Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MAKING IT: THE CULTURE OF CONSTRUCTION ***** In the principal part of the course, small teams of students (2-3) will be assigned to one of several projects now being built around Houston. The teams will follow the course on construction in detail during the semester, talking with the architects, the engineers, the contractors, the craftsmen of the job, attending job meetings, etc. In parallel seminar sessions, we will try to place construction in a broader context. We will view the building not so much as a singular static object, but more as a dynamic system that develops, evolves and adapts over time to a changing environment.