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Buildings are among the most public, visible, and long lived artifacts that a culture creates. The built environment serves as both a repository of cultural information and exerts an influence that extends beyond the society that created it. Architecture is art in a physical, three dimensional reality; it responds to the limitations of technology, design, and space while materializing ideals of aesthetics and beauty. Famous designers, trained architects, anonymous craftspeople, and laypeople alike create architectural forms. This studio art course will introduce the ways in which we design, create, study, and convey architecture. We will investigate practices of architectural design, history, building craft, and engineering in this class through lectures, research, in-class exercises, and thematic assignments. The course will culminate with a fully realized design for a small building of your own invention. This course will challenge you to recognize precedent forms and to create designs of your own, from sketch to 3D model making, that explore basic design elements. Skills explored in this course can be used to gain a better understanding of the built world around us and pursue further studies in architecture. This course is open to all majors, and prior architecture study is not required. If the course fills and you would like to be added to the waitlist, fill out the form found at this link: https://www.sageart.center/resources. |