UW-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning offers on-line architecture courses for high school students.
Arch 100 Architectural Making I for fall semester and Arch 103 Architectural Making II for spring semester aim at laying a foundation for a general understanding of Architecture. Through fundamental principles spanning the education, the profession, the art, the science of Architecture, the student will encounter a broad survey of vocabularies and conceptual processes. Lectures, readings, interactive digital video, examinations, and projects will provide the means of exploration.
- Incorporates several drawing activities during each session
- Involves the conscious use of skill and creative imagination in the production of architectural artifacts and designed objects which stress values of strength, utility, and beauty.
- Lectures and digital videos will introduce the history, theory, and practice of architecture, supplemented by an array of digital video files and course website:
- requiring students to interpret a work of art/design;
- requiring students to evaluate, identify, and analyze artistic expression according to its medium, cultural and historical relevance; and
- requiring students to demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics and essential qualities, techniques, and processes of Visual Art media and disciplines.
- The terminal course project will require the creation of a design – specifically a chair design.
- The course projects will involve students in the practice of 3 specific media – traditional modeling, digital modeling via SketchUP, and freehand drawing/diagramming.
These criteria are met through class lectures, required readings and on-line interactive discussions.
Prior Learning Assessment
The Department of Architecture offers Arch 100 Architectural Making I for fall semester and Arch 103 Architectural Making II for spring semester free of tuition, (with a $290 technology convenience fee) to IL high schools and WI private high schools who can
- field a class of 12 juniors and/or seniors
- or individual students of good standing 3.25 GPA minimum
We highly suggest the high school advisors market the course to those students “keenly” interested in Architecture as a potential career.
The courses will count toward meeting high school graduation requirements as well as earning college credit at School of Architecture & Urban Planning.
Contact Professor Mark Keane with questions about course content.