| Course Unit Title | ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN I |
| Course Unit Code | APX101 |
| Course Unit Details | Int.M. Architectural Engineering (Required Courses) - BA Architecture (Required Courses) - |
| Number of ECTS credits allocated | 12 |
| | Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:- Define general ideas related to design and architectural processes.
- Identify the principles that guide aesthetics, scale, proportions, materiality and recognize how these relate to the design process.
- Apply drawing, model making and photography skills in order to develop a methodology toward solving compositional and conceptual problems.
- Analyze a set of given parameters and recognize their significance towards identifying architectural issues.
- Create a small scale 3-dimensional space that satisfies’s both aesthetic and simple programmatic requirements.
- Evaluate the outcome of their work, justify their proposed solutions and appraise the significance of the architectural process towards the invention and expression of innovative ideas and problem solving.
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| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face |
| Prerequisites | NONE | Co-requisites | NONE |
| Recommended optional program components | NONE |
| Course Contents | The studio course attempts to introduce students to architecture. Observation, analysis, communication, creation, methodology are seen as the tools of architectural discourse. A series of short exercises is given to introduce issues of scale, size, proportions and the relationship between the human body and architectural form. A final exercise is given where students are asked to incorporate all the architectural processes into a small scale project.
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| Recommended and/or required reading: |
| Textbooks | - Francis D.K. Ching, Architecture Form & Space, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1979.
- Sophia Vyzoviti, Folding Architecture, Spatial, Structural & Organizational Diagrams, Bispublishers, 2008.
- Acconci Vito, Schachter Kenny, Art Becomes Architecture Becomes Art, Springer, 2005.
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| References | - Adrian Forty, Words and Buildings: a vocabulary of modern architecture, London: Thames&Hudson, 2000
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| Planned learning activities and teaching methods | The course is delivered to the students by means of lectures, demonstrations, workshops, drawing & model making exercises, written and aural presentations. Students work in studio through personal tutoring, group critiques and final assessments.
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| Assessment methods and criteria | | Class participation | 10% | | Midterm presentation (1) | 15% | | Midterm presentation (2) | 15% | | Methodology, experimentation, research | 20% | | Final presentation | 40% |
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| Language of instruction | Greek |
| Work placement(s) | NO |
