4.461
Building Technology I: Materials and Construction
Fall 2004
Topics
- Course Introduction
- Foundations
- Foundation Diagrams
- Introduction to Sustainable Design Issues
- Architecture Structures
- Architecture Structures 2
- Wood 1
- Wood 2
- Active Statics
- Exterior Envelopes
- Window Technologies
- AL Roof System
- Exterior Envelopes 2
- Masonry 1
- Masonry 2
- Masonry 3
- Metals
- Concrete 1
- Final Session
Readings
- Hagan, Susannah. “The Good, the Bad and the Juggled: The New Ethics of Building Materials.” The Journal of Architecture 3 (Summer 1998).
- Frampton, Kenneth. “Seven Points for the Millennium: An Untimely Manifesto.” The Journal of Architecture 5 (Spring 2000).
- Schwartz, Joel, and Dana Joel Gattuso. “Extended Producer Responsibility: Reexamining its Role in Environmental Progress.” Reason (June 2002).
- Matthews, Emily, and Allen Hammond. Critical Consumption Trends and Implications: Degrading Earth’s Ecosystems . World Resources Institute, 1999. Chapter 2. ISBN: 1569734100.
- Tucker, C., Steininger, M., and Slayback, D. “Measuring the State of the World’s Forests. An Introduction to the Scientific Analysis of Forest Cover and Forest Loss.” New York: Environmental Defense Fund, 2001.
- Fridley, Kenneth J. “Wood and Wood-Based Materials: Current Status and Future of a Structural Material.” Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering (March-April 2002): 91-96.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.