Objective
Writings on architecture intensely involve describing building settings for presenting general and detailed observation, implementing technical and aesthetic analysis and providing supporting material for argument. Difference purposes call for different methods of description. Texts produced by reputable scholars and writers provide excellent examples of building description. Three exemplary texts describing a same building are selected for this exercise. Students are asked to study and compare the involved writing techniques on how the same building was described differently in each excerpt and how each description serves a different contextual purpose.
Instruction
In the following pages are three excerpts of text on Francisco Borromini’s S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane. The first is from John Varriano’s Italian Baroque and Rococo Architecture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986, pp. 47-54), the second is from Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman’s Architecture, from Prehistory to Post-modernism: The Western Tradition (2nd ed., New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002, pp. 337-339), the third comes from the related pages of our text book (not printed in this assignment). Placed along the left margin to the first two texts are numbers corresponding to the design features or building components described in the text. The numbers are also placed to the left of the images of the building.
1. On the worksheets for the first two excerpts, identify the design features or building components in the accompanied illustrations according to the sequence of their appearance in the text. The identification is to be done by dragging the numbers to the appropriate places in the illustrations or drawing long arrows from each number pointing to the specific location that it refers to within one of the illustrations.
2. On the last page of this assignment, write a half page (single spaced) essay comparing the descriptions among the excerpts according to your observation. Aspects you may want to compare include visual sequence, emphasis, omission, and so on. From each excerpt, select two words that you think are most effective in describing the particular building in question, and explain why.
Submission
Save the completed assignment file, name it as (YOURLASTNAME-A2), and submitted to the corresponding column in Canvas on Thursday, February 25.
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