ARCH1001 Introduction to Architecture
Target Students BSSc1
Course Term 2
Course Type Required
Teacher Kelly Chow; Caroline Wuethrich; Jimmy Ho; Lily Zhang; Wataru Shinji
ARCH1001 explores creative process and design practices in viewing, experiencing, reading, and ultimately producing FORM. Skills of representation and fabrication are introduced in the context of the development of each student’s capacity to observe, interpret and translate design concepts into physical form.
Students will explore various tools, instruments, techniques, and processes, relating them to the study of architecture. The aim is to expose the students to a spectrum of design skills and transformations through a precise and rich set of tools and armatures and introduce the art of architecture as a design process and language that activates, mediates and politicizes the built environment and its subjects.
Upon the completion of the course, students will have gained an understanding of architectural design and the nature of design process as a systematic and non-arbitrary method of generating and evaluating architectural form. Students will acquire a method of analysis involving various graphic means and physical model making.
Students will also develop an appreciation for the role of architectural precedent in design thinking and process. At the end of this course, students will be able to employ the basic techniques of planimetric drawing and physical modelling to communicate an architectural concept and design.
