Space + Phenomenon: Architectural Design Studio

Space + Phenomenon: Architectural Design Studio is a Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies class taught by Thom Long.

Course Description
This studio architecture course will be a design investigation of a unique approach to space and phenomena as related to architecture and the built environment. The course will combine reading, writing and studio work along with group and individual projects. Students will use traditional and contemporary architectural skills to analyze and respond to inter-disciplinary and socially pertinent design problems. Creative and indexical study and analysis will be used to generate and foster a broad range of concepts and language necessary to identify and define spaces. The objective of the course is to solve a cross-section of both simple and complex architectural issues involving site, inhabitation, function, form and space through very rigorous, open-ended, and creative design work. This course will require a large volume of work outside of the class. There are no prerequisites for this Five College Architectural Studies course, though one semester of design is recommended. A lab fee of $50 will apply. Enrollment will be determined after the first class meeting by instructor permission.