Inside Architecture: Bricks, Sticks and Poetry

Inside Architecture

 

Academic Team:
Jim Givens (jgivens@uoregon.edu
First-Year Experience Seminar Instructor
Jonah Nees (jnees@uoregon.edu)
FIG Assistant

9 credits
UGST 109 First-Year Experience Seminar - 1 credit
LA 166: R 8:30 - 9:50 AM
CRN: 15040
ARCH 201 Introduction to Architecture - 4 credits
LA 177: MWF 9 - 9:50 AM
CRN: 10228
ARH 314 History of World Architecture I - 4 credits
Lecture
PAC 123: TR 4 - 5:20 PM
CRN: 10386
Discussion
LA 241: T 12 - 12:50 PM
CRN: 16085
 
 
About the FIG:

This class offers the opportunity to explore the profession of architecture beyond the classroom setting. We will explore the understanding of the built environment through building tours, field drawing, discussion sessions, and visits from local practicing architects as a way of illuminating the various things architects do in their careers. We will also provide an opportunity for students to actually design one room for a site located on campus. By the end of the term, each student will have a hands-on understanding of the challenges of the field of architecture.

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 - CoreEd or major satisfying course

This class will introduce the unique purpose of architecture: to accommodate and ennoble the ordinary acts of living, make them poetic, while also aspiring to capture our imagination and to open our lives to the beauty of the world that great architecture always illuminates. By introducing a fundamental body of principles that are essential and archetypal, it will demonstrate how those principles create unique and profound form as they become integrated within a broad range of specific cultures, buildings and physical settings.

ARH 314 History of World Architecture I - CoreEd or major satisfying course

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.