2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Department of Architecture and Building Engineering Graduate major in Architecture and Building Engineering
Architectural Detail
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Architecture and Building Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Shin-Ichi Okuyama / Yoshiharu Tsukamoto / Taisuke Yamazaki / Ryo Murata / Taishin Shiozaki
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Intensive
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- ARC.D444
- Number of credits
- 200
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
The course will not only focus on the representation of architectural entities, but also on the methods and history of the representation of architecture in some kind of medium, and examine the possibility of new methods of representation.
Course description and aims
To be able to understand the characteristics of various expression techniques and to be able to use and further apply each of them with an understanding of their meanings.
Keywords
Architectural design, Architectural expression, Architectural images, Drawings, Photographs
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Various architectural expression techniques by historical and contemporary architects will be introduced, and students will discuss, create, and review new drawing possibilities based on their understanding of the characteristics of existing drawings.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Class Introduction: Lecture: Drawings of Architecture, Grouping |
Discover distinctive architectural drawings |
| Class 2 | Discussion: Space, Shape, Scale, Colors, Materials, Composition, Relationships, Naming |
Selection of target architecture and possibilities for expression 1, Digital Models for expression |
| Class 3 | Discussion: Imaginary/real, 2D/3D, part/whole, abstract/concrete, subject/object, self-regulation/other-regulation, beforehand/afterhand |
possibilities for expression 2, collages for expression |
| Class 4 | design presentation (drawings): Presentation and Discussion of Design Work |
Naming for models and collages |
| Class 5 | design presentation (layout): Presentation and Discussion of Design Work |
Layout of photos, drawings, modeling, collage |
| Class 6 | Workshop: booklet layout |
Assignment: Presentation of Designs and Meaning |
| Class 7 | Workshop: booklet editing |
Assignment: Report |
Study advice (preparation and review)
Textbook(s)
N/A
Reference books, course materials, etc.
N/A
Evaluation methods and criteria
Attendance, Assignment, Design Work and Reports of Performance Evaluation
Related courses
- N/A
Prerequisites
N/A