HR4000

Faculty: Catherine Desai | Chinmay Gheware

TA: Kairavi Maniar

Students will learn to critically analyse selected buildings in order to position these works in historic contexts. We will study both buildings and texts, seeing each as a source of complex ideas and narratives. The studio methodology reflects a renewed historiographic focus on the building as an archival object and in drawing and redrawing as techniques of architectural analysis through which to engage with questions of architectural history. The studio will have three parts. Firstly, the analysis of buildings through the making of strategic drawings which explore their different architectural attributes from configuration to details of construction. Secondly, critical analysis of selected key texts to provide frameworks. Finally, the preparation and delivery of a short essay. Students may attempt levels of complexity in the essay: accurate summary and description of building and texts, or the more challenging framing of a critical position.