3rd-Year Design Studio
ARCH 301/302
Schedule: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. 12:20 pm - 4:25 pm
Professors: Werner Goehner,
Jerry Wells,
Paul Andersen, and
Carla Leitao Prerequisites: ARCH 202. ARCH 301 is a prerequisite for ARCH 302.
Course Overview: The design studios in the first three years of the undergraduate program are conceived of as a core curriculum intended to provide students with basic information, skills, and experiences to prepare them for the varied and specialized experiences in the advanced fourth- and fifth-year studios and beyond.
While the first-year curriculum is typically the most rigidly structured and coordinated in order to support the students in their initial studies, the third-year tends to be more varied and complex, focusing on shared objectives and themes within the year, but as well emphasizing substantial variation in means and in types of case studies, the diversity of issues, and emphasis.
The third-year studio functions therefore both as a context for the consolidation of skills and lessons from previous years, but as well as a format for the synthesis of lessons, experiences, and concepts from the broader curriculum in technology, history, theory, the social sciences, and beyond. While still a part of a structured, directed curricular agenda, it is as well as critical step in the professional maturation of the students where the lessons reside in the pieces coming together more independent research, exploration, critical thinking to reveal the diversity of viable perspective and valuable result.
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Architecture, Culture, and Society
ARCH 342 Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays. 12:20 pm - 2:15 pm
Location: 157 East Sibley Hall
Professor: André Bideau Prerequisites: 3rd-year status or above
Course Overview:
What have been the major social issues affecting the practice of architectural design through time and across cultures? How is aesthetic judgement related to more general systems of ordering within a particular society group? Why do architects believe that they should be familiar with understandings from the social science disciplines, including sociology and the broad field of cultural anthropology to address these questions. Case studies and examples are drawn from a wide range of architectural traditions around the world for which there is a significant literature including those of China, India, sub-Saharan Africa and the United States.
Writings that address or presuppose interconnections between architecture and culture/society are abundantly represented in disparate sources: the mass media, the popular press as well as in scholarly sources. This course aims to build an intellectual foundation for students in architecture and allied fields that will enable them to digest these materials as they move into a postgraduate phase and especially into professional life.
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Environmental Systems II - Thermal Environmental Systems
ARCH 361/661 Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays. 9:05 am - 11:00 am
Location: 166 Martha Van Renselaer Hall
Professor: Martha Bohm Prerequisites: ARCH 261. Co-requisite ARCH301. R grade only.
Course Overview:
The first semester of this year-long course addresses the design of the indoor thermal environment, including the appropriate application of building envelope materials and assemblies, and an introduction to the principles of sustainability. Beginning with the basics of human thermal comfort, followed by the concept and practice of solar heating, passive cooling, indoor air quality, and human health, students will learn how to shape the form of a building to respond to climate and the needs of an occupant.
In the second half of this semester, students address the design of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems, including heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) equipment, vertical transportation, communication, security, and fire protection systems.
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