Description: Seminar, one hour. Hands-on architectural education while engaging with social issues. Introduction to fundamental procedures of architectural design, and also demonstration of how processes of designing, planning, and constructing has social implications for engaging with major contemporary urban issues. Exposure to positive design practices including group collaboration, creative problem solving, and reflection-based improvement. Exposure of danger and myth of architect as individual agent of ingenuity and expertise, and inherent conflict between individual and collective interests. P/NP grading. Facilitated by Derek Luu, with Dana Cuff as faculty mentor.

Units: 1.0