Aaron Neal

Introduces the meaning and making of architecture and interior architecture through individual and group design projects. Students learn design processes by experimenting with materials and exploring architectural and interior architecture representation, and measure the implications of their work on broader cultural contexts. Students work on design projects using the latest software and digital tools, and develop techniques for integrating analog and digital design and fabrication processes. Students research historic precedents and contemporary culture and design to inform their work. This course requires students to have a laptop that meets SAIC's minimum hardware specs and runs the AIADO template.

This course is a comprehensive introduction to two-dimensional architectural and interior architectural representation. Students learn hand-drawing and digital techniques to produce orthographic, axonometric, isometric, and perspectival projections in individual and group projects. Students move between two- and three-dimensional representation, developing robust skills for design drawing. Typically the course will review the work of architects and designers throughout the history of architecture representation. Readings will vary and focus will be concentrated on understanding and putting into practice the mechanisms of drawing. Course work consists of building techniques and practice of drawing. Classes will develop incremental skills through assignments and projects that culminate into complex drawings and representations. This course requires students to have a laptop that meets SAIC's minimum hardware specs and runs the AIADO template.

What does a designer do? This course understands architectural design as a creative practice, embedded within rich cultures of disciplinary knowledge and professional responsibilities. As a creative practice, design becomes more than problem-solving and client management and embraces complex logics of possibility. The work of contemporary architects and related designers, such as Teddy Cruz+Fonna Forman, Brian C. Lee, Virgil Abloh, AGENdA , Jennifer Bonner, Shohei Shigematsu, and Li Hu and Huang Wenjing (OPEN), among others, will provide a reference point for our work. Students will experiment with practice scenarios, designed from and through their work, and the work of others in the class and in the field. Course projects will include a portfolio and a series of design writing experiments that will result in a critical essay, a designer's statement, and an academic map that will help students align SAIC's BFA programs with their interests and ambitions.

Intermediate design studio requires the design of a building responding to substantially qualitative interior space program, including building skins, systems, sustainability, accessibility, and life safety. Course Goals and Objectives 1) Learn pre-design, visual communication of concept and program diagramming, , systems and object integration during research into client organizations and the design of effective environments. 2) Bring technical knowledge and skills to bear on a design including structural and other building systems, accessibility, sustainability, and site design. Case studies, readings and research will be project specific and determined through the programs defined in the studio. The studio work is cumulative. The work addresses professional criteria and develops though milestones that culminate in a final portfolio and review for the course.