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Credit points: 12.5
Coordinator: Jeff Turnbull.
Contact: Up to 4 hours of lectures, seminars, and tutorials per week, and additional studio work.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should be able to demonstrate that they:
- understand design as a concept and as a process, including its environmental consequences;
- are able to identify and operate basic design principles;
- are acquainted with the literature that introduces design principles and methods;
- have acquired analytical, synthesising, and technical skills in design.
Content:
Students will undertake a series of readings, assignments and studio-based exercises that introduce the principles of analysis, abstraction, and synthesis in design thinking that are common to the fields of architecture, building, and planning; and to graphic, industrial, interior, landscape, and urban design. Students will be introduced to: basic compositional rules for form-making widely applied by designers; the effect that materials, technology, program (function), and the environment have on the making of form; the expression of form through design.
Assessment:
Assessment will be based on a review of a portfolio of all assignments set during the semester. (Projects and studio tests, exercises and tutorial presentations to the equivalent of 7,500 words. Details will be made available within the first 2 weeks of semester. )
Prescribed texts:
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning (Volume 4 page 46)
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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