Japan

The ENV Interdisciplinary Summer Japan Studio is proposed as a team-taught collaboration of courses open to students of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban and Regional Planning.

-ARC 4031/a (4/1) Topics in ARC Design taught by Professor Irma Ramirez (ARC)
-LA 4990 (3) Special Topics taught by Lecturer Ernesto Perez (LA)

The classes are supported by a 3-week faculty-led site visit to Japan. Cities to be visited: Tokyo, Kyoto, Naoshima, and Osaka. The class project will an urban design proposal for an urban district to include housing, retail, landscape and transportation strategies. Students work in multi-disciplinary teams supported by faculty lectures; visits to the study area and local related firms; readings and writing assignments. Learning outcomes: Students will understand the importance of interdisciplinary practice; will execute a collaborative urban design project; will understand ethical values, human diversity and cultural traditions of host country through self-reflect; execute urban design plan by considering issues of development and urban form in the context of Japan modern context. The College of ENV strategic plan describes Interdisciplinary education as a college goal.