Unit 4: Craft and design: Architecture
This unit introduces architecture, helping learners with drawing, printmaking and designing buildings. They will explore architectural features, study the work of artists and architects and create their own monuments.
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Unit 4: Craft and design: Architecture
Unit outcomes
Learners who are secure will be able to:
- Sketch a house from first-hand or second-hand observation.
- Use basic shapes to place key features and form the composition, measuring to work out proportions.
- Notice small details to incorporate into the drawing by observing.
- Select a section of their drawing that creates an interesting composition, with a variety of patterns, lines and texture.
- Follow steps to create a print with clear lines, with some smudging.
- Purposefully evaluate their work, demonstrating what went well and what could be improved.
- Create a building design based on a theme or set purpose.
- Draw a plan view or front elevation of their building, annotating the key features.
- Discuss Hundertwasser’s work and recognise his style.
- Create a factual presentation about Hundertwasser in a visually pleasing way.
- Show understanding of what a monument is for by designing a monument that symbolises a person or event.
- Describe their monument and explain their choices.
- Give constructive feedback to others about their monument designs.
Suggested prior learning
Unit 4: Craft and design: Fabric of nature
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Observational drawing – houses
- To use observational skills to draw accurately.
Lesson 2: House monoprint
- To apply composition skills to develop a drawing into print.
Lesson 3: Be an architect
- To apply an understanding of architecture to design a building.
Lesson 4: Friedensreich Hundertwasser
- To extend design ideas.
Lesson 5: Monuments
- To create a monument design.
Key skills
Experiencing:
- E.01 Encounter, sense,
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Key vocabulary
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Vocabulary display — Art and design S5: Craft and design: Architecture
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