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Course Code & Number:

ARCH 434

Course Title:

Parametric Design Thinking

Level:

BS

Credit Hours/ ECTS Credits:

(3+0+0) 3 TEDU Credits, 5 ECTS Credits

Academic Year

2023

Semester

Spring

Catalog Description:

An introduction to parametric design. Understanding computer-aided design’s theoretical background through its applicable models. Gaining familiarity to concepts like algorithm, parameter, topology and form. Descriptive exploration of architectural examples through parametric design tools. Generating variations of architectural examples via innovative techniques.

Pre-requisite / Co-requisite:

Instructor:

Gökhan Kınayoğlu

Syllabus File:

arch434syllabus_1.pdf

Sap Event ID:

50217076

Office Hours:

Monday 10:00-11:00

Suggested / Recommended Reading:

Beorkrem, Christopher. Material Strategies in Digital Fabrication. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

Dunn, N. Digital Fabrication in Architecture. Laurence King Publishing, 2012.

Gramazio & Koehler. Digital materiality in architecture. Baden: Lars Müller Publishers, 2008.

Carpo, Mario. The alphabet and the algorithm. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2011. Print.

Kolarevic, B. Architecture in the Digital Age: Design and Manufacturing. Taylor & Francis, 2004.

Lindsey, Bruce, and Frank O. Gehry. Digital Gehry: Material Resistance, Digital Construction. Basel Boston: Birkhäuser, 2001.

Terzidis, Kostas. Algorithmic architecture. Oxford Burlington, MA: Architectural Press, 2006.

Learning Outcomes:

1. systematize computational design processes regardless of formal qualities and scalar measures

2. familiarize with the concepts related to parametric design

3. constitute appropriate thinking methods for parametric design processes

4. envisage means of form making and method

5. identify computer-aided design and manufacturing machinery.

Software Usage:

Use of Rhinoceros and Grasshopper is suggested but not compulsory.