Arch. 203 Design III The San Francisco Waterfront, and Arch. 291 Theory III on Urban Design: Student Drawings for seven projects
7 7) Project No. 79 – Office Building

The Spring 1979 design studio course was an experimental project on the San Francisco Waterfront. The experiment consisted of a simulated process of urban growth, carried out by about twenty people. The simulation included 90 projects, to be developed on ...

The Spring 1979 theory studio course was complementary to the design studio on the San Francisco Waterfront experimental project. Its focus was on the development, elaboration and testing of a series of theoretical assumptions on the process of urban growth, ...

Theoretical basis and key assumptions for the process of urban growth, tested initially in the San Francisco Waterfront experimental project in 1979, in which the formation of larger urban wholes was highlighted as an overriding rule. This process was further ...

Outdoor space is positive when it is shaped just as a room is shaped. It has a contained character, it is bounded by walls, fences, natural vegetation, enclosure of some kind. It looks into other positive spaces, some larger, some ...

The sixth volume of “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press, “A New Theory of Urban Design” attempts to recapture the process by which cities develop organically. The venerable cities of the past, such ...