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Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Date/Time: Available in Selected Videos Lectures
3 Sessions/week, 4 hours/session
Price: Free
Website: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-125-architecture-studio-building-in-landscapes-fall-2002/
Description: This course consists of free materials from a course previously taught at MIT and now available for self study. The course was actually taught previously, so there is no longer a professor teaching the course.

The work for the semester was the designing of places for community and privacy. These are always the two main issues that professionals have as architects: How to make spaces that can respond to the needs of the community for joyful livable places of interaction, and how to respond to the dreams of individuals to provide for a joyful livable place of their own.

The second concern is building on the land, or earthtexture. Earthtexture includes land, sky, air, wind, sun, context - all of that influences what we design. Architecture happens in the space between the sky and land, and the designs for the studio will always take this into account. This course also explores materials and structures that can relate to earth texture and give architectural meaning to the forms. It is with an understanding of materials/structures that we can give form to our ideas of architecture.

Finally, and most important, we will be understanding and reflecting the ideas and dreams of the people we are designing for. Architecture is an echo of our society and culture, and at the same time it can influence the way that people relate to their surroundings.
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