“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

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Student Work, Paper

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: Shaping Space with a Beautiful and Living Garden Wall; 2) A New Apartment Building Process: Construction Simulation of an Apartment Building in Cyprus; 3) Time, Money, and the Building Process; 4) Ownership and Sense of Place; 5) Tiles and Walls: Integral Concrete Tile; 6) The Oakland Cannery Lofts: A Living; 7) A Garden for a Winery: Transformation of Positive Structure during an Incremental Building Process; 8) Making Houses Personal within the Habitat Program; 9) Listening: A Building Process for East Bay Habitat for Humanity; 10) Straw Bale Construction: A Sustainable System for Ownership; 11) Achieving Reality in a Playground: Towards a New, Integrated Process of Design and Making; 12) A Proposal for a New Hybrid Masonry Construction Unit.

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.

Content of

Academic Course

Building Process Area of Emphasis: Building Process Studies - Atelier 1994

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

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 ...