ARCH 1030
ARCH 1030 challenges students to think, draw and fabricate critically. Material is presented through lectures, projects and workshops to engage foundational techniques in representation and design strategies.
Course Name
ARCH 1030 | Introduction to Architecture
Course Type
Foundation Studio 1
Instructors
Anselmo Canfora (coordinator)
Ryan Carbone / Lauren Nelson / Erin Root / Megan Suau
Semester
Spring 2015
Institution
University of Virginia
This course fosters the development of students’ design methodology founded on thoughtful, creative, ethical, sustainable, and rigorous work practices. Moreover, this course seeks to illuminate ways design has been historically – and is currently – influenced by theoretical, conceptual, spatial, and formal intentions. Additionally, it considers the way in which economic, social, cultural, material, and technological agencies affect the built environment in a given time and place.
The goal is to sustain an open conceptual framework, which facilitates the development of a substantive body of visual literacy and design principles and practices toward the promotion of judicious and insightful design processes and proposals. It is our collective responsibility to establish and maintain an environment rich in discussion, production, and intellectual exchange.
A series of exercises will help implement and guide the development of skill sets. The exercises are designed to act as integral and complementary components of the design projects and are intended to help students learn how to break down a design problem and begin to understand it as a matrix of variable conditions: time, temperature, space, materials, assemblies, structures, textures, and poetics – to name only some.