2021 Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Department of Architecture and Building Engineering Graduate major in Urban Design and Built Environment
Design Theory of Urban Visual Environment
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Urban Design and Built Environment
- Instructor(s)
- Yoshiki Nakamura
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 5-6 Mon
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- UDE.E503
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2021
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Jul 10, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
Students will understand appropriate appearance of urban environment through real urban landscape, and will obtain skills for realizing those appearance.
Course description and aims
Students will obtain design techniques for light and color in urban landscape based on psychophysical values.
Keywords
light, color, landscape
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
The instructor will provide report theme in every lesson, and some of students assigned by the instructor will have presentation in the next lesson.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Analysis of urban visual environment | Understanding situation of urban visual environment |
| Class 2 | Concepts for urban visual environment | Understanding design aims of urban visual environment |
| Class 3 | Methods for visual environment design in city | Understanding concrete procedures for design of urban visual environment |
| Class 4 | Urban landscape design in daytime | Understanding design procedure for urban landscape in daytime. |
| Class 5 | Visual environment design of urban functions in daytime. | Understanding design techniques in various situation in daytime city. |
| Class 6 | Urban landscape design at night | Understanding design procedure for urban landscape at night |
| Class 7 | Visual environment design of urban functions at night. | Understanding design techniques in various situation in night city. |
| Class 8 | Design examples of real urban visual environment. | Understanding next visual environment design thorough real design examples. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
Yoshiki Nakamura: Introduction for visual environmental design, surikogakusya, 2020
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Not specified.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Evaluated on all reports submitted in every lesson.
Related courses
- UDE.E401 ： Basics of Design Theory of Visual Environment
- ARC.E424 ： Design Theory of Architectural Visual Environment
Prerequisites
Students had better to take credit of ‘Basics of Design Theory of Visual Environment’ beforehand.