Introduction to Architectural and Spatial Design New

This intensive, one-week course introduces students to concepts and methods for executing a spatial design project. Students will, through instructor and peer critique, be guided through intensive studio design exercises, following a project through multiple iterations, starting from abstract form-making and developing the project into a finished architectural or spatial design proposal. Students will be introduced to the drawing and representational tools used by architects and designers and use those to cultivate students’ own ideas about space and design through making. By the end of the course, students will have gained experience hand-drafting and model-making, understand the processes by which architects and designers address spatial problems, and leave with a design project that can form the basis of a portfolio.