Phillip D. Abbott, Associate Professor
Helena Moussatche, Assistant Professor
5 credits (Fall)
In Architectural Interiors I, students and instructors work together
to improve students ability to design architectural interiors.
Students work on individual projects and in teams to develop effective
methods of inquiry that involve both the conceptual and the development
phases of design. Studio instruction stresses creative as well
as critical thinking processes as students design interior spaces
based on internal considerations and external influences. Students
learn that designing is a disciplined evolutionary process where
they repeatedly revise and transform their initial schematic ideas
before arriving at an acceptable, appropriate and pleasing design
solution. Course structure and content is aimed specifically to
improve students three-dimensional design/spatial development,
design process, and their ability to represent their design ideas
verbally, graphically, and through modeling.
Objectives
The general, the educational goal of this studio course is to improve
students understanding of design processes through practicing appropriate
strategies that lead to the creative resolution of design opportunities.
We will explore an integrated process that builds both, creative
thinking and critical thinking skills. Creative thinking is an activity
that leads to new information, or previously undiscovered solutions,
rather than to pre-determined or correct solutions. Producing a
unique design solution calls for flexibility, originality, fluency,
and inventiveness. Critical thinking is the process of inquiry and
curiosity. It engages logic (inductive or deductive) to arrive at
a judgment determining the degree to which a design idea meets established
criteria. We will concentrate on building the cognitive skills that
lead to good critical thinking. They are interpretation, analysis,
evaluation, inference, explanation, and self-regulation.
