Apr 14, 2025  
2024-2025 University Catalog 
    

ARCH 522 - Environmental Design Research


Prerequisites: Senior standing
Requirement Fulfillment: Required for M.Arch;
Environmental Design Research introduces diverse theoretical approaches and research methods, for assessing inhabited environments with cultural, social and energy sustainability criteria. Readings include contributions from environmental psychology, anthropology, sociology, and cross-cultural studies as well as energy assessment literature. A semester long fieldwork project is undertaken to observe, conduct interviews and report to local architects and their clients how their buildings are used and experienced by diverse groups of inhabitants.

3 credits
Spring



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