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Composition 1 + Corequisite

Composition 1 + Corequisite

The Introduction to Architecture provides a foundation for students entering the BArch / BTech program to develop a “visual literacy” of the built environment. Using New York City as a living laboratory, students explore concepts of design, composition, and construction in the context of the city through their direct experience of buildings. By practicing the basic skills of drafting, sketching, and reading about buildings, and with the opportunity to present their understandings to others through written assignments and verbal presentations, students will develop methods of representing and presenting architecture verbally and graphically.

The Introduction to Architecture provides a foundation for students entering the BArch / BTech program to develop a “visual literacy” of the built environment. Using New York City as a living laboratory, students explore concepts of design, composition, and construction in the context of the city through their direct experience of buildings. By practicing the basic skills of drafting, sketching, and reading about buildings, and with the opportunity to present their understandings to others through written assignments and verbal presentations, students will develop methods of representing and presenting architecture verbally and graphically.

The main topics of this course will be an in-depth study of functions: polynomial functions, radical functions, rational functions, trigonometric functions, exponential and logarithmic functions. We will also study connections to vectors and complex numbers; solving trigonometric equations, and identities involving sum, double and half-angle formulas; and the Binomial Theorem.

The main topics of this course will be an in-depth study of functions: polynomial functions, radical functions, rational functions, trigonometric functions, exponential and logarithmic functions. We will also study connections to vectors and complex numbers; solving trigonometric equations, and identities involving sum, double and half-angle formulas; and the Binomial Theorem.