Introduction to Architectural and Environmental Design
Introduction to Architectural and Environmental Design introduces beginning students to interdisciplinary processes for solving 3D design problems in exterior and interior spaces.
Summary
What you’ll be able to do
Develop an understanding of the design professions of architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design and how they integrate to create holistic environments for living, working, socialization, and recreation.
Apply the design processes used by designers to create effective, sustainable, resilient, and human-scaled spaces and places.
Understand how humans experience both interior and exterior spaces through a variety of design encounters.
Increase awareness of spatial manipulation, with emphases on the analysis of space, two and three-dimensional ordering principles, designing in context, scale, and basic design theories.
Develop an increased awareness of problem-solving and solution-generating activities, including the establishment of basic design and graphic communication skills that will be further developed in subsequent courses (and during your career as a designer).
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Introduces beginning design students to the interdisciplinary processes used in solving three-dimensional design problems for both exterior and interior spaces. Allows students to understand the integration between architectural design, site design and interior design, and how these design realms create physical and sensory experiences in our everyday lives. Helps students develop fundamental verbal and graphic communication skills used in the professional design world. Questions explored in this course include: How to humans experience their environment? How do we perceive and interact with spaces where we live, work, and play? What makes great interior and exterior spaces? How do designers think to solve creative spatial design problems?
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- Integration of architectural, site, and interior design
- Physical and sensory experiences in designed spaces
- Human experience of interior and exterior spaces
- Holistic environments for living, working, and recreation
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- Verbal and graphic communication skills
- Applying design processes for spatial creation
- Spatial manipulation and analysis
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