Course Description
Introduction to cultures of form in architectural design, representation, and production, including material cultures, geometric discourse and analysis, Western and non-Western modes of perception and representation. Taught through a series of acts of forming and making, this course provides a primer and venue to rehearse skills such as 3D modeling and the reciprocity between representation and materialization. Exercises will be accompanied by a lecture series from practitioners who each represent a highly articulated relationship between form and material in a body of design research or built work.