Architecture Program Report Tulane University New Orleans ...

Technological Systems II (ATCS 310) (Professor Goodwin) are the first and
second courses that deals specifically with sustainable design. This course
occurs in the second year of the technology sequence, in a critical position
to the whole of the curriculum. Other courses that deal with sustainability,
and which all students go through are the URBANbuild microscale and
macroscale curricula (Fourth year DSGN 410, 420). In Thesis, approaches
to sustainable design are carried out in the GREENbuild (Professor Coker)
and CITYbuild (Professor Harmon) Design Studios (DSGN 510, 520).
Required electives which focus on sustainable design include Professor
Klingman’s Sustainability and Tectonics (ATCS 430), a required elective
course which approximately half the students take. Other courses which are
notable for mention are those taught by Professors McNaughton, Rhodes,
Cizek and Thomas under the heading of ATCS or PRST.
16. Program Preparation
Ability to prepare a comprehensive program for an architectural project,
including assessment of client and user needs, a critical review of
appropriate precedents, an inventory of space and equipment
requirements, an analysis of site conditions, a review of the relevant laws
and standards and assessment of their implication for the project, and a
definition of site selection and design assessment criteria.
For the most part, students are given detailed design programs at the
beginning of their educational career. However, as they progress through
the curriculum, the program is less detailed and students are expected to
endeavor in the assessment of client and user needs, a critical review of
appropriate precedents, the inventory of space and equipment
requirements, the analysis of site conditions, the review of the relevant
laws and standards and the assessment of their implications for the project,
and the definition of site selection and design assessment criteria. This is
a requirement in the Comprehensive Design Studio (DSGN 320).
Currently, Programming is taught in conjunction with DSGN 320 as
Professional Concerns II: Programming/BIM (APFC 420).
A more significant test of architecture program preparation occurs in the
array of design/build studios (DSGN 510, 520) and in the URBANbuild
(DSGN 410, 420 microscale and macroscale) studio, taught during fourth
year.
However, the most significant test of the student’s program preparation
ability occurs in the required Pre-thesis course (DSGN 510, 520). Given the
fact that students’ are responsible for the election of a specific project, the
development of the program in all its aspects—historical and theoretical
research and the critical overview thereof, the inventory of various physical
requirements and usage, the analysis of site, etc.—are the primary
concerns of thesis preparation.
Additional opportunities for comprehensive program assembly occur in the
Preservation Studies components of the curriculum (PRST). Opportunities
are also found in the work conducted in courses and workshops affiliated