Open to Non-majors with permission from instructor.

Visualization/Digital Representation in Design

Spring 2016

• ARC 351R: 865, 870
• ARC 381R: 1030, 1035
• LAR 381R: 1730, 1725

This course is ideally suited for advanced beginner to intermediate level students who seek an opportunity to hone their skills in a controlled course environment. Lectures, demonstrations, and student projects will focus on the digital translation of spatial experience, including the visualization techniques associated with rendering texture, character and environment.  The course is open to graduate and undergraduate students in the school of architecture in addition to qualified undergraduate non-majors in architecture. (Non-majors will require permission from the instructor)

Note for Bridging Discipline Students:
The course is also open to qualified students as part of the Bridging Disciplines Program at the University of Texas at Austin.  RTF students with substantial modeling experience will not be challenged by the level of software immersion. The course is ideally suited for those with intermediate level experience or those interested in producing dimensionally accurate building and landscape models and their physical environments.

 This course presents a sequence of digital visualization techniques that enable students to model three dimensional environments and motion with digital media.  The founding principle of the course is to present students the underlying data structures and software environments that dictate representation choices. In other words, course participants are not trained in particular software but encouraged to embrace the infinite flexibility of digital models and data structures in the representation of the built environment.  All demonstrations and laboratory sessions will be conducted on the Windows platform and using Windows computers.  Course participants should anticipate using the following programs, AutoCAD, 3D Max, Rhino, Form Z, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere and have computers that meet the School of Architecture Design Student computer requirements.  Course participants are also expected to have and utilize two active back up devices for coursework.