11th EAEA Envisioning Architecture: Design, Evaluation, Communication Conference in 2013

Track 3 | Conceptual Representation | Exploring the layout of the built environment

Mind the gap: drawing (out) place and experience in design media

ABSTRACT

This paper presents six factors that favor the experiential conceptualization of place via a consideration of drawing, model-building, design-build, and digital media design tools based on extensive research, projects, and interviews with designers. It includes six key recommendations for designers to enhance their design and visualization skills with regard to achieving a mediated yet more experiential understanding of future places and experience.

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AUTHOR

Vincent Canizaro

College of Architecture, Department of Architecture, UTSA, San Antonio, TX., US

Dr. Vincent Canizaro is Chair of the Department of Architecture and Associate Professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and a registered architect in the state of Massachusetts. His research and practice interests include community-oriented design, sustainability, design media & process, cultural landscapes, regionalism, and site-specific design theory, because these relate with his sense of how to live in a place by connecting to it. He has co- edited two special issues of the Journal of Architectural Education(February, 2004 and May, 2007) dedicated to the subject of Architecture andLandscape and Sustainable Architecture, respectively. He has written for Texas Architect Magazine, the AIA San Antonio guidebook to Architecture, and published, with Princeton Architectural Press, Architectural Regionalism: Collected Writings on Place, Identity, Modernity, and Tradition (2007) which documents the its intellectual history. His most recent publication is 'Regionalism, Place Specificity, and Sustainable Design', in Pragmatic Sustainability (edited by Steven Moore) with MIT Press.

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