This course provides an introduction to the architectural design process critically, using various representational strategies and conventions to examine spatial relationships and the qualities that define space itself. The studio is structured as a series of projects that simultaneously develop technical skills and conceptual thinking. Based upon the studio method, students are expected to work independently. Paradoxically, designing Nothing means removing from the design input issues of cultural aesthetics, social systems, environmental ecology, formalism, and narrative. Yet, one might ask, what are we then left with? Is it possible to structure a discussion about space around… nothing?  The objectives for this course are to expose and help guide students through the methodologies of the design process. Abstract thinking will be developed through a series of projects that evolve from planar to volumetric articulation.