Courses Taught
H263: Design Methods
Often a design process ends with the thought "if we had known at the start what we know now we'd never have designed it like this". One of the main reasons for seeking new methods is to avoid this "learning too late".
John Chris Jones, Design Methods, 2nd edition
As Jones' quote indicates, the key to design methods is informing, and improving, design decision making. Whereas historical and precedent studies tend to focus on the geometrical or formal bases for design, and work in the studio addresses immediate technical and pragmatic requirements for design, the use of design methods falls somewhere in between, providing a means for integrating the formal and programmatic requirements of design.
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H268: Architectural Theories and Concepts
This is a seminar course on contemporary issues in environmental design. These trends will be reviewed in terms of the design philosophy which arose in response to industrialization -- modernism -- and the subsequent reactions to and against it, such as postmodernism and deconstruction and others. In addition, various more recent approaches, in which the experience of a design takes precedence over its form, will be studied.
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Design Informatics
Co-teach with Erik StoltermanNeeds text here. More >>
