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19 Coordinator: Lee Olvera. Instructors: Valery Augustin, Mina Chow, Michael Chung, Rebecca Lowry, Lauren Matchison, Janice Shimizu, Linda Taalman and Rennie Tang.
The first year design studio is the introduction to architecture as cultural practice based on ideas. The production of outstanding work is dependent on both design intent and technical skills, developed through diligent and continuous practice. The ability to embody design work with meaningful intentions only arises through investigation and research, resulting in a collected body of knowledge used in the production of one’s own work. The application of this scholarship in design is directed by critical thinking, utilizing insight and discerning intellect in the creative application of knowledge. The semester began with composition-based projects designed to heighten skills of observation, perception, analysis and transformation by employing oppositional relationships: realism and abstraction, line and surface, object and space, 2-D shape and 3-D form. Students utilized multiple means of reiterative exploration to complete their work, including documentary photography, photocollage, drawing and paper-model making, to provoke inquiry and hone an understanding and appreciation of
design awareness, intent, and meaning—the foundation of the semester. The subsequent series of projects explored concepts of architectural space: scale, movement, transition, materiality, light and context. Building upon the understanding gained in previous projects, students were given hypothetical, though specific programs and sites. Confronting the spatial and formal consequences of program and site through the means of physical and material constraints, the projects further developed each student’s critical inquiry, transcending design principles through architecture. The culture of the design studio, new to first-year students, nurtured critical inquiry through disciplined studio work habits and constructive instructor and peer dialogue. The process of conceptual exploration, methodology of critical input, and practice of reiterative refinement were all essential to the informed development of their architecture. THIS PAGE: |1| Osama Iqab, |3| Daniel Kim NEXT PAGE: |1| Tristan McGuire, |2| Hyo Na Chung, |3| Spencer Sanchez, |4| PHUOC NGUYEN
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