antonino saggio

FitzGibbon Visiting Professor Chair
Department of Architecture
Carnegie-Mellon

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http://128.2.125.248

Antonino.Saggio@Uniroma1.it

Assignment 2

Assignment 2 pushes you in the direction of an autonomous search.  Part A is due October 16, Part B and C, November 6. You are very welcomed to correspond with me for advice comments etc.

Assignment 2 is a  web based presentation composed of three parts:
A. You have to read carefully the text a "Manifesto for architecture of Information" and you have to find one and only one area of interest on which you want to start developing a particular point of view.
This is done by you autonomously finding other reading that will support your point and choosing images that are pertinent with this particular point of view.

Here is the link to the text. You have already had a printed version of the essay but here there are more images.
 

Develop a text of 2000 to 2500 chars with some images and some quotations to make your specific area of interest clear

Part A is due by October 16. Send the exact link to your page (cut and paste)  at my email: Antonino.Saggio@Uniroma1.it
This part, together with Ass. 1 and class attendance,  will contribute to form your mid term grade.
 

B. Study one of the 12 projects of this exhibition and elaborate a a personal comment .
Write a 3000-3600 chars review Web Based that contains:
 

an explanation of the specific sub set of goals which are present in this project
a precise project description
a personal comment

include 6 key images

Here is the link

Due in class November 6 (if you want guidance or an interim review email me the web page)
 

C. Read one of the book of the It revolution series.
Here is the link that contains also conference talks, link to amazon for order books of the series etc..
Write a 4000-4400 chars review that contains:

An introduction
A summary of the book
A personal comment.

include 3 key images

Due in class November 6 (if you want guidance or an interim review email me )