Interior Architecture
School of Art+Design
College of Fine Arts                          
Ohio University   
ART 2650, Introduction to Design Process and Programming 
Fall Semester 2019
Mondays & Wednesdays:   10:00 - 11:20
Grover Center W 327
Matthew Ziff, Associate Professor, Area Chair
M. Arch, NCIDQ, Architect
Office: W 325 Grover Center
Office Hours: MW: 12-2  TTH: 12-1
Telephone: 740. 593. 2869
E-mail: ziff@ohio.edu

 

Course Lectures & Videos

Monday, August 26

What You Do In Design School

How To Design: Course Introduction

 

Wednesday, August 28: 

Discuss "Applied Empathy: A Design Framework for Meeting Human Needs" by Dirk Knemeyer

What Is Design?

 

Monday, September 2:  Labor Day: Official Ohio University Holiday: No Classes

 

Wednesday, September 4

Interior Design Process: A 3 minute video

Discusion of "Dimensions, Needs, Desires" by Dirk Knemeyer

Interior Design Process ASID Video A  7 minute video

pbs.org design squad: no spill bowl design  Yes, this is a kid's show, but the design process and the design 'need' are significant.

 

Monday September 9

Some Principles of Design

 

Wednesday, September 11

Bjarke Ingels Design Philosophy

Interior Design Process

What is Interior Design?

 

 

 

Monday, September 16

Nature Designs in Fabric

Nature and Design:  Concepts and Bio Mimicry

Bio Mimicry As Inspiration

Professional Design Process: Part 1

Professional Design Process: Part 2

 

 

 

Wednesday, September 18

Work in Grover Center W 327:  "Bio Mimicry" Assignment/Project

Biomimicry: Jane Benyus

Monday, September 23

Work in Studio

 

Wednesday, September 25

Parametric Design

Making the Setu Chair:  An excellent demonstration and explanation of what a design process looks like in practice.

Diagrams and Sketches: a very good explanation of the value and the method of diagrams and sketches.

Jean Nouvel Apartment Interior

Matt's Writing Guidelines

 

 

Monday, September 30: Programming In Interior Design

How to Develop a Design Concept: Connecting Process & Program: a 19 minute excellent video

 

 

Wednesday, October 2

 

 

What is 'Creativity'? by Sir Ken Robinson: a very good web page article

Sir Ken Robinson "Do Schools Kill Creativity":  fabulous 20 minute long TED talk (and still the most viewed TED of all time!)

 

Monday, October 7

Mechanical (Hand) Drafting:  Tools and Conventions

Details and Sections

 

Detail Drawings: What They Show

 

Line Types in Drafting

 

 

 

Wednesday, October 9

What Does An Interior Designer Actually Do?

How To Design (Like An Architect) (a five minute video)

How To Letter Like An Architect (Designer) Using Lead Pencils

 

 

Monday, October 14

Architecture vs/& Interior Design

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, October 16

Interior Design Programming Explained

Architectural Design Process & Programming

Architectural Programming

Programs: what a typical program looks like and how it results in actual designed spaces.

Design Process: An Example of One Design Office

What Is Architectural/Design Programming?:  This is a very good essay that describes what programming is and how it is done. 

 

McMansions

McMansions Cause Neighborhood Problems

Protesting McMansions

 

 

Monday October 21

Design Typologies

The Profession of Interior Design

A House Shaped By Nature

Interior Architecture at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point

Interior Design at Washington State University

St. Clair College interior design, Windsor, Ontario

 

The Floor Plan: What It Shows

The Vertical Section: What It Shows

Elevations: What They Show

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, October 23

Conceptual Models

Model Making for Designers

Architectural Model Making: Gluing and Connecting

Architectural Model Making: Scale and Cutting

How to Cut (Like an Architect)

 

 

Monday October 28

Human Figures for Architectural Sketches  A very good 10  minute sketching tutorial

Translucency

Plywood As Finish Material

Rethinking Doors

Van Air Door

Modern Wall Baseboard

 

 

Wednesday, October 30

How To Design An Interior Wall

How To Design Walls In Architecture:  A 'Google' search

This page presents a phantasmagoria for a design sensibility! 

(a sequence of real or imaginary images like those seen in a dream.)

 

Look at these materials, forms, qualities of light and shadow, geometric expressions, volumetric expressions, patterns, colors,

surfaces, textures .....

Zaha Hadid Architects Office

Zaha Hadid: Unbuilt Projects Exhibit

Smart Glass

 

 

 

Ayse Birsel and Herman Miller Furniture

Jean Nouvel Designing

Tools of an Architect

 

Monday, November 4

Space Planning Introduction

 

Wednesday, November 6: Prepare for Washington, D.C. Trip!

History of Washington D.C.

Palladio: America's Architectural Grandfather

Capitol Dome Restoration Project

Animated Rendering of Dome Restoration Project Scaffolding

International Spy Museum, Washington, D.C.

Audubon New York office LEED Platinum Green Space

ASID Headquarters Washington D.C.

World’s greenest and healthiest office crowned in Washington, D.C.

LEED Version 4: Integration of Environments

HGA Architects

Gensler Washington, DC: Future Happens Here

LEED Platinum Co|Lab Building brings first-ever CLT structure to Virginia

Terrell Place, Washington DC, by ESI Design

 

 

Monday, November 11: Veteran's Day observed: No Classses at Ohio University

 

Wednesday, November 13: Interior Architecture Trip to Washington, D.C.

 

 

Monday, November 18

How To Get Inspired! Because several of you asked about this

The Beauty Of A Narrow House

Material Pairings



Wednesday, November 20
How to Separate Space in an Open Floor Plan
Choosing Pocket Door Hardware - Pro Tips from an Architect

'Google' "Alternative Building Construction Materials"

The Designer's Toolbox

Gorgeous Black Cross Laminated Timber Cottage by Kariouk

Kitchen Design 2018

 

Universal Design
Design Studio Culture
Sketch Like an Architect
Sheet Steel Laser Cut Sculpture
Laser Cutting 1/2" Thick Steel 

 

 

Monday, November 25

What are the 7 Principles of Universal Design?

Why Is Accessible Design Good for Everyone?

How Are Building Occupant Loads Determined?

Universal Design
Design Studio Culture

Steelcase Learning Center

How to escape education's death valley | Sir Ken Robinson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whole Building Design Guide: What Is Interior Design? a very good web page article

 

Interior Architecture vs Interior Design: a very good web page article. 

Interior Design Programming Explained

Programs: what a typical program looks like and how it results in actual designed spaces.

How to write a design 'program'

 

Peter Callesen: Paper Cutouts

Cross Laminated Timber

5 myths about cross-laminated timber

re-Think Wood: Cross Laminated Timber

Army Corps Of Engineers: Introduction To Cross Laminated Timber Construction

Animation of Cross Laminated Timber Manufacturing Process

Single Family House: Cross Laminated Timber Construction

World's Tallest CLT Apartment Building

 

Advanced Engineering Concepts in Solid Wood Construction

Japan CLT construction

 

Cross Laminated Timber House

Chicago Horizon Pavilion

The Case Study House Program

 

 

 

 

 

QuaDror Structural System

Architecture vs Interior Design

Cabinet Design & Construction

How A Completed Interior Is Achieved

 

Wednesday, November 27:  Thanksgiving Break

Interior Design Process: Programming

University of Sharjah Interior Design Program

University for the Creative Arts: UK

Cabinet Design & Construction

 

 

Monday, December 2

Steelcase Learning Center

Alexander Calder, Sculptor and Creator of 'kinetic sculpture'

What is LEED Certification?

LEED: Better buildings are our legacy

USGBC's LEED for Homes LEED Rating System

 

Light & Sun

 

 

 

Wednesday, December 4: Last Class

Course Evaluations

Andree Putman, Interior Designer

 

10 Plant Covered Buildings

Bogota, Columbia: Living Wall Building

Installing A Living Wall


Edmonton Federal Building

Biophilic Design: Living Walls

Living Walls: Great Britain

Urban Gardens of the Future: Green Walls & Roofs

Living Wall Panel for Interior

 

 

 

Short Videos That Present Excellent Design Process & Innovation

Tyler Pratt: Designing Simple Things to Solve Everyday Needs

Louvre Abu Dhabi: Design by Architecture Jean Nouvel

How To Think Like An Architect: Design Process

Ohio University Dorms Under Construction

The Electoral College Explained

The Sorites Paradox: the problem of the 'heap'

Vernacular Design

Design Methodologies

Photography Guide 2016

Kitchen Island Design

 

McMansions: Why Do Designer's Dislike These?

The Old House Guy: Architecture & Aesthetics

Designing Produces Varied Outcomes!

Aeron Chair Ergonomics

Eames Lounge

Bill Stumpf & Aeron Chair Design

Herman Miller Mirra 2 Chair

"17 Words of Architectural Inspiration" by Daniel Libeskind

A Design Education Manifesto

Final Summative Experience Response