Building Process Area of Emphasis: Integrated Design Studio – Development of Santa Cruz & Furniture Making

Fall 1990

Design studio to lay the foundation for a single integrated view of design, building and planning, which extended from the smallest parts of the building fabric to the largest parts of cities. The goal was a complete integrated picture of the crucial ten-block area in downtown Santa Cruz, the area that forms the link between the present downtown (destroyed by the 1989 earthquake) and the boardwalk and pier.
Within the Integrated Design studio, students were encouraged to untertake the design and fabrication of individual furniture pieces in the carpentry shop of the department.

University Program:

Master of Architecture

Course type:

Graduate Design Studio

Course number:

Arch. 201

Instructors:

Christopher Alexander, Hansjoachim Neis

Enrolled students:

Christopher Gutsche, Jun Kawai, Grace Maina, Robert M. Walsh, others

Contents

Course Material

"Process Studies: A Journal of Architectural Process - Building Furniture", Vol. 2, Spring 1995, edited by Hansjoachim Neis with Chris Gutsche. It includes the work completed by students in the design studios Arch. 201, for five consequitive years, starting in Fall 1990 until Fall 1994, tutored by Christopher Alexander and Hansjoachim Neis 01/03/1995

Student Work, Paper

Authors:

Instructors: Hansjoachim Neis; Students: Carlos Alvarado Jr., Hilary Bates, Cullen Burda, Meg Calkins, Gregg Crimp, Isobel Damelin, George Elvin, Christopher Gutsche, Susan Ingham, Micheal Kao, Jun Kawai, Hiroyuki Kawakami, Danna Lerner, Alice Hsiachuing Lin, John McCu, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

The journal, 102 pages in total, starts with “Notes from the Editor” in which Neis describes the scope and essentials of this course on process and furniture. It then presents the twenty six papers on the pieces of furniture the ...