702-101 Introduction to Design

Credit Points

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Semester

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Subject Description

Students will undertake a series of readings, studio based exercises and assignments that introduce the principles and methods of analysis, abstraction, and synthesis in design thinking that are common to many design fields, including building and architecture. Introduction to: basic composition and applied organisational techniques widely used by designers: the effects that program, materials, technology and the environment have on design decisions; form and expression. Assignments require the student to synthesise knowledge from concurrent studies in other subjects (particularly; Communications, Technology and History). The emphasis will be on the design of functional objects and effective interior space.

Assessment

Assessment will be based on a major project and a review of a portfolio of assignments set during the semester. (Projects, studio tests, exercises and tutorial presentations, to the equivalent of 7500 words).

Prescribed Texts

• Simon Unwin, Analysing Architecture. Routledge, 1997.
  or
  Victor Papanek, The Green Imperative. Thames and Hudson, 1995.