ARCH 416, Section 1

Design Foundations (3G)
Summer 2023
Instructors: Adam Fure
Term: Summer 2023
Section: 1
Class Number: 416
Credits: 3
Required: Yes
Elective: No
Meets: Lec: Fri 12:00-2:00pm  3100 A&AB Lab: Tue 12:00-2:00pm and Wed 9:00am-12:00pm  3100 A&AB

This course introduces the incoming graduate student to a working knowledge of the factors and issues that underlie the translation of human needs and purposes into significant architectural form.  Course objectives are:

  • to establish a base of design concepts and knowledge with an introduction to references and ideas to foster independent inquiry;
  • to develop skills in environmental analysis and concept formation;
  • to familiarize students with exemplary architecture and design drawn from various times and cultures.

Lectures present analysis of individual projects relating their form and conceptual ambitions to relevant theoretical premises and historical contexts. The course aims to reveal and make available to students design strategies found in historically significant and varied examples of architecture while instilling a critical understanding of all of these projects.