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project. The Course will expose the of design, and basic concepts of Acquire technical skills in the use
students to drawings and detailing space planning and furniture layout. of GIS software; acquire qualitative
and develop an understanding of Development of design vocabulary methods skills in data and document
drawings for landscape architecture relative to architectural details, gathering, analyzing information, and
and the skill of creating specifications furnishings, and finishes. It will presenting results; and investigate
for landscape projects. introduce terminology that helps the potential and practicality of GIS
clarify and amplify architectural technologies in a typical planning
ARC 584 - Housing and interior design thought and setting and evaluate possible
Credit Hours: 3 introduce students to careers in applications.
Prerequisite: ARC 360 interior design.
Management
Concepts of housing policies, Computer Application
developments and design. Site ARC 586 Architectural
considerations and computations for ARC 582 - 3D Modeling Conservation
accomplishing residential housing Credit Hours: 3
development projects. Real estate Credit Hours: 3 (1 lecture + 4 studio) Prerequisite: ARC 260
Prerequisite: ARC 280
development process. Site evaluation
considerations include those relating This course is designed to teach an History of the conservation
to boundary surveys, topographic advanced level of 3D modeling and movement, international and
evaluation, soil analysis, traffic animation for architects. Emphasis local conservation programs,
evaluation, hydrographic analysis, will be placed on building 3D world regulatory instruments, methods
plus environmental, aesthetic, and space representing various aspects and techniques. Case studies.
cultural considerations. of the built environment. It will allow Conservation experience in UAE. This
students to build upon concepts such class examines the history and theory
ARC 585 - Islamic as complex geometries, light effects, of historic conservation, focusing
Architecture materials, camera settings, physical on the UAE, but with reference to
Credit Hours: 3 motion, and modeling techniques, traditions and practices in other
Prerequisite: ARC 220 rendering, and post production. countries, and explore how laws,
public policies and cultural attitudes
This course is an exploration of ARC 583 - Building Information shape how we preserve or do not
the history of Islamic cultures Modeling preserve the built environment.
through their most vibrant creation:
architecture. The course explores Credit Hours: 3 (1 lecture + 4 studio) ARC 587 - Project
Islamic architecture both as a Prerequisite: ARC 280 Management
historical tradition and as a cultural This course explores Building Credit Hours: 3
catalyst that influenced and was Information Modeling (BIM) Prerequisite: ARC 340
influenced by the civilizations with programs from Preliminary Design
which it came in contact. It surveys through Design Development, and Theories, methods and quantitative
the sacred, commemorative, pious, into Construction Documents. It tools used to effectively plan,
and educational architecture in the focuses on streamlining the design organize, and control construction
Islamic world from the beginning process with a central 3D model. projects; efficient management
of Islam as a religious revolution in methods revealed through practice
7th-century Arabia to its evolution ARC 591 - Geographical and research; hands-on, practical
as a global power straddling three Information Systems project management knowledge
continents, Asia, Africa, and Europe, Credit Hours: 3 (1 lecture + 4 studio from on-site situations and field trips.
in the medieval period to a world Prerequisite: ARC 280
religion professed by one-sixth of
humanity in the present. Develop a solid understanding of the
planning and public management
ARC 588 - Interior Architecture uses of geographic information
Credit Hours: 3 systems (GIS). The development and
Prerequisites: ARC 210 history of GIS, present applications of
the technology. Essential elements
This course is an introduction to of a Geographic Information System.
architectural and interior design Basic concepts and principles of
concepts, elements and principles Geographic Information Systems.

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