Rethinking Basic Design in Architectural Education: Foundations Past and Future

Mine Özkar provides historical and computational insights into beginning design education in architecture schools. 

Basic design, as described and illustrated here, offers a setting for a beginner to experience a conscious creative process while learning to spatially communicate design thinking. Individualized dealings with materials, tools, and analytical techniques foster skills and attitudes relevant to creative and technologically adept designers.

The intellectual context that basic design developed from aligns with the renewed interest in the more haptic, more customized and more open-source design and fabrication technologies today.