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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Type: Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment:
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This course is a proposition, a guided field-trip in the exploration of the relationships between human-designed environments and the ecology and environment of the landscapes in which we live. It is intended to contribute to the students' understanding and appreciation of design as integral to the environment and sustainable within the world community. The course will be a workshop in which professionals in fields of architecture, and the design of ecological and human environments and systems (such as solar, water, waste, recycling, alternative communities, etc.) present and explore the nature of inhabitation and its effects on the quality of our built landscapes. Open to Freshmen with permission of instructor Prerequisites: Type: lecture/seminar(3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: departmental elective
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3.00 Credits
First Light is a multi-disciplinary course in light and lighting design. Invited experts in the lighting and research field provide essential tools, background, and demonstrations in a lecture and presentation format, with the class culminating in a final project that solves a particular design issue. Each project is pre-selected based upon the actual needs of a corporate or community partner, and the students address specific component solutions that are covered in the course content. Typical topics include but are not limited to investigations of built form, analysis of precedent, day lighting, product design, line and low voltage systems, the science of light, experimentation of light as material, sustainability, lighting loads, solar energy systems, and physical applications. This course is open to all levels of students, with permission of the instructor, who are interesed in light and relevant problem solving. Field trips to local lighting design centers, actual state of the art projects, fabrication shops, and research by local design firms included. Study models, drawings, research and presentation boards in traditional and digital media. Open to all levels with permission of the instructor Prerequisites: Type: critique(4hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: departmental elective
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3.00 Credits
This elective studio will lead students on a ten-day study tour of Berlin, the capital of Germany, and provide opportunity for crossdisciplinary, collaborative, project-based learning. Study emphasis will be placed on recent developments in architecture and public art following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The educational theme will particularly stress sustainable architecture and design, because there is substantial new development that showcases best practices, and the most advanced work in sustainability is occurring in Europe. The Berlin program will consist of three main components: 1) visit and study important sites of contemporary architecture, public art, and planning; 2) meet with professionals in the fields of public art and architecture; and 3) create a hands-on, interdisciplinary, collaborative art project. Prerequisites: Type: travel (3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: all college elective
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to a broad range of current and historic theories while also introducing the means and methods of generating architecture and urban design. Material presented covers issues of urban design, city evolution, as well as the social, economic and political forces shaping urban life. Current topics in urban design are discussed including sustainable cities, information architecture, density, urban transport and active communities. Related disciplines and policies relevant to urban projects are reviewed for a comprehensive investigation. Prerequisites: None Type: critique(4hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: all college elective
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3.00 Credits
Mechanical systems from domestic to tall buildings are introduced in a context of declining energy supplies and increasing global pollution. Sustainable and low energy systems for heating, ventilating and air-conditioning, plumbing and lighting for new and retro-fit applications are contrasted with traditional systems. Selections of architectural design and landscape elements which support sustainable systems are covered. Students estimate heating, cooling, ventilating, lighting, electrical, elevator, sewage and pure water loads and gain some understanding of how handling these loads affects the space and layout of buildings and what sort of collaboration with engineers is to be expected. The principles of operation and code standards for the various environmental control systems are explained, together with current costs and expected maintenance requirements. Issues of energy source availability, safety, pollution, storage and delivery are discussed from local and global perspectives. Field trips to local "green" buildings demonstrate the use of currently available lowerenergy systems. Arch. Structures Prerequisites: ures I, II, III & IV Type: lecture/seminar(3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: departmental elective
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3.00 Credits
This course is a guided experience through solving the riddle of a site. It proposes that the first objective in design is to understand the social and environmental history as well as the ecology of a place as a means to understand its natural systems, taking full advantage of this information in the service of creating a seamless harmony between building and place. It requires the learning of the language of ecology to serve in the communication between design professionals including land architects and building architects, land surveyors, wetland ecologists, science professionals, and the federal, state and local regulatory agencies (EPA, Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, local Conservation Commissions, etc.). As a topic, this course will marry the science and the art of place and place-making. Prerequisites: AD2X0, AD320 Type: critique(4hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: departmental elective
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3.00 Credits
This studio is designed as a continuation of many of the principles of Furniture Design I with an emphasis on production furniture. The projects are structured for the student to develop a design method that is centered on issues of design related to production, manufacture and industry. The course will examine the history of production pieces, processes of fabrication focusing on wood as the primary material. AD202 Methods and Materials, AD307 Furniture Design I Prerequisites: Type: hybrid studio/critique(5hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment:
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3.00 Credits
Architectural design projects of increasing complexity, emphasizing understanding architecture as the essence of place and placemaking. The course provides a framework for design decisions related to complex programs in community or urban design requiring long span or taller structures in steel or concrete. Prerequisites: AD320 Type: hybrid studio/critique(5hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: departmental required
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3.00 Credits
Interior Architecture IV includes projects of increasing complexity, emphasizing understanding space as the essence of place. The course provides a framework for design decisions related to complex programs, systems and planning of public and private large-scale interior spaces. Prerequisites: AD321X Type: hybrid studio/critique(5hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: departmental required
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