ARCH 520

Design Technology I

Prerequisites

No prerequisites

Description

Explores the way climate, place, materials, and tools shape buildings and affect both how to build and how to conceive of building human inhabitations. Examines relationships between technology and materials. Looks to both nature and traditional architecture for principles of climate adaptation, as well as tools and methods of building. Subjects developed through hands-on exercises in the fabrication lab.

CEC Data

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