The Digital Media course at Tulane University in New Orleans equips students with a comprehensive understanding of the digital drawing methods used in architectural production.

School: Tulane University School of Architecture
Course: ARCH 2311/6311 – Digital Media
Location: New Orleans, USA
Course dates: August 2025 to December 2025
Application deadline: 15 January 2025

The Digital Media Course at Tulane School of Architecture introduces digital tools and techniques for their application in architectural production. The primary objective is cultivation of a drawing practice that facilitates critical thinking, testing of design ideas and effective communication. Each week explores fundamental concepts in architectural representation that include a range of two and three dimensional media and workflows. Students work through orthographic (plan, section, elevation), axonometric and perspective projection drawings of mixed media with an overall emphasis on integration of digital drawing techniques.

The course uses lecture and workshop formats to foster critical perspectives and technique development, respectively. Classes consist of lectures, demonstrations, workshops and pin-ups. During lectures, the faculty and teaching team discuss topics from assigned readings, situate the content in historical and professional domains, articulate lesson objectives and demo software tools and techniques. During pin-ups, the teaching team evaluates outcomes from students’ drawing lessons of the previous week’s assignment.

The course utilises the studio setting for an ongoing workshop format to aid content development, assist with questions regarding the assignment, and actively work through lesson goals, tool comprehension and any roadblocks or details that materialise. Upon successful completion of the course, students will be proficient in skills and concepts underlying representational strategies to produce architecture.

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Top image: Assorted works by Chelse Kilgore, Nathan Rich, Nia Fletcher, Nathan Rich, Brooks Barrios and Jake Davis. 

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