Design and Visualization

This study area encompasses required studios, elective advanced studios, and courses that concentrate on design logic and skills and that support design thinking and representation. For the M.Arch. I program, required courses in this study area include a core sequence of four design studios, two advanced studios, and two visualization elective courses; one of these visualization electives must be completed in the fall term of the ﬁrst year. The core studio sequence progresses from spatially abstract exercises to more complex programs that require integrative thinking at various scales and situated on sites of increased complexity, while integrating ecological, landscape, and tectonic demands. The ﬁrst course (ARCH 1000) is a summer course required for entering students who have not had signiﬁcant prior architectural training. A further visualization course (ARCH 1019)—in the early summer of the ﬁrst year—is required of all M.Arch. I students. For the M.Arch. II program, required courses in this study area include three advanced studios and a design research studio (ARCH 1121). the the fundamentals and implications of four speciﬁc sets of and skills: and scripting and algorithmic design. Each section by diﬀerent speciﬁc experience to both tutorials and discussions on the broader impact of ﬁeld. on the relation methods Large-scale models and are developed to explore design issues. fundamental examine a on the current and future role of the image as an architectural medium in this context. The ﬁnal project is a hybrid image-object situated in both a physical and an online context. Limited This seminar explores how architects might use a wider array of communication processes—from text to image, from moving image to network and beyond—to describe, develop, and release their ideas strategically. The inquiry includes, but goes beyond, graphic tools to explore alternate models of knowledge creation; it is akin to research but is more open-ended in terms of its methodologies and possible outcomes. Architecture in this sense is seen in the context of a wide variety of other subjects. This seminar is structured in three parts, each one looking at a diﬀerent communication medium and its eﬀects: moving image, printed pamphlet, and a single surface/function web graphic. Each of these media implies diﬀerent ideas of duration, attention, audience, and distribution and is explored through a series of activities: illustrated talks, readings, precedent studies, and three projects developed by each student. This seminar has several objectives. One is to oﬀer each student greater mastery over the creation/selection/juxtaposition of color, allowing the creator to experiment more knowingly and intentionally. One is to examine a broad range of examples of color in architecture, cutting across time and across cultural histories, to examine its sensory and cultural impacts. Students are required to explore color through readings in color theory, through a series of paint and paper exercises, and through selection of an existing example of color in architecture for class presentation and as a written paper. 3 cr II ﬁrst-year students. Enrollment subject to the permission of the instructors and satisfactory completion of all required preparatory course work. ) This intensive ﬁve-week summer workshop takes place in Rome and is designed to provide a broad overview of that city’s major architectural sites, topography, and systems of urban organization. Examples from antiquity to the present day are studied as part of the context of an ever-changing city with its sequence of layered accretions. The seminar examines historical continuity and change as well as the ways in which and the reasons why some elements and approaches were maintained over time and others abandoned. Hand drawing is used as a primary tool of discovery during explorations of buildings, landscapes, and gardens, both within and outside the city. Students devote the ﬁnal week to an intensive independent analysis of a building or place. M.Arch. I students are eligible to enroll in this course aer completing at least three terms. This course does not fulﬁll either the History and Theory or the Urbanism and Landscape elective requirements. All program travel plans will be made in accordance with University and national travel policies. Limited enrollment.