TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HUCKABEE COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE
ARCH 1311 Design Society and Environment

Syllabus ARCH 1311 – Fall 2024

Calendar – Fall 2024
May Be Subject to Modification

Urs Peter "Upe" Flueckiger
Professor
WEEK DAY DATE TOPIC
01 Mon.

Aug. 26 00 Introduction to ARCH 1311 
Organization, Requirements and Syllabus
01 Lecture: 
How do we Learn/Study?
A House with a View E 1027 and Le Petit Maison


Introduction of Student Assistants

Urs Peter "Upe" Flueckiger

Wed.

Aug. 28 02 Lecture
What is Architecture? 
Architectural Theory I, Vitruvius

Reading 01
Assignment 01 Given
02 Mon.

Sept. 02 Labor Day - No Class

Wed.

Sept. 04 03 Lecture
Why Architects Draw?
03 Mon.

Sept. 09 04 Lecture
Leon Battista Alberti
Architecture Theory II

Wed. Sept. 11 05 Lecture
9/11 in Architecture
04 Mon.

Sept. 16 06 Lecture
Introduction to the HCOA Library  
Lindsey Jackson, Architecture Public Services Librarian
Sara Schumacher, Architecture Image Librarian

Andrea Palladio
Architecture Theory III

Assignment 01 Given

Wed.

Sept.

18 07 Lecture
Process of Creativity in Architecture
Prof. Tony Cricchio, Chair of Instruction  Guest Lecture
05 Mon Sept.

23 08 Lecture
Modernism

Wed.

Sept.

25 09 Lecture
Ersela Kripa, Director El Paso HCOA, Guest Lecture
Ersela can be reached: ersela.kripa@ttu.edu
Assignment 01 Due

06 Mon.

Sept.

30 10 Lecture
Postmodernism

Wed.

Oct.

02 Class Organization
07 Mon.

Oct.

07 12 Lecture
Review and Preparation Midterm Exam

Wed.

Oct.

09 13 Lecture
Mid Term Exam

08 Mon.

Oct.

14 14 Lecture
On Social Behavior I

Assignment 02

Wed.

Oct.

16 15 Lecture
On Social Behavior II
09 Mon.

Oct.

21 16 Lecture
Deconstruction & Contemporary Architecture

Wed.

Oct.

 

23 17 Lecture
Sustainable Architecture I
10 Mon.

Oct.

28 18 Lecture 
Sustainable Architecture II

Wed.

Oct.

30 19 Lecture 
Typology, The City and the Urban Realm I
11 Mon.

Nov.

04 20 Lecture
Typology, The City and the Urban Realm II

Wed.

Nov.

06 21 Lecture
Tectonics and Materials in Architecture I
12 Mon.

Nov.

11 22 Lecture
Tectonics and Materials in Architecture II

Wed.

Nov.

13 23 Lecture
Architectural Engineering
13 Mon.

Nov.

18 24 Lecture
Architecture & Practice Stakeholders in Architecture
Assignment 02 Due

Wed.

Nov.

20 25 Lecture
Review for Final Exam
  Mon. Nov. 25 26 Lecture
Work

 

Wed.

Nov.

27 - 29 Thanksgiving University Holliday No Class.
14 Mon.

Dec.

02 Final Reviews - No Class
  Tue. Dec. 03 Last Day of Classes
Thurs.

Dec.

05 Final Exams Begin (5 - 10 of Dec. Period of Final Exams)
 

Thurs.

Dec.

05 4:30 PM. to 7:00 PM.
Final Exam ARCH 1311 DES
Media & Communication Building, Room 281

Link

Submission:
Sketchbook/Notebook

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