Basic issues in various School of Architecture disciplines.

Introduction to the social contexts, potential, and consequences of architecture and interior design.

An introduction to the forms and methods of design for architects and interior designers, with an emphasis on inhabitation including body, light, and movement. Taught in a studio format by faculty members under the direction of a faculty coordinator.

An introduction to the forms and methods of design for architects and interior designers, with an emphasis on environment, including color, material, and texture. Taught in a studio format by faculty members under the direction of a faculty coordinator.

Study and application of drawing and other communication skills for designers, including formal and spatial studies, life drawing, and perspective.

Study and application of drawing and other communication skills for designers, including color, light and shadow, and projections. Employs manual and digital techniques.

Examine the underlying material framework of the built environment through the study of buildings, products, and artworks that span time and place. Emphasis is placed on works of architecture.

Introduction to building construction, materials, and structures.

Analysis of building assemblies, envelope design, and structures.

Comparative study of the architecture of the ancient world, including Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the academic advising coordinator in the School of Architecture. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

Discuss various issues related to the academic, cultural, and personal aspects of completing academic work in international locations.

Intermediate-level studio emphasizing theory, raison-d'etre, program, and overlaps with other disciplines.

Introduction to digital modeling as well as principles of digital fabrication. Includes various modes of output such as drawings, renderings, and physical models.

Explore tectonic expression through structural systems, construction methods and materiality, and spatial and formal composition at the scale of a building.

Examine the relationship of city and nature, urban issues, housing, landscape, and spatial and formal composition at the scale of the city in a studio setting.

Examine theory, raison-d'etre, program, spatial and formal composition, and overlaps with other disciplines in a studio setting.

Study of critical theories and practices that affect the built environment.

Intersects theory and practice by performing design-build, community service/community engagement as a form of alternative real estate development.

Designed to explore the relationships between the generation of form, space, experience, and atmosphere in the spatial practices of interior design, architecture, and art.

Advanced topics in architecture and associated disciplines to encourage critical and theoretical thinking.

Explore the theory and application of computational design. Use of software programs to develop experimental projects that uncover new tactics for the design of buildings and objects. Projects will be evaluated on their spatial and experiential potential and attention to digital craft.

Examine the relationship of design relative to the narratives of race, gender, and diversity.

Focus on personal design methodology by exploring multiple drawing methods, skills and approaches including manual, digital, and hybrid techniques. Refines design communication skills by pairing clearly articulated design intention with compelling drawings, and expressing them via effective verbal presentations.

Focus on advanced visual communication methodologies necessary for architectural generation, translation, and output.

Focus on digital fabrication as a link between architecture and product design.

Digital visualization techniques used to model three dimensional environments and motion with digital media. Includes lectures, software demonstrations, and projects that focus on the digital translation of spatial experience, as well as the visualization techniques associated with rendering texture, character, and environment.

Advanced topics in various methods of visual communication.

Practice on basic woodworking skills: tool sharpening, layout, millwork, joinery, gluing, sanding, and finishing.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the academic advising coordinator in the School of Architecture. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

History, theory, and technique of landscape design, with emphasis on the relationship of a building to its landscape.

A survey of acoustics, color, light, illumination, and electrical and information systems in architectural interiors. Includes techniques of documentation.

Examine heating, ventilating, air conditioning, vertical transportation, and wiring and plumbing systems in buildings, including techniques of documentation.

Examine theories of building construction and materials. Explore the analysis and design of structural components.

Continue to examine theories of building behavior and materials. Explore the analysis and design of structural systems.

Analyze building envelope, assemblies, detailing, and specifications.

A survey of Mexican architecture and urbanism from its origins in pre-Columbian times to the twenty-first century. Evaluation of architecture as a cultural production intricately connected to its artistic and historical context and the landscape that supports it.

Overview and chronological series of in-depth studies in the history of major garden cultures and designed landscapes of the Western and Eastern worlds. Introduction to methodological approaches to the formal, social, and cultural history of gardens and landscapes, as well as to relevant theoretical frameworks for interpreting these designed landscapes and for use in conceptualizing landscapes, architecture, and urban projects in studio design.

Continuation of Landscape Architecture 342K (and Architecture 342D) through the modern period to contemporary times. Formal and cultural history of gardens, parks, and public landscapes from 1700 to about 1990. Includes comparative material from the contemporary period, 1980 to 2010.

Seminars and lecture/seminars on advanced topics in the history of architecture.

Explore an overview of the synthetic act of design and a strong interdisciplinary grounding in one of the key historical periods of design and in advanced research methods.

Explore the roles of visual representation in design and professional practice from Leonardo da Vinci to the digital age. Review the history of techniques, media, and conventions of representation in architecture and landscape architecture and in their intersections.

Advanced topics in architecture and associated disciplines to encourage critical and theoretical thinking.

Issues facing residents of United States cities, such as transportation and housing, poverty and crime, metropolitan finance, environmental and architectural design; historical/comparative urban evolution.

Advanced topics in various methods of visual communication.

Comprehensive studio to develop the ability to combine the elements of a thorough building design.

Study advanced problems in architectural design.

Produce construction documents.

Produce construction documents.

Ethical, legal, and administrative responsibilities of the architect; organizations, processes, and roles in architecture.

Seminars and lecture/seminars on advanced topics in the history of architecture.

Introduction to city architecture, urban design, and planning.

Independent research, planning, and prep course that must be followed by Architecture 578S.

An independent studio that follows Architecture 378R.

Investigation of problems selected by the student.

Advanced topics in visualization and fabrication in such media as freehand drawing, modeling, photography, computer graphics, photogrammetry, and measured drawings.

Study of theories related to design, livability, and sustainability in the built environment. Includes collaboration with other students and research.

Visual communication in media, such as freehand drawing, modeling, photography, and measured drawings.

Focus on advanced visual communication methodologies necessary for architectural generation, translation, and output.

Studio to provide skills in producing construction documents as they relate to the design and building process.

Introductory workshop with a focus on developing graphic and basic design skills for the purpose of describing and communicating architectural ideas and form. Exposure to a diverse range of approaches involving freehand drawing, architectural graphic conventions, three-dimensional modeling of ideas, and an introduction to the design process.

Ethical, legal, economic, and administrative processes and responsibilities of the practitioner in architecture and allied fields. Topics may include preservation law, community development, participatory design, and other aspects of organizations; methods and roles in design, planning, and preservation of the built environment.

Under the supervision of a faculty member, students produce a portfolio based on the Professional Residency Program experience.

Under the supervision of a faculty member, students produce a research paper based on the Professional Residency Program experience.

Fundamentals of building and landscape relationships.

Topics in the history, design, and preservation of building sites, landscapes, and rural and urban communities.

Examine thermal comfort, heating, cooling, ventilation, plumbing systems, fire protection, and conveying equipment in buildings.

Examine light and color fundamentals, daylighting, artificial illumination, acoustics, and electrical and information systems for buildings.

Topics include daylighting and the history of building technology.

Introduction to building construction, materials, and structures. Analyze building assemblies and envelope design.

Examine theories of building construction and materials. Explore the analysis and design of structural components.

Continue to examine theories of building behavior and materials. Explore the analysis and design of structural systems.

Examine how architectural theory has shaped, and been shaped by, architectural practice in the 20th and 21st centuries, with an emphasis on architecture of the after-Modern.

Survey architectural theories since the Renaissance.

Study of critical theories and practices that affect the built environment.

Explore the theory and application of computational design. Use of software programs to develop experimental projects that uncover new tactics for the design of buildings and objects.

Examine the relationship of design relative to the narratives of race, gender, and diversity.

Introduction to architectural types, principles, and building technologies from prehistory to the mid-eighteenth century.

Examination of architecture types, principles, and building technologies with special attention to cultural transfers.

Seminars and lecture/seminars on advanced topics in architectural history, historic preservation, and the history of building technology.

Explore the roles of visual representation in design and professional practice from Leonardo da Vinci to the digital age. Review the history of techniques, media, and conventions of representation in architecture and landscape architecture and in their intersections.

Investigation of problems in architecture, urban design, and development selected by the student with approval of the Graduate Studies Committee.

Investigation of problems selected by the student with approval of the supervising faculty member.

Advanced study in architecture, addressing complex design problems and issues related to various architectural topics.

Study of critical theories and practices that affect the built environment.

Designed to explore the relationships between the generation of form, space, experience, and atmosphere in the spatial practices of interior design, architecture, and art.

Focus on personal design methodology by exploring multiple drawing methods, skills, and approaches including manual, digital, and hybrid techniques. Refines design communication skills by pairing clearly articulated design intention with compelling drawings, and expressing them via effective verbal presentations.

Interdisciplinary studio integrating design and other preservation issues at scales from interiors to landscapes and urban districts.

Focus on digital fabrication as a link between architecture and product design.

Digital visualization techniques used to model three dimensional environments and motion with digital media. Includes lectures, software demonstrations, and projects that focus on the digital translation of spatial experience, including the visualization techniques associated with rendering texture, character, and environment.

Practice on basic woodworking skills: tool sharpening, layout, millwork, joinery, gluing, sanding, and finishing.

Design problems dealing with subjective and objective decision making, study and application of drawing and other communication skills for architects, investigation of physical and social contexts, and the practical requirements of sound building.

A survey of Mexican architecture and urbanism from its origins in pre-Columbian times to the twenty-first century. Evaluation of architecture as a cultural production intricately connected to its artistic and historical context and the landscape that supports it.

Comprehensive study of Frank Lloyd Wright's life and work with emphasis on the analyses of his concepts of organic architecture, design methods, and theories.

Overview and chronological series of in-depth studies in the history of major garden cultures and designed landscapes of the Western and Eastern worlds. Introduction to methodological approaches to the formal, social, and cultural history of gardens and landscapes, as well as to relevant theoretical frameworks for interpreting these designed landscapes and for use in conceptualizing landscapes, architecture, and urban projects in studio design.

Continuation of Architecture 395E through the modern period and contemporary times. Formal and cultural history of gardens, parks, and public landscapes from 1700 to about 1990. Includes comparative material from the contemporary period, 1980 to 2010.

An examination of how American housing is conceived, developed, and marketed, as well as relationships between home buyers and builders.

Explores the synthetic act of design and notions of originality and tradition in the arts of Baroque Rome by studying Francesco Borromini and his work through the lenses of professional design practice, the arts, contemporary Galilean science, and papal society.

Advanced studio to develop skills in assimilating concepts into a feasible building design.

Advanced problems in architectural design to help develop skills in areas of students' and faculty member's choice, including interior architecture and preservation, as well as landscape, urban, and sustainable design.

Study advanced problems in architectural design to help develop skills in chosen areas, including interior architecture and preservation, as well as landscape, urban, and sustainable design.

Participate in a forum for advanced study in architecture, addressing complex design problems and issues related to various architectural subjects.

Conference course for students preparing for the dissertation colloquium.

Preparation of a degree project to fulfill the requirement for the Master of Science in Historic Preservation or other School of Architecture degree program under the departmental report option. May be taken for a single semester (similar to the Professional Report), or two semesters (similar to the Thesis).

Preparation of a report to fulfill the requirement for the master's degree under the report option.

Designed to orient the beginning teacher in effective methods of teaching architecture and related topics.