Course Code :
ARC 104
Level : Undergraduate
Status : Compulsory/Elective
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Course Title : INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURE
Year : I Semester : II ECTS Credits : 5
Hours/Week : 4 Total Hours : 60
This course is designed to inspire the student to consider the built environment in a new way
through the study of ideas about architectural design and history, and architecture and planning in
the context of the urban and rural environments. Ideally, this new visual vocabulary and these
architectural concepts will encourage the student to become more judicious users and observers
of the built environment. This course is a Fine Arts Foundation course for the general education
program. As such, it emphasizes issues of design. This course also provides students with
information about the profession of architecture, its history, the scope of traditional practice,
contemporary issues in design and related professional careers. The critical facets of architectural
education will be examined.
The purpose of the course is to introduce the student to the scope and vocabulary of architecture.
The student is expected to develop an understanding of the phenomenon of form in general and
to identify the specificities of architectural form and its distinctions from other forms in nature and
the human world at different scales and levels of space. These specificities and distinctions
include perceptual values related with the corporeal, spatial and surface characteristics and use of
principles of visual organization, use of structural principles and systems, and the utilitarian
programme of architecture.
Architectural culture, presentation techniques, techniques of architectural analysis, observing the
environment, practices on gaining the ability to evaluate the environmental values, architectural
design process, general knowledge on construction systems.
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Textbook(s)  Roth, Leland M. Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History and Meaning. New
York City: Harper Collins, 1992.