Using the attached images and readings, you will construct a digital model of a Mies van der Rohe Courtyard House. Although these houses were conceptual, you should take care in the reading to determine the materiality of each surface in the project. Once the model is built, we will import ...

Four sites are described below. Each student will be assigned a site, and you will reconfigure the Villa Savoye to fit on these sites. Each of the sites requires radical modifications to the plan, section and elevations of the house. Still, the reconfigured house should preserve the critical design concepts, elements ...

In 1958, Le Corbusier was contacted by Jose Luis Sert, then the Dean of Architecture at the Havard Graduate School of Design, to design a new center for the School of Visual Arts. The only Corbusier building in North America, it functions as a center for learning, a gallery for ...

Following on the techniques and skills explored in the first semester, the second half of the year will focus on specific issues of representation, development of design and conceptual skills. We will look at precedents of modern architecture and their application and interpretation through the introduction of site constraints and ...

In this assignment, you will begin to explore the spatial implications and types of perspective drawing. Given the two paintings provided, you will import them into Illustrator and carefully analyze the spaces created by each artist. Using those perspectives as a base, you will create four analytic diagrams that illustrate the ...

The computer is used in architecture studios for the production of everything from initial ideas about a project through to the final drawings that are needed to construct the building. Along the way, various applications are used to develop drawings—both two-dimensional and three-dimensional—that are made to explore design intent, ideas ...