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Preview & Open House Week: September 20 - 23, 1999

Classes: September 27 — December 16, 1999

All new:
E-200 ECOLOGICAL HANDS-ON DESIGN WORKSHOP
near Tucson, Arizona, with Phil Hawes.
6 weeks, 18 units, $1800. September 20 - October 30 and November 8 to December 11.

Fee includes meals and study materials. It will be a camping and dormitory environment with alternating hands-on work and theoretical studies. First two six-week programs: THE ECOLOGICAL DESIGN EXPERIENCE include site, climate, and solar analysis; planning and building with alternative materials, passive solar design, bio- remediation & permaculture, bioclimatic design, basics of construction. Includes guest speakers, lessons from Biosphere 2, field trips. Complete details are available in the ECOLOGICAL DESIGN EXPERIENCE file.

New
E-51 BUCKY FULLER, ECO DESIGN, & THE FUTURE OF ARCHITECTURE
3 units. Wednesday evenings, 8:00 p.m. - 9:30+ p.m.
Instructor: J. Baldwin, Author of Buckyworks, editor of the Whole Earth Catalog and 30-year associate of Bucky Fuller.

The theory and techniques for designing and building structures of extraordinary economy, efficiency, and ecological sensitivity.

New
D-31 CREATIVE SELF EXPRESSION IN WRITING AND ARCHITECTURE
3 units, (credit option only).

Karen Holden, poet, author of The Book of Changes, and creative resource at the Frank Lloyd Wright School. A two-weekend, salon-style workshop of self-discovery, writing, and design: Friday evening, 6:30 - 9 p.m. and Saturday & Sunday, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. October 15-17; optional advisory and mentoring contact during the week; and a concluding salon workshop on Friday, Saturday & Sunday, October 22-24.

New
D-35 DESIGN OF LANDSCAPES FOR ART AND EDUCATION, ECOLOGY AND COMMUNITY

A special project intern course working with artist/landscape architect Bonnie Sherk — OMI - Excelsior Living Library and Think Park. Details to be announced.

D-1 DESIGN STUDIO: CREATIVE DESIGN PROCESS
5 units. Mondays, 7:45 - 9:15 p.m.
Directed by Fred Stitt.

Step by step, how the world's most creative architects go about designing buildings. Special emphasis on creative visualization, alternative materials, and ecological design.

D-4 THE ARCHITECTURAL MIND: CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING
3 units. Mondays, 6:30 - 7:40 p.m.
Instructor: Fred Stitt.

Inner workings of the mind and the subconscious and how to put them to work in design and problem-solving processes.

D-6 HISTORY & THEORY OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
3 units. Wednesdays, 7:45 - 9:15 p.m.
Instructor: Fred Stitt.

Design principles and systems used in Egypt, Greece, Rome, Byzantium. and Islamic empire, India, China, and Japan.

D-7 ECO DESIGN & organic architecture lecture series
3-unit credit option.
Thursdays, 8:00 - 9:15 p.m.

An extensive speaker program will be offered this semester.

D-13 ARCHITECTURAL FREEHAND DRAWING
3 units. Tuesdays, 7:45 - 9:15 p.m. 10 student limit.
Instructor: Suren Gunasekara, M.Arch, SFIA.

Basic tools and skills of freehand drawing and how to use this activity as a source of design understanding and inspiration. Includes instruction on basic materials, techniques, and how to "see" interior and exterior architectural spaces and then draw them on paper.

D-19 MODEL MAKING AS A DESIGN TOOL
3 units. Mondays, 7:45 - 9:15 p.m.
Instructor: Suren Gunasekara, M.Arch, SFIA.

An introduction to design through model making, introspective exploration, and experimentation through three-dimensional media. Learn how to do site models, massing, quick-study models; and professional techniques for making finish presentation models.

D-21 MATHEMATICS & GEOMETRY FOR CREATIVE DESIGN
3 units. Tuesdays, 6:30 - 7:40 pm.
Instructor: Matt Fulvio, M.A. SFIA.

Most public education excludes the poetry and creativity of mathematics, so most adults fear or loathe the subject. Using a visual approach — polyhedra, tilings, proportion, gnomons, magic squares — this course shows how to understand the mathematical mind and includes the history of ideas from India, Arabia, Persia, and Greece.

Math Lab
Tuesdays, 8:00 - 9:30 pm.

By popular demand! For students enrolled in D-21 and D-22. Extra time for further in-studio work and questions. May also be used to schedule visiting speakers and tutorials for forgotten mathematics.

D-22 MATHEMATICS AND GEOMETRY FOR CREATIVE DESIGN - PART II
3 units. Wednesdays, 6:30 - 7:45

A continuation of D-21. D-22 will continue the themes of D-21, concentrating on four modules: Polygons, Space Forms, Curves, and Numbers. Once again, a hands-on approach exploring exciting forms. Investigating flowers, folding, fabric, knots and more.

T-1 CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS & METHODS
3 units. Wednesdays, 6:30 - 7:40 p.m.
Instructor: Fred Stitt.

The nature of materials and how to build well and imaginatively with adobe, stone, masonry, tile, concrete, and wood.

ST-1 STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING FOR CREATIVE DESIGN
3 units. Thursdays, 6:30 - 7:40 p.m.
Instructor: Joel Carr, Structural Engineer.

How to understand and predict the behavior of materials in construction. Includes strength of materials, simple computations, and demonstrations on how to "get inside" structural materials, to fully understand how they work.

E-3 PRINCIPLES OF ECOLOGICAL DESIGN
3 units. Tuesdays, 6:30 - 7:40 p.m.
Instructor: Skip Wenz, M.Arch, SFIA.

A comprehensive introduction and overview by an expert builder and author of the forthcoming book Ecotecture.

DE-4 THE ECO Design Studio
5 units. Tuesdays, 7:45 - 9:15 p.m.
Instructor: Skip Wenz, builder and author.

Designing and integrating the many elements of environmentally-sensitive architecture.

E-44 BAMBOO: AN IN-DEPTH, HANDS-ON INTRODUCTION
3 units. Thursdays, 6:30 - 7:40 p.m.
Instructor: Robert Hickling, M. Eco Design, SFIA.

Through interactive instruction and hands-on projects, explore bamboo from its anatomy to its poetry, its biological and botanic background to its many applications in architecture.

CO-OP ECO-DESIGN COURSES WITH MERRITT COLLEGE, Oakland.

Contact SFIA for details.