Description
DS1101 1GB studio Fundamental Architectural Principles 2
Organizational Systems
This course is a continuation and expansion of the fundamental issues of architecture introduced in the first studio of the core sequence. The interrelationship between geometry- form-tectonics-and materiality is explored as it relates to overarching organizational systems and emergent systemic behaviors driven by programmatic content-structural logics and physical setting. Program and structure are considered to be creative components of design rather than fixed entities. Students are given the Emerging Professionals Companion along with updated IDP information. The working methodologies introduced in 1GA are expanded and refined to allow each student to continue developing conceptual frameworks and productive techniques for the creation of architecture. As the first part of the Graduate Program?s Comprehensive Design Sequence, this course challenges students to design both site and buildings accommodati