Material Systems in Design. 3 credits, 3 contact hours

Catalog description

Prerequisites: ARCH 396 . This seminar will allow students to examine material systems that give design agency to matter as a creative and technical force in the making of architecture. In doing so, it will provide students an opportunity to understand and explore the role materials play in contemporary architectural theory and praxis. Focused on the exploration and understanding of material systems, this course will provide students with the intellectual underpinnings for the reconceptualization of matter within their design projects.