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In this program we will explore the archaeology of Curaçao and other Pre-Columbian settlements in the Caribbean islands. With a focus toward examining migration theories, settlement patterns, subsistence strategies and the development of cultural complexity through time, we will examine the rich archaeological and historical record of a region that often receives little attention from introductory textbooks and discussions of world prehistory.

Three credits.This course looks at data making and urban sensing robotics. New data collection and computation techniques provide the opportunity for open, experiential and systematic understanding of site. The use of handheld mobile technology and new inexpensive microprocessors and sensors provides opportunity to bring the power of information to the lowest user level without the influence of larger economic and political forces. These research methods have been published with the Journal of Urban Design, ACADIA, and several book chapters and tested in professional urban design projects.

For Architecture majors, this course fulfills the ARCH 4/523 Advanced Media or subject area elective. For Art History majors, this course fulfills the undergraduate Studio Art requirement and graduate elective.In the field, students will practice ways to capture and interpret environments using a variety of art and design media. Capturing a place means recording unique impressions, perceptions and memories along with physical characteristics.

This class will examine the artistic and architectural monuments of Ancient Rome, including the rise of the Roman Republic, the age of Augustus and the Roman Empire, and the origins of Christianity within the late-antique period.  Students will learn about the social, cultural and artistic foundations of Roman culture, combining classroom sessions with visits to many of the city’s most important and impactful monuments (the Roman Forum, the Pantheon, and the Colosseum, to name only a few).  This course will help students see the city around them in a new light, revealing the lasting

This course is a survey of High Renaissance, Mannerist and Baroque painting, focusing on the examples that are visible in the churches and museums of Rome. Key figures will include Raphael, Michelangelo, Vasari, the Carracci, Caravaggio, Guercino, Guido Reni, Peitro da Cortona and Giovanni Battista Gaulli. Key themes include the development of the illusionistic frescoed ceiling, the projection of religious and political messages in the age of the counterreformation, classicism and its opposites, and the stylistic revolution of the baroque.

This course will use the magnificent architecture of Rome and its environs to help students understand the broad historical trajectory of western culture.

Six credits - Pass/No Pass only.This course fits into the ongoing redevelopment context, and you will be designing a large (25,000 – 50,000 s.f.), multi-story, mixed-use public building for one of several real sites on less-active areas of the island, with particular attention paid to how the building would help realize specific planning goals as articulated in published Granville Island planning documents.  Part of the problem will include defining and programming the uses of the building.

Three credits - Pass/No Pass only.This course is designed to encourage the development of digital media techniques that directly support the architectural design process, and in particular, support design activities in the kinetic architecture design seminar.  The course will consist of two parts:Introduction to Solidworks modeling and analysis for design development. Solidworks is a powerful 3D mechanical design automation software package with integrated 3D modeling and analysis capabilities.

Four credits - Pass/No Pass only.This seminar is designed to take advantage of your residency in the unique urban environment of Greater Vancouver.  The seminar will be composed of three interrelated parts:A general study of the architecture and urban design of Vancouver, and a more in-depth study of the history and urban structure of Granville Island, with an emphasis on the on-going urban design and land use planning study.