The Introduction to Architecture course provides a foundation for students pursuing architecture degrees to develop a visual literacy of the built environment. Using New York City as a living laboratory, students explore concepts of design, composition, construction, and public space through their direct experience of buildings and sites. The course contextualizes how the influence of cultural complexity can shape the built environment through lectures, laboratory work, and field trips. By developing their skills of observing, sketching, drafting, reading, writing, and presenting, students will display an understanding of key concepts and competency in presenting their work verbally and graphically.
Course focus is on steel construction. This course studies the development of building systems as they occur during the design development phase of architecture. The focus will be on steel construction. Using case study research methods, students analyze factors, such as building assemblies and systems, codes and government regulations, human ergonomics, and sustainability, which affect building construction and use. Their solutions to these issues are integrated into their final building design solutions. Students create a series of reports and a set of construction drawings using both analog methods (hand sketching and drawing) and digital tools including traditional CAD software and Building Information Modeling techniques.
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This is a collaborative space for use by Living Laboratory General Education Seminar participants. This seminar will concentrate on incorporating the general education outcomes of civic engagement, critical thinking, ethical reasoning, information literacy, and teamwork into our courses focusing on George D. Kuh’s High Impact Educational Practices, place-based learning, open pedagogy, and assessment practices.
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