Mid-term seminar
Due: ½ of semester
Presentation: Verbal presentation and review in 50 mins slots
Submission: Wall presentation posters, models, etc. The chosen media (drawings, models, video, etc.) of the presentation should suggest the final mode of presentation.
Guidelines: A comprehensive presentation of thesis design work to date. The presentation should suggest the final designed outcome and scope of the project of the thesis and go beyond a presentation of studies, references, tests, analysis, etc.
Interim seminar 2
Due: ¾ of semester
Presentation: Verbal presentation and review in 20 mins slots
Submission: Wall presentation posters, models, etc. and Thesis booklet
Guidelines: A complete mock-up of final thesis presentation, including draft versions / placeholders for all items to be included. The presentation should make it possible to assess the relationship between the thesis (how the project is framed and formulated through title, abstract, references, etc.) and the final designed outcome.
Final seminar
Due: End of semester
Presentation: Verbal presentation and review in 50 mins slots
Submission: Wall presentation posters, models, etc.
Guidelines: A complete project presentation of final design that is assessed by a reviewer and direction faculty.
Examination: Pass / Fail
Public presentation
Due: End of semester
Presentation: Verbal presentation and review in 50 mins slots
Submission: Wall presentation posters, models, etc. and Thesis booklet
Guidelines: A complete project presentation of final design that is assessed by a Review Committee member and direction faculty. Final draft of Thesis booklet.
Final submission
Due: After end of semester
Submission: Wall presentation posters, models, etc. (completed) and Thesis booklet
(completed)
Suggested literature and projects
Several of the texts below contain extensive presentations of, or references to, architecture projects and practices.
Borden, Gail Peter and Michael Meredith. 2018. “Introduction and Material Premise.” In Lineament: Material, Representation and the Physical Figure in Architectural Production, 1-4. Oxon: Routledge.
Borden, Gail Peter and Michael Meredith. 2012. “Introduction: Foreign Matter.” In Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production, 1-6. Oxon: Routledge.
Carpo, Mario. 2017. The Second Digital Turn: Design Beyond Intelligence. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Gross, Matthias. 2010. “Introduction: Brave the Unknown.” In Ignorance and Surprise: Science, Society, and Ecological Design, 1-10. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Lavin, Sylvia. 2012. “Vanishing Point: Sylvia Lavin on the Contemporary Pavilion,” in Artforum, October, 2012: online access.
Reiser, Jesse and Nanako Umemoto. 2006. Atlas of Novel Tectonics. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.