And I only kiss your shadow / I cannot feel your hand

            And they read their Emily Dickinson . . .

In the fall of 2012 I taught an introduction to architecture studio at Smith College. 

The purpose of the studio was to create in students beginning to think about the making of architecture a greater awareness of architecture’s manyfolded layers of purpose, both historically, and within each maker’s moment. I noted first-off that if I have anything of value to teach, it is that beyond any “rules” for making architecture, the architect must learn that the truest and thus the first subject of architecture is life, poetic, 

always, poetic,
to . . .

. . . dwell in Possibility –
A fairer House than Prose –
More numerous of Windows –
Superior – for Doors – . . .

The project for the semester was for each student, via her own understandings of architecture’s poetic impulse, and through readings of and about her "client", to make a house for Emily Dickinson.

Pictured here, the first client interview . . .
   

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Taken on: October 25, 2012

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