ARCH 405A - Furniture Design for the Architect

Institution:

Washington University in St Louis

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Description:

The seat is an intimate interface between the building and the body. It embodies a complex set of structural conditions, material opportunities, and possibilities for expression. Architects, artists, and industrial designers covet opportunities to make the chair. The result is that seemingly infinite perfect solutions exist-and still the seat remains a provocative challenge. In this course, students design and build a chair. Emergent technologies are combined with traditional techniques of metal fabrication, woodworking, and plastic forming in the design and making of the work. The course objective is for students to learn how to work directly with machinery and materials in the realization of their design. It is expected that students have basic shop skills, which are addressed in the course prerequisites. Advanced techniques are introduced in the course, and students select those most appropriate to their work to build upon. There is an opportunity this semester for students to elect to design a seating device for the campus butterfly garden. This would be a funded opportunity and is discussed in greater detail on the first day of class. Prerequisites: completion of Fabrication Workshop Safety and Orientation seminar and Arch 211 or equivalent. Permission of the instructor may override course requirements. $50 materials fee.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wustl.edu

Phone Number:

(314) 935-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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