8.00 Credits. 12 Hrs/Wk

Design exercises on buildings with simple functional and technical requirements, emphasizing imaginative concepts for expressing form and functional relationship, spatial quality, indoor- outdoor relationship and structural systems.

1.50 Credits. 3 Hrs/Wk

Study and and analysis of three- dimensional aspects of different volumetric forms. Exercises based on the use of different types of materials.

1.50 Credits. 3 Hrs/Wk

Design and drawings specifying materials and instructions for construction. Understanding construction process and techniques. The construction drawing will include preparation of working and detail drawings of all building components. Details of drainage, damp-proofing and insulation. Bathroom and kitchen layouts. Application of building codes and bylaws.

2.00 Credits. 2 Hrs/Wk

Art and Architecture in the Indian sub- continent from the advent of the Muslims in the 13th Century to the end of the colonial era.

2.00 Credits. 2.00 Hrs/Wk

Review of basic concepts and definitions., Application of airconditioning. Psychometry. Cooling load calculation, airconditioning systems, air handling and distribution, design of ducts. Air-conditioning equipments. Fire hazards, fire fighting methods. Vertical transpor tation: types of elevators, determination of size and quantity of elevators. Incoming and outgoing traffic handling. Escalators and moving ramps.

2.00 Credits. 2 Hrs/Wk

Flexural and shearing stresses in beams; principal stresses; direct integration and Area moment methods for finding slopes and deflections in statically determinate beams. Indeterminate beam analyses; buckling of columns.

2.00 Credits. 2 Hrs/Wk

Meaning, scope and significance of planning. Development planning. sectoral and spatial approaches; need for integration. Planning theories; normative versus positive; procedural versus substantive. Traditional planning theories: incremental versus comprehensive; master plan and zonal plans. Modern planning process/ cyclical planning: strategic approach, structure, local and action plans. Systems approach, decision theory and conflict management. Advocacy and corporate planning. Planning and public policies. Planning practices in Bangladesh: master plan of Dhaka 1959, Dhaka metropolitan area integrated urban development project 1981 , Dhaka metropolitan development planning 1993.

2.00 Credits 2 Hrs/Wk

Introduction to Deductive Logic: Definition and scope of deductive logic; terms and predicable; proposition and opposition of propositions; inference and syllogism. Introduction to inductive Logic: Definition and scope of inductive logic; nature, characteristics and bases of scientific induction; methods of scientific induction; nature of hypothesis; inference and analogy. Introduction to Philosophy: Nature and scope of philosophy; relation of philosophy to other sciences, methods of philosophical inquiries, epistemology, metaphysics. Ideas of great philosophers.