| authors |
Marx, John |
| year |
1998 |
| title |
A Proposal for Alternative Methodologies in Teaching Digital Design |
| doi |
https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.1998.058
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| source |
Digital Design Studios: Do Computers Make a Difference? [ACADIA Conference Proceedings / ISBN 1-880250-07-1] Québec City (Canada) October 22-25, 1998, pp. 58-73 |
| summary |
Computers have the potential to radically change the process of architectural design, and match more closely the formal
aspirations of contemporary designers. What, then, should be
the direction educators take in response to the opportunities created by the use of computers in the design process? There are,
perhaps, two obvious methods of teaching Digital Design at a
university level; a course adjunct to a design studio, or a course
offered independently of a design studio.
The computer is a facilitator of design ideas, but by itself, is
not a creator of content. The primary responsibility of the design
studio is the creation of content. It is the implementation of theory
and critical analysis which should be the core concern of studio
instruction. Given the limited time students are exposed to design
studio it would seem appropriate, then, that the digital tools, which
facilitate the design process, be taught separately, so as not to
dilute the design studios importance. Likewise, this separation
should allow the student to concentrate attention on Digital Design
as a comprehensive process, beginning with initial massing studies and ending with high resolution presentation drawings. The
burden of learning this new process is difficult as well as time
consuming. Students are generally struggling to learn how to
design, much less to design on the computer. In addition, the
current lack of digital skills on the part of design faculty makes it
difficult to create a level of consistency in teaching digital design.
Compounding these problems is the cost to architectural departments of providing hardware and software resources sufficient to
have a computer on every studio desk.
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