ARST 221: Contemporary Preservation
This course introduces the multi-faceted field of contemporary preservation, examining fundamental principles and practices used today by historians, architectural conservators, designers, archaeologists, non-profit museum directors, and professional advocates, with attention given to issues of sustainability and adaptive reuse. Students learn through guest lectures, case studies, class discussion, field trips and "hands-on" projects.
Credits: 3
College: Jefferson Coll of Architecture & Built Environment
Prerequisites: AHST 206 [Min Grade: D]
Schedule Type: Lecture
ARST 221AC: Contemporary Preservation
This course introduces the multi-faceted field of contemporary preservation, examining fundamental principles and practices used today by historians, architectural conservators, designers, archaeologists, non-profit museum directors, and professional advocates, with attention given to issues of sustainability and adaptive reuse. Students learn through guest lectures, case studies, class discussion, field trips and "hands-on" projects.
Credits: 3
College: Jefferson Coll of Architecture & Built Environment
Schedule Type: By Appointment - 1 student, Lecture
ARST 266: Building Conservation
Through site visits, demonstrations, laboratory exercises, guided research, and discussions, this course provides a comprehensive overview of historic building materials and the ongoing processes of material deterioration, contemporary approaches to treatment, and sustainability concepts of embodied energy and life cycle analysis as these pertain to building conservation. Topics include: investigative techniques for historic structures; diagnosing existing conditions, including non-destructive and laboratory testing methods; and designing appropriate interventions to remedy observed problems. Students will collect, present, critically review findings and formulate recommendations for conservation.
Credits: 3
College: Jefferson Coll of Architecture & Built Environment
Prerequisites: ARCH 102 or INTD 102 or LARC 102 or ARDS 102 [Min Grade: D]
Schedule Type: Lecture, Lecture/Studio Combination, Studio
ARST 302: Unco the Past:Tools,Methods&St
Buildings are silent witnesses to the past. Rediscovering the "stories" of a building's many lives relies upon piecing together archival, physical, and ethnographic evidence. This course affords in-depth study of the techniques, strategies, and resources employed to track down data, using written, graphic, and oral sources. Field trips to key archival repositories provide students with first-hand experience in collecting and interpreting documentary evidence to develop historical narratives.
Credits: 3
College: Jefferson Coll of Architecture & Built Environment
Prerequisites: AHST 206 [Min Grade: D]
Schedule Type: Lecture
ARST 324: Arch Forensics and Documentati
In this course students decode a building's past by deciphering and recording the physical evidence of its evolution. Students learn the fundamentals of professional field techniques used to document and interpret historic structures and places, utilizing sketching and technical drawing via hand drafting and computer modeling. Through field work and labs, students survey, sketch, draft, and annotate comprehensive, technically proficient drawings that represent the salient aspects of historic structures and sites. Procedures and techniques for analyzing historic buildings to determine original appearance and the nature, extent, and chronology of physical change which has occurred over their history are introduced.
Credits: 3
College: Jefferson Coll of Architecture & Built Environment
Prerequisites: ARCH 102 or INTD 102 or LARC 102 or ARDS 102 [Min Grade: D]
Schedule Type: Lab, Lecture, Lecture/Lab
ARST 341: American Architecture
What makes the built environment in America unique? How has American design changed over the generations? What were architects, clients, and critics thinking? Where will American architecture go in the future? Using history, sociology, and the humanities, we will address these types of questions as we examine American architecture according to themes such as the iconic American home, public buildings, buildings for work and play, and American architectural practice.
Credits: 3
College: Jefferson Coll of Architecture & Built Environment
Schedule Type: Lecture
ARST 403: Rest & Rehab of Modernst Bldgs
Preservation of modern and mid-century modern buildings and sites is the next frontier within the profession as the significance of this architectural period is recognized and materials with which they were built reach the end of their serviceable lives. Working in track-based teams, students collaborate to determine historical significance and identify character-defining features of a building in the Philadelphia region, assess its condition, and prepare design solutions for adaptive reuse while preserving historic character.
Credits: 3
College: Jefferson Coll of Architecture & Built Environment
Prerequisites: AHST 305 [Min Grade: D]
Schedule Type: Lecture/Lab
ARST 404: Consv Historic Build Interiors
Complementing the Building Conservation course this course provides a comprehensive overview of interior materials used in historic building interiors and the ongoing processes of their material deterioration, contemporary approaches to their treatment, and sustainability concepts of embodied energy and life cycle analysis as these pertain to building conservation. Through site visits, demonstrations, laboratory exercises, guided research, and discussions the course explores investigative techniques specific to historic interiors; diagnosis of existing conditions, including non-destructive and laboratory testing methods; and design of appropriate interventions to remedy observed problems. Students will collect, present, critically review findings and formulate recommendations for conservation and treatment of historic interior materials.
Credits: 3
College: Jefferson Coll of Architecture & Built Environment
Schedule Type: Lecture/Lab
ARST 410: Vernacular Architecture
This elective course provides the groundwork for the study of architecture built without architects or in some other way, unlike the buildings that comprise the standard architectural canon. Scholars estimate that 95 percent of buildings fall into this category. Depending on faculty expertise, focus will be on national and regional traditions, non-Western traditions or a combination of the two. Examples of vernacular architecture will be examined in the context of their materials, building technology, climate and culture.
Credits: 3
College: Jefferson Coll of Architecture & Built Environment
Schedule Type: Lecture
ARST 412: Adaptiv Reuse & Urban Regener
The greenest building is the one already built!ýWorking with a site and community-based client inýthe Philadelphia area, students engage in theýprocess of adaptive reuse of historic buildingsýand the philosophical motives behind reuse, including the tenets of sustainable design and urban regeneration. Through the interplay of history, historical significance, and the constraints of a program for reuse, students develop solutions for buildings to serve a new purpose while still relaying their unique character. Students research a structure, provide a written statement of the philosophical approach to reuse, develop a concept for adaptive reuse and create a final spatial solution.
Credits: 3
College: Jefferson Coll of Architecture & Built Environment
Schedule Type: On-Line, Studio
ARST 434: Water and Architecture
The rich architecture of public water in urban and rural
contexts is a key to the cultural landscape. From the
gravity systems of a Roman city, through the rich world of
medieval water, and concluding with water powered by
outside energy, we will study Western, Arab and Asian
water systems. Through architecture, the course will link
the technology of water cycles, purity, collection and
storage with the aesthetics and rituals of culture
Credits: 3
College: Jefferson Coll of Architecture & Built Environment
Prerequisites: (GDIV 200 or GDIV 201 or GDIV 202 or GDIV 203 or GDIV 204 or GDIV 205 or GDIV 208 or GDIV 210 or GDIV 220 or GDIV 221 or GDIV 223 or GDIV 225 or GDIV 226 or GDIV 227 or GDIV 229 or GDIV 231 or GDIV 233 or GDIV 234 or GDIV 235 or GDIV 236 or GDIV 298) or (GCIT 200 or GCIT 208 or GCIT 210 or GCIT 211 or GCIT 212 or GCIT 214 or GCIT 215 or GCIT 216 or GCIT 217 or GCIT 225 or GCIT 298 or GCIT 398) [Min Grade: D]
Schedule Type: Lecture
ARST 471: Design Theory: Special Topics
This upper-level course is organized to take advantage of
faculty members' expertise and the interests of the
student body. All topics chosen require that students have
completed basic courses in architectural history and
theory, so that this course can focus on (1) an advanced
analysis of theoretical texts in architecture, literary texts
and buildings; and (2) an examination of architecture as a
cultural discipline that seeks to accommodate
contemporary human needs and natural situations.
Credits: 3
College: Jefferson Coll of Architecture & Built Environment
Prerequisites: AHST 306 or LARC 411 [Min Grade: D]
Schedule Type: Lecture