DESIGN STUDIOS - B.ARCH DS1010 | 1A Studio | Interactions I Studio 1A introduces contemporary architectural approaches for working rigorously and critically on formal and conceptual ideas. The course is the first studio in the coordinated five-year educational arc that culminates with Thesis. As a bookend to Thesis, the 1A curriculum emphasizes students’ ability to think critically and to take a position through their work. Three projects in various media introduce students to the relationships between form, geometry, materiality and image, as well as the critical relationship between working methods and thinking. The studio takes an ambitious approach to its curricular goals; challenging students to build a robust catalogue of techniques, as well as to think laterally across various ideas and methods. Critical to the curriculum is the ability for the students to communicate through various modes of representation (images, models, writing) and to be able to discuss and contextualize their ideas given the framework of the studio. DS1011 | 1B Studio | Interactions II Building on the conceptual thinking, aesthetic sensibilities and formal techniques students developed in the fall semester of the first year sequence, this design studio will engage the organization of the interior in relation to building mass. Notions of scale and order are considered as students work through spatial and formal investigations. The course is structured as a series of sequential projects that develop an understanding of contemporary forms of space through drawing and model. Students will consider the measurement of space and form, moving incrementally from two dimensional to three dimensional means of representation and from the scale of furniture to the scale of a building. Investigations culminate in the design of a house plus additional program components such as workspace. Emphasis is placed on developing systematic design strategies that negotiate between demands for architectural order and the engagement produced by architectural effects. DS1020 | 2A Studio | Environments I The second-year undergraduate studio sequence introduces students to cultural phenomena that activate new possibilities for architectural design and discourse. The first of this sequence, 2A, looks critically at specific interior-based programs that are integral to urban environments, and are evolving due to cultural changes, i.e. the workplace. The course speculates on interior and exterior space, program organization, and new forms within existing conditions. Students emphasize workflows that move between analog (i.e. making) and digital (i.e. modeling) mediums, not only to cultivate processes of experimentation and discovery, but to also coalesce students’ sensibilities with their authored intentions. Each semester, the course will put emphasis on a particular representational format (i.e. a plan, a section) to visualize, alter, reveal, and ultimately make a case for an architectural intervention, for an otherwise interior-based program. Students 25
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