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Course Number and Title
Architectural Conservation Lab (HP382L)
Credits
Four.
Preqequisites
HP175, 301, 342
Place/Time
Tuesday 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Thursday 12:30 PM - 4:50 PM
Arch 134
Type
Lecture, lab and field-based course
Instructor
Philip Cryan Marshall,
Professor
Email: provided in class
Tel. 401.254.3061
Mobile 508.951.8562
Office: SAAHP 247
Catalog Description
"This course surveys the manufacture, composition, properties,
uses, craft traditions, and conservation of traditional building
materials and systems – wood, metal, glass, decorative finishes,
and masonry – and the architectural context in which
they are employed. Lectures, readings and discussions are supplemented
by site visits, field trips, workshops and laboratory exercises
to understand historic American construction technology and contemporary
conservation practices. (4 credits)"
RWU Catalogue
Course Description
Same as catalog description.
Office Hours
Advising hours will be posted on my faculty office door each
week, a week in advance. Please sign up and bring an agenda. If
you plan to discuss drafts, proposals, drawings, field notes,
photographs, or similar material, please leave a copy in my faculty
mailbox with a note asking me to preview your work at least two
days before your meeting — to provide enough time to consider
carefully your work before getting together.
Course Goals
Refer to Schedule (Spring
2007 )
Goals and objectives are to explore the interrelationship of
scientific, artistic, historical, preservation, and related disciplines
and the way they come to bear on the understanding and conservation
of historical materials and techniques. There is an emphasis on
the relationship between academic studies, research, laboratory
experiments, feild experience, and professional practice.
Course Materials
Readings are primarily Web based. You must print out hard copies
of all assigned reading before their due date. You are expected
to use the printouts for highlighting, making marginal notes and
comments, and identifying issues, subjects and questions you wish
to discuss. Carefully organize readings, assignments and other
material in your course binder(s), which will be handed in.
Additional reading will be provided as class handouts and materials
on reserve. The following books will be on reserve:
- Moss, Roger, Editor. Paint in America: The Colors of Historic
Buildings. Washington, DC: The Preservation Press, 1994.
[Find on Amazon]
- Winkler, Gail Caskey and Roger W. Moss. Victorian Interior
Decoration: American Interiors 1830-1900. New York: Henry
Holt and Company, 1992. [Find on Amazon]
- Seale, William. Recreating the Historic House Interior, Nashville,
Tennessee: American Association for State and Local History,
2nd ed., 1980 [Find used on Amazon]
Student Participation
- Attend all classes, site visits, and field trips
- Work as involved, responsible member of all project teams
- Actively participate in class discussions
- Complete assignments (word-processed or electronic, when written)
by due dates
- Advise faculty about any concerns, tutoring, and special needs
- Come to site visits prepared, with necessary tools, equipment,
and supplies
Evaluation (Grading
Policy)
- Attendance, active participation mandatory
- Mid-term (25%) and final (25%) exams
- Projects / Assignments / Participation 50%
Syllabus – Schedule of Class Meetings
Spring 2007
Assignments
Format
- Course lecturers, with discussion
- Course readings, followed by class discussion
- Course readings, followed by independent analysis
- Course readings, followed by quizzes
- Team-oriented class conservation assessment of sites
- Independent, self-directed documentation of a particular site
- Guest lecturers, field trips, and visits to specialists -- with
your active participation in discussion
- Site visits, conducted independently by students, alone or as
a
group
- Site visits, conducted by the entire class
Assignments
Refer to Assignments
Schedule of Class Meetings
Refer to Schedule
Equipment and Supplies
A Conservation Site Tool Kit list will be reviewed in class.
For finishes mixing labs, wear work cloths that you do not mind
getting paint on.
For Rock & Stone assignment: wear protective glasses and a
hard hat during sampling.
A camera will be needed for several assignments.
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