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Design Fundamentals I is an introduction to architectural composition and design. The studio is delivered through a series of exercises that emphasize the dual influences of intuition and investigation. As they build in complexity, the projects are meant to help students achieve the visual literacy they will need to understand the world around them, and to and to impart meaning to their own creative work. Students will be asked first to make an object, then a system of objects; to make a space, then a system of spaces; and finally, to make a system, then a system of systems (from objects, to fields to dynamic systems). A piece of architecture is a complex organism, and as such it is invariably embedded within ever larger and more extensive systems – of infrastructure and urban fabric, of climate and society. Whether seen from the perspective of its form, program, material and energy flows, or its contributions to an extended community, architecture is a system of systems.

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