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SFIA Class Catalog


For current semester classes: Current Class Schedule.

Most classes listed below are presented over a three-year period

at our school in Berkeley.

Many of the most important classes are repeated every

second or third semester.

Also see the complete Distance Learning Course Lists,

Architecture Distance Learning,

Ecological Design Distance Learning,

Master of Science in Green Building,

Project Management and

Master of Business Administration in Sustainability.



5- to 6-unit design studios

DESIGN PROCESS STUDIOS
D-1         Nature-Based Design Process
D-2         User-Centered Design Process
D-3         Reinventing Architecture
D-33       Visionary Design & Media

DE-77     Indigenous Design
DE-111   Eco Village Design
DE-120   Advanced Design Studio: The Autonomous Building
DE-200   Frank Lloyd Wright & Ecological Design Studio
DE-300   Ecological Interior Design Studio
DE-310   Evolutionary Architecture: Design with Nature
DE-320   Nature-Based Design for Disaster
DE-350   Biomimicry & Nature-Based Design


3- unit classes

DESIGN THEORY & PRACTICE
D-4         Creative Problem Solving & Design
D-7         Case Studies in Organic Architecture & Eco Design

D-21       Math & Geometry for Creative Design
D-26       Problem Seeking: Designing Buildings That Work
D-51       FutureTecture

HISTORY OF DESIGN PROCESS
D-6.1      History of Architecture 1
D-6.2      History of Architecture 2
D-8         History of American Organic Architecture
D-10       Frank Lloyd Wright's 12 Principles of Eco Design
D-70       Egyptian Architecture
D-80       Buddhist Architecture

GRAPHICS & PRESENTATION
C-1/C-2  CAD AutoCad
C-11       CAD VectorWorks
C-22       CAD SketchUp

D-12       Graphic Design with PhotoShop & Illustrator
D-13       Freehand Drawing
D-14       Perspective Drawing & Rendering
D-15       Building Planning & Drafting
D-16/19  Model building
D-18       Drawing from Nature

ARCHITECTURAL PLANNING
D-34       Clientology & Pattern Language
D-39       Architecture & Human Behavior

GREEN BUILDING &
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

(Also see DE studio classes under Design Process Studios above.)
E-1         Environmental Engineering
E-9         LEED & Other Green Building Certifications
E-10       Ecological Design Consulting

E-31       Site & Sun/Uncovering the Secrets of the Land
E-35       Exterior & Interior Plantscaping
E-45       Green Cities & Eco Villages: Urban Ecology
E-50       Everything Eco: Green Building
E-51       Bucky Fuller & the Future of Architecture

E-75       Living Roofs/Green Walls Design & Construction
E-77       Ecological Landscape Architecture
E-80       Greenhouse & Daylighting Design & Construction

E-100.1  Green Building: Materials & Construction
E-100.2  Green Building: Energy & Environment
E-110     Passive Solar Heat, Hot Water & HVAC
E-115     Design with Climate: Bioclimatic Architecture
E-120     Sick, Toxic & Healthy Buildings
E-140     Wind Energy
E-144     Bamboo Design & Construction
E-150     Solar Energy
E-160     Earth Design & Construction
E-170     Strawbale Design & Construction
E-180     Greywater, Rainwater & Living Machines
E-183     Permaculture & Bioremediation
E-185     Wetland Reclamation

E-250     Eco Retrofit Design & Construction
E-600     The Green Building Revolution Speaker Series

DESIGN PRACTICE MANAGEMENT
P-1         Practice Management
P-2         Project Management
P-5         Real Estate Development

TECHNOLOGY: ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION
ST-1       Structural Engineering
ST-2       Applied Structural Engineering

T-1.1      Construction Methods & Materials
T-1.2      How Materials & Buildings Fail
T-10       Working Drawings
T-20       Timber Frame Construction
TE-3       Hands-on Eco Building Construction Workshop

 

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