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3.00 Credits
The first task in designing a project is finding out what is meant by "the project". In this course, students learn to define project problems in terms of mission, value, cost, planning, urban design, ecology, program, code, and life-cycle. Further, they learn to develop and propose design guidelines related to each, and learn to communicate their findings and recommendations to project stakeholders.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the contemporary architectural endeavor as an ecologically sustainable activity, surveys vernacular and traditional passive ¿technologies¿ and examines current theoretical approaches to sustainability, all as a means to define possible templates for practice. Case studies of state-of-the-art technologies and buildings will be used by instructor and students.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the thermal and lighting issues in design. It explores passive and active (mechanical) responses to achieving thermal comfort goals as they relate to climatic and solar conditions. It also explores passive (daylighting) and active responses to achieving visual comfort goals related to environmental conditions and behavioral needs.
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6.00 Credits
Architectural Design I studio explores the relationship between buildings and the city via the design of a civic or cultural institution of a moderate scale. The studio focuses on the development of the tectonic expression between the building envelope, the interior spaces, and the exterior spaces of the city. In an urban context, buildings have the potential to define the public realm. In the exploration of the public/private spectrum throughout a variety of scales, from city to room to the elements of architecture and furniture, students are introduced to the ability of architecture to provide opportunities for social interaction and individual behavior. Attention should be paid to the site context as a great influence on design solutions. The resolution of site as a particular condition and building types as ideal organizations will be central to the design exploration, while structure and tectonics, basic sustainable environmental control, and some basic zoning and building code issues will also be of concern.
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6.00 Credits
This course works at a scale larger than the individual building¿urban design¿that brings together the spatial concerns of architecture and the public policy issues of planning. It explores how the architectural concerns of the individual building can be adapted for the scale and complexity of the urban condition, looking at spatial strategies for the design of the public corridors and outdoor rooms that define a city, with a focus on appropriate use, building typologies and density for a given location. The course also emphasizes communication skills both verbal and graphic, necessary to express the big idea(s) that generate a solution, indicate the precedents that informed the design, and ¿mine a site¿ for clues to appropriate design.
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3.00 Credits
This course traces the recent history of architecture and urbanism from the dawn of industrialism and the rise of cities (mid-eighteenth century) to the present. Examples will be discussed with respect to aesthetic principles, symbolism and cultural meaning, site and urban design, and construction technology, and in the context of their behavioral, cultural, political, religious, ecological, and economic environments. Students are encouraged to understand the importance of precedents, to consider a diversity of viewpoints, and to evaluate buildings through critical inquiry.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the body of theories that have shaped the discourse, production, practice, reception, and representation of architecture. It explores the historical, social, and cultural milieu of architecture and the ways that architectural theory simultaneously informs and is informed by other domains of cultural production such as art, science, technology, economics, sociology, philosophy, and politics.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores both passive (natural) and active (mechanical) approaches to managing lighting; power; communications; domestic water supply and waste, storm water; fire detection, suppression; and annunciation; acoustics; and conveyances.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the basic options in architectural construction and detailing from the perspective of a designer, including assembly options. It reviews the practical and professional considerations inherent in making decisions about building systems, with an emphasis on the desired performance characteristics of each system and its potential for effective integration throughout the design and construction process. It also introduces, at a very basic level, the concepts and techniques of technical documentation including construction drawing.
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6.00 Credits
This studio has students choose from among several projects developed by different critics that cover different issues. In all cases, however, projects build upon the formal and tectonic body of knowledge explored in 200 and 300 level studios, though of increased scale and programmatic complexity. They require students to take project development to a greater level with emphasis on design across a range of scales including that of the region, the city, the building, the interiors, the furniture, and/or the detail. Since students with the best projects earn places in our foreign studies program, competition between them raises the bar for verbal and visual communication.
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