The exhaustive list of topics in Architectural Design in which we provide Help with Homework Assignment and Help with Project is as follows:
Architecture and Post-Modernism
Theory Outtake 1
Work in class on concrete formwork
Last class
Final Paper (4500 words) Due
Pin-up: Massing in chip on 1/2-scale final model. Desk crits on opening sketches
Due: 1/8-scale sketch plans, card-stock spaces on context model; BH talk on site attitudes
Critiques of Modernism
Due: First sketch of site apportionment; BH demo on fome-cor; Build 1/16-scale gesture model
Due: Written statement on choice of designer, facilities; Begin 1/8-scale context model;BH demo on using trace to "surprise yourself"
Due: 1/2-scale plans; BH demo on concrete formwork and casting; Talk in groups on 1-in-scale Detail Models
Inter-group Exhibit: "Pre-final" 1/2-scale models
Carpenter Center tour: Spaces within a structural order
Due: Completed 1/2-scale model base; BH talk on proportion and openings
Minimalism and Monumentality - Louis Kahn
Final Review: With faculty, alums, and guests, all day in the review spaces
Voyages into the Surface - Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown
Campus Tour: Relationships betweeen spaces
The New York Five
Theory Outtake 2
Theory Outtake 3
Due: "Final" 1/4-scale plans; BH talk on 1/2-scale "show" plans and "tectonic nature" of concrete
Inter-group Exhibit: SketchUp site images; BH talk on columns as structure and idea
South End Field Trip
Megacities
Pin-up: First arrangement of work-space "cubes" on 1/8-scale models; BH demo on SketchUp
Blobs, Curves and the Formless
Due: 1/4-scale plan of site on trace; TA demos on column experience; Column experience on 1/4-scale plans
Optimist's Daughter reading; BH demo on drafting, cutting. Make scale figures, build 1/8-scale cube models. Students and TAs talk about choices of designer
Superstudio - Italy between First and Third Worlds
Second Mid-Review: 1/2-scale plans and 1-in-scale Detail Models
Due: First-pass columns on 1/4-scale plans and 1/8-scale models; BH talk on using SketchUp in designs
Due: Site "heavy" built in chipboard, "final" massing of studio sketched in chipboard, first-pass openings sketched on trace overlays
Late CIAM and the Architecture of the Welfare State
Photo and advising day; BH talk on spatial zones, organizing plan and site by abstraction
Environmentalism
Traces on the City
Photo day; Begin construct 1/2-scale Final Model base
First Mid-Review: 1/4-scale plans and 1/8-scale model showing "heavy," "hollow," and structure
Inter-group Pin-up: Second-pass 1/4-scale plans and 1/8-scale models; Class work on beams and planes
Architecture Studio: Intentions(not shuffeled)
Welcome and Intro. Course Outline
Assignment 1 - Written Intentions
Review of 4.101
Assignment 2 - Selecting a Reading/Writing Place
Assignment 3 - Dimensions 1
Studio: Work on Assignment 3 with TAs
Assignment 4 - Dimensions 2
Studio: Work on Assignment 4 with TAs
Assignment 5 - Conceiving the 3rd Space
Studio: Design. Assignment 5 with TAs
Studio: Design. Assignment 5 with TAs (cont.)
Assignment 6 - Constructing the 3rd Space
Studio: Design/Build. Assignment 6 with TAs
Studio: Design/Build. Assignment 6 with TAs (cont.)
Studio: Design/Build. Assignment 6 with TAs (cont.)
Pin-up Assignments 5 and 6
Studio: Review in Peer Groups
Assignment 7 - Hierarchies
Studio: Design/Build. Assignment 7 with TAs
Studio: Design/Build. Assignment 7 with TAs (cont.)
Studio: Design/Build. Assignment 7 with TAs (cont.)
Studio: Design/Build. Assignment 7 with TAs (cont.)
Assignment 8 - Site and Program
Studio: Design. Assignment 8 with TAs
Studio: Design. Assignment 8 with TAs (cont.)
Assignment 9 - Written Intentions 2
Studio: Discuss Assignment 9 with TAs
Assignment 10 - Design Development
Studio: Design/Build. Desk crits with TAs/Joel
Studio: Design/Build. Desk crits with TAs/Joel
Individual tasks for mid-review assigned
Studio: Design/Build. Desk crits with TAs/Joel
Studio: Design/Build. Desk crits with TAs/Joel (cont.)
Studio: Design/Build. Desk crits with TAs/Joel (cont.)
Studio: Design/Build. Desk crits with TAs/Joel (cont.)
Pin-up of Assignment 10
Studio: Design/Build. Desk crits with TAs/Joel
Studio: Design/Build. Desk crits with TAs/Joel (cont.)
Assignment 11 - Sectional Models
Studio: Design/Build. Desk crits with TAs/Joel
Studio: Design/Build. Desk crits with TAs/Joel (cont.)
Studio: Design/Build. Desk crits with TAs/Joel (cont.)
Studio: Design/Build. Desk crits with TAs/Joel (cont.)
Midterm Review of Final Project
Assignment 12 - Final presentation mock-ups
Studio: Work on Assignment 12 with TAs
Mock-up Presentations Reviewed
Studio: Design/Build. Desk crits with TAs/Joel
Studio: Design/Build. Desk crits with TAs/Joel (cont.)
Studio: Design/Build. Desk crits with TAs/Joel (cont.)
Individual Tasks from Mid-review Assigned
Studio: Work on Final Presentations with TAs/Joel
Studio: Work on Final Presentations with TAs/Joel (cont.)
Studio: Work on Final Presentations with TAs/Joel (cont.)
Studio: Work on Final Presentations with TAs/Joel (cont.)
Last Day of Studio: Work on Final Presentations with TAs/Joel
Final Review, Main Architecture Building
TOPICS
Explanation of Semester Work
Assignment 1: Clues and References
Sketch Model
Field Visit
Talk 1/Work/Crits/Interviews
Assignment 2: Making a Design
Work/Crits/Interviews
Talk 2/Work/Crits
Work/Crits
Assignment 3: Clue/Reference
Field Visit
Talk 3/Work/Crits
Assignment 4: First Pass
Field Trip
Talk 4/Work/Crits
Assignment 5: Final Design
Work/Crits
Talk 5/Work/Crits
Assignment 6: Making a Community Place
Field Trip
Assignment 7: First Pass with Found Objects and Building Blocks
Talk 6/Work/Crits
Work/Crits
Work/Crits
Assignment 8: Sketch Model, Drawings of Building and Site
Talk 7/Work/Crits
Work/Crits
Work/Crits
Assignment 9: Making an Echo of the Building
Work/Crits
Work/Crits
Assignment 10: Revised Design
Work/Crits
Work/Crits
Work/Crits
Last Class
Architectural Design: Intentions
Site Visit
Set-up Space
Review of Exercise 1: Body Drawings
Group Organization
Review of Project 1, Assignment 1: Analysis
Sketch Problem
Axons
Review: Project 2, Assignment 2: Concept Development
Preparation for the Final
Desk Crits
Desk Crits
Final Review of Project 1
Desk Crits
Desk Crits
In-class Review
Desk Crits
Review: Project 2, Assignment 1: Introduction and Analysis
Desk Crits
Final Review of Project 2
Assignment 2: Intensive Perspective Week
Project 2, Assignment 1: Introduction and Analysis
Review: Intensive Perspective Week
Review of Project 1, Assignment 4: Axon
Interiors
Talk
Review of Project 1, Assignment 2: Concept Development
Sketch Problem
Sections
Desk Crits
Review of Project 1, Assignment 3: Sectional Drawings
Sketch Problem
Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes
Work / Crits
Visit to Frank Lloyd Wright House and may be Walter Gropius House, Picnic Lunch
Start Building Site Model
Explanation of Semester Work and Assignment 1: "Performance Place"
Talk by Jen Seely: "Drawing Plans, Sections and Elevations"
Review of Assignment 1: "Performance Place", and David Whitney Talk: "Structures"
First Design Pass
Work / Crits (cont.)
Review of Assignment 2: "A Place for the Homeless" with Celebration in Great Court
Talk by Joslin and Wampler / Work / Crits
Site Visit
Review of Assignment 3
TOPICS
Assignment 5 Explained: Coming Together Place
Work / Crits (cont.)
First Design Pass with Sketch Model and Sketch Drawings
Work / Crits (cont.)
"Individual Place" Research History of Small Houses
Review of Assignment 8
Give Out Assignment 2: "Homeless Shelter Place" for Teams of 5 or 6 each
Final Review
Work / Crits (cont.)
Work / Crits (cont.)
Construction
First Pass and Site Visit
Talk by Anglea Watson: "Sketching while Designing"
Talk by Les Norford: "Ventilation / Sustainability / Light / Shade"
Last Studio
Midterm Review, Celebration and Exhibition of the "Individual Place" Project
Work / Crits (cont.)
Pinup of Work in Progress
Work / Crits (cont.)
Work / Crits (cont.)
Field Visit to Quarry
Talk by Joslin and Wampler / Work / Crits / Interviews
Review of Assignment 7
Work / Crits (cont.)
Work / Crits (cont.)
Review of Assignment 9
Review of Assignment 5
Talk by Len Thomas, Director of Cambridge Multi Service Center
Talk by Rebecca Lurther: "Presentation and Portfolios"
Review of Assignment 6
Work / Crits (cont.)
Ecuador Workshop
Review of Assignment 9
Dinner and Celebration
Work / Crits (cont.)
Afternoon and Evening: Presentation of Project, Laying of Hands for Corner Stone, Celebration
Pinup of Work in Progress
Return to Hotel
Small Lunch on Site
Return to Site
Field Visit to Quarry
Sleep
Talk by Len Thomas, Director of Cambridge Multi Service Center
Arrive Miami and Leave for Boston
Stay at Unipark Hotel in Guayaquil, Arriving at 10 PM
Next Steps and Planning
Meet with Community Leaders
Sleep
Talk by Joslin and Wampler / Work / Crits / Interviews
Free Time to See Guayaquil
Review of Assignment 5
Return to Hotel
Review of Assignment 7
Review of Assignment 6
Final Site Visit if Needed
TOPICS
Work / Crits (cont.)
Prepare Presentation
Visit Site Again
Talk by Rebecca Lurther: "Presentation and Portfolios"
Work / Crits (cont.)
Sleep
More Site Visits, Photos of Children
Work / Crits (cont.)
Check Out of Hotel
Leave for Lima
Work / Crits (cont.)
Go to Airport by 4 PM
Prepare for Presentation
Dinner Along the Malecon in Guayaquil
Visit Site and Neighborhood, Take Pictures
Final Meetings
Short Tour of Downtown Guayaquil
Boat Cruise in Guayaquil
Arrive in Boston at Noon
Meetings with Contractors and Architects
Sleep
Meetings with Officials of Community and City
Dinner
Small Lunch
Meetings with Community
Introduction to Integrated Design
Desk Crits (cont.)
Desk Crits (cont.)
Desk Crits (cont.)
Desk Crits (cont.)
Desk Crits (cont.)
Review of Assignment 4
Introduce Assignment 4
Introduce Assignment 1
Introduce Assignment 2
Desk Crits (cont.)
Desk Crits (cont.)
Review of Assignment 3
Review of Assignment 5
Review of Assignment 2
Desk Crits (cont.)
Desk Crits (cont.)
Intermediate Review
Desk Crits (cont.)
Intermediate Review
Desk Crits
Desk Crits (cont.)
Review of Assignment 1
Desk Crits (cont.)
Desk Crits (cont.)
Introduce Assignment 3
Introduce Assignment 5 / Field Trip to Site
Introduction / Course Overview
BSAD Foundations in the Visual Arts
In-Progress Review (including Documentation of Site, Statement of Intent, Strategy for Action, Work in Progress)
Student Presentations
Due: Two One-minute Videos; Editing Demo
Made Public Lecture 2; Work in Plaster
Review: Made Public
Field Trip to the List Gallery and the Michael Joo Exhibition
Due: Hollywood Remix; Sound Demo
Discuss Reading; Student Presentations
Introduction to the third assignment, Body Extension; Visiting Artist Lecture: Edgar Heap
Field Trip to Mike Glier Project; Discussion of Readings
Introduction to the second assignment, Shaping Time
Body Extension Lecture; Sewing Machine Demo; Plan of Action Due
Work Time
In-Progress Review
Review: Body Extension
Review: Shaping Time
Plaster Exercise Due; Woodshop Demo
Work Day
Plaster Demo
Introduction to course and the first assignment, Made Public
Metal Shop Demo; View Videos
Discuss Readings; Guest Lecturer: Hiro Mori
Bring to Class an Exhaustive List of Private & Public Spaces; Made Public Lecture 1
a
Introduction to Building Technology
Physics of light, photometry
Forms of energy and active heating/cooling
Climate-responsive design
In-class quiz: thermal aspects, lighting
Integration of all aspects of building technology (class discussion)
Steel
Humid air
Heat flow
Sound and hearing
Room acoustics
Air flow
Passive controls, thermal balance
Thermal aspects of a building
Construction methods
Introduction
Designing with natural light
Condensation and moisture
Construction principles, foundations
Building elements: walls, openings, floors, roofs
Concrete
Vision and colors, visual comfort
Timber
Noise insulation
In-class quiz: acoustics, construction
Electric lighting
Thermal comfort and insulation
Masonry
Outside environment and human needs
Acoustic aspects of a building
Lighting aspects of a building
Fundamentals of Energy in Buildings
Water, refrigerants, gases
Conductive heat transfer, moisture transfer in walls
Applications
Review
Tour: Building 68, Koch Biology Building; and Building N51, MIT Museumand the Digital Design Fabrication Group
Entropy, cogeneration systems
Water: liquid and vapor
Natural ventilation
Convection
Steady state flow
Introduction to the second law
Heat pumps, refrigeration cycles
Quiz 2
Solar radiation, windows
Composite walls
Heat transfer introduction
Transients, moist air mixtures
Quiz 1
Introduction, energy
Energy conservation
Heating and cooling systems
Conservation of energy, heat
Psychrometrics
Energy, work
Introduction to design project 2: radiation
Human comfort
Quiz review
Computational Design I: Theory and Applications
TOPICS
Introduction
Basic Concepts
Shape Representation
Shape Arithmetic
Shape Rules
Basic Concepts (cont.)
Rule Application: Nondeterminism, Emergence, Labeling
Parametric Design and Grammars
Style and Analysis
"The Immediacy of the Artist's Mark in Computation" - Guest Lecture, Jacquelyn Martino
Style and Analysis (cont.)
Inference Problem
Decomposition and Meaning
Examples: Ice Rays, Palladio
Assignment 4 Review
Shaper3D Computer Program
Design Project Examples
Emergence and Predictability
Final Project Review
Student Presentations of their Assignments
Creative Design
Basic Grammars
Creative Design (cont.)
Beyond Basic Grammars
Creative Design (cont.)
Shaper2D Computer Program
Nondeterministic Shaper2D Computer Program
Creative Design (cont.)
Urban Design and Development - Fundamentals
Discussion of Exercise 2
Part 4: Changing Cities by Extending Them - Designing Suburbs and Regions
Questions of the day: How has concern for the landscape, open space, environment and quality of life shaped cities? Can cities be truly "green"?
Walking Tour of Boston
Part 5: Changing Cities by Redesigning Their Centers
Question of the day: How can urban designers, developers and planners create new economic value for historic places and the inner city?
Downtown Development and the Privatization of Public Space
Question of the day: How have advances in telecommunications technology changed the way we use and conceive cities?
Question of the day: What motivates planners to design new towns?
Guest speaker: Thomas Oles
Questions of the day: What assumptions does each thinker make about how people should live in cities? What beliefs does each hold about the relationship between city design and social change? What aspects of these "utopias" have actually come to pass?
Question of the day: How are concerns about safety and security shaping public space and redefining communities?
Question of the day: What does urban design have to do with the problems of American public housing?
Development Controls Part I: The Institutionalization of Planning and Zoning
Question of the day: How has public transportation policy shaped urban form?
Urban Renewal and Its Critics
Guest speaker: Thomas Oles
The Suburbs Part II: Rethinking American Suburbs
Part 2: The American City - The Forces That Shape Our Cities
Three Urban Utopias:
Shaping Private Development/Growth Management
The Forces That Made Boston
Questions of the day: What is the relationship between development incentives and quality public space? Can urban design guidelines and design review ensure good urban design? What are the newest development controls used by planners?
Discussion of Final Paper
Natural Processes
Questions of the day: What can you tell about a city's origins from its founders? What is the difference between agrarian settlements and industrial cities? What happened to cities as America industrialized?
- Le Corbusier's Radiant City
TOPICS
- Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City
Transportation and Its Impacts
Part 6: New Ways of Seeing, New Ways of Planning
Questions of the day: When does a "neighborhood" become a "slum"? How does one achieve a balance between "renewal" and "preservation"?
Questions of the day: What are the social consequences of sprawl? Can private development be controlled to manage growth on the regional scale? What are the current techniques used to manage growth?
Question of the day: Is 'Public Space' being 'Privatized'?
The Industrial City and Its Critics
The Rise of Community Activism
The Design of American Cities
Questions of the day: What is urban design? What is urban development? How are they connected and how do they affect our lives?
Ways of Seeing the City
Landscape, the Environment and the City
Questions of the day: How do "urbanism" and "suburbanism" differ as "ways of life"? What is the appeal of small town life, and can this be designed?
The Tumult of American Public Housing
Meet at the Government Center T-Stop (outside in front of the City Hall) at 8:00 am. For those students who can't join the tour until 10:30 - we will be in the Skywalk of the Prudential Center Tower (800 Boylston Street between Exeter and Gloucester Streets) at approximately 10:30 am. We will end the tour at noon at South Station Quincy Market where you can have lunch and/or catch a train back to MIT.
Guest speaker: LizbethHeyer, Associate Director of Community Development, Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation.
The Secure City - The Fortification of Space
New Towns in the United States and Abroad
Guest speaker: Dennis Frenchman
The Virtual City
Development Controls Part II: Beyond Zoning: Urban Design Guidelines, Design Review and Development Incentives
The Suburbs Part I: The Origins and Growth of Suburbs
Questions of the day: Can we design cities without designing buildings? How can zoning and other design controls improve our public space?
Part 3: Changing Cities by Designing New Ones
Questions of the day: What are the visible signs of change in cities? How can we measure the form of cities? How do the underlying values of the observer influence what is observed?
Midterm Exam
Final Exam
Part 1: What is Urban Design and Development? - Translating Values into Design
Questions of the day: Why do we have suburbs? How and why do the designs of new suburbs differ from the designs of older ones?
Questions of the day: What does the history of Boston's development tell us about the issues facing the city today? Are these forces common to all cities?
- Ebenezer Howard's Garden City
Questions of the day: What were nineteenth century and early twentieth century housing and workplace reformers trying to reform? Do we still have company towns?
Guest speaker: Professor Lawrence J. Vale
Introduction
Guest speaker: Westwood, MA town officials and Cabot, Cabot & Forbes representative - developers for new TOD in former industrial park along the Westwood commuter rail line.
Cultural Districts, Heritage Areas and Tourism: If You Name It, Will They Come?
Questions of the day: How has community participation changed urban design and development? Can urban development be a force for social equity?
MArch Portfolio Seminar
Web Tutorial
Review of Web Portfolios in class
Text and Image
Printed Matter
TOPICS
The Art of Description
Architects on Buildings
Written Intentions
Medium + Message
Review Portfolios in class
Architectural Design: Perceptions and Processes
Issue Program
Desk Crits/Model + Plans
Desk Crits/Sections
Desk Crits/Diagrams of Systems
Rooftop DIA Chelsea/Issue Design Problem
Discussion
Desk Crits
Pin-Up/Concept Model Development
Documentation Session
Desk Crits/Revised Plan + Sections
Desk Crits
Projects Due/Final Review Project 1
Desk Crits
Problem 5 Due
Review Re-presentation, Research from NYC and Initial Design Proposals
Final Review Week
3/4 Review/Model 1/8" Scale, Plan, Sections, Experience Image
TOPICS
Desk Crits/New Model at 1/8" Scale, Plan + Sections
Desk Crits/Model at 1/8" Scale
Desk Crits/Format Research
DIA Beacon, Storm King
Desk Crits
Field Trip
Desk Crits/Concept Discussion
Drawing Review/Issue Problem 2
Issue Problem 1a and 1
Desk Crits/Site Sections (3)
Field Trip DIA Beacon
Problem 4 Due
Desk Crits/Sectional Models (2)
Mid-Review/Plan, Section, Model
Desk Crits/3 Concept Models
Desk Crits/Experience Images, Perspectives/Collages
Architectural Design, Level II: Material Essence: The Glass House
TOPICS
Show and Tell
Introduction to Studios
Project 1: Introduction
All Studios - Field Trip to T. Island
Pin Up of First Individual Ideas/Concepts but in Groups
Group Esquisse
Hybridization
Desk Crits
Group Presentations of Design Strategies
Assignment of Faculty
Research, Development and Testing
Working Pin Ups with Faculty
Workshop
Prototype/Fabrication
Review of Group Work with Critics
Project 2A: Introduction
Wellesley Visit
Site Studies/Model
Desk Crits
Pin Up
Project 2B: Site and Material Studies
Tim Eliasson Lecture
Pin-up with Tim Eliasson
Trip to Tri-Pyramid, Concord
Pin Up
Field Trip: Fort Worth
Project 3 Concepts/Design Generation
Desk Crits
Pin-up with Guest Critics
Project 3.2: Design Organization
Andrew Scott in St Louis
Tony Hunt Lecture
Desk Crits
Mid Project Review
Project 4: Skin and Bones
Materials Language
Desk Crits
Peter Cook Lecture
Peter delTredici: Plants
Desk Crits
Desk Crits
Project 5: Prototype and Fabricate
Make and Test: Workshop
Pin-up
Desk Crits
Review
Final Project:
Design Synthesis/Presentation
Desk Crits
Mock-ups
MArch Thesis Reviews
Final Review
Architectural Design, Level II: Material and Tectonic Transformations: The Herreshoff Museum
Research, Development and Test
Studio
Studio / Shop Time
Studio
Research, Development and Test
Field Trip: Peabody / Essex Museum
Pin Up of First Ideas / Concepts
Group Esquisse
Lecture: George Brin / RISD
Final Review
Mid Term
Working Review
Studio
First Studio: Project 1 Group Introduction
Prototype / Production
Field Trip:
Studio
Studio
Working Review
Review
Review: Program / Concept
Studio
Lecture: Tim Eliason / Tri-Pyramid
Studio
Studio / Shop Time
Studio
Field Trip:
Lecture / Demonstration:
Lecture: FranoViolich
Field Trip to Thomson Island
Studio
Working Review
Last Studio
Studio
Review: Reliance Pavilion
Site Readings / Research Conferences
Informal Pin Up
Team Presentations x 12 of Design Strategies
Architectural Design, Level II: New Orleans Studio
TOPICS
1st Studio
Explanation of Project
Handout Materials
Discussion/Work/Critiques
Work/Critiques (cont.)
Pin-up of Assignment 1
Leave for New Orleans
Visit New Orleans
Visit New Orleans (cont.)
Return from New Orleans
Pin-up of Assignment 2
Work/Critiques (cont.)
Pin-up of Assignment 3
Work/Critiques (cont.)
Work/Critiques (cont.)
Pin-up of Assignment 4
Work/Critiques (cont.)
Work/Critiques (cont.)
Pin-up of Assignments 5 and 6
Work/Critiques (cont.)
Work/Critiques (cont.)
Work/Critiques (cont.)
Work/Critiques (cont.)
Mid-term Review
Work/Critiques (cont.)
Pin-up of Assignment 8
Work/Critiques (cont.)
Work/Critiques (cont.)
Pin-up of Sketch Assignment
Work/Critiques (cont.)
Work/Critiques (cont.)
Pin-up of Assignment 9
Work/Critiques (cont.)
Work/Critiques (cont.)
Work/Critiques (cont.)
Work/Critiques / Pin-up of Work in Progress
Work/Critiques (cont.)
Work/Critiques (cont.)
Work/Critiques (cont.)
Work/Critiques (cont.)
Last Studio - Final Review
Architectural Design, Level III: A Student Center for MIT
TOPICS
Discussion: Preparation for the Installation
Installation
Installation Review
Discussion: Issues
Conceptual Models
Material Model Review
Midterm Review
Discussion: Site
Content Review
Final Review
Urban Design Studio: Providence
Alternative Concepts
Urban Design: Public Spaces, Building Typologies and Plots, Facades and Streets, Urban Plan and Massing and Program
Documentation and Analysis
Interpretive Analysis
Part II: Urban Design Concept Development
Illustrative Design and Guidelines: Urban Guidelines, Streets, Spaces
Part III: Recommendations / Documentation
Part I: Background Research
Briefing and Reconnaissance
Documentation and Presentation
The Space Between Workshop
Work Time
North End Field Trip
Public Space as an Extension of Houses
Precedent Review
Space Between Models
Built Precedent
Work Time
In-class Critiques
In-class Critiques
Part III - The Space Between
In-class Critiques
Work Time
Part I - References and Precedent
North End Exploration
Part II - Public Space
Midterm Review
References in the Arts
Work Time
Detailed Models of Space and Transitions
Case Studies in City Form
Part 1. Introduction
Course Organization
City Tour
Part 2. Observation and Recording
Urban Elements
Buildings, Blocks, Streets, Spaces
Part 3. Research
Historic Urban Development (What it was)
Origins
The 18th Century
The Early 19th Century
The Late 19th Century
The Early 20th Century
The Late 20th Century
Part 4. Analysis
Urban Elements, Precedents, Comparisons (What it is)
Buildings Blocks
Streets
Squares and Parks
Quarters
Urban Fabric
Urban Fabric
Urban Fabric Civic Structure
Part 5. Urban Design
Theory
Issues and Goals, Principles - Project Identification
Design Projects
Part 6. Documentation
Report
Urban Handbook
Presentation
Sustainable Design and Technology Research Workshop
Research and Discussion for Assignment 1
Presentation of Assignment 1
Presentation of Assignment 2
Final Presentation (of Assignment 3 and the Work of the Semester) to Invited Guest Critics
Research and Discussion for Assignment 2
Research and Discussion for Assignment 3
Architectural Design Workshop:
Collage - Method and Form
Sequence 1: Extraction
Framing
Sequence 2: Expansion
Close Examination and Description
First Collage
Separation and Reattachment
Obliteration and Recovery
Aesthetic Extraction
Large Collage
King and Worker
Final Review
Reconstitution of Descriptions
Three Dimensional Interpretation
Sequence 3: Relational
Two-person Paper Collage and Museum Field Trip
Architectural Design Workshops: Computational Design for Housing
Design Problem (PDF)
Shape Grammars 3D
Developing Housing Units, Consultation with overseas partners using Netmeeting
Given Spatial Relations, AutoGrammar Tutorial
Adjustments of Shape Using AutoGrammar, Consultation with overseas partners using Netmeeting
Detailing of Housing Units, Presentation Images
Final Review
In-class work: Shape Grammars for the 2D site plan Group work with on-line consultation
Shape Grammars for the 3D study of the clusters
Special Problems in Architectural Design
Begin investigations via model making, material usage
TOPICS
Introduction to materials study
Diagramming
Presentation
Installation
House Analysis
Material Deployment Investigation
Final presentation
Introduction
In class desk discussion
Final presentation of house analysis
First short presentation on the chosen house
Architecture Design, Level II: Cuba Studio
Work/Crits
Work/Crits
Work/Crits
Work/Crits
Talk with Magda Fernadez / Discussion of Cuba / Interviews
Midterm
Revision
Leave for Cuba / Overnight in Miami
First Studio / Background Material / Lee Cott
Leave Cuba
Work/Crits
Cuba
Discussion of Trip
Revision
Discussion of Midterm
Work/Crits/Interviews
Work/Crits
Work/Crits/Interviews
Work/Crits
Work/Crits
Midterm Review
Arrive in Cuba
Work/Crits, Sketch Problem
Final Review
Work/Crits
Precedents in Critical Practice
LO-TEK
Bernard Tschumi: The Manhattan Transcripts; and one building by Tschumi
Jean Nouvel: La Fondation Cartier
Atelier Bow-Wow: Made in Tokyo; and one building by Bow-Wow
Program ? Performance (Relations, Effects, Atmospheres)
MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program finalists
dECOi
Office dA
Peter Eisenman: Cannaregio Project; and two early houses
UN Studio
Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown: Learning from Las Vegas
Machado and Silvetti: two projects in Boston
Herzog & de Meuron: American works
OMA: Seattle Central Library and Très Grande Bibliothèque
MVRDV
Atelier FCJZ
Mapping of contemporary discourse
Diller Scofidio + Renfro: early work; drawings; and ICA Boston
Reiser-Umemoto: Atlas of Novel Tectonics; and projects
Urban Plan ? Map of Operations
Shrinking Cities Competition
Drawing ? Scripting
Hernan Diaz
Utopia ? Projection
Steven Holl: early drawings; and Simmon Hall
FOA: Yokohama Terminal
Downsview Park Competition
West 8: Toronto Central Waterfront competition entry
Jürgen Mayer H.
Image ? Surface
Introduction
City ? Global Economy
Introduction
ZahaHadid: Vitra Fire Station; and BMW Central Plant
CAP (Ali Rahim and HinaJamelle)
R&Sie(n) Architects
Theory of City Form
Introduction
The Organic Model
Descriptive and Functional Theory
Some Recent Theoretical Propositions
Section Two: The Form of the Modern City
The Early Cities of Capitalism
London
Section One: The Nature of City Form Theory
Three Analogical Examples: The Cosmic Model
The Machine Model
Partial Realizations
Section Three: Current Theory and Practice
City Form and Process
Spatial and Social Structure
Paris
Vienna and Barcelona
Chicago
Organization and Control
Utopianism
Bi-polarity: Johannesburg / Soweto
Bi-polarity: San Diego / Tijuana, Delhi / New Delhi and Havana / Cuba
Modern and Post-modern Urbanism
Public and Private Domains
Suburbs and Periphery
Post-urbanism and Resource Conservation
Mega-urbanism
Open-endedness and Prophecy
Permanence and Rationality
Memory
Design Inquiry Fundamentals
Visual Calculating (cont.)
Digital Fabricating
Digital Fabricating (cont.)
Design Tooling
Design Tooling (cont.)
Your Design Metaphor
Design, Rules, and Cognition
TOPICS
Metaphors We Design and Compute By
Metaphors We Design and Compute By (cont.)
Silent Game
Silent Game (cont Design, Rules, and Cognition (cont.)
Design, Practice, Education, Grammars
Evolutionary Computation: Algorithms Red in Tooth and Claw
Visual Calculating
Discuss Silent Game
Discussion of 6.
Formal grammar: Guest, TakehikoNagakura
Evolutionary Grammars: Guest, John Gero
The Power of Shape: Guest, George Stiny
Characteristics of Design
Tool Maker's Paradigm
Discussion of 7, Part 2: Guest, TakehikoNagakura
Introduction / Woodland Cemetery
Optimization - Key to Generative Systems? Guest, John Alex
Deterministic and Evolutionary Computation in Design: Guest, Bill Mitchell
Discussion of Field Trip
Final Discussion
Simulated Evolution, Class Game: Guest, Ben Loomis
Discussion of Part 4 of Reading a Building
Discussion of Reading a Building (Cont.)
Discussion of Replication
Discussion of 9. Guests, Edith Ackermann and Terry Knight
Discuss Objects
Reading Strategies
Discussion of Infinite Corridor
Exeter Library Field Trip
Play Silent Game
Music and Rules: Room 4-364
Discussion of Reading a Building: The Exeter Library
Discuss Objects
Discussion of Type
Discussion of 7: Guest, TakehikoNagakura
Discussion of 8: Guests, Ben Loomis, Alex Kilian
Furniture Making
Intro/Slides
Wood/Plywood/Products/Behavior of wood
MFA Visit
Design/Milling/SquareBoard
Mitch Ryerson Presentation
Work Day
Dovetail/Handtools
Pin-Up Rough Sketch
Power Tools
Lumber Arrives/Distribute
Jig Making
Vacuum Bag Bending of Plywood,
using the Router 3 Ways
Work Day (cont.)
Work Day (cont.)
Work Day (cont.)
End of Semester: Display of Finished Pieces
Studio Seminar in Public Art
Research, context, process and criticism.
Site specific.Time specific.Context specific.
The socio-political significance of the placement and imposition of symbols in the public arena.
The awareness of artists and architects to project and discuss these forms.
Dialogue and collaboration.
Natural Light in Design
TOPICS
Welcome, class introduction, design project (teams formed on following morning)
General introduction to daylighting (benefits, design issues, thermal aspects, built examples)
Introduction to building simulation (why simulations for architects, tools used in this course)
Photometry (definition, measurement, typical values, DF definition)
Static daylighting metrics (context of LEED, selected results from NRC survey, DF and solar shading)
Daylight factor calculations: Sky models CIE and Perez, split-flux method, LEED spreadsheet method
Daylight factor simulation: Design sky, split flux method in Ecotect
• Hands-on exercise: DF calculation in Ecotect (split flux)
• Hands-on exercise: solar shading module in Ecotect
Introduction to Radiance
Hands-on exercise: Radiance visualizations
Hands-on exercise: DF calculation in Ecotect (Radiance)
Climate data (Data definition and measurement, energy and weather data directory)
Hands-on exercise: Weather tool in Ecotect
Overview on visual comfort (glare, contrast, recommendations)
Dynamic metrics and related tools
Hands-on exercise: Daysim exercise from tutorial interrupted by discussions on:
Short time steps dynamics
Daylight coefficients
User behavior model
Daylight autonomy results
Hands-on exercise: Students to repeat DF, solar shading and daylight aautonomy analyses on their own
End of first day
TOPICS
Miscellany: Announcements, organization of design project teams
Hands-on exercises: Review yesterday's content
Daylit buildings and technologies (including advanced materials)
Introduction to advanced radiance materials, Ecotect's RADTOOL
Hands-on exercises: Import geometries and materials from other programs (SketchUp, AutoCAD®)
Specialty topics (to be suggested by participants before the workshop)
Hands-on exercises: Participants start working on their own models (participants will have the opportunity to discuss their project ideas with the instructors)
Continue previous activities
End of second day
TOPICS
Welcome
Team 1: BuroHappold project on daylit parking
Team 2: Façade renovation vs. transformation project on building 26
Team 3: Payette project on Aga Khan University
Team 4: Sasaki project on Sacred Heart University
Team 5: Fanning/Howey project on schools
Team 6: Design project on greenhouse/patio space
IES virtual environment demonstration
Team 7: Design project on hospital patient room
Team 8: Green roundtable project on Nexus Center
Team 9: Andelman/Lelek project on simulation tools comparison
General discussion about projects, workshop and software capabilities
End of workshop
Digital Design Fabrication
TOPICS
Welcome, class introduction, design project (teams formed on following morning)
General introduction to daylighting (benefits, design issues, thermal aspects, built examples)
Introduction to building simulation (why simulations for architects, tools used in this course)
Photometry (definition, measurement, typical values, DF definition)
Static daylighting metrics (context of LEED, selected results from NRC survey, DF and solar shading)
Daylight factor calculations: Sky models CIE and Perez, split-flux method, LEED spreadsheet method
Daylight factor simulation: Design sky, split flux method in Ecotect
Hands-on exercise: DF calculation in Ecotect (split flux)
Hands-on exercise: solar shading module in Ecotect
Introduction to Radiance
Hands-on exercise: Radiance visualizations
Hands-on exercise: DF calculation in Ecotect (Radiance)
Climate data (Data definition and measurement, energy and weather data directory)
Hands-on exercise: Weather tool in Ecotect
Overview on visual comfort (glare, contrast, recommendations)
Dynamic metrics and related tools
Hands-on exercise: Daysim exercise from tutorial interrupted by discussions on:
Short time steps dynamics
Daylight coefficients
User behavior model
Daylight autonomy results
Hands-on exercise: Students to repeat DF, solar shading and daylight aautonomy analyses on their own
End of first day
TOPICS
Miscellany: Announcements, organization of design project teams
Hands-on exercises: Review yesterday's content
Daylit buildings and technologies (including advanced materials)
Introduction to advanced radiance materials, Ecotect's RADTOOL
Hands-on exercises: Import geometries and materials from other programs (SketchUp, AutoCAD®)
Specialty topics (to be suggested by participants before the workshop)
Hands-on exercises: Participants start working on their own models (participants will have the opportunity to discuss their project ideas with the instructors)
Continue previous activities
End of second day
TOPICS
Welcome
Team 1: BuroHappold project on daylit parking
Team 2: Façade renovation vs. transformation project on building 26
Team 3: Payette project on Aga Khan University
Team 4: Sasaki project on Sacred Heart University
Team 5: Fanning/Howey project on schools
Team 6: Design project on greenhouse/patio space
IES virtual environment demonstration
Team 7: Design project on hospital patient room
Team 8: Green roundtable project on Nexus Center
Team 9: Andelman/Lelek project on simulation tools comparison
General discussion about projects, workshop and software capabilities
End of workshop
Digital Mock-Up Workshop
Part A - Systems Engineering for Digital Fabrication
Digital Mock-Ups
Tall Buildings
Tall Building Design
Tower Design Analysis
Research Case - Design Production
Mock-Up - Control
Materials and Assemblies
Façade Design
Façade Redesign
Field Trip to NYC (Grimshaw and Sorkin)
Part B - Design Production
Tower Design 1
Tower Design 2
Tower Design 3
Field Trip to London
Design Adjustment
Redesign
Final Presentation
Inquiry into Computation and Design
TOPICS
Introduction / Metaphor
The Silent Game I
Metaphors We Design and Compute By
The Silent Game II
Design, Rules, and Cognition I
Design, Rules, and Cognition II
Visual Calculating I
Visual Calculating II
Machine Computing I
Machine Computing II
Digital Fabricating I
Digital Fabricating II
Design Knowledge I
Design Knowledge II
Moving On