Architectural Journalism

What is Journalism and why it is important? Relation between Architecture and Journalism. Looking at the ways design and the built environment are covered in the media today Reading a broad range of contemporary and historical writings by journalists and critics and discuss how these stories reveal different approaches, attitudes, and biases in covering design.

Writing on different kinds of articles - from news stories to critical essays on particular buildings and social issues. Sometimes students will report on buildings under construction and other times they will reflect on and criticize projects that are completed. Learning how to gather information and do research for stories and then write various kinds of articles about built environment in Architecture, which will help them to understand the built environment and express their ideas on it.

Introduction to Criticism and Importance of Criticism. Relationship between Architecture and Criticism. Reading the various articles from the magazines, newspapers and websites about the built environment to understand the criticism and social commentary. Failures of Architectural Criticism. Analysis of various critical themes, and their comparison and learn how to criticize a built environment in various aspects and writing about criticism.

Learning of documenting the collected information. Formatting, page composition, editing write-ups, content writing. Learning the techniques of clicking photographs through specific angles of built environment and their editing and modification. Learning the technique of how the photographs are supporting the write-ups about built environment, to help them understand the expression of pictorial, verbal and visual relationship of architecture journalism.

• Looking at and explaining a building in today’s scenario. What’s happening now and what should be the future. Read article and write an essay on recent projects. Writing about the new technologies in today’s architecture and new construction techniques. APPROACH
• Each week, students will have a reading and a writing assignment. Usually, readings will come from a newspaper, magazine, or website and students will have to respond with their own piece of writing. In class, everyone will discuss the readings and present their ideas about the topic in question.
• Students will be assessed by the quality of their writing, the level of understanding they bring to the readings and topics, and the quality of their in-class presentations and participation.
• Writing is a critical skill for all architects, one that they can use to communicate with clients, the public, and other Architects.