Architectural Analysis explores analytical techniques for studying the complex formal and spatial relationships between environments, cities, buildings and people. Students in the course explore three types of analysis: typological analysis at the scale of architecture, behavioral analysis at the scale of human interaction with designed form, and urban and environmental analysis at the scale of a neighborhood. The course lays the groundwork for an architectural practice that is conceptually inventive, and that responds and relates to diverse cultural, socio-political, environmental and physical contexts. The curriculum of Architectural Analysis is coordinated with M.Arch. Studio 3, and class research focuses on forms, contexts, and issues relevant to the studio’s topics.

In subject:

• Graduate Architecture

Graduate