It seems silly to imagine that you'll need to learn how to read for this course. You've all been reading since you were four or five and got that first Dr. Seuss book. But to get the most from our work together, you'll have to read in a particular way.
The things we'll be reading have few answers, and very few bits of information that you can take directly from the pile and bolt onto your other work. Instead, you should read the material for this course, including all of our blogs, as though they were poetry or fiction or music rather than some kind of segmented textbook. How do they make you feel? Are they beautiful? What is it about them that resonates with you, or grates upon you? Have you ever seen anything like what they describe?
Leave your highlighers aside; there are no testable nuggets to be mined, no codes with which you must comply. There are only ideas, and how they move you.
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A blog about architectural theory and, more importantly, about architectural purpose.
About Me
- Herb Childress
- To modify from Vetruvius, I believe that buildings have four criteria for success. They must be helpful, dependable, satisfying, and fair. Those simple words underlie a lifetime of exploration that none of us will ever complete.
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4 comments:
What? No codes? I live for those life changing codes... Thanks for the email, looking forward to the course.
Where is the information for the History - Theory (Blackboard)? Do we already have the sign in info, or is it assigned...
I checked the hotel where we are suppose to stay because I will be arriving early. They don't have any reservations from BAC yet? Should I worry?
Tom
That is a very qood question about the hotel. Which one are we supposed to be in? The Colonnade Hotel or Charlesmark Hotel?
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