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Two quarter credits.This course is offered to inspire, advise, and assist you in maintaining a comprehensive journal recording your experiences in the Vicenza Program. The required format is a compact journal that is maintained on a daily basis with drawings, notes and narratives that summarize all aspects of the term: visits to towns and buildings, tours offered by architects and historians, and presentations by classmates in the course of our travels.

Four credits - Graded or Pass/No Pass.In this seminar, you will explore the world of architecture-in-motion. Apart from windows, doors and vertical conveyances, most buildings have few moving parts and are conceived of and built as static artifacts. Driven by issues of sustainability and the desire for adaptive control of building environments, kinetic architecture has emerged as an exciting sub-discipline in design and construction communities. Course work will include in-class presentations, site visits and field trips, and case studies.

This course fulfills 4 credits of Media in Landscape Architecture for both undergraduate and graduate students, as well as an area concentration in urban design for graduate students.In this course, students will explore the relationships of the biophysical and the cultural/human built environments of Hong Kong.

Four quarter credits. This Material and Detail course satisfies the UO Department of Architecture Advanced Technical elective requirement or the Art and Architecture History or ARCH 4/523 Advanced Media or subject area elective. This course will examine materials, details and systems of construction across the span of Italian architectural history. Through sequential and comparative studies of the spatial structure and technical means of buildings, you will be asked to articulate concepts of time and place in architecture.

This is a design and project-based method course to teach students methods to measure urban characteristics and create responsive and informed filtering system for human comfort. Methods are applied to short exercises, a significant design problem-based project and final group activity. Smart and or responsive construction systems with inform performative ground planes, facades and urban shelter skins as filters.

Three credits.This is a design and project-based method course that looks at methods to measure urban characteristics. Methods are applied to short exercises and to a significant design problem-based project and final group activity. The course consists: fundamental urban design diagramming, mapping exercises, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) computation Design.

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.

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.