# Materials And Construction Systems

## ARCH-5300

This course will provide a basic understanding of the components, assemblies, and processes used in building construction, with an emphasis in structural typologies, materials, and enclosure systems, including frames, load-bearing walls, and structural forms. Typologies will be analyzed through their different materials component (wood, steel, concrete, timber) and construction methods (prefab, formwork, assembly, form-finding). From this fundamental point of departure, the course will examine the construction systems as a composition of building elements (walls, floors, columns, etc.) as well construction methods (casting, laminating, bending, stacking, connecting). Additional coursework will analyze enclosure systems and building envelopes that extend the structural system or attach to it, creating an interior to control and mediate between external environmental factors and internal programmatic requirements.

2 credits
Prereqs:
ARCH-2350 Construction Systems

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2025

Materials And Construction Systems (2c)

- John Clifford Loercher

Seats Taken: 2/10

2024

Materials And Construction Systems (2c)

- Marcus Carter

Seats Taken: 4/10

2023

Materials And Construction Systems (3c)

- Lonn J. Combs

Seats Taken: 1/10

2022

Materials And Construction Systems (3c)

- Michael Todd Stradley

Seats Taken: 0/10

2021

Materials And Construction Systems (3c)

- Michael Todd Stradley

Seats Taken: 2/10

2020

Materials And Construction Systems (3c)

- Daniel Rosenberg

Seats Taken: 1/15

2019

Materials And Construction Systems (3c)

- Daniel Rosenberg

Seats Taken: 0/15

2018

Materials And Construction Systems (3c)

- Daniel Rosenberg

Seats Taken: 0/15

2017

Materials And Construction Systems (3c)

- Demetrios Andreas Comodromos

Seats Taken: 1/15

2016

Materials And Construction Systems (3c)

- Demetrios Andreas Comodromos

Seats Taken: 4/12

2015

Materials And Construction Systems (3c)

- Demetrios Andreas Comodromos

Seats Taken: 4/6

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