12.5 Martin Fowler. 702-101 Introduction to Design Second semester Up to 5 hours of lectures, seminars, and tutorials per week; and additional studio work. On completion of this subject students should be able to demonstrate that they:

• understand architectural design as a concept and as a process, including its consequences;
• can identify and operate basic architectural design principles;
• have an understanding of program (and the human values expressed within programs) as a basis of the design process;
• have an introductory understanding of the techniques of site analysis and of the application of this information in the design process;
• are acquainted with the literature that introduces architectural design principles and methods;
• are able to synthesise in their designs their concurrent studies in building technology (construction and structures), communications, and history;
• have acquired analytical and synthesising skills adequate to undertake Architectural Design and Practice 2, including appropriate documentation, graphic, and model-making skills.

Students will undertake a series of studio-based exercises that introduces design analysis, abstraction, and synthesis in architectural practice; the architectural principles of planning and program; spatial order (and its conceptualisation); composition and expression of form; and design documentation. These principles are to be synthesised with the student's concurrent studies in other subjects (particularly, Building Technology, Communications, and History), culminating in the architectural design of small-scaled, energy-efficient buildings with simple programs. Assessment will be based on a major project and a review of a portfolio of all assignments set during the semester. (Projects, studio tests, exercises, and tutorial presentations to the equivalent of 7,500 words. Details will be made available within the first 2 weeks of the semester. ) F Ching: Architecture: Form, Space and Order Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1979 C Moore & K Bloomer: Body, Memory and Architecture, The Yale University Press, New Haven, 1977