Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BYPRODUCTS ***** Through case studies, the seminar will identify and examine the processes, financial structures, and physical components shaping the design of retail architecture and retail space today. Investigations will extend form markets, regulations, and technology to organizational strategies, proximity, counters, and transactions. This is a research-based seminar with an emphasis on communication and information design. Research gathered by individual students will be structured through drawing and writing assignments, to be presented in graphic form. The collective outcome will be the production of a document. Students will be asked to cross-reference and index the collective bodies of research in an opportunistic manner. The seminar will not attempt to be conclusive or definitive, but will be valuable in the potentials, the dilemmas, and the question it raises, and in the development of informed and productive methods of working.