ABSTRACT
The aim of ICSA 2016 is to present research and developments on the merging of architecture and structural engineering. This paper explores this merge in an architectural structures class taught at the Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at North Dakota State University. The paper presents assignments in the area of teaching structures for undergraduate architecture students and discusses pedagogical ideas and their implementation in the classroom. This paper reflects on how learning could be more effective for the emerging architecture student. It presents explorations of structural principals and spatial qualities by building physical models in varying scales. Unfortunately a majority of teaching approaches at various architecture schools rely on outdated methods within the classroom structure. However, creating a set of effective hands-on assignments at the undergraduate level and maintaining a traditional approach at the master degree level in architectural structure successfully enriched the curriculum enriched by using complementary principals and assignments.
