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环境设计（environment design）是一门复杂的交叉学科，涉及的学科包括建筑学、城市规划学、景观设计学、人类工程学、环境心理学、设计美学、社会学、史学、考古学、宗教学、环境生态学、环境行为学等。环境设计是指通过艺术设计的方式，对建筑室内外的空间环境进行设计和整合的一门实用艺术。

建筑物理学是研究建筑中声、光、热的物理现象和运动规律的一门科学，是建筑学的组成部分。其任务在于增强建筑功能，创造适宜的生活和工作环境。建筑物理学研究人在建筑环境中的声、光、热因素作用下，通过听觉、视觉、触觉和平衡感觉所产生的反应；采取技术措施、调整建筑的物理环境的设计，从而使建筑物达到特定的使用效果。建筑物理研究的环境领域则主要是建筑环境和与城市建设有关的环境；研究各种物理因素对人的作用和对建筑环境的影响。

园林学是研究如何合理运用自然因素、社会因素来创建优美的、生态平衡的生活境域的学科。主要包括园林历史、园林艺术，园林植物、园林工程、园林建筑等分支学科。园林设计是根据园林的功能要求、景观要求和经济条件 ，运用上述分支学科的研究成果，来创造各种园林的艺术形象。

建筑工程是一门关于建筑物施工和内部设施安装的工程学，其知识范畴包括工程力学、土力学、测量、房屋建筑和结构工程。建筑工程的目的是为居民建设更适居的建筑、为各界别建设相应的建筑、建设基建等。

Drawing, historically the primary means of generation, presentation, and interrogation of design ideas, is currently ill-defined and under stress. This course examines the historical and theoretical development of descriptive geometry and perspective through the practice of rigorous constructed architectural drawings. The methods and concepts studied serve as a foundation for the development of drawings that consider the relationship between a drawing’s production and its conceptual objectives. Weekly readings, discussions, and drawing exercises investigate the work of key figures in the development of orthographic and three-dimensional projection. Ultimately, the goal is to engage in a focused dialogue about the practice of drawing and different methods of spatial inquiry. Limited enrollment.

"Computational machines, tools once considered only more efficient versions of paper-based media, have a demonstrated potential beyond mere imitation. This potential is revealed through design computation, the creative application of the processes and reasoning underlying all digital technology, from e-mail to artificial intelligence. Just as geometry is fundamental to drawing, computation affords a fundamental understanding of how data works, which is essential to advance the development of BIM, performative design, and other emerging methodologies. This
seminar introduces design computation as a means to enable architects to operate exempt from limitations of generalized commercial software; to devise problem-specific tools, techniques, and workflows; to control the growing complexities of contemporary architectural design; and to explore forms generated only by computation itself. Topics include data manipulation and translation, algorithms, information visualization, computational geometry, human-computer interaction, custom tooling, generative form-finding, emergent behavior, simulation, and system modeling. Using Processing, students develop computational toolsets and models through short, directed assignments ultimately comprising a unified, term-long project. Limited enrollment."

Geometry lies at the core of the architectural design process. It is omnipresent, from the initial form-finding stages to the actual construction. While design and geometry share a fundamental interest in form and shape, Descriptive and Computational Architectural Geometry aims to address the various natures of the historical relationship between mathematics, geometry, computation, and architecture. Through the display of historical mathematical models with formal affinities to contemporary architectural production, the course will provoke discussion about the relevance of a history of form, the origins of design technique, the epistemology of geometry models, and the justification for mathematical surfaces in architecture. This course examines the history, theory and practice of parallel (orthographic) and central (perspective) projection. The primary objective is to provide designers with the tools to imagine and represent with precision, dexterity, and virtuosity a continually expanding repertoire of three-dimensional architectural form.

The course study the basic construction method of ancient Chinese architecture, construction, characteristics, the main characteristics of several stages of development, several important turning point; build theory in different times. Studing the development history of ancient Chinese architecture, thinking about some problems in the development of architectural history. Through classroom teaching, extracurricular reading, homework and class discussion exchange study way, complete understanding of ancient Chinese architecture is more overall, system.

The history of the built environment as social and cultural expression from the earliest to more recent times. Themes, theories, and ideas in architecture and urban design are explored, beginning with the earliest written records.

This seminar provides an overview of the basic characteristics and families of "phenomenological” materials, with a special focus on materials and technologies that have a relationship to light and vision. Materials and technologies, such as LEDs, smart glazing, displays, and interactive surfaces, are examined in depth, and some of the contemporary experiments taking place in the architecture profession are explored. Throughout the term, students catalog relevant properties and begin to develop a mapping between behaviors and phenomena. Students have the opportunity to interact with some of the well-known architects who are at the heart of the current experimentation. Each student learns how to coherently discuss material fundamentals and comprehensively analyze current applications. The seminar culminates with each student focusing on a material characteristic with which to explore different means of technology transfer in order to begin to invent unprecedented approaches and applications.

Exercises introduce the complexity of architectural design by engaging problems that are limited in scale but not in the issues they provoke. Experiential, social, and material concerns are introduced together with formal and conceptual issues.