Architecture Studio: Intentions

Undergraduate · Historical course

Spring 2005

This is the second undergraduate design studio. It introduces a full range of architectural ideas and issues through drawing exercises, analyses of precedents, and explored design methods. Students will develop design skills by conceptualizing and representing architectural ideas and making aesthetic judgments about building design. Discussions regarding architecture's role in mediating culture, nature and technology will help develop the students' architectural vocabulary.

Readings

Buy at MIT Press Rowe, Colin, ed. “Mathematics of the Ideal Villa.” In Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987, pp. 1-29. ISBN: 0262680378. ↗
Listed reading
Kahn, Louis I., ed. “The Value and Aim in Sketching.” In Writings, Lectures, Interviews . New York, NY: Rizzoli International Publications, 1991, pp. 10-14.
Listed reading
Corbusier, Le. The Modulor: A Harmonious Measure to the Human Scale Universally Applicable to Architecture and Mechanics . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1971. ISBN: 0262620065.
Listed reading
Villa Savoie - Poissy, France - Le Corbusier, 1929.
Listed reading
Villa Garches (Villa Stein) - Garches, France - Le Corbusier, 1927.
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Spring 2004 · Architectural Design: Intentions

Topics

Set-up Space
Review of Exercise 1: Body Drawings
Group Organization
Site Visit
Review of Project 1, Assignment 1: Analysis
Sketch Problem
Talk
Review of Project 1, Assignment 2: Concept Development
Desk Crits
Review of Project 1, Assignment 3: Sectional Drawings
Review of Project 1, Assignment 4: Axon
Final Review of Project 1
Assignment 2: Intensive Perspective Week
Review: Intensive Perspective Week
Project 2, Assignment 1: Introduction and Analysis
Review: Project 2, Assignment 1: Introduction and Analysis
Review: Project 2, Assignment 2: Concept Development
In-class Review
Preparation for the Final
Final Review of Project 2

Sources

Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
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Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.
Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.