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| ARCH0131-1 | Means of graphic expression
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| Duration : | 8h Th, 40h Pr |
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| Lecturer : | Patrick Bribosia, Mariette Dorthu, Carine Driesmans, Gérald Dupagne, Aniceto Exposito‑Lopez, Benedicte Henry, Pierre Leblanc |
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| Coordinator : | Carine Driesmans |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Course contents :
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| Workshops on the "means of graphic expression" are design workshops that focus on the effort to translate a reality, observed or imagined, based on a theory and its application, with tools for comprehension and representation provided; on another hand a student's creative potential is helped to emerge through development of the student's sensitivities and her/ his sense of visual criticism.
In accordance with these two objectives the course is divided into two workshops that are complementary, but focus on different themes.
WORKSHOP 1: FORMAL AND GRAPHIC RESEARCH
With the introduction of this main theme, "Formal and Graphic Research" our course of instruction begins. It continues with the development of the accuracy of students' visual acuity (to look critically at forms and relationships of proportion).
This workshop develops manual dexterity (working with the hands, suppleness, precision of movement as a means of imparting a quality to features and nuances, etc.) which is based upon the quality of one's power of observation, taste for precision, power of expression and capacity for synthesis.
Thus the workshop stimulates reflection, one's sensitivity, imagination, and the understanding of forms, structures and spaces.
In the first year, there is a great deal of material to cover and students will be challenged to master it. The language of design must become familiar right away.
Once mastered, design is a very valuable tool for work and communication, making use especially of observation and research... allowing for the expression of the definition of an architectural position, a sketch or an analysis.
- architectural sketches: from objects toward architecture
- objective means of representing projects: architectural design
WORKSHOP 2: FORMAL AND PLASTIC RESEARCH
This workshop is intended to develop students' creativity and their taste for formal research through exercises in experimenting with the vocabulary of forms and their interactions, in such a manner as to help students work out, with regard to other artistic fields, a personal plastic language imbued with poetry.
The workshop is intended as well as a laboratory for experimentation with forms and forces, especially through manipulation and composition in three dimensions through preliminary exercises in reading space, in the relationship of forms that characterise it, followed by exercises in the structuration of matter in space.
The B1 programme bears mainly on experience with continuous lines, and decipherment of forms and spaces through the identification of vectors. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| Design imposes itself at first as an indispensable language which serves for training the architect. Observe, research-sketch-conceive, and communicate these are the three axes of training, three complementary, fundamental objectives.
From the first year, "training the gaze" becomes an essential key. "Training" goes with "opening", in the sense in which training the ability to observe gives one access to new territories that can be explored, given the necessary curiosity. Observing does not only consist of analyzing, figuring out, taking apart or separating, but discovering connections, observing relationships, identifying elements of coherence...
The exercise of synthesis is completely indispensable. Figuring things out is only useful if at the same time one is able to consider connections, hierarchies, to identify that which the constitutive elements of a grouping are participating in, in accordance with what principles...
Upon completion of the course students should be able to
- approach a subject of observation by clearly identifying a precise field of investigation
- construct a perspective sketch correctly and methodically, respecting the rules and the relationships between elements of observation
- make freehand drawings with suppleness, assurance and precision
- make decisions that make sense in terms of composition
- make proper use of tools whose use is demonstrated in the workshop
- understand the specific vocabulary for exchanges |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| The course is organised into workshops.
Our workshops are to be thought of as "laboratories" where students can "multiply errors with success", to the extent that they are given the minimum time necessary for experience and learning. We are aiming more at becoming conscious of things than at a "correct" answer to any requirement, whatever it may be. We are trying to facilitate approaches more than to arrive at particular results. We encourage personal creative initiatives that are decided on as part of a dialogue. In short we aim at the exercise of "plastic intelligence", such that autonomy is constructed, along with the skills necessary for dialogue with fellow students and workshop instructors (architecture workshop and design workshop) in terms of these three aspects: observation (knowledge, mastery), research (exploration, formalisation), and communication (argumentation, clarity). |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Instruction will be in person.
See the heading "Activités d'apprentissage et méthodes d'enseignement" |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Required readong for workshop 2 "Formal and plastic research":
KANDINSKY Wassily, Point et ligne sur plan, Collection Folio essays, Editions Gallimard, 2006
A syllabus on "graphic communication" exists and is available on e-campus, to be used as an aid and reference with regard to the conventions of representation. These are not exhaustive and do not cover all the material.
These notes are only intended to be used by students in the framework of their courses at the ULg. No other use or distribution is authorised, on pain of such use of distribution constituting a violation of the law of June 30, 1994 with regard to author's rights. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Each student's grade will be arrived at in two ways:
- continuous evaluation throughout two quadrimesters
- complementary evaluation by a jury at the end of the year
- For workshop 1: based on the presentation of an appropriate selection of works from those accomplished over the course of the year
- For workshop 2: based on a work of synthesis to be carried out on the occasion, based on things learned during the year
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Organizational remarks :
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| Weekly workshops last for two hours. |
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