Mid-Term Reviews in Sp '09

What if we had a series of mid-project, PRELIM design studio reviews throughout Spring Semester?

It would give students an opportunity to respond to design jury comments almost IMMEDIATELY, perhaps the next class period.
It would give students an opportunity to respond to design jury comments DIRECTLY because they are still working on the same project.
It would give faculty and students opportunities to focus on design PROCESS since it is a preliminary review.
It probably would give faculty and students more opportunities to attend critiques because they are SPACED over the semester.

ARCH 2502 Wednesday February 25, Week 8
ARCH 3502 Wednesday March 4, Week 9
ARCH 550x Wednesday March 11, Week 10 (before Spring Break)
ARCH 5901 Wednesday March 25, Week 11 (after Spring Break)

If I’ve overlooked some studios, my apologies. My intention was to communicate the general idea.

Robert D. Perl, AIA
Associate Professor

From ARCHFACULTY to ARCHCHAIR

Discussions like the one just above about mid-term reviews are great and important. Electronic communications give us opportunities for fora that haven't yet been tapped into collectively. Rather than continue this as an email discussion across ARCHFACULTY I'd like to migrate this discussion over to a web site I've been making posts on about academic announcements, issues, initiatives, and discussion topics:

http://archchair.blogspot.com/

Crude as it may be, this is a first try at such a venue. I do recognize it may not be as comfortable or convenient as making an email response but, rather than running discussions such as this one through a string of response emails headed "RE: "What If..." that are sent to ARCHFACULTY, such an elective forum seems that it would be a more appropriate place for such comment and deliberation. We should try to keep emails to ARCHFACULTY as general announcements and, like Bob has done, initiate a general point of discussion to be hashed through elsewhere. Then, when faculty are aware of points of interest and concern, those so engaged can move into an electronic environment where concerned colleagues can participate in a focused discussion outside of everyone else's email boxes. That will leave mailboxes of those who aren't as interested in the discussion free of emails to ARCHFACULTY that are not general announcements.

I'd be happy to add any of you as co-authors for this web page if you are interested in making posts for discussion.