ARCH 4893: Space Lab

3 Credit Hours

The course is aimed at entangling the complex relationship between society and built environment. It addresses several fundamental questions that concern the understanding, synthesis and design of architectural and urban space: How do social norms influence the structure of the built environment? The course introduces students to the spatial analysis of various scales of the built environment, representations and analytical techniques of space syntax, depthmap software tutorials, and correlations between behavior observations and spatial measures.