Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INDEPENDENT PROJECTS IN FURN DESIGN AND FABRICATION ***** This course will examine alternative materials and material technologies, both existing and emerging, and their impact on the design and fabrication of furniture. The class will initially focus on research into impact of innovations in materials and practices on the production of furniture over the course of the last century. Each student will specifically address the use made by various designers of these changes. The remainder of the course will see each student focus on the investigation of a specific material and its possible methods of manipulation via a simultaneous process of research/design resulting in the fabrication of a proto type.