This blog will be devoted to writing about my experiences from Rules of Engagement, a course I am taking this semester at Clemson. A typical semester for students in grad architecture is 15 credits, but this class was so appealing to me that I am overloading to fit it in!
My Methods & Materials professor, Jori Erdman, is team teaching the course with Mary Beth McCubbin from Landscape & Planning, and Harry Crissy, who is an extension agent for Clemson. Jori told us about the course during our first Methods & Materials class. She explained it as a hands-on, design-build type course. Jori is a huge fan of Rural Studio at Auburn University. If you don’t know what that is, you should definitely check into it. Basically, a similar goal of both the Rural Studio and our Rules of Engagement course is to go into a community, find a need, and develop a project around that need. The students in both scenarios are able not only to serve a small community with economic needs, but to also learn about architecture and gain hands-on experience at the same time.
I became interested in this course immediately for two reasons. One: I love to serve others. With the demands of school, it is hard to be able to give back to
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