Summer in the City

Summer in the City 2012

A&AA Interdisciplinary Courses:

Lasercutting
John Leahy
June 25 - 28
Monday - Thursday, 5:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M.
$295 undergraduate tuition and $25 fee, $445 graduate tuition and $25 fee
AA 408/508 (1 credit)

This workshop provides an introduction to CNC cutting as a tool for artistic and design practices. It explores the possibilities of 2D cutting technologies through hands-on experimentation with lasercutting and engraving. Lectures and readings present an overview of CNC cutting and some of its typical applications. Participants will learn how to process vector and raster files for laser cutting and laser engraving a variety of materials. Creative exploration will be crucial to understanding the technological limitations of the process and advancing new techniques of production.

Light and Color: Tools of the Trade
Bruce Wolf
July 9 – 13, 16 - 20
Monday – Friday, 9 AM – 12 PM
AA 410/510 (3 credits)

In thinking about photography it is easy to give the subject all the credit, but photographers have more control over their photos than simply rendering subject matter. Instilling content; emotion, authority, identity, recognition, or wonder into a photograph is essential, especially when that photograph is meant to visually communicate information and create desire. Professional photographers are often called upon to elevate their subject, and some of the tools they use are light and color. This workshop will explore these tools in depth. As a symphony needs a full orchestra, images need a full range of light. In example, complimentary colors, or color that is nearly monochromatic, add different kinds of power to an image. Light can make an architectural space welcoming or forbidding, an object captivating or dull. In this digital age cameras can think for themselves, unfortunately they all think alike. We will take back control, think for ourselves, and learn how to take photographs that awaken the curiosity, emotion and longing of the viewer, whether on the magazine page or a gallery wall.

Requirements: Students will need access to a digital camera, preferably one that shoots in RAW format. Basic knowledge of Adobe Photoshop is required, as it is one of many tools that will be used in this course, but this is not a course about how to use Photoshop. A tripod may be helpful but is not mandatory.

3D Printing
John Leahy
July 9 - 12
Monday - Thursday, 5:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M.
$295 undergraduate tuition and $50 fee, $445 graduate tuition and $50 fee
AA 408/508 (1 credit)

This workshop provides an introduction to digital modeling as a tool for artistic and design practices. It also investigates technological developments in 3D printing, and examines the impact of additive fabrication across a range of disciplines. Sessions combine lectures/technical demonstrations with discussions/open work sessions. In addition to in-class assignments, participants are expected to develop one project of their own conception using the techniques and principles covered in the workshop. Participants will develop basic digital modeling skills using Rhino3D. Modeling techniques will be applied with the specific intention of rapid-prototyping files using an FDM 3D printer.

CNC Machining
John Leahy
July 16 - 20
Monday - Thursday, 5:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M.
$295 undergraduate tuition and $25 fee, $445 graduate tuition and $25 fee
AA 408/508 (1 credit)

This workshop is an introduction to subtractive fabrication. It investigates technological developments in CNC machining and examines their impact on artistic and design practices. Sessions combine a brief lecture/discussion with technical demonstrations/open work sessions. In addition to supplementary reading/research assignments, participants will be expected to complete one project of their conception using the techniques and principles covered in the workshop. Lectures and readings present an overview of subtractive fabrication. Participants will learn how to process CAD files using a CNC milling machine. Creative exploration will be crucial to understanding the technological limitations of the process and advancing new techniques of production.

Product Design

Design Drawing
Trygve Faste
June 25 - July 19
Mondays - Thursdays, noon - 3:50 P.M.
Tuition plus $40 lab fee, $35 MIT fee
PD 323 (4 credits)

A vital skill for product designers is the ability to rapidly visualize in three dimensions and to share this information with other designers and clients through quick hand-drawn analytical diagrams. This course focuses on visual media as a means to analyze, generate, develop, and present design proposals for products. Over the course of the term students will acquire skills and learn different methods and drawing techniques including diagramming, sketching in three-dimensions, orthographic drawings and quick modeling techniques. All of these techniques are essential to success in future coursework and in the profession. This course meets in Portland and is taught remotely via videoconference from Eugene. Prerequisites: ART 115, ART 116, ART 233/PD 223

Design Discourse
Sara Huston
June 25 - June 29
Monday - Friday, 5:00 P.M. - 6:50 P.M.
PD 410 (1 credit)

Students will deeply engage with cross-discipline design issues through class discussions, readings, films, and regular writing assignments. By examining a variety of viewpoints, students will deconstruct design problems that affect designers in fields including art, architecture, and product design. Class sessions will include round-table discussions led by students, and moderated by the instructor. Course assignments include readings and films, paired with reflective 500 word writing assignments.

48 Hours Design Studio (Section 1)
Christian Freissler and James Molyneux
June 29 – July 1
Friday 5:00 - 7:50 PM, Saturday 9:00 AM - 3:50 PM, Sunday 1:00 - 3:50 PM
$390 TuitionPD 410 (1 credit)

This one-weekend studio class focuses on the key elements of the design process: framing, concepting, and refinement. The goal is to design a small consumer product in 48 hours from briefing to final presentation. Students will be challenged to work within the pressure of tight deadlines and limited resources to create products that connect with consumers on both functional and emotional levels. The project starts as a group effort and then later focuses on individual products while keeping a collaborative component alive though the end. Some of the key skills developed in this course are: finding shortcuts, making situation-based decisions, and following through with a chosen path.

Portfolio Photography
Sara Huston
June 29 - July 1
Friday, 5:00 - 7:50 P.M.; Saturday, 12:00 P.M. – 3:50 P.M.; Sunday 12:00 – 3:50 P.M.
$390 tuition plus $20 material fee
PD 199 (1 credit)

Are you intimidated or stumped on how to turn your collection of work into a professional and well-designed portfolio? Do you have a portfolio that needs updating or sprucing up? This course will provide you with the skills you need to create eye-catching images for your portfolio, while covering the basics of staging and photographing your work.

Beginning Rhino Software
Avik Maitra
July 6 - 8
Friday 5:00 - 7:50 PM, Saturday 9:00 AM - 3:50 PM, Sunday 1:00 - 3:50 PM
$390 Tuition
PD 199 (1 credit)

Rhino is a versatile free-form 3-D modeling software used by a variety of practitioners within art, design, and engineering. New users can easily visualize, analyze, and prepare ideas for prototyping with ease and accuracy for the purpose of research, development, marketing, manufacturing, and construction. In addition to many multi-disciplinary functions and extensive compatibility with other file formats, Rhino offers software developers the option to customize tools to fit their special needs.

Rhino 3D Production
Avik Maitra
August 8 - August 29
Wednesdays 5:00 P.M. - 7:50 P.M.
$390 tuition, $75 lab fee
PD 410 (1 credit)

This course covers 3-D modeling, advanced 3-D thinking, and problem solving. Learn to prepare 3-D designs for rapid prototyping and hand-off to the model maker, and prepare 3-D data for visualization process. Prerequisite: PD 199 Beg Rhino or instructor approval.

48 Hours Design Studio (Section 2)
Christian Freissler and James Molyneux
August 17 - 19
Friday 5:00 - 7:50 PM, Saturday 9:00 AM - 3:50 PM, Sunday 1:00 - 3:50 PM
$390 TuitionPD 410 (1 credit)

Architecture

Architectural Design
James Cutler
June 25 - August 16
Mondays – Thursdays, 8:30 A.M. – noon
Regular tuition
ARCH 484/584 (6 credits)

Students enrolled in ARCH 484/584 Architectural Design are required to take the ARCH 407/507 Analytics of Sustainable Design Seminar concurrently.

Analytics of Sustainable Design seminar
Lisa Petterson
June 26 – August 16Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:00 - 5:50 P.M.
Regular tuition
ARCH 407/507 (3 credits)

James Cutler, FAIA, is the director of the 2012 Portland Architecture Summer Program, a 9 credit sequence that includes a 6-credit design studio and a 3-credit sustainable design seminar. He is renowned for his ability to respond sensitively to the character of a place with exquisitely crafted contemporary buildings. His Seattle-based firm, Cutler Anderson Architects, has won 6 National AIA Honor Awards and over 40 other national and regional awards. He will be joined by Lisa Petterson of SERA Architects who is a national leader in "deep green" building design and daylighting applications.

Students will examine and test whether architecture in an urban context can be used as a vehicle to connect humans to the living world that sustains us. In the design studio, James Cutler will lead an investigation of a typical urban program on a typical Portland downtown lot to explore ways to generate architecture in which all of the forces of nature are revealed while still incorporating strategies that will make the building “sustainable.” By the use of the word “sustainable,” we mean not only the minimization of energy use, but also the revelation of our connection to life. “Sustainable” cannot be sustained if we are not led to love the living world around us. In our increasing urban society, that connection, if not broken, is simply absent. The seminar class, which will be led by Lisa Petterson, will reinforce the design endeavor by reviewing design tools and technologies that foster a healthier relationship between people and this planet. Students enrolled in the studio are required to take the seminar concurrently.

Media for Design Development
Kelcey Beardsley
June 26 – August 16
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:00 – 2:50 P.M.
Regular tuition
ARCH 423/523 (3 credits)

This course will strengthen design process through practice with a variety of quick drawing skills such as concept notation, diagrams, freehand and digital 3D sketching, sketch modeling, day-lighting, material and tectonic studies. The goal will be to develop familiarity with visualization techniques and options for exploratory drawing appropriate to studio design work. Our purpose is to develop individual creative imagination and the ability to explore ideas through drawing.

Kelcey Beardsley is an architect, artist, and educator with twenty-three years in professional practice in Eugene, Portland and Seattle. Her most well-known project as Project Designer at SRG Partnership is the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport. As an architectural rendering artist, she created a series of watercolor perspectives used for the Aquarium’s fundraising.

Digital Tools: Revit Fundamentals
Katalin Czégé
June 25 - August 15
Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:00-4:50 P.M.
Regular tuition
ARCH 399 (2 credits)

Building Information Modeling (BIM) combines 3-D geometry with component data so that spaces, systems, and materials are integrated into a single database. This streamlines collaboration throughout the building life-cycle, improving efficiency, reducing errors, and facilitating complexity. This course teaches essential BIM for architectural design, communication, and construction using Autodesk's Revit Architecture 2012. Topics will include massing, modeling, viewing, parametric families, sheet layout, and rendering.

Instructor Katalin Czégé, AIA, LEED AP developed the workflow, training and support of BIM at Hennebery Eddy Architects. She has more than ten years of architectural experience.

Responsive Surfaces using Firefly and Grasshopper
Jason Kelly Johnson and Ripon DeLeon
Aug 20-23
Monday - Thursday, 8:30 A.M. - 12:30P.M. and 1:30 P.M. - 5:30 P.M.
Regular tuition
Arch 4/508, 1 credit

This course will explore the digital design, simulation and prototyping of intelligent building skins, using two free plug-ins for McNeel's Rhinocerous software. Grasshopper allows designers to create adjustable parametric forms through a visual interface. Firefly bridges the gap between Grasshopper, the Arduino microcontroller, the Internet and beyond. It allows near real-time data flow between the 3D digital and physical worlds, and will read/write data to/from internet feeds, remote sensors, connect with machine vision protocols, and more. This four-day fast-paced workshop will focus on hardware and software prototyping and simulation techniques for interactive walls, roofs, ceilings or floors.

Jason Kelly Johnson is the co-developer of Firefly and is a founding partner of Future Cities Lab in San Francisco. He is an Assistant Professor of Architecture and Interaction at California College of the Arts (CCA), and core tutor of the Architectural Association (AA) Biodynamic Structures summer program. Ripon DeLeon, Project Manager of the Future Cities Lab, earned the Henry Adams Medal when he graduated from CCA.

Professional Practicum in Portland
Christine Theodoropoulos
June 25 – September 2
Meeting times and days vary with online support
Regular tuition
ARCH 409/609, variable credit

Graduate and undergraduate students pursue participatory learning experiences off-campus in professional practice settings. A practicum provides opportunities to explore aspects of architectural practice within design firms or other entities engaged in activities that shape the built environment. Mentors guide students’ learning by inviting them to observe their professional activities and giving assignments that develop professional abilities. Students are not paid for practicum hours. The practicum is an educational program for students who want to increase their understanding of professional practice or participate in research in a professional setting. These variable credit courses fulfill subject area electives.

Department head Christine Theodoropoulos teaches courses in structural

systems and design studios and researches the integration between architectural and structural design practice. She is a past president of the Building Technology Educators Society, and held leadership positions in the National Architectural Accreditation Board, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, and the National Board of the American Institute of Architecture Students.

Digital Arts and Photography

Digital Imaging
Craig Hickman
June 25 - July 19
Mondays – Thursdays, 1:00 - 4:50 P.M.
Regular Tuition, $35 Materials Fee and $25 Studio Fee
ARTD 360 (4 credits)

This course is an intermediate-level focus on the proper preparation and presentation of digital images for use in print and on screen, including basics in color theory. This course will send students into the city to document and interpret the urban environment. Work will be primarily in photography, but students concentrating in other media are welcome. Our dual focus will be on ideas and the practical use of digital imaging/photographic/presentation techniques.

Digital Photography I
Terri Warpinski
July 23 - Aug. 16
Monday - Thursday 1:00 - 4:50 P.M.
Regular tuition plus $35 Materials Fee and $35 Studio Fee
ARTO 354 (4 credits)

Digital Photography traverses a broad range of information creating a solid foundation in the concepts and practices of working in color photography utilizing a digital RAW workflow. This course is structured with the assumption that all participants have completed a basic black and white darkroom course and understand fundamental principles of camera and exposure.

Assigned projects and in-class exercises cover the essential elements of color digital photography, from image capture and the physical properties of light and color through conceptual approaches to image-making and various outputs from web blog posts to fine art printing. Readings, lectures and demonstrations will address color theory and color perception, a short history of color photography, step-by-step introduction to the image editing software and a broad survey of contemporary approaches to working in color photography.

Some desired technical outcomes for the course are the following: understanding the nature of digital capture, raw file conversions, tone mapping, interpretation and utilization of histograms, ability to judge and correct color throughout the workflow from camera to print, understanding color temperature and the principles of color management throughout the workflow from capture to print. The basic software skills developed will rely upon Adobe Bridge and Camera Raw, along with Lightroom. Photoshop will be used to accomplish HDR and assembling panoramas. All work will be in RAW file formats.

All students must have access to and provide their own DSLR that can capture in RAW format, have the necessary storage media for their cameras, an external drive (preferably with a capacity of least 40 GB). No additional lenses, flash or other equipment is necessary, although some might be desirable). Students will provide their own photo paper for printing. Prerequisite: ARTO 251. Only open to majors: Digital Arts, Multimedia Design, Art, Ceramics, Multimedia Design, Fibers, Metalsmithing and Jewelry, Photography, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture.

Arts and Administration

Art and Human Values
Catherine Ballard
June 25 - August 16
Mondays and Wednesdays, 10:00 A.M. - 12:20 P.M.
Regular tuition
AAD 250 (4 credits)

A&L=Group–satisfying Course, Arts and Letters
IP=Multicultural Course, Identity, Pluralism, and Tolerance

This course addresses fundamental aesthetic theory and practice questions resulting from viewing art as a powerful communicator of social and cultural values.

This course is offered as part of the Urban Duck experience:

Get a jump on your UO core requirements this summer in Portland, by taking this general education arts and letters group satisfying course that focuses on the role and importance of art and human values. This class satisfies the multicultural requirement related to identity, pluralism and tolerance byhelping students understand the relationships between arts, culture and ethnicity, politics, economics, education, class, gender, age, and occupation. This course also fulfills requirements in a minor in community arts. This is a great opportunity for UO-admitted students to start satisfying their general education requirements before they get to Eugene.