Channel Title: Structures by Design: R.Whitehead Channel Description: This channel contains tutorials related to the design of building structures from an architectural perspective. Content related to award-winning course work in Iowa State University's Department of Architecture and my textbook: Structures by Design: Thinking, Making, Breaking (Routledge, 2019). Learn how to understand the concepts and calculations of building structures using new methods designed to enhance your ability to envision, understand, and test your ideas qualitatively and quantitatively. <video> Developing a Project-Based Learning Framework: Thinking, Making, Breaking, Part 1 Description: This video is part of the CELT, Innovation by Design: Project-Based Learning workshop series offered at Iowa State University by Prof. Rob Whitehead. This session looks at ways to develop the project-based learning aspects of a higher education course. Topics include: project-based learning (PBL) teaching tactics for earliest stages of PBL classes (discovery, ideation, etc.), strategies for mapping & planning PBL course modules, visualization of systems thinking, and problem vs. project-based learning distinctions. ISU, CELT, Innovation by Design: PBL Workshop #2, part 1. </video> <video> Understanding Inquiry-Based Options: Project-Based Learning...with Toast Description: This video introduces basic principles for inquiry-based (and project-based) learning at the collegiate level. In this video, the distinctions between direct instruction, problem-based, project-based, and design thinking processes are explored through various exercises of visualized systems thinking in which participants are asked to draw the process of making toast through various constraints. Credit: “Draw How to Make Toast” By Tom Wujec for inspiration.This video is part of a broader initiative of explaining inquiry-based learning as part of high impact practices by Prof. Rob Whitehead and the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) at Iowa State University. </video> <video> Body Structures, Part 3: Teaching Structures to Beginning Architecture Students Description: In this video, I'll explain a basic, but profoundly effective method for teaching structural principles that relies upon the human body. This video presents basic information for how forces, stresses, equilibrium, and connections can become readily accessible to early learners. Students see how far they can span and how high they can reach using their bodies. This lab is one of the first in the Structures by Design sequence I teach at Iowa State University. </video> <video> What is Inquiry-Based Learning & Why it Works Description: In this video, Iowa State University Prof. Rob Whitehead discusses the concept of inquiry-based learning and the qualities of the approach that make it effective. This video serves as an introduction to the 2020-21 Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) workshop series: "Innovation by Design: Project-Based Learning." </video> <video> Develop & Situate Project-Based Learning: Planning, Participants, & Purpose Description: This video is part of the CELT, Innovation by Design: Project-Based Learning workshop series offered at Iowa State University by Prof. Rob Whitehead. In this video we go back to some of the basics about course planning to examine how to make distinctions in the inquiry-based approach and how it coordinates with the participants and overall purpose. The video describes how to scaffold of course activities, develop a schedule of deliverables, and innovative project-based tactics that can be used. ISU, CELT, Innovation by Design: PBL Workshop #5. </video> <video> 5 Essentials for Inquiry-Based Learning Description: This video is an overview of 5 essential aspects of inquiry-based learning process, part of the larger project-based learning initiatives for higher education. Although the process of converting a class to project-based learning may seem daunting, there are five basic qualities that you can focus on to make this transition easy and effective. This video consolidates information from a series of workshop training sessions (and other videos) created by Prof. Rob Whitehead, Faculty Fellow for High Impact Practice at the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Iowa State University. </video> <video> Experimental Structures: The Use Evolution of Physical Models for the German Pavilion 1967 Description: This video tells the amazing story of how physical models were used to design, analyze, and test the experimental cable net structure for the German Pavilion at the 1967 Montreal Expo. This ambitious project--the world's largest cable-net structure--was designed by Rolf Gutbrod and Frei Otto (with his research team at the Institute for Lightweight Structures (IL) in Stuttgart). It completed under extremely tight deadlines for design and construction and so all of the stages of a project's design were amplified in importance. They created a series of physical models including bubble models, curved fabric tests, steel wire mesh models embedded with measure devices, a wind model, a series of "pattern" models to define the membrane geometry, AND a full-scale prototype. This full-scale prototype became the new home for Otto's research group (IL) after the project was completed. This is a video for people that love architecture, construction history, and good stories about pre-computational design challenges. This content was presented at the Construction History Society of America conference (CHSA8) at the University of Illinois Champaign Urbana in June 2023. </video> <video> Experimental Structures: The Evolving Use of Physical Models in Shells (Isler and Otto, 1959-1974) Description: This video, from an Experimental Structures course at Iowa State University, looks at the evolving uses of physical models in experimental architectural shell and membrane structures. The video shows how models transcended simply representational roles; physical models were used in form-finding and analysis methods for double-curved concrete structural shells (Heinz Isler) and lightweight cable and membrane structures (Frei Otto). These models became generative and confirmative models with very useful benefits. -Rob Whitehead, AIA, LEED AP, Associate Professor of Architecture, Iowa State University </video> <video> Design & Ideation for Project-Based Learning: Nurturing Creative Aspects of the Experience Description: This video is part of the CELT, Innovation by Design: Project-Based Learning workshop series offered at Iowa State University by Prof. Rob Whitehead. This video explores the design and ideation phases of project-based learning to show how planning, activities, and formative feedback can nurture the process of learning in collegiate-level courses. Teaching tactics are discussed that promote creative thinking and student involvement in the process. Options for online teaching for project-based learning and inclusion of remote edu-tech tools are explored. ISU, CELT, Innovation by Design: PBL Workshop #4. </video> <video> Developing a Project-Based Learning Framework: Thinking, Making, Breaking, Part 2 Description: This video is part of the CELT, Innovation by Design: Project-Based Learning workshop series offered at Iowa State University by Prof. Rob Whitehead. This video, "Developing a PBL Framework," explores ways of planning and implementing course learning objectives in PBL courses in higher education. The lecture discusses how to write learning goals, the principles of backwards design, specific ways of planning a course module by module, and the changing roles for faculty and students that become necessary in the PBL format. ISU, CELT, Innovation by Design: PBL Workshop #2, part 2. </video> <video> Guiding Project-Based Learning Development: Interactions, Coached Ideations, and Assessment Basics Description: This video is part of the CELT, Innovation by Design: Project-Based Learning workshop series offered at Iowa State University by Prof. Rob Whitehead. This video looks at the essential role of feedback and assessment in project-based learning (PBL) projects including ways of incorporating it into course design and ways of incorporating targeted teaching techniques towards in-class activities for collegiate courses. Innovation by Design: PBL Workshop #3: </video> <video> Structures by Design: Arch 347, Lecture 5 Columns Description: Principles of column design for architectural structures. </video> <video> Body Structures 2: Lab Activities for Architects, How High? and How Far? Description: In this video, I'll explain how enacting two basic challenges for body structures (How High Can You Reach? and How Far Can You Span?) can be used to quickly and effectively basic structural principles (equilibrium, loads, force flow, stresses, etc.). The video shows how to create a lab activity, examples of various poses and the critical lessons to be learned from each. This lecture and lab occurs at the onset of the "Structures by Design" sequence I teach at Iowa State University. </video> <video> Body Structures 1: Learning Fundamentals of Architectural Structures through Haptic Exercises Description: In this video, I'll explain a basic, but profoundly effective method for learning about basic structural principles (equilibrium, loads, force flow, stresses, etc.) using human body. This video shows how certain poses with one's body can be enacted and diagrammed to reveal fundamental structural concepts. This lecture and lab occurs at the onset of the "Structures by Design" sequence I teach at Iowa State University. </video> <video> Experimental Structures: Better Shells (Dieste) Description: This video shows the evolution of thin shells from hyparbolic paraboloids to gaussian vaults by focusing on the work of Eladio Dieste. This lecture is part of the "Structures Zoo: Experimental Structures" course at Iowa State University taught by Rob Whitehead and Tom Leslie (Sp. 22). </video>

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This channel contains tutorials related to the design of building structures from an architectural perspective. Content related to award-winning course work in Iowa State University's Department of Architecture and my textbook: Structures by Design: Thinking, Making, Breaking (Routledge, 2019).
Learn how to understand the concepts and calculations of building structures using new methods designed to enhance your ability to envision, understand, and test your ideas qualitatively and quantitatively.

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