Building Design Studio

The 412 Building Design Studio focuses on the development of synthetic design skills derived from a focus on order and structure, with related conceptual and formal implications. The studio introduces foundational structural concepts as they relate to issues of enclosure and the environmental conditioning of interiors. The central theme of this studio explores the relationship between order (organization) and structure, with an understanding of each one’s unique place in architectural design. These two foundational categories of architectural knowledge - order and structure - have a special relationship in architecture, each disposed to combine with the other to form larger, more complex, compound ideas and forms.