4.101 | Spring 2003 | Undergraduate

Experiencing Architecture Studio

Course Description

This course uses scale models to design environments that orchestrate contrasting material properties and conventional constructional systems to create places that foster specific ways of inhabiting space. It also demonstrates how architecture differs from other forms of design. Intended for students to test aptitude …

This course uses scale models to design environments that orchestrate contrasting material properties and conventional constructional systems to create places that foster specific ways of inhabiting space. It also demonstrates how architecture differs from other forms of design. Intended for students to test aptitude for architectural design and to experience an unfamiliar mode of thought, it’s conducted in a studio format, with lectures on architectural theory and history, and structured for students with no previous experience in design.

Required of Architecture majors.

Learning Resource Types
Lecture Notes
Projects with Examples
Wood model of a structure designed by student Merritt Tam.
Studio for an Optimist’s Daughter. (Final project by Merritt Tam.)