To enable the students to be proficient in four skills of English and to be able to use English in the field either written or oral.
Prerequisite(s)
None
Corequisite(s)
None
Special Requisite(s)
The minimum qualifications that are expected from the students who want to attend the course.(Examples: Foreign language level, attendance, known theoretical pre-qualifications, etc.)
The lessons are delivered interactively, with student-centred narration and the use of eclectic methods.
Principle Sources
Variety of reading texts from different sources
Other Sources
Handouts, video and listening activities
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Introduction
Student centered,Communucative, eclectic
2. Week
Architecture and Building, Architecture as a Creative Pursuit
Student centered,Communucative, eclectic
3. Week
Architectural Gestures
Student centered,Communucative, eclectic
4. Week
Architectural Landmarks - Guggenheim Museum in New York, Fallingwater+ Presentation
Student centered,Communucative, eclectic
5. Week
Architectural Landmarks - Central Park + Presentation
Student centered,Communucative, eclectic
6. Week
Urban Design - Mind Landscapes, The High Line Project + Presentation
Student centered,Communucative, eclectic
7. Week
Urban Design - Landscape City-Xiongan New Area + Presentation
Student centered,Communucative, eclectic
8. Week
Midterm Exam
Student centered,Communucative, eclectic
9. Week
Sustainable Cities + Presentation
Student centered,Communucative, eclectic
10. Week
Cultural Identity and Architecture Text 1 + Presentation
Student centered,Communucative, eclectic
11. Week
Quiz and Presenataions
Student centered,Communucative, eclectic
12. Week
Regenerative Sustainability: Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability + Presentation
Student centered,Communucative, eclectic
13. Week
China's Green Building Future + Presentation
Student centered,Communucative, eclectic
14. Week
Designing for the Multisensory Mind + Presentation
Student centered,Communucative, eclectic
15. Week
Final
16. Week
17. Week
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Midterm(s)
1
30
Quizzes
1
10
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations
1
20
Final Exam
1
40
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Critical Thinking: Ability to inquire, use abstract ideas to interpret information, consider diverse points of view, reach well-reasoned conclusions.
PO-2
Communication: Ability to use appropriate representational media to transmit essential formal elements at design process.
PO-3
Investigation: Ability to gather, record, apply, and comparatively evaluate relevant information within design processes.
PO-4
Design: Ability to reproduce the design information in the creative thinking process, to reach new and original results through universal design principles such as sustainability and accessibility.
PO-5
World Architecture: Understanding world architecture in terms of their historical, geographical and global factors.
PO-6
Local Architecture / Cultural Diversity: Understanding the architectural formations and samples of a geography through its historical and cultural context. Understanding the divergent canons of cultural values, behavioral, social and spatial patterns.
PO-7
Cultural Heritage and Conservation: Understanding of conservation discourses and methods, and the subjects of cultural heritage, conservation awareness, environmental concerns and ethical responsibility.
PO-8
Sustainability: Ability to design projects by using the information regarding the natural and built environment to reduce the undesirable environmental impacts on future generations through means.
PO-9
Social Responsibility: Understanding of the architect’s responsibility about protecting the commonweal, having respect for historical/cultural and natural resources and improving the life quality.
PO-10
Nature and Human: Understanding of the relationship between human, the natural environment and the design of the built environment.
PO-11
Geographical Conditions: Understanding the relationships of site selection, settlement and building design by considering the cultural, economical and social properties as well as the natural characteristics such as soil, topography, vegetation and watershed.
PO-12
Life Safety: Understanding the basic principles of security and life-safety systems in the conditions of natural disasters, fire, etc. through building and environment scales.
PO-13
Structural Systems: Understanding of the basic principles of structural behavior in withstanding gravity and lateral forces and the evolution, range, and appropriate application of contemporary structural systems.
PO-14
Environmental Systems: Understanding the principles of physical environmental systems’ design such as lighting, acoustics, climatization and the use of appropriate performance assessment tools.
PO-15
Building Envelope Systems: Understanding of the basic principles involved in the appropriate application of building envelope systems and associated assemblies.
PO-16
Building Service Systems: Understanding of the basic design principles of building service systems such as plumbing, electrical, vertical transportation, security, and fire protection systems.
PO-17
Building Materials and Assemblies: Understanding of the basic principles utilized in the appropriate selection of construction materials, products, components and assemblies, based on their inherent characteristics and performance, including their environmental impact and reuse.
PO-18
Integration of Building Service Systems: The ability of assessing, selecting and integrating the structural, environmental, security, envelope and service systems of the buildings for building design.
PO-19
Programming and Evaluation: Ability to prepare and evaluate an architectural project program by considering the public benefits in regards of client and user needs, appropriate examplers, space and equipment requirements, financial limitations, site conditions, relevant codes, laws and design principles.
PO-20
Comprehensive Project Development: Ability to produce a comprehensive architectural project that demonstrates to make design decisions across various scales.
PO-21
Considering Building Costs: Understanding the fundamentals of building construction and use costs.
PO-22
Architect-Client Relationship: Understanding of the responsibility of the architect to elicit, understand, and reconcile the needs of the client, owner, user groups, and the public and community domains.
PO-23
Collaboration: Ability to work in collaboration with others and in multidisciplinary teams to successfully complete design projects.
PO-24
Project Management: Understanding of the methods for competing for commissions, selecting consultants and assembling teams, and recommending project delivery methods.
PO-25
Practice Management: Understanding the basic principles in the architectural practice processes like financial management, business planning, quality management, risk management, discussion and reconciliation.
PO-26
Leadership: Understanding of the techniques and skills architects use to work collaboratively in the building design and construction process and on environmental, social, and aesthetic issues in their communities.
PO-27
Legal Rights and Responsibilities: Understanding of the architect’s responsibility to the public and the client as determined by regulations and legal considerations involving the practice of architecture.
PO-28
Professional Practice: Understanding and fulfillment of employer and intern rights and responsibilities for development of profession.
PO-29
Ethics of Profession: Understanding of the ethical issues involved in profession regarding social, political and cultural issues in architectural design and practice.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
Understand and use correct, appropriate language structures, vocabulary & discourse markers
LO-2
Understand and identify key ideas in a text
LO-3
Recognize the relationship between ideas in a text
LO-4
Recognize the attitude of the writer
LO-5
Deduce the underlying meaning in sentences or parts of a text
LO-6
Evaluate, synthesize and use information from (multiple) texts
