Core Seminar 1 History and Theory of Representation and Technologies

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ARCH 775, is the first seminar, in the Master of Science in Architecture, Computational Technologies program. The focus of this seminar is on the history and theory of architecture spanning from perspective (Renaissance) to Big Data and Computational Design (Data Science and Computer Science). First, this seminar will study history and theory of representation and technologies in relation to architecture. Second, the seminar will study the history of Computer Science in relation to information theory and Data Science. Third, students will explore, through experimental applied exercises, how new survey technologies, or insightful researches on a single technology, may challenge assumed architecture theories in history and/or representation. Fourth, students will be asked to critique relationships between emerging technologies and cultural innovation in a research paper. The paper will be formatted and follow an art history methodology and be based on a single technology in relation to architecture representation based on a scientific quantitative method of inquiry. Prerequisite Course(s): Corequisites: ARCH 781