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INTD 1A. History of Architecture: Prehistory to 1800. 3 Units
General Education Area/Graduation Requirement: Arts (3-A)
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
A survey of global architecture and the built environment from prehistory through the end of the 18th century, viewed through its narratives, theories, representations, and formal qualities. Emphasis on architecture's social, cultural, economic and political contexts. Introduction to basic methods of architectural analysis, using context, typology, poetics, structure, technology, materiality, zeitgeist, economics, tectonics, and creativity.
Cross Listed: ARCH/INTD 1A; only one may be counted for credit.
INTD 1B. History of Architecture: 1800 to Today. 3 Units
General Education Area/Graduation Requirement: Arts (3-A)
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
A survey of global architecture and the built environment from 1800 to today, viewed through its narratives, theories, representations, and formal qualities. Emphasis on architecture's social, cultural, economic and political contexts. Introduction to basic methods of architectural analysis, using context, typology, poetics, structure, technology, materiality, zeitgeist, economics, tectonics, and creativity.
Cross Listed: ARCH/INTD 1B; only one may be taken for credit.
INTD 15. Introduction to Interior Design. 3 Units
General Education Area/Graduation Requirement: Arts (3-A)
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Introduction to the field of interior design. Consideration of human factors, aesthetics, design process, furnishings, surface treatments, and current issues. Lecture, discussions, field trips, two hours.
Field trip(s) may be required.
INTD 20. Design. 3 Units
General Education Area/Graduation Requirement: Arts (3-A)
Term Typically Offered: Spring only
Examination of the visual arts as expressed in architecture and interiors, community planning, painting and sculpture, furniture, ceramics, graphics, photography, clothing, and industrial design. Lecture, discussion.
INTD 25. Design Fundamentals. 3 Units
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Introduction to designing interior spaces. Emphasis on the manipulation and understanding of two- and three-dimensional elements of interior spatial design. Fundamentals of visual communication strategies. Studio activity six hours.
INTD 27. Architectural Design Fundamentals. 3 Units
Prerequisite(s): INTD 25 Fee course.
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Introduction to the planning and designing of interior spaces related to residential and commercial projects. Emphasizes understanding and applying programmatic relationships and spatial problem-solving processes to multiple small-scale multilevel design problems. Focuses on the programmatic and schematic design phases. Introduction to architectural drafting concepts, including architectural scale, drawing conventions, and orthographic view creation. Introduction to iterative design work processes and subsequent architectural design development and communication.
Crosslisted: ARCH 11.
Fee course.
INTD 30. Beginning AutoCAD and SketchUp. 2 Units
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Introductory computer-aided design (CAD) course. Focuses on using AutoCAD and SketchUp software for orthographic drawing development and three-dimensional models of buildings. Emphasis on CAD vocabulary, digital drawing/modeling conventions, and techniques. Provides practice constructing digital two-dimensional orthographic drawings and three-dimensional models of architectural projects.
Crosslisted: ARCH 33.
INTD 36. Beginning Revit. 2 Units
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Introduction to Building Information Modeling (BIM) concepts and modeling techniques using Autodesk Revit. Introductory course on the basic methodology of parametric systems. Covers the fundamental principles of BIM modeling workflow. Emphasis on project setup, project modeling, view setups, and sheet layouts.
INTD 110A. Intermediate Interior Architecture Design Studio - Residential. 4 Units
Prerequisite(s): INTD 25, INTD 27, INTD 30, INTD 36
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Intermediate interior-focused design studio exploring issues, ideas, and methods of making and thinking in single-family and multi-family residential architecture. Examines the functional and aesthetic elements and considerations for residential environments. Emphasis on designing integrated solutions that explore form, space, tectonics, materials, and building systems and sustainability. Provides experience in schematic concept formation, iterative design work processes, and subsequent architectural design development and communication. Project descriptions are provided before registration. Course requires one or more field trips.
Field trip(s) may be required.
INTD 110B. Intermediate Interior Architecture Design Studio - Commercial. 4 Units
Prerequisite(s): INTD 25, INTD 27, INTD 30, INTD 36
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Intermediate interior-focused design studio exploring issues, ideas, and methods of making and thinking in commercial and public-sector projects. Emphasis on designing integrated solutions that explore form, space, tectonics, materials, and building systems and sustainability. Provides experience in schematic concept formation, iterative design work processes, and subsequent architectural design development and communication. Project descriptions are provided before registration. One or more field trips are required.
Field trip(s) may be required.
INTD 110C. Intermediate Interior Architecture Studio ¿ Hospitality. 4 Units
Prerequisite(s): (INTD 25 OR ARCH 10) and (INTD 27 OR ARCH 11 OR ARCH 11A) and (INTD 153 OR ARCH 11B) and (INTD 30 OR ARCH 33) and (INTD 161 OR ARCH 36); Grade C or better in each prerequisite course taken
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Intermediate interior-focused design studio exploring issues, ideas, and methods of making and thinking in tenant improvement hospitality projects. Emphasis on designing integrated solutions that explore form, space, tectonics, materials, and building systems and sustainability. Provides experience in schematic concept formation, iterative design work processes, and subsequent architectural design development and communication. Project descriptions are provided before registration. One or more field trips may be required.
Field trip(s) may be required.
INTD 124A. American Design. 3 Units
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Survey of high-style and vernacular buildings, interiors, and decorative arts from the 17th century to the beginning of World War I. Analyzes European, Asian, Hispanic/Latino/Chicano and other background sources of inspiration and influence. Lecture-discussion.
INTD 124D. Principles of House Design. 3 Units
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Introduction to some of the major architectural movements of the 20th Century; discussion of environmental concerns as they relate to house design; study of basic principles in planning a house. Lecture, discussion, field trip.
Field trip(s) may be required.
INTD 124E. Film/Design. 3 Units
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Students will explore design approaches that give films a feeling of suspense, create a sense of place, or establish a period in time. This course will increase student awareness of space in filmmaking, and demonstrate that spatial organization plays a key role in the aesthetic success of a motion picture.
INTD 124F. Avant Garde Cinema. 3 Units
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 97 or PHOT 102.
Term Typically Offered: Spring only
Survey of experimental film from the beginning of the cinema in the 1890s through today's' avant garde. Emphasis filmmaking as a means of personal, artistic expression, and will pay particular attention to those aspects of cinema that are typically ignored or marginalized in mainstream Hollywood movies. Films studied include those by: Melies, Porter, Richter, Leger, Cornell, Deren, Brackhage, Jacobs and Gehr.
Cross listed: FILM 124F.
INTD 125. Urban Design and Society. 3 Units
General Education Area/Graduation Requirement: Social and Behavioral Sciences (4-A)
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
A history of urban design from Ancient Greece through today. The course will look at the conceptualizing, planning and development of cities through two distinct lenses: one focusing on visual and physical qualities, the other on how urban planning has been used to promote social/economic policy, political ideologies and institutions. Lecture, discussion. 3 units . GE Area D.
INTD 153. Interior Design Studio I. 3 Units
Prerequisite(s): Grade "C" or better in each of the following courses: INTD 25, INTD 30, GPHD 10, GPHD 25, PHOT 11
Corequisite(s): INTD 151 and either INTD 155 or INTD 165
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Introductory studio course with emphasis on understanding functional and formal elements of architectural interiors. Students will communicate designs through two- and three dimensional drawings and models. Studio activity six hours.
INTD 155. Professional Practice I. 3 Units
Prerequisite(s): INTD 15 and INTD 30.
Term Typically Offered: Fall only
Study of the concepts and the analysis of technical and aesthetic applications of lighting design in both residential and commercial interiors. Lecture, discussion, field trips.
Field trip(s) may be required.
INTD 157. Interior Materials, Finishes, Products, and Systems. 3 Units
Prerequisite(s): ARCH 85 or INTD 15.
Term Typically Offered: Spring only
Study of selection, care, and use of furniture, finishes, materials, and components of residential and contract interior architecture. Additional topics include ceiling systems, custom millwork design, and the impact of material properties on selection criteria. Includes lectures and field trips.
Field trip(s) may be required.
INTD 175. Professional Practice III. 3 Units
Prerequisite(s): Grade "C" or better in each of the following courses: INTD 161, INTD 163 and INTD 165.
Term Typically Offered: Fall only
Study of the professional role of the interior designer in relation to that of the client, contractor and consultants. Legal and ethical issues are explored. Building codes, life-safety codes and ADA requirements are studied with emphasis on permit and plan-check requirements. Preparation for the NCIDQ exam and certification procedures are covered.
INTD 180. Capstone Interior Architecture Studio. 5 Units
Prerequisite(s): INTD 110A and INTD 110B with Grade "C" or better. Fee course
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Capstone design studio where given complex interior architectural problems, students explore issues, ideas, and methods of making and thinking in interior architecture. Continued emphasis is on designing integrated solutions that explore form, space, tectonics, materials, building systems, and sustainability. Projects completed with assistance from instructor, client, and working professionals.
Fee course.
INTD 181. Interior Architecture Portfolio. 1 Unit
Prerequisite(s): INTD 171, INTD 173 and either INTD 175 or INTD 195.
Corequisite(s): INTD 183 and either INTD 175 or INTD 195. Fee course.
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Interdisciplinary approach to prepare students for professional practice in the field of Interior Design. Student will be expected to complete a comprehensive portfolio of work.
Note: $22 for printing and lab technician
Fee course.
INTD 185. Pro Practice - Career Preparation. 3 Units
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Professional practice course supporting students in the development of their professional architectural portfolio, resume, and self-marketing tools. Required guest lectures, professional networking, and career guidance events with oral, written, and verbal self-reflection activities. Open to Interior Architecture majors only.
INTD 186. Special Topics in Contemporary Interior Architecture Practice. 5 Units
Prerequisite(s): Grade "C" or better in each of the following courses: Any INTD 110 class.
Term Typically Offered: Fall only
This studio-based course explores innovative concepts, techniques and practices in contemporary interior design and interior architecture. Emphasis will be on intermediate-to-advanced understandings of the social, cultural, and spatial contexts of these practices, including research and design expression across all facets and scales of a project. Topics will be announced prior to the scheduling of the class. Projects will be completed with assistance from instructor, client, and working professionals. One or more field trips may be required.
Field trip(s) may be required.
INTD 195. Professional Practice IV-Internship. 3 Units
Prerequisite(s): Grade "C" or better in each of the following courses: INTD 161, INTD 163, INTD 165.
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Direct work experience in approved architecture, design, corporate, private or government office. Supervision is provided by both the instructional staff and the cooperating agency.
Credit/No Credit
INTD 196. INTD 196- Professional Preparation. 3 Units
Prerequisite(s): Grade "C" or better in INTD 161, INTD 163.
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
resume, and self-marketing tools. Required guest lectures, professional networking, and career guidance events with written and verbal self-reflection activities. Open to Interior Architecture majors only.
INTD 196J. Japan Travel Design Studio. 3 Units
Term Typically Offered: Summer only
Faculty-led study abroad course to Japan. Students will visit a wide variety of historic and contemporary cultural sites while traveling in the country. Course research and presentations will interrogate the global influence of Japanese design and architecture on the world through exploration of a variety of design methods and processes. Field Trip(s) maybe be required.
Field trip(s) may be required.
INTD 199. Special Problems. 1 - 3 Units
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Individual projects or directed reading.
Note: Departmental petition required.
Credit/No Credit
INTD 295. Field Study. 1 - 3 Units
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate major or minor in Interior Design, individual arrangement with instructor.
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Guided study, observation or work experience in an area in which the graduate student needs advanced and specialized study.
Credit/No Credit