The design studio 'Flying Bricks' was held during the summer semester 2015. Its main objective was to redesign an existing building with the use of facing bricks algorithmically, utilizing algorithmic thinking and programming as a means for form generation. The purpose of having students express their designs in terms of code was to emphasize problem thinking over solution generation, which has...

Design studio has been the heart of architectural education since late 18 C and thus students often consider other courses as peripheral to studio. In a majority of schools, the nature of the design studio pedagogy and the way that other courses are taught appear as two systems. Courses ‘supporting studio’ have been very much a teacher-centred didactic exercise, traditionally delivered in lectu...

Studio-based pedagogy has been central to urban design programmes as it can enable future designers more effectively acquire an understanding of how cities work and critically engage with the role intervention. This paper aims explore capacities challenges learning teaching through studio by drawing on empirical research from a blended experiment during COVID-19 pandemic in UK. is part broader ...

New communication media enable new design technologies. To investigate the mutual influence of a new medium like Virtual Reality (VR) and architectural design technologies, a laboratory called ‘the design studio of the future’ is established. In due time a design system will be developed offering different design technologies in an integrated environment. Interfaces within VR will support vario...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce a pedagogical method used in a design studio as part of a curriculum-greening process to encourage reflection on the complexity of sustainability and sustainable design. Online reflective journals were used in two semesters of a sustainable design studio to develop students’ awareness and understanding of concepts relating to sustainability an...

resiliency is an emerging concept in urban design which fosters new thinking about designing less vulnerable and more flexible cities. from chicago and san francisco which recovered from big fires in the nineteenth century, berlin and beirut which survived wars in the twentieth century, and new orleans which - in the face of its geologic and hydrologic limitations - is re-emerging from the hurr...

The design studio is a medium of intense learning in architectural education. A learning experiment that engages in critical practice, seeking to present values instead of mere techniques, promoting investigative work rather than trying to bring exact definitions to what must be, is typical of architectural studio education. The choice of a theme around which to structure studio work is signifi...

The purpose of this research was to develop an approach to artifact design based on information technology. To make interactive systems easy to use, many companies utilize a user centered design approach. One of the principles for user centered design is to consider the total user experience to cover all of the user’s views. To consider the total user experience is not easy because a user’s exp...