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Schedule — Spring 2003 (Revised 6 April)

Week / Subjects / Date (Assignments are due on week listed.)

1 Documentation Jan 21
    Questionnaire
    In-class assignment, review; purpose of course; responsibilities, assignments, and reading; equipment and supplies

2 Heritage Recording Jan 28
    Assignment 1: Heritage Recording printed reading, and overview of subjects on Web.

3 Construction Systems, Architectural Elements and Terminology Feb 4

4 Classical Orders Feb 11

5 Holiday — No Class Feb 18

6 Elements in Context Feb 25

7 Tests March 4

8 State Surveys March 11

9 No Class March 18

10 Photography (and discussion of Bristol Survey) March 25

  Read Recording Historic Structures. Edited by John A. Burns, AIA. Washington,
D.C.: The AIA Press, 1989, Chapter 4 Photography, pp.70-109.
  Read:

  Bring your photographic equipment to class.

  Discuss:

  • equipment; film, digital;
  • archival standards: identification, processing, storage;
  • archives; architectural photography

11 Crit of Bristol Survey April 1 (in Bristol)

Assignment 12 Architectural Drawings will be provided in class.

Read:

  • Recording Historic Structures. Edited by John A. Burns, AIA. Washington,
    D.C.: The AIA Press, 1989, Chapter 5 Measured Drawings, pp.110-165.
  • Architectural Drawings — Sheets (list of project document drawings)
  • Sketch foorprint, floor plans; include dimensions and notes.

Discuss:

  • relationship of drawings to project documents (specifications, contract, shop drawings)
  • equipment; selecting drawing scale; using scales
  • graphic standards: symbols and conventions, material designation
  • equipment, mechanical, electrical
  • lines, layout, borders and title blocks, lettering
  • orthographic projection; isometric projection
  • sheets: cover sheet, symbols and conventions, site plan, plans, elevations, sections, details, schedules
  • examples

12 Field Recording on Site: Methodology, Tools and Techniques, Assessment and Measurements April 8

  • Burns, Chapter 5 Measured Drawings, pp.110-165.
  • Swallow, Peter, David Watt, and Robert Ashton. Measurement and Recording of Historic Buildings. London: Donhead Publishing, 1993, Chapter 5 Building Surveys I: Preliminaries and Sketching, pp.54-68, Chapter 6 Building Surveys, pp.69-85. On reserve in RWU Architecture Library.
  • Read Architectural Drawings and Graphic Records
  • Patterson, Robert M., P. Eng. Preparation of "As Found" Drawings, British Columbia Heritage Trust, August 1982 [Does not include nine figures that were in the original publication.]

Peruse:

  • Burns, Chapter 6 Case Studies, pp.166-219.
  • Cullinane, John J., AIA. Understanding Architectural Drawings: A Guide for Non Architects, Washington, DC: The Preservation Press, National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1993. On reserve in RWU Architecture Library

Discuss:

  • Assignment 10 Graphic: Field Measurements
  • Assignment 11 Graphic: Field Recording of Elements
  • safety: practices, supplies, equipment, warning devices and signage, construction
  • job etiquette
  • preparation, archival research, reconnaissance, condition assessment, emergency stabilization, special access equipment
  • preparing field sketches, sheet layout and identification, indications
  • measuring: equipment and supplies, accuracy, datum lines and planes, running dimensions, dimensioning conventions and notes, verification, triangulation, inaccessible areas
  • special considerations for plans (site and building), elevations, sections, details

13 Field Recording on Site (in teams) April 15

Class will meet in classroom and proceed to the site. Bring site supplies and equipment for field recording. Dress accordingly.

14 Field Recording on Site - II (in teams) April 22

15 Architectural Drawings, Project Documentation April 29
     Crit of Photography; Field Recording (discussion, development)

16 Field Recording and Documentation— Presentation May 6

17 Finals Week (No Final Exam)