Department of Architecture - UC Berkeley - Summer 2009 Architecture Courses

Summer 2009 Architecture Courses

ARCH 100A
FUNDAMENTALS OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
KIM

(5) Note: This course is generally intended for UC Berkeley Architecture majors. Visitors or non-majors with a background in Architecture are also welcome. A portfolio may be required at the start of the term to assess your placement. If you have questions about selecting a course that is appropriate for you, please contact an undergraduate advisor in the Architecture Department. UCB Architecture Majors: Note the prerequisites for this course: Environmental Design 1 or 4, 11A, 11B.

Six hours of lecture and nine hours of studio for eight weeks. Introductory courses in the design of buildings. Problems emphasize the major social, technological and environmental determinants. 100A focuses on the design process, social factors and site planning. 100B stresses structures, materials, and energy considerations. Studio work is supplemented by lectures, discussions, readings and field trips.

ARCH 100B
FUNDAMENTALS OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
TIULESCU

Six hours of lecture and nine hours of studio for eight weeks. Introductory course in the design of buildings. Problems emphasize the major social, technological and environmental determinants. 100A focuses on the design process, social factors and site planning. 100B stresses structures, materials, and energy considerations. Studio work is supplemented by lectures, discussions, readings and field trips.

ARCH 101
CASE STUDIES IN ARCHITECTURE
BUHRMANN

(5) Note: This course is generally intended for UC Berkeley Architecture majors. Visitors or non-majors with a background in Architecture are also welcome. A portfolio may be required at the start of the term to assess your placement. If you have questions about selecting a course that is appropriate for you, contact an undergraduate advisor in the Architecture Dept. UCB Architecture Majors: Note the prerequisites for this course: Environmental Design 1 or 4, 11A, 11B, a grade of B or better in both Arch 100A and 100B.

Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Problems in design of buildings of intermediate complexity. Each section deals with a selected topic, such as housing, site planning, institutional buildings, community development, and interiors. Studio work is supplemented by lectures, discussions, readings and field trips.

ARCH 129X
SPECIAL TOPICS IN THE PRACTICE OF DESIGN
KELLOGG

(1–4) Fifteen hours of lecture/seminar per unit per semester.

What a Sustainable World Demands of Designers and How We Can Respond

Transformation to a sustainable future calls upon architects and all design professions to think and act from a fundamentally different point of view. Design is a process capable of creating the very holistic outcomes that are necessary to alter the course of global warming – build rational cities, create social and environmental justice, and radically re-design how we create and operate the built environment. To serve the global good, we must think and act differently. This course explores the transformations required of designers, design thinking, design education and design professions. We will examine change paradigms, systems thinking, emerging responses, energy ecology, personal transformation and more.

ARCH 133A
TWO-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTING TECHNIQUES IN ARCHITECTURE

(2) Three and one-half hours of lecture for eight weeks. Four and one-half hours of lecture for six weeks. This course looks at the principal 2-Dimensional CAD techniques used by architects to create presentations, schematic drawings, and working documents. Emphasis will be placed on the generation of 2D architectural graphics, the integration of those graphics with nongraphic data, and the uses of disparate graphic approaches.

ARCH 133A SEC 1
TWO-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTING TECHNIQUES IN ARCHITECTURE
EL ANTABLY

ARCH 133A SEC 4
TWO-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTING TECHNIQUES IN ARCHITECTURE
ECHEVERRI/PLYMALE

ARCH 133A SEC 5
TWO-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTING TECHNIQUES IN ARCHITECTURE
KIM

ARCH 133B
THREE-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTING TECHNIQUES IN ARCHITECTURE
STAFF

(2) Three and one-half hours of lecture for eight weeks. Four and one-half hours of lecture for six weeks. This course looks at the principal 3-Dimensional modeling techniques used by architects to create computer models, rendered images, and animation. Emphasis will be placed on the generation of 3D architectural graphics and their presentation.

ARCH 133B SEC 1
THREE-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTING TECHNIQUES IN ARCHITECTURE
CHIU/KIM

ARCH 133A SEC 2
THREE-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTING TECHNIQUES IN ARCHITECTURE
EL ANTABLY

ARCH 179
PROSEMINAR IN THE HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
GROTH

(1–4) One and one-half to seven and one-half hours of lecture for eight weeks. Prerequisites: 170A-170B and consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit. Special topics in Architectural History. For current section offerings, see departmental announcement.

Field Study of Buildings and Cities

Traveling on foot and by BART—and through on-site study of the architecture, urban design, and cultural landscapes of Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, and Pleasanton—students in this field course will explore the built-environment history of the American city since 1850. Student expenses will include the course reader, textbook, BART fares, and meals. Note: The first class meets for the entire time period. Enrollment limited to 20 students. No pre-requisites. Consent of instructor not required. Both undergraduate and graduate students are welcome.

The goal of this course is to introduce ways of seeing various building types, street and block forms, land use patterns, and other cultural features of the Bay Area as records of repeating processes of American urban history: cyclical periods of investment and disinvestment, migration and immigration, connection and disconnection, reinforcement of individual and social identities, day to day maintenance and care, economic production, and consumption.

This will NOT be a course simply about high-style buildings and their designers. We will examine high-style designs within their contexts of ordinary, everyday urban space. This implies a balance of settings from monuments and official civic spaces to vernacular buildings; from work places (such as offices, workshops, factories, and stores) to home, leisure, and other consumption settings—all seen as people have changed them over time. The course has only one trip to the post-1945 suburbs, assuming that most students will be familiar with suburban settings.

The course will also explore the sedimentation of social and economic relationships that have brought American cities and buildings into being; the constant negotiation of identities, meanings, and memories within American buildings and cities; the issues of representation of built environments; and the roles of interpretation of built environments for the public. Wherever possible—through excerpts from guidebooks, web sites, historical maps and photographs, archival drawings, and library sources—we will compare selected representations and interpretations of Bay Area design with our on-site observations and discussion, emphasizing the place-making and explanatory roles of designers, clients, developers, owners, renters, writers, teachers, politicians, community activists, and other social groups.