El caso del Programa de Asistencia Subsidiada para el Mejoramiento de la Calidad de la Lana (PROLANA)

Note: required courses are open to all departmental students of other programs or academic years as an elective with permission of program director and instructor

FIRST YEAR

PGLT 5002 LIGHTING STUDIO II

Explore larger and more challenging architectural spaces and exterior areas, as well as light and emotions.

Exercises include reaching beyond architectural lighting and expanding design vision by learning from other media. Possible techniques include computer visualizations and the design of performance pieces and analysis of movies. This experience is linked to theatrical opportunities in architectural lighting, such as the design of restaurants, clubs, galleries, museums, showrooms, stores and hospitality spaces. Designs are rigorously backed up with calculations, documentation and presentation drawings. Learn lighting techniques using computer-aided calculation and representation, including modeling programs that calculate and present luminance (such as AGI 32 and Lumen Micro™).

6 CR

PGLT 5135 LIGHTING DESIGN & ARTISTIC PRA Please see department for course description 3 CR

PGLT 5143 DAYLIGHT & SUSTAINABILITY

Daylighting and Sustainability is a companion lecture course to Studio II, educating designers in the observation, analysis, description, manipulation, and evaluation of daylight, as well as its effect on the quality of interior spaces. Topics include solar motion and prediction methods; calculations; the interaction of daylighting with building orientation, interior finishes, window configuration and control devices, including interior and exterior shading. The impact of light and electric generation is a critical element in the discussion of sustainable architecture.

3 CR

PGLT 5146 THEORETICAL, HISTORICAL & SOCIOLOGICAL INFLUENCES OF LIGHT

Theoretical, Historical & Sociological Influences of Light explores historical relationships between social practice and light. A multi-cultural survey focuses on the early impact of light in people’s lives and their relationship to the built-environment. Particular attention is given to the evolution of aesthetic, religious, philosophical, and psychological theories in regard to light over time and within diverse cultures. The development of electric lighting produced an extraordinary change in social practice and its global effect on economics, leisure activity, and design are studied and serve as a basis for students to speculate on future technologies (LED) and possibilities.

3 CR

SECOND YEAR

PGLT 5004 LIGHTING STUDIO IV - THESIS STUDIO

The Thesis Studio completes the studio experience. It is supported by a thesis seminar during which students learn research methodologies directed toward a written thesis of their choosing. The studio offers a range of typological projects from which the student chooses in order to develop related design research.

Projects are fully developed in the final studio with all associated research, documentation, drawing, and developmental models, allowing the individual to experience the progress of an architectural lighting project from start to finish, mentored by the studio instructors and outside guest critics, within the structure and schedule of the studio. Lighting students can also collaborate with graduate architecture or interior design students and faculty.

7 CR

PGLT 5125 PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

Professional Practice is the culminating lecture course of the master’s curriculum and explores the business and professional aspects of the lighting design field. Subjects include ethics, project management, business structures for design offices, legal issues, contracts, fees, codes, specifications, and construction

administration protocols. The transition from theory to practice is facilitated by the integration of an advanced

lighting knowledge with in varying design industry fields and exploration of marketing issues and individual communication through portfolio preparation and invited critic review.

3 CR

PGLT 5126 THESIS SEMINAR

This seminar course allows graduate students the opportunity to engage in lighting research in a seminar setting on a topic set forth by the faculty. In particular, distinct methodologies of lighting research and exploration are discussed and engaged around a shared focus. While the topic of discussion ranges from urban issues to specific details, the rigorous level of engagement sets the precedent for establishing methods of individualized work to be completed during the spring semester Thesis Studio.

3 CR

DEPARTMENTAL ELECTIVES (limited enrollment )

Note: open to all other majors with the permission of the department only.

PGAR 5625 ADVANCED DIGITAL II

This advanced course focuses on presenting projects with digital media. In particular 3-D Studio Max and Vis will be explored in terms of both the technicalities of the software and its potential for representing architecture and site.

3 CR

PGAR 5584 THE ANARCHIC FUTURE OF ARCHITECTURE?

Where does architecture stand within a society of the artificial? This seminar examines some challenges posed by emerging urban conditions: ubiquitous artificiality, the end of cities as we have traditionally known them; the dangers of technological desolation, and the requirement to deal with the problems of

sustainability.

3CR

PGAR 5680 ARCHITECTURE & SOCIAL PRACTICE II

Using modes of analysis and research, students in this course will focus on historical and theoretical issues relating to the designed world in relation to social behavior and is directed toward students in interior design and architecture. This course does not require having taken Architecture & Social Practice I, the content of this course changes each academic year.

3 CR

PUID 4054 CASE STUDIES: FL WRIGHT

Frank Lloyd Wright (1864 – 1959) remains an iconic cultural figure firmly entrenched in the pantheon of extraordinary world historical figures. This course will investigate the evolution of Wright’s life as a designer within the context of his historical moment while exploring the meaning and potential of his “organic”

philosophy as a navigational device for the contemporary designer.

PGLT 5141 DESIGNING FOR THE ABSENCE AND PRESENCE OF LIGHT: A CULTURAL HISTORY This course presents a broad cultural array of domestic, ceremonial, and commercial lighting and shading traditions of Native America, India, Japan, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. Focusing on the design of the quality and quantity of light and shadow for symbolic, emotional, poetic and utilitarian purpose, the course covers the impact on the shape and organization of the world’s architecture, the development of the world’s art, and the advancement of societies. Creative relationships between architecture and illumination, light and shadow, symbol and technology from various world cultures will be analyzed. Students will be expected to develop an understanding of fundamental standards, forms, aesthetics, and vocabulary for use in critical discourse and develop the ability to interpret, describe, and use historic and symbiotic relationships in their own designs.

3 CR

PUID 3051 DESIGNING FOR DOMESTICITY & THE RESIDENCE

This seminar focuses on professional issues related to realizing a residential design project. The program includes class exercises, research, lectures, and site visits for hands-on workshops with trades related to the practice of interior design. Priority to Interior Design

3 CR

PUAD 2513 ECOMORPH/CYBERMORPH: DESIGN, ECOLOGY & COMPUTERS

What are the points of contact, overlap and divergence between the logics of design, ecology, and computers? This class is an exploratory effort to answer this question from the point of view of practicing

designers, scientists, and computer experts. Specific design projects in architecture, interior design, lighting, product and computer design, as well as theoretical papers, will form the ground for our investigation. All participants will engage in applying what they are learning. The results of the seminar will be made available via the internet.

3 CR

PGAR 5615 FURNITURE, DETAIL & SPACE

The premise of this class is that architects and designers design furniture from a specific point of view that can be traced back and explained by their built projects. The objective of this class is to investigate this relationship by analyzing a short list of architects and designers, each through a pair of works, consisting of one furniture piece and a space or building. The analysis should reveal the essence of the designer's attitude towards issues like detail, innovation, tradition, technology, production and politics.

3 CR

PGAR 5603 GLOBAL / LOCAL

This course will examine contemporary debates about globalization and their consequences for the practice of Architecture. The rhetoric for thinking about architecture as an instrument of globalization comes from a variety of sources: from neo-liberal free-trade economics, from the commercial interests of global brands (eg

“McWorld”), from the world-wide spread of technological innovations, from the recognition of the cultural effects of mobility and communication, even from the environmental movement’s stress on planetary effects, such as greenhouse gases. On the other hand, architecture is often identified with the production and protection of locality. In this conception, architecture enables the mediation of local physical and cultural contexts, resists the homogenizing forces of global “techno-capitalism”, emphasizes “place” over “space”, and empowers the “ground up” politics of local subjects. In seminar format, the course will examine some of the modalities by which architects currently address the tensions between “thinking globally” and “acting locally.”

3 CR

PGLT 5140 LANDSCAPE AND URBAN LIGHT

This course investigates the phenomenological and material role of light in both the landscape and urbanscape and is taught by lighting and landscape architecture faculty. The course introduces students (with nominal previous course work in urban issues and design) into landscape theory, history, and practice with an emphasis on the physiological and perceptual effects of light as the determinants of understanding these scapes.

3 CR

PGAR 5595 SET DESIGN & PERFORMANCE STUDIES II

This course is a practical and theoretical introduction to designing for the stage and will be an elective open to students from many programs and departments at Parsons. The class will investigate scenic design through engaging in the design process and by contextualizing the design work with lectures in key moments in theater history. The focus is on the contemporary moment, but will trace how historic forms of theatrical and scenic architecture have given rise to ideas that persist in current theater aesthetics and performance practice. The class combines design projects, readings, lectures, DVD/video viewings of significant contemporary and historic productions, on-site backstage tours, and field trips to theater

productions. Students are encouraged from Architecture, Interior Design, IDC, Lighting Design, and Product Design as well as from other Divisions, (Mannes & The Actors’ Studio)

3 CR

PGLT 5900 INDEPENDENT STUDY

Please see department for course description 1 to 3 CR