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Student Studios
(cont.) - 505, 601, 701
| LA 505 |
Landscape Representation
AMAECHI
OKIGBO
In landscape design, graphics are used as a language to present
design ideas and solutions. Understanding the graphic vocabulary
used in landscape design for representing design elements
as information is of fundamental importance. With this knowledge,
students can communicate design solutions more effectively
while addressing a range of design issues associated with
projects of varying scale. This studio seeks to develop the
students’ capacities for pictorial and spatial analysis
through visual representation, and is structured to promote
their exploration of space, theory and practice, while exposing
them to various design media. The goal is to use graphic experimentation
as an apparatus for studying physical and psychological space
and the effect of light on the constructed punctuations in
those spaces.
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Kathleen
Neal
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Jeremy Kane
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| LA 601 |
Integrating Theory & Practice
Peter Trowbridge
Course participants were required to creatively engage in
the assessment of primary and secondary information sources,
inventory and assess conditions of a site with increased emphasis
placed on historical, social, and ecological principles. They
focused on the expression of solutions that originate from
an explicit sense of site and place. Social, cultural, historic
and urban ecological factors and their relationship to design
and planning were critically explored through theory and practice
in this studio. Projects focused on a clear set of strategies
and / or techniques required for it’s successful completion.
The requirements for each project by their nature, cause discussion
and debate, and serve as a means to apply and expand the students
present knowledge, ability to assess an array of information
types and develop design skills.
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John Knowlton
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Ted Haffner
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| LA 701 |
Urbanism: Transurbanizing Cities & Sites
HERB GOTTFRIED & PAULA HORRIGAN
This design studio engaged participants in the design of sites
as repositories of urban life. Working with site, architecture,
environmental and cultural systems, the designs created places
that critically addressed traditional theories and practices
of city shaping while envisioning new concepts for constructing
dynamic urban interactions. Course objectives were to investigate,
understand and test the theoretical frameworks of transurbanism,
ecosystem design and place-making and how they inform design
thinking and making. Students pursued design as a speculative
and creative inquiry and process which challenged theories
and knowledge through critical practices. The intention was
to develop rigorous habits of engaging a place and site using
a variety of design research modes, creating designs, which
deepen the interrelationships between human and nonhuman community,
culture, site, meaning.
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Jeanette Ankoma-Sey
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Danna Nicole Kinsey
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Marc Miller &
Shelley Swanson
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| LA 701 |
Designing Cities in the Electronic
Age
ROGER TRANCIK
This collaborative studio was arranged by the City and Regional
Planning and Landscape Architecture departments to introduce
students to urban spatial systems, their physical planning
and design, and techniques for urban design graphics and visual
presentation. This studio course was about urbanism and the
design of public spaces and buildings in the context of the
city’s bid for the 2010 Olympic Games. The particular
emphasis was on digital techniques for urban design and the
use of computer technology in a “virtual” space
environment. Exercises introduced digital modeling in Form-Z
as a tool for urban design. This was followed by a research
and analysis study intended to teach the concepts and theories
of urban design.
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Alexander Hart
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Christine Simpson
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Craig Johnson
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Bret Lebleu
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