Syllabus 2011/2012 AFO025

Syllabus academic year 2011/2012
(Created 2011-09-01.)

BUILDING A GRAPHIC VOCABULARY AND PORTFOLIO

AFO025

Credits: 3. Grading scale: UG. Cycle: G2 (First Cycle). Main field: Architecture. Language of instruction: The course might be given in English. Optional for: A3. Course coordinator: University lecturer Tomas Tägil, tomas.tagil@arkitektur.lth.se, Architecture. Prerequisites: Passed courses within the program of architecture comprising at least 80 credits, or equivalent. The course might be cancelled if the number of applicants is less than 10. Assessment: Approved exercises. 80% attendance is demanded at lectures and 100% attendance at tutorials. Further information: The course will be given in the late afternoon.

Aim

Develop the ability to constructive reflexion regarding aesthetic and graphical quality in their own as well as others production.
To gain knowledge about form and colour as significant characteristics in design communication.
Broaden the capacity in graphic composition.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

be able to establish graphic relations between image and text.

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

be able to design their own portfolio.
be able to use both traditional and experimental presentation techniques in their graphic production.

Contents

Training in traditional and experimental techniques of presentation.
Layout principals and balance between text and image.
Text analysis and image analysis of own compositions.
With the help of earlier skills from this course about visualisation techniques, the work is concentrated to documentation of the students own working process.

The course will be presented in two parts:

The first one is based on a series of lectures by professional architects. They will show their respective methods in communicating with their clients, visually and verbally.

In the other part the students work with their own material, with intense guidance from teachers. (architects and graphic designers).

Literature
No compulsary literature.