- Design Foundation IV Units: 6

Catalog description

This studio course continues exploring Conceptual Development. It develops students' understanding of the values of disciplinary knowledge by interrogating and elaborating on case studies to explore methodologies of design processes that result in architectural work. Students learn to analyze case studies and site conditions while developing their own design skills using precedent methodology. They will articulate the many factors present within a precedent study to support the analysis and understanding of a subject's design methods. Combining architectural design processes and methods via precedent, through design exercises, comparative analysis, and critical discussions, both theoretically and practically, students will begin to experiment with a small-scale piece of architecture.