提案作品研讨之目的系为协助学生培养对设计作品之评论素养。藉以书写或视觉等多重呈现型态，让学生探索适合之方法用以呈现及描述各自之设计作品。首先，透过评论学生过去之提案作品，相关之设计论述及重点将被明确讨论之。再者，将学习不同之表现媒介及呈现模式，以了解呈现型态及作品内容之关连性，甚者，了解以特有模式做为解读不同作品之滤镜。部分将被提出之问题包含：
- 如何描述作品影像？
- 如何论述作品意象？
- 如何以书写及视觉媒介方式明确阐述设计论文？
- 两者间如何相互应用？
- 不同之媒介，如文字及网络发表模式，如何影响作品呈现效果？
- 如何完美传达你的作品？
本研讨课程之架构将分为九堂会议，并由Mark Jarzombek及Meejin Yoon共同教学。前三堂会议将包含书写习题之讨论。之后将检阅学生提案作品，再接续数堂针对作品呈现之相关议程进行研讨。另将邀请客座讲师参与部分课程讨论。课程其他习题，将包含一个过去的作品或设计调查，以文字及网页发表模式呈现。每周固定举行会议一次，其行程将避免与设计课及期末评论重叠。对于不熟悉计算机及网页设计软件之学生将提供额外之指导课程。上课时，学生应备好各自之提案作品。但本课程之重心并非是改善现有之作品内容。学生进行作品发表的目的是熟悉在建筑领域和特别针对他们作品的平面或是视觉沟通及研讨的论坛。是以提供一个讨论空间，让学生了解如何以书面或视觉传达建筑领域及各自作品内容的表现模式。
The aim of the Portfolio Seminar is to assist in developing a critical position in relationship to their design work. By engaging multiple forms of representation, written and visual, students will explore methods that facilitate describing and representing their design work. Through a critical assessment of their existing portfolios, students will first be challenged to articulate design theses and interests in their past projects. Different mediums of representation will then be studied in order to hone an understanding of the relationship between form and content, and more specifically, the understanding of particular modes of representation as different filters through which their work can be read. Some of the questions that will be addressed are:
- How does one go about describing an image?
- How does one theorize representation?
- How does one articulate a design thesis in writing verses visual media?
- How can the two interact to enhance each other?
- How do different media, printed verses web publishing, affect the representation of work?
- How is your work best communicated?
The seminar will be structured around nine meetings that will be co-taught by Mark Jarzombek and Meejin Yoon. The first 3 meetings will involve discussions around written assignments. This will be followed by a review of student portfolio work, followed by several seminars around the issues of representation. Guest lecturers will be invited to lead some of these discussions. The other assignments for the course will include both a printed and web publication of one past project or design inquiry. The meetings will be weekly, scheduled so as to not interfere with studio and final reviews. Additional tutorials will be made available to assist students who are not as familiar with desktop and web publishing tools. Students are expected to arrive with a portfolio in hand. However, the course will not be focused on the mere improvement of an existing portfolio. The students will engage the representational process as a means to provide a critical forum for written and visual communication in the field of architecture and specifically within their own work.
