College of Design, Construction and Planning 231 Architecture Building School of Architecture PO Box 115702 Gainesville, FL 32611-5702 352-392-0205 352-392-4606 Fax ADVANCED GRADUATE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 1 ARC 6241 Sections 0418, 0419, 6430 Credits: 6 Class: MWF 2:00 4:45 pm Course Fall 2013 Instructors: Lee-Su Huang, Bradley Walters, Albertus Wang Course Description Advanced Graduate Architectural Design 1 studio introduces students to the challenges and rigors of developing a philosophical position and research-based design process as the foundation for a career in architectural design and practice. Emphasis concentrates on cultivating self-directed speculation, analytical thinking, and synthetic design exploration within the framework of an organized studio program. The framed program anticipates incorporating multiple trajectories offered by companion courses both within and beyond the School of Architecture and students are encouraged to draw from this knowledge. Students will begin to develop authorship positions and self-directed processes to produce compelling schematic design phase architectural proposals for the studio program. Students are expected to develop their ideas philosophically, conceptually, and architecturally through schematic design phase to provide a strong foundation in critical thinking and architectural design. Students are encouraged to use this comprehensive course to germinate scholarship and personal perspectives that will be expanded in future studios and the Masters Research Project. An introductory three-week long assignment as a catalyst to provoke a sequence of investigations will establish the framework of issues for investigation for the remainder of the term. Research and analysis, framed and reframed through design synthesis, will provide an intellectual foundation from which the studio will evolve architectural responses to program, place and time. The primary studio project will investigate relations among the public realm (civic space), city history, culture, ecological context, and more recent issues of tourism, economic development, and sustainability. Advanced Studio I, will question the role of architecture in contemporary culture through the design of a urban civic space that embodies the community, honors local history, and embodies a civic vision. The majority of the semester will be devoted to developing philosophical and architectural languages that can be transformed into a highly resolved proposal. Intermediate deadlines will be assigned but it is important for students to be self-motivated and develop personal goals and targets to bring their ideas to resolution to meet the deadlines. Project briefs will be provided outlining in more detail project objectives and schedules. Pedagogic Objectives 1. To engage context and architectural programming as the primary generative activity affecting design processes; 2. To encourage and refine speculative procedures of investigative production as an integral component of design activity;
3. To intersect architectural disciplinary modalities and thinking with broader cultural developments especially as they affect contemporary public buildings and civic space; 4. To nurture independent and critically aware graduate students. Pedagogic Methods 1. Making the familiar unfamiliar finding the extraordinary within the ordinary and challenging known contexts as places of renewed speculation and inspiration. 2. Engaging modalities of individually motivated inquiry and design that is based on a variety of related precedents. 3. Emphasis is placed on self-assessment and self-criticism to establish intellectual positions, a frame of reference, and architecturally appropriate responses to the cultural and contextual issues introduced in the studio. Process The semester is built around two interrelated projects. Students will explore the physical and cultural context through site visits, field studies, precedent studies, stakeholder presentations and discussions, and traditional scholarly research. Students will use traditional sketching and schematic physical models along with CAD software, parametric plug-ins and other analysis software, and rendering software to translate contextually driven ideas into architectural proposals. The studio will require ever advancing design iterations that become more complex in their architectural detailing, philosophical exploration and refinement of personal architectural vocabulary. Intermediate informal class reviews, desk critiques and formal presentations that include stakeholder meetings and academic critiques will be the primary evaluation mechanism of student work. Studio Culture Students arriving directly from undergraduate programs or returning from practice to complete their professional degree should be familiar with studio culture. It is critical that students and faculty contribute to a positive, rigorous and focused environment that is both challenging and rewarding. At the graduate level, students must be self-motivated and contribute to studio inquiry, discourse and production. Faculty will set the agenda, provide a framework of reference materials, and will provide feedback, criticism and guidance to students. Students will proactively engage the issues set forward, advance the inquiry and work collaboratively and individually to develop a body of work derived from the studio agenda. Attendance Policy Late and /or incomplete work will not be accepted. Attendance and working in lecture and lab is mandatory. Three unexcused absences will result in a full letter grade deduction, while four or more unexcused absences will result in an automatic "E" semester grade. Unexcused late arrival or early departure from the seminar is unacceptable and will automatically count as an absence. Plagiarism will not be tolerated, and will result in a failing grade for the semester. Faculty Contact In addition to individually listed office hours, studio critics will be available by appointment outside of the regularly scheduled studio time. Please feel free to contact us by email to schedule an appointment. Lee-Su Huang Bradley Walters Albertus Wang leehuang@ufl.edu bradley.walters@ufl.edu albertusslwang@gmail.com hrs: Th 2:00-4:00 pm hrs: tbd hrs: tbd Martin Gold, William Tilson, Guy Peterson Page 2 of 5
UF University Policies Evaluation Policy Students are expected to be present and prepared for all class sessions, group discussions reviews and field trips. Each instructor will outline the specific criteria to be used in evaluating projects. The School uses the University s standard grading system, a letter grade that is translated into points of course credit as follows: Grade Values for Conversion May 11, 2009 and After Letter Grade A A- B+ B B- C+ C C- D+ D D- E, I, NG, S- U, WF Grade Points 4.0 3.67 3.33 3.00 2.67 2.33 2.00 1.67 1.33 1.00.67 0.00 Please note that The University requires that a graduate student maintain a 3.0 (B) average to remain in good academic standing. Every possible effort is made to counsel students in academic difficulty to determine the cause and possible solution so that the student can continue and complete their studies in the University. The graduate design studio and support courses are in required sequences that must be taken in order. An incomplete ("I") grade for any graduate or undergraduate architecture design studio prerequisite course must be resolved with a grade change form completed before the first day of class of the following semester in order to enroll in the next course of the studio sequence. Faculty that issue incomplete grades must be available to work with their student and complete the grade change form prior to the first day of classes the following semester. Special circumstances can be addressed through an official appeals process with the SoA Director and the approval of the course instructor. UF Grading Policy Information on UF s grading policy can be found at the following location: http://www.registrar.ufl.edu/catalog/policies/regulationgrades.html UNIVERSITY POLICY ON ACCOMMODATING STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES: Students requesting accommodation for disabilities must first register with the Dean of Students Office (http://www.dso.ufl.edu/drc/). The Dean of Students Office will provide documentation to the student who must then provide this documentation to the instructor when requesting accommodation. You must submit this documentation prior to submitting assignments or taking the quizzes or exams. Accommodations are not retroactive, therefore, students should contact the office as soon as possible in the term for which they are seeking accommodations. UNIVERSITY POLICY ON ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT: Academic honesty and integrity are fundamental values of the University community. Students should be sure that they understand the UF Student Honor Code at http://www.dso.ufl.edu/students.php. **NETIQUETTE: COMMUNICATION COURTESY: All members of the class are expected to follow rules of common courtesy in all email messages, threaded discussions and chats. [Describe what is expected and what will occur as a result of improper behavior] http://teach.ufl.edu/docs/netiquetteguideforonlinecourses.pdf College of Design, Construction and Planning Spray Painting Policy Martin Gold, William Tilson, Guy Peterson Page 3 of 5
Spray painting, or the use of any other sort of aerosol spray, is not allowed in the Architecture Building, Rinker Hall and in Fine Arts C, except within the spray booth found in Room 211 of Fine Arts C. Students found in violation of this policy will be referred to the Dean of Students for disciplinary action. Disclaimer: This syllabus represents my current plans and objectives for the course. As we go through the semester, those plans may need to change to enhance the class learning opportunity. Such changes, communicated clearly, are not unusual and should be expected. Martin Gold, William Tilson, Guy Peterson Page 4 of 5
ANNEX A Selected Readings Below are selected general readings supplied by each instructor for study by all students. Each studio will develop a more extensive resource list supporting the conceptual direction of the studio over the course of the semester. The Function of Form Farshid Moussavi ; edited with Daniel López... [et al.]. Barcelona ; New York : Actar ; [Cambridge, Mass.] : Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 2009. The Function of Ornament Edited by Farshid Moussavi and Michael Kubo. Barcelona : Actar, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 2006 Ecological Urbanism Edited by Mohsen Mostavi with Gareth Doherty. Baden, Switzerland : Lars Muller, 2010 Verb natures [edited by Irene Hwang... et al. ; Spanish to English translations by Graham Thomson]. Barcelona : Actar, 2006 Urbanisms : working with doubt Steven Holl. New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2009 Bouge l'architecture : villes et mobilités [commissaires de l'exposition, Francis Rambert... [et al.]] = Architecture on the move : cities and mobilities / [exhibition organizers, Francis Rambert... [et al.]]. Barcelona, Espagne : Actar, 2003 Carchitecture Jonathan Bell ; [with additional texts by Liz Bailey... et al.]. London : August ; Boston : Birkhäuser, 2001 Zaha Hadid : car park and terminus Strasbourg : European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, Mies van der Rohe Award 2003 Stéphane Hof, Claudia Klein, Lars Müller. Baden : L. Müller, 2004 Motortecture : Architektur für Automobilität = design for automobility Meyhöfer, Dirk Ludwigsburg : AVedition, 2003 The sustainable city II : urban regeneration and sustainability International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability Brebbia,C.A.; Martin Duque,J.F.; Wadhwa,L.C. WIT Press, Southampton, UK ; Boston, 2002 The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis De Meyer, Dirk, Versluys, Kristiaan, Borret, Kristiaan, Eeckhout, Bart, Jacobs, Steven, Keunen, Bart, 2004 Colonizing the void : Adriaan Geuze, West 8 Landscape Architects Hans van Dijk; A Geuze; Nederlands Architectuurinstituut. Rotterdam : NAI Publishers, 1996 Martin Gold, William Tilson, Guy Peterson Page 5 of 5