Building Process Area of Emphasis: Construction experience course - Building Furniture

Spring 1995

Designing and building a piece of furniture, starting with sketches, then going to 1/2 inch models, to be followed by a real scale mockup from cardboard or wooden pieces, and finally building the piece of furniture. The goal being to make a piece of furniture with ‘feeling’, capable of evoking ‘feeling’ in you as well

University Program:

Master of Architecture

Course type:

Graduate Design Studio

Course number:

Arch. 201

Instructors:

Hansjoachim Neis, Dan Solomon, Susan Ubbelohde

Contents

Visual & Audio Materials

Building Furniture: Furniture Review 03/05/1995

Visual, Poster

Created by:

Hansjoachim Neis, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Poster announcing the exhibit of student work.

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 ...