Topics in Architecture, Studio Architecture + Design

Topics in Architecture, Studio Architecture + Design is a Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies class taught by Gretchen Schneider.

Course Description
This studio architecture course will be a design investigation of a particular theme in, or approach to, architecture and the built environment (details to be determined). In this course, students will develop and apply traditional and contemporary architectural skills (sketches, plans, elevations, models, computer diagramming, and various modes of digital representation [TBD]) to inter-disciplinary and socially pertinent design problems. Creative and indexical study and analysis will be used to generate and foster a broad range of concepts and language to solve architectural issues involving site, construction, inhabitation, function, form and space. Our goal is to apply creative techniques in art and sculpture to the creation of public architectural spaces. The prerequisite for this Five College Architectural Studies course is only Drawing I (in some form), though one semester of design or sculpture is recommended. The specific topic TBD.