COURSE DESCRIPTION FOR PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

COURSE CODE: (MSA10111)

Lectures: 3 Tutorials: 3 Studio: - Home study: 6

CHP 1: Introduction to The Architectural Process: Organizing the Project:

The list below will briefly be discussed in class as an introduction and outline to following
presentations.

1. a. Acquire project commission.

b. Negotiate scope of work and fee; sign agreement with owner.
c. Determine project delivery method and completion date.
2. a. Appoint project manager; organize team on the basis of delivery method.
b. Establish timetable, deadlines, work schedules and work force for the
project.
c. Determine consultant needs negotiate and sign appropriate agreements.
d. Establish means and methods of managing and coordinating the project
delivery path, relationships and communications needs and methods.
3. a. Pre-design services (if any); their scope and timetable.
b. Programming and task analysis; exact project requirements; approvals.
c. Planning or master planning (macro-scale, phasing); approvals.
d. Schematic (or preliminary) design, approvals.
e. Design development or final design; approvals.
f. Coordination with building authorities during the project development
phases
4. a. Construction documents: working drawings, specifications, coordination
with engineering; approvals.
b. Alternates, allowances.
5. a. Bidding or negotiations period: advertisements or invitations to bid;
communications with bidders; bulletins and addenda, etc.
b. Bid opening; price negotiations (if needed or permitted).
c. Contract award recommendation to owner; letter of intent; construction
contracts awarding and signing. (Architects normally are not party to the contract
itself, but often a witness of record).
6. a. Construction contract administration; pre-construction meeting with
contractors, subcontractors, owner representatives.
b. Shop drawings, change orders, contractor's request for payment, etc.
c. Periodic visits to construction sites; project progress meetings, etc.
d. Final pre-occupancy inspection; punch-lists; occupancy permit.
7. a. Supplemental services (if any).
b. Post-production and post occupancy analysis and evaluation of project.
CHP 2. Project Services and Compensation
1. Introduction to Types of Architect Agreements and Contract Documents
2. Project Development, Design Phases and Project Delivery Methods
3. Construction Documentation
4. Bidding Negotiation and Construction Contract Administration

CHP 3. Project Management

1. Construction Cost and Project Close Out
2. Different methods and technology for project management (Overview)
3. Regulatory Environments and Building Codes and Regulations
a. Ethiopian bye laws
b. International laws
c. Paris treaty agreement overview

CHP 4. Building Services in Complex Structure

1. Sanitary Systems and Sewage Treatment
2. HVAC Systems & Plumbing
3. Electrical Services, Lift & Fire Systems
4. Building Management System
5. Climate and Comfort
6. Building acoustics and illuminations

BOOKS:

Managing Architectural and Engineering Practice by Weld Coxe (Van Nostrand-Reinhold,

1980).

Architects’ and Engineers’ Office Practice Guide by Jack R. Lewis (Prentice-Hall, 1978).

Creative Communications for a Successful Design Practice by Stephen A. Kliment, FAIA

(Whitney, 1977).

Marketing Architectural and Engineering Services by Weld Coxe

(Van Nostrand-Reinhold, 1983).

Managing Architectural Projects: The Effective Project Manager

by David Haviland (AIA Brochure, 1981).

Managing, Marketing and Budgeting for the AE Office

by George and Jan Head (Van Nostrand-Reinhold, 1980).

Financial Management for Architects by Robert F. Mattox (AIA Press, 1980).

Standardized Accounting for Architects by Robert F. Mattox (AIA Press, 1982).

CSI Manual of Practice by Construction Specifications Institute (published annually).

Problem Seeking by William M. Pena/CRSS (AIA Press, 1987).

Building Codes Illustrated: A Guide to Understanding the International Building Code by

Francis D. K. Ching

Ethics and Practice of Architecture by Barry Wasserman

The Architect’s Studio Companion, 3rd Edition, by Edward Allen

Professional Practice 101: A Compendium of Business and Management Strategies in

Architecture by Andy Pressman

Building Construction, 3rd Edition by Francis D. K. Ching

 COURSE DESCRIPTION FOR URBAN HOUSING

COURSE CODE: (MSA10511)

Lectures: 2 Tutorials: 2 Studio: 4 Home study: 4

Urban housing, apart from being a shelter, is seen as means of access to employment
and livelihood, urban and community services, proximity to desirable neighbors. Majority
of urban housing is supplied by the market where land and finance play a major role.
Access to decent housing that is affordable for all is key to a habitable city. However cities
across the developed and developing countries are grappling with varying degrees of
housing unaffordability as per the specifics of local land and labour markets. Policy making
and planning to ensure access to decent affordable housing for all income groups is a
complex process and requires multi-pronged approach.
The Urban Housing course brings together three critical perspectives -

 Planning for Housing: examines the role and nature of planning through
application to housing development. In this stream the potential and shortcomings of
planning in delivering development will be explored, initially through a wide-ranging
overview of the sector, and subsequently through engagement in a live project;
 Sustainability and Design: examines the sustainability of homes themselves and
housing within its broader design / built environment context. The first half of this
stream deals with sustainability in new-build housing, extending to a consideration of
sustainable neighborhoods and cities, linking therefore to the planning for housing core
theme. The second half deals with low energy housing retrofit, recognizing that it is
existing homes and buildings that have the greatest capacity to contribute to future
energy use and carbon reductions;
 Development Economics and Project Delivery: concerned in its first part with the
financing and economics of speculative development (as a central plank of housing
delivery), and in the second half with the management of the delivery process.

CHP 1: Advanced Planning Analytical Methods:

To study Analytical Method in implementing planning process and research in planning

field, both quantitative and qualitative.

CHP 2: Environment and Resources:

Understanding of information about the environment, nature, ecology that needs to be

recognized as a climax, adaptation, resilience, also including the community, as a
perspective, and basic considerations when going to urban and regional planning. In this
lecture will be outlined perspective, orientation, concepts, and further analysis of the
concept of the environment, and the concept of human society that lives depend on the
environment. Three-point of this study consists of environmental and economic concepts,
resources, as an essential part of the environment. Another quarter are used to describe
the risk society, its role in environmental conservation drive in conjunction with the
construction.

CHP 3: Spatial Economics:

This chapter examines fundamentally how economic analysis can help us understand how
cities and regions function.

CHP 4: Urban Development Planning:

This chapter provides students with knowledge and understanding on city and urban area,
urban development, and urban development planning in Ethiopian context through
discussion on basic principles/concepts, urban characteristics and problems, development
of urban spatial pattern and structure, as well as technical process/procedure of urban
development planning and its practices in Ethiopia.

CHP 5: Regional Development:

This is the basic introduction of regional development planning that provides students with
basic understanding and essence of regional development, regional growth theories,
regional development concepts, and regional development cases in Ethiopia.

CHP 6: Planning Theory:

The chapter discusses some main elements in the planning practices and discourses from
several perspectives.

CHP 7: Development Institution and Finance:

This chapter assesses and observes the continuing efforts in administering,

institutionalizing, and financing development, particularly creating development planning
as an effective activity implemented by the government (public sector) together with other
development stakeholders.

CHP 8: Urban Land Management:

This course provides basic knowledge, concepts, instruments, techniques, and exercise to
manage land in order to achieve intended goals or solve problems in an intended location,
appropriate time, and at affordable cost.

CHP 9: Urban Facilities Planning:

Provide understanding of theories and concepts of urban facilities planning.

HOUSING STUDIO:

To introduce students to Development planning and Infrastructure Management along

with knowhow of infrastructure planning process and implication.

To better develop the students planning skills they will be directly involved in a live case
study executable project.
 COURSE DESCRIPTION FOR DESIGN RESEARCH STUDIO-I

COURSE CODE: (MSA10411)

Lectures: 3 Tutorials: 2 Studio: 10 Home study: 6

OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE:

The course intends to create a sense of responsibility to the students regarding the place
where they work.

Architecture encompasses people, place and time in order to create solutions i.e. designs
which are a part of the same. Through this course it is expected that the students will
investigate in depth all parameters of city infrastructure needs so that they will learn how
architects can develop cities. It also intends to deeply en-root in their minds that every
infrastructure or entity designed in an urbanscape is an outcome of specific sets of urban
design entities such as demographics, culture, heritage, by-laws, national & international
standards, development stage of city etc. etc

In this course, students are required to think large scale and holistically, to demonstrate the
capacity to have a systemic understanding of their project parameters, scale and the
intention of their urban investigations. Within these project parameters students are
expected to set out and explore a technological and environmental position including
techniques and materials which impacts upon and form part of their of their design project.

Projects developed within studio groups typically identify boundary conditions of an

architectural project, addressing urban / regional, national and global issues through
design. This includes issues of sustainability (cultural and physical), historic and social, as
well as physical cause and effect relationships shaping the world, and dynamic properties
of societies shaping cities and landscape.

Individual or groups of students are required to explore these issues through design,
resulting in a strategy for intervention which informs a physical and conceptual master
plan and generic design brief. This may form the basis for development at building scale at
individual level.

LEARNING PROCESS:

The studio is divided into three session parts with their own sets of goal attainments.

1. Comprehensive Design: Brief, Context & Critical theory

This part will establish the theoretical and physical context for the final design, the cultural,
social and economic boundary conditions and analyses design parameters. This is designed
to enable students to develop a detailed design brief of adequate complexity and ambition
for the Comprehensive Design Project. The students will undertake intense field study and
data collection through surveys and interviews so as to reach to the core of issues which
they identified through formal general preliminary investigations.

This part also gives students the opportunity to investigate the social and cultural context
of architecture, view their own design and design-related research in a theoretical context,
and explore and question the relationship between social and cultural theories and
architectural projects and architects’ research.

A series of lectures and seminars explore the function and use of theory in architectural
and design investigations. Through selected readings, lectures and seminar discussions, a
variety of social and cultural perspectives will be considered.

Students are expected to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of competing theories,
their potential for their own work performed in design and research studios, and their
application through the work of others.

2. Comprehensive Design: Concept

This part constitutes the concept stage of the final design project and aims to develop a
design concept for Comprehensive Design Project, through experimentation and
explorative design enquiry.
In parallel with its related technology Awareness, it seeks to establish the ambition, frame
of reference and theoretical area of investigation for the final thesis design. Students have
the opportunity to experiment with methodologies and formulate a personal agenda and
strategy for the programme-long projects including final thesis. Material aspects of design
and construction are addressed on a conceptual and experimental level and placed in an
individual philosophical context, with emphasis on exploitation of synergies within the
group through the exchange of ideas and design skills.
3. Comprehensive Design: Project
This part aims to build upon site and concept investigations performed during design parts
Comprehensive Design: Brief, Context & Critical theory and Comprehensive Design:
Concept. It looks to address technological issues as identified in Technical Awareness, and
forms the basis for Technical Appraisal.
This part intends to also impart following mentioned tool & knowledge enhancement for
the students:
 - Describe and explain the formal structure, construction and function of a
work of architecture as a product or response to physical as well as cultural
contexts
- Demonstrate a broader theoretical understanding of relationships between
built form, content, context, concept, and construction, with particular
reference to culture-specific practices, perceptions, beliefs and operations
- Interpret culture-specific practices as generative parameters to creatively
synthesize an architectural project
- Compose an innovative design on the basis of exploration and critical
reflection
- Explore and transpose culture-specific means of representation to develop
and communicate a design project
- Demonstrate an understanding of the architect as an agent of cultural change
OVERVIEW OF LEARNING ACTIVITIES:
1. You will participate in a studio group which you have balloted from a pool of
offerings, each with differentiated themes. You will design theories according to the
themes and agendas of that studio group.
2. A studio group leader will be allocated to each theme.
3. Every studio group will in course of the semester will fulfill various assignments such
as seminars, workshops as well as research proposal in co-ordination and in line
with course coordinator.
4. Also each studio group is responsible for conducting site experimentation when and
where required.

TIME SCHEDULE:
The course is expected to be carried out within a span of 15 weeks leaving the 16th
week for presentations preparation. These 15 weeks are distributed as follows among
the three parts:
PART 1: Week 1 up to Week 6
PART 2: Week 7 up to Week 9
PART 3: Week 10 up to Week 15

ASSESSMENTS:
- Active studio participation will be one the pre-requisite to be qualified for
completion of the course.
- Evaluations will be distributed through various stages of the studios.
- Every studio part will be pre-requisite for the next part.
- Each of the three part of the studio will be a complete 100% evaluation.
- The final weightage of each part in the final grade will be:
PART 1 30%

PART 2 20%

PART 3 50%

- But without successfully defending the final part design project all earlier
evaluations will be deemed invalid.