It is always interesting to take a step back once a course is finished and try to gauge how much you have learned from it over the course of the semester. It is much easier in first year to see the benefits of a course like Architectural Communications because it is introducing ideas to us for the first time, instead of developing existing ideas. In this respect it has been enourmously benefical, for example with design studio this session we were expected to make balsa models in week one having never used the material before and I admit that my early models were terrible. However with the Material Modelling workshop we were introduced to ideas of working with balsa and other materials that made the process so much easier and the work so much better than having to figure it out yourself.
I think that is what this course really has to offer in the end. Things like architectural drawing, balsa modelling, charcoal sketching and film presentations are all things that students could be expected to learn on their own, but the work that would be produced if this was the case would be far from a professional standard and we would all miss out on learning about proffesional conventions in communicating ideas.
I am slightly disappointed that I did not get to complete all of the workshops, especiall the drawing component, but each rotation was pressed for time anyway and I cannot see how it would be possible to include all the material in a single semester.
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