一周前接到 準設計留學生的精神領袖-阿福站長 的來信，信中提了一些關於Cooper Union的問題，這麼重要的人的來信當然是要認真的作答!! 此外，Cooper Union 華人相對非常的少，但這可是難能可貴可以在紐約市免費念書的好機會耶! 希望說中文的大家多多爭取! 值得的。
(本文我與大學部的宛真共同撰寫)
1.可以簡單介紹在Cooper Union，您唸的科系或您的主修有什麼特色嗎？
由於創校人Peter Cooper 是一位發明家，Cooper Union建築系很強調設計作品的原創與藝術性，每一位同學不論研究生或是轉學生一入學都要接受一整年的材料創作課程，學習木工、金工、石膏、翻模等技術。設計表現法上沒有特殊的要求，手繪或電腦繪圖皆可，模型製作上由於木工房設備完善，材料性十分強烈，鮮少有單純的紙板模型。
Rip, tear or cut a critical fragment from
any drawing you have ever made, and position that fragment on this page.
Q5
Scale a memory in plan
Given the square area above, consider the
square as a site and the grid as a measure. Construct the plan of a place
important in your memory using these tools.
Give it a working title and write one sentence
inspired by this memory.
Q6
Space from literatue
Chose one of the three given texts and draw
a plan or section of the space and elements you envision as the architectural
counterpart of the literary text.
Q7
Mobile or Stabile
Select a mobile or stabile by Alexander
Calder and draw it or any detail of it.
Q8
Order: Structural intersection
Observe a structure such as a façade, a
frame or and order. Draw an intersection.
Q9
Eclipse
Capture an eclipse
Q10
Writing projects
1.The following words have
meaning in an architectural vocabulary but have additional implication in other
spheres of thought:
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PLAN
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BOUNDARY
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PASSAGE
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WALL
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PLINTH
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COLUMN
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ORDER
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FORUM
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CHAMBER
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These words are both physical and mental; concrete and literary.
Choose one and elaborate.
2.What elements do you read in
these plans? Write two sentences below each square.
Q11
Freshman and transfer questionnaire
1.What is your favorite book? 你最喜歡的書
2.What is your favorite film? 你最喜歡的影片
3.What is our favorite painting? 你最喜歡的畫
4.What is your favorite musical
work? 你最喜歡的音樂創作
5.Tell us about a trip that you
took without leaving your chair. 請告訴我們你在未經離開椅子上所經歷的一趟旅程
6.Select a headline from the New
York Times that inspires you to think about a mythic dimension of our
contemporary life. Write a one-line response. 請選擇一段紐約時報的標題，這個標題能啟發你思考對我們當代生活中神話般的尺度。用一句話敘述。
7.Define the responsibilities of
an architect. 定義建築師的責任
8.Cooper Union offers an
education in architecture engineering and art, supported by studies in humanities.
How do you distinguish the study of architecture from these other studies? What
do you think makes Cooper Union different from other architecture schools?
Cooper Union的建築，藝術，工程三所學院中，為什麼選擇建築系? 你覺得Cooper Union與其他學校差別在哪裡?
9.List all scholarly areas of
special interest you are now studying either in school or on your own.
請說明你目前在學術界有興趣的領域
10.Have you received any academic honors or awards? Please indicate electives
(E) or appointive (A) office you’ve held in extra-curricular or community or
service activities.
