Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 4

Description: PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE I ***** Visual studies using simple tools and materials to develop an awareness of the environment and a vocabulary to describe it. Requisite for architecture majors. ***** Instructor(s): Grenader, Samuels

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 4

Description: PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE I ***** A development of communication of formal information from further investigation of visual structures and their order. Requisite for architecture majors. ***** Instructor(s): Grenader, Samuels

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CASE STUDIES IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE ***** This course offers an introduction to the history of western art and architecture through weekly case studies of some of the most important public and private buildings in antiquity and the Middle Ages: from the Parthenon to a Roman house, Carnavan Castle to Chartres Cathedral. Topics explored throughout the course include the construction of imperial authority, ritual and the formation of space, and the relationship between structure and design. This course is offered in alternate years with HART 101. ***** Also offered as HART 104 and MDST 104. ***** Instructor(s): Neagley, Quemenoen

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 2

Description: FRESHMAN SEMINAR ON ARCHITECTURAL ISSUES ***** Introductory tutorial. Readings, field trips, and seminar discussions. Exploration of the role of the architect and architecture in the metropolis. ***** Instructor(s): Casbarian

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 6

Description: PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE II ***** Introduction to concepts of beginning architectural design. Design process as problem solving with emphasis on conscious method. Requisite for architecture majors. ***** Instructor(s): Oliver, Williams

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 6

Description: PRINCIPLES OF ARCH II ***** See ARCH 201. ***** Instructor(s): Wittenberg, Williams

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group III

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN OF STRUCTURES ***** The course will introduce students to historical and contemporary structures through multi-media presentations, computer-based visualizations, field trips and hands-on experiments with materials of construction and physical models of structures. This is an introductory interactive course on the art and science of designing engineered structures and in intended for freshmen and sophomores interested in both civil engineering and architecture. ***** Also offered as CEVE 207. ***** Instructor(s): Wittenberg.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DESIGN OF STRUCTURES II ***** Application of materials & construction (wood, masonry, concrete & steel). Case studies & field trips. ***** Instructor(s): Oberholzer

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 6

Description: PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE III ***** Intermediate level design problems with emphasis on building technology, programming and formal design. Requisite for paraprofessional major in architecture. ***** Instructor(s): Hight, Lally

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 6

Description: PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE III ***** Variety of intermediate level problems for developing comprehensive experience in design methods and processes. Requisite for paraprofessional major in architecture.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HOUSTON ARCHITECTURE ***** This course consists of a series of illustrated lectures and walking tours that describe and analyze the architecture of Houston from the city's founding in 1836 to the present. Characteristic building types and exceptional works of architecture are identified; tours stimulate an awareness of the historical dimension of urban sites. ***** Instructor(s): Fox

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE ***** This course will explore sustainable design from initial sustainable facility concepts and team organizations, to enlisting community support and process assessment. The course will develop into details about sustainable design, lessons learned, processes and outcomes. ***** Instructor(s): Taylor

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DESIGN OF STRUCTURES III ***** Application of principles of analysis to construction of steel & concrete framed structures. Continuation of ARCH 213, 214. ***** Instructor(s): Oberholzer

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group III

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL SYSTEMS ***** An introduction to the thermal performance of buildings. Course is divided into 2 parts: Building Climatology and Air Conditioning Systems. ***** Instructor(s): Oberholzer.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LANDSCAPE AND SITE STRATEGIES FOR HOUSTON ***** This course is a workshop in site planning, with Houston as its focus. It will allow students to gain practice assessing, cataloging, and communicating the many complex issues that go into plugging a building into a site. We will navigate the networks created by natural environments, the build and legal environments, and access. The final product of this course is a site plan. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Albert, Whiteherd

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: METHODS OF MAKING ***** The intent of this class is to saturate the design process with direct experience, to make fabrication synonymous with design. The focus is on identifying and developing an awareness of the underlying principles manifest in joining materials. ***** Instructor(s): Guthrie

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WHAT IS ISLAMIC ART? ***** This seminar is a critical examination of key themes and issues in Islamic art. Based on readings that focus on specific examples of artistic and architectural production of major landmarks from the 7th to the 18th centuries our discussions will evolve around such questions as: What is Islamic about Islamic art? How and where did art, religion, and politics intersect? To what extent were art and architecture informed by religious principles, practices, and rituals? Can we speak of a distinctive visual language across the Muslim world? We will also explore the role of myth in the construction of cultural heritage, the development of writing into a major form of art called calligraphy, and questions of patronage and imperial ideology. We will revisit long-held assumptions about the nature or Islamic art as iconoclastic and aniconistic, and about the nature and scope of artistic exchange between the Muslim world and the Latin Christian West, Byzantium, and China. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Also offered as HART 325 ***** Instructor(s): Hamadeh

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BUILDING WORKSHOP I ***** The Rice Building Workshop involves students in the design and construction of real projects at various scales. Elective courses and course sequences will be formatted to address the specific requirements of each project as required. Please consult postings for further information. ***** Instructor(s): Samuels Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TEN MONUMENTS OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD ***** This seminar examines ten key religious and secular buildings of the Islamic world, including some of the most celebrated monuments such as the Taj Mahal, in India, and the Alhambra Palace, in Spain. It covers a wide geographical area that stretches from modern Turkey, Egypt, and Syria, to Iran and India. Each session will alternate lecture and discussion and will focus on one building, exploring it in depth in relation to its aesthetic, cultural, religious, and political contexts. We will examine the formation of a visual vocabulary, its continuities, and variations, the complex layers of meanings embedded in these monuments, and will question patronage, imperial ideology, and cross-cultural encounters and influences. ***** Also offered as HART 323 and ARCH 628. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Hamadeh.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: METHODS OF MAKING II ***** Continuation of ARCH 322/622. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor required. ***** Instructor(s): Guthrie

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: VISUAL CULTURE OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD I ***** An introduction to the arts and architecture of the Islamic world from the rise of Islam to the Mongol invasions. Explores the development of a visual tradition through its continuities, regional variations, exchanges, and intertextualities. Examines key religious and secular institutions and art forms through their aesthetic and historical contexts. ***** Also offered as HART 321.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: VISUAL CULTURE ISLAMIC WORLD II ***** An introduction to the architecture, ceramics, textiles, and arts of the book of the Islamic world, from Egypt to India and Central Asia, beginning in the wake of the Mongol conquests and ending with the demise of the Ottoman empire. Focusing on court patronage and production, the course examines key buildings and objects through their aesthetic, cultural, religious, and political contexts. Methodological concerns of the field are addressed through an exploration of such themes as iconoclasm, word and image, and cross-cultural influences. ***** Also offered as HART 322 ***** Instructor(s): Hamadeh

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BUILDING WORKSHOP II ***** Real-life problems dealing with design and construction. ***** Instructor(s): Grenader Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ANIMATING ARCHITECTURE ***** The goal of this class will be the production of a short animated film whose central theme will be an unbuilt work of caconic architecture. Modeling and rendering skills in any 3dsoftware package are required for this course. Although we will primarily be using 3DS MAX, general knowledge of a wide range of supporting software will be very helpful. ***** Enrollment limited to 12. ***** Instructor(s): Heiss

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CONSTRUCTION & DESIGN ***** A seminar in which the relationship between the construction of an object and its usefulness is explored. The premise in the course is that the way things are made can be one credible point of departure for the architectural design process.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ARCHITECURE AND THE CITY I ***** This course will trace the development of Renaissance and Baroque architecture in Italy and France with reference to the dialectic of license and rule. The first part, which covers the period from 1400-1600, will focus on the civil, domestic and ecclesiastical architecture of the chief protagonists of the Italian Renaissance: Brunelleschi, Alberti, Bramante, Giulio Romano, Michelangelo and Palladio. Their buildings and urban initiatives will be interpreted in terms of continuities & discontinuities between an emerging theoretical tradition & the demands of actual practice. ***** Also offered as HART 345.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ARCH 345

Description: ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY II ***** This course is an overview of modern architecture with reference to related issues in cultural modernity. The course will consider important work of the 19th and 20th century, although reference will be made to earlier material where it bears on the issues under discussion. The course begins with the claim that the architecture of modernity has historically been conceived and developed in relation to utopian ideals, and that architectural modernism cannot be adequately understood unless attention is paid to its various utopian and dystopian 'moments'. ***** Also offered as HART 206. ***** Prereqisite(s): ARCH 345.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ARCHITECTURE IN POPULAR CULTURE ***** An overview of the ways that popular culture and mass media look at architecture. Topics vary from year to year, focusing on how the discipline and objects of architecture are portrayed in one or more of the following: television, film, advertising, popular novels, animation, comic books, music video, and arcade games. ***** Instructor(s): Biln

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: IN REPRESENTATION: SIGNS OF LIFE ***** This course considers the problem of capturing, producing, and rendering both real and imagined images of architecture, landscape and the urban environment. The course does not follow the usual practice of beginning with a particular technique and then applying it to assigned problems of representation. Rather this course will work toward issues in technique from the starting points of subject matter and creative intention. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Biln

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PHOTOGRAPHY FOR ARCHITECTS ***** Exploration of a variety of photographic techniques for architectural research, design, and presentation. ***** Instructor(s): White

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CAST MODERNITY ***** This seminar will look at concrete's role as a facilitator of the conceptual and theoretical agendas of the architecture of the 20th century. Just as the Domino system enabled a new architecture at the beginning of the century, the current interests in topological and non-treated form are again arguing for concrete's unique properties. ***** Instructor(s): Oliver

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CRISIS AND COMMUNICATIONS ***** As the demands for design today shift toward social, economic and technological concerns, the group/crisis model is re-emerging in both corporate and popular and radical milieus. We will study the history of these developments, form our own collective operation and produce a publication that reflects this emerging new approach to design culture. This is both a history and research course and a hands-on course in communications design.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE PHILOSOPHY OF MATTER, FORCE AND EVENT ***** A lecture course on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze will deal with the metaphysical foundations of contemporary space and time. Readings will include Deleuze's analyses of Spinoza, Leibniz, Nietzsche, and Bergson. Strong emphasis will be placed on reading, writing, as well as on design applications of principles from the work.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION ***** A semester long workshop designed to impart skills in free-hand drawing, with an emphasis on architectural subjects. The course will consist of in-class sketching exercises and out-of-class drawing assignments. ***** Instructor(s): Cannady, Delaura

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY ***** This research-based seminar is a quod libet course open to graduate and undergraduates alike. The course will place heavy emphasis on weekly writing and reading and formal research techniques. Students will select their own research topics and will develop written and graphic materials for seminar presentations and publication. Finished materials will be prepared for, and presented at, every class meeting. It is encouraged that this course be used in conjunction with a design studio, as a research, theory, and development arm. ***** Instructor(s): Kwinter

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SILENCE/SOUND/NOISE ***** This course will examine the sonorous dimensions and implications of architecture. While the course will provide an overview of basic principles of acoustics and architecture's materiality in relation to sound, the primary focus will be the architectural implications of sound-dominant rather than vision-dominant modes of thought. ***** Limited enrollment.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE JOY OF MATERIALS ***** An investigation of how materials influence and inspire the making of works of architecture. ***** Enrollment limited to 12 (combined with ARCH 674). ***** Instructor(s): Jimenez

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CULTURAL CRITICISM IN ARCHITECTURE ***** This seminar explores the relationship between architecture and culture. Course readings include Cornel West, bell hooks, and Bill Goode. Specifically, we will study the effects of advanced capitalism, identity politics and latent biases which form the foundation of the architecture profession. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Instructor(s): Williams

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: REPOSITIONING THE SEAM (TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR) ***** The class will explore the use of surface modeling software and CAD modeling tools how various techniques of articulating form, in relation to programmatic performance, affects the visual, formal, and spatial organization of the places we inhabit. With the use of surface modeling programs and CAD drafting tools, a heavy emphasis will be placed on articulating the work through graphic techniques before being applied to physical models. The class will be run in small groups of 2-3 people. The initial weeks of the class will be spent looking to precedents which explore various techniques of articulating form and space. Each team will then focus these various techniques from the precedents on a single space or series of spaces. With each group focusing on the same space, each with a separate emphasis, a juxtaposition of results will occur allowing for a comparison that looks to implications on the visual, performative, and organizational systems. ***** Instructor(s): Lally

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CONCEPTUAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE ***** The first part of the course will examine the conceptual art practices that began in the 1960s, including Bochner, Kosuth, art and language, LeWitt, Haacke, Kelly, and Smithson. The second part of the course will focus on the question of what constitutes a conceptual architecture by interrogating a series of potential practices including: Super Studio, Anchigram, Eisenman, Libeskind, Shinohara, Hejduf, Tschumi, and others. ***** Also offered as HART 392.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIETY II (ENLIGHTENMENT-POSTMODERNITY) ***** Through a series of case studies, this course will examine the socio-cultural consequences of exemplary buildings from the Englightenment through Postmodernity.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 6

Description: PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE IV ***** Upper level architectural design problems with an emphasis on urban issues and site planning, and complex building organization. Required for preprofessional major in architecture. ***** Instructor(s): Jimenez

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 6

Description: PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE IV ***** See ARCH 302.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PRODUCT ***** By reducing the scale of our efforts from architecture down to product design, and through a series of field trips to material suppliers, manufacturing facilities, and retail environments, this class will explore a means of producing designs that will directly enter the market. We will develop a complete design and production process in which students will be asked to not only create a protoptype household object, but also to make that object in quantity and introduce it into the retail world for consumption. As a means of testing the success of these designs, all of the products will be for sale at Sunset Settings following the completion of the course.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION PROJECT DELIVERY INNOVATION ***** Process innovation in the design and construction industries is far too rare. Even with access to powerful tools such as CADD and the Internet, many opportunities for process improvement are overlooked and problems are repeatedly ignored. Within this course, cross-discipline project teams will use contemporary business tools to evaluate longstanding industry practices and develop ideas for process innovation. At the end of the semester, students will present innovation concepts to members of the Project Delivery Innovation Forum, a group of industry leaders that may select student ideas for further research on real projects. ***** Also offered as MGMT 716. ***** Instructor(s): White.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE MAKING OF THE ORIENT ***** The Making of the Orient in the 18-20th Century Europe focuses on the construction of the image of the Orient in the age of European colonial expansion. Through critical analysis of texts, images, and cultural practices (painting, photography, architecture, city planning, music, fiction, and travel literature) and key theoretical works, this course examines issues of production and codification of knowledge, politics of representation, and identity construction in and beyond the colonial period. ***** Also offered as HART 422. ***** Enrollment limited to 20. ***** Instructor(s): Hamadeh

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PROFESSIONALISM & MANAGEMENT IN ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE ***** An introductory survey of the characteristics of the delivery of architectural services by professional design organizations. Through readings and lectures, students become familiar with the social, technical, legal, ethical, and financial milieu of modern architecture practice.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THEORY AND MODERNISM: ARCHITECTURE FILM ***** This course wil consider certain key relationships between film, architecture and the city in the 20th century. Our point of departure will be the claim that since well before the birth of enlightenment thought, Western spatial practices have had an insistently narative, sequential, and scopic character that has only become more pronounced with the arrival of new media and related technologies in the 19th century. The course will operate as a seminar in which both student and instructor will offer presentations, coordinate discussions, and actively participate in class dialogues. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THEORY AND MODERNISM: UNDER THE SKIN ***** This course operates as a forum for thinking broadly about the cultural modernity and architectural modernism. This semester, the course will consider a deeply persistent, greatly underestimated, and increasingly important cultural figure: the building that lives. We will study some of the most important formulations of this trope from antiquity to postmodernity, from figures such as the flying temples and walking statues of antiquity to contemporary problems of posthuman existence and 'animate' materials in architecture. We will see that the living building inhabits a 'monstrous' -errain where the limits of three central fabrications of culture--humanity, technology, and nature--are mutually transgressed. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Biln

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DESIGNING THE LOW-COST HOUSE ***** The spring course begins the sequence to produce a small house under the auspices of the Rice Building Workshop. The history and development of the small house will be examined, followed by an analysis of the proposed mid-town site and it's context. Construction technologies, materials, costs, climate conditions, and code issues will be considered. Each student will develop a design approach in some detail, and a single proposal (or merging of proposals) will be selected and documented for permitting and construction. All phases of the project will incorporate collaboration with the larger community, from neighborhood organizations to local contractors.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BUILDING LOW COST HOUSE II ***** This elective course will continue student involvement in the hands-on process of constructing a new structure for Project Row Houses, a noted grass-roots art project promoting neighborhood revitalization and community service in the Third Ward.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN ARCHITECTURE ***** This course is designed as a general introduction to computing in the context of architectural design. Emphasis is on the use of digital media as design tools and the appropriate use of these tools in the varying processes of design. This course includes exposure to a broad spectrum of design, drafting, modeling and presentation software.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN ARCHITECTURE ***** This course is designed as a general introduction to computing in the context of architectural design. Emphasis is on the use of digital media as design tools and the appropriate use of these tools in the varying processes of design. This course includes exposure to a broad spectrum of design, drafting, modeling and presentation software. ***** Instructor(s): Delaura

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ARCH 433

Description: COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN IN ARCHITECTURE ***** Introduction to basic computer graphics, computer aided design, and the programming algorithms that underlie them. Develops familiarity with packages such as Autocad and Arris. ***** Instructor(s): Delaura

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN IN ARCHITECTURE ***** Advanced computer graphic techniques using CAD in architecture as a design and presentation medium.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: VIDEO 1,2,3 ***** Production of Architectural space through the use of video, scale physical models, installations, and the urban environment. ***** Enrollment limited to 12. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor is required. ***** Instructor(s): Heiss

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS ***** A workshop in three dimensional computer modeling and its theoretical implications for architecture and design. One class session each week will be a how to lecture covering the technical side of modeling. The other sessions will consist of group discussion through which we will explore the theoretical implications of the medium and test the limits of its use as architectural representation. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor required. ***** Instructor(s): Lally

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GENETIC SCREENING: TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR ***** It is the intent of the class to research and explore the potentials of computer-software and fabrication in a focused semester long design exercise. The class will explore 3-D computer software (specifically MEL scripting) for its variability and adaptability, working on specified performative requirements scripted through if/then scenarios. In groups of 3 the class will investigate these potentials focusing on the design of a screen (privacy screen/curtain wall) before fabricating physical models of these investigations. (Basic understanding of Maya encouraged but no previous requisites required). ***** Instructor(s): Lally

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HOUSING AND URBAN PROGRAMS: ISSUES IN POLICY ***** This course will explore current issues in the formulation and implementation of housing and urban development programs in the U.S. An oral presentation and written paper on a specific topic within a general policy area required. ***** Instructor(s): Lord

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3 TO 9

Description: SPECIAL PROJECTS ***** Independent research or design arranged in consultation with a faculty member. Subject to approval of faculty advisor and director. *** Very limited enrollment. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INDEPENDENT PROJECTS IN FURN DESIGN AND FABRICATION ***** This course will examine alternative materials and material technologies, both existing and emerging, and their impact on the design and fabrication of furniture. The class will initially focus on research into impact of innovations in materials and practices on the production of furniture over the course of the last century. Each student will specifically address the use made by various designers of these changes. The remainder of the course will see each student focus on the investigation of a specific material and its possible methods of manipulation via a simultaneous process of research/design resulting in the fabrication of a proto type.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CASE STUDY IN URBAN DESIGN: BRASILIA ***** Starting with two principal documents describing the city of Brasilia, the original hand drawn competition entry in 1957 and a digital survey of 1997, this seminar will study modern urban design in relation to the 1950's project for a new Brazilian capital. The project of Brasilia, and its inevitable transformation over time, will be looked at historically, politically, culturally, formally and esthetically. ***** Enrollment limited to 12. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE IDEA OF HOUSING ***** In the 1920's the architectural idea of housing and the philosophical idea of existentialism emerged simultaneously in presumably unrelated intellectual circles. Being and Time was published in 1927, the same year the Weissenhof Settlement opened to the public in Stuttgart. One need only emphasize the fact that Martin Heidegger is precisely the same age as both Le Corbusier and Mies to suggest an exploration of the possible connections between the two seemingly disparate intellectual trends. Whether this shared history represents only a coincidence or the overlap of significant content is an open question. The first part of the seminar will examine this question. The second part will catalogue the institutionalization of these ideas through the 1950s using a series of case studies.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TWENTIETH CENTURY HISTORY OF IDEAS OF ARCHITECTURE ***** This course will examine Twentieth Century architectural discourse in a broad intellectual context. Course material will cover the period between 1900 and the present, focusing on 1965-1995. Special attention will be paid to relationships among philosophy, critical theory, cultural criticism, and the objects and theories of architecture. The following topics are covered: Anticipation and Reflection, Formalist Aesthetics, Architecture and Form, Culture and Modernity, Culture and Depth Analysis, Psychoanalytic Interpretation, Architecture and Desire, Culture and Politics, Marxism and Neo-Historicism, Architecture and Political Critique, Phenomology and Reception, Architecture and the Life-World, Culture after Modernism, Semiotics and Structuralism, Discourse and Discipline, Deconstruction and Textuality, Deconstruction (Re)constructed, Feminism and Gender Theory, Architecture and Difference. ***** Instructor(s): Last

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIETY I ***** Through a series of case studies, this course will examine the socio-cultural consequences of exemplary buildings from Antiquity through the 17th century.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PROBLEMS IN KNOWLEDGE AND DESIGN ***** This course will present as series of lectures on the physics and metaphysics of creation and genesis from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines, slowly sewing them together within a general and non-classical approach to form. ***** Instructor(s): Kwinter

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Studio

Credit Hours: 15

Description: PRECEPTORSHIP PROGRAM ***** Full time internship for nine to twelve months under guidance of appointed preceptor. Required for all recipients of Rice B.A. degrees in pre-professional program of area majors who seek admission to graduate studies in Architecture. ***** Instructor(s): Casbarian Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 10

Description: CORE DESIGN STUDIO I ***** Requisite for admission to graduate professional program options in architecture or urban design for students with nonarchitectural bachelor's degree. Lectures, seminars, laboratories, and design studio projects adjusted to individual needs. ***** Prerequisite(s): Determined by the Graduate Affairs Committee with the School of Architecture. ***** Instructor(s): Guthrie

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 10

Description: CORE DESIGN STUDIO II ***** This studio emphasizes the impact of building systems and protocols on the spatial and formal organization of architecture with a final project focused on the design of a public building in a metropolitan context. The studio focuses equally on the development of conceptual rigor and technical expertise. **** Instructor(s): Oliver

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 10

Description: CORE DESIGN STUDIO III ***** Design studio to follow Arch 501, 502. Preparation for entering studios in the regular graduate programs in architecture and urban design in the following semester. ***** Instructor(s): Wittenberg, Finley

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 10

Description: ARCHITECTURAL PROBLEMS ***** Exploration of abstract thought and design capabilities relevant to systematic processes of designing specific buildings and facilities. Course content is topic oriented and varies section to section. ***** Instructor(s): Hight, Lally

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN OF STRUCTURES ***** Graduate version of ARCH 207.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DESIGN OF STRUCTURES II ***** A course in structures for students in the Option I Program. Topics include: structure in architecture; forces and equilibrium; structural materials; the behavior, analysis, and design of structural elements and their connections.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DESIGN OF STRUCTURES III ***** A second course in structures for students in the Qualifying Graduate Program. Topics include: additional topics in the behavior, analysis, and design of structural elements; synthesis of structural elements into structural systems; integration of structural systems with other building systems. ***** Instructor(s): Oberholzer

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL SYSTEMS ***** Graduate version of Arch 316.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRO TO DIGITAL VISUALIZATION & COMMUNICATION ***** Provides an introduction to digital visualization & communication in the context of architectural design. Emphasis is placed on working methods that engage specific issues of the complex assemblies in architectural practice, coordinating various software & graphic techniques through composite methods. The last 3 weeks of the semester will focus on the design & production of a printed portfolio to organize & communicate design work from the first 2 semesters of the core studio sequence. Applications include: Illustrator, In-Design, Photoshop, AutoCAD, 3DMAX, FormZ, DreamWeaver, and Flash. ***** Instructor(s): Finley

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: IN REPRESENTATION: SIGNS OF LIFE ***** Graduate version of ARCH 349. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Biln

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: M. ARCH. I INTERNSHIP ***** Practical work experience for students who have completed at least four semesters in the Option I Program prior to their entrance into the regular Master of Architecture studio sequence. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor required. ***** Very limited enrollment. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 10

Description: ARCHITECTURAL PROBLEMS:STUDIO ***** Emphasis on abstract thought and design capabilities relevant to systematic processes of designing specific buildings and facilities. Note: there are three separate sections for this course. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 10

Description: ARCHITECTURAL PROBLEMS ***** Emphasis on abstract thought and design capabilities relevant to systematic processes of designing specific buildings and facilities. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Studio

Credit Hours: 10

Description: ARCHITECTURAL PROBLEMS: STUDIO ***** Studio conducted in a workshop format with exercises in such topical areas as program development, energy analysis and design, building system integration, and financial analysis. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 6

Description: BUILDING WORKSHOP: THEATER RENOVATION/PARIS PROGRAM ***** Special seminars, lectures, and site visits relevant to history, urban theory, and structure of Paris and other European centers.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HOUSTON ARCHITECTURE ***** Graduate version of ARCH 311.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PRODUCT ***** Graduate version of ARCH 412.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE ***** Graduate version of ARCH 313.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION PROJECT DELIVERY INNOVATION ***** Graduate version of ARCH 416. ***** Also offered as MGMT 716.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LANDSCAPE AND SITE STRATEGIES FOR HOUSTON ***** This course is a workshop in site planning, with Houston as its focus. It will allow students to gain practice assessing, cataloging, and communicating the many complex issues that go into plugging a building into a site. We will navigate the networks created by natural environments, the build and legal environments, and access. The final product of this course is a site plan. ***** Enrollment limited to 15.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MAKING IT: THE CULTURE OF CONSTRUCTION ***** Graduate version of ARCH 419.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Studio

Credit Hours: 10

Description: HISTORY OF BUILDING TECHNOLOGY/PARIS PROGRAM ***** Advanced issues in building design and urban infrastructure using Paris as context. Exploration of compound design processes resulting in the development of complex building typologies.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ECONOMICS OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT ***** Graduate version of ARCH 321.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Studio

Credit Hours: 3

Description: METHODS OF MAKING ***** Graduate version of Arch 322.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PROFESSIONALISM & MANAGEMENT IN ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE ***** Graduate version of ARCH 423.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THEORY AND MODERNISM ***** Graduate version of ARCH 424.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THEORY AND MODERNISM: UNDER THE SKIN ***** Graduate version of ARCH 425. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Biln

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DESIGNING THE LOW-COST HOUSE ***** Graduate version of ARCH 426.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Studio

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BUILDING WORKSHOP I ***** Graduate version of ARCH 327.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TEN MONUMENTS OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD ***** This seminar examines ten key religious and secular buildings of the Islamic world, including some of the most celebrated monuments such as the Taj Mahal, in India, and the Alhambra Palace, in Spain. It covers a wide geographical area that stretches from modern Turkey, Egypt, and Syria, to Iran and India. Each session will alternate lecture and discussion and will focus on one building, exploring it in depth in relation to its aesthetic, cultural, religious, and political contexts. We will examine the formation of a visual vocabulary, its continuities and variations, the complex layers of meanings embedded in these monuments, and will consider questions of patronage, imperial ideology, and cross-cultural encounters and influences. ***** Also offered as ARCH 328 and HART 323. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Hamadeh.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BUILDING LOW COST HOUSE II ***** Graduate version of ARCH 429.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: METHODS OF MAKING II ***** Continuation of ARCH 322/622. ***** Limited enrollment.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS IN ARCHITECTURE ***** Lectures and seminars dealing with problem-solving activities and methodological issues in architectural design and urban design.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN ARCHITECTURE ***** Graduate version of ARCH 433.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BUILDING WORKSHOP II ***** Repeatable for credit. ***** Graduate version of ARCH 334. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: COMPUTER PROJECTS IN ARCHITECTURE ***** Special projects for advanced students in computer applications. (Same as ARCH 435.)

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN IN ARCHITECTURE ***** Graduate version of ARCH 436.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: VIDEO 1,2,3 ***** Graduate version of ARCH 437. ***** Enrollment limited to 12 (combined with ARCH 437). ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor required.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS ***** Graduate version of Arch 439. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor required.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DIGITAL RENDERING, ANIMATION AND VIRTUAL REALITY ***** Graduate version of ARCH 440.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GENETIC SCREENING: TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR ***** Graduate version of ARCH 441. ***** Instructor(s): Lally

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CONSTRUCTION & DESIGN ***** Graduate version of Arch 344.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY I ***** between an emerging theoretical tradition & the demands of Graduate version of ARCH 345. ***** Also offered as HART 345/645.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ARCH 345 OR ARCH 645

Description: 19TH-20TH CENTURY ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY ***** This course is an overview of modern architecture with reference to related issues in cultural modernity. The course will consider important work of the 19th and 20th century, although reference will be made to earlier material where it bears on the issues under discussion. The course begins with the claim that the architecture of modernity has historically been conceived and developed in relation to utopian ideals, and that architectural modernism cannot be adequately understood unless attention is paid to its various utopian and dystopian 'moments'. ***** Also offered as HART 646. ***** Prerequisite(s): ARCH 345 or ARCH 645.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ARCHITECTURE IN POPULAR CULTURE ***** Graduate version of ARCH 347.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: URBAN IDENTITY, UTOPIA AND REFUSAL ***** For class description see ARCH 350.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PHOTOGRAPHY FOR ARCHITECTS ***** Graduate version of ARCH 353.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 20TH CENTURY NORTH AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE ***** Graduate version of ARCH 454.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HOUSING AND URBAN PROGRAMS: ISSUES IN POLICY ***** This course will explore current issues in the formulation and implementation of housing and urban development programs in the U.S. Class members will each select a specific topic within a general policy area and make oral presentation to the class as well as submit a written paper on the topic at the end of the semester. ***** Instructor(s): Lord

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CAST MODERNITY ***** Graduate version of ARCH 358.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: CRISIS AND COMMUNICATION ***** Graduate version of ARCH 360.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE PHILOSOPHY OF MATTER, FORCE AND EVENT ***** Graduate version of ARCH 362.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION ***** A semester long workshop designed to impart skills in free-hand drawing, with an emphasis on architectural subjects. The course will consist of in-class sketching exercises and out-of-class drawing assignments.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CONVERSATIONS: VISITING CRITIC SEMINAR ***** Seminars structured around topics dealing with design theory, with special emphasis on participation by visiting critics and professors.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GRADUATE SEMINAR: CRITICISM AND ARCHITECTURE ***** The seminar will examine the history of critical writings on architecture from the 18th century to the present, consider the various categories used to criticize, such as aesthetics, politics, and technology, and analyze the role that architectural criticism has played in a general cultural context, keeping an eye on parallel trends in the theory of criticism in other disciplines.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY ***** This research-based seminar is a quod libet course open to graduates and undergraduates alike. The course will place heavy emphasis on weekly writing and reading and formal research techniques. Students will select their own research topics and will develop written and graphic materials for seminar presentations and publication. Finished materials wil be prepared for, and presented at, every class meeting. It is encouraged that this course be used in conjunction with a design studio, as a research, theory, and development arm. ***** Instructor(s): Kwinter

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CASE STUDY IN URBAN DESIGN: BRASILIA ***** Graduate version of ARCH 469. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ISSUES IN COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN ***** The class will produce an interactive creative multimedia CD-ROM project about the City of Houston: an investigative multi-dimensional map of the city and its population. We will explore various issues such as content creation and its presentation, interface design, and ease of use. Students will conceive the structure, do the investigative research with the city, write, direct, and edit content (text, images, video, computer graphics, etc.).

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE JOY OF MATERIALS ***** Graduate version of ARCH 374. ***** Enrollment limited to 12 (combined with ARCH 374).

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CULTURAL CRITICISM IN ARCHITECTURE ***** This seminar explores the relationship between architecture and culture. Course readings include Cornel West, bell hooks, and Bill Goode. Specifically, we will study the effects of advanced capitalism, identity politics and latent biases which form the foundation of the architecture profession. ***** Limited enrollment.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE IDEA OF HOUSING ***** Graduate version of ARCH 481.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: REPOSITIONING THE SEAM (TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR) ***** The class will explore through the use of surface modeling software and CAD modeling tools how various techniques of articulating form, in relation to programmatic performance, affects, the visual, formal and spatial organization of the places we inhabit. With the use of surface modeling programs CAD drafting tools, a heavy emphasis will be placed on articulating the work through graphic techniques before being applied to physical models. The class will be run in small groups of 2-3 people. The initial weeks of the class will be spent looking to precedents which explore various techniques from the precedents on a single space or seris or space. Each team will then focus these various techniques from the precedents on a single space or series of space. With each group focusing on the same space, each with a separate emphasis, a juxtaposition of results will occur allowing for a comparison that looks to implications on the visual, performative, and organizational systems.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TWENTIETH CENTURY HISTORY OF IDEAS OF ARCHITECTURE ***** Graduate version of ARCH 483.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CONCEPTUAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE ***** The first part of the course will examine the conceptual art practices that begin in the 1960s including: Bochner, Kosuth, Art and Language, LeWitt, Maacke, Kelly and Smithson. The second part of the course will focus on the question of what constitutes a conceptual architecture by interrogating a series of potential practices including: Super Studio, Archigram, Eisenman, Libesking, Shinohara, Heiduf, Tschumi and others.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIETY I (ANTIQUITY THROUGH 17TH CENTURY) ***** Through a series of case studies, this course will examine the socio-cultural consequences of exemplary buildings from Antiquity through the 17th Century.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIETY II (ENLIGHTENMENT-POSTMODERNITY) ***** Through a series of case studies, this course will examine the socio-cultural consequences of exemplary buildings from the Enlightenment through Postmodernity.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Studio

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ARCHITECTURAL PROBLEMS: STUDIO ***** See ARCH 601.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PROBLEMS IN KNOWLEDGE AND DESIGN ***** This course will present as series of lectures on the physics and metaphysics of creation and genesis from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines, slowly sewing them together withing a genral and non-classical approach to form.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PRACTICUM ***** Full-time intership service in approved local offices under interdisciplinary supervision. Emphasis on real world design, planning, or research experiences. Special tuition. May be taken in any semester or in summer. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PRE-THESIS PREPARATION ***** No description.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 13

Description: DESIGN THESIS STUDIO ***** No description. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WRITTEN THESIS RESEARCH ***** No description. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 13

Description: WRITTEN THESIS ***** No description.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: SPECIAL PROJECTS ***** Independent research or design arranged in consultation with a faculty member subject to approval of the student's faculty advisor and director. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: INDEPENDENT DESIGN PROJECTS ***** No description.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3 TO 12

Description: GRADUATE RESEARCH ***** No description. Repeatable for Credit.