Week

Day/Date

Lecture Notes and Class Activities

Readings

Tasks

Grade

W1

Sat.

Sept.  10

Introduction

 to Architectural Programming

&

Selection of

Senior Project

Building Type

Lecture:

Introduction & Senior Project Selection Guidelines & Resources

Resources:

The World's best Graduation Projects

Task 1: Release

Write ONLY one page on What and Why for your proposed building type for the senior project? (Download Task 1 template RTF)

Mon.

Sept 12

Lecture:  

What is Architectural Programming?    (Download PDF)

Chapter 1: Introduction, Programming for Design: from Theory to Practice, Cherry, E., 1999, pp. 3-19.

W2

Sat.

Sept. 17

Lecture:

Programming as Design (Download PDF)

Robinson, J. and Weeks, J., Programming as Design, Journal of Architectural Education, 1983.

Task 1: Submission

5%

Mon.

Sept 19

Class Discussion:

Discussion & feedback on building type selection of the senior project (What and Why).

Task 1:

Discussion and Feedback

W3

Sat.

Sept. 24

National Holiday

Mon.

Sept 26

Lecture:

Identifying Project Mission and Goals (Download PDF)

Chapter 3: Goals: The Promise for Quality, Duerk, D., Architectural Programming: Information Management for Design, 1993, pp. 36-46.

Task 2: Release

Project Type’s What and Why Revised + Project’s Mission and Goals. (Download Task 2 template RTF)

W4

Sat.

Oct. 1

Lecture:

Ways of Thinking

(Download PDF)

Pena, W. and Parshall, S., Problem Seeking: An Architectural Programming Primer, 2001, pp. 50-57.

Mon.

Oct. 3

Class Discussion:

Class Discussions, critical analysis and Reporting on Project type’s What, Why, Mission and Goals.

W5

Sat.

Oct. 8

Literature Review

& Case Analysis

Lecture:

Researching your Project  (Download PDF)

How to conduct a literature review and select your cases and what to do with them.

Chapter 4: Researching your project,  Programming for Design: from Theory to Practice, Cherry, E., 1999.

Task 2: Submission

Task 3: Release

Literature Review and Analysis + Case Studies (Download Task 3 Template in RTF)

5%

Mon.

Oct. 10

Lecture:

Values become issues: Human, Environmental, cultural.

(Download PDF)

Chapter 3: Values become Issues, Architectural Programming and Pre-design Manager, Hershberger, R., 1999, pp. 73-122.

W6

Sat.

Oct. 15

Lecture:

Values become issues: technological, temporal, economic, aesthetic, safety

(Download PDF)

Chapter 3: Values become Issues, Architectural Programming and Pre-design Manager, Hershberger, R., 1999, pp. 123-170.

Mon.

Oct. 17

Class Discussion:

Case Analysis queries and difficulties

W7

Sat.

Oct. 22

Site Selection, Site Analysis, &

Client Identification

Lecture:

Site Selection and Analysis + Task 4 Description

(Download PDF)

Chapter 6: Gathering and Analyzing Information, Programming for Design: from Theory to Practice, Cherry, E., 1999, pp. 119-181.

Task 3: Submission

Task 4: Release

Site selection, Site Analysis and Identification of expected clients

 (Download Task 4 template RTF)

15%

Mon.

Oct. 24

Lecture:

Identifying your clients

 (Download PDF)

Chapter 3: Clients, Programming for Design: from Theory to Practice, Cherry, E., 1999, pp. 51-78.

Id al-Fitr Vacation (October 29 – November 9)  2 Weeks

W8

Sat.

Nov. 12

Class Discussion:

Task 4 Progress & Feedback on pre-submission

Mon.

Nov. 14

W9

Sat.

Nov. 19

Objectives, activities and spaces

&

Relationship Matrices and Diagrams

Lecture:

Identifying Project Requirements

 (Download PDF)

Architectural Programming and Pre-design Manager, Hershberger, R., 1999, Chapters 4,5, 6 & 7.

Task 4: Submission

Task 5: Release

Space Identification and Allocation & Relationship Matrices and Diagrams

 (Download Task 5 template RTF)

15%

Mon.

Nov. 21

  Lecture:

Identifying Performance &   Design Requirements for a Project

(Download PDF)

W10

Sat.

Nov. 26

Lecture:

Space Identification and Allocation

(Download PDF)

Mon.

Nov. 28

Workshop:

Application of space identification on examples of students’ projects

W11

Sat.

Dec. 3

Mon.

Dec. 5

W12

Sat.

Dec. 10

Design Imperatives & Concept Definition

Mon.

Dec. 12

Class Discussion:

Space Identification and Allocation

W13

Sat.

Dec. 17

Program Documents and Pin-up Boards

Lecture:

Concepts: Turning Ideas into Reality I

(Download PDF)

 Chapter 5: E Concepts: Turning Ideas into Reality, Duerk, D., Architectural Programming: Information Management for Design, 1993, pp. 60-76.

Task 5: Submission

Task 6: Turning Ideas into Concepts

20%

Mon.

Dec. 19

W14

Sat.

Dec. 24

Lecture:

Program Preparation

Architectural Programming and Pre-design Manager, Hershberger, R., 1999, pp. 376-433.

Task 7: 

Program Document (Compiling all previous task submissions into one complete document & Pin-up boards)

Mon.

Dec. 26

Lecture:

Computer Assisted Architectural Programming

W15

Saturday

Dec. 31

Pre-Final Submission Task 7: Program Documents and Pin-up Boards (4hrs session) including Task 6: Submission

Final Program Document (Download Word File Template)

Pin-up Boards (Download Pin-up Boards configuration file)

 10 %

Id al-Adha Vacation (January 7 to January 18) 2 Weeks

Sat.

Jan.21

20%