ARCH 6470:Analytical Models of Form

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
This course examines the interaction of generative rules and descriptions of form relative to representation, exemplification, metaphor and expression. Shape grammars, transformations in design, rule definition and rule application. The geometry of environment, modular spaces, locations and associations, spatial allocation procedures, network distances and routes, space and symbolic form, & symmetry groups in plane are studied.

Learning Outcomes:

Apply techniques of network theory and spatial computational analysis.
Develop analytical, investigative and synthesis complex urban and architectural forms.
Apply spatial analysis to explore solutions to urban problems.