Advanced Architectural Representation
Arch 5304 · Instructor: Erin Linsey Hunt
This course will introduce students to computational design and digital fabrication. It will teach students how to understand and compose Grasshopper definitions and introduce students to digital fabrication through hands-on assignments. The scale and complexity of these assignments increase throughout the semester as the skills are acquired. The emphasis is to take risks and learn with each iteration to allow students to experiment and test new computational design skills, materials, and fabrication methods without the fear of failure and constraints of a studio model. The students are asked to develop a research question with each assignment then document their progress. For the final project, the students will revisit a past assignment and conduct another iteration with additional knowledge accumulated over the semester.
SYSTEMS OF ARCHITECTURAL INQUIRY
Arch 5315 · Instructor: Saif Haq, Ph.D.
ARCH 5315 provides an overview of numerous research methodologies used in studies of the built environment and their intellectual bases. The class focuses on the individual research/scholarly agendas of enrolled students. Through lectures on selected topics, class discussions, and written papers of several lengths, this class highlights the many faceted possibilities that exist in architectural inquiry and provide a foundation for students to understand their research directions and organize their research interests into specific proposals that might lead to their theses or dissertations.
Land Arts of the American West
Arch 5315 · Instructor: Chris Taylor
Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech University is a transdisciplinary field program, based in the College of Architecture, dedicated to expanding awareness of the intersection of human construction and the evolving nature of our planet. Land art or earthworks begin with the land and extend through the complex social and ecological processes that create landscape. Including everything from petroglyphs to roads, dwellings, monuments and traces of those actions, earthworks show us who we are.
Digital Media in Neoteric Dimension (DiMeND)
Arch 5352 · Instructor: Kuhn Park
DiMeND introduces design as a computational enterprise in which mediating technologies are developed to compose and describe design and architecture.
Building Integrated Modeling
Arch 5354 · Instructor: Nathan Harvey
The course goal for ARCH 5354 requires the student to use critical thinking, analytical modeling, digital tools, and reasoning to development a working model of architecture. This will be done through active learning, demonstrations, and discussion to produce the final product with the goal of being a staple in your graduate portfolio.
Theory in Architecture
Arch 5362 · Instructor: Dora Epstein Jones, Ph.D.
At one point, not long ago, architecture went from “Architecture,” one of the greatest marks of human achievement on the face of the earth, to “architecture,” amounting to little more than a questionable, quavering, provisional and insecure set of defining characteristics. Everything is up for debate; hence, everything is more easily identified through its argument, or position, than through any a priori truth. This course is dedicated to the explication of the architectural position – what it is, how it arose, why it is important to architectural culture, its various and evolving discourses, and the construction of the discipline itself. Most importantly, this course seeks to discover how positions operate as theories, and are enunciated through the presence of the work. This course prepares students to develop positions and/or make arguments in their work, to practice architectural theory today.
Observing Downtown Lubbock through the lens of Urban Theory
Arch 5382 · Instructor: David A. Driskill, AIA
An extensive writing course exploring a comprehensive investigation from selected conceptual and philosophical topics based upon the critical relationship between culture and the urban environment.
Professional Practice
Arch 5392 · Instructors: MaryAlice Torres-MacDonald & Lesley Nall Washington, J.D.
The principles and practice of architectural business including the discussion of professionalism, administration, management, legalities and liabilities. Exploration of current, advanced, and complex processes for the delivery of architecture.
Huckabee College of Architecture
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