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ARCH 171Theories and Technologies of Building

Faculty
Engineering
Offered
Fall
Credit
0.5
Last listed
1994–95

No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1986–87 to 1994–95; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.

Introduction to applications of technology in the design and construction of buildings. Organized as a series of case studies concentrating on the last three centuries, it addresses, among other themes, the emergence of new structural methods and materials, the evolution of environmental control, the rationalization of building assembly, and the invention of the modern urban infrastructure.

As printed in the 1986–87 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.

Requirements, as last listed

Prereq: Consent of instructor

Check it elsewhere

In the scanned calendars

How it read in each calendar from 1986–87 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.

1986–87 to 1994–95 9 calendars

Introduction to applications of technology in the design and construction of buildings. Organized as a series of case studies concentrating on the last three centuries, it addresses, among other themes, the emergence of new structural methods and materials, the evolution of environmental control, the rationalization of building assembly, and the invention of the modern urban infrastructure.

Prereq: Consent of instructor

Offered Fall · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit