Introduction to Architectural Design - House for the Twenty-First Century

Course Description

Summary

The studio course will introduce students from all disciplines to fundamental questions of architectural design through a series of three successive projects. The projects stress critical and creative thinking and invention, interdisciplinary collaboration, observation, perception, communication and visualization. Students will be taught to engage in a series of architectural investigations using the foundational mediums of drawing, modeling, photographing and writing. Students who complete this studio will be equipped to engage more complex design problem in subsequent design studios as well as other creative courses.