RISD ARCHITECTURAL ANALYSIS - Spring 2019- First Undergraduate Architectural Drawing Course - Institution: Rhode Island School of Design Instructors: Nick Brinen, Chelsea Limbird, Carl Lostritto,
Analysis is often misunderstood as a passive act, a matter of uncovering the truth, processing information, or figuring out. While those definitions are partially true, this course focuses on the capacity for analysis to be creative, generative, and speculative. Yes, analysis can help one discover something previously hidden—something that was always there but was hard to see. More importantly though, analysis can also lead to the discovery of something entirely new—something not found, but constructed through a rigorous, disciplined process. That “something” could be formal, conceptual, relational, or theoretical.
If we see analysis as creative, we also must actively engage representation. This course positions representation as a matter of operation. The representational systems we design and deploy influence not only how we see, read and understand architectural content, but they determine how we can operate on that architectural content.
Student Work: James Zaiwei, Daniel Lee, Deniz Kutay, Edward Catlin, Hyunsoo Kim, Isabella Tangherlini, Jinlan Huang, Manni Yu, Samuel Bailey, Sang Mook Lim