This course aims to provide students with an awareness of architectural communication and representation by involving choice of media and creative connection of information, data, analysis and knowledge. The course focuses to train students on developing visual communication strategies and methods to represent architectural design proposals, and supplement design information management with trending building information related tools.

In this course, the students will be taught with the following topics: 1) advanced architectural representation skills such as renderings and diagram drawings; 2) incoming architectural representation trends such as new media; 3) data management and visualization in building simulation; 4) architectural design practice from the perspective of data science; 5) future architecture with big data and artificial intelligence.