The course focuses on user-based planning and design methods. An interdisciplinary course linking four dimensions of New Orleans cultural life place, ritual, food, and music in order to analyze the ongoing construction of the city's self-understanding Readings are drawn from literature, history, architectural history and theory, anthropology and cultural studies. The course involves local speakers, and field trips utilized not only for the interpretive light they cast on the readings, but also for the part they themselves play in the cultural system' being analyzed. CAD modeling is presented as one of a battery of graphic tools available for generating, developing and presenting design ideas, for students with no prior computer or CAD experience. An intermediate course in micro- computer graphic applications to architectural design.
Students acquire proficiency in the use of two and three dimensional graphic software.
The laboratory for the investigation will be the architecture and institutions of New Orleans. The format of the course will include lectures and discussion, and field trips. Introduction to Statics and Strength of Materials. Properties of area. Shear and bending moment analysis diagrams.