Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Assignment 1a - Precedence

The assignment asked each student to research a precedence study that Alex Wall had described in his essay "Programming the Urban Surface." The precedence was compared with our site that was discussed in assignment 1. This assignment was an exercise in comparative urban mapping analysis.

Assn1a

Monday, January 24, 2011

Assignment 1 - 10x10

Based off the cataloguing process of Kieran Timberlake and documented in their published work MANUEL: The Architecture of Kieran Timberlake the first assignment dictates that we, the students, will become familiar with our project's study area by photographing instances of gerunds.

Gerunds are words where a noun is turned into a verb by adding -ing and becomes the subject of a sentence.

Such gerunds include:
Framing
Hinging
Joining
Lining
Patching
Profiling
Scaling
Selecting
Slipping
Weaving

Through the practice of defining, photographing, evaluating and coiling this pattern, my photo documentation and the gerund definitions they follow can be seen in these ten gerunds in ten photos.

Final Presentation CSP Med Quality

Saturday, January 15, 2011

First blog post

This blog will be a following of the work that I am doing for the Spring 2011 Urban Design Studio with Texas Tech University's Houston Urban Design and Research program. Thanks for looking!