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Freshmen\u27s Drawing Abilities with Multi-media: an Analysis of Portfolios with Grading Rubrics
Get PDFThis paper presents the results of freehand sketching portfolio analysis. The author has taught the freehand sketching course for the past seven years. Pencil, ink and markers are three major media that are introduced in freehand sketching class. It is a freshmen course offered during the first semester for incoming interior design major students. Most of the freshmen do not have any drawing experience before they take freehand sketching class. It is required to turn in three portfolios including pencil portfolio, ink portfolio and color portfolio during the semester. All the portfolios are evaluated by the rubrics. The rubrics include value, line qualities, perspective and media combinations. The author has kept all the grading rubrics over the years. In order to get insight of freshmen’s ability with multi-media and assess the learning outcomes, the author conducted an analysis based on the grading rubrics. The results of analysis provide valuable suggestions to curriculum design regarding freehand sketching
Developing Generic Procedures of Creating Architectural Components for 3-D AutoCAD Course
Get PDFAlthough there are plenty of AutoCAD books available for architects, interior designers, and engineers, it has been difficult for the author to find an appropriate textbook for students who major in interior design while teaching AutoCAD, especially 3-D AutoCAD at the sophomore level. Most existing 3-D AutoCAD textbooks are more engineering oriented. Industrial machine components such as bolts and nuts are commonly used as tutorial examples. The author also found that existing 3-D AutoCAD textbooks are lack of art and design subjects particularly subject matters of interior design and visual presentations. Therefore, it is necessary to develop course materials and to create tutorial examples that are relevant to interior design and architectural design with graphic images. Currently, limited generic procedures were found in the textbook to guide students to create 3-D architectural components and interior space models with 3-D AutoCAD. Therefore, creating appropriate tutorial examples is becoming more crucial in course materials. This article presents the tutorial examples and case studies with images in the newly developed course material, as well as how those 3-D examples and case studies were created. The author received a faculty research grant during summer 2006 to explore innovative design methods by using 3-D AutoCAD to achieve form transformation and space interlocking in design process. The goal of this research project is aimed specifically at the task of developing generic procedures for creating architectural components by using Boolean operations. This newly developed course material will be used in AutoCAD courses especially for 3-D AutoCAD. It provides students with more systematic and comprehensive tutorials and case studies. The author integrated two case studies of reconstruction of the masterpiece architecture in this course material because it is a research topic that many researchers and scholars are exploring. It provides the three-dimensional visualizations for these scholars to explore the hidden treasures in the past and to get inspirations for today’s design. These two case studies also presented typical architectural components, such as, triangular pediments, domes and barrel vaults in the application of Boolean operations in 3-D AutoCAD. The significance of this newly developed course material is that it provides more relevant interior design and architectural design tutorials and case studies with generic procedures, as well as visual presentations
Teaching Dynamics of Cultural Dimensions In Design To Create Sustainable Environment: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Of Architecture
Get PDFSustainable design is the concept that recognizes human civilization as an integral part of the natural world, and that nature must be preserved if the human community itself is to survive. Cultural dimensions of design are the tangible and intangible aspects of cultural systems that are valued by or representative of, a given culture and reflected in the built environment [12]. There was no existing course in our curriculum to cover the topic of culture and design. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a new course to fill this gap. The author was awarded a Summer Instructional Development Grant in summer 2005 to develop INTR330 – Culture and Design: A Cross-cultural comparison of Architecture. This course is designed as an interior design elective course as well as a general education course in Area IV Humanistic Thoughts to fulfill the diversity requirement on campus. It has been approved as general education course. The goal of this course is to provide an opportunity for students to have an exposure to diverse cultures through a cross-cultural comparison of Western and Eastern architecture. This course emphasizes the interactive and complex relationship between human beings and their built environment. It also emphasizes the creation of sustainable environment by encouraging meaningful cultural reflections. The inter-relationship of architecture and culture is examined through design theories and philosophy expressed by means of architecture digital photos and DVDs. It is expected that students will better understand the dynamics of cultural dimensions of design in the creation of a sustainable environment. This paper presents the innovative teaching methods with technology and non-traditional class activities for educating our students to understand the dynamics of cultural dimensions in design to create sustainable environment. As the second objective of this paper, it presents the proposed assessment methodology, data collection and analysis methods to assess the learning outcomes. It is anticipated that the results of assessment will be used for future course improvement and cross-culture studies
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Representing the Past by Solid Modeling + Golden Ratio Analysis
Get PDFThis paper describes the procedures of reconstructing ancient architecture using solid modeling with geometric analysis, especially the Golden Ratio analysis. In the past the recovery and reconstruction of ruins required bringing together fragments of evidence and vast amount of measurements from archeological site. Although researchers and scholars in the archeological field have used traditional manual methods to obtain data, the innovative application of solid modeling and geometric analysis techniques can help verify and reveal unknown or uncertain data. This paper demonstrates application of solid modeling with an approach from geometric construction perspective, along with data collection, literature review and photography analysis. Two case studies are demonstrated in this paper. They are the reconstruction of ruined ancient luxury complex Baths of Caracalla and building of a 3D digital model of Florence Cathedral. In addition, several solid models of case studies are presented in the paper
Freehand Drawing vs. Transformed Digital Drawing: A Preliminary Study and Comparison
Get PDFThis paper presents a preliminary study and comparison of digital drawings, which are transformed from freehand sketching by using Photoshop. With the development of new software, digital drawings are used more and more extensively in the design field. However, freehand sketching continues to provide unique and vital capabilities to interior designers and architects in allied fields (Laseau, 2004). In order to balance both freehand sketching and digital drawing to meet the requirements of the current trend, it is necessary to explore a new technique of transformation from freehand sketching to sophisticated digital drawing. The transformed drawings should represent the characters of both freehand sketching and digital drawing; especially it presents certain qualities that hand-drawn drawing can not present. Therefore, a preliminary study on how to transform freehand drawing to digital drawings was undertaken. Most importantly, this preliminary study compares the characteristics of transformed digital drawings with characteristics of freehand sketching in order to make recommendations about conversion from hand-drawn to digital drawings for professional practice and education. This paper presents a procedure of transformation from traditional sketching to digital by Photoshop. It also presents a series of transformed drawings and hand-drawn drawings. A comparison list was created to describe the characteristics of both hand-drawn and digital drawings. This study provides valuable suggestions to the body of knowledge of graphic communications. It will benefit both design education and professional practice
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