Architectural Design and Drawing IV

Academic unit or major

Undergraduate major in Architecture and Building Engineering

Instructor(s)

Siena Hirao / Yoshiharu Tsukamoto / Shin-Ichi Okuyama / Toshihiro Osaragi / Haruyuki Fujii / Takuya Oki / Naoko Saio / Yosuke Mano / Masato Dohi / Junko Sanada / Kei Sakamura / / Takashi Tsutsumi / /

Class Format

Experiment (Face-to-face)

Media-enhanced courses

-

Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

5-7 Tue / 5-7 Tue / 5-7 Fri / 5-7 Fri

Class

-

Course Code

ARC.A304

Number of credits

003

Course offered

2024

Offered quarter

2・4Q

Syllabus updated

Mar 14, 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.

Student learning outcomes

実務経験と講義内容との関連 (又は実践的教育内容)

Visiting professor who is the top class architect and faculty member teach design studio together、making assignment, design critique, and the presentation guidance. In each class, student’s proposal is examined from technical, environmental,.cultural, political points of view in order to to let student work develop and reach their own architectural work.

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 14 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)

To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend a certain length of time outside of class on preparation and review (including for assignments), as specified by the Tokyo Institute of Technology Rules on Undergraduate Learning (東京工業大学学修規程) and the Tokyo Institute of Technology Rules on Graduate Learning (東京工業大学大学院学修規程), for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.

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