Experiencing Architecture Studio
As taught in: Spring 2003
Studio for an Optimist's Daughter. (Final project by Merritt Tam.)
Course Features
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) |
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