ARCH 6250:Housing

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
This course is a broad investigation of how humankind developed shelter as a function of cultural and physical environmental forces from the recorded dawn of history to our present day. We shall trace the worldwide emergence of diverse forms through pre-urban times and sequentially engage the eastern and western traditions of housing trends in urban settings. The course will marry a study of socio/economic history with a study of complementary design.

Learning Outcomes:

Able to identify and characterize markets for housing systems.
Be familiar with the successes and failures of housing systems in the past.
Understand constraints and opportunities for housing systems.
Appreciate the dimensions of advanced technology application in systems.
Be able to effectively critique systems designs of their peers for given scenarios.