As the title say how was schooling during this time? What was learned? What was the general state of architecture, and how did students interact with it?
Chad Miller
Apr 26, 24 12:18 pm
Better drugs and more booze?
Almosthip
Apr 29, 24 11:42 am
the weed wasn't better, but the LSD was
Richard Balkins
Apr 26, 24 1:34 pm
Drawing with ruling pens? Oh wait that was the pre-WW II. 50s-70s.... drawings done with Rapidograph and other brands of technical pens.
Yeah, pre-computers. Students didn't have large enough dorms for a IBM 700/7000 or 8000 mainframe, or the IBM 1400 mainframe, IBM System/360 mainframe or IBM System/370. Gould's PowerStation 3100 and 5100 or PowerNode 9000 didn't exist yet.
Nah, they didn't have CAD let alone BIM in those days. You wrote reports with a mechanical typewriter or with paper and pencil.
Orhan Ayyüce
Apr 26, 24 1:36 pm
More booze for sure. Before the studio started, money is collected and the booze run was made. The rest is to listen, look at, critique pencil and ink drawings and models, and drink more. Sometimes these meetings lasted 8-10 hours. You could smoke in the class. Students read a lot more and jumped into the construction sites to find out what was being built and how. No letter or number grades but your instructor and classmates let you know what you had on the wall. I was in the middle of serious modernism vs. post-modernism discussions until they all became the same but what you made out of it was still yours.:).. In short, a lot of fun and learning happened at Sci-Arc in the late 70s and early 80s.
sameolddoctor
Apr 26, 24 5:16 pm
Even the 90s were more fun - computers were just coming in, so there was still a tactile sense to what we were doing ... computers did not run much but certainly made stuff very bland
gwharton
Apr 29, 24 3:28 pm
Yeah. Late 80s / early 90s was still mostly drawing by hand, but in 1992 a bunch of brand new Macs running Archicad landed on our studio desks. Some got used, most didn't. Autocad was just starting to dominate in the profession right around that time (into the mid 90s).
Non Sequitur
Apr 26, 24 5:54 pm
I don’t know but I am sure there were several T-square ashtray combo concepts from night studio.
Non Sequitur
Apr 26, 24 5:56 pm
also, pencil sharpeners. Kids these days don’t know the value of a sharp 8b lead. I had 3 different pencil sharpers (four if you count the Olfa blade) and that was only 20y ago.
Chad Miller
Apr 27, 24 12:37 pm
Lead holders. Gotta' love 'em.
Almosthip
Apr 29, 24 11:43 am
We learned how to draw while rotating the pencil to keep a fine pointed tip!
As the title say how was schooling during this time? What was learned? What was the general state of architecture, and how did students interact with it?
Better drugs and more booze?
the weed wasn't better, but the LSD was
Drawing with ruling pens? Oh wait that was the pre-WW II. 50s-70s.... drawings done with Rapidograph and other brands of technical pens.
Yeah, pre-computers. Students didn't have large enough dorms for a IBM 700/7000 or 8000 mainframe, or the IBM 1400 mainframe, IBM System/360 mainframe or IBM System/370. Gould's PowerStation 3100 and 5100 or PowerNode 9000 didn't exist yet.
Nah, they didn't have CAD let alone BIM in those days. You wrote reports with a mechanical typewriter or with paper and pencil.
More booze for sure. Before the studio started, money is collected and the booze run was made. The rest is to listen, look at, critique pencil and ink drawings and models, and drink more. Sometimes these meetings lasted 8-10 hours. You could smoke in the class. Students read a lot more and jumped into the construction sites to find out what was being built and how. No letter or number grades but your instructor and classmates let you know what you had on the wall. I was in the middle of serious modernism vs. post-modernism discussions until they all became the same but what you made out of it was still yours.:)..
In short, a lot of fun and learning happened at Sci-Arc in the late 70s and early 80s.
Even the 90s were more fun - computers were just coming in, so there was still a tactile sense to what we were doing ... computers did not run much but certainly made stuff very bland
Yeah. Late 80s / early 90s was still mostly drawing by hand, but in 1992 a bunch of brand new Macs running Archicad landed on our studio desks. Some got used, most didn't. Autocad was just starting to dominate in the profession right around that time (into the mid 90s).
I don’t know but I am sure there were several T-square ashtray combo concepts from night studio.
also, pencil sharpeners. Kids these days don’t know the value of a sharp 8b lead. I had 3 different pencil sharpers (four if you count the Olfa blade) and that was only 20y ago.
Lead holders. Gotta' love 'em.
We learned how to draw while rotating the pencil to keep a fine pointed tip!