Emphasis is on the development of visual cognition skills and techniques of architectural drafting, including linework and lettering. The course explores both freehand and hardline methods including orthographic, paraline, and perspective drawing. A laboratory fee is required. Emphasis is placed on sheet layout, material indication, linework, dimensioning, and notation. A laboratory fee is required.
Students learn to mediate building and site issues in designing and detailing foundation systems.
Topics include topographic studies, zoning, handicap access, and parking layouts. The final third of the course incorporates a field surveying lab. A laboratory fee is required. The impact of building codes on material application is explored. A history of architecture from prehistory to 1800, with an emphasis on the relationship between architecture and social, economic, aesthetic, and technological developments.