| Fall 2009 Architecture Lower- and Upper-Division Courses |
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ARCH 100A (6) Two hours of lecture, six hours of studio, and two hours of computer graphics laboratory per week. Prerequisites: ED 11A-11B. Must be taken in sequence. Introductory courses in the design of buildings. Problems emphasize conceptual strategies of form and space, site relationships and social, technological and environmental determinants. 100A focuses on the conceptual design process. ARCH 100B (6) Two hours of lecture, six hours of studio, and two hours of computer graphics laboratory per week. Prerequisites: ED 11A-11B. Must be taken in sequence. Introductory courses in the design of buildings. Problems emphasize conceptual strategies of form and space, site relationships and social, technological and environmental determinants. 100B stresses tectonics, materials, and energy considerations. Studio work is supplemented by lectures, discussions, readings and field trips. ARCH 101 (5) Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Three hours of lecture and five hours of studio per week. Prerequisites: 100A-100B. Problems in the design of buildings of intermediate complexity. Each section deals with a selected topic and concentrates on developing conceptual strategies in the analysis and design of buildings: internal spatial relationships, material, form, tectonics, social and environmental considerations and built landscapes. Studio work is supplemented by lectures, discussions, readings, and field trips. ARCH 101 SEC 1 Extended description to come. ARCH 101 SEC 2 The Redesign and Additions to a Youth Shelter in Berkeley This design project reflects the reality of an architectural project in real time, space, place, people. The "clients" are the founders of the shelter and its governing board, which have offered to advise and to encourage. The site at 1744 University Avenue is but a short bus/bike/car ride from the campus. There are daily activities which allow for site visits and for meeting both those who are in charge, volunteers (largely Berkeley students), and those who are served. 1. Rehabilitating the existing facility to make the accommodations more serviceable and agreeable. ARCH 101 SEC 3 Salt Marsh Observation Tower and Center for Oekologie Ernst Haeckel was a prominent biologist and artist well known for hundreds of late 19th and earth 20th century illustrations of animals and sea creatures. His ability to bridge the gap between science and art parallels the profession of architecture, which can be defined as both the art and the science of designing and constructing buildings. ARCH 110AC (4) Three hours of lecture/forum and one and one-half hours of discussion per week. This course focuses on the significance of the physical environment for citizens and future design professionals. This course is an introduction to the field of human-environment studies, taught from an American Cultures perspective. Its objectives include: 1) being able to use the concepts in person-environment relations, 2) understanding how these concepts vary by subculture, primarily Anglo-, Hispanic-, and Chinese-American, 3) learning to use the methodological skills needed to conduct architectural programming and evaluation research, 4) thinking critically about the values embedded in design and the consequences for people, their behavior, and feelings. This course satisfies the American cultures requirement. Extended Course Description To come. ARCH 122 (FORMERLY ARCH 132) (4) Three hours of lecture and one and one-half hous of supervised labatory sessions per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Formerly 132. This course introduces students to Architecture's New Media; why computers are being used in architecture, how they are being used, and what are their current and expected impacts on the discipline and practice of architecture. Topics include presentation and re-presentation (including sketching, drafting, modeling, animating, and rendering); generating design solutions (including expert systems and neural networks); evaluation and prediction (using examples from structures, energy, acoustics, and human factors); and the future uses of computers in architectural design (including such topics as construction automation, smart buildings, and virtual environments). The laboratories introduce students to a variety of architectural software, including drafting, modeling, rendering, and building information modeling. This course is co-listed with 222. Graduate students will have a discussion section instead of the laboratory that 122 students undertake. Extended Course Description
The course covers five main topics: 1. Introduction. What is design, what are computers, and what is the relationship between the two? This topic covers the history of computing in general and CAAD in particular, software, hardware, and programming. 2. (Re)Presentation. The roles of computers in support of presentation and re-presentation in architectural design, including sketching, drafting, modeling, rendering, animating, and Building Information Modeling (BIM). This topic covers computer graphics, 2D and 3D representation methods, visualization, animation, and databases. 3. Generation. How computers can be used to help architects generate design solutions, and what are the advantages and limitations of their creative abilities? This topic covers procedural and heuristic methods, generative systems, parametric design, and artificial intelligence. 4. Evaluation. How computers can assist in evaluating design solutions, and predicting their perfomance. This topic covers various kinds of computer-assisted evaluations of buildings, both quantifiable and non-quantifiable, including human factors, structures, energy, acoustics, and aesthetics. 5. The Future. How computers will be used in the future to support architectural design, and how the processes and the products of architecture will be affected by them. This topic covers multi-disciplinary collaborative design, intelligent design assistants, construction and building automation, virtual architecture, and the future impact of computers on the processes and products of architecture. ARCH 129 (FORMERLY ARCH 138/139X) (1–4) Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. One hour of lecture/seminar per unit per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Topics cover advanced and research-related issues in digital design and New Media, related to architecture. Advanced Computer-Aided Rendering & Animation ARCH 129 (138/139X) Course Website (3 Units) This course is for students who will be working on a specific project involved with digital representation, visualization, or rendering. The course is run as a lab/seminar where individuals are responsible for their own agenda and its fulfillment. It provides a forum for serious discussion and exploration of emerging fields in computer rendering, painting, modeling, animation, multimedia and design as well as issues related to those fields. ARCH 133/233 (FORMERLY 139X) (3) Three hours of lecture/seminar per week. Prerequisites: This course is open to all graduate students and upper division undergraduates. This seminar examines the relationship between architecture and the processes associated with globalization. The social and spatial changes connected to the global economic restructuring of the last four decades are explored in relation to disctinctive national conditions and their connection to historical forces such as colonization and imperialism. Theoretical arguments about international urban political economy, uneven development, deindustrialization, and the growth of tourism and service industries, are grounded in specific urban and architectural contexts. Case studies explore issues such as urban entrepreneurialism and the branding of cities and nationstates; heritage practices and the postcolonial politics of place; border cities, and the urbanism of transnational production; cities, terrorism, and the global architecture of security; critical regionalism, localism, and other responses to debates on place and placelessness. Readings and class discussions examine course themes in a comparative framework and consider their implications for architectural design, education, and professional practice. Extended Course Description Over the last four decades the world's cultures, political economies, and built environments have been drawn into new relationships by the wide-ranging changes associated with globalization. At the most general level, globalization describes the enlargement and reorganization of world markets, and the “compression” of space produced by advances in information technology and the acceleration of travel times. Cities have acted as important contexts for these processes, through their strategic roles in an increasingly interdependent world economy. As a consequence, much of the critical writing on globalization shares an implicit or explicit frame of analysis: the globalizing city and its built environments. This course will provide a comprehensive introduction to this research, as it has emerged in disciplines extending from architecture, anthropology, urban sociology, and geography to comparative literature and cultural studies. We will seek to understand the diverse and contradictory positions that characterize this rapidly expanding field, and explore its relevance to architectural education, research and professional practice. In this respect, “architectures of globalization” refers not only to the contested spaces and social processes of the global city, but the theoretical perspectives, modes of representation and political positions that enable us to understand them as such. The course themes consider the world as a set of interdependent social and spatial conditions, and in doing so, question the status of urban and architectural spaces (as well as cities and nations) as discrete, bounded entities. As the course proceeds, we will explore the theoretical assumptions that inform the understanding of diverse "city worlds", and explore the contradictions and interrelationships between them. The class focuses in particular on recent debates that link globalization to the social, economic and political practices associated with “free market capitalism” or neoliberalism. The arguments outlined by David Harvey in his short but provocative book, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, will guide our examination of the manifestations and impacts of neoliberalism on a global scale. Many of the concerns and predictions voiced by Harvey have come to pass during the current economic crisis, making his arguments particularly relevant and timely. The course will explore the contested spaces of neoliberalism and consider possible alternatives through case studies from around the world. Contexts range from Las Vegas, the Mexico/US border and New York to Mumbai, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Additional course readings amplify (and in some cases challenge) Harvey’s arguments, while extending our analyses to architectural and urban space. Authors include Ulrich Beck, Guy Debord, Jane M. Jacobs, Anthony King, Naomi Klein, Peter Marcuse, Kathryne Mitchell, Vyjayanthi Rao, Anthony Vidler and Li Zhang, amongst others. Outlines of the course themes follow below (these are subject to change, and may be further revised before the start of classes): I. Introduction (week 1): II. Globalization as a Contested Concept (week 2): III. Spectacle (week 3): IV. Brand (week 4): V. Domesticity (weeks 5 and 6): VI. Production (week 7): VII. Migration (week 8): VIII. Risk (week 9 and 10): XI. Battlefield (week 11): X. Contested Spaces of Global Culture (week 12 and 13): ARCH 139X See the description for ARCH 129. ARCH 144 (FORMERLY ARCH 149A) (1) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week for five weeks. Must be taken on a passed/not passed basis. This course focuses on what architects need to know about acoustics. The first part deals with the fundamentals of acoustics including how sound levels are described and measured, and human response to sound. The course then covers building acoustics, mechanical equipment noise and vibration control, office acoustics, design of sound amplification systems, and environmental acoustics. ARCH 150 (4) Forty-five hours of lecture and thirty hours of discussion per semester. Prerequisites: Physics 8A. Study of forces, materials, and structural significance in the design of buildings. Emphasis on understanding the structural behavior of real building systems. ARCH 155 (3) Three hours lecture/seminar per week. Prerequisites: 150. In profound buildings, the structural system, construction materials, and architectural form work together to create an integrated work of art. Current practice segregates these three areas by assigning separate and rigid roles to 1) an engineer, 2) a contractor, and 3) an architect. The goal of this class is to blur these traditional boundaries and erase the intellectual cleft though hands-on experience. Students are given weekly assignments which focus on one or more of the three areas. They may be asked to analyze a structure, to construct something from actual materials, or research a case study and present it to the class. Each assignment to geared to help students integrate construction and structural issues into their architectural design, so that they can maintain control of the entire design process. ARCH 170A (4) Forty-five hours of lecture and 15 hours of seminar/discussion per semester. The first part of this sequence (170A) studies the ancient and medieval periods; the second part (170B) studies the period since 1400; the aim is to look at architecture and urbanism in their social and historical context. Antiquity to the Middle Ages This course provides an overview of the history of the built environment from the beginnings to about 1400CE. The scope is broad in geographical and cultural terms. Although the prime emphasis is on the Mediterranean basin and Europe in general, a substantial number of lectures will be devoted to Asia, Africa, and the pre-Columbian Americas. Our aim is to expose you to the architectural heritage of the past in its social and historical context. ARCH 173 (3) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 170A-170B and consent of instructor. Formerly 173A. Extended Course Description This course examines developments in design, theory, graphic representation, construction technology, and interior programming through case studies of individual buildings. Our survey technique will be highly focused rather than panoptic. Each lecture will delve deeply into one or two buildings to examine program, spatial organization, graphic representation, critical building details, construction technology, and the relationship of the case study building with regard to other contemporary structures and the architect's overall body of work. From this nucleus, we will spiral outward to consider how the case study is embedded within a constellation of social and economic factors crucial to its design and physical realization. This survey of "modernism's built discourses" provides multiple perspectives on the variety of architectural propositions advanced to express the nature of modernity as a way of life. ARCH 177 Cancelled. ARCH 179 (1-4) Course may be repeated for credit. Fifteen hours of lecture/seminar per unit per semester. Prerequisites: 170A-170B and consent of instructor. Special topics in Architectural History. ARCH 179 SEC 1 Rethinking Suburban History Recent historical research about American suburbs
demonstrates that they are much more varied and complicated than previously
imagined. Descriptions of “the suburbs,” as a generic environment are no longer
convincing. We are now aware of African-American, working class, industrial and
agricultural suburbs. Continuing exurban development is currently producing
phenomena as different as gated communities, ethnoburbs, lifestyle centers, and
restructured rural towns. With more than half of the U.S. population now
residing outside of central cities, even the name “suburb,” implying dependence
on a central city, must be questioned. This seminar will examine, using both
scholarly and popular explanations, the economic, social, and cultural debates
that have shaped our interpretation of this form of urban development. Topics
will include the following: defining the suburb (metropolitan region vs.
“shrinking city;” the historiography of the suburb; cultural representations of
suburbia (films, novels, comics, popular music and video); comparative exurban
development (zwischenstadt, citta diffusa, etc.); race and the suburbs; gender
and the suburbs; suburban building and planning typologies; designed vs.
vernacular suburbs; and exporting suburbs. Students will be expected to conduct
original research on a suburban topic of their choice. ARCH 179 SEC 3 UTOPIAS and HETEROTOPIAS This seminar is aimed at introducing two different ways of dealing with space. Utopias and utopian thinking still have a long-standing influence on urban planning and design. They stimulate the production of alternatives to present-day urban and social problems and call attention to the importance of physical space – often to a fault, falling in to the trap of environmental determinism – in shaping a community. Michael Foucault’s Heterotopia is still a confusing concept, subject to many and often contradictory interpretations. Yet, it offers promising openings by looking at space not as a more or less fixed entity, but as a medium that is continuously produced and reproduced – often conflictually – by the interaction within and between social groups. In this seminar we will discuss both theoretical underpinnings and material expressions of the two concepts. ARCH 198 (1–4) Course may be repeated for credit. Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of the General Catalog. Must be taken on a passed/not passed basis. Studies developed to meet needs. |
This course addresses three main issues in Computer-Aided Architectural Design (CAAD): Why are computers used in architecture? How they are being used? What is their impact on the products and processes of architecture? The course emphasizes current and future issues in CAAD, such as Building Information Modeling (BIM), intelligent buildings, and interactive, immersive visualization.