SXD-102: Spatial Design 1

Students will explore a number of strategies designers use to understand, evaluate and create both built and virtual environments. A series of design exercises that explore the various strategies allow students to initiate the development of a personal design process. Through slide shows, readings and a number of analytic exercises that run concurrently with the design problems, students will investigate a variety of environments. Finally, students will learn to explore and to communicate their ideas through sketching, formal drawings, models and verbal presentations.