School of Architecture: Courses of Instruction
2008-2009 Academic Year
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Bruce M. Goodwin, M.Arch., University of California, Los Angeles, 1979. Favrot
Professor
Graham W. Owen, M.Des, Harvard University, 1990.
Carol McMichael Reese, Ph.D., University of Texas, 1992, Harvey Wadsworth
Professor.
Assistant Professors
Robert A. Gonzalez, Ph.D in History of Architecture, University of California,
Berkeley, 2002.
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN (DSGN)
The information listed below may be partially incomplete due to curricular
revisions. Please refer to http://www.tsa.tulane.edu/ for current curricular
information and course descriptions.
Design Required Courses:
(101, 102) 110, 120 Architecture Design Studio (4, 4), [R]
Staff. As an introduction to the basic fundamental methods and principles of
architectural design, students are given an immediate experience of the design
process, developing their capacity to conceive, manipulate and analyze
architectural form and space. An emphasis on verbal skills, and graphic and
material techniques for architectural representation, enable students to express and
communicate their ideas. The studio develops the students' capacity for critical
thinking through constructive evaluation.
210, 220 Architecture Design Studio (6, 6), [R]
Staff. Second year studio concentrates on developed architectural form and design
methodologies through processes of analysis, synthesis and transformation.
Students work on the conceptual frameworks for their designs, with emphasis on
issues of environmental context, urban design, and cultural and technological
systems and their impact on architectural form. Different approaches to the
making of form are investigated, along with principles of organization, such as
spatial hierarchy, circulation, structure, and site relationships. Second semester
will emphasize the relationship of design to cultural precedents, site conditions,
programs, and material tectonics through the study of housing. Second year
studios will be fully integrated with digital media classes to ensure that students
gain fluency in computer aided design processes, drawing, spatial modeling and
digital design techniques.
310, 320 Architecture Design Studio (6, 6), [R]
Staff. The first semester of third year will introduce students to urbanism and the
city, focusing on the larger environmental context for architectural design. The
second semester of third year is the culmination of the required studio sequence
and is fully integrated with coursework in history/theory, technology,
visual/digital media and professional concerns. Architecture 320 provides an
opportunity for the student to synthesize the skills and ideas developed through
two and a half years of work and apply these to the comprehensive development
of a design project. Students will engage in a complex architectural project