An Experimental Computer-Aided Design Studio (1987)
article⁄An Experimental Computer-Aided Design Studio (1987)
abstract⁄A pilot experiment was conducted in the use of microcomputers and Computer Aided Design CAD software for architectural design education. The CAD workstations were incorporated into two consecutive semesters of the third year design studio and consisted of TANDY 3000 HD tm microcomputers with 20 megabyte hard disks, digitizer tablets, digitizer mice, enhanced graphics capabilities, dotmatrix printers and multipen plotters. Software packages included the Personal Architect tm, VersaCAD tm, DataCAD tm, word processing software etc. Student to machine ratio of 4 to 1 was maintained and the use of the equipment was made available to students for approximately 20 hours per day.Design assignments neither emphasized nor required the use of CAD techniques, as the experiment was designed to measure the students’ acceptance of and adaptation to the use of CAD tools. The objective was to ’teach’ design in the traditional sense of a design studio, while making the computer an integral part of the setting in which the student learned designing and problem solving.Measurements were made of 1 time for the ‘fundamentals’ learning curve, 2 time for a ‘basic competence’ learning curve, 3 hours utilized by categories of type of use, 4 hours utilized by equipment and software type, and 5 progress in design ability as evaluated by the traditional jury review methods.
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| Year |
1987 |
| Authors |
Miranda, Valerian; Degelman, Larry 0. |
| Issue |
Integrating Computers into the Architectural Curriculum |
| Pages |
19-28 |
| Library link |
Barbara-Jo Novitski, 1987. bib⁄Integrating Computers into the Architectural Curriculum. ACADIA. |
| Entry filename |
experimental-computer-aided-design-studio |
