AR 113 THREE DIMENSIONAL DESIGN
Syllabus
Three Dimensional Design
Albertus Magnus College
Jerry Nevins, Professor
773-8546, office
Office: 203 Aquinas Hall
www.jnevins.com
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Overview:

Three Dimensional Design seeks to expand your understanding of design theory as it relates to the 3 dimensional world. Working primarily in paper, bristol board, corregated board and fome core, we will explore concepts of modularity, sequence and series, relief, contour, structure and symmetry.

We will examine the function of space, volume, mass, plane, and line. Sculptural issues will be explored through the solution of design problems. The main emphasis of this course is the development of critical thinking skills as they apply to three dimensional art forms and to help you gain a deeper understanding of visual art.

This is a working studio course. Regular attendance is expected.

This is an A level course and is part of the general education program, "Invitation to Insight" and it fulfils the fine arts requirement. As such, the goals of the class as well as those stated above are to encourage you in:

• Creative thinking

• Informed engagement of works of art

• Developing your vocabulary in art to be able to articulate visual ideas more fully.

• Articulating how the ideas in this course illuminate understanding of all three dimensional art including Sculpture, Ceramics, Installation Art and Architecture

 

Topics to be covered include:

Bristol board... scoring, cutting, joining, etc.
Relief designs in mat board and Fome Core board
Extended relief using radial symmetries
The Platonic Solids
Archimedian solids
Stellated solids
Serial planes
Large triangulated structures using newspaper struts.
Curvilinear/hyperparabolic forms
Applicator stick structures

"The chief reason for studying regular polyhedra is still the same as in the time of the Pythagoreans, namely, that their symmetrical shapes appeal to one's artistic sense." ---H.S.M. Coxeter

List of Projects:

Week 1, 2

Layout and glue up each of the Platonic Solids and 2-3 Archimedian solids.

Exploring Other Dimensions: Flatland and the Third Dimension, TedEd 2013

The Golden Ration... the Pentagram

The number 9, Sound and Platonic Solids

Week 3-4

Construct a 12 – 16 unit sculpture using one or more of the forms above.

Music video by Cyriak Harris for Bonobo      Here Uses It uses clips from a 1962 film about the wonders of consumerism. as building blocks to create machines, robots, and other bizarre tableaus. Illustrates the use of mirroring, repetiton, rotation, etc as a design device.

Week 5-6

Bristol board high relief, modular grid of curvilinear, asymmetrical forms arranged in a close packed 16 - 25-unit grid on 16" X 16" mat board.

Week 7

Bristol board parallel cut hyperparabolic and organic form(s). 2 –3 pieces.

Week 8

Curvilinear, wire screen, symmetrical, modular construction.

Weeks 9 - 10

Serial Planes.... the folded book

Spherical, serial plane video
Origamic Architectureof Masahiro Chatani

Hello
I'm a french creator of folded Books. My name Is Victoire LOO.

www.victoire-loo.com

See it and tell me.......


Weeks 11-12

Applicator Stick/bond paper triangulated structure. Large outdoor dome project, Buckyballs/Fullerenes
Photos of Buckyballs

Weeks 13-14

Colums and Towers

Week 15

Finish up work, photograph work

Twisting pop-up paper

e-Portfolio Assignment: All work created this semester will be photographed under studio lighting with a photographic backdrop and uploaded to Google Drive in a folder labeled 3D Design, Spring, 2015, "your name". Share the Drive folder with me by right clicking on the folder and choosing "Share". Enter jnevins@albertus.edu. Choose one or more of your best pieces to post in your e-Portfolio site along with a description of the project and how it explores the visual ideas discussed in class. Work found in your Drive will be one of the primary ways of assessing your accomplishments in this class.


Academic Expectations: Attend all classes, care about your work, make progress in the medium, help and cooperate with your classmates, take risks, make mistakes. Your grade will be based on the care you bring to your work and the successful completion of each assignment. As this is a workshop class, good attendance is assumed. Attendence is crucial. A maximum of 3 absences is allowed.


Materials: The instructor will provide the materials for this class, thus a lab fee of $50 is assessed to cover the costs of the materials used in the class.

You will be using:

Bristol Board, 22" X 28"
Duco Cement, glue gun
compass
mat board
metal straight edge, pencil
X-acto knife or utility knife
Applicator Sticks
Books to fold
EMT tubing
Clay
3D Printer

Tradition of Honor: As a member of the Albertus Magnus College Community, each student taking this course agrees to uphold the principles of honor set forth by this community, to defend these principles against abuse or misuse and to abide by the regulations of the College. To this end, every student must write and sign the following statement at the end of each examination: "I declare the Honor Pledge."

Tradition of Respect: In our class: 1) Everyone is allowed to feel they can work and learn in a safe and caring environment; 2) Everyone learns about, understands, appreciates, and respects varied races, classes, genders, physical and mental abilities, and sexualities; 3) Everyone matters; 4) All individuals are to be respected and treated with dignity and civility; and 5) Everyone shares the responsibility for making our class, and the College, a positive and better place to live, work, and learn.

Accommodations for Special Needs: Please advise the instructor of any special problems or needs at the beginning of the semester. Those students seeking reasonable accommodations based on disabilities should contact Shayna Chomko, Director of the Germain Center and Coordinator of Disability Services, (203) 672-1050 or schomko@albertus.edu, to obtain a Faculty Accommodation Letter. Albertus Magnus College complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.

In order to respect the independence, rights and dignity of students with disabilities, the College initiates services only after a student makes a voluntary disclosure of a disability to the Office of Academic and Student Disability Services. Students who are approved for accommodations are responsible for approaching instructors in a timely manner to provide faculty accommodation letters and to arrange how accommodations will be implemented. Accommodations cannot be retroactive, so we strongly advise students to make accommodation appointments as soon as possible.

In providing reasonable accommodations, the College shall not fundamentally alter the nature of programs, services, or activities, require a waiver of essential academic standards, or violate accreditation requirements.

WITHDRAWING FROM A COURSE:

 It is the responsibility of the student to officially drop or withdraw from a course.  However, failure to attend a course for 14 calendar days may result in an administrative withdrawal from the course. The policies on course withdrawals and administrative withdrawals may be found online at http://www.albertus.edu/policy-reports/academic-policies-regulations-ug#apgr


Albertus Magnus College adheres to the definition of a credit hour in compliance with, and as defined by NECHE commission policy.

Suggested Reading:

Wucius Wong, Principles of Three Dimensional Design
                     - Designing with the Computer

Zeier, Paper Constructions

Stevens, Peter, Structure in Nature is a Strategy for Design

                       -Patterns in Nature

Fuller, Buckminster, Synergetics, Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

George Hart: Math professor and Sculptor at SUNY Stonybrook

Critchlow, Keith, Order in Space

Drawing Geometry: A Primer of Basic Forms for Artists, Designers, and Architects by Jon Allen Paperback $15.04

The Golden Section Discussion of historical references in ancient Greece.

Timaeus, Plato, 360 BC, Online at MIT

Discussion of Timaeus, Plato's "theory of everything", Platonic solids, Euclid, etc at Mathpages.com

Polyhedra and Art, an excellent site by George Hart, Professor at SUNY Stonybrook
"Through history, polyhedra have been closely associated with the world of art. The peak of this relationship was certainly in the Renaissance."

The quadrivium—the classical curriculum—comprises the four liberal arts of number, geometry, music, and cosmology. It was studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way of glimpsing the nature of reality. Geometry is number in space; music is number in time; and cosmology expresses number in space and time. "Number, music, and geometry are metaphysical truths: life across the universe investigates them; they foreshadow the physical sciences. "




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Bird
Alabaster 10" X 4" Student work
from 3-D Course

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
::: Frank Lloyd Wright :::
Student project, Tetrahedral forms
22" X 14", Bristol Board
From Weeks 3-4
Student Work, Weeks 5-6
Modular High Relief
Bristol board, Mat Board, 16" X 16"
Student work, Week 7
Bristol Board
10" X 9"

The Folded Book
Student Work
Weeks 9 - 10

Octahedral Columns
Weeks 14-15
24" H X 12" w, Bristol Board