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Lessons in architecture: 3D without leaving classroom
In previous semesters when architecture professor Jonathan Rule wanted his students to see firsthand the way various materials came together in construction he had to find a building project on or near campus and arrange for the class to walk through a site.
Jonathan Rule
“It really helps to see the actual physical artifact as a way to understand how that three-dimensional construct is translated to a two-dimensional drawing,” said Rule, assistant professor of practice at the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. “We have fairly good textbooks but they don’t replace the onsite experience.”