Supervised by the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture prof. Toomas Tammis and architect Paco Ulman
Autumn term of Year 1
The aim of the course is to develop manual and visual thinking skills. To see and represent elements of the world as they occur to us and also create and convey ideas and images still unseen and unknown to others. As a result of the course, the students will have a vast set of manual graphic skills as well as the means for visual and conceptual thinking. It is further accompanied by enhanced generalisation skills and the ability to see and work with various systems and structures. The aesthetic perception here marks the by-product of systematic work as an expression of earlier experiences and preconceptions. The aim of the course is to learn to recognise the relevant parts of the present world and to create new structured worlds generated from the personal convictions and their systematic development thus excluding the superficial layer of commonplaces. The work is highly time-consuming entailing numerous experiments and (re)constructions of variations.
The work is divided into two main parts. In the first half of the term, it mainly includes activities training the eye and hand focussing on the accuracy of analysis and concentration with the precision of form and representation. The second half of the term calls for the personal intervention in the representation with the acquired manual virtuosity conveying the clarity of thought. There will be altogether eight images hand-drawn with a rapidograph pen in ink on white paper measuring 30×30 cm. The eight completed drawings need to come together as independent works in terms of clarity of thought and quality of realization and collectively generate a comprehensive exhibition at the end of the course.
See the booklet of works completed in 2014 here.
See
the photos of the presentations in 2015 here