Computer-aided architectural design

Abstract

There are two Computer courses currently given at the Graduate School of Design. One is a theory course and the second is a workshop. The workshop is primarily a "hands-on" graphic programming course using Harvard's PDP-10 computer and~a variety of Tektronix CRT's and two 4051 micro-processors. The ,course teaches ~he fundamentals of computer, graphic programming (BASIC and FORTRAN), as well as computer graphic technology and how this technology is applied to architectural design. There is one two-hour lecture per week in which application areas are dealt with by explaining graphic data structures and the mathematics and algorithms that areused to support the particular application. There are also weekly meetings with tutors to work on individual problems.