Course Title: DSIT 80 Current Issue in Interior Design
Course Section: 01 ; Units: 3 units, 16 hours per week.
Prerequisites: ARTH 72A, ARTH 70B or concurrently
Recommend Text:
John Pile, A History of Interior Design, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2000, ISBN:0-471-35666-2
Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan, the Monacelli Press, Dec. 1997, ISBN: 1885254008
Friedrich J. Kiseler, Endless Space, Hatije Cantz publishers, August 2001, ISBN 3775710477
Course Description:
An International survey of furniture, interior architectural spaces and architectural buildings from the late nineteenth century to the present. Emphasis will be placed on various designers that had made significant contributions in the design field.
Student Learning Objectives:
Students will become acquainted with the works of prominent architects, interior designers, and furniture designers and will observe how these designers from different domains influence each other in their works; will study the interaction between human psychology and the design of interior architectural spaces; will learn about the role that culture plays in design; will explore new thinking in the design of interior architectural space and the future of design.
Evaluation:
Course content will be introduced through formal lectures, field trips, quizzes, papers and research projects.
Students are required to attend minimum 2 guest lectures or workshops outside class time in this course.
Students need to participate actively in classroom critiques, discussions and activities. FIELD TRIPS will be announced a week before.
You will not receive a grade if you were not present for the critique including group project. You need to arrive on time for all presentations; a student who is late will not be given a chance to present unless he/she has an emergency and can provide a formal doctor excuse to substantiate the emergency.
All projects are due at the designated date and time. Late project will not be accepted
Assignments/ Exams:
#1 Project / Paper GROUP PROJECT- Create a story board and printed in a booklet format to hand in and summarize your findings.
Power-point presentation format need to summarized into bullet point to present your findings. All work need to save in a CD to hand in to your professor SEAH
#2 2 Journals
Students require to submit a weekly e-JOURNALS from any listed websites below. Please save a copy in a USB drive and bring it alog to lised presentation day.
e-JOURNALS Requirements:
Powerpoint or PDF format
Journal source
Supporting images
Describes in bullet points the findings of the journals
What is the essence of this journals and what inspires you
Name your e-journals as your last name such as SEAH.e-journal1.pptx
* Note: Content as well as layout will be graded the same weight.
Grading Criteria:
In-Class participation + Quizzes 25%
Weekly E-journals findings 25%
Projects | 50%
TOTAL 100%
NOTES:
1. Cheating and plagiarism will not be tolerated. Any such incident will result in failure and will be reported to the University and will be placed in your Permanent Record.
2. No food is allowed, however, drinks are allowed.
3. Cell phones should be set to vibrate mode.
University Policies
A. Academic Integrity Statement
“Your own commitment to learning, as evidenced by your enrollment at San Jose State University and the University’s Integrity Policy, require you to be honest in all your academic course work. Faculty members are required to report all infractions to the Office of Judicial Affairs.” The policy on academic integrity can be found at:
B. Campus policy in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act
“If you need course adaptations or accommodations because of a disability, or if you need special arrangements in case the building must be evacuated, please make an appointment with me as soon as possible, or see me during office hours. Presidential Directive 97-03 requires that students with disabilities register with the DRC to establish a record of their disability.”
Lab Fees
Covers scanned textbook and lecture materials prepared for students in electronic format in replace for textbook
Course Sequence: The course outline may be change depending on the phase of the class.
Week 1 | 06/08 – 6/10
06/08 |
Overview of the course outline
06/10 | Lecture
What is Interior Architecture + interior Design?
What can you do with the degree?
What is NCIDQ?
How to prepare for the exam?
What is Practice Act + Title Act?
Week 2 | 06/15 - 06/17
06/15 Lecture
Design + Culture
How economics, society, technology changes affect today’s Interior design & Architecture field
Overview of Architecture & Interior Design Era
What is “Hot “in current interior & Architecture? After Modern What is next? Current trends and design directions and future projections.
The pioneers in different design movement.
Issue GROUP project
06/17 | e-journal Presentation 1
Week 3 | 06/22 - 06/24
06/22 Lecture
Generation Gap
Who are the Generation Y / Millennial?
How does Technology affect the future?
What can we do to improve the work environment for these new workers in the future?
06/24 | dsIT 106 field trip ( No class for dIT 80) WORK on GROUP project
Week 4 | 06/29 - 07/01
06/29
LEED?
LEED EXAM prep
LEED TOUR @ the Kings Library
07/01 | e-journal Presentation 1
Week 5 | 07/06 - 07/08
07/06
Presentation of GROUP project
07/08
POTLUCK