Week 4 [10.02.09] Unpacking Suitcases, Architectural Fables, and Unclinching Fists

Selection and presentation of monograph content. Rest of class to bring in printed matter that describes all of the work you would like to include in your book. Select projects large and small, don’t shy away from process material, throwaways and projects that are not architecturally biased. In addition, you should be thinking about the things that inspired your work, collateral you collected in the process of making or exterior references that drove some of your ideas.

As a reminder: We are not looking at the formal way you have put work up on the wall. Last week there was some derailment in our focus (its ok, it happens and will happen again), the content you are putting up are not book spreads. We are not giving critique to the formalities of your presentation on the wall. Our conversation is focusing on your body of work and your persona as a designer (even if that persona is constantly evolving or changing or is at the moment fairly cloudy)...you all have one. Beautiful form is almost meaningless without a point of view, an opinion, an agenda, a politic. This is the difference between a portfolio and a monograph. Give yourself over to the fact that this class is not about the conquest of cool but the conquest of you.

DONT FORGET TO: Title your work with 5 descriptive adjectives and a working title for your collection. Nothing is in stone, we are literally throwing shit up on the wall and seeing what sticks.

OK?