Introduction to Digital Communication

“If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.” - Mies van der Rohe

A1 Usonian

Frank Lloyd Wright designed a series of small, affordable houses from the 1930’s through the 1950’s, collectively known as Usonian Houses. Rather than approach the problem of affordability by designing a single house that could be replicated for various clients on different sites, Wright instead developed a building system that ...

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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 ...

March 17th 2009
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A5 Translation and Transformation

An Outdoor café and landscape transformation of the Christian Science Center Despite the formal strength of the rows of linden trees and the reflecting pool that align with Huntington Avenue at the Christian Science Center, the space is usually empty and forlorn. In order to invite more people to congregate on ...
March 10th 2009
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A4 Courtyards

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 ...
January 30th 2009
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A3 Villa Savoye Transformation

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 ...
January 21st 2009
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A2 Carpenter Center

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 ...
January 5th 2009
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A1 Savoye

"The Villa Savoye, in Poissy, which was built by Le Corbusier between 1928 and 1931, is considered as one of his major works, and even as one of the masterpieces of 20th century architecture. The villa was designed for a rich insurer, Mr. Savoye, and was the result of several years ...

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