This course is the last of the three course introductory sequence to architectural design. It includes a more advanced series and history. While reinforcing and building upon the already introduced ideas of context and intention, this semester begins in earnest a comprehensive navigation through the architectural design process of focused-objective design projects that articulate coherent sets of architectural intentions and develop the spatial, structural and organizational tools of the beginning designer. Analysis continues to broaden the students' awareness of formal/spatial principles.SECTION DESCRIPTION Studio 2 introduces students to architectural issues with an emphasis on form-making techniques, representation, iteration, and developing an understanding of relationships between architecture and the many meanings of ‘context’. Context does not simply mean the physical features of a 'site', but rather further entails social, political, and environmental phenomena. Studio 2 explores these topics through the house as a long-standing subjects of architectural discourse, cultural reflection, and experimentation. The house is not only susceptible to, but in fact requires renewal and re-imagination; as an architectural type it reflects shifting architectural and cultural values and the constant reconstruction of meaning that this shifting entails. Such shifting of meaning and architectural expressions are tied to elements, forms, materials, and changing paradigms of domesticity in relation to contextual circumstances. 

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