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
Submissions from 2002
Introduction to Three Dimensional Composition / Dancing on the Digital Divide, Geoffrey Adams and Karen King
Design as a Liberating Practice: Design-Build with First Years, Eduardo Aquino
Design's Community of Knowledge: Identifying and Organizing Design's Fundamental Concepts to Support Teaching and Learning, William R. Benedict
The Space of Mondrian, Lori Brown
Design as Language, Patrick Louis Carrico
While Mind Dances with Heart: Nurturing Design Vocabularies Through Personal and Cultural Identities, Shenglin Chang
The Viewing Machine, Alice MinSoo Chun
Listening to the Past: Persuasive Stories and the Beginning Design Student, Nathaniel Coleman
Building the River: An Introduction to Urban Design in Savannah, Georgia, Christian Dagg
Bounding Space, Jeffrey L. Day and Brian T. Rex
Intelligent Shape Sorting, Esther Dudley
Educating Emerging Vision, Marcella Eaton and Karen Wilson Baptist
Rethinking Studio Pedagogy: Teaching Introductory Architectural Design at the Graduate Level, Michael E. Gamble, Richard Dagenhart, and Chris Jarrett
A Case for Analysis in the Design Student Curriculum, Melissa Weese Goodil
A Cumulative Studio Design Sequence: Students Learning within the Context of Their Own Work, Valerie S. Goodwin
An Architectural Exhibition: "Bench with the Film of its Own Making", Jonathan A. Hale
The Consuming Process, Gregory Herman
Seeing/Site: A One-Week Project, Peter Hind
Learning from Cultural Space: Connecting Culture and Environment in Beginning Design, Jeffrey Hou
Ordinary Unfamiliarity: Foundation Pedagogy through the Critique of the Everyday, Kevin R. Klinger and Marc Swackhamer
Ventures in Dichotomy: Rigor and Tolerance in the Beginning Studio, Hector LaSala
In the Beginning -- We [Design for] Humans, an Opening Studio Curriculum for an Architectural Professional Program, Alex Maller
Musical Beginnings: Musings on Teaching with Music in the Fundamental Design Studio, John Maze
The Pedagogics of Play, Jay McClure
The Silence of the Studio Lambs: How to Hear Your Students' Voices in a Postmodern Design Studio, Elijah Mirochnik
The Parallel Projection, as Flights of Fancy, Mary Nixon
GESAMTKUNSTWERK: Architecture/Interior Architecture - Elemental Integration as a Pedagogical Foundation for Design Education, Rebecca O'Neal Dagg
Giving Back: Student Architectural Product Research in Service to Practitioners, Jill B. Pable
Why Do You Always Make Us Think? Maintaining a Journal in the Beginning Design Studio, Karl Puljak
The Sandbox: An Introduction to Form & Form Making Through Notions of Surface, Brian T. Rex
Education of an Architect: Through African-American Constructions, Scott Ruff
Spatial Themes in a Three Week Project, Corey Saft
Allusion, Illusion and the Beginning Design Student, Albert C. Smith and Kendra Schank Smith
Assemblies: Full Scale Construction in the Freshman Design Sequence, Aron Temkin and Scott Smith
Setting a Baby into the Grass: A Biological Model of Interactions between Concrete and Abstract Learning Experiences, Stephen Temple
Rhetorical Investigations: A General Theory of Design and Architectural Education, Simon Tomkinson
The Design Process: Charcoal Drawings, the Qualitative Representation, Mo Zell