2024 Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Department of Architecture and Building Engineering Graduate major in Architecture and Building Engineering

Architectural Behaviorology

Academic unit or major: Graduate major in Architecture and Building Engineering
Instructor(s): Yoshiharu Tsukamoto / Shin-Ichi Okuyama / Siena Hirao
Class Format: Lecture/Exercise (Face-to-face)
Media-enhanced courses: -
Day of week/Period (Classrooms): Intensive
Class: -
Course Code: ARC.D462
Number of credits: 110
Course offered: 2024
Offered quarter: 3-4Q
Syllabus updated: Mar 14, 2025
Language: English

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

Designing architecture and our environment attempts to create values through coordinating and making relationships between various behaviors of things which already exist there or which emerge through building. Behaviors are observed as the natural elements such as light, wind, heat, water, as the human behavior based on habitat and culture, as the typological building behavior. Through establishing the relationship between these behaviors, this class aims to reframe architectural design within trans-disciplinary framework, from natural science, history and ethnography.

Course description and aims

Learning the architectural design method and critical perspective which synthesize various behaviors.

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)

Architectural Behaviorology was withdrawn from the experience of various design practice including architecture, public space, furniture, exhibition, curation, artwork, and studies on architectural design.

Keywords

behaviorology, design, typology, resource, commons, accessibility, membership, ethnography

Competencies

Specialist skills
Intercultural skills
Communication skills
Critical thinking skills
Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Ability to understand what is actually happening, and to intervene into it through designing.

Class flow

Intensive Class

Course schedule/Objectives

	Course schedule	Objectives
Class 1	Lecture and discussion on Architectural Behaviorology 1,Urban research ：Made in Tokyo ＆Pet Architecture guidebook 2, Micro Public Space 3,Void Metabolism and 4th Generation House 4,Re-interpretation of Machiya(Town House) 5,Recovery Support and Architectural Ethnography 6,Windowology 7,Urban Rural exchange and Network of Things (Actor Network) 8,Resourceful Human and Mutual Aid Construction	Report Submission

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)

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Made in Tokyo (Kajima Publishing Institute)
Pet Architecture Guidebook (World Photo Press)
Bow-Wow from Post Bubble City (INAX Publishing)
Graphic Anatomy - Atelier Bow-Wow (TOTO Publishing)、Graphic Anatomy2 - Atelier Bow-Wow (TOTO Publishing)
Atelier Bow-Wow: Architectural Behaviorology（Rizzoli New York）
Atelier Bow-Wow Echo of Space / Space of Echo (INAX Publishing)
Windowscape(Film Art)、WindowScape2 (Film Art)、WindowScape3 (Film Art)
Commonalities Production of Behaviors(LIXIL Publishing)