Architecture Professional Electives
FOR FALL 2008 (**Under Construction as of 3.19.08)ARCH 347 / 547 - African Architecture
ARCH 417 / 617 / 817 - Product Design
ARCH 456 / 556 / 856 - Behavioral and Social Factors in Env. Design
ARCH 457 / 557 / 857 - Housing Issues
ARCH 466 / 566 / 866 - Community Design Center
ARCH 481 / 581 / 881 - Women in Design
ARCH 497 / 597 / 897 - Architecture and the City Since WWII
ARCH 497 / 597 / 897 - Publications
ARCH 497 / 597 / 897 - American Architecture
ARCH 497 / 597 / 897 - Details
ARCH 536 / 836 - Daylighting and Energy
ARCH 597 / 897 - Quality of Life
Architecture 347 / 547
African Architecture
Professor Mark Hinchman
Tuesdays & Thursdays / 1:30 - 2:45 p.m. / Arch Hall 233
African Architecture is a seminar that takes a thematic and selective (not comprehensive approach) to African Architecture. We use a variety of sources, from fiction to film, to consider how African conceptualizations of space and home differ from those of the West. Each student will adopt a country, and prepare an individual presentation on that country's unique approach to architecture. Distance learning methods (discussion boards, journals, etc.) are part of this course. In summary, the seminar glories in the properties and powers of African Architecture.
Please contact the instructor for more info at <mhinchman2@unl.edu>.
Architecture 417 / 617 / 817
Product Design
Professor Tom Allisma
Tuesdays & Thursdays / 8:00 - 10:50 a.m. / Arch Hall 26
Please contact the instructor for further information <tallsima3@unl.edu>
Architecture 456 / 556 / 856
Behavioral and Social Factors in Environmental Design
Professor Jim Potter
Tuesdays & Thursdays / 9:30 - 10:45 a.m. / Arch Hall Room 131
Comprehensive survey of theory, methods, research and findings from the social and behavioral sciences as they relate to architecture and interior design and regional and community planning. The application of principles to architecture and interior programs/designs and to the planning process.
Please contact the instructor for further information <jpotter2@unl.edu>.
Architecture 457 / 557 / 857
Housing Issues
Professor Jim Potter
Wednesdays / 8:30 - 10:15 a.m. / Arch Hall Room 233
A survey of social, psychological, political and economic research regarding housing in today's global economy. The focus will be upon how the research can impact the practice of design at the interior and architectural as well as the community and regional planning scale.
Please contact the instructor for further information <jpotter2@unl.edu>.
Architecture 466 / 566 / 866
Community Design Center
Professor Peter Hind
Wednesdays / 6:00 - 8:50 p.m. / Arch Hall Room 131
Please contact the instructor for further information <phind3@unl.edu>.
Architecture 481 / 581 / 881
Women in Design
Professor Sharon Kuska
Tuesdays & Thursdays / 11:00 - 12:15 p.m. / Arch Hall Room 233
A seminar course focusing on the contributions women have made to the design professions related to the built environment: seeking to raise awareness of the impacts, roles and values of women designers that have influenced assumptions and affected issues of the past and present.
Please contact the instructor for further information <skuska1@unl.edu>.
Architecture 497 / 597 / 897
Architecture and the City Since WWII
Professor Hyun Tae Jung
Wednesdays & Fridays / 11:00 - 12:15 p.m. / Arch Hall Room 131
Many important architectural activities after WWII drew upon reformulation of the changing relations between the post-war city and architecture. To better understand post-war and contemporary architecture, it is inevitable to investigate the complicated relations through some post-war urban and architectural activities. Through intensive textual and visual analyses, this course will help students develop critical understanding of architecture in the second half of the twentieth century.
Please contact the instructor for further information <hjung2@unl.edu>.
Architecture 497 / 597 / 897
Publications
Professors Betsy Gabb & Mark Hoistad
Mondays & Fridays / 9:00 - 9:50 a.m. / Arch Hall Room 233
This course provides a basic understanding of media as it relates to the design professions. Students are required to participate in the publication of various publications printed by the UNL College of Architecture under the direction of College faculty. Students are responsible for the design and layout of the publications produced in the course. Students will develop skills in graphic design, layout and visual editing, as well as learn the “behind the scenes” activities of how large-scale projects are printed. Most of the publications have a large-scale circulation list that includes architecture & design firms, alums and students.
Traditionally Fall projects include:
College of Architecture Fall Newsletter
College of Architecture Internship and Graduate Galleries
College of Architecture High School Workshop Brochures
Hyde Chair Announcements
College of Architecture Recruiting Material
College Website Design will also be a potential project for Fall 2008
Architecture 497 / 597 / 897
American Architecture
Professor Ted Ertl
Wednesdays & Fridays / 9:30 - 10:45 a.m. / Arch Hall Room 131
The course will be an examination of indigenous, vernacular, and high style architecture and building types in America from pre-history including the colonial period, nineteenth-century, and early twentieth-century architecture of the United States before the advent of the international style. It will also investigate the mechanics of fame and those factors which lead to creativity, genius, and architectural design strength for American architects.
Please contact the instructor for further information <tertl2@unl.edu>
Architecture 497 / 597 / 897
Details
Professor Jeff Day
Mondays / 7:00 - 9:50 p.m. / Arch Hall Room 233
This is a seminar of “minor theory,” the set of theoretical ideas and criteria that examines “the precise mechanics of architectural operations within individual works of architecture, landscape architecture, and art.”* The course offers a close examination of the architectural detail. This is not a course about how to make architectural details, it is a course about how to think about architectural details.
As the point of contact between intention (ideas and theory) and the contingencies of the production and performance, the detail is critical to the success of the project. This reading and discussion seminar will address questions such as, how does the detail reinforce intention? Or, in the inverse, how do materials and details influence the project? What is the interplay between scales in the design process? How does one determine “appropriateness” or “usefulness” in detailing for a specific project? How are detailing decisions made? Can one separate the “idea” from its physical manifestation with the detail being the point of contact? How have technology and economics changed the relationship between the detail and craft? The seminar builds from the received ideas of architectural making in the late 19th century and concludes with a critical examination of the status of the detail in the context of the increasing “digitalization” of architecture and the current post-critical debate.
The subtext behind this inquiry is that architecture does not stem from a linear process, and that detailing is not always subservient to a “concept.” Furthermore, we will try to uncover some of the cultural and institutional biases and outside forces that come to bear on the detail.
* I credit Tim Love for coining the term minor theory relative to architectural thought.
Please contact the instructor for further information <jday2@unl.edu>.
Architecture 536 / 836
Daylighting and Energy
Professor Nate Krug
Tuesdays & Thursdays / 1:30 - 2:45 p.m. / Arch Hall Room 131
The investigation is based upon the principle that architecture in fact, as both a profession and a discipline, is a holistic endeavor. As the so-called blend of art and technology, architects and architecture must concern themselves with a multitude of issues in a simultaneous manner in order to blend content, context, and concept to achieve architecture. By looking a two related (technological) issues – daylighting and energy consumption – the student is given the opportunity to draw connections between interconnected issues, in this case, within the design process. The course is bases upon the premise of using architecture to help reshape our relationship to our surroundings and our neighbors by revealing connections between the poetics of place, sound ecological development, and individual actions.
In all, this investigation:
• Provides the opportunity of discovering a connection between energy consumption and natural lighting strategies.
• Provides the opportunity of developing an interface for computer simulation within the design process – a design tool.
• Provides the opportunity of enhancing and applying skills in performing computer simulation, energy audits, post occupancy evaluations, critical thinking, model making, photography, and both verbal and graphic presentation skills.
• Provides a necessary understanding of the principles, language, and directions concerning environmental technology.
• Allows one further insight into the role technologies play in defining the built environment.
Please contact the instructor for more information at <nkrug1@unl.edu>.
Interior Design 597 / 897
Quality of Life
Professors Jim Potter & Rodrigo Cantarero
Tuesdays / 2:00 - 4:40 p.m. / Arch Hall Room TBA
An applied research course that considers the social, psychological, political, physical, economic and demographic factors influencing people's quality of life in today's global economy. The focus is on how the research on quality of life can impact the practice of design (interior and architectural) and/or community development (planning). You will work with actual data (previously collected), in a hands-on research project on either: 1) two small Nebraska communities facing the dilemma of adapting to a considerable Latino immigration over the last decade or, 2) if you have an international interest, Hannover, Germany or Ankara, Turkey.
If you wish to know more about the course, contact: Dr. Rodrigo Cantarero, 315 Architecture Hall, Phone: 472-9278, rcantarero1@unl.edu , or Dr. James Potter, 239 Architecture Hall, Phone: 472-9240, jpotter2@unl.edu.
