Rethinking basic design in architectural education : foundations past and future / Mine Özkar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Özkar, Mine, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

Series:

Routledge research in architecture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Study and teaching.

Architecture.

Architecture--Curricula.

Design--Study and teaching.

Design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 156 pages.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Rethinking Basic Design in Architectural Education provides historical and computational insights into beginning design education for architecture. Inviting the readers to briefly forget what is commonly known as basic design, it delivers the account of two educators, Denman W. Ross and Arthur W. Dow, from the turn of the twentieth century in Northeast America, interpreting key aspects of their methodology for teaching foundations for design and art. This alternate intellectual context for the origins of basic design as a precursor to computational design complements the more haptic, more customized, and more open-source design and fabrication technologies today. Basic design described and illustrated here as a form of low-tech computation offers a setting for the beginning designer to consciously experience what it means to design. Individualized dealings with materials, tools, and analytical techniques foster skills and attitudes relevant to creative and technologically adept designers. The book is a timely contribution to the theory and methods of beginning design education when fast-changing design and production technology demands change in architecture schools' foundations curricula. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Early Beginnings 9

1 Seeing Design in Art: Visions of Denman Waldo Ross 11

2 Abstract Forms and Form Relations: Arthur Wesley Dow 35

3 The Psychology for Basic Design in the Late Nineteenth Century 45

Part II Looking to the Future 81

4 The Disillusioning Pasts of Basic Design 83

5 Computational Design Foundations 111

6 Conclusion: Pragmatics of a Foundational Studio 141.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

ISBN:

9781315740003

1315740001

Publisher Number:

99988766426

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.