11171 Landscape Architecture Studio 1: Forming
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Credit points: 6 cp
Subject level:
Undergraduate
Result type: Grade and marksRequisite(s): 11214c Spatial Communications 1
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These requisites may not apply to students in certain courses.
There are course requisites for this subject. See access conditions.
Description
This subject is the introductory studio in the Bachelor of Design in Architecture and Bachelor of Landscape 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. The subject introduces students to three key themes: body, organisation and context. These themes serve as a common knowledge base critical to the practice of architecture and landscape architecture as well as provide a primer to issues that students continue to face in the sequence of studios ahead.
A constraint-based process is used to inform a series of both two-dimensional and three-dimensional exercises. 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 iterative design; and develop strategies for translating concepts into spatial solutions.
Subject learning objectives (SLOs)
On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
| 1. | Use an iterative design process informed by critical reflection |
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| 2. | Develop spatial proposals though a generative approach to drawing |
| 3. | Demonstrate an understanding of scalar relationships, in particular the relation between the body, organisational and contextual strategies, and their influence on a spatial proposition |
| 4. | Articulate a spatial and formal proposition that addresses the studio?s themes |
| 5. | Communicate a spatial propositional using the prescribed representational conventions |
Course intended learning outcomes (CILOs)
This subject also contributes to the following Course Intended Learning Outcomes:
- Constructively contribute to peer learning by communicating through various modes of oral, written, graphic communication (C.2)
- Apply a sophisticated understanding of architectural scale to aid the development of an architectural proposition (P.2)
- Respond to a comprehensive brief within the disciplinary context (P.3)
- Evidence a three-dimensional understanding of spatial sequence and organisation (P.4)
- Evidence disciplinary knowledge through the application of physical and/or digital mediums (P.6)
- Employ an iterative approach to learning using disciplinary specific research methods (R.1)
Teaching and learning strategies
Collaborative Learning
UTS Architecture staff believe that collaboration enhances learning. You are encouraged to work among your peers throughout the teaching session. This is facilitated through the review of work in a group settting and group based assessment items. The first task within Assessment 01 is designed to encourage students to familiarise themselves with each other and learn through a collaborative setting. Students are encouraged to collaborate with the members of other tutorial groups during the session to familiarise themselves with their year group.
Online Coursework
UTS Online is a valuable tool for this subject. There are a number of online resources uploaded to UTS Online that support the learning objectives of this subject. A detailed brief, associated tasks and assessments are all uploaded on UTS Online. To further assist learning in this subject, essential and recommended readings, lectures, as well as previous student work is available to download.
All documents are accessible via UTS Online. When a document is referred to in an assessment task the location of the online file is outlined so that it is easily accessible to students.
Feedback
This subject provides a range of formative feedback strategies:
- Students are exposed to the methodology of the production of work through a weekly tutor-led design studio review process. Each week students are asked to complete preparatory work that revolves around the task or is a draft of the task itself. Students gain weekly verbal feedback which they then use to update their work for the following week. It is therefore vital students complete the prescribed work to receive useful formative feedback.?
- The two assessments are formally graded in ReView.
Content (topics)
The content of this subject 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 focused on architectural form, design processes and historic and contemporary architectural approaches.
The studio will use skills developed in 11214 Architectural Communications, where students focus on the fluent use of both 2D (orthographic drawings) and 3D (3D software) techniques. Students are to transfer the knowledge learnt in 11214 Spatial Communications and visa versa.
Assessment
Assessment task 1: Preliminary Investigative Exercises
| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 1, 2, 3 and 4 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.): C.2, P.2 and P.4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Type: | Presentation | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Groupwork: | Group, group and individually assessed | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 40% | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Criteria linkages: |
SLOs: subject learning objectives CILOs: course intended learning outcomes |
Assessment task 2: Design Development and Implementation
| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 1, 3, 4 and 5 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.): C.2, P.2, P.3, P.6 and R.1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Type: | Presentation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Groupwork: | Individual | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 60% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criteria linkages: |
SLOs: subject learning objectives CILOs: course intended learning outcomes |
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.
