ARCH 2603 THEORY - ECOLOGY, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND THE ETHICS OF ARCHITECTURE
A required course based on the relationship between building and ecology, and building and the environment. Offering both an historic and thematic overview, issues of natural systems, resource management, life-cycle costs, and global growth particularly in emerging 21st c. metropolises, will be addressed. Local conditions in the NY/NJ metropolitan region, and the Wenzhou region, will be covered as case studies.
Prerequisite
ARCH*1602