1st Edition
Building Meaning An Architecture Studio Primer on Design, Theory, and History
Introduction
1. Context
2. Inhabitation
3. Building Organization
4. Form
5. Nature
6. Tectonics and Materiality
7. Representation
8. Design Methodologies
Biography
Tamara Metz, adjunct professor in the Architectural Design Department at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, is an architectural educator with more than 20 years’ teaching experience. She previously taught both undergraduate and graduate studio courses, as well as advanced drawing and research seminars at Suffolk University, Roger Williams University, and the Boston Architectural Center. She studied architecture and philosophy as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, and went on to earn the Masters in Architecture degree, with honors, at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She has worked in top design offices, including (among others) those of Peter Rose + Partners and Brian Healy Architects.
