11171 Landscape Architecture Studio 1: Forming
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Credit points: 6 cp
Subject level:
Undergraduate
Result type: Grade and marksRequisite(s): 11214c Architectural Design: Architectural Communications
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These requisites may not apply to students in certain courses.
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Description
This subject is the introductory studio in the Bachelor of Design in Architecture studio sequence. The subject provides the framework to learn essential techniques for the production of spaces as well as important strategies in critical and analytical thinking. Students gain an understanding of the design process; develop an understanding of our relationships to space, form, sequence and the environment; undergo rigorous research and analysis; and develop strategies for translating concepts into spatial solutions. The subject introduces students to diverse sources of architectural concepts, methodologies, principles and skills that comprise a common knowledge base critical to the practice of architecture, including those found in the history of architecture and from outside of architecture, for example, in nature, mathematics, the human body, the landscape and the environment. These sources are considered in terms of their formal appearance, performance in different conditions, cultural and historical associations, and potential for inventive development and transformation. Students are introduced to two- and three-dimensional thinking and exploration, composition and representation. Processes for the development of initial formal proposals for site and program-specific conditions are explored through orthographic drawing, three-dimensional modelling using appropriate software, sketches and scale models.
Subject learning objectives (SLOs)
On successful completion of this subject students will have achieved the following:
| 1. | become conversant with the methodology of the tutor-led Design Studio |
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| 2. | understand the development of design ideas through a responsive design process |
| 3. | develop an understanding of scale as applied to an architectural proposition |
| 4. | develop skills in three-dimensional form making using physical and virtual models |
| 5. | apply knowledge and skills learned over the session to respond to a briefed architectural design project as identified in the subject curriculum |
| 6. | apply knowledge and skills learned in Architectural Communications to the presentation of submitted material. |
Course intended learning outcomes (CILOs)
This subject also contributes to the faculty's five CAPRI graduate attribute categories (see 'Graduate Attribute Development') through the following course intended learning outcomes:
- Ability to take an informed and ethical position toward social, technical and environmental practices (A.1)
- Ability to position work within practice and an extended disciplinary context (A.2)
- Ability to work cooperatively and professionally as part of a team, manage and maintain partnerships with others, take a leadership role when required, and constructively contribute to peer learning (C.1)
- Ability to communicate ideas effectively in a variety of ways including oral, written, visual, physical and digital (C.2)
- Ability to engage and contribute to professional debate (C.3)
- Ability to understand and challenge disciplinary conventions and develop innovative approaches (I.1)
- Ability to initiate and execute meaningful self-directed iterative processes (I.2)
- Ability to produce inspirational responses that exemplify integration of learning experiences (I.3)
- Ability to apply communication techniques (digital and/or manual), knowledge and understanding to practical applications in architecture (P.1)
- Ability to thoughtfully apply/deploy disciplinary learning in work, with a continuing commitment to personal professional development (P.2)
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of both past and current architectural practices (P.3)
- Ability to independently select and apply appropriate research methodologies to carry out investigative study and source, evaluate and utilise appropriate academic and professional references (R.1)
- Ability to analyse, synthesise and formulate complex ideas, arguments and rationales and explore alternatives in a self-directed manner (R.2)
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of architectural precedent and to place architectural practice within a contextual framework (R.3)
- Ability to reflect and engage in self-critique and critical thinking in order to inform a range of outcomes (R.4)
Teaching and learning strategies
Weekly on campus: 1 hr lecture, 3 hr tutorial.
Total: 4 hours per week
The subject is structured around successive project-based design exercises. There will be regular one-hour illustrated lectures that introduce design theory and examples pertinent to the overarching themes and activities of the subject. The remaining three hours per week is structured as guided working sessions in the architecture studios or computer laboratories for drawing and making. These working sessions include participatory group discussion, using individual work as a means for group learning through discussion and critique. Students are expected to attend all lecture and studio sessions, and to follow the suggested progress patterns for each design project. Students are also encouraged to actively participate in the group discussions during the studio teaching.
Content (topics)
The content of this subject typically includes a series of project-based design exercises. These projects can take the format of short, fortnightly conceptual design exercises or longer, more conventional projects. The projects and lectures are focussed on architectural form; design processes, contemporary and historic architectural approaches.
Assessment
Assessment task 1: Ways of Seeing, Preliminary Investigative Exercises
| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 This task also addresses the following course intended learning outcomes that are linked with a code to indicate one of the five CAPRI graduate attribute categories (e.g. C.1, A.3, P.4, etc.): .3, .4, .5, .5, A.1, C.1, C.2, C.3, I.1, I.2, I.3, P.2, R.1, R.2, R.3 and R.4 |
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| Weight: | 30% |
Assessment task 2: Organisation and Context, Design Development and Implementation
| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 This task also addresses the following course intended learning outcomes that are linked with a code to indicate one of the five CAPRI graduate attribute categories (e.g. C.1, A.3, P.4, etc.): .3, .4, .5, .5, A.1, A.2, C.2, C.3, I.1, I.2, I.3, P.1, P.2, R.2, R.3 and R.4 |
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| Weight: | 45% |
Assessment task 3: Portfolio
| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 This task also addresses the following course intended learning outcomes that are linked with a code to indicate one of the five CAPRI graduate attribute categories (e.g. C.1, A.3, P.4, etc.): .3, .4, .5, A.1, C.2, C.3, I.1, I.2, P.1, P.2, P.3, R.1 and R.4 |
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| Weight: | 25% |
Required texts
A reserve shelf has been set-up for this subject, available in the library under the subject/subject coordinator name (ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: FORMING 11211, William Feuerman)
All texts in the following list are available in the Subject's UTS Online portal. The readings are distributed into three thematic headings- CONTEXT, ORGANISATION and FORMING. Students will be allocated readings from these different themes over the course of the session. By the end of session all readings will be assumed knowledge.
Body
Corbusier, Le, 'The Modular', London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1961, pp25-68.
Schlemmer, Oskar, Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo, Molnar, Ferenc, 'The Theater of the Bauhaus', London: Eyre Methuen, 1979, pp.17-46.
Lehman L., Arnold, Richardson, Brenda, 'Oskar Schlemmer', Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1986, pp.127-160.
Context
Corner, James, 'The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention', Cosgrove, D. (ed.) Mappings, London: Reaktion Books, 1999, pp.213-252.
Forty, Adrian, 'Context', Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture, London: Thames and Hudson, 2000, pp.132-135.
Heymann, David. 'Landscape Is Our Sex,' in The Design Observer, posted November 28, 2011
Jacobs, Jane, 'The Generators of Diversity', Death and Life of Great American Cities, New York : Random House, 1961, pp.187-197.
Knabb, Ken, 'Theory of the Derivê', Situationist International Anthology, Berkeley, Calif. : Bureau of Public Secrets, 2002, pp.50-54.
Tschumi, Bernard, 'Concept vs Context vs Content', Event- Cities 3, Mass. : MIT Press, 2005, pp.11-15.
Organisation
Allen, Stan, 'Diagrams matter', ANY 23: Diagram Work: Data Mechanics for a Topological Age, New York: Anyone Corporation, 1998, pp.16-19. Digital file in this subject's reader downloaded from http://crisisfronts.wikispaces.com/Readings.
Forty, Adrian, 'Order', Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture, London: Thames and Hudson, 2000, pp.240-248.
Lawrence, Amanda Reeser, & Schafer, Ashley, 'Re:Programming', Praxis Journal of Writing + Building, Issue 8: RE: Programming, Columbus & Boston: Praxis Inc., 2010.
Milijacki, A., Lawrence, Amanda Reeser, & Schafer, Ashley, '2 Architects 10 Questions on Program Rem Koolhaas + Bernard Tschumi', Praxis Journal of Writing + Building, Issue 8: RE: Programming, Columbus & Boston: Praxis Inc., 2010.
Rowe, Colin & Slutzky, Robert, 'Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal', Perspecta, Vol. 8. (1963), Mass. : MIT Press on behalf of the Yale School of Architecture, pp.45-54. NOTE: Digital File of Reading accessed from JSTOR an online database of texts that can be accessed via the UTS Library website.
Tschumi, Bernard, 'Sequences', Architecture and Disjunction, Mass. : MIT Press, 1996, pp.153-168.
Wood, D & Andraos, A., 'Program Primer v1.0: A Manual for Architects', Reeser, A. & Schafer, A., Praxis Journal of Writing + Building, Issue 6: New Technologies://New Architectures, Columbus & Boston: Praxis Inc., 2009.
Forming
Allen, Stan, Agrest, Diana, 'Mapping the Unmappable on Notation', Practice: Architecture, Technique and Representation, New York: Routledge, 2000, p.31-45.
Aranda, Benjamin & Lasch, Chris, Tooling, New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2006.
Benjamin Andrew, Chapter 6, 'Lines of Work- On Diagrams and Drawings', Architectural Philosophy: Repetition, Function, Alterity, New Brunswick: Athlone Press, 2000, pp.143-155.
Evans, Robins, 'Figures, Doors, Passages', Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays, Mass. : MIT Press, 2005, pp.55-91.
Tschumi, Bernard, 'Introduction + Boarder C'Manhattan Transcripts, London : Academy Editions, 1994.
Tufte, Edward, 'Layering and Separation', Envisioning Information, Cheshire, Conn. : Graphics Press, 1990, pp.53-65.
UN Studio, "Diagrams", Move, Amsterdam: UN Studio and Goose Press, 1999. pp.19-25.
Vidler, Anthony, 'Diagrams of Diagrams: Architectural Abstraction and Modern Representation', Representations, Autumn, No.72, Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 2000, pp.1-20.
References
Recommended References (for every architect's collection)
Allen, Stan, Points + Lines: Diagrams And Projects For The City, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1997
Calvino, Italo, Invisible Cities, USA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978
Ching, Francis D., Architecture: Form, Space, Order, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979.
Ching, Francis D., Architectural Graphics, (5th edition), Hoboken, N.J: Wiley, 2009
Eames, Charles and Ray, Powers of Ten, New York: W.H. Freeman & Company; Revised edition, 1994
Evans, Robins, Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays, Mass. : MIT Press, 2005
Koolhaas, Rem, S,M,L,XL, New York: Monacelli Press, 1998
Koolhaas, Rem & Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Content, Köln: Taschen, 2004.
Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture, London : Architectural Press ; New York : Dover, 1987.
McQuaid, Matilda, Envisioning Architecture: Drawings from the MoMA, New York: Museum of Modern Art ; London: Thames & Hudson, c2002
Moussavi, Farshid, The Function of Form, Barcelona ; New York : Actar ; Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, c2009.
Tschumi, Bernard, Architecture and Disjunction, Mass. : MIT Press, 1996
Tschumi, Bernard, Manhattan Transcripts, London : Academy Editions, 1994.
Tufte, Edward, Envisioning Information, Cheshire Conn. : Graphics Press, 1990
Other resources
Web Site References
The following list is a set of references that will contribute to your learning and should be explored. We encourage you to explore any links found on these web sites.
News
www.archdaily.com
www.archinect.com
www.architizer.com
www.designboom.com
www.dezeen.com
www.inhabitat.com
www.untappedcities.com
Technique
Niloy J. Mitra (form / shape research projects): http://graphics.stanford.edu/~niloy/research/index.html
Openloop design (multidisciplinary design collective: http://www.loop.ph/bin/view/Openloop/ResearchNodes
Pallalink (montage and collage techniques): http://www.pallalink.net/
Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory: http://www.sial.rmit.edu.au/
TheVeryMany (research into rhino scripting): http://www.theverymany.net/
Relevant Architectural Design Web Sites
Biothing Architects: http://www.biothing.org/wiki/doku.php
Easton + Combs: http://www.eastoncombs.com/
Foreign Office Architects: http://www.f-o-a.net/
Greg Lynn Architects: http://www.glform.com/
Marcos Novak: http://www.centrifuge.org/marcos/
Minifie Nixon Architects: http://www.minifienixon.com/doku.php
NOX Architects: http://www.nox-art-architecture.com/
Frei Otto: http://www.freiotto.com/
PARAsite (USC School of Architecture: research into parametric and algorithmic design): http://archpubs.usc.edu/parasite/
Philippe Rahm Architects: http://www.philipperahm.com/
R&Sie(n) Architects (François Roche and Stéphanie Lavaux): http://www.new-territories.com/ & http://www.newterritories.com/Defaut2.htm
Reiser + Umemoto: http://www.reiser-umemoto.com/
Generic Equipment List.
Purchase the Drafting and Modelling Pack. Please keep in mind that other materials and equipment may be required for specific tasks and these will be identified as part of the weekly briefing sessions.
Equipment: Home
- Computer
- Digital camera
- A flat smooth working surface of an adequate size. Consider purchasing a drawing board, preferably A2 size or bigger with a parallel ruler or drafting machine (you might find these secondhand).
- Waterproof drawing tube to carry precious drawings to and from university. Look for one that is adjustable length and has a shoulder strap.
- Drawing paper such as butter paper (available in rolls or by the sheet), detail paper, or tracing paper (buy 110gsm not 90gsm)
The shop at street level of Building 6 sells an extensive range of materials and equipment specifically for students enrolled in Design, Architecture and Building. There are many other art supplies shops throughout Sydney, most of who give a discount with student card – so make sure you ask for one.
