Vital Signs - Case Study Developers Meeting

Participants in the meeting stayed in the Lindesfarne Guest House at the Green Gulch Zen Center, Sim van der Ryn, architect (90k jpeg)		Vital Signs Case Study Developers Meeting, Spring 1996 In April 1996, seven architecture faculty and the Vital Signs staff gathered in the San Francisco Bay area to discuss their progress so far in developing case studies for the project. The idea behind the meeting was to get these faculty together to share the ideas and experiences they gained during that semester working on field studies with their students. The meeting elicited many fresh ideas about how to best work Vital Signs Curriculum Materials into university courses of all levels, and the faculty left with renewed inspiration for completing the semester and their case studies. Presentations
Larry Degelman (Texas A&M) presents while Bill Burke(VS Project), Cris Benton (VS Project), and John Selfridge (Kansas State) take notes (41k jpeg)		Each faculty member presented a one-half hour summary of their students' work to date, and then fielded questions and comments for fifteen minutes. Presentations focused on the following topics. Brief building summary: location, building type, unique qualities that warranted its selection as a case study building Team of students: team size, studio, lecture, class type (graduate, undergraduate, seminar, ...) Building performance topic: What key questions are asked? Did you use specific VS topics? Hypothesis: did you have the students 'predict' outcome before they began their investigations? Methods: what methods both in class and in the field are used? Were some methods more successful than others? Results: are there early results? Approach: what is your own evaluation of field investigation as a teaching method? Faculty direction and guidance or student-directed? How much preparation and guidance did you as faculty have to do? How helpful were the Resource packages? Student responses: How have students responded to the field evaluation concept and to specific exercises? In general, the discussions focused on the process of getting students into buildings and what stories they discovered. Faculty were particularly interested in what excited students about their investigations Participants
Attendees at the Case Study Developers Meeting back row, from left: Alison Kwok (VS), Walter Grondzik (Florida A&M), Bob Fisher (Ball St.), Cris Benton (VS), Brooke Harrington (Temple), Larry Degelman (Texas A&M) front row: Gail Brager (VS), Bill Burke (VS), Lisa Ye (student, U. Washington), Marietta Millet (U. Washington), John Selfridge (Kansas St.), Dave Scheatzle, (Arizona St.), Jack Kremers (Kent St.) (179k jpeg)		Developers (7) Larry Degelman, Texas A&M Brooke Harrington, Temple University Bob Fisher, Ball State University Jack Kremers, Kent State University Marietta Millet, University of Washington Dave Scheatzle, Arizona State University John Selfridge, Kansas State University (Developers not attending: Don Watson, RPI & Walter Kroner, RPI) Vital Signs Project Staff (5) Cris Benton, UC Berkeley Gail Brager, UC Berkeley Bill Burke, UC Berkeley Allan Daly, UC Berkeley Alison Kwok, UC Berkeley Others attending (2) Walter Grondzik, FAMU (RP author - WWW presenter) Lisa Ye, University of Washington (student) Location
The Green Gulch Zen Center, site of the Spring 1996 Case Study Developers Meeting (67k jpeg)		The meeting was held on Friday at the Pacific Gas and Electric Energy Center, in downtown San Francisco. Saturday and Sunday sessions were held at the Green Gulch Zen Center, in Marin Country, north of San Francisco.
Lindesfarne Guest House (66k jpeg)		While guests at the Zen Center, participants at the meeting were housed in the Lindesfarne Guest House, designed by Sim van der Ryn. The Guest House was completed in 1983 by a Green Gulch carpentry crew, and built exclusively using traditional Japanese joinery methods. It is an octagonal building surrounding a 30 foot atrium. After the Meeting
Vital Signs trekkers stop for a break during their post-meeting Sunday afternoon hike Allan Daly, Dave Sheatzle, Cris Benton, and Walter Grondzik (139k jpeg)		While most meeting participants made their way to bay area airports to head back home, a few Vital Signers went for a hike on nearby Mt. Tamalpias.

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