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ARCH 100A
FUNDAMENTALS OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
STAFF

(5) Note: This course is generally intended for UC Berkeley Architecture majors. Visitors or non-majors with a background in Architecture are also welcome. A portfolio may be required at the start of the term to assess your placement. If you have questions about selecting a course that is appropriate for you, please contact an undergraduate advisor in the Architecture Department. UCB Architecture Majors: Note the prerequisites for this course: Environmental Design 1 or 4, 11A, 11B.

Four hours of lecture, twelve hours of studio, and three hours of computer graphics laboratory per week for eight weeks. Five hours of lecture, twelve and one-half hours of studio, and five hours of computer graphics laboratory per week for six weeks. Introductory courses in the design of buildings. Problems emphasize the major social, technological and environmental determinants. 100A focuses on the design process, social factors and site planning. 100B stresses structures, materials, and energy considerations. Studio work is supplemented by lectures, discussions, readings and field trips.

Extended Course Description

To come.

ARCH 100B
FUNDAMENTALS OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
STAFF

(5) Note: This course is generally intended for UC Berkeley Architecture majors. Visitors or non-majors with a background in Architecture are also welcome. A portfolio may be required at the start of the term to assess your placement. If you have questions about selecting a course that is appropriate for you, please contact an undergraduate advisor in the Architecture Department. UCB Architecture Majors: Note the prerequisites for this course: Environmental Design 1 or 4, 11A, 11B, Architecture 100A.

Three and one-half hours of lecture, five hours of studio, and three and one-half hours of computer graphics laboratory per week for eight weeks and five hours of lecture, twelve and one-half hours of studio, and five hours of computer graphics laboratory per week for six weeks. Introductory course in the design of buildings. Problems emphasize the major social, technological and environmental determinants. 100A focuses on the design process, social factors and site planning. 100B stresses structures, materials, and energy considerations. Studio work is supplemented by lectures, discussions, readings and field trips.

Extended Course Description

To come.

ARCH 101
CASE STUDIES IN ARCHITECTURE
STAFF

(5) Note: This course is generally intended for UC Berkeley Architecture majors. Visitors or non-majors with a background in Architecture are also welcome. A portfolio may be required at the start of the term to assess your placement. If you have questions about selecting a course that is appropriate for you, contact an undergraduate advisor in the Architecture Dept. UCB Architecture Majors: Note the prerequisites for this course: Environmental Design 1 or 4, 11A, 11B, a grade of B or better in both Arch 100A and 100B.

Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Problems in design of buildings of intermediate complexity. Each section deals with a selected topic, such as housing, site planning, institutional buildings, community development, and interiors. Studio work is supplemented by lectures, discussions, readings and field trips.

Extended Course Description

To come.

ARCH 123
TWO-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTING TECHNIQUES IN ARCHITECTURE

(2) Three and one-half hours of supervised laboratory per week for eight weeks. Five hours of supervised laboratory per week for six weeks. The course provides students with practical hands-on experience in using professional architectural drafting software (e.g., Autocad). The course covers the process of creating, manipulating, and communicating through digital drawings.

Extended Course Description

This course looks at two-dimensional CAD techniques used by architects to design and create presentations. Emphasis will be placed on understanding architectural drawing convention, and generating sophisticated architectural graphics, mappings and analyses using a variety of digital media. Programs taught may include AutoCAD, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, and Photoshop.

ARCH 123 SEC 1
TWO-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTING TECHNIQUES IN ARCHITECTURE
STAFF

ARCH 123 SEC 2
TWO-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTING TECHNIQUES IN ARCHITECTURE
STAFF

ARCH 124A
THREE-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTING TECHNIQUES IN ARCHITECTURE
STAFF

(2) Three and one-half hours of supervised laboratory per week for eight weeks. Five hours of supervised laboratory per week for six weeks. The course provides students with practical hands-on experience in using professional architectural modeling software (e.g., 3DStudioMax, Maya, Rhino, etc.). The course covers the process of creating, manipulating, and communicating through digital architectural models.

Extended Course Description

This course looks at the principal three-dimensional modeling techniques used by architects to design and represent projects. Emphasis will be placed on the generation of 3D architectural models and their presentation using Rhinoceros, Maya, Maxwell, and/or VRay.

ARCH 124A SEC 1
THREE-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTING TECHNIQUES IN ARCHITECTURE
STAFF

ARCH 124A SEC 2
THREE-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTING TECHNIQUES IN ARCHITECTURE
STAFF

ARCH 124B
THREE-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTING TECHNIQUES IN ARCHITECTURE
STAFF

(2) Three and one-half hours of supervised laboratory per week for eight weeks. Five hours of supervised laboratory per week for six weeks. The course provides students with practical hands-on experience in using professional architectural modeling software (e.g., 3DStudioMax, Maya, Rhino, etc.). The course covers the process of creating, manipulating, and communicating through digital architectural models.

Extended Course Description

The course introduces advanced methods in 3-D modeling and architectural representation. students will learn to create algorithms using Grasshopper and Python in Rhinoceros 3D while exploring parametric modeling, performance simulation, data visualization, and workflow automation.

ARCH 124B SEC 1
THREE-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTING TECHNIQUES IN ARCHITECTURE
GOLDER

ARCH 124B SEC 2
THREE-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTING TECHNIQUES IN ARCHITECTURE
GOLDER

ARCH 179
SPECIAL TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
GROTH

(1–4) One and one-half to seven and one-half hours of lecture for eight weeks. Prerequisites: 170A-170B and consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit. Special topics in Architectural History. For current section offerings, see departmental announcement.

Field Study of Buildings and Cities

(3) Traveling on foot and by BART—and through on-site study of the architecture, urban design, and cultural landscapes of Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, and Pleasanton—students in this field course will explore the built-environment history of the American city since 1850. Student expenses will include the course reader, textbook, BART fares, and meals. Note: The first class meets for the entire time period. Enrollment limited to 20 students. No pre-requisites. Consent of instructor not required. Both undergraduate and graduate students are welcome.

The goal of this course is to introduce ways of seeing various building types, street and block forms, land use patterns, and other cultural features of the Bay Area as records of repeating processes of American urban history: cyclical periods of investment and disinvestment, migration and immigration, connection and disconnection, reinforcement of individual and social identities, day to day maintenance and care, economic production, and consumption.

This will NOT be a course simply about high-style buildings and their designers. We will examine high-style designs within their contexts of ordinary, everyday urban space. This implies a balance of settings from monuments and official civic spaces to vernacular buildings; from work places (such as offices, workshops, factories, and stores) to home, leisure, and other consumption settings—all seen as people have changed them over time. The course has only one trip to the post-1945 suburbs, assuming that most students will be familiar with suburban settings.

The course will also explore the sedimentation of social and economic relationships that have brought American cities and buildings into being; the constant negotiation of identities, meanings, and memories within American buildings and cities; the issues of representation of built environments; and the roles of interpretation of built environments for the public. Wherever possible—through excerpts from guidebooks, web sites, historical maps and photographs, archival drawings, and library sources—we will compare selected representations and interpretations of Bay Area design with our on-site observations and discussion, emphasizing the place-making and explanatory roles of designers, clients, developers, owners, renters, writers, teachers, politicians, community activists, and other social groups.