Mine Özkar is Professor of Architecture at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. Collaborating with design professionals, computer scientists, and art historians, her research focuses on visual, spatial, and material aspects of design computation, and their integration to foundational design education. She holds a PhD in design and computation from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA.
Introduction
Part I: Early Beginnings
1. Seeing Design in Art: The Vision of Denman Waldo Ross
2. Abstract Forms and Form Relations: The Vision of Arthur Wesley Dow
3. The Psychology for Basic Design in the late 19th century
Part II: Looking to the Future
4. The Disillusioning Pasts of Basic Design
5. Computational Design Foundations
6. Conclusion: Pragmatics of a Foundational Design Studio
