Name: Tagore Hernandez
Instructor: Robert Hsiung
Year: Fall 2008
Learning design by doing, this studio is an obstacle course in problem solving, the "Survivor" reality TV of architecture, an adventure unlike anything in academia - not a course for the faint-hearted! In four exercises,students are put you in a situation with all the vagaries of real life practice - anonymous client with incomplete information, unforeseen demands and unreasonable schedule. At the onset, students will be asked to produce a design with only a bare skeleton of information. They will feel lost, as they try to find ways to proceed, struggle to come up with ideas to anchor your design. In the next three visits, the client will gradually give out new specific requirements, each time challenging their previous ideas.
Learning design by doing, this studio is an obstacle course in problem solving, the "Survivor" reality TV of architecture, an adventure unlike anything in academia - not a course for the faint-hearted! In four exercises,students are put you in a situation with all the vagaries of real life practice - anonymous client with incomplete information, unforeseen demands and unreasonable schedule. At the onset, students will be asked to produce a design with only a bare skeleton of information. They will feel lost, as they try to find ways to proceed, struggle to come up with ideas to anchor your design. In the next three visits, the client will gradually give out new specific requirements, each time challenging their previous ideas.
