Architecture 130 Spring 2001 Introduction to Design Theories

Architecture 130 Spring 2001 Introduction to Design Theories & Methods Professor W. Mike Martin GSI’s Humberto Cavallin Elena Paparizou

General Information 1. Course: ARCH 130 (3 units). 2. Title: Introduction to Design Theories and Methods. 3. Semester: Spring 2001. 4. Meetings: 10 weeks (Jan 17 — March 23) Three 1 hour lectures per week for the first four weeks, two 1 hour lectures per week thereafter. In addition there will be four 2 3 two hour workshops, three exam reviews, and 3 4 major discussion sessions during the term.

5. Prerequisites: Upper division standing, Arch 100 A and B, mathematics re quirement. 6. Examinations: Exam 1, Feb 2, Exam 2, Feb 31, Final Exam Mar 23 7. Major Project: A major term paper 25 30 pages based on rigorous library research and fieldwork. Workshops will be provided to help develop the paper during the term. The topic of the major paper will be discussed in a future class session. 8. Evaluation: Examinations 75%, Major Paper 25%

OBJECTIVES: Arch 130 is a survey course. The emphasis is on the foundations for systematic approaches to design and on providing an overview of these approaches, their ad vantages and disadvantages. Some methods will be studied in detail, exemplifying some typical modes of reasoning. In particular, the course will: — describe and discuss various philosophies and styles of design, — identify particular difficulties of designing and investigate their nature, — present and demonstrate various tools, techniques, and methods as they become relevant in the process of designing.

As a result, the student should become familiar with theoretical and methodological issues of their work, and they should achieve some critical knowledge of the various approaches in design. In addition, they should be able to apply some concepts and procedures to their own design problems.

SUBJECT MATTER What is design? What is the nature of its problems? What are the specific difficulties of designing? How to cope with these difficulties? TEACHING METHOD The series of lectures will develop the material. Weekly section meetings will serve to discuss, clarify, and elaborate the issues, as well as to assist in the development of the major paper.

Course Calendar Wee k Date 1 Jan 17 19 2 3 Lectures Assignments Why study Design? Designers' Self images Readings: Cuff, Royal Institute. . . 22 24 26 Readings: Cuff (continued), Jones (1), Siegel Proposal Workshop 29 31 Feb 2 Definitions of Design A Model of Design Doctrines of creativity Morphological Methods I Topological Methods I Examination 1 Readings: Jones (2), Schön (1) Paper Proposal Due

4 5 7 9 5 12 14 Schemes of Evaluation Cost Benefit Analysis Readings: Bross, Haldane, Thompson Assignment 3 due in section Hand out of Assignment 4: Self Image 6 19 21 PRESIDENTS' DAY HOLIDAY anticipating the context of design The unknown user and the unknown context Readings: Archer, Simon (1 & 2) Values in Design and Formation of Judgement An Evaluation Method Evaluations by Groups (Juries) Readings: Dehlinger, Protzen Paper Draft Workshop

7 26 Orders of magnitude 28 Procedural vs Prescriptive Theories. 31 Examination 2 first generation theories Technical Rationality Design as a Staged Process (Asimow, Archer) Readings: Schön (3), Rittel/Webber, Rittel (1) Paper Draft Due 8 Mar 5 7 Readings: Rittel (2 & 3), Schön (3) Design as Information Processing (Simon) Design as Decomposition (Alexander) 9 12 14 second generation theories Paradoxes of Rationality Design Problems are Wicked Design as Argumentation Final Paper Due

10 19 21 23 Design as Reflection in Action conclusion final exam Pin up and Review of Assignment 6