Grade is marked down due to consistently arriving to class late, submitting work late, sleeping in class, not following formatting instructions, not following assignment of Material Phases closely. Avril produces very coherent and interesting work but needs to respect the time of her peers and the requirements of the course. This will ultimately elevate the conceptual and communicative power of the project.
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Avril you had great ideas for your project. Your initial models were very strong and compelling. You make things and then seem to lose confidence in your initial instincts. You should learn to see the strength in your moves. Don’t second guess so much. Give time to test fully any idea. You draw and make models beautifully. Because you were switching ideas a bit you ran out the time to fully develop and draw the project. You have the talent and skill, you need to trust yourself more.
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Avril’s work largely examined how we inhabit public transit locations in Providence. Whether it was aboard a bus itself, or waiting at the stops or station, her photographs revealed the physical and graphic points of connection, intersection, and separation that occur. Her final project was outstanding in the technical and conceptual progress it demonstrated. The prints were rendered with authoritative conviction. The installation itself, with the images mounted on screens floating in space, formally reinforced the dynamics present in her photographs.
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Avril,
Despite a lot of effort clear concept eluded you. Draw and model
all the building elements, stairs, doors, windows furnishing to help you occupy your proposed spaces. Use your models to “construct”
the space and to carry the concept. Keep at it you will get there.
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Avril, you are so determined and smart and sensitive, I see it’s only a matter of time before you bring your project to its fullest promise. The problem is not your doubt–actually doubt is an essential ingredient of the imagination and creativity. The problem is you are trying to eliminate doubt from your working process. You should accept that design requires provisional thinking–that you might have a better insight tomorrow. That’s how it is for a sensitive designer like yourself. I know you were planning to finish the project this summer and want to encourage you–it will give you closure and I think fulfillment to realize this wonderful project idea through to its designed resolution.
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Avril has been hardworking and dedicated to her work his semester, as evident by her work products. However, she has struggled to bring the projects to adequate conclusions that satisfy the required deliverables. Avril must develop strategies that allow her to continue to develop her ideas, even as she prepares to represent them. Her work has strong conceptual underpinnings that deserve full development and representation to live up to their promise.
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Avril,
As you have already learned in this first full year in the program, architectural design is really all about process. I know that you have been very cognizant and intensely focused on your own particular process over the course of the semester. This will only serve you well in the future. It can be easy to fall into a self-referential trap when working intensely on a design project, and you were stuck in this trap often. Stepping back every so often and asking yourself how the details come together as a whole, or how your design has meaning within a larger context is important. Now that you’ve learned this, you’ll just need to be aware of this in future studios.
Additionally, I would say that you struggled not with having a process that was too complicated, but that you had trouble expressing and representing it to others. Whenever we find ourselves in a position of not being able to explain our work, we should ask ourselves why this is the case. Remember too that as architects we communicate through drawings and models – these are how others understand what we are trying to achieve.
As I have repeated often during this semester, I believe in being both disciplined and prolific. As designers we often work through our ideas by making, and you must challenge yourself to be more productive in the future. Challenge yourself to meet self-imposed deadlines (2 hours to finish this drawing!), knowing that at the very least you will have something to regard and consider.
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Avril always brought unique interpretations into her models, and excelled at infusing them with elements of the human experience
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Avril, hi, your work is very interesting and you have a particular way of seeing. Please push that further and allow us to see things that only you find. Access the nuances of your still life and carefully bring them for the observers eye. Your workflow should allow you to work faster, and by overlaying information is that the content begins to emerge. Please visit the work of Lebbeus Woods and Mono Ha. Looking forward to see you push it further. Please feel empowered to participate more in class.
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