The 1992 Rio Summit defined Sustainable Development as an interplay between ecology, economics, and equity. This course will study the relationship of Sustainability to the electronic design process. Students will explore the potentials of the Internet and its cybernetic relationship to Ecology. They will participate in the development of an actual electronic communication system grounded in local ecologies that make the practice of design more sustainable. This introduction to lighting techniques and lighting design gives a brief history of electric light, the seeing process, basic principles of electricity and lighting equipment, color and light and natural and artificial light sources.
Topics address human factors in theatrical, photographic, and architectural lighting design.
This course traces the history of architecture in North America from the early Colonial settlements in the late 17th century to the corporate architecture of the late 20th century. The various formal languages and theoretical concepts that form the history of American architecture will each be discussed in relation to and as the expression of an emerging culture in the North American continent. Greater emphasis will be placed on developments in the late 19th and the early to mid 20th centuries. This interdepartmental, interdisciplinary studio course examines the complex relationships between site and art. Teams of students from the Department of Architecture and the Department of Fine Arts collaborate on proposals for a site-specific installation, presenting their work through drawings, models, computer simulation and constructed details.