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    This course syllabus describes a building systems and materials course offered in the fall 2016 semester. The course is divided into two parts, with the first part focusing on traditional building materials like stone, brick, terra cotta, and wood. It explores the sourcing, production, identification and properties of these materials. The second part of the course surveys historic building systems and approaches the building as an assembly of materials and elements. It deals with emerging 19th century building technologies like steel framing and their exterior cladding. The syllabus provides the course description, readings, assignments including exams, grades breakdown, and a weekly schedule of topics and field trips led by different faculty members.

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    This course syllabus describes a building systems and materials course offered in the fall 2016 semester. The course is divided into two parts, with the first part focusing on traditional building materials like stone, brick, terra cotta, and wood. It explores the sourcing, production, identification and properties of these materials. The second part of the course surveys historic building systems and approaches the building as an assembly of materials and elements. It deals with emerging 19th century building technologies like steel framing and their exterior cladding. The syllabus provides the course description, readings, assignments including exams, grades breakdown, and a weekly schedule of topics and field trips led by different faculty members.

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    This course syllabus describes a building systems and materials course offered in the fall 2016 semester. The course is divided into two parts, with the first part focusing on traditional building materials like stone, brick, terra cotta, and wood. It explores the sourcing, production, identification and properties of these materials. The second part of the course surveys historic building systems and approaches the building as an assembly of materials and elements. It deals with emerging 19th century building technologies like steel framing and their exterior cladding. The syllabus provides the course description, readings, assignments including exams, grades breakdown, and a weekly schedule of topics and field trips led by different faculty members.

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    ARCH A4124 Building Systems & Materials Fall 2016 655 Schermerhorn Extension 2-6
    Wednesdays George Wheeler, Norman Weiss, Dan Allen, Richard Pieper, Donald
    Friedman, Chris Gembinski & Michael Devonshire

    Description
    This course surveys historic building systems and materials. The first part focuses on traditional building
    materials such as stone, brick, terra cotta, metal, concrete, cast stone, mortar, and wood and explores sourcing
    and production of the materials, identification, use in the fabrication of architectural elements, basic properties
    that limit or allow their use and performance as architectural materials. This part of the course also serves as
    the foundation for most of the subsequent material-based conservation courses such as: 1. Architectural
    Metals, 2. Concrete, Cast Stone & Mortar, 3. Brick, Terra Cotta & Stone, and 4. Wood: It’s Properties, Use &
    Conservation.
    The second part of the semester surveys historic building systems and approaches the building not from its
    constituent materials and their properties but as an assembly of particular materials & building elements. It
    studies the design, detailing and material together to understand how materials interact and to assess their
    collective performance. It deals with building technologies as they began to emerge by the middle of the 19th
    century with steel or concrete structural framing systems and their exterior cladding of brick, terra cotta, and
    stone, glass and metal curtain wall systems, and, pre-cast concrete and stone panels.

    Readings & Assignments


    Readings and Assignments are posted in Assignments.

    Grades

    Attendance & class participation 20%


    Assignments 30%
    Examinations 50%
    Schedule

    7 September

    1. Introduction to First Half of Course AND Field Trip - FACULTY TEAM


    14 September

    2. Stone: extraction, production & historical use; properties & identification AND Field Trip - WHEELER
    21 September

    3. Brick & Terra Cotta: raw materials & production; Brick: properties, historical use, classification, bond -
    WEISS
    28 September

    4. Terra Cotta: properties & historical use AND Field Trip - WEISS/ALLEN; Lime, Gypsum & Cement: raw
    materials and production - WEISS
    5 October
    5. Concrete, Mortar & Plaster: production & historical use; properties & performance AND Field Trip -
    WEISS
    12 October

    6. Metals: properties, performance & historical use; raw materials, production & identification -
    PIEPER

    14 October (Friday)
    7. Field Trip for Metals - PIEPER

    19 October
    8. Wood: extraction, production & historical use; properties performance & identification - CHILDS
    26 October

    9. IN CLASS MIDTERM EXAMINATION; Introduction to Second Half of Course AND Field Trip -
    FRIEDMAN

    2 November

    NO CLASS APT CONFERENCE IN SAN ANTONIO


    9 November

    10. Foundations - DEVONSHIRE; Floors - FRIEDMAN


    16 November
    11. Wall Systems and Roofing Systems -DEVONSHIRE

    23 November (2-4 pm only)


    12. Windows & Doors - GEMBINSKI

    30 November

    13. Wood Frame Construction - CHILDS; Steel Frame Construction and Concrete Frame Construction -
    FRIEDMAN

    7 December
    14. Masonry Cladding and Curtain Wall - GEMBINSKI

    9 December

    15. IN CLASS FINAL EXAMINATION

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