Making Thinking: Beginning Architectural Design Education

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Architectural design emerges from a study of geometry, materials, structure, human perception, and workmanship framed by inquiries into the nature of environments and things themselves. The challenge for beginning designers is to learn to make design decisions that incorporate these issues.

The perspective outlined in this book builds a foundation for beginning design that supports making as a basis for creative design thinking. Making enables ideas to become formed, and then, transformed through physical and material exploration. Making raises questions and causes designers to search for answers directly through their own experiences, representations, and artifacts.

The readings of this book offer inquiries into the relationship between design decision-making and process, order, geometry, form, material, structure, and workmanship, as well as between inquiry, trial, and the dialog of design. The intention is to let beginning designers in on the methodology of their own learning. The fundamental premise is that learning is a developmental process ultimately resulting in a self-initiated process of learning, a necessary precondition for designers on a path toward the life-long learning required in a design career.