AR5011: Creativity and The Design Process Syllabus for B.Arch 7th Sem 2019 Regulation Anna University (Professional Elective-III)

Creativity and The Design Process detailed syllabus for Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) for 2019 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the B.Arch students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.

For Bachelor of Architecture 7th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit B.Arch 7th Sem 2019 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-III scheme and its subjects refer to B.Arch Professional Elective-III syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of creativity and the design process is as follows.

Creativity and the Design Process

Course Objectives:

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Unit I

INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN Definition and understanding of design. History of design process from earliest times through Renaissance, Beaux Arts, Bauhaus. Different classifications of design according to scale, process, mode of production, etc., – self conscious/ unselfconscious, design through drawing/ design through craft, pragmatic/ iconic/ analogic/ canonic or syntactic, hand made/ machine made, product design to city design, functional/ aesthetic, nature vernacular/ technological. Evolutionary, social and cultural aspects of creativity in design.

Unit II

Unit III

CREATIVE THINKING Understanding the term creativity. Theories on thinking – left brain/ right brain, convergent/ divergent thinking, lateral/ vertical thinking. Broadbent”s idea of the design spectrum – from the logical to chance. Blocks in creative thinking. Techniques to generate creativity.

Unit IV

Unit V

PROCESS AND DESIGN Design as social process. Participatory approach to design. Introduction to contemporary processes in design including diagramming, mapping, parametric exploration, etc.,

Course Outcomes:

Required Reading:

Geoffrey Broadbent, “Design in Architecture – Architecture and the Human Sciences”, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1981.
Bryan Lawson, “How Designers Think”, Architectural Press, 2005.
Anthony Antoniades, “Poetics of Architecture- Theory of Design”, VNR,1992.
Edward De Bono, “Lateral Thinking- Textbook of Creativity”, Penguin Books, 1990.
Christopher Alexander, “A Pattern Language”, Oxford University Press, 1977.
James C. Snyder, Anthony J. Catanese, Timothy L. McGinty, “Introduction to Architecture”, McGraw Hill, 1979.
Mark Garcia, “The Diagrams of Architecture”, Wiley 2010.
C. Thomas Mitchell, “Redefining Designing: From Form to Experience”, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992.

Reference Books:

Victor Papanek, “Design for the Real world, Human Ecology and Social Change”, Chicago Review Press, 2005.
Paul Alan Johnson, “Theory of Architecture- Concepts, Themes, Practices”, VNR; 1994.
Christopher Jones, “Design Methods”, John Wiley and Sons; 1980.
Tom Heath, “Method in Architecture”, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1984.
Nigel Cross, “Developments in Design Methodology”, John Wiley and Sons, 1984.
James L. Adams, “Conceptual Blockbusting”, Basic Books, 2001.
Jeremy Till et al, “Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture”, Routledge, 2011.
Philip Plowright, “Revealing Architectural Design: Methods, Frameworks and Tools”, Routledge, 2014.

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