ARC 441, Foreign Travel Experience, (3 credits)
Course Description
This course is an extended educational travel experience for students to visit meaningful works-of-architecture from outside the United States. Coursework includes history and exposure/study of other cultures.
Course Goals and Objectives
- To broaden the students’ knowledge and understanding of architectural principles by first-hand experience of meaningful buildings (historic and modern) in other countries/cultures that form the basis of modern architectural expression
- To embrace architecture as a continuum of response to social forces
- To develop skills in free-hand drawing, and photography and spatial awareness
- To develop writing skills in descriptions of meaningful spaces and different cultures
- To discover the larger world and some of what it can offer
- To serve as “ambassadors” of our school and society to other societies
Topical Outline
25% History and Culture
25% Architectural precedents, landmarks
25% Design – photography, drawing, diagramming
25% Travel writing about experiences, journaling
Prerequisites
ART 115, Drawing 1
ARC 306, Architectural Design V
Textbooks/Learning Resources
To be determined depending on country and program
Offered
Summer semester, annually
Faculty assigned
To be determined
