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Charles Pipal

Professor, Adjunct

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Bio

Education: Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, 1986, and Master of Architecture, 1990, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Concurrent positions: Principal architect, Charles Pipal AIA; Chair, Riverside Preservation Commission.

Personal Statement

Professor Pipal's areas of academic and professional expertise include documentation of historic buildings and sites, historic resource surveys, adaptive reuse of historic buildings, permit review and construction project management. His personal and scholastic interests include historic site interpretation as it applies to tourism and the understanding of the role of social and political history as it is seen and expressed in the built environment.

Courses

Title Department Catalog Term

Description

This two-day core design studio focuses on the architecture of large-scale multi-use complexes that combine complex social programs with contemporary workplaces, manufacturing, or other related programs. Students integrate their design knowledge, addressing the design potential of complex building systems, and issues related to atmosphere, climate, acoustics, lighting, and energy. Students use rigorous representation techniques, achieving a professional level of presentation.

This course requires students to have a laptop that meets SAIC's minimum hardware specs and runs the AIADO template.

Class Number

2136

Credits

6

Description

Intermediate design studio requires the design of a building responding to substantially qualitative interior space program, including building skins, systems, sustainability, accessibility, and life safety. Course Goals and Objectives 1) Learn pre-design, visual communication of concept and program diagramming, , systems and object integration during research into client organizations and the design of effective environments. 2) Bring technical knowledge and skills to bear on a design including structural and other building systems, accessibility, sustainability, and site design.

Case studies, readings and research will be project specific and determined through the programs defined in the studio.

The studio work is cumulative. The work addresses professional criteria and develops though milestones that culminate in a final portfolio and review for the course.

Class Number

1962

Credits

6

Description

Thesis studio asks students to determine and research an original problem with pertinent issues, and design an innovative response to some aspect of architectural production.

Course Goals and Objectives
1) Give individual students the opportunity to discover, define, and research a significant aspect of architectural production in depth.
2) Develop a personal approach to an important issue of contemporary significance to the field of architecture and communicate it concisely.
3) Work with originality, clarity, and high production values at the end of an architectural education.

Class Number

1845

Credits

6