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Syllabus: What do Architects and Urban Planners do?

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Welcome and Introduction

  • Course orientation
  • Meet your classmates

Cities

  • Overview
  • Let’s take a look at cities
  • Exercise: Roles of spatial designers
  • Life in the city
  • Cities that work

Spatial design professionals in the built environment

  • Spatial design professions in the built environment

Scale in the built environment

  • Scale in the built environment
  • Working at different scales

Activity 1: Human behaviour in public places

  • Introduction to activities

Introduction to the Gautrain project

  • Introduction to the Gautrain project

Urban planning: An example

  • What is the problem?
  • Exercise: Urban planning terms and concepts
  • Which spatial strategies were used to fulfil the Gautrain’s intentions?
  • Exercise: Spatial strategies
  • The urban planning process
  • Exercise: The urban planning process
  • Just how successful was the Gautrain project?
  • Exercise: What do urban planners do?

Urban design: An example

  • What is a good city?
  • Exercise: Identifying good and bad urban features
  • Methodology: Constitution Hill
  • Exercise: Constitution Hill
  • Exercise: What do urban designers do?

Landscape architecture: An example

  • Setting
  • Exercise: Science or art
  • Stories
  • Exercise: Types of drawings
  • Spaces
  • Exercise: Organic or geometric
  • Exercise: What do landscape architects do?

Architecture: An example

  • Brief: Constitutional Court
  • Exercise: Brief: Constitutional Court
  • Architectural concept
  • Design process
  • Exercise: Architecture
  • Exercise: What do Architects do?

Interior architecture: An example

  • Introduction
  • Context: 99 Juta St, Braamfontein
  • Revamp Design: 99 Juta St
  • Exercise: Degrees of alteration
  • Dokter and Misses showroom design
  • Conclusion and what’s next
  • Exercise: What do interior architects do?

Activity 2: Spatial experience

Working professionals

  • The team needed to realise a project
  • The skills that spatial designers need
  • Diagram of skills needed

Activity 3: Space and placemaking

Graded assessment

Final exercise: What do architects and urban planners do?

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