2nd-Year Design Studio
ARCH 201/202 Course Schedule: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. 12:20 pm - 4:25 pm
Professors: Leyre Asensio-Villoria,
David Mah,
Arthur Ovaska,
Milton Curry,
Arch Mackenzie, and
Julian Varas Prerequisites: ARCH 101, 102 or 103, 104. ARCH 201 is a prerequisite for ARCH 202
Course Overview:
The major theme of Arch 201 is the issue of architectural space: how it is defined and why it is important. In the first part of the semeser, the problems generally address types of spatial definition. The intention is to give students an understanding of design criteria and the requisite skills to address the semester’s major design problem. The major problem is a building type (spatial in nature) with a public sequence and a hierarchichal set of spaces, generally a museum or similar type, but can also include hotels, libraries, or border stations. Site issues and historical context are introduced and problems are selected that exaggerate these issues. Students are required to conduct research that will help to inform their architectural decisions as well as expose them to knowledge outside of architecture. Students are introduced to programming of buildings and are required to participate in the development of the program. In many cases the programs in second year are for real buildings, and students are given the option to add an important function to the program.
202: In the second semester, the issue of the building in its context, the formation of concepts and “parti” appropriate to the site and the building are important issues. At the same time, the issues of composition and the development of the vertical surfaces of building are stressed. In this instance, the use of materials becomes an important issue. Students are expected to integrate simple structure, building envelope, public circulation, spatial concepts, and comceptual ideas appropriate to the problem at a fairly sophisticated level.
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Architectural Analysis I
ARCH 231 Course Schedule: Thursdays, 2:30 pm - 4:25 pm
Location: Bache Auditorium, Malott Hall
Professor: Lily Chi Prerequisites: Co-Requisite ARCH 201
Course Overview: This course serves as a first introduction to some of the exegetic systems that seem to appear in architecture, as well as those that are distinctly present in modernism and after.
Specifically, the course utilizes a number of theories - literary, philosophical, perceptual, and so on; each with considerable architectural implications - in order to investigate architecture’s exegetic functions. It studies the numerous relationships that exist between the producer of the work, the audience of the work, the work as an autonomous thing, and the various contexts of a work’s reception, in an effort to disclose the complex discursive web that is evident in diverse works of architecture. The course also looks into some of the various theories used to explain one or more of the vectors in this elaborate matrix on meanings. Lecture format. Occasional optional discussions are organized by the teaching assistants.
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Drawing III: Digital Media
ARCH 253
Course Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays. 11:15 am - 1:10 pm
Location: Rand Computer Classroom and 200 Rand Hall
Professor: Leyre Asensio-Villoria
Prerequisites: ARCH 152 or permission of instructor.
Course Overview:
Both traditional and digital architectural processes have the potential to investigate, represent and communicate ideas. However, computers have long been viewed primarily as an aid to production, and it is only recently that architects have accepted it as a tool for design. The opportunities of the computer offer the possibility for an investigation of new spatial strategies and manipulations.
This course will focus on addressing the distinction between simulation and substitution. Rather than reproducing something that already exists in another form, or could be better communicated through another form, how can one use the computer to create a translation, or a re-interpretation of the idea. In this way, the computer can be used to inform the making of ‘real’ space by transforming ideas about space itself.
Choices of input and output contribute directly to the methodology of space-making in the computer. We will begin by exploring different methods of capturing and manipulating still images, extending a similar investigation to the moving image. We will then focus on communicating ideas through three-dimensional modeling programs. We will also look at the potentials for interface between the 2D and 3D programs.
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Building Technology, Materials, and Methods
ARCH 262/562 Course Schedule: Mondays and Wednesdays. 9:05 am - 11:00 am
Location: 157 East Sibley Hall
Professor: Jonathan Ochshorn Prerequisites: None
Course Overview: Building construction is examined from the following standpoints: life safety (construction types, occupancy, assemblies, egress); accessibility (ramps, doors, etc.); sustainability; conveying systems (stairs, elevators, escalators); structural materials (properties, manufacturing strategies, typical applications, and connections); envelope theory (insulation, condensation, vapor and air barriers, pressure-equalization, movement, tolerances); cladding systems (masonry, precast, metal, glass); and interior systems (walls, floors and ceilings). Lecture Format.
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Structural Concepts
ARCH 263/563
Course Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays. 9:05 am - 11:00 am
Location: 157 East Sibley Hall
Professor: Mark Cruvellier
Prerequisites: MATH 111 (calculus) or approved equivalent
Course Overview:
The first of three required courses in the structures sequence introduces students to the traditional basic concepts of static and strength of materials; the subject matter is taught, however, from a holistic point of view so that material is presented in the context of architectural ideas and examples. The course begins with the calculation of loads and supporting reactions and then considers in succession the behavior of hangers, trusses, beams, columns, suspension cables, arches, and frames. Classes are lecture format, approximately evenly divided between presentations of governing formulas/ physical analyses of basic structural concepts and sessions of working case studies that illustrate buildings in which these concepts are related to architectural design intent.
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