antonino saggio
FitzGibbon Visiting Professor Chair
Department of Architecture
Carnegie-Mellon
ext.: 81963 mm204a
http://128.2.125.248
Assignment 2
Assignment 2 pushes you in the direction of an autonomous search. Part A is due October 16, Part B and C, November 6. You are very welcomed to correspond with me for advice comments etc.
Assignment 2 is a web based presentation
composed of three parts:
A. You have to read carefully the
text a "Manifesto for architecture of Information" and you have to find
one and only one area of interest on which you want to start developing
a particular point of view.
This is done by you autonomously finding other reading
that will support your point and choosing images that are pertinent with
this particular point of view.
Here is the link
to the text. You have already had a printed version of the essay but
here there are more images.
Develop a text of 2000 to 2500 chars with some images and some quotations to make your specific area of interest clear
Part A is due by October 16.
Send the exact link to your page (cut and paste) at my email: Antonino.Saggio@Uniroma1.it
This part, together with Ass. 1 and class attendance,
will contribute to form your mid term grade.
B. Study one of the 12 projects of
this exhibition and elaborate a a personal comment .
Write a 3000-3600 chars review Web Based that
contains:
an explanation of the specific sub set of goals which are present in this project
a precise project description
a personal commentinclude 6 key images
Due in class November 6 (if you want guidance or an interim
review email me the web page)
C. Read one of the book of the It
revolution series.
Here
is the link that contains also conference talks, link to amazon for
order books of the series etc..
Write a 4000-4400 chars review that contains:
An introduction
A summary of the book
A personal comment.include 3 key images
Due in class November 6 (if you want guidance or an
interim review email me )