Schedule

Schedule is subject to revision at instructor’s discretion. Some items must be accessed from an on-campus computer or by using Duke’s VPN Client.

Wed Jan 7 Introduction to the course (Slides Part 1 & Part II)
Fri Jan 9 Lab Introduction / Introduction to Google Sketchup Pro / Webfiles (Lab 1 Slides)

  • Watch: Intro to Sketchup Videos [Parts 1 - 3 from the series "Google Sketchup New Users" and then Navigation, Selections, Eraser, Rectangle, Lines and Push/Pull from the "Google SketchUp Toolbar Series"]
  • Distribute: Assignment #1 – Model inner section of Folloni
  • Distribute:  Sketchup Quick Reference Guide
    (Windows / Mac OS X)
Mon Jan 12 Lecture (Bruzelius): A New Religious Concept and its Buildings; The Franciscans: new principles in medieval design and construction of churches (Slides)
Wed Jan 14 Lecture (Bruzelius): Early Franciscan Architecture: San Francesco at Folloni (Slides)
Fri Jan 16 Lab (Olson): Sketchup builds and scenes

  • Due: Assignment #1
  • Distribute: Lab Exercise #2
  • Assignment #2a (Due Wednesday, January 21):

    • Revise your Folloni models based on the discussion, debate and conjecture offered in today’s lab
    • Write a short text about why you revised your models in the way that you did.
    • Publish your short text as an HTML files in your wired directory on webfiles.
Mon Jan 19 Holiday
Wed Jan 21 Lecture (Bruzelius): Case Study: San Francesco at Folloni/ modes and approaches to expansion; later Franciscan Architecture: San Lorenzo Maggiore in Naples

  • In-class Critique: Folloni Models
  • Reading: Bruzelius, The Stones of Naples, pp. 46-73
  • Due:  Assignment #2a
Fri Jan 23 Lab: Intro to Photoshop (Salvatella) / Copyright (Olson)
Mon Jan 26 Neapolitan visitors: Fra Agnello/ discussion of site
Wed Jan 28 Neapolitan visitors: Fra Agnello/ discussion of site
Fri Jan 30 Lab (Salvatella / Olson): Applying Textures in Sketchup
Mon Feb 2 Discuss: Research Project Options & Dimensions & Teams

  • Project Proposals Due March 4
  • DUE:  Assignment #2b
Wed Feb 4 Presentation for Venetian visitors

  • Presenters:  Laura Fravel, Michal Koszycki, Akara Lee, Umberto Plaja
Fri Feb 6
  • DUE:  Assignment #3
  • Distribute:  Assignment #4
  • 9:30 AM: Meet in 1411 CIEMAS
    View Folloni models in the DiVE
  • 10:30 AM: RENCI Visit
  • Readings: TBA
Mon Feb 9 Lab (Olson): Topography and layers info integrated with Sketchup

  • DUE:  Assignment #4
  • Distribute: Assignment #5 – Add site topography to your Folloni model
Wed Feb 11 Lecture (Bruzelius): San Lorenzo Maggiore: the Early Christian basilica as modified by the Franciscans
Fri Feb 13 Open Lab Day

  • Due: Assignment #5
Mon Feb 16 San Lorenzo: the urban topography and the site

  • Reading: Paul Arthur, Naples, from Roman Town to City-State : an Archaeological Perspective, pp. 1-20

Looking Ahead:  Final Projects and Technologies from the 2nd Half of the Semester (Brady)

Intro to Dreamweaver & Web Templates (Olson) – Web Templates Tutorial #1
Wed Feb 18 Nasher Museum:Introduction to the Medieval Collection

Web Aesthetics (Salvatella) and Critique
Fri Feb 20 Lab (Olson): Google Earth / Google Maps Integration
Mon Feb 23 Lecture (Dillon): Aphrodisias – introduction to the history, topography, and physical remains of a Greco-Roman city in Asia Minor
Wed Feb 25 Lecture (Dillon): Aphrodisiasis – introduction cont.

Lab: Making mock sculptures from Aphrodisias photos in Sketchup (Olson)
Fri Feb 27 Lab:  Transforming 2D Photos into a Texture Maps / Adding Color (Salvatella) / Texture Maps (Brady)
Mon Mar 2 Lecture (Dillon): Aphrodisias and its sculpture – Imperial portraiture
Wed Mar 4 Lecture (Dillon): Why Reconstruct Imperial Statuary?

Lab (Salvatella): 2-D reconstructions in Photoshop (Relief on Buildings, Heads on Bodies, Statues in Niches)
Fri Mar 6 Open Lab

  • Due: Assignment #7
SPRING BREAK MARCH 6-15
Mon Mar 16 Lecture (Dillon): Placing statues in context – the Imperial period in Aphrodisias
Wed Mar 18 Lecture (Dillon): Placing statues in context – the Late Antique statue landscape at Aphrodisias
Fri Mar 20 Lab (Brady / Olson): Put statues in landscape – Sketchup & Virtools

  • Due: Assignment #8
  • Distribute: Assignment #9 – Virtual Landscapes
Mon Mar 23 Visit Duke Immersive Virtual Environment (DiVE)
Wed Mar 25 Nasher Museum:

Visit to Nasher Storage Facility

  • Photograph for Foto3D and show unrolled vases, take measurements
Fri Mar 27 Lab (Salvatella): Maya
Mon Mar 30 Lab (Brady): Recreate 3D model in Foto3D in lab
Wed Apr 1 Lab:  Maya to Virtools Export (Holton Thompson) / Intro to Virtools (Brady)
Fri Apr 3 Lecture (Brady): Measure digital model vs. actual object. How has shape, color, size been modified
Lab:  Virtools and Virtual Reality (Brady)
Mon Apr 6 Students work on Projects
Wed Apr 8 Students work on Projects
Fri Apr 10 Students work on Projects
Mon Apr 13 Students work on Projects
Wed Apr 15 Students work on Projects
Fri Apr 17 Students work on Projects
Mon Apr 20 Students work on Projects
Wed Apr 22 Lecture (Brady): How to give a good presentation

Students work on Projects
Fri Apr 24
 Optional Extra Lab Session
Tues Apr 28 7 – 10 PM
Project Presentations