Learn design principles for creating spaces for people. You will utilize design, methodology, and space-making principles to gain fundamental knowledge and skills in environmental design, and prepare for future architecture and landscape architecture studios.

Course Learning Outcomes

• Contribute to creating a Studio Culture by participating in class discussions and design critiques
• Use an iterative design process incorporating faculty feedback to make revisions
• Communicate design concepts by abstracting architectural elements in diagrams
• Represent architectural elements correctly to scale in drawings and physical models
• Incorporate natural light and human body dimensions to create spatial experiences
• Compose space-defining architectural elements in response to site conditions
• Create a visual hierarchy to organize information

NAAB Criteria

• This course addressses NAAB PC.7 Learning and Teaching Culture: How the program fosters and ensures a positive and respectful environment that encourages optimism, respect, sharing, engagement, and innovation among its faculty, students, administration, and staff

Student Project by: Jonathan T. Lee