This course gives students an opportunity to explore environmental design as a three-dimensional, compositional activity that involves both the perceptual and the conceptual impacts of assembling elements in space. The knowledge gained will apply to all the environmental design disciplines, furnishing a basis for generating and structuring elements and spatial sequences that will provide a clear, meaningful, residual image. The course provides students with both a theoretical background and historical examples and serves as an introduction to the elements and principles of spatial composition. The final class features a workshop with analysis of landscape and architectural plans, together with hands-on exercises created by students and critiqued and analyzed by the instructors. Reading assignments and small projects are assigned between classes.
Enrollment is limited.
He has taught at the University of Oregon and Sonoma State University and has been consulting landscape architect for the City of South San Francisco and the Town of Hillsborough. She has been an invited speaker at the California Preservation Main Street Conference.