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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

DRS Conference Proceedings from 1962 to 1984 are now available on the DRS Digital Library. You can find proceedings from 1972-1981 here and materials from the 1962 conference, including proceedings and recordings of paper presentations, here. Below is a short summary of each of the available proceedings. 

The 1962 Conference on Design Methods proceedings were edited by J. Christopher Jones and D. G. Thornley and published in 1963. The conference was held on 19th to 21st September 1962 at the Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College, London. In addition to the proceedings, the Digital Library contains recordings and transcripts of papers presented at the conference, as well as a recording of the first DRS committee meeting.

The 1967 Design Methods in Architecture Symposium was organised by Geoffery Broadbent and Anthony Ward and held in Portsmouth, UK.

The 1971 conference titled 'Design Participation', took place in Manchester with proceedings edited by Nigel Cross.

The 1973 Design Activity International Conference was held jointly with the US Design Methods Group on 29-31 August 1973 at The Polytechnic of Central London, with proceedings edited by Tom Maver.

The 1976 conference 'Changing Design' was held in Portsmouth, UK, with proceedings edited by Barrie Evans, James Powell and Reg Talbot. 

The 1978  conference 'Architectural Design - Interrelations among theory, research and practice' was organised jointly by the DRS and the Faculty of Architecture of Istanbul Technical University and sponsored by Turkish National Council foir Scientific and Technical Research. The proceedings were edited by Nigan Bayazit and Mine Inceoglu. 

The 1980 conference 'Design: Science: Method' was held in Portsmouth with proceedings edited by Robin Jacques and James Powell. 

The 1984 conference, 'Design Roles UK' was held in Bath 21-24 September. Although we do not have the proceedings, the uploaded newsletter contains all of the abstracts of papers presented at the conference.