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Teaching > Architectural
Conservation II (HP 482) >
Course
Conservation of Materials Laboratory II (HP482L) Spring 2004,
Monday and Wednesday, 9:00 AM - 12:00 Noon, SAAHP 206 and lab
(TBA).
Type
Lecture, lab and field-based course
Instructor
Philip Cryan Marshall, Associate Professor
Tel. 508.951.8562, E-mail pmarshall@rwu.edu
Office: Engineering 130
Office Hours
Advising hours will be posted on my faculty office door each
week, a week in advance. Please sign up and bring an agenda.
If you plan to discuss drafts, proposals, drawings, field notes,
photographs, or similar material, please leave a copy in my
faculty mailbox with a note asking me to preview your work at
least two days before your meeting — to provide enough
time to consider carefully your work before getting together.
Purpose/Description
Through lectures, reading, site visits, workshops, and laboratory
exercises, this course will address the professional role of
the architectural conservator in the preservation of historic
structures. Specifically, this course will examine the composition,
properties, uses and conservation of traditional building systems
and materials related to wood, glass, and metals.
The syllabus includes a detailed list of lecture subjects.
The “laboratory” classes have been developed in
conjunction with lectures. The laboratory classes include labs,
site visits to projects, restoration businesses, workshops,
and other sites.
Required reading will be assigned in advance and will be supplemented
with handouts, bibliographies, and assignments. Students are
expected to have each week’s assignments completed before
the class as you will be expected to analyze and discuss the
readings.
Assignments handed in after their due date will be reduce by
one letter grade, at a minimum; papers will not be accepted
beyond a week after the due date; and ‘incomplete’
for the course will not be considered unless there are extenuating
circumstances and a request for an extension presented in writing.
Prerequisites
HP382L
Goals and Objectives
Goals and objectives are to explore the interrelationship of
scientific, artistic, historical, preservation, and related
disciplines and the way they come to bear on the understanding
and conservation of historical materials and techniques. There
is an emphasis on the relationship between academic studies,
research, laboratory experiments, feild experience, and professional
practice.
Format
- Course lecturers, with discussion
- Course readings, followed by class discussion
- Course readings, followed by independent analysis
- Course readings, followed by quizzes
- Team-oriented class conservation assessment of sites
- Independent, self-directed documentation of a particular site
- Guest lecturers, field trips, and visits to specialists --
with your active participation in discussion
- Site visits, conducted independently by students, alone or
as a
group
- Site visits, conducted by the entire class
Student Responsibilities
- Attend all classes, site visits, and field trips
- Work as involved, responsible member of all project teams
- Actively participate in class discussions
- Complete assignments (word-processed or electronic, when written)
by due dates
- Advise faculty about any concerns, tutoring, and special needs
- Come to site visits prepared, with necessary tools, equipment,
and supplies
Reading
Readings are primarily Web based. You must print out hard copies
of all assigned reading before their due date. You are expected
to use the printouts for highlighting, making marginal notes
and comments, and identifying issues, subjects and questions
you wish to discuss. Carefully organize readings, assignments
and other material in your course binder(s), which will be handed
in.
Assignments
Refer to Assignments.
Schedule
Refer to Schedule.
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