The National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS) is a national peer review scholarly gathering dedicated to the study and practice of beginning design education. For over 25 years, the NCBDS has provided a forum for design educators to present papers and projects and hold discussions related to introductory design issues.

This collection contains the proceedings of the 18th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon. March 14-16, 2002

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Submissions from 2002

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Introduction to Three Dimensional Composition / Dancing on the Digital Divide, Geoffrey Adams and Karen King

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Design as a Liberating Practice: Design-Build with First Years, Eduardo Aquino

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Design's Community of Knowledge: Identifying and Organizing Design's Fundamental Concepts to Support Teaching and Learning, William R. Benedict

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The Space of Mondrian, Lori Brown

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Design as Language, Patrick Louis Carrico

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While Mind Dances with Heart: Nurturing Design Vocabularies Through Personal and Cultural Identities, Shenglin Chang

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The Viewing Machine, Alice MinSoo Chun

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Listening to the Past: Persuasive Stories and the Beginning Design Student, Nathaniel Coleman

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Building the River: An Introduction to Urban Design in Savannah, Georgia, Christian Dagg

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Bounding Space, Jeffrey L. Day and Brian T. Rex

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Intelligent Shape Sorting, Esther Dudley

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Educating Emerging Vision, Marcella Eaton and Karen Wilson Baptist

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Rethinking Studio Pedagogy: Teaching Introductory Architectural Design at the Graduate Level, Michael E. Gamble, Richard Dagenhart, and Chris Jarrett

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A Case for Analysis in the Design Student Curriculum, Melissa Weese Goodil

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A Cumulative Studio Design Sequence: Students Learning within the Context of Their Own Work, Valerie S. Goodwin

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An Architectural Exhibition: "Bench with the Film of its Own Making", Jonathan A. Hale

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The Consuming Process, Gregory Herman

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Seeing/Site: A One-Week Project, Peter Hind

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Learning from Cultural Space: Connecting Culture and Environment in Beginning Design, Jeffrey Hou

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Ordinary Unfamiliarity: Foundation Pedagogy through the Critique of the Everyday, Kevin R. Klinger and Marc Swackhamer

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Ventures in Dichotomy: Rigor and Tolerance in the Beginning Studio, Hector LaSala

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In the Beginning -- We [Design for] Humans, an Opening Studio Curriculum for an Architectural Professional Program, Alex Maller

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deTail of Two Cities: Utilizing Urban Analysis and Recombination as the First Project in the Fundamental Design Studio, John Maze

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Musical Beginnings: Musings on Teaching with Music in the Fundamental Design Studio, John Maze

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The Pedagogics of Play, Jay McClure

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The Silence of the Studio Lambs: How to Hear Your Students' Voices in a Postmodern Design Studio, Elijah Mirochnik

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The Parallel Projection, as Flights of Fancy, Mary Nixon

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GESAMTKUNSTWERK: Architecture/Interior Architecture - Elemental Integration as a Pedagogical Foundation for Design Education, Rebecca O'Neal Dagg

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Giving Back: Student Architectural Product Research in Service to Practitioners, Jill B. Pable

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Why Do You Always Make Us Think? Maintaining a Journal in the Beginning Design Studio, Karl Puljak

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The Sandbox: An Introduction to Form & Form Making Through Notions of Surface, Brian T. Rex

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Education of an Architect: Through African-American Constructions, Scott Ruff

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Spatial Themes in a Three Week Project, Corey Saft

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Allusion, Illusion and the Beginning Design Student, Albert C. Smith and Kendra Schank Smith

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Assemblies: Full Scale Construction in the Freshman Design Sequence, Aron Temkin and Scott Smith

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Setting a Baby into the Grass: A Biological Model of Interactions between Concrete and Abstract Learning Experiences, Stephen Temple

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Rhetorical Investigations: A General Theory of Design and Architectural Education, Simon Tomkinson

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The Design Process: Charcoal Drawings, the Qualitative Representation, Mo Zell