Required Length
All papers must have at least three but no more than five (3 to 5) total pages of text (not including the title page and not including the works cited page at the end), so you will have to analyze multiple images per page. Do not include any images in your paper, but do refer to the PowerPoint slide or slides in which each image appears, e.g. (Slide 1) or (Slides 1 and 2), etc. Shorter and longer papers will receive fewer points than those that follow these instructions precisely.
Any paper that does not follow this format will be docked at least one full grade level (A to B, B to C, and so on). Further deductions will result if, for instance, your paper does not have any parenthetical citations, or any works cited page, or if the font is larger than 12 point “Times New Roman,” or if the line spacing is greater than double, or if the margins have been exaggerated, etc. Any such obvious attempts to fill pages with less than the required amount of writing will be downgraded.
Project Description
Imagine that you work as an author of architectural history textbooks for college students. The editors at a large New York publishing house have asked for your help to produce a new, almost entirely image-based, Pritzker Prize-winning architectural timeline that they can put at the end of their textbooks. This sequence of images will summarize (primarily with pictures) the work of one of these famous architectural firms.
Note on the syllabus the Pritzker Prize-winning architect/firm that has already been assigned to you (Alvar Aalto), and focus your attention entirely on that architect’s or firm’s work. Once you know your architect’s or firm’s name, go to Jerome Library, look online (at ARTstor, on the “Resources” page for instance), and research that architect to locate as many images and as much information as possible. Read and look through any and all relevant published information about your architect. Scan or otherwise reproduce high-quality photographs of the buildings that you think are the most important, and keep rough notes about why you think certain structures are the “best” ones, the “key” examples of that architect’s works. Keep these rough notes to help you with your presentation and paper.
Critically examine all of the images that you have selected and the rough notes that you have written, and consider all of the various strengths and/or weaknesses that arise in your mind about the various images and the chronological sequence they could make together. Focus especially on what the various images “tell” the viewer visually about that architect’s chronological development and how the buildings relate to one another, etc. Decide which final ten images you will include, and what images you will leave out, both in your actual class presentation and in your paper. Then determine what kind of evidence you will need to include in your presentation and paper to support your conclusions about why these ten images are the best ten images/works to publish in a future textbook. Scan or otherwise reproduce high-quality photographs of the buildings that you think are the most important, and keep rough notes about why you think certain structures are the “best” ones, the “key” examples of that architect’s works.
Type in all the necessary evidence you need to support your claim about the ten best images of the ten most important buildings, and then piece together a persuasive argument that clearly states your opinion as to why these ten images should be included in the textbook’s actual chronological timeline. Revise your paper several times to make it as clear as possible, and then give it to at least one other person to get their comments before finishing it and turning it in to the instructor.
Each paper must conform to the following standardized format. There must be a title page with your name, the class ARTH 3630, the date, and the title of your paper on it. There must be exactly one-inch margins on all four sides of each sheet of paper, not more or less. The font used must be 12 point “Times New Roman” or another of equal size, not smaller or larger (only the title page may vary from this rule). All lines of text must be double-spaced. Two exceptions to this rule are (1) if you quote and indent five or more lines of text from another cited source, and (2) that all footnotes or endnotes should be single-spaced. All supporting evidence you include (about why these ten works are the most important) must be parenthetically cited with a complete works cited page at the end. For this and other formatting information, you must keep your parenthetical citations and works cited page in good order by following the “Author-Date” style provided on the “Chicago-Style Citation Quick GuideLinks to an external site..”
Finally, *before* the day your project (both presentation and paper) is due (see syllabus), each student must log in to the Canvas shell for this class and submit your presentation and paper files digitally to the “TurnItIn” system *before* finalizing them completely. This system, connected automatically to the “Assignments” on Canvas, is specifically designed to help students and faculty identify presentations and papers that have issues of plagiarism in them. If a student’s work does show some problem areas, then that student must fix all such problems *before* turning it all in again to Canvas, on or before your project’s due date. Any paper files with “TurnItIn” reports color-coded anything other than bright blue or bright green (namely, any paper files color-coded dark green, yellow, orange, or red) MUST be revised (before the deadline on the syllabus) in order to correct the problems found by the “TurnItIn” system. All paper files submitted MUST have a “TurnItIn” report color-coded bright blue or bright green before they’re completely done. Any student paper files color-coded yellow, orange, or red by “TurnItIn” that remain on Canvas after the deadline will simply receive a zero grade from the instructor until they are corrected and bright green or bright blue. Any remaining plagiarized project files will receive an F grade, and they will be forwarded to the Dean’s Office
Links he gave me to start-
https://www.alvaraalto.fi/en/
https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1998/aalto/
