As part of ongoing efforts to digitse and make available archival material from the DRS, we have begun to upload issues of the Design Methods Group/DRS Journal to the DRS Digital Library. The DMG DRS Journal was published by the Design Methods Group. It was distributed to members of the Design Methods Group (in the USA and 38 other countries) and to members of the DRS (in the United Kingdom). The DRS Digital Library will hold issues from 1973 to 1979.
You can find the first three issues from Volume 7 of the DMG/DRS Journal here. These issues were edited by Donald P., Grant, Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Environmental Design, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California. The editorial consultant was Charles W. Strong and the Assistant Editor was Jean—Pierre Protzen, Professor, Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley. The Journal was printed by Omega Press, San Luis Obispo, California. The table of contents from the first three issues of Volume 7 are below.
Volume 7 Number 1
1 SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL
Lyna L. Wiggins, San Luis Obispo
11 FUZZY SETS
A Partially Annotated Bibliography on the Concept
13 THE STATE OF THE ART
Comments by W. B. Jepson, T. F. Heath, and Jaime Lopez
19 COMMUNITY ORGANIZING Donald P. Grant, San Luis Obispo EDUCATION
Dimitris A. Fatouros, Thessaloniki
21 EDUCATION
Dimitris A. Fatouros, School of Technology, University of Thessaloniki, Greece
28 SPACE PLANNING
Articles by Frants Albert, AIA, and Philip Seaman; by Peter G. Rowe and Augusto de Leon—Fajardo; H. H. Waechter, AIA; and Argyris Liberakis.
60 DESIGN PARTICIPATION
Professor Melvin M. Webber, Berkeley
65 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ANALYSIS
Carl Mays, Corkill and Seddon, Inc., New York
71 SIMULATION
Articles by Francis Hendricks, A.I.P., San Luis Obispo, and by Robin Roy, The Open University, England
83 CONSULTING FIRMS
Institute of Rational Design Inc. and Carl Mays, Corkill and Seddon, Inc.
Volume 7 Number 2
85 Progress Report: April 1973
86 The DMG and "The Design Activity" Conference
Thomas L. Thomson and Donald P. Grant
88 The Second Generation and Beyond
Donald P. Grant, San Luis Obispo
89 Design for Revolution or Reaction?
Thomas A. Markus, Glasgow
90 The Scope for Formal Quantitative Analysis
Professor Mike Simpson, Lancaster University
92 A Need for Understanding and Cross-Fertilisation
Sydney Gregory, University of Aston
93 Software Design Workshop
J. Christopher Jones and Christopher Crickmay
96 Application of Design Methods in Practice
William R. Miller, Design Methods, Los Angeles
97 Situation Design
Thomas L. Thomson, Washington University
98 Design Morphologies
Martin K. Starr, Columbia University
CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS
99 Activities Programme Abstracts
101 Session One: Design Morphologies
104 Session Two: Design Processes, Techniques, Algorithms
110 Session Three: Design Objectives
114 Session Four: Case Studies
121 Session Five: Professionalism, Education, and Intergroup Working
OTHER CONFERENCES
124 THE TENTH ANNUAL DESIGN AUTOMATION WORKSHOP Abstracts of papers from the "Architecture" Session [July 25-27, 1973, Portland, Oregon]
125 EDRA FOUR Abstracts of papers selected for presentation at EDRA FOUR [The Fourth Annual Conference of the Environmental Design Research Association, Blacksburg, Virginia, April 15-18, 1973]
130 SEVENTH ANNUAL A.C.M. URBAN SYMPOSIUM
Abstracts of papers presented at the Seventh Annual Symposium on Computers and Urban Society, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery [New York, October 1972]
THE STATE OF THE ART IN DESIGN METHODS
The series of articles on "The State of the Art in Design Methods" that was initiated in March, 1971, in the DMG Newsletter is partially reproduced here as an aid in setting the stage for dialogue at the conference in London in August. Reprinted here are those entries that were originally printed in the DMG Newsletter. Additional contributions printed in the DMG-DRS JOURNAL: DESIGN RESEARCH AND METHODS starting with Volume 6 Number 1 are not reprinted here. A new entry is reprinted from PROGE SSIVE ARCHITECTURE, by Esther McCoy.
132 Esther McCoy [from P/A, October 1972]
133 Christopher Alexander, Berkeley
136 Martin K. Starr, Columbia University
137 C. West Churchman, Berkeley
137 Richard L. Meier, Berkeley
138 Sydney Gregory, University of Aston, Birmingham
138 Geoffrey Broadbent, Portsmouth Polytechnic
110 J. Christopher Jones, The Open University
141 M. Rubinger, Nova Scotia Technical College
143 Horst W. J. Rittel, Berkeley
148 Some Principles for the Design of an Educational System for Design
Horst W. J. Rittel, Berkeley
BOOK REVIEWS
160 Design Participation, reviewed by R. John Lansdown, London
ARTICLES
162 Pedestrian Traffic Flows
N. I. S. Foot, Birmingham, U.K.
168 Towards a Redefinition of User Needs
Maureen Taylor, London
173 Perception, Environmental Preferences and The Designer
Susan-Ann Lee, Kingston Polytechnic
Volume 7 Number 3
THE PAPERS OF THE SIX FINALISTS IN THE DMG-GRAHAM FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP IN APPLIED DESIGN METHODS. The recipient of the Fellowship, who received the award at the "Design Activity" Conference in London the last three days o£ August, is Mr. Weber. His paper appears starting on page 207.
182 THE ECOPLANNER METHOD OF URBAN ANALYSIS
Catherine Fortlage, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland
186 APPLICATIONS OF SYSTEMATIC DESIGN METHODS FOR COUPLING ACTIVITY SYSTEMS AND PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS - A REAL WORLD CASE STUDY
Lee Stephen Windheim Leo A. Daly Company, San Francisco, California
194 ANALYSIS OF RHONE AND IREDALE DESIGN METHODOLOGY APPLIED TO SEDGEWICK LIBRARY PROJECT 1969-1973
Randle Iredale, Rhone and Iredale, Architects, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
201 CASE STUDY: THE DESIGN OF A,SMALL HOSPITAL OPERATING THEATRE SUITE AS AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE RANGE AND POWER OF TWO METHODOLOGICAL CONCEPTS
Thomas F. Heath, McConnel-Smith and Johnson, Architects, Sydney, Australia
207 THE EVOLUTION OF A PLACE TO DWELL: ANATOMY OF RESIDENTIAL SITE DESIGN AS PARTICIPATORY PROCESS AND PRODUCT IN THE GEORGE STREET URBAN RENEWAL AREA, NEW BRUNSWICK NEW JERSEY, U.S.A.
Princeton University and The People's Workshop, Princeton, New Jersey
213 SAR DESIGN METHOD FOR HOUSING - SEVEN YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE REAL WORLD
N. J. Habraken, Stichting Architecten Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
STATE OF THE ART
WHAT IF..... SOME THOUGHTS OF METHODOLOGY, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE SCIENTIFIC APPROACH -- VIEWED THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS OF BERKELEY
Eric Dluhosch, Director of Research, School of Architecture, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
DESIGN SYSTEMS
229 BEHAVIORAL TENDENCIES AS ARCHITECTURAL STARTING POINT Argyris Liberakis, Thessaloniki, Greece
COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN
237 EXPRESS CAR AND SKY LOBBY STRATEGIES FOR HIGH RISE OFFICE BUILDINGS
Alton J. Penz, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
BOOK PREVIEW
246 EMERGING METHODS IN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AND PLANNING
Edited by Gary T. Moore, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts.
SQATTER HOUSING
A paper and responses from the AAAS-CONACYT Symposium in Mexico, D.F., July 2-3 1973, on "Human Dwellings."
LAND AND TRANSPORTATION: BASIC ELEMENTS IN BARRIO DEVELOPMENT
Thomas R. Callaway, U.S. Depart- ment of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C.
THE CITY OF TOMORROW, THE PROBLEMS OF TODAY AND THE LESSONS OF THE PAST
Amos Rapoport, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
PLANNING FOR SQUATTER HOUSING
Don Grant, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California
DESIGN PARTICIPATION
USER PARTICIPATION: THE POWER OF THE PROCESS
Sam Sloan, People Space Architecture, Spokane, Washington
EDUCATION
264 THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURAL SCIENCE, UNIVER-SITY OF SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
BOOK REVIEWS
266 Two reviews of DEFENSIBLE SPACE, by Oscar Newman
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
269 DATA BANK FOR A SMALL ARCHITECTURAL OFFICE
Donald P. Grant and Arthur J. Chapman, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo