Course Title: DES 385 Historic Preservation
Term: Fall
Course Description
This course will focus on the history of preservation within the United States while gaining knowledge of the movement in a global context. Students will learn to identify historic architectural styles, new terminology, develop an understanding, and an appreciation, of the nature of historic preservation, as well as its relationship to the concept of environmental quality and sustainability.
COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES, OUTCOMES, AND GOALS
Student project outcomes indicate their appropriate development in understanding and applying an upper level of
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Art and Design majors (or non-Art majors) will gain the understanding in social, political, and physical influences affecting historical changes in design of the built environment.
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Students will gain knowledge and understanding in significant movements, traditions, and related theories in architecture and material culture.
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Students will apply precedents to inform design solutions.
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Students will combine design theory and architectural terminology.
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Students will apply creative Manual or digital drawings, sketches, and other 2D forms of presentation.
Assignments:
Assignment 1: Identifications of Styles
After reviewing the different historic structures and styles, you will look at different buildings and identify their style, historic characteristics, and features. Do not use online resources to look up the historic information to back up your evaluation. Identify the building to the best of your understanding and with the help the class materials (textbook and PPT lectures).
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Assignment 2: Historic Building Types
Create a sheet of the style you presented in class + two more styles of your choice. We will select the two styles in the category so that they do not overlap between students.
• Summarize your information on 11x17 sheets- one per style
• Use the template posted on Canvas for creating! Leave the background white.
• Use New Times Roman font for your text.
• Headers should be size 14, and text and bullet points should be size 12.
Include in your sheet:
1. Background history of the style (including the name, dates, influences, significant figures, etc.)
2. Drawings, diagrams, pictures, callouts of historical features, bullet points, etc.
Important notes:
• Keep in mind the composition of your work and esthetics.
• Make sure your images are of a high resolution and are not blurry!
• Print in color!
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Assignment 3: Timeline
Create a sheet of the style you presented in class + two more styles of your choice. We will select the two styles in the category so that they do not overlap between students.
• Summarize your information on 11x17 sheets- one per style
• Use the template posted on Canvas for creating! Leave the background white.
• Use New Times Roman font for your text.
• Headers should be size 14, and text and bullet points should be size 12.
Include in your sheet:
1. Background history of the style (including the name, dates, influences, significant figures, etc.)
2. Drawings, diagrams, pictures, callouts of historical features, bullet points, etc.
Important notes:
• Keep in mind the composition of your work and esthetics.
• Make sure your images are of a high resolution and are not blurry!
• Print in color!
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Assignment 4: Project Compilation
This will be your final assignment for this Jan term semester, a creative documented project.
• _____/25Pts. Drawings: You will take all your previous PowerPoint Presentations and organize them
according to periods chronologically. Some periods will overlap but do your best to keep them in the
appropriate order.
• _____/25Pts. Sketches: Take your 12 Sketches (Sketching Assignment) and integrate them into the
PowerPoint Point for the periods that they belong. Note if you have images of a period, you did not
create a PowerPoint. They will be treated as a stand-alone period intergraded into the appropriate
chronology.
• _____/25Ptys. Presentation: You will give a Presentation telling us the story of each period as it
progresses through time, indicating the various building types and attributes. Do not forget to title each
attribute and use lines indicating the part of the building you are referencing.
• _____/25Pts. Presentation layout:
o You will use the same format that you have already been using.
o Include the class title (DES 385.01 Art Restoration), the professor’s name, your name, the
project title (Historic Building and Drawing Documentation), and the title of your selected
building.
o Save the file as your last name_ Historic Building and Drawing Documentation Jan 2022
o Scan in your work (if hand drawn) or export from the design software. Make sure to scan or
export to a high resolution.
o Organize your work on the PowerPoint board esthetically and in an organized order.
o You can organize your images any way you like as long as they are executed aesthetically.
o Add some basic dimensions- such as overall heights and widths of the elevations.
o You can use callouts for your images and sketches. Make sure they do not overlap any text and
that they are organized. Using horizontal and vertical lines is recommended (I will explain).
o For any descriptions, use bullet points and do not add extensive text.
o Blueprints: if you can get blueprints of the building, compare them to the current plan. You can
add them to the presentation board on a smaller scale.
• _____/10pts. Extra Credit: Documentation of interior:
Up to 10% for this grade is offered for this project if you can Intergrade images from our trip to
Charleston. The following will need to be included.
• Images of the exterior buildings to include ornamentation and details.
• Interior ornaments and details related to the building: ornaments on the fireplace, cornices, moldings,
swags, decorative trims, etc.
• Images of furniture: sofas, chairs, tables, chests, cabinets, etc.
• Images of accessories: lamps, vases, chandeliers, tools, plates, etc.
• Include in a bullet point any suggestions for changes: restoring a specific area, removing or adding
an addition, bringing a particular element back to its original look, etc.
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