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concepts supporting their organization.
Prerequisites: ARCH 201, ARCH 202.
ARCH 305 is prerequisite for ARCH
306. (0-12-6); (0-12-6)
ARCH 309, 310
Mechanical & Electrical Building
Systems for Architects I, II
Selection and design of building support
systems: heating, ventilating, air conditioning,
water supply, sanitary and storm
drainage, power distribution, lighting,
communications, and vertical transportation.
Systems are analyzed for
their effect on building form, construction
cost and operating efficiency.
ARCH 309 is prerequisite for
ARCH 310. (3-0-3); (3-0-3)
ARCH 313
Architectural Practice
Lectures and practical problems dealing
with specifications, specification writing,
administration of construction, contracts,
building law, and professional practice.
(3-0-3) (C)
ARCH 314
Professional Practice:
Building Case Studies
Case study analysis of buildings, including
the design process, building detailing,
construction methods, government
regulation, owner satisfaction and postconstruction
forensics. (3-0-3) (C)
ARCH 319
History of Modern Architecture
These courses will offer specialized and
advanced studies in the history and
critical interpretation of architecture
in the modern era. (3-0-3) (C)
ARCH 320
History of Chicago Architecture
This course focuses on the Chicago
School and offers specialized and
advanced studies in the history and
critical interpretation of various aspects
of the related art, architecture and
technology. (3-0-3) (C)
ARCH 321
History of Modern Thought
in Architecture: 20th Century
Mies, Gropius, Le Corbusier and others
constructed modernist canon as much
with their manifestos - provocative,
assertive, entirely subjective texts packaged
in the rhetoric of objectivity-as
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with their buildings. This course studies
the major texts and concepts that have
produced architecture in the twentieth
century Study will be made of the
modernist legacy and its basis in a canon
that has experienced transformations
across the course of decades, while
retaining essential principles and
mythic status today. (3-0-3) (C)
ARCH 331,332
Visual Training I, II
Aesthetic expression as experience.
Exercises in the study of form: proportion
and rhythm, texture and color,
mass and space. Exercises in visual
perception and aesthetic judgment.
Isolation and analysis; interdependence
and integration of sensuous qualities.
Aesthetic unity under restrictive conditions.
ARCH 331 is prerequisite for
ARCH 332. (3-0-3); (3-0-3)
ARCH 395
Technology as Design
Since the development of cast iron as
a viable construction material in the
mid 1800’s, there has been a path
of architecture that has explored the
open-ended possibilities of technology.
Integrated within the culture, this determination
to use the technology of one’s
time as the creative generator of a new
evolving architecture becomes the
historical precedent of the thesis of this
course. (3-0-3)
ARCH 408
Freehand Drawing
A multi-purpose drawing course offering
students a chance to develop on-site
sketching skills and creative expression
in drawing through a combination of
sketching field trips and in-class drawing
assignments. (0-3-3)
ARCH 409
Advanced Freehand Drawing
Advanced development of freehand
drawing skills in various mediums; still
life, human figure, the natural and built
environment; studio and field settings.
Prerequisites: ARCH 110, ARCH 408
or permission of the instructor. (0-3-3)
Course Descriptions
ARCH 417, 418
Architecture VII, VIII
Structure as an architectural factor; space
as an architectural problem; proportion
as a means of architectural expression;
the expressive value of materials; painting
and sculpture in their relationship
to architecture. Application of principles
in comprehensive projects involving
program, site, and code analysis.
Prerequisites: ARCH 305, ARCH 306.
ARCH 417 is prerequisite for
ARCH 418. (0-12-6); (0-12-6)
ARCH 419,420
Architecture IX, X
These studios represent the most
extended and developed exercises in
macro planning issues. First priority is
given to the urgent needs of our environment
such as housing, schools or
community buildings for urban centers;
projects reinforce the entire curriculum,
emphasizing complex relationships of
buildings in an urban landscape taking
all factors into consideration. Students
increase their ability to make value
judgments, and learn to critically
review, test and improve conventional
concepts of architecture relative to current
demands placed upon the
profession. These studios also offer students
a variety of possible specialization
topics. (0-12-6); (0-12-6)
ARCH 421, 422
Energy Conscious Design I, II
The application of energy conservation
methods and renewable energy sources,
such as wind power and passive solar
systems, will be examined in the development
of building energy budgets for
a variety of building types. ARCH 421
is a prerequisite for ARCH 422.
(3-0-3); (3-0-3)
ARCH 423
Architectural Programming
Study of the principles of problem
definition, problem solving and decision
making in the process of design.
Specific research methods are reviewed,
including those with computer-aided
data collection potential. Coursework
includes: identification of client/project
requirements and constraints; development
of a building/project program;
cost analysis; development of relevant
design options; and presentation skills
development. (3-0-3) (C)
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