59 research outputs found
Poster as Design Dialogue
A fourth-year class in a pre-professional program explored the idea of a visual dialogue emerging from the investigative nature of the properties and variables of individual responses to design studio challenges. All members of a Senior Design Studio collaborated in planning, designing and producing a single poster announcing a public parade of their work. This paper describes the poster, as well as the use of alternative teaching and learning approaches which students learn to broaden their design and architectural repertoire to include more creative, collaborative, intuitive and flexible skills
Design Epilogues
This pamphlet tries to explain the generally unrecognized aspect of a studio experience that stitches together the most salient elements of individual design projects into one coherent narrative. Design Epilogues attempts to borrow something from each project that can be used to create something new
Toledo Tomorrow: Reading Norman Bel Geddes\u27 Vision for the Future in a Shrinking Midwestern City
This paper examines Norman Bel Geddes’ 1945 Toledo Tomorrow plan, his only proposal for a specific city, and its stamp on the morphology of today\u27s Toledo. The paper surveys retrospectively at the changes in the morphology of the city and critically analyzes the impact of the Toledo Tomorrow Plan. Today\u27s Toledo, a shrinking rustbelt city, reflects Geddes\u27 legacy of neglecting the historic core; focusing on highway infrastructure, that has since worked in tandem with the forces of decentralization and suburbanization; and the city\u27s weak relationship with its natural features and larger region
The City of Tomorrow: Geddes Model of 1945
Toledo made national headlines in the mid-1940\u27s when the legendary industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes, was commissioned to develop a plan for the city\u27s future. Using archival work and field observation, this research analyzes the plan, and reflects on its impact on Toledo and on the design of American cities today
Introductory review to the Special Issue: Shrinking Cities and Towns: Challenge and Responses
Cities and towns facing sustained population loss are being researched and discussed more than ever before. Once the focus of a relatively small group of architects and urban designers in Europe, these cities and towns are now being studied by scholars across the world. In a range of contexts - from a large, iconic city like Detroit, to a small village in Japan (described by Thomas Feldhoff in this issue), this phenomenon is being observed in unexpected places, and far more frequently than once imagined.
A wider population is engaging in this as well, as discussions of the future of these communities are slowly entering the public discourse through diverse channels. In some places, the population is being engaged directly through a planned process of community engagement. Other means have included exhibitions, news reports, magazine articles, blogs and most recently, a spate of documentary films on urban decline
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