Referencing

Final Stage

The most key thing to any thesis is to reference properly, always checking the Harvard System Generator is the best way that a) you don't have any broken links, and b) that the content still appears on that page and checking videos work too, because it's an easy mistake to not check things back.

Referencing is probably the most time consuming thing to do, it's the small details that count, sometimes if your organised and you save your links and for the images referencing can be quick and easy, however if you didn't do none of that then it's going to take a while to reference.

As a heads up always take notes, remember page numbers, sources just have them some where.

Books

Books

Here's just some images of all the front covers of the books, that I read, I mean some helped more than others, for example the one surprise was the book entitled, House VI: The Clients Response, I actually thought it would help a great deal, however it was more of a spiteful book condemning Eisenman; an intriguing read though. 

Corbuiser's books were more of a help, they contained consistent information to help with my thesis. 

Finalising

Final Stage

So coming to near the end, especially the content anyhow, and I've been following a format of using the old trusty Calender to keep on top of everything, and just keep reading through and making my own corrections and tightening up the thesis. I'm happy with the overall outcome next step is the design phase.

Re-Structuring

Step Three 

Once I had all the relevant content, enough quotes, gathered enough data to write my thesis, the final part was to restructure it, because I had too many words so i needed to condense it down, so I began the phase of stripping back the thesis and going back to basics, following a simple structure, making sure each chapter is like a small essay, it has an intro, a middle and lastly a conclusion. Everything I jotted down this time was in my notepad.

Research

Step Two

Once I finalized my question for my thesis, and came up with a well constructed chapter reviews, an abstract and a bibliography of where I was going to get my content from, the next step was to start reading and doing some data collection research. Yet again having my sketch book handy I could just write down quotes or being online bookmark certain URL's and come back to them at a later stage.

In the Beginning

Stage one

So it all started way back in September, started to have a think about what I wanted my thesis to be based upon, most importantly purchased a sketchbook and a notepad and started to let loose.

3D Manipulations

Photoshop

Frank Gehry's Guggenheim

There wasn't a very good 3D Model that I could download form Google Sketchup's Warehouse, so instead I used already sourced images and edited them in Photoshop, I mean this is using another form of software to manipulate imagery; I only picked a view.