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This his­tor­i­cal sur­vey of ar­chi­tec­ture cov­ers the pe­riod from early civ­i­liza­tions to the ar­rival of the In­dus­trial Rev­o­lu­tion. Ar­chi­tec­ture is un­der­stood as an ex­pres­sion of the cul­ture and life of a so­ci­ety, and each class ses­sion con­sid­ers ar­chi­tec­tures from around the world within their so­cial, his­tor­i­cal, and spa­tial con­texts. While the his­tory of West­ern ar­chi­tec­ture is cov­ered from the Egypt­ian to the En­light­en­ment, a spe­cial focus is di­rected to the ar­chi­tec­tures of the Far East, South Asia, Africa, pre-Columbian Latin Amer­ica, the Is­lamic World, and else­where to pro­vide a com­pre­hen­sive overview of the rich­ness and di­ver­sity of ar­chi­tec­ture as a cul­tural ar­ti­fact.

This historical survey of architecture covers the period from early civilizations to the arrival of the Industrial Revolution. Architecture is understood as an expression of the culture and life of a society, and each class session considers architectures from around the world within their social, historical, and spatial contexts. While the history of Western architecture is covered from the Egyptian to the Enlightenment, a special focus is directed to the architectures of the Far East, South Asia, Africa, pre-Columbian Latin America, the Islamic World, and elsewhere to provide a comprehensive overview of the richness and diversity of architecture as a cultural artifact.

ARCH 1231 is an in­tro­duc­tion to basic ma­te­ri­als of con­struc­tion and the fun­da­men­tal prin­ci­pals of or­tho­graphic pro­jec­tion and ar­chi­tec­tural draft­ing. The course­work in­cludes doc­u­ment­ing ex­ist­ing con­di­tions, de­vel­op­ment of a plan, el­e­va­tion, sec­tion and as­sem­bly de­tails sup­ported by text-based study of ma­te­r­ial prop­er­ties and ap­pli­ca­tions.

ARCH 1231 is an introduction to basic materials of construction and the fundamental principals of orthographic projection and architectural drafting. The coursework includes documenting existing conditions, development of a plan, elevation, section and assembly details supported by text-based study of material properties and applications.

An in­ter­me­di­ate and ad­vanced al­ge­bra course. Top­ics in­clude qua­dratic equa­tions, sys­tems of lin­ear equa­tions, ex­po­nen­tial and log­a­rith­mic func­tions; top­ics from trigonom­e­try, in­clud­ing iden­ti­ties, equa­tions and so­lu­tions of tri­an­gles.

An intermediate and advanced algebra course. Topics include quadratic equations, systems of linear equations, exponential and logarithmic functions; topics from trigonometry, including identities, equations and solutions of triangles.