HOUSE DESIGN
S YLLABUS

1. Identify and clarify the issues around the decision making criteria in house design. Houses work and talk? What makes it function well and what makes it say the right things? What factors help a house correctly reflect the values of its designer and owner?
2. Develop your abilities to design creative, expressive, appropriate, and functional houses that meet the criteria you decide is most important. This should take the form of inspired problem solving. Where do top designers and architects go for their best inspiration? How does the designer's values and tastes effect the outcome?
3. Gain skills. Acquire significant, usable (possibly marketable) practiced skills in computer assisted drafting and visual presentation of house designs.

1. Reading reported, discussed, and/or tested. Assigned from text, libraries, and other materials.
2. Experiential work such as: sketches, drawings, photographing, diagramming, cutouts, computer aided drafting skills, and model making.
3. Assignments to record, journal, and respond to field trips and other activities of the course. Use writing and sketching.
4. Creative planning of two homes. Possibilities include remodeling jobs, vacation houses, condominiums, low income housing, and others tailored to individual proposals.
5. Web sites to study for this class.

Class sessions are considered the primary contact time with the instructor. In many cases, class sessions will be the only opportunities to get and process the information and skills needed to master the materials in this course. There are no automatically excused class cuts allowed. Failure to attend every class session results in a lowered grade unless the missed class is for reasons beyond the control of the student, and the instructor approves the excuse. Any work missed, even because of an excused absence, must be made up.

Meet at 12:00 Tuesday and Thursday for double periods. Classes are used for instruction, discussions, field trips, and for time to develop skills and work on drawings.

The average time spent out of class should bring the total of in and out of class time to approximately 9 hours per week.

1. Creativity. Are you willing to experiment, research, and risk new ideas?
2. Aesthetics. Are learning and using design principles to produce unity, theme, interest, and so on?
3. Knowledge of the field. Are you willing to read, observe, process, learn about and apply design theory for houses?

1. Quality of assignments (skill development and growth in rendering, drafting, progress on CAD). Are you willing to take time to practice and prefect you skills?
2. Journals (writing and sketching) to give evidence of thoughtful reflection and consideration of the pros and cons of several options in every situation.
3. Class reports, participation and attendance.
4. Tests. Both skills and knowledge are tested - possibly even creativity. to top of page

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Marvin Bartel, the instructor, has a masters and doctorate degree in art education, has studied design and drafting, and has designed original houses built in Goshen, Indiana, in Illinois, and in Kansas. He serves on the Campus Space Planning Committee which deals with aesthetic concerns and campus planning. He has done design and drafting work for several campus renovation projects including Ad28, Multicultural Affairs in Kulp, the Publications Hub, the Degree Completion classroom in Newcommer, as well as numerous others which have not been constructed.