Course Details

1. Create architectural designs that satisfy both aesthetic and technical requirements
2. Use adequate knowledge of the history and theories of architecture and the related arts, technologies and human sciences;
3. Identify fine arts as an influence on the quality of architectural design;

Visual Reasoning in Design:  Developing a visual discipline at selecting, interpreting and explaining through graphical layouts. Outlining thoughtful connections of data and information, and an ethic against pseudo-information.

Architectural Theories and Representation: Illustrating architectural movements that developed clear editorial control with a distinct narrative structure.

Media Arts and Visual Culture:  Outlining graphic design fundamentals in conjunction with other disciplines that lead to the cognitive abilities, which underlie the creative phenomena of representation in design.

• Envisioning Information, Edward R. Tufte, Graphics Press, Cheshire - Connecticut 1998.
• The Language of New Media, Lev Manovich, MIT Press 2002
• The Projective Cast, Architecture and it’s Three Geometries, Robin Evans, MIT Press 2000

• Course notes
• Periodicals e.g. el croquis, The Architectural Review, Detail, Arch+, A10 etc.

The taught part of the course is delivered to the students by means of lectures, conducted with the help of computer presentations. Lecture notes and presentations are available through the web for students to use in combination with the textbooks.

Laboratory work is carried out on the laboratory’s computers. In the first part of the semester students will have to complete a short exercise each week, these exercises assume some familiarity with the most widely used software such as Photoshop and InDesign. During laboratory sessions, students work in parallel with the instructor. Through this process students develop the essential skills to apply on their single piece of portfolio work. Before the end of the semester students have ample time for face-to-face sessions with the instructor for discussion and possible questions.