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ARCH 1281 - Design Fundamentals I [AH]
(4 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Using architecture broadly defined, students will develop essential habits of work and mind, as well as an ability to understand the relationship between drawing, making and exploring. The course will introduce and begin to build an understanding of the role of iteration and critique, as well as traditional and contemporary modes of representation in architecture.
ARCH 1621 - Introduction to Critical Inquiry in Practice
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was ARCH 1621W until 03-SEP-24, ARCH 1621V
This is an introductory course where we, including professors, students, and professionals, will discuss various topics related to architecture. Sometimes, we'll look back at the history of architecture to understand how it has changed over time. We'll discuss popular ideas and practices and how they have been used or misused. We'll also talk about new and emerging ideas in architecture that are being explored today all over the world. The word "critical" indicates that we'll be questioning and examining old practices to see if they are still relevant to our modern, globalized world, or if they need to change, and where they might head in the future.
ARCH 1621V - Introduction to Critical Inquiry in Practice [WI]
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: ARCH 1621 (starting 21-JAN-20, was ARCH 1621W until 03-SEP-24)
This course introduces beginning architecture and landscape architecture students to critical inquiry in disciplinary research and professional practice through guest lectures, readings, and discussions. Weekly exercises help develop a beginning-level understanding of the depth and breadth of architectural inquiry in its contemporary context, i.e., as a complex, multi-dimensional, multidisciplinary endeavor with myriad ethical implications. For the final project, students will extend individual curiosity from course materials and presentations into a meaningful proposal for basic or applied research. Students who are engaged in course materials will begin to understand: architecture, landscape architecture, and design more broadly as an ecology of practices; the historical, contemporary, and projective framework for architecture education; the historical, contemporary, and projective framework for architecture as a profession; and specifically how these relate especially in this region.
ARCH 2281 - Design Fundamentals II
(4 cr; A-F only; offered Every Spring)
Foundation architectural design studio. Design principles, technical drawing, material manipulation.
ARCH 2301 - Drawing and Critical Thinking
(4 cr; Prereq-Arch 2281 or department consent; A-F only; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was ARCH 1301 until 22-JAN-08, was LA 1301 until 07-SEP-04, was ARCH 1301 until 07-SEP-04, was LA 1301 until 02-SEP-03, was ARCH 1301 until 02-SEP-03, was LA 1301 until 07-SEP-99, LA 5371 (inactive, starting 08-SEP-09), LA 5301 (inactive, starting 08-SEP-09), LA 5376
This course provides an in-depth foundation for understanding how drawing functions as a discipline-specific way of thinking, brings self-critical precision to non-verbal production, and supports processes of conceptual exploration.
ARCH 3150 - Topics in Architecture (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 6]; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 24 credits; may be repeated 4 times)
Selected topics in architecture design, theory, representation, or history.
ARCH 3212 - BDA: Analytical Modeling of Contemporary Architecture
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Insight into analytical modeling as one of the most important tools for a designer. Exercises, activities and iterative making of analytical models will help students to gain insight into works of contemporary architecture; analyze constituent elements and systems of form, space and order; investigate and make visible the underlying conceptual notions that generated the work; explore physical modeling as modes and techniques of analysis and representation; explore the specific issue of scale in analysis, representation and design resolution; read 2-D architectural drawings and translate them into 3-D physical form; and generally improve physical modeling skills.
ARCH 3222 - BDA Box Problem
(2 cr; A-F only; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Students gain insight into the process of making by designing a wooden box that addresses a specific ritual, ceremony, event or activity of their choosing. The box will be evaluated on creativity, technique, craft, and risk. Introduction and practice with a variety of woodworking joints and techniques used to construct a wooden box.
ARCH 3223 - BDA: Screen Test: Metal Work
(2 cr; A-F only; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Understanding the screen as an architectural element and screening as an architectural device. Understanding the nature of making and material craft in the design process, specifically metals and metal alloys designed and fabricated as architectural screen panels. Students develop: ability to understand, work with and transform metals; design vocabulary around screens, screening and patterns in architecture; design ideas as material assemblies and spatial propositions; verbal and visual communication skills as part of the design process; criteria for making design decision relevant for using screens, screening and patterns in architecture.
ARCH 3231 - Intensive Applications Design Workshop
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 15 credits; may be repeated 5 times)
BDA design core workshops develop your ability to critically approach a broad range of conditions through the lens of architecture. This course will focus on critical inquiry of tangible architectural attributes such as material (assembly), site (context), or program (need). This workshop foregrounds analysis of measurable, physical and specific conditions, and favors local project sites and/or precedent projects. The course offers a structure for moderately directed learning (including guided peer review), emphasizes iteration and process, and offers an opportunity to discover where and how your own interests align with broader opportunities as an emerging designer in architecture and/or other allied disciplines and design fields.
ARCH 3232 - Extensive Applications Design Workshop
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 15 credits; may be repeated 5 times)
BDA design core workshops develop your ability to critically approach a broad range of conditions through the lens of architecture. This course focuses on the critical inquiry of latent or intangible attributes such as architecture's experiential, social, cultural, political, ethical, and poetic dimensions. Students in this course will engage architecture from the point of view of ephemeral conditions, theoretical understandings and operations, spatializing of data, and/or architectural inquiry applied to complex conditions or translations. The course offers a structure for moderately directed learning (including guided peer review), emphasizes iteration and process, and offers an opportunity to discover where and how your own interests align with broader opportunities as an emerging designer in architecture and/or other allied disciplines and design fields.
ARCH 3250 - Design Workshop (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 6]; Prereq-2281, [Arch BA or BDA major]; A-F only; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 54 credits; may be repeated 9 times)
Design process as it relates to architecture. Hands-on projects involving interactive design process. Students develop rigorous/inventive graphic means of communicating.
ARCH 3261 - BDA: The Art of Daylighting Design: Exquisite Rooms
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Daylighting design and luminous phenomena have long captured the imagination of designers and architects. The beauty and power of light and shadow inspires the work of the greatest architectural masters. This BDA Workshop explores the many roles of daylighting in architectural design and how it is shaped by the intersection of both poetic and performance goals and aspirations. A select group of exquisite rooms of leading modern and contemporary architects will be compared and contrasted to gain insight into larger luminous design concepts, principles, strategies, and lessons on the art of daylighting design. Physical and computer models, photography, rendered drawings, diagramming, and computer analysis will be explored to understand the daylighting design philosophies, strategies, and details of 'Masters of Light' and the application of daylighting design lessons to an individual daylight investigation. Learning objectives are: to compare and contrast poetic and performance daylighting design concepts, principles, and strategies of modern and contemporary masters; to develop a comparative knowledge of daylighting theories and practices from case studies of exquisite rooms to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively develop and assess qualitative and quantitative daylighting strategies; and to develop a personal daylighting design theory, process, and practice.
ARCH 3271 - BDA: Watercolor Sketching: Exploring Iconic Sites
(2 cr; A-F only; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Students will develop skills in representation and visualization using watercolor as a medium for examining architecture as material, structure and attitude. Students will explore creative methods in representation through a process of working en plein air. A new site of architectural significance will be visited each week. The goal of this design workshop is for students to discover and capture a sense of space, material and design in a personal manner, developing skills in representation as well as in design process. The way of working en plein air reflects a tradition in architecture of studying precedents in situ as well as an attitude captured by Frederick Frank in The Zen of Seeing, namely: To stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back to the earth, to allow the eye to see a willow, a bush, a cloud, a leaf, is an unforgettable experience.
ARCH 3281 - Architecture Studio 01: Material
(6 cr; Prereq-Arch BS major and Arch 2301; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Students in this undergraduate studio practice an iterative, open-ended design process as it relates especially to the technical and experiential role of materials, material assembly, construction, structure, and tectonics in architecture. Students develop their ability to think through multiple modes of media, including physical and digital drawings and models, with an emphasis on physical model-making.
ARCH 3282 - Architecture Studio 02: Site
(6 cr; Prereq-[3281 or 4281], BS Arch major; A-F only; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was ARCH 4282 until 05-SEP-06, was ARCH 5282 until 06-SEP-05
Students in this undergraduate studio practice an iterative, open-ended design process as it relates especially to the fundamental role of site as a technical and experiential context in architecture. Students learn to identify and explore the static, dynamic, tangible, and intangible forces that impact, and are impacted by, architectural interventions. Students develop their ability to think through multiple modes of media, including physical and digital drawings and models, with an emphasis on physical model-making.
ARCH 3351 - AutoCAD I
(3 cr; Prereq-Arch major or BED major or instr consent; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer)
Equivalent courses: ARCH 5351 (inactive, starting 18-JAN-05, was LA 5351 until 18-JAN-05, was LA 5351 until 07-SEP-99)
Concepts, tools, and techniques of computer-aided drawing with current AutoCAD Release. Producing dimensioned/annotated drawings for plotting. 3-D drawing capabilities. Use of dimension variables, attributes, blocks, symbols.
ARCH 3391 - Design and Representation with BIM
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: ARCH 5391
In this course, students will be introduced to the concept of Building Information Modeling (BIM) through the use of Autodesk Revit, one, one of the BIM software tools most commonly used in architectural practice today. Students will engage in a series of design exercises that will require both learning and applying Revit in the context of real world architectural scenarios. In addition to learning Autodesk Revit as a design tool, we will examine the use of BIM technology within the architectural industry through a series of case study examples. Also, presenters will share firsthand accounts of CAD and BIM Software being implemented in architectural practice.
ARCH 3411V - Architectural History to 1750 [WI GP HIS]
(3 cr; Prereq-first year writing requirement; Soph or above; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: ARCH 3411W (starting 04-SEP-18, was ARCH 3411 until 07-SEP-10)
This course will begin to situate us, and our work, in the context of the much larger, much longer human story. Architecture, both in practice and in its historical study, is fundamentally about people. In studying the human past through the built environment, from prehistory to 1750, we will see how architecture, both the ordinary and the extraordinary, is the product of its cultural, political, and social context. People make buildings and spaces, and buildings and spaces shape the ideas and behaviors of people. By studying architectural history we will learn about trends of style and form, but our primary emphasis is to learn about the relationships, practices, narratives, and beliefs that have constituted human culture around the world and across time.
ARCH 3411W - Architectural History to 1750 [WI GP HIS]
(3 cr; Prereq-Soph or above; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was ARCH 3411 until 07-SEP-10, ARCH 3411V (starting 20-JAN-15)
Built environment as a tool to study the human past from ancient times to 1750. Major trends of style and form and the relationships, practices, and beliefs that have shaped human behavior.
ARCH 3412V - Honors: Architectural History Since 1750 [WI GP HIS]
(3 cr; Prereq-Soph or above; A-F only; offered Every Spring)
Examples of the built environment from the Enlightenment to the present are studied within a broad social, cultural, and political context. Major architectural movements and their associated forms and designs.
ARCH 3412W - Architectural History Since 1750 [GP HIS WI]
(3 cr; Prereq-Soph or above; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was ARCH 3412 until 21-JAN-20
Examples of the built environment from the Enlightenment to the present are studied within a broad social, cultural, and political context. Major architectural movements and their associated forms and designs.
ARCH 3511 - Material Transformations: Technology and Change in the Built Environment [TS]
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Periodic Fall)
Surveys development of significant architectural material technologies/their relationships to society/natural environment.
ARCH 3611 - Design in the Digital Age
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was ARCH 3311 until 16-JAN-07, ARCH 5611
Introduction to design, design process. Developing/understanding ways of seeing, thinking, and acting as a designer. Changes in design being wrought by digital technology. Team design project.
ARCH 3711V - Honors: Environmental Design and the Sociocultural Context [SOCS WI CIV]
(3 cr; Prereq-Honors, [soph or above]; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was ARCH 3401V until 22-MAY-06, ARCH 3711W (starting 07-SEP-10, was ARCH 3401W until 05-SEP-06, was ARCH 3401 until 05-SEP-00)
Designed environment as cultural medium and as product of a sociocultural process and expression of values, ideas, and behavioral patterns. Design/construction as complex political process.
ARCH 3711W - Environmental Design and the Sociocultural Context [SOCS WI CIV]
(3 cr; Prereq-Soph or above; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was ARCH 3401W until 05-SEP-06, was ARCH 3401 until 05-SEP-00, ARCH 3711V (starting 07-SEP-10, was ARCH 3401V until 22-MAY-06)
Designed environment as cultural medium/product of sociocultural process/expression of values, ideas, behavioral patterns. Design/construction as complex political process.
ARCH 3756 - Public Interest Design: Principles and Practices
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: ARCH 5756
As the allied fields of design evolve in response to an increasing number of global challenges - inequity, social and political turmoil, disruptive climate-change, accelerating population growth - the question of how designers will address the needs of the most vulnerable among us is fundamental. Public Interest Design (PID), an emerging area of specialization within the design professions, specifically considers the concerns of the vast majority of the world?s inhabitants who are historically under-resourced and ill-equipped to respond to the ?Grand Challenges? facing humankind. With this mind, this introductory survey course has two aims: First, to critically examine the range of environmental, economic, social, and ethical issues that underpins work with under-resourced domestic and international communities ? including how these concerns can be collectively addressed to become more resilient; and second, to investigate organizational models that seek to broaden the traditional scope of the allied design fields as disciplines and professions by advocating a humanitarian basis for practice.
ARCH 3993 - Directed Study
(1 cr [max 3]; Prereq-instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 6 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
Guided individual reading or study.
ARCH 4150 - Topics in Architecture (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 4]; Prereq-Arch major or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 24 credits; may be repeated 6 times)
Design, technology, history, theory, representation, or urbanism.
ARCH 4194H - Thesis/Capstone Project
(3 cr; Prereq-Arch major, sr, honors; A-F only; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 6 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
Individualizes honors experience by connecting aspects of major program with special academic interests.
ARCH 4231 - Advanced Intensive Applications Design Workshop
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 15 credits; may be repeated 5 times)
BDA design core workshops develop your ability to critically approach a broad range of conditions through the lens of architecture. This course will focus on the critical inquiry of tangible architectural attributes such as material (assembly), site (context), or program (need). This workshop foregrounds the analysis of more measurable, physical and specific conditions, and will favor local project sites and/or precedent projects. Appropriate to an advanced design workshop, this course provides a structure for more guided, self-directed learning in service of iteratively advancing a design project through the lens of architecture.
ARCH 4232 - Advanced Extensive Applications Design Workshop
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 15 credits; may be repeated 5 times)
Equivalent courses: was ARCH 4291 until 07-SEP-21
BDA design core workshops develop your ability to critically approach a broad range of conditions through the lens of architecture. This course focuses on the critical inquiry of latent or intangible attributes such as architecture's experiential, social, cultural, political, ethical, and poetic dimensions. Students in this course will engage architecture from the point of view of ephemeral conditions, theoretical understandings and operations, spatializing of data, and/or architectural inquiry applied to complex conditions or translations. Appropriate to an advanced design workshop, this course provides a structure for more guided, self-directed learning in service of iteratively advancing a design project through the lens of architecture.
ARCH 4283 - Architecture Studio 03:Program
(6 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was ARCH 5283 until 06-SEP-05
Students in this undergraduate studio practice an iterative, open-ended design process as it relates especially to the fundamental role of program as a technical and experiential aspect of architecture. Students learn to broadly explore and critically evaluate the needs and activities required and possible through design interventions in the built environment. Students develop their ability to think through multiple modes of media, including physical and digital drawings and models, with an emphasis on digital model-making.
ARCH 4284 - Architecture Studio 04: Urban Design
(6 cr; A-F only; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was ARCH 5284 until 06-SEP-05
Students in this undergraduate studio develop design sensibilities around the role of architecture in the urban environment. Students engage the complex realities and discourses that relate to urban design; develop their ability to work with multiple layers of consideration, related terminology and means of representation; develop their ability to work with ways of observing, interpreting, and synthesizing that are specific to urban conditions and processes; and further develop a sensibility for the broad possibilities of doing urban design.
ARCH 4321 - Architecture in Watercolor
(3 cr; Prereq-2301; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Equivalent courses: ARCH 5321 (starting 18-JAN-05)
Watercolor as tool in design process. Foundation principles, techniques, medium, tools, materials. Color relationships, mixing, composition, applications to design.
ARCH 4325 - Architectural Photography: Imaging by Design
(4 cr; A-F only; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Principals of architectural photography as language of design through lectures, demonstrations, critical discussions. Ongoing photographic study under framework of conceptual themes. compositional forms, graphic styling, use of natural/artificial light, technical issues.
ARCH 4341 - Architecture Portfolio Design
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall & Spring)
An introduction to design principles as they relate to the architecture portfolio. Students extend design thinking and visual communication skills in architecture into broader, life-long applications within the architecture profession by designing a portfolio that represents in a meaningful way a range of architecture and/or other coursework.
ARCH 4361 - 3-D Computer Architectural Modeling and Design
(3 cr; Prereq-3351, Arch major; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Equivalent courses: ARCH 5361 (inactive, starting 06-SEP-05)
Use of 3D computer modeling for representation in abstract/realistic ways. Creation/arrangement of objects. Setting up lighting. Developing surface materials. Creating still renderings/animations. Ways computer visualization can be used for design exploration, feedback during idea development, and realistic representation of designs.
ARCH 4410 - Topics in Architectural History (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 4]; A-F only; offered Periodic Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 24 credits; may be repeated 6 times)
Selected topics in Architectural History
ARCH 4421W - Architecture and Interpretation: The Cave and the Light [WI]
(3 cr; Prereq-[3411, 3412] or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Spring)
Equivalent courses: ARCH 5421 (starting 06-SEP-05)
Historical/hermeneutical investigation of iconography of grotto. Intertwined themes of descent into earth and ascent to light, from earliest strata of human culture to present day.
ARCH 4424 - Renaissance Architecture
(3 cr; Prereq-3411 or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: ARCH 5424 (starting 18-JAN-05)
History of architecture and urban design in Italy, from 1400 to 1600. Emphasizes major figures (Brunelleschi, Alberti, Bramante, Palladio) and evolution of major cities (Rome, Florence, Venice).
ARCH 4425W - Baroque Architecture [WI]
(3 cr; Prereq-3411 or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was ARCH 4425 until 21-JAN-20, ARCH 5425 (starting 18-JAN-05)
Architecture and urban design in Italy, from 1600 to 1750. Emphasizes major figures (Bernini, Borromini, Cortona, Guarini) and evolution of major cities (Rome, Turin).
ARCH 4431W - Eighteenth-Century Architecture and the Enlightenment [WI]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was ARCH 4431 until 19-JAN-21, ARCH 5431 (starting 18-JAN-05, was ARCH 5431W until 06-SEP-05)
Architecture, urban planning, and garden design in Europe and America, 1650 to 1850.
ARCH 4432 - Modern Architecture
(3 cr; Prereq-3412 or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Fall Odd Year)
Equivalent courses: ARCH 5432 (starting 18-JAN-05)
Architecture and urban design in Europe and the United States from early 19th century to World War II.
ARCH 4434 - Contemporary Architecture
(3 cr; Prereq-3412 or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Fall Even Year)
Equivalent courses: ARCH 5434 (starting 18-JAN-05)
Developments, theories, movements, and trends in architecture and urban design from World War II to present.
ARCH 4435 - History of American Architecture
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: ARCH 5435
Through lectures, readings, discussion, and research, we will analyze buildings and spaces?architect designed and ?vernacular??in the context of social, political, economic, technological, and ecological change. As we address these issues, we will examine the ways design and daily life, performed locally, interacted with national and global systems and flows; and the role the built environment has played in advancing structures and concepts of class, gender, race, ethnicity, and power. Students will gain a broad familiarity with the history of American buildings and landscapes, develop critical frameworks for analysis, and enhance their understanding of the environments they interact with every day?as designers, citizens, consumers, and professionals.
ARCH 4451 - Contemporary Architectural Thinking
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
This course examines major architectural theories and debates which have informed, catalyzed, or destabilized the discourse of architecture in the past seven decades. Focusing on selected key texts, ideologies, and figures, the course considers the changing role of architectural theory?as a vehicle of thought, a guide for practice, a catalyst for design, and a platform for debate. Topics shows formal or theoretical resonances in the problematics and poetics of architectural productions apropos of the technofantasist neo-avant-gardism, the post-structural semiosis, the postmodern consumerism, conceptual architecture, pop architecture, hippie counterculture, etc.
ARCH 4511 - Materials and Methods I
(3 cr; Prereq-BS Arch major or BDA major jr/sr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Building materials, assemblies, construction operations shaping building designs. Material properties for designing/detailing building systems, elements, components. Applications. Modeling, hands-on building experiences.
ARCH 4521 - Environmental Technology I
(3 cr; Prereq-Architecture major BDA or BS, jr or sr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was ARCH 4504 until 05-SEP-06
Issues related to environmental quality/design. Climate response. Heating, cooling, lighting design. Indoor air quality.
ARCH 4561 - Architecture and Ecology [ENV]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was ARCH 4501 until 05-SEP-06, ARCH 5501 (inactive, starting 18-JAN-05)
Introduction to theories/practices of ecological approaches to architectural design. Ecological context, implications/opportunities of architecture. Historical/theoretical framework for ecological design thinking. Issues studied at various scales: site/community, building, component.
ARCH 4571 - Architectural Structures I
(3 cr; Prereq-BS Arch major; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Structural mechanics, graphic/quantitative analysis. Loads, materiality, strength, equilibrium, stability, serviceability, reliability. External/internal forces. Shear/moment diagrams/calculations. Structural behavior of building systems. Design using wood/steel members.
ARCH 4672 - Historic Building Conservation
(3 cr; Prereq-4671 or concurrent enrollment in 4671 or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Historic building materials, systems, methods of conservation. Structural systems, building repair/pathology. Introducing new environmental systems. Conserving interiors. Research on materials/techniques, using primary/secondary resources. Documenting with photography/measured drawings.
ARCH 4674 - World Heritage Conservation
(3 cr; Prereq-Jr or sr or instr consent; A-F only; offered Periodic Fall)
Design/planning options for conservation of historic buildings/cultural heritage sites. Case studies link current practices, methods/solutions with expert preservationists, site conservationists, local communities in development/design of conservation proposals.
ARCH 4701W - Introduction to Urban Form and Theory [WI]
(3 cr; Prereq-[3411, 3412] or instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was ARCH 4701 until 07-SEP-10
Urban form, related issues of design/theory/culture. Thematic history of cities. Lectures, discussions, assignments.
ARCH 5001 - Architectural Design Studies: Representation & Design
(1 cr; A-F only; offered Every Summer)
During this six week, summer intensive course, students will focus on basic issues of visual thinking and conceptual representation in architecture. This sequence of complementary exercises introduces issues and ways of working intended to complement educational backgrounds from other, non-architectural, disciplines. To do that we have designed the exercises to juxtapose different ways of perceiving and understanding constructed environments. While exploring these architectural ways of thinking, the exercises will also help to acknowledge preconceptions that may hinder one's ability to explore conceptual decisions.
ARCH 5110 - Architecture as Catalyst
(1 cr; Prereq-M.Arch; S-N only; offered Every Spring; may be repeated for 3 credits; may be repeated 3 times)
Topical workshops on design methods, theories, or emerging practices.
ARCH 5212 - Undergraduate Architecture Studio 05: Advanced Design
(6 cr; Prereq-C- or better in 3281, 3282, 4283, 4284; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Advanced design studio to engage students in range of critical subjects to be determined by respective instructors. Intended to challenge students with independent/experimental approach to design that builds on prior knowledge, develop working methodologies/design ethics.
ARCH 5213 - Undergraduate Architecture Studio 06: Research
(6 cr; Student Option; offered Every Spring)
As the sixth and final undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Architecture studio, this course presents a framework for faculty and student research to structure contemporary design questions that should be both urgent and contemporary. Within this framework and working under the direction of a studio coordinator, each faculty member will design a studio topic that fits within the umbrella topic of BS-06 while simultaneously exploring a design problem emerging from an ongoing set of research questions determined by faculty interest. It is expected that students will develop individual design proposals within the parameters of the respective studio frameworks that champion their skills and insightful abilities. In this sense, a high value is placed upon the formulation and execution of personally and critically determined ideas and their means of development and presentation.
ARCH 5301 - Conceptual Drawing
(3 cr; Prereq-MArch major or instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: ARCH 4301 (inactive, ending 04-SEP-07)
Drawing as way of analyzing, exploring, and generating design ideas. Projection systems, diagramming, mapping. Different modes of visual perception. Nonverbal structures.
ARCH 5313 - Visual Communication Techniques in Architecture
(3 cr; Prereq-M Arch major or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: ARCH 4313 (inactive)
Delineation, presentation, and design techniques. Various visual media and methods of investigation.
ARCH 5321 - Architecture in Watercolor
(3 cr; Prereq-M Arch grad student or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Equivalent courses: ARCH 4321
Watercolor as a tool in design process. Foundation principles, techniques, medium, tools, materials. Color relationships, mixing, composition, applications to design.
ARCH 5350 - Topics in Architectural Representation (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 4]; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 4 credits)
Selected topics in architectural representation.
ARCH 5391 - Design and Representation with BIM
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: ARCH 3391
In this course, students will be introduced to the concept of Building Information Modeling (BIM) through the use of Autodesk Revit, one, one of the BIM software tools most commonly used in architectural practice today. Students will engage in a series of design exercises that will require both learning and applying Revit in the context of real world architectural scenarios. In addition to learning Autodesk Revit as a design tool, we will examine the use of BIM technology within the architectural industry through a series of case study examples. Also, presenters will share firsthand accounts of CAD and BIM Software being implemented in architectural practice.
ARCH 5392 - Facade Design & Construction
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
This course explains and explores contemporary facade design by introducing students to key technical principles that will empower them to be more thoughtful and informed facade designers. We will take an in-depth look at four fundamental facade materials ? stone, clay, metal, and glass ? followed by exploration and development in a 3D environment of the students' choice.
ARCH 5410 - Topics in Architectural History (Topics course)
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 4 times)
Advanced study in architectural history. Readings, research, seminar reports.
ARCH 5411 - Principles of Design Theory
(3 cr; Prereq-M Arch major or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Principles of design and their instrumentation. How and why architecture theory is generated. Types and significance of formal analysis. Theoretical positions and modes of criticism.
ARCH 5412 - Architecture: A Global and Cultural History
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
This course examines the history of architecture from a global perspective, addressing a variety of traditions and geographical locations, and following their interconnections and exchanges.
ARCH 5413 - Modern and Contemporary Global Architecture
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Spring)
This course is a global history of modern and contemporary architecture, tailored to graduate students in the M.Arch. program. The course examines the architectural production of the 20th and 21st centuries through the focused study of buildings, urban plans, unbuilt designs, manifestos, and other visual and textual documents. Students will be called upon to reflect on issues of design, planning, programming, technology, and representation, connecting this course to their architectural training and future professional practice. At the same time, the course will offer a critical and multidisciplinary perspective, presenting architecture in the context of culture, politics, economics, ideology, and other historical developments. The premise of this course is the fundamental role of history for contemporary and future architectural practice. The course assignments, readings, and activities aim to spur a productive dialogue between critical reflection and historical knowledge with an eye towards creative action.
ARCH 5421 - Architecture and Interpertation: The Cave and the Light
(3 cr; Prereq-[3411, 3412] or instr consent; A-F only; offered Periodic Spring)
Equivalent courses: ARCH 4421W (starting 06-SEP-05)
Historical/hermeneutical investigation of iconography of grotto. Intertwined themes of descent into earth and ascent to light, from earliest strata of human culture to present day.
ARCH 5423 - Gothic Architecture
(3 cr; Prereq-MS Arch or M Arch major or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Spring Odd Year)
Equivalent courses: ARCH 4423 (inactive)
History of architecture and urban design in Western Europe, from 1150 to 1400.
ARCH 5424 - Renaissance Architecture
(3 cr; Prereq-MS Arch or M Arch major or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: ARCH 4424
History of architecture and urban design in Italy, from 1400 to 1600. Emphasizes major figures (Brunelleschi, Alberti, Bramante, Palladio) and evolution of major cities (Rome, Florence, Venice).
ARCH 5425 - Baroque Architecture
(3 cr; Prereq-MS Arch or M Arch major or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Fall Odd Year)
Equivalent courses: ARCH 4425W
Architecture and urban design in Italy, from 1600 to 1750. Emphasizes major figures (Bernini, Borromini, Cortona, Guarini) and evolution of major cities (Rome, Turin).
ARCH 5431 - Eighteenth-Century Architecture and the Enlightenment
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was ARCH 5431W until 06-SEP-05, ARCH 4431W
Architecture, urban planning, and garden design in Europe and America from 1650 to 1850.
ARCH 5432 - Modern Architecture
(3 cr; Prereq-MS Arch or M Arch major or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: ARCH 4432
Architecture and urban design in Europe and the United States, from early 19th century to World War II.
ARCH 5434 - Contemporary Architecture
(3 cr; Prereq-MS Arch or M Arch major or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: ARCH 4434
Developments, theories, movements, and trends in architecture and urban design, from World War II to present.
ARCH 5435 - History of American Architecture
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: ARCH 4435
Through lectures, readings, discussion, and research, we will analyze buildings and spaces?architect designed and ?vernacular??in the context of social, political, economic, technological, and ecological change. As we address these issues, we will examine the ways design and daily life, performed locally, interacted with national and global systems and flows; and the role the built environment has played in advancing structures and concepts of class, gender, race, ethnicity, and power. Students will gain a broad familiarity with the history of American buildings and landscapes, develop critical frameworks for analysis, and enhance their understanding of the environments they interact with every day?as designers, citizens, consumers, and professionals.
ARCH 5441 - Minnesota: Architecture and Landscapes
(3 cr; Prereq-[3411, 3412] recommended; A-F only; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: ARCH 4441 (inactive)
History of major architectural monuments, urban phenomena, and landscape forms of Minnesota. Interrelationships between architecture, geography, and people.
ARCH 5450 - Topics in Architectural Theory (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 3]; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 9 credits; may be repeated 3 times)
Selected topics in architectural theory and criticism.
ARCH 5451 - Architecture: Defining the Discipline
(4 cr; Prereq-M Arch major; A-F only; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Paradigms through which architecture has defined itself. Implications for its practice, product, and architecture in general. Lecture, discussion, design exercises.
ARCH 5452 - Architecture: Design, Form, Order, and Meaning
(4 cr; Prereq-M Arch major or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Architecture and the issue of meaning. Explores fundamental and constituent elements of architectural form and order; their inherent tectonic, phenomenal, experiential, and symbolic characteristics; their potential and implications for the creation and structure of meaningful human places.
ARCH 5516 - Technology Two: Luminous and Thermal Design
(6 cr; Prereq-M Arch; A-F only; offered Every Spring)
Concepts/principles of daylighting, thermal, energy, and systems integration. Architectural/technological implications of lighting and thermal design. Ecological thinking in support of sustainable design decision making.
ARCH 5518 - Environmental Technology: Integrative Ecological Design for Responsive Architecture
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
This course introduces the ecological design concepts and principles of daylighting, thermal, energy, and building systems integration. The course will provide students with an understanding of the primary architectural and technological implications of lighting and thermal to inform design and ecological thinking and to support sustainable design decision-making.
ARCH 5521 - Material Investigation: Concrete
(4 cr; Prereq-MArch or MS; A-F only; offered Every Spring)
Design projects identify common problems/improvements, investigate alternatives, and develop solutions where concrete is primary building material.
ARCH 5527 - Material Investigations: Stone and Water
(4 cr; Prereq-M.Arch or M.S.; A-F only; offered Every Spring)
Design projects identify common problems/improvements, investigate alternatives, and develop solutions where wood is primary building material.
ARCH 5539 - Daylighting and Architecture Design
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Spring; may be repeated for 4 credits)
This 15-week seminar will explore approaches to daylighting and architectural design that weave together diverse layers of ecological, physiological, and psychological issues to enhance our understanding and relationship of light in place and time. We will explore how the formal, aesthetic, atmospheric, and experiential aspects of daylighting also support and foster more sustainable and regenerative approaches to architectural design. The goal of the seminar is to familiarize students with daylighting from an ecological perspective in order to use both creatively in the design process.
ARCH 5550 - Topics in Technology (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 4]; A-F only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 3 times)
Selected topics in architecture technology, e.g., construction, environmental management, energy performance, lighting, and materials.
ARCH 5561 - Tech 1, Structures for Building
(3 cr; Prereq-M Arch major or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Role of structure in architectural design. Common systems found throughout history. Review systems to identify parameters that influence structural decisions.
ARCH 5562 - Tech 2, Intro to Building Technology
(3 cr; Prereq-M.Arch or instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Origin/development of architectural idea. Designs as direct means of representing our underlying intentions.
ARCH 5563 - Tech 3: Advanced Building Technology Integrated Building Systems
(3 cr; Prereq-M.Arch or instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Logic of integrating building systems. Improving understanding of/thinking critically about integration principles, theories, practice, application. Identifying/working through problems the project architect must address.
ARCH 5564 - Tech 4: Building Structural Systems
(3 cr; Prereq-M.Arch or instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Main concepts related to building structures. Basic knowledge of flow of forces. Review of rules for sizing structures. Calculations to understand systems behavior. Knowledge/tools to design buildings considering structure within design process.
ARCH 5609 - Development and Implementation of Research
(3 cr; Prereq-instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Bridge gaps among architectural research, design, practice. Forum for students to independently develop research topics/implement research methods related to architectural scholarship/practice, aided by classmates, instructor, guest lecturers.
ARCH 5611 - Design in the Digital Age
(3 cr; Prereq-Grad student or upper level undergrad student; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: ARCH 3611
Introduction to design, design process. Developing/understanding ways of seeing, thinking, and acting as a designer. Changes in design being wrought by digital technology. Team design project.
ARCH 5621 - Professional Practice in Architecture
(3 cr; Prereq-M Arch major or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Legal, ethical, business, and practical requirements of architectural practice. Contemporary and historical models of contract formation, business principles, accounting, project management, design services, and marketing.
ARCH 5630 - Practicum: Advanced Issues in Practice
(3 cr; Prereq-M.S. Architecture or M.Arch; Student Option No Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 6 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
Advanced architectural practice topics not normally covered in curricula are examined/evaluated as foundation for licensure/ARE 4.0 testing processes.
ARCH 5650 - Topics in Architectural Practice (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 4]; Prereq-5621, Arch major or 5621, M Arch major or instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 16 credits; may be repeated 4 times)
Topics in architectural practice, methods of design production, marketing, operation, and relationships among clients, architecture, and society.
ARCH 5651 - Building Stories
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Spring; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 4 times)
Professional practice education by means of case study analysis.
ARCH 5670 - Topics in Historic Preservation (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 3]; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 4 times)
Selected topics in the theory, philosophy, research, and methods of architectural historic preservation.
ARCH 5671 - Historic Preservation
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall)
Philosophy, theory, origins of historic preservation. Historic archaeology/research, descriptive analysis, documentation of historic buildings. Government's role in historic preservation, preservation standards/guidelines, preservation/building codes, preservation advocacy.
ARCH 5672 - Historic Building Conservation
(3 cr; Prereq-3412, 5671 or instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Spring)
Historic building materials, systems, and methods of conservation. Discussion of structural systems, building repair and pathology, introduction of new environmental systems in historic buildings, and conservation of historic interiors. Research on historic building materials and techniques using primary and secondary resources and on documentation of a specific historic site through large-format photography and measured drawings.
ARCH 5673 - Historic Property Research and Documentation
(3 cr; Prereq-[3412, 3641, 4671, 5671, 4672 or 5672] or instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Spring)
Philosophy, theory, methods of historic building research. Descriptive analysis of buildings, building documentation, historical archaeology, architectural taxonomy.
ARCH 5686 - Capstone: Research into Practice
(4 cr; Prereq-MS-RP student; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
ARCH 5686 is the first of a two-course sequence required as the capstone experience for MS-ARP students. The course provides a forum for understanding the current state of research in the design and building industry and its trajectories and trends. Student projects will apply this knowledge to a research topic area in the building industry, assessing research capacity of practice in the topic area, mapping its potential in context of innovative precedents, research literature, and suggesting future of practice.
ARCH 5687 - Capstone: Practice into Research
(4 cr; Prereq-Arch 5686; S-N only; offered Every Fall & Spring)
ARCH 5687 is the second of a two-course sequence required as the capstone experience for MS-ARP students. Building upon the previous semester understanding the state of research in particular topic area in the building industry, this course develops and implements a single research project in comparative context. The work of individual students adds to a collective knowledge base on practice-based applied research best practices and development of industry-wide knowledge, metrics, and standards.
ARCH 5688 - Built Environments Research Practices Colloquium
(1 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall; may be repeated for 4 credits; may be repeated 4 times)
The Research Practices internship is intended to develop meaningful connections between education, practice, and research as the key experience-based learning in the Master of Science Applied Research Practices in Built Environments concentration. Coursework is focused on advancing practice-based and use-inspired applied research which builds upon robust literature review, case-based knowledge, evidence-based design, and performance-based outcomes for the built environment industry. The course work is structured to identify and develop practice-engaged emerging research questions, conduct and implement research design, disseminate best practices, case studies, design frameworks, and strategies to drive innovation, ensure quality, and create value for the profession of architecture which will maximize positive environmental, social, and economic impacts. This course is specifically related to internship experience in a local or regional context to study larger emerging practice-related issues in the Research Practices Consortium. Students have access to professional firms in the Research Practices Consortium. Research Practices Internships are based on research priorities set by the Consortium, particular member firm, student intern, and faculty advisors. Additional firms (national and international as appropriate) outside the region may be used as comparators. Students are asked to form research networks in academia and practice. In this course, students position research as Practice knowledge based on topics in the Research Practices internships. In this 1 credit course, the themes are addressed in graphic and text representation are described below. Visual methods of data collection, analysis and representation along with diagramming concepts and information graphics are essential to understanding and explaining critical issues in a research implementation and/or case study in the built environment fields. The format of information can be designed to emphasize
ARCH 5689 - Advanced Inclusive Professional Practice
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Advanced inclusive professional practice class focuses on new and emerging issues in architectural practice including: Lean design, research practices, collaborative intercultural competence. Student projects include creation of interactive material and diagrams.
ARCH 5711 - Theory and Principles of Urban Design
(3 cr; Prereq-M Arch major or LA grad major or grad student or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Seminar. Debate on dominant theories/paradigms informing city design from renaissance to 21th century. Critical issues central to current debates.
ARCH 5721 - Case Studies in Urban Design
(3 cr; Prereq-Grad student or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: LA 5721 (inactive)
Reading seminar. Evolution of contemporary city. Dynamics that created contemporary urban spatial patterns. Planning/design theories that have guided public interventions in built environment. Thematic texts, classroom discussions.
ARCH 5731 - Territorial City
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Seminar. Students research, define, and test conditions within which the territory and contemporary city coexist. Site for research is Twin Cities metropolitan area. Readings, discussions, field trips, collaborative development of urban proposals.
ARCH 5750 - Topics in Urban Design (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 4]; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 16 credits; may be repeated 4 times)
Special topics in theory/practice of urban design.
ARCH 5756 - Public Interest Design: Principles and Practices
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: ARCH 3756
As the allied fields of design evolve in response to an increasing number of global challenges?inequity, social and political turmoil, disruptive climate-change, accelerating population growth?the question of how designers will address the needs of the most vulnerable among us is fundamental. Public Interest Design (PID), an emerging area of specialization within the design professions, specifically considers the concerns of the vast majority of the world's inhabitants who are historically under-resourced and ill-equipped to respond to the "Grand Challenges" facing humankind. With this mind, this introductory survey course has two aims: First, to critically examine the range of environmental, economic, social, and ethical issues that underpins work with under-resourced domestic and international communities?including how these concerns can be collectively addressed to become more resilient; and second, to investigate organizational models that seek to broaden the traditional scope of the allied design fields as disciplines and professions by advocating a humanitarian basis for practice.
ARCH 5993 - Directed Study
(1 cr [max 4]; Prereq-instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 8 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
Guided individual reading or study.
ARCH 8010 - Topics in Heritage Studies and Public History
(1 cr [max 3]; A-F only; offered Periodic Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 9 credits; may be repeated 3 times)
Equivalent courses: was HSPH 8010 until 05-SEP-23
Topics in Heritage Studies and Public History explores new and emerging issues in the field that are not examined in other coursework.
ARCH 8101 - Subjects and Methods in Architecture
(2 cr; Prereq-Grad Arch major or instr consent; S-N or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
The discipline of architecture.
ARCH 8250 - Advanced Topics in Design (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 6]; Prereq-Admitted to 3+ track for MArch prog or instr consent; S-N or Audit; offered Periodic Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 6 credits)
Design studio.
ARCH 8251 - Graduate Architectural Design I
(9 cr; Prereq-MArch or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Design projects focus on fundamental issues of space/form/ light/materiality in relation to human habitation. Design as a process of exploration/inquiry. Modes/media of representation, their critical impact.
ARCH 8252 - Graduate Architectural Design II
(6 cr; Prereq-8251, grad Arch major or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Fundamental architectural problems involving design as a creative inquiry. Individual and collaborative effort.
ARCH 8253 - Graduate Architectural Design III
(6 cr; Prereq-[8251, MArch] or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Issues of design process, representation, programming, technology, and urban relations.
ARCH 8254 - Technical Applications in Design
(3 cr; Prereq-[8253, MArch major] or dept consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall; may be repeated for 6 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
Design potential inherent in technical development process of design project. Testing concepts, developing details, integrating building systems. Structural bay enclosure, cost considerations, regulatory compliance. Building-information modeling, analog/digital representations in architecture document production.
ARCH 8255 - Graduate Architectural Design V
(6 cr; Prereq-[8254, grad Arch major] or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
Fundamental architectural problems involving design as a creative inquiry. Individual/collaborative effort.
ARCH 8295 - Directed Graduate Architectural Design
(6 cr; Prereq-8251, grad Arch major or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
N/A
ARCH 8299 - Master's Final Project
(10 cr; Prereq-Plan C, MArch; S-N only; offered Every Spring)
Final studio project for Plan C master's. Measures knowledge of architecture and ability to conduct research for design proposal, communicate in visual/written representations. Proposal, graphic presentation of project.
ARCH 8333 - FTE: Master's
(1 cr; Prereq-Master's student, adviser and DGS consent; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; 6 academic progress units; 6 financial aid progress units)
(No description)
ARCH 8350 - Advanced Topics in Representation (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 3]; Prereq-Grad Arch major or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 3 credits)
Theory and practice of visual representation in architecture.
ARCH 8450 - Topics in Theory (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 3]; Prereq-5411, grad Arch major or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 3 credits)
Topics vary
ARCH 8494 - Directed Research in Architectural History
(1 cr [max 3]; Prereq-Grad Arch major or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring; may be repeated for 3 credits)
tbd
ARCH 8550 - Topics in Technology (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 3]; Prereq-Grad arch major or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 3 credits)
Special topics in theory/practice of architecture technologies.
ARCH 8561 - Sustainable Design Theory and Practice
(3 cr; Prereq-[5513, [grad MS or MArch]] or instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
History, theory, and ethics of sustainable design processes/practices. Emphasizes approaches to sustainable architecture. Regional/global ecological issues, design strategies, methods of assessment. Primary architectural/technological implications of sustainable design theory/practice that inform design thinking/research. Sustainable design issues. Research projects, case studies, fieldwork.
ARCH 8563 - Energy and Indoor Environmental Quality Issues in Sustainable Design
(3 cr; Prereq-[5513, [grad MS or MArch]] or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Energy/IEQ aspects of sustainable design related to global environmental issues. Energy/IEQ strategies, methods, and tools as applied to sustainable building design. Research projects, case studies.
ARCH 8565 - Materials Performance in Sustainable Building
(3 cr; Prereq-[5512, grad MS or March]] or instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Building-material properties, resource conservation, fabrication/construction processes in production of high performance sustainable building designs. Application of assessment/evaluation tools (LCA, BEES, Athena or LEED) for IEQ, waste reduction and management with an emphasis on experimental/analytic methods. Aesthetic/technical solutions that integrate design selection processes, construction methods, commissioning processes, and facility management, maintenance, and decommissioning.
ARCH 8567 - Site and Water Issues in Sustainable Design
(3 cr; Prereq-[5512, [grad MS or MArch student]] or instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Spring)
Site, water and site/building integration aspects of sustainable design. Ecological principles, site analysis. Water/site/building integration strategies, methods, and tools integrated with sustainable design issues such as energy, indoor environmental quality, and materials. Research projects, case studies, measurement methods.
ARCH 8650 - Topics in Architectural Practice (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 3]; Prereq-Grad Arch major or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall; may be repeated for 3 credits)
N/A
ARCH 8750 - Topics in Urban Design (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 3]; Prereq-Grad Arch major or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall; may be repeated for 3 credits)
N/A
ARCH 8777 - Thesis Credits: Master's
(1 cr [max 18]; Prereq-Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 10 cr total required [Plan A only; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 50 credits; may be repeated 10 times)
(No description)

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