Architectural Design and Drawing IV

Academic unit or major

Undergraduate major in Architecture and Building Engineering

Instructor(s)

Yoshiharu Tsukamoto / Shin-Ichi Okuyama / Toshihiro Osaragi / Koichi Yasuda / Haruyuki Fujii / Norihiro Nakai / Ushio Saito / Tatsurou Sakano / Takuya Oki / Naoko Saio / Yosuke Mano / Akira Soshiroda / Masato Dohi / Junko Sanada / Ayumi Katsuki / Kei Sasaki / Mamiko Numata / Sanae Sugita / Takashi Tsutsumi / Shingo Masuda

Class Format

Experiment

Media-enhanced courses

-

Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

5-7 Tue (建築製図室, W9-511設計製図室) / 5-7 Fri (建築製図室, W9-511設計製図室) / Intensive

Class

-

Course Code

ARC.A304

Number of credits

003

Course offered

2020

Offered quarter

2・4Q

Syllabus updated

Jul 10, 2025

Language

Japanese

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

Following Architectural Design and Drawing III, students will combine art, technical, and other skills required of an architect and train their design expressions through the design of various buildings.
This is the last architectural design course at the undergraduate level, and requires that students independently think and offer proposals regarding not only the building as an individual but regarding its relationship with the urban space or the existence of the architectural space in society. Like Design and Drawing III, architects from both inside and outside Japan playing active roles on the front lines will be invited to speak, realizing discussion and expression of architecture at an exceptionally high level.

Course description and aims

By the end of this course, students will have nurtured their skills of "critiquing", "identifying problems", "creating concepts", and "expression" as a result of their thinking independently and offering proposals regarding the existence of the architectural space in the urban space and society.

Keywords

Architecture, Design, Building, City, Environment, Society

Competencies

• Specialist skills
• Intercultural skills
• Communication skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

All 15 weeks of this course will be spent on designing the required learning assignment. Students will participate in class presentations and individual coaching each week, receiving feedback at the middle and the end of the term.

Course schedule/Objectives

Study advice (preparation and review)

Textbook(s)

N/A

Reference books, course materials, etc.

N/A

Evaluation methods and criteria

Marking the mid and final presentation of the architectural design from the view point of creativity and the degree of perfection.

Related courses

• ARC.A201 ： Architectural Design and Drawing I
• ARC.A202 ： Architectural Design and Drawing II
• ARC.A301 ： Architectural Design and Drawing III

Prerequisites

N/A