Description> This course introduces the principles and fundamentals of computer aided design through inquiries into digital modeling and drawing. Issues at stake include systems of analysis,  meaning of media, expression and the syntactical and spatial language of architecture. Thesis>Digital Media’s relevance to architecture can be tested by its ability to be translated into or to facilitate the transfer of other media, especially physical media; Digital media is process. Pedagogy> In some ways digital media education is an exaggerated microcosm of architectural education.  Consider how technical information can be conveyed without obscuring the development of instincts, abilities and attitudes necessary for the valid application of that knowledge. In the case of digital media (as with any media) certain skills necessarily precede production.   But if the merits of academia are assumed a given ...