Normalizing Abstraction: Interdisciplinarity and Familiarity in Beginning Design Pedagogy

In examining the mechanisms by which architecture’s curricular core expresses itself, this analysis argues for a rethinking of pedagogical approaches to the understanding of abstraction in beginning design. Humans are continually learning about the world around them through their perception and comparison of new ideas and objects to familiar ones. And yet, beginning design students are often viewed as empty vessels ready to absorb any information regarding conceptual abstraction transmitted to them by design studio critics.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.107.89

Volume Editors
Amy Kulper, Grace La & Jeremy Ficca

ISBN
978-1-944214-21-0