Instructor(s)
Prof. Marilyne Andersen
MIT Course Number
4.401
As Taught In
Spring 2006
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
The course aims at providing a fundamental understanding of the physics related to buildings and to propose an overview of the various issues that have to be adequately combined to offer the occupants a physical, functional and psychological well-being. Students will be guided through the different components, constraints and systems of a work of architecture. These will be examined both independently and in the manner in which they interact and affect one another.
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