Lecture 1 Arch 200c 2012 Fall
Course	Arch 200c
Date	2012/08/28
Learning Objectives	A general introduction to the course, and a presentation of three competing ideas on the uses of drawing in architectural design through the lenses of Robin Evans, Donald Schon, and Herbert Simon.
Agenda	Housekeeping (10m) piazza poll regarding helpdesk hours box accounts and invites Course Introduction (30m) syllabus course structure: lectures, workshops, discussions course deliverables: projects, problem sets, tutorials course schedule Lecture 1 - Projection (30m) Introduction of Project A (10m) Pinup of Problem Set 1 (15m) Axon Demonstration? (15m)
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Lecture 1

The uses of drawing in architectural design through the lenses of Robin Evans, Donald Schon, and Herbert Simon.

Readings for Topic 1

• Robin Evans, The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries (The MIT Press, 2000). Read both the Introduction (pxxiv-pxxxvii) and Conclusion (p351-p370)
• Stan Allen, “Constructing with Lines: on projection,” in Practice: architecture, technique and representation (Psychology Press, 2000), 1-31.
• Donald Schön, The Reflective Practitioner: how professionals think in action (Basic Books, 1983).
• Herbert Simon, “The Structure of Ill Structured Problems,” Artificial Intelligence 4, no. 3-4 (Winter 1973): 181-201.
• Christopher Alexander, Notes on the Synthesis of Form, Sixth Printing. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1964).