Professor Jennifer McStotts’ Blog

Hello again! I hope the first week of classes treated you well. So far I’m excited about this semester. The students in all of my classes seem engaged, so I thought that you all might like to know about this upcoming talk.

TIMELESS or OF ITS TIME?
THURSDAY, 17 JANUARY, 2008
Tod Williams and Billie Tsien
Location Charleston Museum Auditorium, John Street and Meeting Street intersection
Reception 6:15pm, with coffee and cookies to follow lecture
Lecture 7:00 pm
Parking Charleston Museum parking lot
For as long as it has had a sense of its own past, Charleston has been debating the appropriateness of design for historic places: should we hold to the grand traditions of the past or should we make new contributions to those traditions? What is often presented as a clear choice may, in fact, be more ambiguous: “In short, the only rule common to all… canonical work, so endlessly discussed, [is that it must] have permanent value and, which is really the same thing, perpetual modernity.”—Frank Kermode
This lecture series will highlight one contemporary and one traditional viewpoint, voiced by world class architects, and frame them in international and local perspectives.

I hope I’ll see you there! Remember, if you know about upcoming events or current topics, please email or comment!
Prof. McS

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Welcome back to the new year!
The College of Charleston gets back in session this Wednesday, so there’s one more day of preparation left tomorrow. This semester I’ll be teaching Urban Planning and Preservation Law/Economics, and I’m really looking forward to it. One of my plans for the New Year includes a regular schedule of updates, but more on that soon!

Hello again! I hope everyone had a good fall break. I - for one - wish it was a week long instead of two days.
If you need to sign up for major advising or a Senior Seminar individual meeting with me, the sign up sheets are here and here:
Advising: http://profmcs.wikispaces.com/Advising
Senior Seminar: http://profmcs.wikispaces.com/SeniorSeminar
No login in required - just click Edit this page, choose the sign up time you want and enter your name (first name last initial is fine). Don’t forget to click save. You’re on your honor not to wipe out other people’s times please!

Here’s one to challenge all of my classes.
Asian “Atlantis” Shows Strange Structure {http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/photogalleries/japan-pictures/photo2.html}
For the Intro folks - is this world heritage? Does your answer change based on whether or not it’s cultural or natural?
For Senior Seminar - how would you interpret this? And if it turns out it IS “Atlantis”?
For Urban Planning - …. I got nothing.
Have a great Fall Break everyone.
See you next week. - Prof. McS

Well, not all of it.
Intro and Senior Seminar students - your projects are graded, posted, and should be available for you to download. If you have questions, I have office hours today and next Thursday 10:30-12.
Urban Planning students - they’re coming! Expect them next Wednesday or Friday.

On another note, the podcast interpretation site I was recommending in Sr. Sem is SoundAboutPhilly.com - not SoundS.

Best - Prof. McStotts

Hello again! I’m back from Minneapolis/St. Paul where the 2007 NTHP Conference was held. I’ve embedded the PowerPoint I’ll be showing my classes this week about just a couple of the things I did there.
Thanks to all my students for being patient in my absence! I’m back now, just in time for midterms - I’ll try to post more later this week after I decompress a bit.
Best - Prof. McStotts
[slideshare id=128073&doc=nthp-conference451&w=425]

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