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Emerging Specialization

The document discusses emerging specializations in the field of architecture. It begins by outlining the wide scope of areas students are exposed to in bachelor's programs in architecture, from furniture design to urban planning. It then lists numerous specialization areas in architectural design. It identifies several specializations that have become increasingly important in recent decades due to issues like climate change, resource depletion, and population growth. These emerging specialization areas include building information modeling, environmental design, sustainability, design computing, parametric design, and urban/town planning. The document concludes by providing more detailed descriptions of specialization areas in land use planning, urban spatial structure, economic development, international planning, urban design, and urban community social development.

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Emerging Specialization

The document discusses emerging specializations in the field of architecture. It begins by outlining the wide scope of areas students are exposed to in bachelor's programs in architecture, from furniture design to urban planning. It then lists numerous specialization areas in architectural design. It identifies several specializations that have become increasingly important in recent decades due to issues like climate change, resource depletion, and population growth. These emerging specialization areas include building information modeling, environmental design, sustainability, design computing, parametric design, and urban/town planning. The document concludes by providing more detailed descriptions of specialization areas in land use planning, urban spatial structure, economic development, international planning, urban design, and urban community social development.

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Emerging specialization in the field of Architecture

In the bachelor program of Architecture, students get exposed to a wide perspective of designing spaces
with their interpretation to the function of the space. They get to design spaces in various scales, from a
furniture to a pavilion to a residential unit to a apartment to a self sustaining community to an urban
scale. There are various aspects in design spaces, people perceive spaces differently so there is more
than one way to design a space, design with the celebration of art to design spaces to enhance human
senses and to its comfort to design spaces that heal human psychology.

Specialising in the Architectural field includes:

Architectural Design

Art and design

Building information modelling

Building technology/Environmental systems

Community design

Computer aided design

Energy

Engineering

Environment/sustainable

Graphic design

History

Housing

Interior design

International and regional architecture

International development

Landscape design

Photography
Preservation

Product design

Professional practice

Sacred spaces

Sustainability

Tectonics

Town planning

Theory/criticism

Urban planning and design

Among the above mentioned specialisations, there are emerging specialisation in the field which has
higher importance/demand.

Some of them are,

Building information modelling

Environment design

Sustainability

Design computing

Parametric design

Urban/ Town planning

has emerged in the recent decade due to the current issues like global warming, depleting resources and
increase in human population.

Land Use Planning

This field includes the theoretical underpinnings of land use and the segregation of uses, as well as the
study of the theory, history, and practice of policies intended to regulate the amount, pace, location,
pattern, and quality of growth in U.S. metropolitan areas. This includes the study of legal and
constitutional issues, public costs and benefits, the role of externalities, political conflicts, equity
concerns, and socioeconomic impacts of zoning and other forms of land regulation and growth
management. 

Urban Spatial Structure

Students in this specialization will study the factors that determine and influence urban and regional
spatial structure. Of special interest is the role that changing technology plays in shaping urban form.
Courses that fulfill this specialization include:

Economic Development

Students in this specialization will focus on the theory and practice of local urban and regional economic
development, including the study of theories of regional growth, intra-national population migration,
business location decisions, and community development. This field also includes the study of economic
development politics.

International Planning

This specialization explores the urbanization dynamics in other countries, particularly the third world.
Students in this specialization explore planning, urban spatial structure, historic preservation, and urban
design challenges in the newly industrializing countries and the newly independent states of Eastern
Europe, and how the political, social, cultural, and economic conditions within and among regions and
countries affect the development, design and implementation of plans. Within the proposed Ph.D.
program there will be special emphasis on the relationship between social, cultural, and economic
conditions and improving the quality of urban life. 

Urban Design

This specialization includes the study of both historical and contemporary issues of design in an urban
environment, including the means by which urban form and design is regulated through codes,
guidelines and review processes. Students in this specialization will explore the relationship between
buildings, culture, context, the urban condition, and their influence on the making of the urban form.
This field includes an emphasis on the relationship between human behavior and built form and also
encompasses a special focus on design strategies and initiatives that revitalize cities and mitigate urban
sprawl. It also includes the exploration of how sprawl and growth management can and do inform urban
design.
 

Urban Community Social Development

This specialization focuses on revitalizing the central city to make it a more attractive place to live and
work, and to slow the outward migration that necessitates suburban growth management. This
specialization gives special attention to the social and cultural character of communities, in addition to
their physical and economic requirements, and concentrates on developing strategies to draw more
people to central city communities. Because concern about declining schools, fears about safety, and
anxiety about racial differences are three strong forces motivating outward movement, education, public
safety, and race relations will be central to this study.

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