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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning : Architecture

702-101 Introduction to Design

Credit Points:

12.5

Coordinator:

Jeff Turnbull

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

Up to 4 hours of lectures, seminars, and tutorials per week, and additional studio work

Subject Description:

Students will undertake a series of readings, assignments and studio-based exercises that introduce the principles and methods 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 7500 words.

Prescribed Texts:

  • Bryan Lawson, How Designers Think: The Design Process Demystified, The Architectural Press, London, 1980.
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