Office Building Design: Photographs of student drawings

01/03/1989

Design Studio Course, Drawing

Photographs depicting four student drawings of an office building in Manchester, England. They include floor plans with an axonometric view, longitudinal section, elevations and perspective views.

Photographer:

Dill Green, U.S.A.

Source:

PMT

Characteristics:

8 1/2"x11", B&W

Content of

Academic Course

Design studio on Office Building Design 1989

University Program:

Master of Architecture

Course type:

Graduate Design Studio

Course number:

Arch. 201

Instructors:

Christopher Alexander, Eleni Coromvli

Enrolled students:

Susan Blowers, Tom Dinwoodie, Dil Green, Ora Hatheway, Ross Ishikawa, Cliff Niederer, Soren Pfeffer, Marlene Suggs, Bob Theis, Robert M. Walsh, Chris Winans

Students were asked to examine contemporary office buildings, specify their problems and propose a design process, which would generate a new archetype for office buildings. Emphasis to be given to the criteria and patterns which make the office spaces personal ...