Architecture (ARCH)
Professional Courses
Prerequisites: Admission into the 3 Year Master of Architecture program or permission.
Description: Introduction to architectural design through spatial and formal projects using representational techniques. A series of collaborative and individual projects introduce design process, iteration, tectonics, representation, and structure as fundamental aspects of design that relate architecture to the human subject.
Prerequisites: ARCH 500
Description: The studio extends the methodologies from the preceding studio to include outside influences such as site, urbanism, program, culture, and materiality. Projects increase in scope and complexity and integrate a wide range of inputs through research and analysis.
Prerequisites: Admission into the Master of Architecture program.
Description: Vertically integrated 5th and 6th year studio.
Prerequisites: Admission into the Master of Architecture program.
Description: Vertically integrated 5th and 6th year studio.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: The shifting relationship between conceiving and making through hands-on, collaborative experience with actual design-construct projects in which students play a decisive role in all aspects of research, design and construction of the commission.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Examination of the theory and application of the file-to-factory design process. Exploratory case study projects include small fabricated architectural models of forms, surface and structure.
Prerequisites: ARCH 527
Description: Introduction to parametric and related basic computational concepts for design. Explorations in specific parametric modeling software techniques.
Prerequisites: ARCH 222
Description: Introduction to the principles and techniques of "GiM" (geometry information modeling) and analysis. Explores how "GiM" is essential to the concept of "BiM" (building information modeling) and how it is used in conjunction with different types of analytical modeling.
Prerequisites: ARCH 222
Description: Cover the basics of data and interoperability, including the definitions of key terms and an overview of the various technologies to facilitate data exchange between different systems and platforms.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Introduction to basic seismic design principles. Making critical decisions concerning the overall performance of a building during an earthquake.
Prerequisites: ARCH 341 or permission.
Description: Focused study of architectural theory and problems of practice and physicality examined in the context of the architectural detail.
Prerequisites: ARCH 311 or by Permission.
Description: Explores architectural practice relative to representational communication both internally within the design process as well as with an external audience. This course also investigates the impact of tangential techniques appropriated to the practice. Readings, discussions, and projects will focus on issues of perception and projection relative to these systems and how they impact the practice of architecture in a contemporary context. Course structure is both a theory seminar addressing the position of representation through readings, as well as a laboratory for investigating their application.
Description: Focused workshop for conceiving and articulating current architectural problems to frame the argumentation and reasoning towards a design thesis proposal.
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing or above.
Description: Survey of the architectural traditions of the African continent, from pre-historic times to the present day. Buildings-famous and typical-theories, and approaches that are appropriate to the specific cultural environments.
Description: Survey and integration of theory, methods, research and findings from the social, behavioral, and managerial sciences as they relate to the design of work environments. Factors effecting change in the contemporary workplace.
Prerequisites: Admission to a professional program in the College of Architecture
Letter grade only.
Description: Issues of contemporary urbanism and the processes of urban design. Experiential nature of cities, role of public policy, ideology, genesis and development of urban form and space.
Prerequisites: Admission into the graduate portion of the professional program in Architecture or for undergraduate Landscape Architecture students; LARC 461
Description: Exploration into the relationship between the evolution of urbanism and the cultural, economic and scientific advances made by civilization.
Prerequisites: Admission into the graduate portion of the professional program in architecture
Description: Comprehensive review and examination of territorial relationships between spatial development, engineering, ecology, and architecture. Focuses on emerging factors affecting urban, suburban, and rural communities and spatial configurations beyond the binary of city and country.
Prerequisites: Admissions to the professional architecture program, or permission.
Description: Investigation of evolutions in typological reasoning leading up to and including contemporary configurational theory. Use of graphic modeling to research, dissect, compare and discuss select topics and case studies.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Community-oriented design studio. The design process and its relationship to the environmental development process.
Description: Processes, principles, and elements using plant materials as a key component of landscapes designed for human intent. Focus is on a systems approach, combining environmental attributes with functional needs to create aesthetic, functional, and sustainable landscapes for parks, commercial property, and residences using a combination of site visits and online resources.
Prerequisites: Admission to the BSD program.
Description: Intensive study of particular historical and contemporary contributions by women to the design professions related to the built environment. Evaluation of design work by and about women seen in their aesthetic and intellectual context. Examinations of the roles and values of women in design and their impact on the assumptions and issues currently held by the profession.
Prerequisites: Admission to a professional program in the College of Architecture
Description: Comprehensive overview of the complementary and contributory relationship between research and design, with a particular emphasis on design research as a projective activity.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Group investigation of a topic in architecture originated by the instructor.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Individual investigation of a topic in architecture.
Prerequisites: Admission into the Master of Architecture program.
Description: Vertically integrated 5th and 6th year studio.
Prerequisites: Admission into the Master of Architecture program.
Description: Vertically integrated 5th and 6th year studio.
Prerequisites: ARCH 544, Design Thesis Preparation Seminar; M2 standing in the Master of Architecture Program; agreement with a faculty mentor
Description: First semester of a year-long design-thesis project initiated in ARCH 544 and developed in conjunction with a faculty mentor. Initial visual and written studies addressing current issues relevant to the discipline of architecture to be completed in the following semester.
Description: Orientation to professional practice through a study of the architects' and the contractors' relationships to society, specific clients, their professions, and other collaborators in the environmental design and construction fields. Ethics; professional communication and responsibility; professional organizations; office management; construction management; legal and contractual relationships; professional registration; and owner-architect-contractor relationships.
Prerequisites: ARCH 550/850 and permission
Description: Contemporary problems in design and practice.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Group investigation of a topic in architecture originated by the instructor.
Prerequisites: ARCH 550/850 and permission
Description: Exposure to the architectural profession through office application including job promotion, client relations, data collection, design, production drawings, estimating, specifications, bid documents, and quality control.
Graduate Courses
Prerequisites: Admission into the 3 Year Master of Architecture program or permission.
Description: Introduction to architectural design through spatial and formal projects using representational techniques. A series of collaborative and individual projects introduce design process, iteration, tectonics, representation, and structure as fundamental aspects of design that relate architecture to the human subject.
Prerequisites: ARCH 800
Description: The studio extends the methodologies from the preceding studio to include outside influences such as site, urbanism, program, culture, and materiality. Projects increase in scope and complexity and integrate a wide range of inputs through research and analysis.
Prerequisites: Admission into the Master of Architecture program.
Description: Vertically integrated 5th and 6th year studio.
Prerequisites: Admission into the Master of Architecture program.
Description: Vertically integrated 5th and 6th year studio.
Prerequisites: MArch/MCRP dual degree candidate. Coreq: CRPL 990.
Submission of a statement of intent and a contract with an architecture faculty mentor is required.
Description: Advanced architectural design. Initial investigation into the parameters and agenda leading to a proposal for the terminal studio project.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: The shifting relationship between conceiving and making through hands-on, collaborative experience with actual design-construct projects in which students play a decisive role in all aspects of research, design and construction of the commission.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Examination of the theory and application of the file-to-factory design process. Exploratory case study projects include small fabricated architectural models of forms, surface and structure.
Prerequisites: ARCH 222
Description: Introduction to the principles and techniques of "GiM" (geometry information modeling) and analysis. Explores how "GiM" is essential to the concept of "BiM" (building information modeling) and how it is used in conjunction with different types of analytical modeling.
Prerequisites: ARCH 222
Description: Cover the basics of data and interoperability, including the definitions of key terms and an overview of the various technologies to facilitate data exchange between different systems and platforms.
Prerequisites: Permission
Description: Introduction to basic seismic design principles. Making critical decisions concerning the overall performance of a building during an earthquake.
Prerequisites: ARCH 341 or permission.
Description: Focused study of architectural theory and problems of practice and physicality examined in the context of the architectural detail.
Prerequisites: ARCH 311 or by Permission.
Description: Explores architectural practice relative to representational communication both internally within the design process as well as with an external audience. This course also investigates the impact of tangential techniques appropriated to the practice. Readings, discussions, and projects will focus on issues of perception and projection relative to these systems and how they impact the practice of architecture in a contemporary context. Course structure is both a theory seminar addressing the position of representation through readings, as well as a laboratory for investigating their application.
Description: Focused workshop for conceiving and articulating current architectural problems to frame the argumentation and reasoning towards a design thesis proposal.
Description: Survey and integration of theory, methods, research and findings from the social, behavioral, and managerial sciences as they relate to the design of work environments. Factors effecting change in the contemporary workplace.
Prerequisites: Admission to a professional program in the College of Architecture
Letter grade only.
Description: Issues of contemporary urbanism and the processes of urban design. Experiential nature of cities, role of public policy, ideology, genesis and development of urban form and space.
Prerequisites: Admission into the graduate portion of the professional program in architecture
Description: Comprehensive review and examination of territorial relationships between spatial development, engineering, ecology, and architecture. Focuses on emerging factors affecting urban, suburban, and rural communities and spatial configurations beyond the binary of city and country.
Prerequisites: Admissions to the professional architecture program, or permission.
Description: Investigation of evolutions in typological reasoning leading up to and including contemporary configurational theory. Use of graphic modeling to research, dissect, compare and discuss select topics and case studies.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Community-oriented design studio. The design process and its relationship to the environmental development process.
Description: Processes, principles, and elements using plant materials as a key component of landscapes designed for human intent. Focus is on a systems approach, combining environmental attributes with functional needs to create aesthetic, functional, and sustainable landscapes for parks, commercial property, and residences using a combination of site visits and online resources.
Description: Orientation to professional practice through a study of the architects' and the contractors' relationships to society, specific clients, their professions, and other collaborators in the environmental design and construction fields. Ethics; professional communication and responsibility; professional organizations; office management; construction management; legal and contractual relationships; professional registration; and owner-architect-contractor relationships.
Prerequisites: Admission to the BSD program.
Description: Intensive study of particular historical and contemporary contributions by women to the design professions related to the built environment. Evaluation of design work by and about women seen in their aesthetic and intellectual context. Examinations of the roles and values of women in design and their impact on the assumptions and issues currently held by the profession.
Description: Research methods employed by the diverse specializations within the disciplines of architecture and interior design. Methods which contribute to a theoretical and informational body of knowledge as well as those contributing directly to design application.
Prerequisites: Admission to a professional program in the College of Architecture.
Description: Comprehensive overview of the complementary and contributory relationship between research and design, with a particular emphasis on design research as a projective activity.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Group investigation of a topic in architecture originated by the instructor.
Prerequisites: ARCH 550/850 and permission
Description: Exposure to the architectural profession through office application including job promotion, client relations, data collection, design, production drawings, estimating, specifications, bid documents, and quality control.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Individual investigation of a topic in architecture.
Prerequisites: Admission into the Master of Architecture program.
Description: Vertically integrated 5th and 6th year studio.
Prerequisites: Admission into the Master of Architecture program.
Description: Vertically integrated 5th and 6th year studio.
Prerequisites: ARCH 544, Design Thesis Preparation Seminar; M2 standing in the Master of Architecture Program; agreement with a faculty mentor
Description: First semester of a year-long design-thesis project initiated in ARCH 544 and developed in conjunction with a faculty mentor. Initial visual and written studies addressing current issues relevant to the discipline of architecture to be completed in the following semester.
Prerequisites: ARCH 550/850 and permission
Description: Contemporary problems in design and practice.