Art history classes helps you understand the historical styles of architecture and the foundation for creating patterns and perspective. The use of patterns in artwork are evident in famous architectural structures such as the Roman Colosseum, Taj Mahal, the Great Wall of China and various notable churches and castles. Understanding the history of art can help inspire your creations, from the Greek and French Baroque periods to the Colonial American and Asian periods.
Technical drawing courses allow students to experience the techniques of drawing freehand style while paying close attention to design details of the structure and surrounding architecture, such as landscape, walkways and more. Not only can drawing courses help you draw objects and structures to scale and create a visual medium, the course can also provides you with a portfolio when applying for graduate school or finding employment.
In a world where technology and computers exist to make our lives easier, taking a computer design and rendering course can help you make sketches and mock-ups quicker with the click of a button. Computers can help create measurement of a structure's dimensions, display a realistic depiction of the structure and even provide tips on how to create a more reliable and sustainable structure. Having the knowledge of using architectural software can save you time and money from having to perform laborious measurements and other tasks.
The fundamentals of architecture are physics and mathematics. Knowing how to measure dimensions and calculate the angles needed to build doorways, roofs, and multiple-storied homes and buildings are as important as knowing how to create an outline on paper or computer. Physics courses teach you such things as how gravity, weather conditions and temperature play a role in which material you use, how much force a home or building can sustain and how much weight can be loaded onto a structure's support beams.