DESST 1503 - Design Studio I

Course Details

Course Code	DESST 1503
Course	Design Studio I
Coordinating Unit	School of Architecture and Built Environment
Term	Summer
Level	Undergraduate
Location/s	North Terrace Campus
Units	6
Contact	Up to 6 hours per week
Available for Study Abroad and Exchange	Y
Restrictions	Available to B.ArchDes students only
Quota	A quota will apply
Assessment	Quizzes, physical model making, digital models, hand drawing and digital drawing

Course Staff

Course Coordinator: Mr Gavin Chow

Course Timetable

The full timetable of all activities for this course can be accessed from Course Planner.

Course Learning Outcomes

As a six point course, Design Studio One is aimed at introducing the basic skills, concepts and approaches essential to understanding and engaging with contemporary architecture, landscape architecture and urban design. The course learning objectives are specifically aligned with the thematic content of the lecture series, the self-directed study (including required reading and journal tasks), the studio exercises and the objectives of the assessable tasks. In pursuing these, the student will gain the following knowledge and skills:

1. The students will develop comprehension skills in ‘reading’ a landscape and other urban open spaces.

2. The student will develop understanding of natural, social and cultural systems and how design can impact, interact and
improve environments.

3. The student will be able to appreciate context — macro and micro — in the development of a design response.

4. The student will be able to communicate and represent design strategies according to disciplinary conventions.

5. The student will develop abilities in deriving form from verbally stated requirements (a brief).

6. The student will be introduced to the studio environment and, in turn, develop their inter-personal skills, verbal
communication skills and critical thinking.

7. The student will be able to communicate critical design thinking through appropriate modes of representation; drawings,
models and graphics.

8. The student will be able to explore creative processes and idea generation.

9. The student will develop a sense of scale and proportion.

The knowledge and skills acquired in this course provide a fundamental basis for your understanding of architecture, landscapes and cities. This knowledge and the related skills constitute a seminal part of your design education in the Bachelor of Architectural Design. The skills acquired are the foundation stones of your future career as a designer.

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attribute(s) specified below:

University Graduate Attribute	Course Learning Outcome(s)
Knowledge and understanding of the content and techniques of a chosen discipline at advanced levels that are internationally recognised.	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
The ability to locate, analyse, evaluate and synthesise information from a wide variety of sources in a planned and timely manner.	1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9
An ability to apply effective, creative and innovative solutions, both independently and cooperatively, to current and future problems.	1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9
Skills of a high order in interpersonal understanding, teamwork and communication.	1 2 4 5 6 7 8
A proficiency in the appropriate use of contemporary technologies.	3 4 6 7 8
A commitment to continuous learning and the capacity to maintain intellectual curiosity throughout life.	1 2 3 5 6
A commitment to the highest standards of professional endeavour and the ability to take a leadership role in the community.	2 3 4 5 6 7
An awareness of ethical, social and cultural issues within a global context and their importance in the exercise of professional skills and responsibilities.	1 2 3 4 5 6

Required Resources

Ching, Francis D.K. Architecture: Form, Space and Order.
Fourth Edition. Wiley, 2014.

This key reference is updated with contemporary examples and interactive
3D models.

View http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118745086.html

It is available at Unibooks and several copies are available for loan in the Barr Smith Library.

Waterman, Tim. The Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture. Second Edition. Bloomsbury, 2015.

This new text is available from Unibooks and other vendors.

Journal. Available from the Image and Copy Centre, Basement, Hughes Building. $15.

View location at http://www.adelaide.edu.au/icc/

Please note: Student Course Readers (including DESST Journal) CAN NOW ONLY be purchased online from the new Online Shop. Login to Unified and simply click on the Online Shop icon in the left hand side of the Home page. As soon as the course reader is printed and available, it will be published on the Online Shop where students can order and pay and then COLLECT their reader from Image & Copy Centre.

As advised in O’Week, Essential Equipment and Stationery is available as
a pack from:

Eckersley’s Art & Craft

21 Frome St, Adelaide. SA

T: 08 8223 4155
E:Adelaide@eckersleys.com.au

These items are part of your course requirements and the discount prices are only valid until March 31st 2015.

This kit is pre-packed and will save you $154.90* off normal retail prices.

Please note: Items cannot be removed from kit and remain at this special price.

These items, if purchased separately from the kit, will be charged at retail price less 10% student discount.

Recommended Resources

Detailed information about further resources will be available on MyUni.

The top 5 recommended resources for Design Studio I (and future courses) include:

Ching, Francis. Architectural Graphics. Wiley, 2015.

Dee, Catherine. Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture: A Visual Introduction. Taylor and Francis, 2001.

Frederick, Matthew. 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School. MIT Press, 2007.

Littlefield, David and Pamela Buxton. Metric Handbook: Planning and Design Data. Routledge, 2012.

Radford, Antony, Amit Srivastava and Selen Morkoç. The Elements of Modern Architecture: Understanding Contemporary Buildings.
Thames and Hudson, 2014.

The following reference list is an excellent starting point for research and exploration.
Much of this resource list was originally compiled by Joshua Zeunert for 2012 Design Studio I.

JOURNALS (many are online at Barr Smith Library)
——Topos
——Landscape Architecture Australia
——JoLA: Journal of Landscape Architecture
——Kerb: Journal of Landscape Architecture
——Landscape Journal
——Harvard Design Magazine
——OASE Journal for Architecture; http://www.oasejournal.nl/en/Issues
——Landscape Architecture
——Landscape and Urban Planning
——Australian Planner
——Volume magazine

READINGS: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
——Angelil, M, 2003, Inchoate: An Experiment in Architectural Education, SFIT, Zurich
——Ching, F, 2007, Architecture: Form, Space and Order. 3rd edition, John Wiley and Sons, New York
——Frederick, M, 2007, 101 Things I Learned at Architecture School, MIT Press, Cambridge MA.
——Klanten, R, Bourquin, N, Ehmann, S, van Heerden, F (eds), 2008, Data Flow: Visualising Information in Graphic Design, Gestalten, Berlin.
——McHarg, I, 1969, Design with Nature, Natural History Press, Garden City, N.Y. Seager, J, 1995, State of the Environment Atlas: The International Visual Survey, Penguin.
——Steenbergen, C, 2008, Composing Landscapes: Analysis, Typology and Experiments for Design, Birkhäuser, Switzerland.

DESIGN - INTRODUCTORY
——Alexander, C, Ishikawa, S, Silverstein, M, 1977, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction, Oxford University Press, USA
——Barbaux, S, 2010, Jardins Ecologiques : Ecology, source of creation, ICI Interface, France.
——Contemporary Landscape Architecture, 2008, Daab, Cologne.
——Leszczynski, N, 1999, Planting the Landscape: A Professional Approach to Garden Design, John Wiley & Sons, NY.
——Margolis, L, Robinson, A, 2007, Living Systems: Innovative Materials and Technologies for Landscape Architecture, Birkhäuser, Switzerland.
——Thomson, P, 2002, Australian Planting Design, Melbourne, Lothian Books.
——Petschek, P, 2008, Grading for Landscape Architects and Architects, Birkhauser, Basel. Boston. Berlin

DESIGN - ADVANCED
——Ware, S, 2011, Sunburnt: Landscape Architecture in Australia, Sun, Amsterdam.
——Weller, R et al., 2005, Room 4.1.3: Innovations in Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia USA.
——Weller, R, 2009, Boom Town, UWA, WA.
——Zimmermann, A (ed.) 2009, Constructing Landscape: Materials, Techniques, Structural Components, Birkhauser, Switzerland.
——Dee, C, 2002, Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture, Spoon Press, London

DESIGN PRACTICE
——Uffelen, C (ed.) 2008, 1000X Landscape Architecture, Braun, Berlin.
—— Angles, M (ed.) 2010, In Favour of Public Space; Ten Years of the European Prize for Urban Public Space, CCCB / ACTAR. Barcelona.
——LAE, 2009, On Site: Landscape Architecture Europe, Birkhauser, Switzerland.
——Reed, P, 2005, Groundswell, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
——Richardson, T, 2008, Avant Gardeners, Thames and Hudson, London.

GRAPHICS
——Elam, K, 2001, Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition, Princeton Architectural Press, NY
——Laseau, P, 1980, Graphic thinking for architects and designers, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York.
——Cantrell, B & Michaels, W, 2010, Digital Drawing for Landscape Architects, John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey.
——Reid, G, 1987, Landscape Graphics, The Architectural Press, London.
——Tufte, E, 2001 (2nd ed.), The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Graphics Press, USA

ADELAIDE SPECIFIC
——Berkinshaw, T, 2009, Mangroves to mallee : the complete guide to the vegetation of temperate South Australia, Greening Australia, SA
——Dashorst, G, & Jessop, I, 1990, Plants of the Adelaide Plains and Hills, Kangaroo Press, Kenthurst.
——Daniels, C, Tait, C (ed), 2005, Adelaide, Nature of a City: Ecology of a Dynamic City from 1836-2006, BioCity:Centre for Urban Habitats,SA.
——Daniels, C (ed), 2010, Adelaide, Water of a City, Wakefield Press, Adelaide.
——Kraehenbuehl, D, 1996, Pre-European Vegetation of Adelaide: A Survey from the Gawler River to Hallett Cove, Nature Conservation Society of South Australia, Adelaide.

CONTEMPORARY THEORY
——Bell, B, & Wakeford, K , & Badanes, S et. all, 2008, Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism, Metropolis Books, NY.
——Berger, A, 2006, Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America, Princeton Architectural Press,
——Bull, Catherin (2002), New conversations with an old landscape: landscape architecture in contemporary Australia, Images Publishing Group, Victoria.
——Corner, J (ed.) 1999, Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Theory, Princeton Architectural Press, NY
——Hawken, P, Lovings, A., Lovins, L.H, 2000, Natural Capitalism: creating the next industrial revolution, Little Brown & Company, NY.
——Horwitz, J, Singley, P (eds), 2004, Eating Architecture, MIT Press, Cambridge, USA
——McDonough, W & Braungart, M, 2002, Cradle to Cradle, North Point Press, NY.
——MDRDV, 1999, Meta City Data Town, D10 Publishers, Rotterdam.
——Pallasmaa, J, 2005, The Eyes of the Skin – Architecture and the Senses, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ.
——Reynolds, R, 2008, On Guerrilla Gardening, Bloomsbury, London.
——Waldheim, C (ed.) 2006, The Landscape Urbanism Reader, Princeton Architectural Press, New York.
——Lefebvre, H, 1974, The Production of Space, translated by Nicholson-Smith, D, Basil Blackwell, Oxford

HISTORY
——Saniga,A (2012). Making Landscape Architecture in Australia. Sydney, Australia: NewSouth Publishing.
——Hobhouse, P, 2002, The Story of Gardens, DK, London.
——Kastner, J, 1998, Land and Environmental Art, Phaidon Press, London.
——Lailach, M, 2007, Land Art, Taschen, Koln.
——Leopold, A, 1949, A Sand County Almanac, Oxford University Press, New York.
——Lyall, S, 1991, Designing the New Landscape, Thames & Hudson, NY.
——Trieb, M (ed.) 1993, Modern Landscape Architecture: A Critical Review, MIT, MA.

URBAN AGRICULTURE
——Nordahl, D, 2009, Public Produce: The New Urban Agriculture, Island Press, USA.
——Pollock, M, 2006, Fruit & Vegetable Gardening in Australia, DK, Victoria.
——Roberts, P, 2008, The End of Food, Houghton Mifflin, Boston.

PEAK OIL/ECOLOGICAL LIMITS/ENVIRONMENTAL
——AILA:      http://www.aila.org.au/LApapers/papers/seddon/loci/default.htm
——Campbell, C, 2005, Oil Crisis. Multi-Science Publishing, UK.
——Carson, R, 1962, Silent Spring, Houghton Mifflin, USA.
——Catton, W, 1980, Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change, University of Illinois Press, USA.
——Deffeyes, K, 2010,When Oil Peaked, Hill and Wang, New York.
——Diamond, J, 2005, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive, Penguin, London.
——Downton, P, (2009), Ecopolis:Architecture and Cities for a Changing Climate, CSIRO, VIC.
——Flannery, T, 1994, The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People, Reed Books, Chatswood, N.S.W.
——Flannery, T, 2003, Beautiful Lies, Population and Environment in Australia, Issue 9, Black Inc., Melbourne.
——Flannery, T, 2005, The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change, Text Publishing, Melbourne.
——Heinberg, R, Lerch, D, (ed) 2010,The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, Watershed Media, California
——Holmgren, D, 2009, Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate
Change, Chelsea Green Publishing, Canada.
——Holmgren, D, 2002, Permaculture: Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability, Holmgren Design Services, VIC
——Hopkins, R, 2008, The Transition Handbook, Chelsea Green, VT
——Kunstler, J.H, 2005, The Long Emergency, Atlantic Books, London.
——Leggett, J, 2005, The Empty Tank: Oil, Gas, Hot Air, and the Coming Financial Catastrophe. Random House, New York.
——Low, T, 1999, Feral Future, Viking, Victoria.
——Low, T, 2003, The New Nature, Penguin, Victoria.
——Lowe, I, 2005, A Big Fix, Black Inc, Melbourne.
——MacLean, A, 2008, Over: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point, Abrams, NY. Newman, P & Jennings, I, 2008, Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems - Principles and Practices, Island Press, Washington.
——Seddon, G, 1972, Sense of Place, UWA Press, WA.
——Soleri , P, 1969, Arcology: The City in the Image of Man, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
——Suzuki, D & Dressel, H, 2003, Good News for a Change: How Everyday People are Helping the Planet, Greystone Books, Canada.
——Thompson, G, & Steiner, F, 1997, Ecological Design and Planning, John Wiley and Sons, NY

FILMS/DOCUMENTARIES
——KOYAANISQATSI (1983)
——Urbanized 2012
——Baraka (1992)
——Manufactured Landscapes (2006)
——Life After People (2008)
——The Plan (2010)
——Samsara (2011) RADIO
——THE PLAN; (Radio Adelaide 101.5FM,Wed 6-7pm) http://www.theplan.net.au/      & by Podcast
——The Architects (RRR-Melbourne) by Podcast

PHONE APP’S
——Compass         ——Weather (BOM)      ——Moon phases                             ——Theodolite       ——Sun (e.g. sunseeker)

WEB LINKS
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
AILA: http://www.aila.org.au/
PIA: http://www.planning.org.au/
AIA: http://www.architecture.com.au/
DIA: http://www.dia.org.au/

GENERAL WEB REFERENCES - DESIGN
http://www.worldlandscapearchitect.com/
http://www.archdaily.com/
http://www.inhabitat.com/
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com.au/
http://www.cityofsound.com/
http://www.integrateddesign.sa.gov.au/
http://5000plus.net.au/

ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN/ISSUES
http://www.treehugger.com/ http://www.ecogeek.org/ http://blogs.adelaide.edu.au/ecoversity/
http://www.ecoinnovationlab.com/
http://www.holmgren.com.au/
http://www.urbanecology.org.au/links/
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/
http://www.tec.org.au/ http://www.geca.org.au/ http://www.thegreendirectory.com.au/
http://dieoff.org/ http://www.bioregional.com/
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/en/
http://www.aila.org.au/climate/case/
http://www.biocity.com
http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/hotspots/national-hotspots.html
http://www.stateflora.com.au

GENERAL WEB REFERENCES
http://www.naturemaps.sa.gov.au/
http://storyofstuff.org/ http://www.wsud.org/ http://www.thefifthestate.com.au/ http://www.worldometers.info/
http://www.breathingearth.net/
http://math.berkeley.edu/~galen/popclk.html
http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/ABS@.nsf/0/1647509ef7e25faaca2568a900154b63?OpenDocument
http://www.fsc.org/en http://www.smh.com.au/ http://www.anbg.gov.au/chabg/bg-dir/
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519,00.html
http://www.alexmaclean.com/

TOPOGRAPHIC RESOURCES
Google Map / Terrain / Earth
http://www.earthtools.org/
http://www.naturemaps.sa.gov.au/
http://mapstor.com/

Online Learning

University Email
The school uses the University email system to get in touch with the students. So it is imperative that you check your email regularly and keep up to date with any new announcements.

MyUni
In addition to the above resources, further assignment resources are available on MyUni. These may include further reading material for the lectures and studios, reading material that will assist with the preparation of assignments and appropriate links to
assist students with academic writing including essay writing as required.

MyUni is an essential online tool which will be used to communicate information regarding the course including details of assignments and interim grades. There are many other learning resources and assessment pieces that rely
on the MyUni system for delivery. Therefore it is recommended that you familiarise yourself with the various functions of MyUni and employ it to its fullest extent. https://myuni.adelaide.edu.au

Discussion Board
The MyUni Discussion Board can be used to interact with other students and is an essential tool to discuss information and increase your understanding of issues.

Lecture Recording
In certain cases the recording of the lectures is made available in electronic format for students to listen through on their own
time and make notes, and is provided through the MyUni system. However, this service may not include guest lectures. Furthermore, where the presentation content is subject to copyright or the guest speaker is uncomfortable with the recording of the content, the lecture recording will not be made available online. So students should not rely solely on this mode of learning and arrange to attend or get lecture content from peers.

Noticeboard / Handbook
General information about the activities at the School is available online from the Student Noticeboard which can be accessed at https://unified.adelaide.edu.au/group/professons-studentarchitecture/
current-student

Students can also access a copy of the Student Handbook at the following link:

https://unified.adelaide.edu.au/group/professons-student-architecture/enrolments