Introduces students to the complexity of forces that interact to shape the designed environment. A lecture sequence and parallel set of design exercises exposes students to the theory and practice of environmental design, and to the important issues that guide the work of architects, landscape architects, urban designers, and urban planners. Open to nonmajors on a space available basis. Department enforced coreqs., ENVD 1052 and 2001. Requisites: Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
Designed for students who are interested in pursuing a degree in design. Provides a foundation for viewing the world through the "eyes" of a designer and gives a broad overview of various design professions including: Architecture, Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Industrial Design through a basic history of design and speculation concerning the future of these professions. Requisites: Restricted to non-Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
Explores the forces and conditions that interact to shape the designed environment. It does so through a lecture sequence and parallel set of design exercises introducing students to the theory and practice of environmental design. It develops student understandings of the central role design thinking plays as the unique process used to effect appropriate change in the designed environment. Department enforced coreqs., ENVD 1102 and ENVD 2003. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of ENVD 1004, ENVD 1052 and ENVD 2001 (all minimum grade C-). Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
Investigates landscape architectural thought from antiquity to the present. Begins with a review of Greek ideals and proceeds - through an appreciation of landscape and nature as essential cultural constituents - with a survey of major themes such as Renaissance Humanism, the Picturesque, and the varieties of Modernism, Neo-Eclecticism and most recent directions in landscape and garden design. Department enforced coreqs., ENVD 2130 and ENVD 3003. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of ENVD 2120, ENVD 3115 and ARCH 3114 (all minimum grade C-). Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
Focusing on buildings, this class surveys the built environment from the beginning of time through the present day. Emphasizing developments in the western world, it develops students' recognition of major styles, influential people, and drivers of building form.
Broadly introduces physical environmental planning inthe U.S., examining both historical roots and recent trends in American planning concepts and implementation. Emphasizes an analytical and critical approach to historical and contemporary planning issues, mechanisms, and cases. Department enforced coreqs., ENVD 3100 and ENVD 3122. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of ENVD 2130, ENVD 3003, and ENVD 3004 (all minimum grade C-). Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
Focuses on design projects not in a building envelope, including landscapes, public and private urban spaces, complexes and similarly scaled design projects. Aspects of architectural and planning thinking are interwoven in a landscape concentration. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of ENVD 3114 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
Provides an introduction to the history of urban planning and design practices and processes. Examines the history of city-building using examples drawn from the United States as well as other countries. Emphasis is on developing analytical methods and a critical approach in discussing and evaluating historical and contemporary planning issues, mechanisms and cases. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of ENVD 3114 (minimum grade C-).
Surveys architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and planning in the U.S. from ca. 1600 to the present. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of ENVD 2130 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
Surveys, through lectures and readings, the major historical developments and contemporary directions in architectural theory. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of ARCH 3114 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
Provides an advanced seminar on history and historiography of environmental design, e.g., American dwellings. May be repeated for credit by petition. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of ENVD 2130 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
Provides an advanced seminar on theory and criticism in environmental design, e.g., architecture now and introduction to design theory and criticism. May be repeated for credit by petition. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of ENVD 2130 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
Examines history of European and American planning and urban design in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of ENVD 2130 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
