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Architecture

- the art and science of designing buildings and other physical structures. A wider definition often includes the design of the total built environment from the macro-level of town planning, urban design, and landscape architecture to the micro-level of construction details and, sometimes, furniture. The term "Architecture" is also used for the profession of providing architectural services.

Architectural design is primarily driven by the creative manipulation of mass, space, volume, texture, light, shadow, materials, program, and pragmatic elements such as cost, construction and technology, in order to achieve an end which is aesthetic, functional and often artistic. This distinguishes architecture from engineering design, which is driven primarily by the creative manipulation of materials and forms using mathematical and scientific principles - Wikipedia.

Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes

MIT (US), OpenCourseware

skills needed to build within a landscape establishing continuities between the built and natural world, learn to build appropriately through analysis of landscape and climate for a chosen site, conceptualize design decisions through drawings and models: Study Materials, Projects
 

CityScope: New Orleans

MIT OpenCourseWare (US)

project-based introduction to the contemporary city, assess scenarios for the purpose of formulating social, economic and design strategies to provide humane and sustainable solutions: readings, course download

Building Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Architecture

Hong Kong University (HK)

case studies, publications: courses (sustainability in built environment, green building principles & practices, energy & environmental systems for green buildings, energy efficiency in buildings, technologies for energy efficient buildings)

Architecture of Cairo

MIT (US), OpenCourseWare

includes extensive & heavily illustrated lecture notes covering Cairo from time of Alexander until 20th century, organized by major historical periods, glossary of terms: readings, related resources

Design Fabrication

MIT (US), OpenCourseWare

introductory course in advanced computing, prototyping & building fabrication, focused on relationship between design, various forms of computer modeling both explicit & generative & physical representation of information using rapid prototyping devices

Drawings & Numbers: Five Centuries of Digital Design

MIT (US), OpenCourseWare

technical aspects of classical tradition in architecture that have so far received only sporadic attention, quantification has always been essential component of classical design but actual technical tools whereby quantitative precision was conceived, represented, transmitted & implemented in pre-modern architecture remain mostly unexplored: readings, instructor's preface

Experiencing Architecture Studio

MIT (US), OpenCourseWare

uses scale models to design environments orchestrating contrasting material properties & conventional constructional systems to create places fostering specific ways of inhabiting space, demonstrates how architecture differs from other forms of design: projects, gallery of student work

Fundamentals of Energy in Buildings

MIT (US), OpenCourseWare

thermo-sciences for students primarily interested in architecture & building technology, fundamentals important to energy, ventilation, air conditioning & comfort in buildings: readings, projects

Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures

MIT (US), OpenCourseWare

introduces history of Islamic cultures, religious architecture that spans 14 centuries & 3 continents, studies representative examples from House of the Prophet to present in conjunction with their social, political & intellectual environments: readings, related resources

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