Focus Area
Representation

In an age of image and information overabundance, processes of representation in the evolution of design work and its communication to specific audiences have become increasingly complex. Supported by Taubman College’s TVLab, faculty offer courses that focus on the production and discursive capacity of images in a post-digital world, the telemetric quality of the architect’s tools, and hybrid forms of image-making that convey observations and ideas about objects and space into visual media.

Required Courses

  • ARCH 516, Architectural Representation

Elective Courses

  • ARCH 409, Directed Drawing
  • ARCH 411, Becoming Digital
  • ARCH 421, Geometric Modeling
  • ARCH 466, Dimensions
  • ARCH 500, Fresh Graphics
  • ARCH 500, Point Clouds and Unreal Worlds: An Introduction to Immersive Technologies
  • ARCH 506, Spatial Narratives
  • ARCH 507, Augmented Tectonics
  • ARCH 507, Synthetic Agency – Architecture in the Age of Diffusion
  • ARCH 509, Getting Under the Digital Hood
  • ARCH 509, Urban Technology for Architects
  • ARCH 509, Virtual Engagement
  • ARCH 551, Revealing Data

Research Clusters and Initiatives