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5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Arch 563. An independent study option, which may be chosen by the student with the approval of the school, and in place of Arch 564.
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3.00 Credits
Familiarization with the larger process of building production, of which architecture is one important part. Focus on the role of the architect in the areas of current building development: an examination of how redefinition or change might improve the process. Lectures deal with all factors of the building process and interviews with the various actors involved in designing, approving, financing and making buildings. Students have various assignments including a major term project.
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3.00 Credits
A significant portion of everyday life takes place in the public realm of streets, sidewalks, parks, transit stations, government buildings, commercial establishments, and cultural institutions. Focuses on recent descriptions and critiques of public space and proposals for change.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: senior standing. Architectural form is analyzed in relation to political, economic and technological change, and change in social values. Buildings and other designed environments such as parks, streets and neighborhoods are studied relative to the social processes and institutions that generate and transform them. The role of the design professions in initiating or supporting change also is considered
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: senior standing. Advanced and traditional technologies analyzed with regard to their role in community and city design, construction and reconstruction. Emphasis on technological systems influencing location, configuration and use. Examples are infrastructures, communication systems and construction technologies. Develops skills in using methods to evaluate alternative technologies relative to their social, economic and physical promise, problems and feasibility.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: senior standing. In-depth investigation of specific real-world problems of urban or community design carried out using case method approach. Current practices in the U.S. and other countries studied using interviews with designers, developers, community groups and government agencies. Site visits, reports and other documents provide important sources of information. Final report with supporting documentation required.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: senior standing. Seminar for the review of utopian projects that have attempted to embody and strengthen social ideas through transformations in the structuring of space. Architectural implications of different literary and philosophical utopias analyzed with an emphasis on those experimental proposals which were realized, in whole or in part, in built form.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: completion of M.Arch. core sequence. Review of the formal, informal, legal, and ethical obligations of the professional architect. Traditional relationships among the architect, clients, engineers and other participants in the design and building industry are studied. Principles of office management and problems of liability are introduced. Also fulfills core requirement of dual degree option for M.Arch./Master of Science in Management.
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3.00 Credits
Group investigation of problem of special interest in architecture.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Arch 363. Presents the concepts of 3-D surface modeling, rendering, key frame animation, and video production in the context of the design process using the computer program ALIAS STUDIO. Emphasizes the underlying geometric principles of surface modeling, the components of color theory and texture mapping, the principles of key frame animation, and video production. The project for the semester is a short animated video. Also discusses scene Description Language programming.
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