The fourth assignment is a 2,500-word essay which extends the previous assignment’s analyses to interpret the work in relation to its cultural, social, political and environmental contexts, while also understanding the work’s disciplinary autonomy and poetic gestures. How are the project’s forms and spatial relationships meaningful? Whereas the analytical paper (assignment three) comprises a series of related analyses of individual aspects of the project, the interpretive essay offers an overarching argument about the project. The first paragraph establishes the argument, and every subsequent refers back to, and supports, the first paragraph.

The 2,500-word essay is a deeper and more ‘COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS’ that develops the previous analysis further to include a cultural, social, and political to expand its more refined, philosophical and poetic meanings. For instance, how are the project’s forms and spaces meaningful; how are they expressions of their own time and what is their cultural import? In a few words: this is a ‘cultural’ analysis… it is an overarching argument in which you describe the effect of the project as whole and its full impact on the world and the people of its time.