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 702-101 Introduction to Design

Note

The summer semester option is only available to mid year and lateral entry students in BPD Architecture. Enrolments by other degree students will be considered by the Dean on an individual basis and the subject will only be available to such students on a full-fee paying basis.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

2

Coordinator

Mr Jeff Turnbull

Semester

1, repeat Summer (view timetable)

Contact

Up to 7 hours of lectures, seminars, and tutorials per week, and additional studio work

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.


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