Semester Syllabus
Description
Pattern Art, Design, and Architecture
Studio Contact Hours: 39 hours;
Pre-requisites: NIL
Academic Unit: 3.0
Learning Objective
Within an art, design and architectural context and through studio-based teaching, the student will be introduced to the creative potential of pattern and ornamentation using digital image technologies and non-traditional fabrication methods.
Content
From fashion to product design, from interior design to architectural installation, animation, and interactive arts, the pattern will be explored together with its application in the artistic and commercial domain. The course will examine how the image combined with digital and traditional painted and drawn mediums affects the significance of the surface, structure and space. Non-traditional media will be examined such as; textiles, metals, plastics, laminates, 2D and 3D digital printmaking etc. Explored will be the assortment of special commercial and custom-coated substrates as well as large scale rendering and digital pre-visualizations for art space installations.
Learning Outcome
To give students a broad, practice-based overview of the range of creative options within the field of installation based digital imaging and non-traditional fabrication methods
Outline
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S/N |
Topic |
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1 |
• Introduction to the course • Introduction to Pattern – Ornament, archaeology, myths and Rituals |
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2 – 6 |
• Pattern as Surface Decoration / “Body”: – Experimental analogue and digital methodologies for pattern creation • Pattern as a structure / “Space”: – Woven, knitted, knotted, twisted, creased, folded, unfolded structures • Art within architecture: – The site specific installation, the volume, the human within a volume, the walk-through etc |
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7 |
• Mid Semester review of assignments |
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8 – 12 |
• Prototyping and print on various substrates • Pattern in Space: – Digital visualization prototyping for site specific architectural locations |
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13 |
• Final project development |
Assessment
Continuous Assessment : 70%
Individual, group and team-based assignments
Creative process journal & virtual documentation on Open Source Studio (OSS)
Visual Journal with record of: Mood board, Sketches+ Process, Color palette resource, 10-15 Motifs not in repeat, 3 Final Panorama Collection, 10 Pattern repeats collection, Animation
Participation : 20%
Participation assessment components may include:
Attendance, contribution such as group discussions, presentations, studio tidiness
Final Portfolio : 10%
Final Portfolio assessment components includes:
OSS Gallery featuring final
Readings
Recommended Reading and Sites:
“Repeat Patterns, A Manual for Designers, Artists and Architects” by Peter Phillips, Gillian Bunce Thames & Hudson
“Traditional Methods of Pattern Designing: An introduction to the study of the decorative pattern” by Archibald Christie,Oxford
Available online: (http://www.archive.org/stream/traditionalmetho00chririch#page/n365/mode/thumb)
“Design and Practice for Printed Textiles”, by Andrea McNamara, Patrick Snelling, Oxford University Press
“Cutting Edge Patterns and Textures”, by Estel Vilaseca, (Book & CD Rom), Rockport Publishers
“Patterns 2. Design, Art and Architecture”, by Barbara Glasner, Birkhäuser Basel
“Pattern Design: Applications and Variations”, by Lou Andrea Savoir, Rockport Publishers
General AY2016 -17 Sem 1
Semester One (1) of Academic Year 2016-2017 runs from 23-July-2016 to 02-Dec-2016 with a one-week recess from 26-Sep-2016 to 30-Sep-2016.
The revision and examination period is from 14-Nov-2016 to 02-Dec-2016 where officially there are no lessons. The following dates are Public/University Holidays or periods designated by the university where officially there are no classes
| Orientation Week | – | 23-July-2016 to 05-August-2016 |
| Union Day/Academic Council | – | 25-August-2016
(No class from 1030 hrs to 1430 hrs) |
| National Day | – | 09-August-2016 (Tuesday) |
| Hari Raya Haji | – | 12-September-2016 (Monday) |
The deadline for submission of the final marks/grades for Semester One (1) of AY 2016-17, is expected to be on (21 November to 25 November 2016). The Grade Review Meetings are expected to take place between (28 November 2016).
The Academic Calendar can be found at this hyperlink:- http://www.ntu.edu.sg/Students/Undergraduate/AcademicServices/AcademicCalendar/Pages/AY2016-17.aspx
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