1st Edition

Rethinking Basic Design in Architectural Education Foundations Past and Future

By Mine Ozkar Copyright 2017
166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

Rethinking Basic Design in Architectural Education provides historical and computational insights into beginning design education for architecture. Inviting the readers to briefly forget what is commonly known as basic design, it delivers the account of two educators, Denman W. Ross and Arthur W. Dow, from the turn of the twentieth century in Northeast America, interpreting key aspects of... Read more

Introduction, Part I: Early Beginnings, 1. Seeing Design in Art: The Vision of Denman Waldo Ross, 2. Abstract Forms and Form Relations: The Vision of Arthur Wesley Dow, 3. The Psychology for Basic Design in the late 19th century, Part II: Looking to the Future, 4. The Disillusioning Pasts of Basic Design, 5. Computational Design Foundations, 6. Conclusion: Pragmatics of a Foundational Design Studio

Biography

Mine Özkar is Professor of Architecture at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. Collaborating with design professionals, computer scientists, and art historians, her research focuses on visual, spatial, and material aspects of design computation, and their integration to foundational design education. She holds a PhD in design and computation from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA.