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  • AR 314: Energy in Architecture

    3.00 Credits
    University of Detroit Mercy

    Prerequisites: AR 234 This course introduces students to a broad range of strategies relevant to the design of sustainable environments. Topics include land consumption, climate and site analysis, site design, natural heating and cooling, building envelope design including earth sheltering, daylighting, water conservation, sustainable materials, active solar heating, and alternative energy sources. Lectures are supplemented by an integrated design and analysis project. (3 Credits)
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  • AR 327: Architectural Analysis

    3.00 Credits
    University of Detroit Mercy

    Prerequisites: third-year standing. Seminar and lecture activities related to evaluation of specific architectonic elements of building relating these to psychological responses, the visual language of building, and syntactic process. (3 Credits)
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  • AR 332: History of Urban Form

    3.00 Credits
    University of Detroit Mercy

    Prerequisites: Participation in Poland Exchange Program An overview of the history of town planning from antiquity to the present using Polish towns as examples. It is a lecture course supplemented by field trips. (1.5 Credits)
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  • AR 335: Technology Craft & Invention

    3.00 Credits
    University of Detroit Mercy

    Prerequisites: third-year standing. This seminar/workshop focuses on questions surrounding craft, the presence of the hand, and making. The collective spirit of this course finds its footing in work driven by the desire for experimentation but also aware of the history of innovation that makes the current step possible. The speculations in this seminar examine the gapbetween thinking and making as an opportunity for the unpredictable to be made visible. (3 Credits)
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  • AR 347: Interior Design

    3.00 Credits
    University of Detroit Mercy

    Prerequisites: This course explores the qualities of interior space, materiality, design sources, and human factors as they relate to architecture as a whole. It draws upon and expands the fundamental methods of interior design and the intersection between the human body, architecture and the environment through concept, composition and theory. Students will have the opportunity to use a past or current architectural project to explore the above issues. (3 Credit)
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  • AR 361: Advanced 3D Design

    3.00 Credits
    University of Detroit Mercy

    Prerequisites: The course is a "hands on" design build exploration. The term 'urban furniture' is shorthand for a construction project that in some way responds to the needs of the human body relative to a particular activity; in this case in the context of some type of public rather than private circumstance. Each student develops a scenario and a specific site within a given neighborhood in Detroit. Designs are developed using drawings, models and mock-ups prior to construction of the full scale objects. Students are given the option to work individually or in pairs.(3 Credit)
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  • AR 371: Graphic Design

    3.00 Credits
    University of Detroit Mercy

    Prerequisites: This course explores the architectural application of graphic design, visual communication, signage (wayfinding), business identity, type logo development as transmitted through words and symbols using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. The student will draw upon and expand the fundamental methods of visual and graphic communication to design and understand the intersection of graphic design, architecture and the environment. (3 Credit)
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  • AR 381: Drawing & Watercolor

    3.00 Credits
    University of Detroit Mercy

    Prerequisites: Participation in the Polish Exchange Program. A studio class in architectural drawing which utilizes the internationally recognized Polish system. The class emphasizes drawing from life, memory and imagination and attempts to develop methods of visualization and representation introducing techniques uncommon in the U.S. A variety of graphic media are examined. (3 credits)
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  • AR 382: History of Polish & Vernacular Architecture

    3.00 Credits
    University of Detroit Mercy

    Prerequisites: Participation in the Polish Exchange Program. A lecture class taught by several professors from the department of History and Preservation examining Polish architectural history, town planning & vernacular architecture, and architectural preservation. Field trips to historic sites such a Krakow, Lublin, Torun, Gdansk, Zamosc and Kasimierz Dolny are required. Students document monuments and other major works of architecture located in those cities. (3 Credits)
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  • AR 392: Italian Renaissance

    3.00 Credits
    University of Detroit Mercy

    Prerequisites: A study of the history and history of art and architecture in Florence and Venice in the Renaissance period. Students will read primary source material in translation (Dante, Boccaccio, Alberti and others). The cultural and artistic traditions of the two cities will be compared in historical context. Texts will be studied in a seminar format and a research topic of the student's choice will focus on material related to the course in history or art history. (3 Credit)
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