1. Towers

2. What is a tower? Name a famous tower. What is the purpose of a tower? What is the structure of a tower?

3. Pair Share Talk with another student at your table and record your findings in your Arts Process Journal. Write the questions in your journal, then your findings.

4. What is a tower? Name a famous tower. What is the purpose of a tower? What is the structure of a tower? (shape, form)

5. Share Out Each table will share with the group their findings – Famous Tower – Purpose – Structure

6. What is a tower? Name a famous tower. What is the purpose of a tower? What is the structure of a tower?

7. A tower is a tall structure, taller than it is wide.

8. Towers are specifically distinguished from 'buildings' in that they are not built to be habitable but to serve other functions.

9. The principal function is the use of their height to enable various functions to be achieved including:

10. visibility of other features attached to the tower such clock towers

11. The principal function is the use of their height to enable various functions to be achieved including: part of a larger structure to increase the visibility of the surroundings - castle

12. The principal function is the use of their height to enable various functions to be achieved including: a structural feature - part of a bridge

13. In contemporary times, we often call tall skyscrapers a tower. Willis Tower

14. Famous Tower in the World http://www.touropia.com/famous-towers-in- the-world/ http://www.touropia.com/famous-towers-in- the-world/

15. Towers in Literature http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/ma y/22/ten-best-towers-literature-mullan http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/ma y/22/ten-best-towers-literature-mullan

16. Tower Defense Games http://www.ranker.com/list/all-tower- defense-games-list/reference http://www.ranker.com/list/all-tower- defense-games-list/reference

17. Architecture in Video Games http://archvirtual.com/2013/02/09/the- importance-of-architecture-in-video-games- and-virtual-worlds/#.VTT9bIG-18E http://archvirtual.com/2013/02/09/the- importance-of-architecture-in-video-games- and-virtual-worlds/#.VTT9bIG-18E

18. Let’s look at some tower structures. Take notes about the towers. Do a quick power sketch of each next to your notes.

20. Water Tower

22. Eiffel Tower

24. Leaning Tower of Pisa

26. Kuwait Towers

28. Three Pagodas Dali, China

30. Qutb Minar, India

36. Orbit by Anish Kapoor

37. Orbit by Kapoor & Balmond Britain’s biggest piece of public art Kapoor worked with structural designer Cecil Balmond London’s Olympic Park

39. Cloud Gate

41. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArcelorMittal_Orbit

43. Kapoor Red Tower http://www.archivenue.com/artist-kapoor-wins- olympic-tower-competition-for-london-2012/

45. Watts Towers http://www.wattstowers.us/

46. Watts Towers “fanciful spires pieced together over a period of thirty-three years from steel reinforcing rods and wire mesh, colorfully decorated with seashells and fragments of broken dishes and bottles” from Sylvia Hart Wright. Sourcebook of Contemporary North American Architecture: From Postwar to Postmodern. p111

48. Watts Towers are an example of Outsider Art. Outsiders Art is art created by: – Self-taught artists – Outside of the established art scene

49. I Build the Tower http://www.wattstowers.us/simon_rodia.htm Full length film The story of Simon Rodia & the Watts Towers of Los Angeles

51. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin_Br%C3%A2ncu%C8%99i

54. An 82-foot-tall tower made out of thousands of books — 30,000 such “bricks” to be precise? We can see book lovers’ eyes light up with glee in view of all the reading material, only to be extinguished by the thought of such a waste. But bookworms and environmentalists can relax and rejoice! Not a single volume was harmed in the process of building this massive structure.

55. The “Tower of Babel,” as it is officially called, was the brainchild of acclaimed Argentinean artist Marta Minujín. Minujín devised the tower in celebration of Buenos Aires being chosen as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) 2011 World Book Capital. The used raw materials were donated by libraries and readers eager to help, as well as more than 50 embassies.Marta Minujín

56. http://1800recycling.com/2011/08/tower-recycled-books/

73. Create a minimum of 3 sketches for your tower. Think about the purpose. Think about the profile shape

74. If you missed some notes, get help from people at your table. Then start on your sketches.

75. Criteria 15” tall MUST stand up Visual interest on all sides Have a purpose

76. Criteria Original – NOT a copy of an existing tower. Can reference a tower: Physical Popular Culture Literature or History