Answer all the questions on the file attached

For this assignment, students are asked to think about how space creates meaning. Students will take a self-guided walking tour to one of the approved sites, spending time at each of the five assigned stops. While on your site visit, take careful note of how urban spaces are planned? How does architecture make us behave, move, and think? What role do these spaces play in cultural history or the layering of history? You are asked to consider the buildings and spaces in relation to their site, function, and materials, as it was described inUrbanized. Notice how others engage or react to these spaces. Record your observations in the ( you will find the questions on the file attached )

Please note that no special drawing ability is assumed or required for this part of the assignment. The sketches may be crude or elaborate, according to your ability and inclination. Sketches, however, should demonstrate a fair amount of time spent with and looking at the building.

How to look at and analyze architecture

Analyze the building or site, relying on class readings, discussions, and your own observations. Your analysis should be thorough and specific. Try to incorporate technical terms specific to the site as much as possible (i.e., colonnade, dome, pilaster, etc.). Be sure to observe the following guidelines:

  • Walk around the building: if possible, enter it and explore as much of the interior as possible. Think in terms of space and your experience of that space: a building is more than a flat picture. Think also in terms of setting and sites: monuments and buildings are not isolated in space; they respond to each other and their environments.
  • Look at the building from bottom to top. Is there a hierarchy within the structures?
  • Look at the main façade (“face” of the building): how many bays (units), wings, windows are there? How do they articulate and break up space? Is the façade simple or complicated? Are details in high relief or low relief?
  • Where is the main entrance and how is its presence articulated? What is the relationship to the front and back of the building; do they echo one another?
  • Proportion is extremely important: think about the relationship of the parts to each other and to the overall effect.

Approved Sites

Downtown Tampa (you must visit all five stops):

  • Sacred Heart Catholic Church (at the corner of Twiggs St. and Florida Ave.), must go inside
  • Tampa Theater (711 N Franklin St), look at building exterior and space around box office
  • Kiley Gardens (between Curtis Hixon Park and the Sykes Building)
  • Tampa Museum of Art (120 W Gasparilla Plaza), exterior only
  • Discuss Hillsborough River and the University of Tampa from the vantage point of Curtis Hixon Park

Ybor City (you must visit all five stops):

  • Jose Marti Park (1303 E 8th Ave), if open go in
  • 7th Avenue, note the buildings and details of the space in its entirety
  • M. Ybor Factory (Ybor Square, 1901 N 13th St), exterior only
  • Ybor City Museum and State Park (1818 E 9th Ave), Ybor Historical Society Garden
  • Italian Club of Tampa (1731 E 7th Ave), exterior only

Florida Southern College, Lakeland (you must visit all five stops)

  • Pfeiffer Chapel, exterior only
  • Danforth Chapel, interior
  • Seminar Building (now Financial Aid and Business Office), interior
  • Water Dome
  • Esplanades