Introduction of formal principles and strategies used in space making, focusing on the development of plans and sections. Precedents and the understanding of them through analysis and syntheses are used as a means of examining the past and the present while providing a framework from which personal design sensibilities can evolve. Emphasis on the basic interrelationship of environmental, structure, and enclosure systems. Focus on the integration of all technological systems with conceptual and functional organization of the building, site, and context. Three hours of lecture each week.
Laboratory exercises in principles and practices of construction methods and materials.
Study of force systems, section properties, equilibrium, and stability of building structures. Relationship of material properties and structural member behavior to the forces acting on the building structural system. Critical study and analysis of western architecture from the renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century. Emphasis on issues of design process, exploration of internal and external determinants of form and the integration of appropriate technologies in design solutions. May be repeated.