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Rating for James Bagnall
Architecture Department at Cal Poly, SLO

ARCH 122
Freshman
Grade Earned: A
Required (Support)
10:57 pm, Mar 30, 2008

ok, so i was the first one to review bagz. you can believe that if you want, but it's the truth. my opinion has changed somewhat: the first half of 122 we pasted paper on paper and made compositions and just a buncha other crap. it was useful for basic design, but tedious and just plain boring. the second half of the quarter was all 3-d stuff which was interesting. i had thought swearingen's class was better cuz that's what i had always heard but when i looked at what they were doing and when i looked at what we were doing, i thought bagnall's projects were much more useful. don is good for technical stuff with architecture, like precise drafting. but it seems like he doesn't know shit about design. bagnall is COMPLETELY about design and he makes you consciously think about every little decision you make, because as he would say "everything you do says something." you won't learn anything technical in his class though because he just flat out doesn't address those topics. i'd recommend taking both don and bagz, esp if you're arch, so you learn everything you need to know. then again, bagnall is emeritus so he probly won't be doing any more teaching for a while. all in all, he's good. you just have to get past how boring and annoying he can be (like others have said, he likes to talk--a LOT). you'll end up learning what you need to know for a good base if you take him though.

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