THINKING ARCHITECTURE
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Think Sheet
A Think Sheet is a single page submission of your thoughts in response to an assigned reading. Each Think Sheet should be personal and should reflect your own experiences and
values as they relate to the assigned reading. They should be well written and carefully proofread; clarity of writing is imperative. All Think Sheets are to be turned in at the beginning of class. You are to submit eight Think Sheets. A Think Sheet is NOT a book review. You should not just repeat points made in the reading and comment on them. It is also not meant to be a literary criticism. You should not be giving a critique of the reading or of the author’s point of view. The Think Sheet SHOULD document your own thoughts in response to the reading. It need not even be on the same topic as the reading, although it is important that you identify what it was in the reading that stimulated your thoughts
Reader 1: ‘Glass’,
How We Got to Now, Steven Johnson, pp. 13 - 38
Reader 2: ‘Kenna’s Dilemma: The Right - and Wrong – Way to Ask People What They Want’,
Blink , Malcolm Gladwell, pp. 151 -192
Reader 3: ‘The true fake’,
Why We Build , Rowan Moore, pp. 72 - 112
Reader 4: ‘Ideas’,
How Architecture Works: A Humanist’s Toolkit , Witold Rybczynski, pp. 17 - 48
Reader 5: The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived,
Allan Lazar, Dan Karlan and Jeremy Salter
Reader 6: ‘Horror in Architecture’,
Horror in Architecture, Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker Shing, pp. 31 - 43
Reader 7: ‘In What Style Shall We Build’,
The Architecture of Happiness , Alain de Botton, pp. 27 - 75
Reader 8: ‘The City Has Always Been a Happiness Project’,
Happy City , Charles Montgomery, pp. 15 - 42
Narative Essay : Personal Value Statements
Defining personal Value for design
I am required to produce a personal value statements that outline my character and defines my personality. No two person at the same time. This is a wonderful exercise that it actually takes me some times to think through what I have been through all this years. My life from kindergarden to right now, standing here on earth, full of dreams that i going to fullfill. Written down my experience according to the personal value statement is awesome.
Narrative Video : My personal values and worldviews
My task is to produce a video of your personal values and worldview. The video is a presentation of your PVS in a sequence of pictures organized in a thematic format. Phua Jing Shern compile all out video into one and made it easy for everyone to screen through each other worldview and personal values that we translate into video.