Imaging in the Electronic Age ARCH 459/659.01 (ART 170, ComS 167, CIS 167, ENGRI 167) Course Schedule: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11:15 am - 12:05 pm
Location: 157 East Sibley
Prerequisites: ARCH 151/152 or ARCH 551/552 or permission of instructor.
Professor: Don Greenberg
Course Overview: This is an interdisciplinary survey course designed to introduce students in the creative arts, science and engineering to the concepts of digital pictorial representation and display. It is a concept and theory course, which concentrates on “why” rather than “how.” Other titles for the course could be “How to Represent 3D Space with 2D Images?” or “How are Digital Pictures Acquired or Made?” or even “How Things Work?” Topics will include: perspective representations, display technology, how television works, bandwidth and printing concepts, digital photography, computer graphics modeling and rendering, matting and compositing, color perception, and historical precedents from the Renaissance to today. Examples include the works of Brunelleschi, Bernini, Borromini, Massaccio, Albers, Escher, Seurat, and Magritte. There will be two lectures per week, augmented by recitations at the state-of-the-art laboratory of the Program of Computer Graphics.
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Dynamic Digital Media
ARCH 459/659.02
Course Schedule: Tuesdays, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm, Optional lab meets on Thursdays from 2:30 - 4:25 pm
Location: Rand Computer Classroom
Professor: Ezra Ardolino
Prerequisites: ARCH 151/152 or ARCH 551/552 or permission of instructor.
Course Overview: This course will be presented as an introduction to the generative techniques and methodologies of computational modeling found within the Autodesk Maya software. While this course will serve as a device for establishing a basic set of modeling competencies it will double as a platform for the investigation of dynamic animate systems of formalization and representation. Specifically, this course will investigate the production of digital architectural media via the documentation of 2, 3 and 4-dimensional data with a variety of representational techniques (still images, animations and interactive digital interfaces) and software (Autodesk Maya, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Macromedia Flash).
ORGANIZATION + REQUIREMENTS
This course will operate via the utilization of a hybrid lecture/lab format as formalized weekly lectures are routinely followed by in-class assignments and workshops. Along with regular attendance and the completion of in-class assignments students will be responsible for the completion of weekly reading assignments as well as the delivery of both midterm and final projects. Collaboration between students is encouraged at all levels of this course.
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The War Veteran Vehicle ARCH 459/659.03 Course Schedule: Thursdays, 2:30 pm - 4:25 pm
Location: 142 East Sibley Hall
Prerequisites: ARCH 151/152 or ARCH 551/552 or permission of instructor.
Professor: Krzysztof Wodiczko 
Course Overview:
The course’s objective is to develop and build new vehicle and prosthetic designs that may inspire, encourage, equip returning soldiers and their families to live with their traumatic recent past and present in a more communicative, open, socially proactive and public ways.
The course will focus on unacknowledged, neglected and emerging needs of War Veterans leading to the invention of radically new technical concepts and functional programs.
ve·hi·cle: an agent of transmission : a medium of communication, expression, or display. By vehicle, we do not mean to limit the course to the development of new and improved wheelchairs (however, this may be a valid study to be undertaken). Rather, an expanded meaning of vehicle should be considered to include any device which improves the abilities of its user; these, for example, may be physical, mental or communicative in nature.
Students will engage in design experimentation and social research, build working models and prototypes and participate in discussions, presentations, and consultations with potential users.
The practical component of the course will involve technical production in an environment for ergonomic and technical tests, building and experimenting with working models, prototypes, conducting functional and technical tests in various life situations, public and private. The theoretical underpinnings of the course will be formed by readings such as: Judith Herman, Trauma and Recovery; Michel Foucault, Fearless Speech; and Smith and Morra, The Prosthetic Impulse in addition to relevant contemporary texts and films.
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Digital Capture: Photographing Place ARCH 459/659.04 Course Schedule: Tuesdays, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Location: Tjaden Hall
Prerequisites: ARCH 151/152 or ARCH 551/552 or permission of instructor.
Professor: Greg Halpern 
Course Overview:
This course will address the technical aspects of taking, altering and printing digital photographs, as well as the conceptual problems and possibilities of Photography in the digital age. In lectures and assignments, specific attention will be paid to Photography’s relationship to Place -- to the city, to architecture and to the landscape. Slide shows will provide a historical survey of Photographic practice, from the inception of the medium through the contemporary scene, with a particular emphasis on the last ten years. The course includes weekly photographic assignments and critiques, as well as regular readings and writing assignments. Emphasis is placed on the realization of an independent and ambitious final project, which may take the form of a book, a portfolio of prints, an installation, a website or a combination thereof.
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To AutoCAD and Beyond
ARCH 459/659.06 Course Schedule: Tuesday, 2:30 pm - 4:25 pm
Location: Rand Computer Lab
Prerequisites: ARCH 151/152 or ARCH 551/552 or permission of instructor
Professor: Deb Adams 
Course Overview: In many ways, this course is seen as an extension of ARCH 253. Where the manipulation of 2D and 3D images was used as a conceptual and representational tool to aid in the design process, we are now looking at the use of 2D and 3D images to aid in the representation and production process. To do this, students will using information as a vehicle to learn the programs commonly associated with theses tasks.
It has been said that an architect's product is not the physical building but the drawings and the images describing the architecture. We will begin by accessing a piece of existing architecture by examining these drawing(s). These will become 'artifacts' that you will be employing to understand, re-construct and extrapollate information in order to assemble you own documentation.
This course has multiple parallel objectives: - to develop an understanding of the structure of a CAD program
- to achieve a basic competence in the operation of the CAD program
- to introduce the basic structure of a set of working drawings and some of the associated representational standards.
- to begin to make decisions regarding the organization, layout and content of a working drawing set
(see J. Ochshorn's Working Drawings course for more in depth study of this area).
- to be exposed to the advantages and challenges that the CAD environment can contribute to working in a group (on a small scale)
- to export CAD drawings to other programs (Illustrator)
- to explore 3D modeling in conjunction with CAD production (Rhino)
- to explore carious lighting and rendering techniques (Rhino)
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Public Domain, Memory, Projection
ARCH 659.06/ ART 614.01 Course Schedule: Tuesdays. 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: 324 Tjaden Hall
Prerequisites: Open to masters of fine arts and architecture graduate students only
Professor: Krzysztof Wodiczko 
Course Overview: The course will explore aesthetic, politico-ethical and technological issues of art of public intervention, installation and projection in the context of selected projects and writings that address the questions of public space, public domain, public realm, public sphere, protest, and fearless speech.
Discussions and readings will also focus on memory, counter-memory, testimony, trauma, memorial, monument and counter-monument.
The course will be based on the assigned and generated by the class readings, discussions and presentations and will encourage critical examination of student work in progress.
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