This is the Foundation Architecture Studio, so it's
first-year architecture studio where
we're doing a makeshift pen-up today.
Where normally we would meet inside of a classroom and pin stuff on the wall,
now we're going outside. The project that
we're working on —
I've had them start to look at space and
look at objects,
how objects occupy space and how objects change space.
So they started with their dorm room,
they made their way to the plaza
and now they're picking different
spatial conditions across campus and
they're putting all of these things
into a composition. It's been kind of
exciting for me, and this is not to downplay COVID at all,
but to for me to be forced out of my comfort
zone of how I teach. It's actually been
refreshing. Where I think we could see this as a
hindrance, we could see this as a huge
inconvenience, but it has gotten me to change the way that
I start a semester. It's exciting for me to go off on walks
with students as opposed to only sitting at their desk.
