Building Process Area of Emphasis: Building Process Studies – Atelier

Fall 1994

The design studio named “Atelier” placed emphasis on preparing students to go into the professional world with a reasonable expectation of being able to make living buildings, in the real world, and to succeed in this. Class discussion of student work focused on process, not only content, and on the issues needed to allow a living architecture to be created. Students were required to do something real, where they could show real results. .

University Program:

Master of Architecture

Course type:

Graduate Design Studio

Course number:

Arch. 201

Instructors:

Christopher Alexander

Enrolled students:

Katalin Bende, Shawn Bradbury, Meg Calkins, Isobel Damelin, Ann V. Edminster, George Elvin, Andrew Hryzewicz, Susan Ingham, Daniel Kosak, Danna Lerner, Sean H. McPherson, Kang Meea, Bethany Opalach, Saul Pichardo, Kyriakos L. Pontikis, Kathleen Smith, Eileen Ann Tumlin, G

Contents

Course Material

Illustrations of the fifteen properties of "the Nature of Order" 01/01/1994

Student Work, Design Studio Course Sketches

Authors:

Sean H. McPherson, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

A portfolio type binder with labeled pencil and colored drawings and some photographs, possibly an assignment for a class; undated.
"Process Studies: A Journal of Architectural Process and Construction Process", edited by Christopher Alexander. It includes the work completed by the students in the design studio Arch 201, Fall 1994, tutored by Christopher Alexander. The course was part of the Building Process Area of Emphasis, launched in 1989 in the Department of Architecture at Berkeley 01/09/1994

Student Work, Paper

Authors:

Instructor: Christopher Alexander; Students: Katalin Bende, Shawn Bradbury, Meg Calkins, Isobel Damelin, Ann V. Edminster, George Elvin, Andrew Hryzewicz, Susan Ingham, Daniel Kosak, Danna Lerner, Sean H. McPherson, Kang Meea, Bethany Opalach, Saul Pichardo, Kyriakos L, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

The journal, 346 pages in total, starts with “Notes from the Editor” in which Alexander describes the scope and essentials of this course on process. It then presents the twelve student projects with the following titles: 1) Learning to Building: ...