Courses

INDA Course Requirements

INDA Fundamental Course Credits

General Education Course Credits

Elective Course Credits

Total Credits Required to Graduate

  • Design I

    Course Number: 2541111 Credits: 6 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin Design principles, elements, and vocabularies; meaning and senses of human physicality and abstract perception in creating environments, mood…

  • Design II

    Course Number: 2541112 Credits: 6 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin Critical view on design practices through the analysis of design in terms of the experience of everyday life; examination…

  • Design III

    Course Number: 2541211 Credits: 6 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin Architectural elements and its physicality and meanings; conceptualization of design problems, namely, design problems seeking, problem definitions and solution…

  • Architectural Design I

    Course Number: 2541212 Credits: 6 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin The sense of “place” and its relation to architecture; investigation of human beings’ dwelling space and architecture through experimental…

  • Architectural Design II

    Course Number: 2541311 Credits: 6 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin Investigation of ideologies of architects and theories of modern and contemporary architecture; their applications to architectural design in tropical…

  • Architectural Design III

    Course Number: 2541312 Credits: 6 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin Exploration of architectural design in the contemporary Asian context, and related issues; hypothesizing new theories and ‘isms of Asia’…

  • Architectural Design IV

    Course Number: 2541411 Credits: 6 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin Elective design studios: community and urban design, building technology, history and theory of architectural design, and real estate development;…

  • Architectural Design V

    Course Number: 2541412 Credits: 6 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin Innovation and integration of architectural design; interdisciplinary coordination; selection of problems and topics of the students’ and instructor’s interest;…

  • Design Thinking and Inquiry

    Course Number: 2541221 Credits: 3 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin Understanding various facets of design process: what is design, the nature of design problems, problem definitions, seeking and realizing…

  • Design-Build Project

    Course Number: 2541241 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin A team effort with a real design-build project, starting from project initiation, program conceptualization and feasibility study, preliminary and detailed design…

  • Design and Construction Projects for Communities

    Course Number: 2541343 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin Designing and constructing community projects of various nature; focusing on underprivileged communities; paying attention to the design process with community participation;…

  • Design Experimentation Workshop

    Course Number: 2541344 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin An arena for the faculty as well as the students to initiate a design experiment in terms of a selected issue…

  • Design Tools and Skills I

    Course Number: 2541141 Credits: 3 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin Learning and developing skills essential to art and design focusing on sketching, drawing, painting, graphics, and constructing physical models;…

  • Design Tools and Skills II

    Course Number: 2541142 Credits: 3 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin Advanced learning and developing skills essential to design and architectural design by using higher level design methods, tools and…

  • Global History of Art and Design

    Course Number: 2541121 Credits: 3 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin The shifting circumstances and variable functions of visual art and design within a global context with emphasis on a critical…

  • Contextual Studies in Art, Design and Built Environment

    Course Number: 2541122 Credits: 3 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin Development and trends in twentieth century art, design and urbanization within a global context, issues of social change, the…

  • Introduction to Environmental Design

    Course Number: 2541131 Credits: 3 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin Understanding of two major factors affecting design of built-environment; human factors: the physiological, psychological, behavioral, social-culture factors affecting human…

  • Architectural Management

    Course Number: 2541442 Credits: 3 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin Overview of management and its elements: planning organization, leadership, monitoring, and control; studying management theories in the past, present,…

  • Building Economics and Real Estate Development

    Course Number: 2541441 Credits: 3 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin Concepts and theories of economics and finance related to architectural design and real estate development; economic environment, public policies…

  • History and Theory of Architecture I

    Course Number: 2541222 Credits: 3 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin The development of civilizations in various parts of the world, man-made environments within different contexts and constraints, including the…

  • History and Theory of Architecture II

    Course Number: 2541223 Credits: 3 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin European and American civilizations from the Middle Ages to the Modern World; examining the root of the modern world…

  • Eastern and Western Philosophy and Paradigms in Architectural Design

    Course Number: 2541321 Credits: 3 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin Comparative study of Eastern and Western philosophy to gain an understanding of the similarities and differences resulting from physical…

  • Contemporary Theory and Ideology of Architecture

    Course Number: 2541322 Credits: 3 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin The development of architectural ideologies and theories since the modern period; theoretical perspectives portrayed in and by building; the…

  • Southeast Asian Architecture

    Course Number: 2541224 Credits: 3 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin An overview of the origin and development of Southeast Asian architecture covering the concept of cosmology which is the…

  • Architecture and Urbanism

    Course Number: 2541342 Credits: 3 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin Practical and theoretical issues concerning the basis and strategies of urban design, drawing together architecture, urbanism and critical human…

  • Architecture, Community and Ecology

    Course Number: 2541341 Credits: 3 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin Environmental issues, particularly ground and air pollution, flooding control, soil remediation; a definition of ‘sustainability’ and its relation to…

  • Environmental Technology and Integrative Building Systems Design I

    Course Number: 2541331 Credits: 3 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin Understanding five fundamental building systems; sanitary and plumbing, lighting and electrical, lightning protection, mechanical and transportation, and fire safety,…

  • Environmental Technology and Integrative Building Systems Design II

    Course Number: 2541332 Credits: 3 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin More complex building systems: heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC), energy management and control system (EMCS), acoustic and audio, information…

  • Construction Technology

    Course Number: 2541232 Credits: 3 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin Building materials, construction methods and systems and their suitability to context with emphasis on the conventional system used in…

  • Tropical Architecture Design

    Course Number: 2541231 Credits: 3 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin Tropical climate; approaches and methods of environmental technology to create human comfort in tropical architectural design concerning form, building…

  • Proposal Writing for Architectural Project

    Course Number: 5505411 Credits: 3 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin Overview of proposal writing and step-by-step proposal development process with particular cases and examples in architectural programming; conceptualization…

  • Fundamentals of Structural Design

    Course Number: 2541132 Credits: 3 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin Fundamental understanding of physics of structure and its implications for architectural design: materials and their nature, types of forces,…

  • Academic Writing for Architecture

    Course Number: 5505111 Credits: 3 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin The basic principles of expository writing; selecting a suitable topic; paragraph writing comprising topic sentence and controlling idea; paragraph unity…

  • Physics Laboratory for Architects

    Course Number: 2304169 Credits: 1 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin Measurement and precision; simple harmonic motion; rotational dynamics; heat capacity and wave; light and sound.

  • Physics for Architects

    Course Number: 2304160 Credits: 3 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin Motion and Newton’s law; work and energy, rotational motion, properties of matter and fluid; vibrations, wave, light and sound;…

  • Calculus

    Course Number: 2301111 Credits: 3 Course Description from the INDA Program Bulletin Mathematical concepts and their applications in architecture: functions and their graphs, limits, continuity, derivatives and integrals.

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