The Summer Option Studio sequence (Summer Op) is offered to both Auburn University students as well as transfer students who have completed at least 27 semester hours of university work, successfully completed architecture 1000 or its equivalent, Calculus I, and have maintained at least a 2.8 GPA.

Course Goals:
At the conclusion of this series of studios the student should be able to identify the key issues of an architectural design problem of modest complexity, research these issues, visualize alternative solutions using a variety of 2 and 3 dimensional media and modelling techniques, develop the potential solutions and clearly articulate why the solution is appropriate, sustainable and beautiful.

First and foremost, the student should be able to organize these various practices as a collaborative activity.

Course Objectives:
1) develop an understanding of architecture as a complex system

(2) develop an understanding of architectural design as a collaborative activity

(3 )develop an understanding of architecture as a spatial and temporal experience

(4) develop an understanding of architecture in context

(5) develop an understanding of craft through building

(6) develop a connection between history, theory and practice

(7) contribute to the existing body of knowledge

Habits of mind:

incite the desire to practice

Habits of work:

design as a research-based activity

design facilitated by communication in various media

representation as rhetoric