VABE 1190: Introduction to Architecture I

An Introduction to Architecture is offered to first-year VABE students to create awareness of the profession of architecture. The course looks at: the history of the profession; how architecture is practised; how the profession is changing; current issues with the architectural profession; and ethical concerns facing a practitioner today. The course gives students a broad-based background into architecture before they have an opportunity to be engaged in practice. (Taken at the University of Detroit Mercy.) (Open to Visual Arts and the Built Environment (VABE) students only.)