Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: LAUNCH - RICE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE SUMMER PROGRAM: INTRODUCTORY DESIGN STUDIO

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Studio

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Introduction to architectural design for current Rice students and summer visitors. Guided explorations introduce speculative ways of thinking about architecture and the city, using basic design tools and materials.

Long Title: PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE I

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Visual studies using simple tools and materials to develop an awareness of the environment and a vocabulary to describe it. Requisite for architecture majors.

Long Title: PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE II

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisite(s): ARCH 101

Description: A development of communication of formal information from further investigation of visual structures and their order. Requisite for architecture majors.

Long Title: WOODSHOP SAFETY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 1

Description: The course will cover all safety concerns in the model shop. Students will learn the proper set up and maintenance of the stationary tools as well as how to do basic fabrication. Students will learn basic material layout and produce objects using the tools as we cover them.

Long Title: FRESHMAN SEMINAR ON ARCHITECTURAL ISSUES

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 2

Description: Introductory tutorial. Readings, field trips, and seminar discussions. Exploration of the role of the architect and architecture in the metropolis.

Long Title: PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE II

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 6

Prerequisite(s): ARCH 102

Description: Introduction to concepts of beginning architectural design. Design process as problem solving with emphasis on conscious method. Requisite for architecture majors.

Long Title: PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE II

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 6

Prerequisite(s): ARCH 201

Description: Introduction to concepts of beginning architectural design. Design process as problem solving with emphasis on conscious method. Requisite for architecture majors.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO THE DESIGN OF STRUCTURES

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group III

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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 is intended for freshmen and sophomores interested in both civil engineering and architecture. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 507.

Long Title: GREEK/ROMAN ARCHITECTURE: SPACES OF PERFORMANCE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course surveys the architectural history of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds from the 5th century BCE to the 3rd Century CE. The course begins with the claim that the architecture of the ancient world has historically been conceived in relation to the bodily practices and social performances. Therefore, the case studies are visualized in the light of social events, festivals, cult practices and public spectacles. Cross-list: HART 212, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 512.

Long Title: PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE III

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 6

Prerequisite(s): ARCH 202

Description: Intermediate level design problems with emphasis on building technology, programming and formal design. Requisite for paraprofessional major in architecture.

Long Title: PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE III

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 6

Prerequisite(s): ARCH 301

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

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE FOR NON-ARCHITECTS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course is designed to increase awareness and appreciation of broad range of architectural issues through lectures, comparative building studies, design exercises, readings, and discussion. Intended for non-majors in architecture, the course will provide students the opportunity to understand the architectural design process through hands-on experience. Enrollment limited by 15 and requires instructor permission. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE: HISTORY & METHOD

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will provide an introduction to landscape architecture through a survey of its history, and through direct application to a studio project. From the historic gardens at Versailles to the current Millennium Park in Chicago, the direct manipulation and design of land has a long and complex set of rules, traditions and practices. The focus will be on the consideration of how architecture extends beyond the interior and its relationship to an equally important external fabric. The course is comprised of interactive lectures on landscape themes, and the application of specific concepts imparted into design exercises. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 607. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 307 if student has credit for ARCH 607.

Long Title: PERFORMING REPRESENTATION

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: For hundreds of years "ocular-centrism" has not only constructed the dominant discourse about architectural representation, it has also constructed through depictions, drawings and maps our social interactions, institutions, cities and territories. An image [and its after-image\ carry within themselves histories [performative scripts] of characters, discourses, and conventions. Traditionally however, representation has been addressed and taught only in terms of medium specificity and technique, providing in most cases discourses voided of all their performative power. Challenging successive iterations around issues of medium specificity and representation in terms of abstraction, indexicality or iconicity, this seminar proposes a turn from a rhetoric of representation towards a hermeneutic of generation, imagination and sensation. For this, the seminar proposes a new line of investigation based on the contemporary shift from the 'ocular' towards the ' multisensorial' in order to investigate and transform both inherited and new mediums and techniques. The seminar will expose students to different mediums [digital and analog], techniques, tools and systems of 'performative representation' through class lectures, reading discussions and field trips to several art museums. Open to Juniors and above and all graduates except first year option 1. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 608. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 308 if student has credit for ARCH 608.

Long Title: DESIGN OF STRUCTURES

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course is the second of three required courses in the Architectural Technology sequence in the Rice of Architecture. The topics covered are the design of concrete structures and design of specialized structures including tilt wall, long span, and high-rise. Each structural type is explored in terms of the performance of the overall system, design of individual components, and relation of structure to other building subsystems such as foundation, roofing, enclosure, and interior. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 509. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 309 if student has credit for ARCH 509.

Long Title: CITY & FESTIVAL: CULT PRACTICES & THE ARCHITECTURAL PRODUCTION IN THE ANCIENT GRECO-ROMAN WORLD

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: How do social events, festivals, cult practices, public spectacles shape a city? The course will explore what makes a city in the first place, and attempt to make sense of the fragmentary archaeological evidence from the ancient Greco-Roman world in understanding, reconstructing cities. Cross-list: HART 316.

Long Title: HOUSTON ARCHITECTURE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 611. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 311 if student has credit for ARCH 611.

Long Title: CASE STUDIES IN SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: ENST 313, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 613. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 313 if student has credit for ARCH 613.

Long Title: ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL SYSTEMS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group III

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to the thermal performance of buildings. Course is divided into 2 parts: Building Climatology and Air Conditioning Systems. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 516. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 316 if student has credit for ARCH 516.

Long Title: LANDSCAPE AND SITE STRATEGIES FOR HOUSTON

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 617. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 317 if student has credit for ARCH 617.

Long Title: FIVE CITIES: HISTORY, MEMORY AND MODERNITY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Combines history, urban geography, fiction, travel writing and film to engage in debates about urban modernity in four 19th-20th century Middle Eastern cities: Cairo, Beirut, Baghdad, Istanbul and Izmir (Smyrna). Explores intersections of memory, history, and space in the modern imagination and the real and imaginary experiences that shape our relations to the spaces of the city. Cross-list: HART 326, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 526.

Long Title: BUILDING WORKSHOP I

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 627. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 327 if student has credit for ARCH 627. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: STREETS AND URBAN LIFE: PARIS TO ISTANBUL

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Exploration of the street as a focus of urban life in 18th and 19th century. We will look at ways streets functioned as spaces of livelihood, sociability, and transgression in cities such as London, Paris, Istanbul, Amsterdam & Cairo. Cross-list: HART 329, HIST 329, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 529. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 329 if student has credit for ARCH 529.

Long Title: BUILDING WORKSHOP II

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Real-life problems dealing with design and construction. Cross-list: CEVE 334, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 634. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE AS PUBLIC POLICY: PUBLIC POLICY AS ARCHITECTURE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1

Description: The seminar will function as a companion course to POLI 337 (Public Policy and Bureaucracy) in order to provide an overview of public policy in both theoretical and practical terms and its impact upon the built environment. Frequently, architecture does not address the political process or community until it is too late, hence hindering the realization of projects. In the seminar we will create models for both design and program to exist as a integral arm of policy, and vice versa. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 636.

Long Title: CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 644. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 344 if student has credit for ARCH 644.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY I

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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 and the demands of actual practice. Cross-list: HART 345, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 645. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 345 if student has credit for ARCH 645.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY II

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ARCH 345 OR ARCH 645

Description: 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.' Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 646. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 346 if student has credit for ARCH 646.

Long Title: NOZONE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will concentrate on zoning and the transformation of space--through cultural, social, legal and political methods. This subject is a fundamental consideration in architecture and urban planning. The topic is due in part to the university's location in Houston which is the largest city in the United States without a formal zoning code--which is both a signifier and emblem of the wildcatting culture, but which is also a contested policy that comes up for reevaluation every four years. The course will begin with a condensed overview of 'zoning' that additionally will expose the representation of utopic and dystopic communities ranging in example from the settings in Ackerman's Jeanne Dielman, Tsai's I Don't Want to Sleep Alone, the slums of Tondo in Manila, Olmstead's planned community of Kohler, Wisconsin, Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation to Frank Sharp's development Sharpstown in Houston, Texas. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 650.

Long Title: PHOTOGRAPHY FOR ARCHITECTS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Exploration of a variety of photographic techniques for architectural research, design, and presentation. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 653. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 353 if student has credit for ARCH 653.

Long Title: ART AND EMPIRE: THE OTTOMAN WORLD

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course looks at the art and architecture of the Ottoman empire, the longest surviving Muslim empire, from its inception in 1453 until its demise in the 1920s. Based on in-depth studies of religious and secular monuments, objects, and paintings, it examines the roots of Ottoman visual culture, the formation of a canonic style, relations with eastern and western artistic traditions, issues of power and identity in art, systems of patronage, concepts of westernization and Ottoman modernism.

Long Title: CAST MODERNITY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 658. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 358 if student has credit for ARCH 658.

Long Title: AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AND DECORATIVE ARTS BEFORE 1900

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Major topics will include the furniture styles of early America, the architecture of colonial cities, the life, thought, and architectural ideas of Thomas Jefferson, urban design, and building projects in Washington, D.C., and other U.S. cities, and domestic life and interior design in 19th century America. Cross-list: HART 360, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 560. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 360 if student has credit for ARCH 560.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: RIO DE JANEIRO: A SOCIAL AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The development of Rio de Janeiro from a colonial capital to an Olympic host with emphasis on the peoples of the city and evolution of the urban panorama. Cross-list: HIST 366, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 666. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 366 if student has credit for ARCH 666.

Long Title: THE JOY OF MATERIALS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An investigation of how materials influence and inspire the making of works of architecture. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 674. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 374 if student has credit for ARCH 674.

Long Title: SACRED SPACES IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course explores the forms, politics, and functions of sacred spaces in the Ancient Mediterranean using the theories of Eliade, Smith, Jones, and Lefebvre. Students will learn how to analyze archaeological and literary evidence to determine the social developments they (re)produce over the course of the first six centuries. Cross-list: HART 384, HIST 383.

Long Title: RE-USE OF BROWNFIELD SITES

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will focus on the brownfield. As defined by the EPA a brownfield is "real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant." We will look at actual brownfield sites, but the focus of the seminar will not adhere to an orthodox interpretation, and the emphasis will be on re-use. The course will examine how pubic policy, development, real estate law, socio-economics and politics - all contribute consequences in the manufacture of "complications" to the built environment. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 687.

Long Title: GENDER, ARCHITECTURE AND SPACE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course investigates the significance of gender and sexuality in the production, use, and representation of architectural and urban spaces: within the historiography of architectural and urban history; and in determining spatial justice - how access to space based on gender and sexuality advances or erodes human and civil rights. Cross-list: HART 314, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 694.

Long Title: BUILDING ENVELOPE SYSTEMS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will be divided into two parts. It will begin with an overview of the historical evolution of the building envelope. This will include both an examination of existing construction technology and the natural forces that these surfaces must mitigate, including methods of modeling such as sun-shading, lateral forces, etc. The emphasis, however, will be on investigating contemporary developments in the design of building envelopes in both a technical and formal sense. These technologies will include: new cladding materials and coatings such as photo-reactive paint and electrochromatic glass, fiber concrete; new curtain wall technology including stress skin; rain screen wall systems; green walls, green roofs, photovoltaics and water harvesting systems. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 697.

Long Title: PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE IV

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 6

Prerequisite(s): ARCH 302

Description: Upper level architectural design problems with an emphasis on urban issues and site planning, and complex building organization. Required for pre-professional major in architecture.

Long Title: PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE IV

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 6

Prerequisite(s): ARCH 401

Long Title: DEGREE PROJECT SEMINAR

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 2

Description: A special-topics seminar establishing the intellectual/design foundation for the spring Watkin Studio (ARCH 402). Texts, case studies, and design methods will be used to investigate focused subjects of particular contemporary relevance as established by the instructor. Assignments can consist of written papers, analytical projects, elaborations of design techniques, and other forms of investigation. Students are approved for section and topic, taking their preference into account. Students enrolled in each section will continue to work with the same instructor in the spring studio. Enrollment restricted to 4th Year Bachelor of Art in Architecture majors.

Long Title: UTOPIA AS DOUBT (RESEARCH IN ARCHITECTURE)

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The aim of the seminar, based on a close reading of projects and texts, is to learn to utopianize, to generate and provide a series of strategies that allow us to redefine the limits of utopia, histories, stories and architectures constructing possible pasts, and simultaneously possible futures. Students will be expected to test this hypothesis (utopia as doubt) through analytical and projective documentation in terms of temporality, representation, politics, ideology, geography, et al. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 609.

Long Title: LIMITS OF LEGIBILITY: UNWINDING THE OBJECT AND THE URBAN

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar aims to look at the current architectural discourse by tracing the fissures that developed around the status of the object and the reading of context that emerged as a reaction to the disciplines mid-century obsession with utility and the relentlessness of post-war sprawl that seemed to render current modes of architectural production impotent. This epic spun-off parallel discourses around modes of reading, one focused on the legibility of meaning in form and the other around reading practices focused on emergent urban conditions. The seminar aims to trace the path of language-based reading practices from Rowe to Eisenman, research-based narrative that spans from Venturito Koolhaas and map the complex of spaces that lie between them and have mutated to the present. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 614. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 414 if student has credit for ARCH 614.

Long Title: INNOVATION IN DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 616. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 416 if student has credit for ARCH 616.

Long Title: PROFESSIONALISM AND MANAGEMENT IN ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 623. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 423 if student has credit for ARCH 623.

Long Title: URBANISM I: THE CITY THEORETICALLY CONSIDERED

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The intention of a course on urbanism is to view architecture in light of the city. An assembly of theoretical considerations serves to construct a perspective that allows us to critically assess modern urbanization. The goal is to help students form their own perspective on the practice of architecture and to broaden their understanding of the relentless urbanization that dominates the modern world. Students are expected to read extensively, to be prepared to discuss topics of urbanism in class, to form two-person teams to read selected texts to be presented in class and to shape a term project that may take the form of a final paper or a design proposal dealing with suburban issues. Grades are based on class participation, the reading project and the term project. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 631. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 431 if student has credit for ARCH 631.

Long Title: THE CULLINAN SEMINAR

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar for advanced undergraduate students and graduate students will focus on the writings and practice of the semester's four RSA Cullinan visitors: art historian David Joselit (Yale), architect Michael Maltzan (L.A.), architect Alejandro Zaera-Polo (London), and art historian Neil Levine (Harvard). The seminar will be a platform for researching these four topics, including additional background references, other writings by these four figures as well as writings about them and their own work. Additionally, the seminar will feature one seminar session each with the four speakers. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 633. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 433 if student has credit for ARCH 633. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURAL RE-PRESENTATION

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to basic computer graphics, computer aided design, and the programming algorithms that underlie them. Develops familiarity with packages such as AutoCad and Arris. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 635.

Long Title: THREE-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 639.

Long Title: HOUSING AND URBAN PROGRAMS: ISSUES IN POLICY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 655.

Long Title: AFFORDABLE HOUSING: A PRACTICUM IN DEVELOPMENT

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: To give the students a practical experience in developing an affordable housing project from conception through design, financing, and construction. Lecturing given by instructor on Federal, State, and local legislation and regulation as well as private source of financing, and guiding students in real life situations with architects, contractors, and clients. Field trips to affordable housing sites and guest lectures by qualified experts.

Long Title: MODERN BRAZIL

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will be conducted as a research workshop with the aim of developing publication projects on three principal architects in Brazil's architectural modernity: the urbanist, Lucio Costa, the architect, Oscar Niemeyer, and the landscape architect, Roberto Burle Marx. The first half of the semester will consist of surveying modern architecture in Brazil, which will be followed by a closer look at the work of Costa, Niemeyer, and Burle Marx. In the second half of the semester, we will look into a particular forms of architectural publication, the 'Complete Works' in order to develop a format appropriate to the production of the three figures in question. This will lead to specific research projects that will deal with the archival care of architectural records, 3D modeling of unbuilt projects, and theoretical strategies for interpretive approaches to work. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 459 if student has credit for ARCH 659. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SPECIAL PROJECTS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: Independent research or design arranged in consultation with a faculty member. Subject to approval of faculty advisor and director. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: CASE STUDY IN URBAN DESIGN: BRASILIA

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 669. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 469 if student has credit for ARCH 669.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO BUILDING INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This is an introductory course in the use of Building Information Management (BIM) software. The course will utilize "Revit Architecture" by Autodesk, which is now installed on the PC's in RAVL. Students will produce a complete drawing package including architectural, mechanical and structural drawings of a building they have previously designed in studio or a structure developed specifically for this exercise. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 680. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 480 if student has credit for ARCH 680.

Long Title: TWENTIETH CENTURY HISTORY OF IDEAS OF ARCHITECTURE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 683.

Long Title: INTERPRETING BUILDINGS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines ways in which buildings are interpreted relative to various social and cultural contexts. We will focus on particular public format' in which interpretation strategies are formulated, namely, the architectural exhibition. The period to be examined will cover the 1970s to the present and the exhibitions to be considered will include those that were mounted at the MoMA, Heinz architectural Center, Canadian Center for Architecture, and Georges Pompidou Center, among others. The course will be conducted as a research seminar requiring each student to make weekly presentations. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 686. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE EXPANDED: CONTEXT, SCALE, AGENCY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: For more than 2 decades, new scales of context have been a pervasive paradigm for Architecture. Suggesting infrastructural, ecological or political scale shifts for design, this paradigm has sparked a prevalent interest in emergent urban conditions, larger territories as well as interdisciplinary juxtapositions. In parallel, however, of paramount importance has been the accumulation of new questions in relation to architectural agency, disciplinary specificity and form. In an attempt to explore this proposition further, the seminar will concentrate on an alternative reading for the ideas of context and agency within 20th century architecture & urbanism. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 689. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 489 if student has credit for ARCH 689.

Long Title: BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE IN CONTEMPORARY AND LATE 20TH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Both experimental and normative architectural discourse/design operates through a complex relationship to something referred to as "the body," informing the discipline's relationship to other fields of knowledge, technologies of subjectivity, and problems of epistemology and ontology. The course examines this relationship by developing a transdisciplinary history of the body in architecture for modernity, in the process exploring what that last phrase would mean.

Long Title: URBAN FORMS OF PLURALITY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar examines the urban forms of pluralism and indeterminacy that emerged during late Modernism with the breakdown of CIAM and was positioned through the projects of the 'megastructure,' 'omnibuilding' and 'pod' in the postwar period. Exploring the link between this 'almost project' that was interrupted during the 1970s and 80s., the seminar explores recent analogous trajectories within systems of infrastructure, landscape and ecology in providing a platform for the continued project of plurality. Unpacked through an examination of theoretical texts and projects by Hannah Arendt, Buckminster Fuller, Cedric Price, Yona Friedman, Archigram, Archizoom, Superstudio, OMA, Stan Allen, Keller Easterling and Konstantinos Doxiadis amongst others, it positions a new role and relevancy for the architect who is confronted with an increasingly indeterminate globe and contingent city. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 698.

Long Title: DESIGN CAREER STRATEGIES

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will provide students with the requisite tools needed to develop a rational career advancement strategy. The object will be to learn how to capture the most desirable assignments, work with the most talented people, and experience the most rapid career advancement. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: PRECEPTORSHIP PROGRAM

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Studio

Credit Hours: 15

Description: 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 Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: CORE DESIGN STUDIO I

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 10

Description: Requisite for admission to graduate professional program options in architecture or urban design for students with non-architectural bachelor's degree. Lectures, seminars, laboratories, and design studio projects adjusted to individual needs.

Long Title: CORE DESIGN STUDIO II

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 10

Description: 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.

Long Title: CORE DESIGN STUDIO III

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 10

Description: 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.

Long Title: CORE DESIGN STUDIO IV

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 10

Description: 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.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO THE DESIGN OF STRUCTURES

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: DESIGN OF STRUCTURES

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course is the second of three required courses in Architectural Technology sequence in the Rice School of Architecture. The topics covered are the design of concrete structures and design of specialized structures including tilt wall, long span, and high-rise. Each structural type is explored in terms of performance of the overall system, design of individual components, roofing, enclosure, and interior. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 309. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 509 if student has credit for ARCH 309.

Long Title: GREEK/ROMAN ARCHITECTURE: SPACES OF PERFORMANCE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course surveys the architectural history of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds from the 5th century BCE to the 3rd Century CE. The course begins with the claim that the architecture of the ancient world has historically been conceived in relation to the bodily practices and social performances. Therefore, the case studies are visualized in the light of social events, festivals, cult practices and public spectacles. For each lecture, Graduate Students will be assigned additional readings. They will write an annotated bibliography of all these readings to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional every two or three weeks to discuss interpretive and methodological problems and ideas associated with the readings. Graduate Students will be expected to complete all the requirements of the class in addition to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Cross-list: HART 512, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 212.

Long Title: ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL SYSTEMS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course addresses building environmental systems including power, water, and wastewater with an emphasis on air condition systems. Through multimedia presentations and fieldtrips, students are taught to analyze the thermal environment in a variety of building types and select equipment to meet these needs. Sustainability issues related to environmental systems such as energy conservational and life cycle costs are also addressed. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 316. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 516 if student has credit for ARCH 316.

Long Title: INSTANBUL - IMPERIAL CITY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Graduate Equivalent of ARCH 220. Additional requirements will include 3 - 7 to 8 page papers. These will include limited research, based on bibliography. The 3 papers will be in lieu of the 1-hour midterm and 1 hour final tests required for the 200 level class. Cross-list: HART 520.

Long Title: FIVE CITIES: HISTORY, MEMORY AND MODERNITY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: For each lecture, Graduate Students will be assigned additional readings. They will write an annotated bibliography of all these readings to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional every two or three weeks to discuss interpretive and methodological problems and ideas associated with the readings. Graduate Students will be expected to complete all the requirements of the class in addition to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Cross-list: HART 526, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 326.

Long Title: STREETS AND URBAN LIFE: PARIS TO ISTANBUL

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: For each lecture, Graduate Students will be assigned additional readings. They will write an annotated bibliography of all these readings to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional every two or three weeks to discuss interpretive and methodological problems and ideas associated with the readings. Graduate Students will be expected to complete all the requirements of the class in addition to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Cross-list: HART 529, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 329. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 529 if student has credit for ARCH 329.

Long Title: FORMAT

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AND DECORATIVE ARTS BEFORE 1900

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: For each lecture, Graduate Students will be assigned additional readings. They will write an annotated bibliography of all these readings to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional every two or three weeks to discuss interpretive and methodological problems and ideas associated with the readings. Graduate Students will be expected to complete all the requirements of the class in addition to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Cross-list: HART 560, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 360. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 560 if student has credit for ARCH 360.

Long Title: M. ARCH. I INTERNSHIP

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: 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. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURAL PROBLEMS: STUDIO

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 10

Description: 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.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURAL PROBLEMS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 10 OR 12

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

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE FOR NON-ARCHITECTS INSTRUCTION

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: For selected graduate students only, this course will provide the opportunity for hands-on teaching experience by involvement in syllabus design and preparation of lectures, discussions, design exercises and other teaching methods, under the supervision of the course instructors. Enrollment limited to 6 and by permission only.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE: HISTORY & METHOD

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will provide an introduction to landscape architecture through a survey of its history, and through direct application to a studio project. From the historic gardens at Versailles to the current Millennium Park in Chicago, the direct manipulation and design of land has a long and complex set of rules, traditions and practices. The focus will be on the consideration of how architecture extends beyond the interior and its relationship to an equally important external fabric. The course is comprised of interactive lectures on landscape themes, and the application of specific concepts imparted into design exercises. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 307. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 607 if student has credit for ARCH 307.

Long Title: PERFORMING REPRESENTATIONS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: For hundreds of years "ocular-centrism" has not only constructed the dominant discourse about architectural representation, it has also constructed through depictions, drawings and maps our social interactions, institutions, cities and territories. An image [and its after-image\ carry within themselves histories [performative scripts] of characters, discourses, and conventions. Traditionally however, representation has been addressed and taught only in terms of medium specificity and technique, providing in most cases discourses voided of all their performative power. Challenging successive iterations around issues of medium specificity and representation in terms of abstraction, indexicality or iconicity, this seminar proposes a turn from a rhetoric of representation towards a hermeneutic of generation, imagination and sensation. For this, the seminar proposes a new line of investigation based on the contemporary shift from the 'ocular' towards the ' multisensorial' in order to investigate and transform both inherited and new mediums and techniques. The seminar will expose students to different mediums [digital and analog], techniques, tools and systems of 'performative representation' through class lectures, reading discussions and field trips to several art museums. Open to Juniors and above and all graduates except first year option 1. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 308. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 608 if student has credit for ARCH 308.

Long Title: UTOPIA AS DOUBT (RESEARCH IN ARCHITECTURE)

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The aim of the seminar, based on a close reading of projects and texts, is to learn to utopianize, to generate and provide a series of strategies that allow us to redefine the limits of utopia, histories, stories and architectures constructing possible pasts, and simultaneously possible futures. Students will be expected to test this hypothesis (utopia as doubt) through analytical and projective documentation in terms of temporality, representation, politics, ideology, geography, et al. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 409.

Long Title: BUILDING WORKSHOP: THEATER RENOVATION/PARIS PROGRAM

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 6

Description: Special seminars, lectures, and site visits relevant to history, urban theory, and structure of Paris and other European centers. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: HOUSTON ARCHITECTURE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Credit cannot be earned for ARCH 611 and ARCH 311.

Long Title: CASE STUDIES IN SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Credit cannot be earned for ARCH 613 and ARCH 313.

Long Title: LIMITS OF LEGIBILITY: UNWINDING THE OBJECT AND THE URBAN

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar aims to look at the current architectural discourse by tracing the fissures that developed around the status of the object and the reading of context that emerged as a reaction to the disciplines mid-century obsession with utility and the relentlessness of post-war sprawl that seemed to render current modes of architectural production impotent. This epic spun-off parallel discourses around modes of reading, one focused on the legibility of meaning in form and the other around reading practices focused on emergent urban conditions. The seminar aims to trace the path of language-based reading practices from Rowe to Eisenman, research-based narrative that spans from Venturito Koolhaas and map the complex of spaces that lie between them and have mutated to the present. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 414. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 614 if student has credit for ARCH 414.

Long Title: WOODSHOP SAFETY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 1

Description: This course will cover all safety concerns in the model shop. Students will learn the proper set up and maintenance of the stationary tools as well as how to do basic fabrication. Students will learn basic material layout and produce objects using the tools as we cover them.

Long Title: INNOVATION IN DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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 long- standing 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. Cross-list: MGMT 716, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 416. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 616 if student has credit for ARCH 416.

Long Title: LANDSCAPE AND SITE STRATEGIES FOR HOUSTON

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 317. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 617 if student has credit for ARCH 317.

Long Title: HISTORY OF BUILDING TECHNOLOGY/PARIS PROGRAM

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Studio

Credit Hours: 10

Description: 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. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: PROFESSIONALISM AND MANAGEMENT IN ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Credit cannot be earned for ARCH 623 and ARCH 423.

Long Title: BUILDING WORKSHOP I

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Studio

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Credit cannot be earned for ARCH 627 and ARCH 327.  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: URBANISM I: THE CITY THEORETICALLY CONSIDERED

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The intention of a course on urbanism is to view architecture in light of the city. An assembly of theoretical considerations serves to construct a perspective that allows us to critically assess modern urbanization. The goal is to help students form their own perspective on the practice of architecture and to broaden their understanding of the relentless urbanization that dominates the modern world. Students are expected to read extensively, to be prepared to discuss topics of urbanism in class, to form two-person teams to read selected texts to be presented in class and to shape a term project that may take the form of a final paper or a design proposal dealing with suburban issues. Grades are based on class participation, the reading project and the term project. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 431. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 631 if student has credit for ARCH 431.

Long Title: THE CULLINAN SEMINAR

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar for advanced undergraduate students and graduate students will focus on the writings and practice of the semester's four RSA Cullinan visitors: art historian David Joselit (Yale), architect Michael Maltzan (L.A.), architect Alejandro Zaera-Polo (London), and art historian Neil Levine (Harvard). The seminar will be a platform for researching these four topics, including additional background references, other writings by these four figures as well as writings about them and their own work. Additionally, the seminar will feature one seminar session each with the four speakers. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 433. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 633 if student has credit for ARCH 433. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: BUILDING WORKSHOP II

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS OVERVIEW

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Special projects for advanced students in computer applications. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 435.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE AS PUBLIC POLICY: PUBLIC POLICY AS ARCHITECTURE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1

Description: The seminar will function as a companion course to POLI 337 (Public Policy and Bureaucracy) in order to provide an overview of public policy in both theoretical and practical terms and its impact upon the built environment. Frequently, architecture does not address the political process or community until it is too late, hence hindering the realization of projects. In the seminar we will create models for both design and program to exist as a integral arm of policy, and vice versa. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 336.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Credit cannot be earned for ARCH 644 and ARCH 344.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY I

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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 and the demands of actual practice. Cross-list: HART 645, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 345. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 645 if student has credit for ARCH 345.

Long Title: 19TH-20TH CENTURY ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ARCH 345 OR ARCH 645

Description: 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'. Cross-list: HART 506, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 346. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 646 if student has credit for ARCH 346.

Long Title: NOZONE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will concentrate on zoning and the transformation of space--through cultural, social, legal and political methods. This subject is a fundamental consideration in architecture and urban planning. The topic is due in part to the university's location in Houston which is the largest city in the United States without a formal zoning code--which is both a signifier and emblem of the wildcatting culture, but which is also a contested policy that comes up for reevaluation every four years. The course will begin with a condensed overview of 'zoning' that additionally will expose the representation of utopic and dystopic communities ranging in example from the settings in Ackerman's Jeanne Dielman, Tsai's I Don't Want to Sleep Alone, the slums on Tondo in Manila, Olmstead's planned community of Kohler, Wisconsin, Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation to Frank Sharp's development Sharpstown in Houston, Texas. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 350.

Long Title: PHOTOGRAPHY FOR ARCHITECTS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Credit cannot be earned for ARCH 653 and ARCH 353.

Long Title: HOUSING AND URBAN PROGRAMS: ISSUES IN POLICY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 455.

Long Title: AFFORDABLE HOUSING: A PRACTICUM IN DEVELOPMENT

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: To give the students a practical experience in developing an affordable housing project from conception through design, financing, and construction. Lecturing by instructor on Federal, State, and local legislation and regulations as well as private sources of financing, and guiding students in real life situations with architects, contractors, and clients. Field trips to affordable housing sites and guest lectures by qualified experts.

Long Title: CAST MODERNITY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Credit cannot be earned for ARCH 658 and ARCH 358.

Long Title: MODERN BRAZIL

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will be conducted as a research workshop with the aim of developing publication projects on three principal architects in Brazil's architectural modernity: the urbanist, Lucio Costa, the architect, Oscar Niemeyer, and the landscape architect, Roberto Burle Marx. The first half of the semester will consist of surveying modern architecture in Brazil, which will be followed by a closer look at the work of Costa, Niemeyer, and Burle Marx. In the second half of the semester, we will look into a particular forms of architectural publication, the 'Complete Works' in order to develop a format appropriate to the production of the three figures in question. This will lead to specific research projects that will deal with the archival care of architectural records, 3D modeling of unbuilt projects, and theoretical strategies for interpretive approaches to work. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 659 if student has credit for ARCH 459. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: CONVERSATIONS: VISITING CRITIC SEMINAR

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminars structured around topics dealing with design theory, with special emphasis on participation by visiting critics and professors. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EXCESS AND FORM ***** See ARCH 466. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 366. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 666 if student has credit for ARCH 366.

Long Title: GRADUATE SEMINAR: CRITICISM AND ARCHITECTURE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: THE JOY OF MATERIALS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An investigation of how materials influence and inspire the making of works of architecture. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 374. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 674 if student has credit for ARCH 374.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO BUILDING INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This is an introductory course in the use of Building Information Management (BIM) software. The course will utilize "Revit Architecture" by Autodesk, which is now installed on the PC's in RAVL. Students will produce a complete drawing package including architectural, mechanical and structural drawings of a building they have previously designed in studio or a structure developed specifically for this exercise. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 480. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 680 if student has credit for ARCH 480.

Long Title: TWENTIETH CENTURY IDEAS OF ARCHITECTURE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: INTERPRETING BUILDINGS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines ways in which buildings are interpreted relative to various social and cultural contexts. We will focus on particular public format' in which interpretation strategies are formulated, namely, the architectural exhibition. The period to be examined will cover the 1970s to the present and the exhibitions to be considered will include those that were mounted at the MoMA, Heinz architectural Center, Canadian Center for Architecture, and Georges Pompidou Center, among others. The course will be conducted as a research seminar requiring each student to make weekly presentations. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 486. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: RE-USE OF BROWNFIELD SITES

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will focus on the brownfield. As defined by the EPA a brownfield is "real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant." We will look at actual brownfield sites, but the focus of the seminar will not adhere to an orthodox interpretation, and the emphasis will be on re-use. The course will examine how pubic policy, development, real estate law, socio-economics and politics - all contribute consequences in the manufacture of "complications" to the built environment. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 387.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE EXPANDED: CONTEXT, SCALE, AGENCY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: For more than 2 decades, new scales of context have been a pervasive paradigm for Architecture. Suggesting infrastructural, ecological or political scale shifts for design, this paradigm has sparked a prevalent interest in emergent urban conditions, larger territories as well as interdisciplinary juxtapositions. In parallel, however, of paramount importance has been the accumulation of new questions in relation to architectural agency, disciplinary specificity and form. In an attempt to explore this proposition further, the seminar will concentrate on an alternative reading for the ideas of context and agency within 20th century architecture & urbanism. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 489. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 689 if student has credit for ARCH 489.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURAL PROBLEMS: SEMINAR

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: GENDER, ARCHITECTURE AND SPACE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course investigates the significance of gender and sexuality in the production, use, and representation of architectural and urban spaces: within the historiography of architectural and urban history; and in determining spatial justice - how access to space based on gender and sexuality advances or erodes human and civil rights. For each lecture, Graduate Students will be assigned additional readings. They will write an annotated bibliography of all these readings to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional every two or three weeks to discuss interpretive and methodological problems and ideas associated with the readings. Graduate Students will be expected to complete all the requirements of the class in addition to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Cross-list: HART 514, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 394.

Long Title: BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE IN CONTEMPORARY AND LATE 20TH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Both experimental and normative architectural discourse/design operates through a complex relationship to something referred to as "the body", informing the discipline's relationship to other fields of knowledge, technologies of subjectivity, and problems of epistemology and ontology. The course examines this relationship by developing a transdisciplinary history of the body in architecture for modernity, in the process exploring what that last phrase would mean.

Long Title: RETHINKING SUBURBAN LIVING

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A major portion of urbanized America is in areas loosely referred to as sprawl. here the subdivision is the dominant living unit. Although New Urbanism has provided adjustments to this common model, few truly innovative models of suburban living exist. The reason for this conservatism is manifold. This seminar will challenge the status quo through a series of unusual strategies, motivated by a series of assumptions drawn from the French philosopher Alain Badiou's "The Century" - a highly polmical view of the 20th century. Registration limited to graduate and 5th year Architecture students. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: BUILDING ENVELOPE SYSTEMS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will be divided into two parts. It will begin with an overview of the historical evolution of the building envelope. This will include both an examination of existing construction technology and the natural forces that these surfaces must mitigate, including methods of modeling such as sun-shading, lateral forces, etc. The emphasis, however, will be on investigating contemporary developments in the design of building envelopes in both a technical and formal sense. These technologies will include: new cladding materials and coatings such as photo-reactive paint and electrochromatic glass, fiber concrete; new curtain wall technology including stress skin; rain screen wall systems; green walls, green roofs, photovoltaics and water harvesting systems. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 397.

Long Title: URBAN FORMS OF PLURALITY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar examines the urban forms of pluralism and indeterminacy that emerged during late Modernism with the breakdown of CIAM and was positioned through the projects of the 'megastructure,' 'omnibuilding' and 'pod' in the postwar period. Exploring the link between this 'almost project' that was interrupted during the 1970s and 80s., the seminar explores recent analogous trajectories within systems of infrastructure, landscape and ecology in providing a platform for the continued project of plurality. Unpacked through an examination of theoretical texts and projects by Hannah Arendt, Buckminster Fuller, Cedric Price, Yona Friedman, Archigram, Archizoom, Superstudio, OMA, Stan Allen, Keller Easterling and Konstantinos Doxiadis amongst others, it positions a new role and relevancy for the architect who is confronted with an increasingly indeterminate globe and contingent city. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 498.

Long Title: DESIGN CAREER STRATEGIES

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will provide students with the requisite tools needed to develop a career advancement strategy. The object will be to learn how to capture the most desirable assignments, work with the most talented people, and experience the most rapid career advancement.

Long Title: PRACTICUM

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Full-time internship 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. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: PRE-THESIS PREPARATION

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: DESIGN THESIS STUDIO

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 13

Long Title: WRITTEN THESIS RESEARCH

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: WRITTEN THESIS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 13

Long Title: SPECIAL PROJECTS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: 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.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT DESIGN PROJECTS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: GRADUATE RESEARCH

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3 TO 12

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.