

 

Wk 12

 

Thoroughly Modern: Figure Ground in Virtual Space

 

 

 

 

11.08

Adding Information in AutoCAD Models

A-8,9

 

11.10

Project Development

 

Negroponte:Architecture Machine

Wk 13

 

Analyzing the Space of the Modern Object

 

 

 

11.15

Final Project

 

Studio Model Project 

 

11.17

Final Development

 

Mitchell:City of Bits

 

Final Project: Modernist Gallery

Wk 14

 

Virtual Transformations in the Space of the Modern

 

 

 

 

11.22

Final Development

 

 

 

11.24

Final Development

 

Brook, et Al: Resisting the Virtual Life

 

Wk 15

 

Configuring Displays: Presenting the Gallery

 

 

 

 

11.29

Final Development

 

 

 

 

12.01

Final Development

 

 

 

Wk 16

 

Finals Week

 

 

 

 

12.06

 

 

 

Final Project Due


Last Updated on 8/20/99