Experiencing Architecture Studio

As taught in: Spring 2003

Studio for an Optimist's Daughter. (Final project by Merritt Tam.)

Course Features

• Lecture notes
• Projects and Examples

Course Description

This course uses scale models to design environments that orchestrate contrasting material properties and conventional constructional systems to create places that foster specific ways of inhabiting space. It also demonstrates how architecture differs from other forms of design. Intended for students to test aptitude for architectural design and to experience an unfamiliar mode of thought, it's conducted in a studio format, with lectures on architectural theory and history, and structured for students with no previous experience in design.

Required of Architecture majors.

Lecture Notes

Please note: In order to reduce their size and to facilitate web access, some images from these lectures have been removed. Where a heading appears with no images, those images have been removed, but you are encouraged to research the referenced building.

TOPICS	FILES
South End	(PDF - 1.5MB)
Counterdefining relation	(PDF)
Enclave relation	(PDF)
Only-adjacent relation	(PDF - 1.0MB)
Border relation	(PDF)
Hovering relation	(PDF - 2.1MB)
Column as structure and idea	(PDF - 1.1MB)
Column as space maker	(PDF - 1.2MB)
SketchUp design	(PDF 1 - 2MB) (PDF 2 - 2.4MB) (PDF 3 - 2.1MB) (PDF 4 - 2.1MB)
Space layers	(PDF)
Space zones	(PDF)
Diagramming	(PDF - 2.3MB)
Concrete formwork	(PDF 1 - 2.3MB) (PDF 2 - 2MB) (PDF 3 - 2.5MB)

Projects

Student Projects

The following are samples of student work from the course. All work is courtesy of the students named and used with permission.

Assaf Biderman (PDF)

Merritt Tam (PDF)

Naomi Munro (PDF)

Instructors:

Prof. William Hubbard

MIT Course Number:

4.101

Level:

Undergraduate