architecture - Sam Fox School - Washington University in St. Louis

TECHNOLOGY A46 540 ARCH
This course is available only to students enrolled in the Buenos Aires Semester Abroad. 3 units.
01 TBA Berk
Buenos Aires
SECT 02: This course is part of the Seoul, Korea Study Abroad program.
02 TBA Faculty
ACOUSTICS AND LIGHTING A46 544A ARCH
Acoustics will be covered with lectures, discussions and case studies exploring the nature of sound as a
design parameter on a non-mathematical basis along with a general survey of source material. Lighting
will be analyzed as an architectural design tool. Semantics and methodology for the communication and
realization of light design will be developed. 3 units
SECT 01: One half of the semester will be Lighting will meet on Mondays 9:00 a.m.--12:00 p.m. beginning
on September 13. During the other half of the semester, Acoustics, which will meet on Sundays from
2:00 to 5:00 p.m. and Mondays from 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m, on Nov. 1, 2, 15, 16, and Dec 6 and 7.
01 M 9:00a-12:00p Wang
Burkett
THE OBSERVER & THE OBSERVED A46 555C ARCH
This seminar is intended to put students in contact with the urban and architectural culture or cultures
in South America. The discovery and observation of the many local ways of doing and thinking will
take place through observation of the urban landscape and the appreciation of concrete works by local
architects. Activities will be focused on critical observation of the urban context and architecture,
including the development of graphic exploration instruments and techniques. The relation between
the observer and the observed will be intensified through graphic exploration. In this way, the seminar
will purposefully avoid published written criticism as a way to approach the cases and bodies of work
to be studied. This will be in order to construct a vision more closely attached to the practice of design
and the confrontation with concrete design issues and less ‘contaminated’ by pre-established historical
or theoretical interpretation. The choice of case studies coincides with the array of buildings to be
visited in field trips in Buenos Aires, Brazil, and Uruguay. Buildings and practices to be ‘observed’ will
represent different scales, different degrees of intervention and the construction of different landscapes.
The seminar is based in three class settings: site visits, professor and guest lectures, and in class
presentations and discussion. Rather than a cold, systematized, technical instruction on graphics, the
development of personal observation/drawing tools and techniques is stressed. This includes sketching
on the site and redrawing assignments based on personal sketches. 3 units
SECT 01: This course is only available to students participating in the Buenos Aires Study Abroad
Program.
01 TBA Caballero
Cardon
TOPICS IN KOREAN URBAN DEVELOPMENT A46 562E ARCH
3 units.
SECT 01: This seminar is only of those students in the Seoul Study Abroad Program.
01 TBA Faculty
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