Emily Andersen's Freeway Drawings

Emily is an architect in Manhattan. These drawings are formal and flow analysis from the first part of her design project for architecture integrated into freeway construction. Before she studied architecture she studied studio art and fashion.
Either way, these drawings demonstrate the kinds of connection, craft, and geometricization of a form that we're asking you to construct. They are the geometries of bona fide ribbons of concrete, not fiat blobs of where you occupy the room. The way that the drawing is systematized through graphics of arcs and circles, tangents and radii.

Jack Fowler's Sections Through a Blob Model

Report on Test #1

The test was worth 12 of 100 semester points. With the 25 points for the first third of the studio you've now got 37 of your semester's points. By the time you return from Spring Break we'll have another 25 points graded for you over this current studio work.

Drop day is coming up. It is March 12th. We will notify you if we currently have concerns about your passing the class.

The average grade for Test #1 is very high. Many of you did quite well. There are a few people who got less than half the questions right. It seems as though either you did really well or you did quite bad with just a handful doing poorly.

The bonus was a drawing showing a Component set and Colorado is a state made up of only fiat boundaries.

I just told you some of the answers. We said there'd be no make-up test. If you did not make it to the test then the second test will count for 25 points of your grade. We'll just double the points you earn on that test. The second test will still be cheat sheet based but will include some readings, will still be all multiple choice, but not so easy- I'd expect.

Thanks for being so cooperative in taking the test and, for the most part, doing so well.