Jun 28, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
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ART 1600 - Aesthetics of Architecture and Design
Design fundamentals, design history, and aesthetics serve as the course starting point. Building upon these rudiments, this course introduces Environment and Behavior Studies (EBS), the area of research investigating how people, across cultures and the lifespan, interact with the environment. With an understanding of EBS, design strategies such as sustainable and therapeutic design may be used as evidence-based tools to design for optimal life quality. By providing appropriate analytical tools and practice using those tools, this course enhances understanding of how designed environments impact human physiological, informational, and social needs.
Credit Hours: 3
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 2FA
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to identify, analyze, and apply elements/principles of design, which serve as the field’s creative content and processes, as these relate to interior architecture.
- Students will be able to define and apply research based EBS terms/concepts related to supporting building users’ health, well-being, and behavior through architectural design strategies applied by architects/designers in sample works.
- Students will be able to apply as well as compare and contrast culturally diverse philosophies such as Feng Shui originating in China in approximately 1100 B.C. and concerning people and their interaction with the designed environment.
- Students will be able to critically evaluate designed environments utilizing basic principles of EBS as organizing models for explaining the interaction between people and environment.
- Students will be able to explain and apply sustainable design/building strategies and communicate how these strategies impact the health and well-being of building users as well as their impact on the planet.
- Students will be able to define design problems within their unique context(s) then propose and justify research evidence-based solutions intended to support the health and well-being of building users.
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