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2008 Summer Practicum + Studio Houston

Current Course List

Diversity Electives

Course Descriptions

Previous Course Lists

FINAL REVIEW ANNOUNCEMENT

ADMINISTRATIVE

Houston Practicum Information Sheet

Housing and Other Useful Information - from Previous Students

How to Post to Front Page

Syllabus

Instructor Teaching Schedule

Calendar

CLASS ORGANIZATION

Individual Student Contact Form

Student Initial Expectations Form

Class Contact List

Lecture / Field Trip Schedule

NEWSLETTERS

Week 1 - Vol IV Issue 1

Week 2 - Vol IV Issue 2

Week3-5 - Vol IV Issue 3

Week6-8 - Vol IV Issue 4

LECTURES / FIELD TRIPS

Gary Wilson, AIA - June 13

Guy Hagstette, AIA - June 6

Donna Kacmar, AIA - June 18

David Baldacchino - SHW Group - June 20

Rives Taylor, AIA - Gensler - UT School of Nursing - June 27

Frank Marquez, AIA - P&W Architects - July 11

Frank Marquez Resume

Jay Tatum - HOK, Inc. - July 18

Russell Windham - Curtis & Windham Architects - July 25

ASSIGNMENTS

Participation Points - Due August 1, 9am

Assn1 Mapping Houston - Due Friday, June 6, 9am

Assn2 Mapping East Downtown - Due Friday, June 20, 9am

Assn3 Re-present_Site Studies - Due Friday, June 27, 9am

Assn4 - Synthesis - Posted before Friday, July 4 and on Friday, July 11

Final Project - pdf - Due August 1 with preliminary pin up dates

Final Project Word Document

READINGS

The City is Not a Tree by Christopher Alexander - Discussion June 6

Public Places Urban Spaces Ch. 1

PPUS Ch. 2

PPUS Ch.7 -The Visual Dimension

The City of Monuments - Discussion June 27

RESOURCES

2007 Houston Facts - Greater Houston Partnership

Google Earth Aerial of Site as JPEG

READING RESOURCES

A Global Sense of Place by Tim Cresswell

Defining Place by Tim Cresswell

Charter of the New Urbanism - Congress on New Urbanism

On Site by Carol Burns

Walking by Henry Thoreau from The Portable Thoreau

Finding Some Place in All This Space (From the Seduction of Place) by Joseph Rykwert