Next City - Sections A + B

In a rapidly changing world, the field of urban planning is becoming more important than ever. In this course, students will use the urban environment of Seattle as a jumping off point into the world of architecture and urban design. 

Class activities will include field trips to key Seattle sites; traversing the architectural design process from inception to peer review; and analyzing how the design of the buildings and communities affects us every day. The class culminates in a final project where students will collaboratively design and build their own model city incorporating all that they have learned. 

Students will leave this course with a thorough understanding of the fields of architecture and urban planning today, a strong grounding in the principles of design thinking and community-led design processes, and a deeper appreciation of the built environment that they move through in their daily lives.

Section A and Section B have different instructors but cover the same course material.