Susan:
I agree with Daniel. It would be as if you were teaching the use of a pencil, but what you were being asked to teach is architectural design itself.

Perhaps what they're asking is that you show them how SU can "build" architectural models in a very specific sense, i.e. how components can be used to assemble a virtual scale model. But such application has to follow some understanding of how to use the basic tools themselves, does it not? It's like playing an instrument: one has to take the time to know where to put one's fingers to the degree that it becomes second nature before one can really create expressive music.

Maybe it would help to have a recognizable building such as, oh, say the Barcelona Pavilion, that is made up mostly of columns, walls, and slabs, and that could be "deconstructed" to show how SU builds components that can then be assembled into a building.

Or maybe I have no earthly idea what it is that you're being asked to do. "Conceptual Architecture" is a pretty broad phrase...

RB

Tom:

Thanks so much.

I never really went away, just haven't had anything to submit lately, so I've been lurking...

You're right about the image size though. You actually can't see the "replacements" too well, so I've enlarged that corner of the second drawing. Maybe that will help those of us with old eyes...

RB

Tom:

Years ago, I did a number of illustration for the planning department of the city where I lived at the time. In the drawing with the blimp, you'll notice a redhead in a short skirt walking up the entry steps. Along with the tourists who are pointing in different directions, the woman in the black picture hat, and others, she became a recurring character in little dramas being played out in the entourage.

A woman in an entirely different branch of the city government took great umbrage to the redhead. So in future drawings, I replaced her with another set of recurring characters. See the lower right hand corner of the second drawing for her replacement.

Some people have no sense of humor...

Ray