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Ddf certificateFrom TTU College of ArchitectureThe College of Architecture’s Certificate in Digital Design and Fabrication (DDF)is intended to respond dynamically to recent market changes by offering courses that provide knowledge directly related to digital and information-driven design-build projects. Students develop a set of skills geared towards a “digital-craft” based professional orientation with emphasis on design techniques, advanced material processes and fabrication methodologies. Market changes in Architectural Practice A change in the process of architecture through the technological evolution of “drawings” is occurring today, but in contrast with the renaissance, it is reconfiguring the whole building industry, involving the architect in an emerging networked team of design and construction specialists. New communication and knowledge exchange techniques supported with information technology (IT) are disrupting time frames and spatial relationships between key players and facilitating inclusiveness and collaborative project delivery. The cyberarchitect in the new role of the integrative generalist or design specialist forms part of the emerging creative class, to use a term suggested by Richard Florida of Carnegie Mellon University. The current project delivery process in the construction industry in the US, is shifting from a traditional design- bid- build process to a streamlined design- build process (Fig.1). This emerging trend is supposed to become more dominant in the years to come in particular driven by new market players such as design engineering firms and media savy construction developers. Individual architecture firms not ready for this change will ultimately fall behind, unless they deliberately follow up by engaging new expertise in the field of computational design related to fabrication and construction technology advances.
Certificate RequirementsStudents Designers and Architects ddf certificate_overview
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