As a six point course, Design Studio One is aimed at introducing the basic skills, concepts and approaches essential to understanding and engaging with contemporary architecture, landscape architecture and urban design. The course learning objectives are specifically aligned with the thematic content of the lecture series, the self-directed study (including required reading and journal tasks), the studio exercises and the objectives of the assessable tasks. In pursuing these, the student will gain the following knowledge and skills:


1. The students will develop comprehension skills in ‘reading’ a landscape and other urban open spaces.

2. The student will develop understanding of natural, social and cultural systems and how design can impact, interact and
improve environments.

3. The student will be able to appreciate context — macro and micro — in the development of a design response.

4. The student will be able to communicate and represent design strategies according to disciplinary conventions.

5. The student will develop abilities in deriving form from verbally stated requirements (a brief).

6. The student will be introduced to the studio environment and, in turn, develop their inter-personal skills, verbal
communication skills and critical thinking.

7. The student will be able to communicate critical design thinking through appropriate modes of representation; drawings,
models and graphics.

8. The student will be able to explore creative processes and idea generation.

9. The student will develop a sense of scale and proportion.

 
The knowledge and skills acquired in this course provide a fundamental basis for your understanding of architecture, landscapes and cities. This knowledge and the related skills constitute a seminal part of your design education in the Bachelor of Architectural Design. The skills acquired are the foundation stones of your future career as a designer.

 

Ching, Francis D.K. Architecture: Form, Space and Order.
Fourth Edition. Wiley, 2014.

This key reference is updated with contemporary examples and interactive
3D models.

View http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118745086.html

It is available at Unibooks and several copies are available for loan in the Barr Smith Library.

 

Waterman, Tim. The Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture. Second Edition. Bloomsbury, 2015.

This new text is available from Unibooks and other vendors.



Journal. Available from the Image and Copy Centre, Basement, Hughes Building. $15.

View location at http://www.adelaide.edu.au/icc/
 
Please note: Student Course Readers (including DESST Journal) CAN NOW ONLY be purchased online from the new Online Shop. Login to Unified and simply click on the Online Shop icon in the left hand side of the Home page. As soon as the course reader is printed and available, it will be published on the Online Shop where students can order and pay and then COLLECT  their reader from Image & Copy Centre.

 

As advised in O’Week, Essential Equipment and Stationery is available as
a pack from:

Eckersley’s Art & Craft

21 Frome St, Adelaide. SA

T: 08 8223 4155     
E:Adelaide@eckersleys.com.au

 

These items are part of your course requirements and the discount prices are only valid until March 31st 2015. 

This kit is pre-packed and will save you $154.90* off normal retail prices.

 

Please note: Items cannot be removed from kit and remain at this special price.

These items, if purchased separately from the kit, will be charged at retail price less 10% student discount.

 

Detailed information about further resources will be available on MyUni.



The top 5 recommended resources for Design Studio I (and future courses) include:

Ching, Francis. Architectural Graphics. Wiley, 2015.

Dee, Catherine. Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture: A Visual Introduction. Taylor and Francis, 2001.

Frederick, Matthew. 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School. MIT Press, 2007.

Littlefield, David and Pamela Buxton. Metric Handbook: Planning and Design Data. Routledge, 2012.

Radford, Antony, Amit Srivastava and Selen Morkoç. The Elements of Modern Architecture: Understanding Contemporary Buildings.
Thames and Hudson, 2014.


The following reference list is an excellent starting point for research and exploration.
Much of this resource list was originally compiled by Joshua Zeunert for 2012 Design Studio I.


JOURNALS (many are online at Barr Smith Library)
——Topos
——Landscape Architecture Australia
——JoLA: Journal of Landscape Architecture
——Kerb: Journal of Landscape Architecture
——Landscape Journal
——Harvard Design Magazine
——OASE  Journal for Architecture; http://www.oasejournal.nl/en/Issues
——Landscape Architecture
——Landscape and Urban Planning
——Australian Planner
——Volume magazine


READINGS: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
——Angelil, M, 2003, Inchoate: An Experiment in Architectural Education, SFIT, Zurich
——Ching, F, 2007, Architecture: Form, Space and Order. 3rd edition, John Wiley and Sons, New York
——Frederick, M, 2007, 101 Things I Learned at Architecture School, MIT Press, Cambridge MA.
——Klanten, R, Bourquin, N, Ehmann, S, van Heerden, F (eds), 2008, Data Flow: Visualising Information in Graphic Design, Gestalten, Berlin.
——McHarg, I, 1969, Design with Nature, Natural History Press, Garden City, N.Y. Seager, J, 1995, State of the Environment Atlas: The International Visual Survey, Penguin.
——Steenbergen, C, 2008, Composing Landscapes: Analysis, Typology and Experiments for Design, Birkhäuser, Switzerland.


DESIGN - INTRODUCTORY
——Alexander, C, Ishikawa, S, Silverstein, M, 1977, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction, Oxford University Press, USA
——Barbaux, S, 2010, Jardins Ecologiques : Ecology, source of creation, ICI Interface, France.
——Contemporary Landscape Architecture, 2008, Daab, Cologne.
——Leszczynski, N, 1999, Planting the Landscape: A Professional Approach to Garden Design, John Wiley & Sons, NY.
——Margolis, L, Robinson, A, 2007, Living Systems: Innovative Materials and Technologies for Landscape Architecture, Birkhäuser, Switzerland.
——Thomson, P, 2002, Australian Planting Design, Melbourne, Lothian Books.
——Petschek, P, 2008, Grading for Landscape Architects and Architects, Birkhauser, Basel. Boston. Berlin


DESIGN - ADVANCED
——Ware, S, 2011, Sunburnt: Landscape Architecture in Australia, Sun, Amsterdam.
——Weller, R et al., 2005, Room 4.1.3: Innovations in Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia USA.
——Weller, R, 2009, Boom Town, UWA, WA.
——Zimmermann, A (ed.) 2009, Constructing Landscape: Materials, Techniques, Structural Components, Birkhauser, Switzerland.
——Dee, C, 2002, Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture, Spoon Press, London


DESIGN PRACTICE
——Uffelen, C (ed.) 2008, 1000X Landscape Architecture, Braun, Berlin.
—— Angles, M (ed.) 2010, In Favour of Public Space; Ten Years of the European Prize for Urban Public Space, CCCB / ACTAR. Barcelona.
——LAE, 2009, On Site: Landscape Architecture Europe, Birkhauser, Switzerland.
——Reed, P, 2005, Groundswell, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
——Richardson, T, 2008, Avant Gardeners, Thames and Hudson, London.


GRAPHICS
——Elam, K, 2001, Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition, Princeton Architectural Press, NY
——Laseau, P, 1980, Graphic thinking for architects and designers, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York.
——Cantrell, B & Michaels, W, 2010, Digital Drawing for Landscape Architects, John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey.
——Reid, G, 1987, Landscape Graphics, The Architectural Press, London.
——Tufte, E, 2001 (2nd ed.), The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Graphics Press, USA

 
ADELAIDE SPECIFIC
——Berkinshaw, T, 2009, Mangroves to mallee : the complete guide to the vegetation of temperate South Australia, Greening Australia, SA
——Dashorst, G, & Jessop, I, 1990, Plants of the Adelaide Plains and Hills, Kangaroo Press, Kenthurst.
——Daniels, C, Tait, C (ed), 2005, Adelaide, Nature of a City: Ecology of a Dynamic City from 1836-2006, BioCity:Centre for Urban Habitats,SA.
——Daniels, C (ed), 2010, Adelaide, Water of a City, Wakefield Press, Adelaide.
——Kraehenbuehl, D, 1996, Pre-European Vegetation of Adelaide: A Survey from the Gawler River to Hallett Cove, Nature Conservation Society of South Australia, Adelaide.

 
CONTEMPORARY THEORY
——Bell, B, & Wakeford, K , & Badanes, S et. all, 2008, Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism, Metropolis Books, NY.
——Berger, A, 2006, Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America, Princeton Architectural Press,
——Bull, Catherin (2002), New conversations with an old landscape: landscape architecture in contemporary Australia, Images Publishing Group, Victoria.
——Corner, J (ed.) 1999, Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Theory, Princeton Architectural Press, NY
——Hawken, P, Lovings, A., Lovins, L.H, 2000, Natural Capitalism: creating the next industrial revolution, Little Brown & Company, NY.
——Horwitz, J, Singley, P (eds), 2004, Eating Architecture, MIT Press, Cambridge, USA
——McDonough, W & Braungart, M, 2002, Cradle to Cradle, North Point Press, NY.
——MDRDV, 1999, Meta City Data Town, D10 Publishers, Rotterdam.
——Pallasmaa, J, 2005, The Eyes of the Skin – Architecture and the Senses, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ.
——Reynolds, R, 2008, On Guerrilla Gardening, Bloomsbury, London.
——Waldheim, C (ed.) 2006, The Landscape Urbanism Reader, Princeton Architectural Press, New York.
——Lefebvre, H, 1974, The Production of Space, translated by Nicholson-Smith, D, Basil Blackwell, Oxford


HISTORY
——Saniga,A (2012). Making Landscape Architecture in Australia. Sydney, Australia: NewSouth Publishing.
——Hobhouse, P, 2002, The Story of Gardens, DK, London.
——Kastner, J, 1998, Land and Environmental Art, Phaidon Press, London.
——Lailach, M, 2007, Land Art, Taschen, Koln.
——Leopold, A, 1949, A Sand County Almanac, Oxford University Press, New York.
——Lyall, S, 1991, Designing the New Landscape, Thames & Hudson, NY.
——Trieb, M (ed.) 1993, Modern Landscape Architecture: A Critical Review, MIT, MA.


URBAN AGRICULTURE
——Nordahl, D, 2009, Public Produce: The New Urban Agriculture, Island Press, USA.
——Pollock, M, 2006, Fruit & Vegetable Gardening in Australia, DK, Victoria.
——Roberts, P, 2008, The End of Food, Houghton Mifflin, Boston.


PEAK OIL/ECOLOGICAL LIMITS/ENVIRONMENTAL
——AILA:      http://www.aila.org.au/LApapers/papers/seddon/loci/default.htm
——Campbell, C, 2005, Oil Crisis. Multi-Science Publishing, UK.
——Carson, R, 1962, Silent Spring, Houghton Mifflin, USA.
——Catton, W, 1980, Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change, University of Illinois Press, USA.
——Deffeyes, K, 2010,When Oil Peaked, Hill and Wang, New York.
——Diamond, J, 2005, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive, Penguin, London.
——Downton, P, (2009), Ecopolis:Architecture and Cities for a Changing Climate, CSIRO, VIC.
——Flannery, T, 1994, The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People, Reed Books, Chatswood, N.S.W.
——Flannery, T, 2003, Beautiful Lies, Population and Environment in Australia, Issue 9, Black Inc., Melbourne.
——Flannery, T, 2005, The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change, Text Publishing, Melbourne.
——Heinberg, R, Lerch, D, (ed) 2010,The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, Watershed Media, California
——Holmgren, D, 2009, Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate
Change, Chelsea Green Publishing, Canada.
——Holmgren, D, 2002, Permaculture: Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability, Holmgren Design Services, VIC
——Hopkins, R, 2008, The Transition Handbook, Chelsea Green, VT
——Kunstler, J.H, 2005, The Long Emergency, Atlantic Books, London.
——Leggett, J, 2005, The Empty Tank: Oil, Gas, Hot Air, and the Coming Financial Catastrophe. Random House, New York.
——Low, T, 1999, Feral Future, Viking, Victoria.
——Low, T, 2003, The New Nature, Penguin, Victoria.
——Lowe, I, 2005, A Big Fix, Black Inc, Melbourne.
——MacLean, A, 2008, Over: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point, Abrams, NY. Newman, P & Jennings, I, 2008, Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems - Principles and Practices, Island Press, Washington.
——Seddon, G, 1972, Sense of Place, UWA Press, WA.
——Soleri , P, 1969, Arcology: The City in the Image of Man, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
——Suzuki, D & Dressel, H, 2003, Good News for a Change: How Everyday People are Helping the Planet, Greystone Books, Canada.
——Thompson, G, & Steiner, F, 1997, Ecological Design and Planning, John Wiley and Sons, NY

 
FILMS/DOCUMENTARIES
——KOYAANISQATSI (1983)
——Urbanized 2012
——Baraka (1992)
——Manufactured Landscapes (2006)
——Life After People (2008)
——The Plan (2010)
——Samsara (2011) RADIO
——THE PLAN; (Radio Adelaide 101.5FM,Wed 6-7pm) http://www.theplan.net.au/      & by Podcast
——The Architects (RRR-Melbourne) by Podcast


PHONE APP’S
——Compass         ——Weather (BOM)       ——Moon phases                             ——Theodolite       ——Sun (e.g. sunseeker)

 
WEB LINKS
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
AILA: http://www.aila.org.au/
PIA: http://www.planning.org.au/
AIA: http://www.architecture.com.au/
DIA: http://www.dia.org.au/

 
GENERAL WEB REFERENCES - DESIGN
http://www.worldlandscapearchitect.com/
http://www.archdaily.com/
http://www.inhabitat.com/
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com.au/
http://www.cityofsound.com/
http://www.integrateddesign.sa.gov.au/
http://5000plus.net.au/


ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN/ISSUES
http://www.treehugger.com/ http://www.ecogeek.org/ http://blogs.adelaide.edu.au/ecoversity/
http://www.ecoinnovationlab.com/
http://www.holmgren.com.au/
http://www.urbanecology.org.au/links/
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/
http://www.tec.org.au/ http://www.geca.org.au/ http://www.thegreendirectory.com.au/
http://dieoff.org/ http://www.bioregional.com/
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/en/
http://www.aila.org.au/climate/case/
http://www.biocity.com
http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/hotspots/national-hotspots.html
http://www.stateflora.com.au

 
GENERAL WEB REFERENCES
http://www.naturemaps.sa.gov.au/
http://storyofstuff.org/ http://www.wsud.org/ http://www.thefifthestate.com.au/ http://www.worldometers.info/
http://www.breathingearth.net/
http://math.berkeley.edu/~galen/popclk.html
http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/ABS@.nsf/0/1647509ef7e25faaca2568a900154b63?OpenDocument
http://www.fsc.org/en http://www.smh.com.au/ http://www.anbg.gov.au/chabg/bg-dir/
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519,00.html
http://www.alexmaclean.com/

 

TOPOGRAPHIC  RESOURCES
Google Map / Terrain / Earth
http://www.earthtools.org/
http://www.naturemaps.sa.gov.au/
http://mapstor.com/

University Email
The school uses the University email system to get in touch with the students. So it is imperative that you check your email regularly and keep up to date with any new announcements.

MyUni
In addition to the above resources, further assignment resources are available on MyUni. These may include further reading material for the lectures and studios, reading material that will assist with the preparation of assignments and appropriate links to
assist students with academic writing including essay writing as required.

MyUni is an essential online tool which will be used to communicate information regarding the course including details of assignments and interim grades. There are many other learning resources and assessment pieces that rely
on the MyUni system for delivery. Therefore it is recommended that you familiarise yourself with the various functions of MyUni and employ it to its fullest extent. https://myuni.adelaide.edu.au

Discussion Board
The MyUni Discussion Board can be used to interact with other students and is an essential tool to discuss information and increase your understanding of issues.

Lecture Recording
In certain cases the recording of the lectures is made available in electronic format for students to listen through on their own
time and make notes, and is provided through the MyUni system. However, this service may not include guest lectures. Furthermore, where the presentation content is subject to copyright or the guest speaker is uncomfortable with the recording of the content, the lecture recording will not be made available online. So students should not rely solely on this mode of learning and arrange to attend or get lecture content from peers.

Noticeboard / Handbook
General information about the activities at the School is available online from the Student Noticeboard which can be accessed at  https://unified.adelaide.edu.au/group/professons-studentarchitecture/
current-student


Students can also access a copy of the Student Handbook at the following link:

https://unified.adelaide.edu.au/group/professons-student-architecture/enrolments

 

Design Studio I  focuses on student-centred learning and teaching. In “What the Student Does: Teaching for Enhanced Learning” Biggs (1999) advocates a systemic approach which takes into account all aspects of the teaching context—course objectives, teaching and learning activities and the assessment tasks—as a strategy to move away from passive, uni-directional,
teacher-to student transmission of knowledge. This is the aim of the teaching and learning mode of Design Studio I. Importantly, Biggs stresses the need to embed the course objectives in the assignment tasks. Thus, formative and summative assessment tasks are designed to engage students in activities which will develop their knowledge and skills which are aligned with the course objectives.

The knowledge base begins with the lectures and the required reading material. However, these are intended as a point of inspiration and a starting point for students’ independent learning which is demonstrated in the assessable work. They are not intended as a comprehensive, finite review of the content.

Knowledge, skills, and assessable work are carefully integrated to achieve the intended holistic approach to learning and teaching. Moreover, according to Biggs, assessment must generate higher level cognitive learning activities, specifically, theorising, applying, relating, understanding or explaining distinguished from describing, note-taking or memorising. Student-focused learning strategies, embedded in the assessable work, are essential to bring about higher level cognitive learning.

Biggs, J. (1999). “What the Student Does: Teaching for Enhanced Learning.” Higher Education Research and Development Journal, 18 (1): 57-78.

The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements. The University expects full-time students (ie. those taking 12 units per semester) to devote at least 48 hours per week to their studies. Accordingly, students undertaking this 6 unit course are expected to devote 24 hours per week to contact activities and self-guided studies.

Based on this framework here are some figures that might assist workload management:
Total workload hours:24 hrs per week x 13weeks = 312 hrs
Total contact hours: 5 hrs per week x12 weeks = 60 hrs
Total self-guided study: 312 hrs – 60 hrs = 252hrs

Please organise your time wisely.

Assignment #                  Task                                      Weighting             Approx. self-guided ‘study’
Assignment 1                   Shelter                                       30%                                    75.6
Assignment 2                   Campus Furniture                      25%                                    63.0
Assignment 3                    Artspark                                    35%                                    88.2
Journal                                                                               10%                                    25.2

 

Full details about the Learning Activities will be made available on MyUni.

The Week 2 Field Trip to Glenthorne Farm is compulsory. The date is Thursday 12th March (Depart campus at 9.00am and return by approximately 1pm). This site is private property and it cannot be accessed at any other time. The site is the ‘ground’ for both Assignments 1 and 3. All details about the site visit will be available on MyUni.

 

If you choose to visit other specific sites (buildings and landscapes) on campus or around Adelaide, ensure that you exercise respect for the owners and patrons, obtain permission to enter the building if required, and observe an appropriate duty of care during your visit. Failure to attend teaching due to medical, compassionate or extenuating circumstances is dealt with the School Policy, administered by the School Office. Submit the appropriate application for supplementary consideration together with the original signed medical or other relevant officer, to the School Office. If you foresee a problem contact the Course Coordinator BEFORE the problem actually occurs. Otherwise, contact the Course Coordinator as soon as possible and submit the appropriate application for supplementary consideration to the School Office. 

 

Assignment 2 requires students to collaborate in small groups (of approximately 5-6 students). Students will be required to undertake research of contemporary design precedents and relevant anthropometric data, to conduct relevant in-situ analysis and testing on campus, and to generate a design for an item of campus furniture. Together, students are required to make a model of the furniture. The entire design and research process will be captured in a photographic/visual essay.

The union of teaching and research, combined in a search for impartial truth, was fundamental to the modern research university ideal. A small group of students, meeting to work at the discovery of new knowledge under expert guidance, was the centrepiece of the university experience. Yet in Australian and UK universities from the 1980s, with the massive growth of university enrolments and the addition of many applied disciplines, research became  increasingly detached from teaching, and a division was created that has widened ever since. Today despite oppressive research pressures on staff, research is almost wholly absent from Australian undergraduate teaching.

The University of Adelaide promotes small group discovery and aims to become a model of the teaching/research union, to show how universities can recapture what was once the defining characteristic of the research university. This does not mean merely inviting students to study an individual topic in depth, with initiative and creativity. In a true research university, the study of existing knowledge is secondary to the making of new knowledge. Moving away from knowledge delivery, now increasingly eroded by the universal availability of free online content, a university should focus on the essence of what research offers: the rigour of the scientific method, the search for empirical evidence, the beauty of logic and of patterns, the value of innovation, the creativity of problem solving and the intrinsic worth of knowledge. The University of Adelaide will return research to undergraduate teaching, so that every student in every program comes to experience the scholarship of discovery as the highlight of their learning experience.

For many undergraduate students, this will take the form of an individual research project in their final year, for which the preparatory research skills and experience necessary will be built through smaller exercises in the earlier years of their course. As a key format for delivering undergraduate research, the university will commit to increasing the centrality of small-group learning, in which students address the scholarship of discovery with other students and a staff mentor. While content will increasingly be delivered in other formats, every student in every program should experience such small-group discovery as a key part of their learning experience.

All details about the individual assignments including an overview of each assessment task, the task type (e.g. summative, formative), due date, weighting, and identification of the learning objectives (identified in section 2.1. above) addressed by the assessment task are summarised below. Details of each assignment are provided in the relevant assignment folder on MyUni.

The course is not exempt from any requirement of the Assessment for Coursework Programs policy

 

If there are any concerns about the due dates or conflicts arising with those of other courses these concerns must be directed to the Course Coordinator by Monday of Week 2 via email. The course co-ordinator will take these into account and notify the class of any changes via MyUni.

Assignment	Task	Due	Time	Weight	Type	Learning Objective
Journal	self directed tasks			10%	Formative	1-9
1	SHELTER Individual	Tue 7th April	11am	30%	Summative	1-9
2	Campus Furniture Group	Mon 4th May	5pm	25%	Summative	1-9
3	Artspark Individual	In Studio		35%	Summative	1-9

Full details are on MyUni.

Full details are on MyUni.

Full details are on MyUni.