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Detailed Course Outline Course Introduction : Detailed learning goals of the course: 1. To develop ability to critically observe, analyze and elucidate architectural or urban form while understanding its presence in a physical context. 2. To develop ability to express a design concern 3. To develop ability to structure, articulate and narrate a position using various means of communication. 4. To develop various methodology to approach and argue a proposition 5. To develop ability to come up with design methodology and demonstrate a design resolution. 6. To understand the various processes undergoing within the society and its impact on urban form. 7. To develop ability to describe the form at various scales in terms of its physical attributes as well as its sociocultural, environmental, technological relationship towards built

environment.