This course emphasizes setting of architectural work as part of an organized community in projects having to do with built-up areas, as well as those on new sites. Utilizing projects of intermediate size but with increasing level of complexity, students should learn how to analyze real sites and contexts and how to infer guidelines, regulations, and codes that instruct space, form, order, character and identity. They should also know how to integrate environmental and climatic concerns, digital fabrication, smart technology, generative design, structure and constructional parameters. Emphasis on the broad meaning of contextual and sustainable design