Calendar Description: Continuation of Design and Construction I with projects of increasing complexity. Projects deal with particular aspects of architectural design and/or explore approaches to design methodology. Discussions, readings, field trips and practical exercises.

Course Objective: Further exploration of small design problems in an urban context. Focus on community-related issues such as schools, daycare, playgrounds, libraries. museums, community centers. Exploration of non-residential structural systems. Manipulation of materials, observation, recording, use of and confrontation with traditional as well as unorthodox design issues and concepts e.g., parallax, lighting, thermal comfort, montage, mise-en-scene.

Schedule and Meeting

and Format: The group is divided in several modules of about 12 to 15 students. Studio sessions and presentations take place on Mondays and Tuesdays, whether in the format of group or individual consultations with students in the studio. There are interim and final presentations, as well as a structured lecture series and tutorials (for example, on the use of computer modeling software) by faculty.

Course Requirements and

Method of Evaluation Students are evaluated on the basis of their design work and related activities in the studio.

Each student receives a performance evaluation of the work done at the mid-term interval, although not in letter grade form. At the end of the term, a letter grade is provided based on the faculty’s assessment of the student’s work, including such factors as studio participation, theoretical and technical competence, the depth of the work, and also creativity.

Reading List-Bibliography: Specific reading lists are provided by each module instructor. The following is a general reference bibliographical list for the all the students in the studio:

Alexander, C., et.al., A Pattern Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.

Benjamin, Walter, The Arcades Project. Cambridge,Harvard University Press, 1999.

Calvino, Italo. Invisible Cities, New York: HBJ, 1974.

Duany, Andres, and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. Towns and Town-Making Principles, New York: Rizzoli, 1991.

Lynch, Kevin. The Image of the City. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1992.

Rossi, Aldo. The Architecture of the City. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1983.

School of Urban Planning, McGill University: A Topographical Atlas of Montreal..

Scully, Vincent. Architecture: The Natural and the Man-Made. New York, 1991.

Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space, New York: Beacon Press, 1993.

Canadian Wood Frame Housing Construction, CMHC, latest edition.

Student Performance Criteria: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 27, 29, 36.