I had Marion Weiss as a studio professor at Penn. The studio felt like a rigorous precedent study. We started by modeling structures that were assigned by Marion and then we hybridized them to form novel spatial qualities. It's cool to see the focus on precedents in their professional practice as well.
"Rigorous precedent study" sounds about right, and makes it seem a good deal beyond typical studios. Speaking from my own experience, studios I taught incorporated precedent studies, but the time devoted to them was too brief, and lessons learned were either applied superficially or not at all. Using them to form novel designs, as you write, certainly did not happen.
I had Marion Weiss as a studio professor at Penn. The studio felt like a rigorous precedent study. We started by modeling structures that were assigned by Marion and then we hybridized them to form novel spatial qualities. It's cool to see the focus on precedents in their professional practice as well.
"Rigorous precedent study" sounds about right, and makes it seem a good deal beyond typical studios. Speaking from my own experience, studios I taught incorporated precedent studies, but the time devoted to them was too brief, and lessons learned were either applied superficially or not at all. Using them to form novel designs, as you write, certainly did not happen.