ARCH 4/523 Media for Design Development

This course will introduce students to ways in which to capture and represent a variety of environments to convey their unique impressions, explore form, light, texture, materiality, and consolidate memory. Students will learn and refine techniques for architectural representation using various media such as free hand drawing, watercolor, and photo collage. Through demonstrations, exercises, and review, students will refine techniques important for design development and visual communication.

ARCH 4/507 Food & Architecture from Ancient to Modern Times

Through lectures, discussions, case studies, and group projects, this course will encourage you to think critically about how to create more sustainable and secure urban food systems through renewed integrations of food and architecture. We will examine building form and organization, materials, spatial requirements, environmental control systems, and other key aspects of designing with food in mind. Rediscovering and learning from innovations throughout human history will be a primary focus area of our inquiry and exploration of this topic.

Field Studies Sketchbook and Travel Guide (UO ARCH 408/508)

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.

Kinetic Architecture Design Seminar (UO ARCH 407/507)

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.

Material and Detail: Evocations of Time and Place (UO ARCH 407/507)

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.

Media for Design Development (UO ARCH 423/523)

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.

Urban Research 488/688 (UO ARCH 410/610)

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.
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