ASSIGNMENT FOR WEEK 2, Tuesday: Taxonomic Catalog & Taxonomic Drafted Sketch
“Gardens have had a strange fate. Their history has almost always anticipated the history of cities.” The Pleasure of Architecture, 1978 | Bernard Tschumi
Click on LINK for Taxonomy Examples and Garden Presentation summary
Click ARCH 251 – Superficial Gardening 01 for project handout
Thank you for emailing me your choices. Please follow this LINK to see the list of gardens and the students that will be studying each garden. Below each garden name there is a link for the 11 x 17 scanned drawings from Jellicoe & Shepherd’s Italian Gardens of the Renaissance. In addition to using the scanned drawings, students should make use of the hard copy book available on course reserve at Briggs Library.
ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK 1, Thursday:
Read the assigned READING, Steenbergen, “The Garden as Architectonic Laboratory” and be prepared to discuss in class.
Choose a GARDEN and get ready to start gardening space.
Bring your PROJECT BINDER!!!
horror vacui / from Latin “fear of empty space”
DESIGN PRACTICE III / SECTION 1 