Rethinking Basic Design in Architectural Education by Mine Ozkar - 9781138392748

Rethinking Basic Design in Architectural EducationFoundations Past and Future\nAuthor(s): Mine Ozkar\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138392748, 978-1138392748\nSynopsis\nRethinking Basic Design in Architectural Education provides historical and computational insights into beginning design education for architecture. Inviting the readers to briefly forget what is commonly known as basic design, it delivers the account of two educators, Denman W. Ross and Arthur W. Dow, from the turn of the twentieth century in Northeast America, interpreting key aspects of their methodology for teaching foundations for design and art. This alternate intellectual context for the origins of basic design as a precursor to computational design complements the more haptic, more customized, and more open-source design and fabrication technologies today. \n\nBasic design described and illustrated here as a form of low-tech computation .