Published In
Proceedings of the 18th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2002
Subjects
Architecture -- Research, Design -- Study and teaching
Abstract
Visual Literacy is a two-year-old cross-disciplinary instruction unit that encompasses a "learning community" of Textile and Clothing Design, Architecture, Interior Design, and Fine Art students in their first year of foundation design education. This pedagogy is a three week long unit (with 9 hours of contact time per week) in a two semester long program. Each faculty member teaches one of four thematically charged instructional units through which studio sized groups of students rotate over the course of a semester. The thematic foci of the four units are Drawing, Color; Frame, and Form. This specific unit is the Form unrt:. Though it is taught by archrt:ecture faculty, every effort is made to keep it focused on an interdisciplinary, foundation design sensibility rather than letting the study of Form become "the architecture unit."
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/15588
Recommended Citation
Rex, Brian T., "The Sandbox: An Introduction to Form & Form Making Through Notions of Surface" (2002). Proceedings of the 18th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student. 36.
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/15588
Description
Presented at the 18th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon. March 14-16, 2002.
Copyright 2002 Portland State University.
Published by Portland State University, Department of Architecture.