Shou Jie Eng is a designer, researcher and writer whose work examines the relationships between spaces, bodies and the material histories and cultures of craft. He runs Left Field Projects, a studio practice located in Hartford, CT. His writing has appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Softblow, Speculative Nonfiction, CARTHA and Ritual and Capital. His visual work has been shown at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, WY and the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park in San Francisco, CA. He previously taught architectural design studios at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI.
Times: F | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Shou Jie EngLocation(s): Bayard Ewing Building, Room 317Enrolled / Capacity: 12Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course connects the methods, traditions, and conventions of architectural drawing with contemporary technology and representational cultures. This course recognizes that for architects to operate productively, politically, socially, and ethically given the ubiquity of the digital image, both an advanced command of computational techniques and drawing techniques are immediately and primarily necessary. The digital image is the standard by which aesthetic content is transmitted, published and processed. Its pervasive role in contemporary architectural culture-and humanity-is mediated and confronted in this course. Relatedly, material drawing traditions are essential, valuable and provocative. The techniques covered in this studio-taught course include the manual and automated manipulation of digital images and material drawings at dramatically varied scales and dimensions. A structure of creative prompts continually positions the drawing and the image in parallel, with an emphasis on developing students' sensibilities, and capacity for both improvisational and scripted constructions. Students will create from memory, from life, from imagination, and from reference. As a result, students develop an architectural language that can engage multiple media and subjects.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Graduate Architecture Students.
Major Requirement | MArch: Architecture (3yr)
Spring 2025 Courses
ARCH 2142-01 - ARCHITECTURAL ANALYSIS
LevelUndergraduate
UnitArchitecture
Subject Architecture
Period Spring 2025
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
ARCH 2142-01
ARCHITECTURAL ANALYSIS
LevelUndergraduate
UnitArchitecture
Subject Architecture
PeriodSpring 2025
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2025-02-13 to 2025-05-23
Times: F | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Shou Jie EngLocation(s): Bayard Ewing Building, Room 304Enrolled / Capacity: 14Status: Closed
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course will develop one's ability to critically read and understand architecture through formal, geometric, tectonic and spatial analytic processes. Analysis acts as an intermediary between observation, expression, and understanding, offering deep insights into works of architecture. The course builds upon the processes introduced in Architectural Projection. Through various conceptual and representational frameworks, the issues of mapping-layers. Point of view, scale, morphology, topography and tectonics will be explored as part of a larger creative process, embracing visual imagination, communication and critique.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $20.00 - $100.00
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Architecture Students.
