Special Subject: Architecture Design — Building the Page: Imprint 04

This course continues the Imprint publication workshops begun in 2020, which led to the student-designed and produced Imprint 01, 02, and 03. This class will help conceive the Imprint 04 publication, and a student team will be hired from its members to produce the publication in Summer 2023. This spring's class will function in a workshop format with three primary goals: 1.) To help students engage and acquire skills needed to conceive and produce a complex graphic design project like Imprint; 2.) To help students ask, and answer fundamental questions guiding this year's publication’s strategy: What can a book be? How do individuals curate a selection of essays in an edited volume or journal of a larger and complex community?; 3.) To catalyze exploration, and engagement with the intricate connections between text and image authorship in publications across design history. The class will be an opportunity (for all students in each graduate degree area in the Department of Architecture) to reflect on previous Imprint issues, revise the project’s structure and future goals, and as a way for new students to get involved in bringing the Imprint 04 project forward in summer 2023.