Integrating Electronic Media into the Architecture Studio -A Teaching Development Grant at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Increasingly, architecture students and instructors are exposed to a widening array of softwares, hardwares, and strategies for the production and representation of architectural work. In an effort to promote the effective use of these tools within design education, instructors need to develop strategies for implementing them into the design studios. A teaching development grant which has been received by the Department of Architecture at CUHK is entitled Integrated Media Design Studio. This investigation involves multiple instructors, and levels of design studios. It provides an environment of a wide range of available equipment for producing, evaluating, documenting, and communicating architectural work in the studio. In addition to increasing the effective use of technology resources, and also raising the quality of studio instruction, this teaching development grant aims to create opportunities to further integrate other courses within the studio environment