BUILDING & LANDSCAPE

Kinnard [C]

Lin | Redfield | Roser Gray | Lockhart

This studio focuses on the role of the landscape in architectural design and the development of basic skills in site analysis, site design, and site representation. Site characteristics are to be understood as both natural — a result of the actions of nature — and cultural — a result of the actions of people.

Students are introduced to a range of conceptual strategies for articulating the relationship between building and site, developing the ability to sculpt the surface of the land to accommodate human activities.

The course highlights the designer’s ethical obligations to the larger network of social and ecological systems and conditions. Building design themes include spatial organization and hierarchy, circulation, structure, and enclosure. The studio is integrated with digital media classes to ensure that students gain fluency in computer-aided design processes, drawing, spatial modeling, and digital design techniques.

Scott Bernhard Associate Dean for Academics