Academic Team:
Louie Bottaro (lbottaro@uoregon.edu)
FIG Seminar Instructor
Anna
FIG Assistant
Ava
FIG Assistant
9 credits
Courses in the FIG:
UGST 109 FIG Seminar
Friday | 10:00-11:20 | LIL 211 | Schedule 1A: 15199 OR Schedule 1B: 16433 | 1 Credit
The journey to becoming an Architect starts here…. Except you already applied for and got admitted to our Architecture program. This course will help you navigate the first term of this rigorous academic program and prepare for the transition into the core studio courses.
You will
- Build community with fellow FY Architecture majors.
- Build support network at UO.
- Build potential 5 year academic and career plan.
- Prepare for the studio courses in winter term.
- Enhance a tolerance for ambiguity.
- Learn about School of Architecture and Environment based tools, vocabulary, opportunities.
Deep Dive FIG: Please note this FIG contains a 300-level course. This course has been vetted by First Year Programs to ensure first-term students can achieve success. The instructor is aware that FIG students will be in the course.
ARCH 201 Introduction to Architecture
Monday/Wednesday/Friday | 09:00-9:50 | 177 LA | 10386 | 4 Credits
Offers a structure of principles for making places for people. Examines places, design procedures, and the use of architectural principles in general.
ARH 314 History of World Architecture I
Arts & Letters (>1)| Tuesday/Thursday | 16:00-17:20 | 123 PAC | 10551 | 4 Credits
+Dis | Monday | 15:00-15:50 | 241 LA | 10553 | Schedule 1A
+Dis | Wednesday | 13:00-13:50 | 241 LA | 10554 | Schedule 1B
This course, which considers the art of building in the ancient world of Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, and in the medieval world from the Early Christian and Byzantine periods through the Romanesque and Gothic eras, fulfills the Arts and Letters Group satisfying requirement. Students will be introduced to the entire ancient and medieval history of Western architecture through the course text and reading packet. The lectures themselves will examine a selected number of periods and monument, and these will be considered in depth.
The lectures are organized chronologically beginning with the earliest Egyptian pyramids (c. 2600BC) and ending with the great Gothic cathedrals of the high and later Middle Ages (c.1200-1300 AD). Each focus monument, together with comparative supporting monuments, will be discussed in relation to such essentials of architecture as form, style, structure, materials, construction, function and meaning. The aim of this multi-pronged analysis is to answer the following very basic question: "Why does the building look the way it does?" Analysis of both "focus" and "supporting" monuments will reveal that numerous factors work in concert to give a building or site its distinctive character and shape. The course has no pre-requisites and is designed for majors from all areas.