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2.00 Credits
Credits: 6 Prerequisites: architecture majors only Corequisites: None Type: LAB Theme is theme is process plus materiality, graphic communications, and visual representation. Provides a working forum for developing creative thinking and critical awareness in design. Further examines two-dimensional and three-dimensional representation techniques for developing and presenting design concepts. Cognition for spatial relationships present in structural, proportional, and site systems are acquired via freehand drawings, -D and 3-D projections, shades, shadows, perspective, and design techniques. Further enhancement of model-making skills utilizing various design media. Advanced emphasis of -D and 3-D projections, shades, shadows, perspectives, and reproduction techniques. Studio projects introduce a range of assignments for the making of both -D and 3-D environments.
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1.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Provides a view and understanding of the profession and the discipline of architecture. Introduces architectural education and practice in the United States. Architecture responds to the past, embodied in the stones of the built environment, and is a fundamental aspect of the present. Connects architecture history and theory in an effort to show why architecture has been called the handwriting of humankind. Examines architecture as a way of viewing the constructed world in the context of a liberal arts education as a study of aesthetic, technological, behavioral, social, environmental, physical, and legal forces determining architectural forms, landscapes, and urban patterns. Open to non-majors
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Examines contemporary perspectives on environmental psychology, focusing on the relationships between human behavior and designed environments, then psychology of design, and explores implications of those relationships for the purpose, nature, and future direction of design education, design research, and design practice.Open to non-majors.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 6 Prerequisites: ARC 101, ARC 102 Corequisites: None Type: LAB Theme is architectural history and precedent. Emphasizes conceptualization, critical thinking, planning, and making. Analyzes the basic materials, methods, tools, and conventions of architectural design. Examines the connections between design precedent and the physical and visual environments. Project themes include transformation, connection, threshold, movement/storage, surface/structure, accessibility, and transition.
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4.00 Credits
Credits: 6 Prerequisites: ARC 101, ARC 102 Corequisites: None Type: LAB Theme is architectural history and precedent. Emphasizes conceptualization, critical thinking, planning, and making. Analyzes the basic materials, methods, tools, and conventions of architectural design. Examines the connections between design precedent and the physical and visual environments. Project themes include transformation, connection, threshold, movement/storage, surface/structure, accessibility, and transition.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Examines the history and diversity of cultural experiences within the United States and their attendant environmental issues. Specifically, the course concentrates on the ways in which our physical and media environments affect various populations in the U.S. and, in turn, the ways these populations have affected our environments. It introduces students to eight issues of U.S. diversity: race, ethnicity, gender, class, age, physical ability, cognitive ability, and religion. Writings, films, products, graphics, electronic media, buildings, and environments by and about diverse U.S. individuals and groups are examined. The U.S. history of our diverse physical and media environments are analyzed using theories and principles related to inclusive design. Open to non-majors.
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4.00 Credits
Credits: 4 Prerequisites: architecture major/minor only Corequisites: None Type: LEC/REC Introduces the development of urban and architectural form in a cultural context from the first settlements of Neolithic times to the consolidation of architecture as a discipline in the 1450s.
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4.00 Credits
Credits: 4 Prerequisites: ARC 31 and architecture major/minor only Corequisites: None Type: LEC/REC Introduces the fundamentals of architectural design from the theory and practice of the 1450 s to the built and written manifestos of modern times. Situates the evolution of the architectural discipline within the context of social, cognitive and technological transformation.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: MTH 11 and architecture major/minor only Corequisites: None Type: LEC Overview of integrated building systems exploring the interrelationships of construction technology, structures, and environmental controls systems, as they relate to building design.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Cross-listed with PD 79 Buffalo Niagara by Design. Explores the planning and design history of the Buffalo Niagara region in relation to the future. Examines proposals aimed at revitalizing the economy, improving the quality of life, and protecting the environment of Buffalo Niagara for future generations. Involves historical plus current plans and designs accompanied with lectures, discussions, films, and readings. Introduces urban design and regional development theory and practice . Provides an opportunity to understand community design, the full scope of small to large scale regional work, and comprehend location of place in relationship to the Buffalo Niagara region. Researches the history of Buffalo Niagara communities, examine the place as planned, and critically interpret its history, plans, and designs. Open to non-majors.
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