Architecture 101, at the University of California, Berkeley, provides opportunities to develop technical architectural skills, and is conceived as an approach to the process of design; it is an attempt to provide an 11-week experience in which the creative thinking process is developed. (Author/PG)

At UC Berkeley, 106 undergraduates in an architectural design studio were given an 11-week task of working in teams to design an environment for a population that included elderly and physically disabled individuals. The effect of student attitudes and assumptions, and changes in them, are discussed. (LBH)

Contends that criticism, though it functions in the student-critic dyad as an important mode of learning, does not address vital issues of socialization and creativity confronted in collective work. Without group experience students are misled as to the functioning of the design professional within the work-client setting. (JT)

A disabled student and an associate professor of architecture illustrate from their own experience at the University of California, Berkeley, the role of the university in helping all its members move into a larger world of relationships where categories like "able-bodied" and "handicapped" need not define these relationships.…