Course Schedule and Catalog

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

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

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. NOTE: SUMMER 2012 - MEETING FOR 4 WEEKS, JUNE 11 TO JULY 6.

Long Title: PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE I

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 6

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: 6

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: THE PARTHENON AND PERIKLEAN ATHENS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this course, we will trace the history and mythology of the Parthenon. We begin with the dawn of sacred tradition on the Acropolis, then explore the classical recreation of the city, the conversion of the Parthenon into a church, its subsequent destruction and the current debate over restoration. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: CLAS 103, FSEM 113, HART 110.

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: TECHNOLOGY I - THE FRAME

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: THE BUILDING ENVELOPE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The Building Envelope is the collection of material assemblies that separate a building’s interior from the exterior environment. This course examines the examines the interaction of those assemblies with natural forces such as temperature, moisture, and solar radiation and the details of construction which have evolved to mitigate them. The subject matter includes both traditional building exterior wall and roof construction and newer technologies such as rainscreen, green roof, and building surface media systems.

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.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This Introductory course exposes students to issues and debates that have provoked architects and influenced the disciplinary discourse from the early twentieth century to the present. Focusing on fourteen topics, ranging from representation to media, to politics, urbanity or the environment, each session will be revolving around the differing ideas and positions of two architects or critics. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 525.

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: COHERENCE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will construct a conversation about coherence. The opening salvo in this conversation: architects traffic entirely in greater or lesser degrees of coherence. A series of questions will start our discussion: How so? What structures underlie coherence in architecture? Is coherence necessarily overt? Latent? How is coherence fruitful today? Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 603. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 303 if student has credit for ARCH 603.

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: TECHNOLOGY II - THE SHELL

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. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Prior completion of Technology I. 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: Seminar

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: TECHNOLOGY III - THE ENVELOPE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The Building Envelope is the collection of material assemblies that separate a building’s interior from the exterior environment. This course examines the examines the interaction of those assemblies with natural forces such as temperature, moisture, and solar radiation and the details of construction which have evolved to mitigate them. The subject matter includes both traditional building exterior wall and roof construction and newer technologies such as rainscreen, green roof, and building surface media systems. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 514. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 314 if student has credit for ARCH 514.

Long Title: TECHNOLOGY IV -THE ENVIRONMENT

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/Laboratory

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: LIVING IN THE CITY IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar combines primary and secondary sources to explore the urban experiences of Ottoman men and women in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Looking at several cities including Istanbul, Izmir, Salonika, Damascus, Aleppo and Alexandria, we will discuss such issues as neighborhood and community life, public spaces and recreational culture perceptions of space, urban institutions, Muslim and non-Muslim relations, migration and marginality, violence and death. Reading knowledge of French and /or Turkish helpful but not necessary. Cross-list: HART 308, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 518. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 318 if student has credit for ARCH 518.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE AND MEMORY: REPRESENTATIONS OF ANCIENT IN MODERN PARADIGMS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Why do Americans live in houses faced with pediments and columns? Why do ruins draw our interest? In what forms ancient, particularly Greek and Roman cultures are alive in arts, architecture and visual culture of the 19th and 20th centuries? This course seeks answers to these and similar questions. Cross-list: HART 319, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 519.

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: Lecture

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: IMPERIAL CITY: ISTANBUL 1453-1922

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This thematic seminar examines significant historical moments in the architectural and urban cultural of the Ottoman imperial capital from the moment it was conquered until the demise of the Ottoman empire. Weekly readings and discussions will cover a range of topics including building patronage, architectural decorum, the Byzantine legacy, artistic relations with Persia, India and Europe, cultural pluralism, neighborhood and public life, law and urban order, modernity and modernization. Cross-list: HART 321. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 331 if student has credit for ARCH 521.

Long Title: BETWEEN INFORMATION AND SPACE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course situates contemporary graphic methods (of inquiry and presentation) in architecture through an historical overview of information management techniques used by a range of architectural practices, from post-war to the present. A digital collection of architectural graphic formats and their building counterparts will be used to identify the synthetic, elastic, and pragmatic relationships between techniques of spatializing 2d information and the development of an architectural project. The course will distinguish and catalogue the various format types - how they are structure, how they are read, the technologies that facilitate them, and how they shape design procedures and effects. Organized through lecture prompts, discussions of readings, case studies, and graphic projects, the course is intended to advance a student's understanding of an ability to position their own architectural projects relative to an historic lineage of graphic procedures. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 533. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 333 if student has credit for ARCH 533.

Long Title: BUILDING WORKSHOP II

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

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: ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Architectural acoustics comprises four areas of study: room acoustics, sound insulation, mechanical systems noise and vibration control and reinforcement. This course concentrates on room acoustics and explains the basic acoustical principles beginning with practical definitions of industry-wise acoustical terms. This view of the essentials necessary to architectural design of acoustically sensitive spaces focuses on questions like what acoustical factors should be considered when designing a space and how to specify the correct acoustical ceiling system for your design needs which may vary from space to space. During this course students will learn how to create a space that takes a space that takes acoustics into consideration, what products to use, when and where to use them. Technical knowledge will be supported by the field studies (tours to the important halls in Houston will be arranged).

Long Title: CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

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: HISTORY AND THEORY II - PRE 1890

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: HISTORY AND THEORY III - 1890-1968

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ARCH 345 OR ARCH 645 OR HART 345 OR HART 645

Description: This course will survey the history of architecture and urbanism from the mid-18th century to the 1960's. It will trace the critical shifts in architectural thought and practice that inaugurated, constituted, and questioned architectural modernism. In particular, the course will consider the development of architectural knowledge as the field engaged the great social, cultural, and technological changes of the period. These changes include the rise of: scientific inquiry and its implications for the study of history and aesthetics; nationalism; state institutions; industrialization; new social, economic and political forms; urbanization and suburbanization; the middle class and new audiences for architecture; photography and other media; new transportation technologies; new materials and techniques of construction; and disciplinary professionalization and specialization. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 646. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 346 if student has credit for ARCH 646.

Long Title: HISTORY AND THEORY IV - 1968 TO PRESENT

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): (ARCH 225 OR ARCH 525) AND (ARCH 345 OR ARCH 645) AND (ARCH 346 OR ARCH 646)

Description: This course provides an overview of key projects and concepts of contemporary architecture and related fields. Lectures on case-studies drawn from around the world from the late 20th century through the present are complimented by weekly seminars. This course is required for students in the undergraduate an undergraduate architecture programs, enrollment of other students is welcome but may be limited based on availability and approval of the instructor. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 652. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 352 if student has credit for ARCH 652.

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: Seminar

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: PROBLEMATIZING THE PRACTICE OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar examines the problematics of modern architectural practice in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century by focusing on the career of the Houston architect Howard Barnstone (1923-87). Students will perform original research in the Howard Barnstone architectural archive, readings and seminar discussions leading to individual research papers on aspects of modern architectural practice. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 662. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 362 if student has credit for ARCH 662.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURAL FREEHAND DRAWING WORKSHOP

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The object of this workshop is to explore, practice and develop a series of drawing methods and techniques in the context of the architectural design process. Emphasis will be on the development of free-hand drawing skills that will enhance the ability the ability of the design in communicating conceptual ideas. The course will consist of a combination of lectures/demonstrations, in-class drawing exercises, and out-of-class assignments. Two sketch books (one at mid-term and one at the end of the semester) will also be required. Attendance is critical. Please come to the first class prepared to draw with pen and an 8 1/2 x 11 or 9 x 12 sketch pad. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 663. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 363 if student has credit for ARCH 663. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: HOW MANY MODIFIERS?

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The course explroes permutations of contemporary relationships between ecology (as both nature and systmes) and urbanism, and the networks of ideas that produce emerging subsets that include Landscape Urbanism, Landscape Infrastructure, Ecological Urbanism, and others. Foundational texts formulating multi-scaler approaches to organizaiton will provide a frame work through which analyze critical design projects that catalyze landscape, urbanism, infrastructure, and architecture. This framework will then provide a means to project alternatuive figurations of large scale organizational systems. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 664.

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: SCULPTURE STUDIO

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class will consider different approaches to site-specific art from the 1970s to the present day through a series of 'case studies.' Artists we will look at include Robert Smithson, Ana Mendieta, Mierle Laderman Uketes, James Turrell, Mel Ziegler and Kate Ericson, Gordon Matta-Clark and Francis Alys. Students will develop projects that consider natural landscape, architecture, urban and public spaces, institutional framework, history and other contextual issues. Readings, group discussions, field trips and class critiques are integral to the course. Space in studio classes is limited. Registration does not guarantee a place in class. The class roster is formulated on the first day of class by the instructor. Cross-list: ARTS 366. Recommended Prerequisite(s): ARTS 365 or ARTV 365.

Long Title: DESIGNING THE SOCIAL: ARCHITECTURE & COLLECTIVE ASSOC. - 'COMRADES,' 'THE DUDE,' AND BEYOND

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Although one can point to the New England town hall in Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America" (1835/40) or the bowling alley in connection with Robert D. Putnam's "Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community" (2000), architecture's social agency has been notoriously and productively difficult to pin down and architecture's relationship to the social sciences has been as tense as it has been constant. The course will focus its efforts on architecture's past and potential contribution to what has historically been called 'civic association' - the realm of social activity outside the market and purview of the state. Each class will focus on a particular architectural mode of social projection through the close reading of a single architectural work. In the major assignment for the course, students will be asked to conceive alternate architectural modes of social engagement and to speculate on their potential implications. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 670. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 370 if student has credit for ARCH 670.

Long Title: POST-1945 JAPANESE ART & ARCHITECTURE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course investigates post-1945 Japanese art and architecture, contextualized as part of the nation's modern history, and with a particular focus on the socially and politically turbulent decades of the 1950s and 60s. Using artistic collectivism as a methodology, the course examines a wide range of collaborations in visual art and architecture, as seen in exhibitions, performances, and publications. Cross-list: ASIA 379, HART 379. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 371 if student has credit for ARCH 571.

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: THE ARCHITECTURE OF BOOKS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Over the past decades, the conception of books has become an integral part of any architectural practice. This seminar aims to introduce students to the book as a means to think about the production of space, and as a critical vessel to discuss and disseminate architectural ideas. In the first part of the seminar students will engage in an in-depth analysis of seminal architectural publications, considering their historical background, conceptual background and introducing such topics as typography and layout- and in-class discussions of relevant literature. The second part will be dedicated to the actual "building" of a small architectural publication, which will reflect critical and editorial skills as well as the craft of bookmaking. Instructor Permission Required.Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 676. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 376 if student has credit for ARCH 676.

Long Title: ISLAND IRREDENTA: TAIWAN

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar seeks to use Taiwan as a model to explore the implications of architectural engagement with a post-industrial operating across several scales, from the local to the global. The shift in Taiwan's industrial base has spurred massive investment in new infrastructure and a series of extra-large public architectural projects by global practices such as UN Studio, Toyo Ito, Richard Rogers, OMA and RUR. Added to this economic re-alignment are Taiwan's ambiguous, "unredeemed" international status and its island geography, which uniquely suit of restudying the role of architecture to simultaneously crate a global identity and serve an splintered local constituency. The insistence on the architectural project situated in an increasingly precarious context will form sphere and better definitions of architecture's relationship to post-industrial infrastructure. The seminar is structured around weekly discussions of reading material paired with case studies of Taiwan's infrastructural development and recent large-scale architectural interventions. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 673. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 377 if student has credit for ARCH 673. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INSTALLATION ART

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class will investigate different approaches to installation art. Focus will be given to sensory experience, narrative in space and installation as a stage. Artists we will look at include Helio Oiticica, Ernesto Neto, Dan Graham, Burce Nauman, Yayoi Kusama, Cildo Meireles, Jenny Holzer, Allan Kaprow, Andrea Zittel, Barbara Kruger, Thomas Hirschhorne, and Rirkrit Tiravanija among others. Students will work on short assignments leading to a final installation. Readings and group discussions are integral to the course. Cross-list: ARTS 379.

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: 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: 3

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: 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/Laboratory

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: WHOLE WORLDS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The seminar aims to conceptualize and project on the idea of architectural world-making, i.e. constructing alternative worlds through architecture. During the last two decades, architectural world-making has mostly been speculated as a social (participation) or a systemic (infrastructure) phenomenon, judged on the basis of its inclusiveness and performance within larger contingencies. On the other hand, the question of disciplinary specificity has by and large been limited to self-referential attributes of exclusive singularity. As part of outlining new directions in relation to these questions, the seminar will specualate and project on an alternative framework of architectural world-making, which both aims multiplicity and singularity while projecting unconventional associations between the two. Through focusing on a particular lineage of architectural ideas, projects and texts, the seminar aims to instigate further interplay between critical thinking and speculative work for future architectures. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 642. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 442 if student has credit for ARCH 642.

Long Title: PRACTICING UTOPIA: ARCHITECTURE, EUGENICS AND THE MODERN LATIN CITY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will explore the alliance between aesthetics, science, and ideology at the core of French and Latin American modernism. Focusing on early twentieth-century scientific and cultural dialogues between France and Latin America, this seminar will have as main territories of exploration: Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Havana, and Caracas. Cross-list: HART 463.

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: Research

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: NATURE IN-VITRO: BODIES, GARDENS AND BUILT FORMS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar considers theories and narratives of nature in the crafting of modern and contemporary art and architecture in the Americas. We will travel from Humboldt's re-imagined geographies, Jean-Baptiste Lamark's re-formulated notions of milieu, and Xavier Bichat's re-conceptualized human body to 20th century earthworks and current obsessions with ecology and sustainability. Cross-list: HART 467.

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: PRECEPTORSHIP PROGRAM

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

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: TECHNOLOGY I - THE FRAME

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: TECHNOLOGY II - THE SHELL

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. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Prior completion of Technology I. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 509 if student has credit for ARCH 309.

Long Title: THE BUILDING ENVELOPE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The Building Envelope is the collection of material assemblies that separate a building’s interior from the exterior environment. This course examines the examines the interaction of those assemblies with natural forces such as temperature, moisture, and solar radiation and the details of construction which have evolved to mitigate them. The subject matter includes both traditional building exterior wall and roof construction and newer technologies such as rainscreen, green roof, and building surface media systems.

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: DESIGN OF STRUCTURES II

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The Building Envelope is the collection of material assemblies that separate a building’s interior from the exterior environment. This course examines the examines the interaction of those assemblies with natural forces such as temperature, moisture, and solar radiation and the details of construction which have evolved to mitigate them. The subject matter includes both traditional building exterior wall and roof construction and newer technologies such as rainscreen, green roof, and building surface media systems. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 314. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 514 if student has credit for ARCH 314.

Long Title: TECHNOLOGY IV -THE ENVIRONMENT

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: LIVING IN THE CITY IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar combines primary and secondary sources to explore the urban experiences of Ottoman men and women in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Looking at several cities including Istanbul, Izmir, Salonika, Damascus, Aleppo and Alexandria, we will discuss such issues as neighborhood and community life, public spaces and recreational culture perceptions of space, urban institutions, Muslim and non-Muslim relations, migration and marginality, violence and death. Reading knowledge of French and /or Turkish helpful but not necessary. 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 508, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 318. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 518 if student has credit for ARCH 318.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE AND MEMORY: REPRESENTATIONS OF ANCIENT IN MODERN PARADIGMS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Why do Americans live in houses faced with pediments and columns? Why do ruins draw our interest? In what forms ancient, particularly Greek and Roman cultures are alive in arts, architecture and visual culture of the 19th and 20th centuries? This course seeks answers to these and similar questions. 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 519, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 319.

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: IMPERIAL CITY: ISTANBUL 1453-1922

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This thematic seminar examines significant historical moments in the architectural and urban cultural of the Ottoman imperial capital from the moment it was conquered until the demise of the Ottoman Empire. Weekly readings and discussions will cover a range of topics including building patronage, architectural decorum, the Byzantine legacy, artistic relations with Persia, India and Europe, cultural pluralism, neighborhood and public life, law and urban order, modernity and modernization. For each lecture, Graduate Students will be assigned additional readings. They will write an annotated bibliography of all these reading to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet 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 521, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 321. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 521 if student has credit for ARCH 331.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This Introductory course exposes students to issues and debates that have provoked architects and influenced the disciplinary discourse from the early twentieth century to the present. Focusing on fourteen topics, ranging from representation to media, to politics, urbanity or the environment, each session will be revolving around the differing ideas and positions of two architects or critics. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 225.

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: MIDDLE EASTERN CITIES - SPACE, MODERNITY AND MEMORY (1840-1945)

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar engages in debates about urban modernity focusing on three cities Istanbul, Cairo and Beirut. We examine these cities during the period of rapid modernization brought about by the Ottoman reforms of the 1840s and their post-Ottoman period. We will explore innovative methodologies to the study of Mediterranean cities by reflecting on the everyday life, the multiplicity of processes inherent to the shaping of urban space, questions of identities and concepts of citizenry, and the tensions playing out in the making of a modern urban order. Cross-list: HART 528.

Long Title: STREETS AND URBAN LIFE: PARIS TO ISTANBUL

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

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: BETWEEN INFORMATION AND SPACE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course situates contemporary graphic methods (of inquiry and presentation) in architecture through an historical overview of information management techniques used by a range of architectural practices, from post-war to the present. A digital collection of architectural graphic formats and their building counterparts will be used to identify the synthetic, elastic, and pragmatic relationships between techniques of spatializing 2d information and the development of an architectural project. The course will distinguish and catalogue the various format types - how they are structure, how they are read, the technologies that facilitate them, and how they shape design procedures and effects. Organized through lecture prompts, discussions of readings, case studies, and graphic projects, the course is intended to advance a student's understanding of an ability to position their own architectural projects relative to an historic lineage of graphic procedures. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 333. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 533 if student has credit for ARCH 333.

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. 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: POST-1945 JAPANESE ART & ARCHITECTURE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course investigates post-1945 Japanese art and architecture, contextualized as part of the nation's modern history, and with a particular focus on the socially and politically turbulent decades of the 1950s and 60s. Using artistic collectivism as a methodology, the course examines a wide range of collaborations in visual art and architecture, as seen in exhibitions, performances, and publications. 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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 571 if student has credit for ARCH 371.

Long Title: M. ARCH. I INTERNSHIP

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

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: COHERENCE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will construct a conversation about coherence. The opening salvo in this conversation: architects traffic entirely in greater or lesser degrees of coherence. A series of questions will start our discussion: How so? What structures underlie coherence in architecture? Is coherence necessarily overt? Latent? How is coherence fruitful today? Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 303. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 603 if student has credit for ARCH 303.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE FOR NON-ARCHITECTS INSTRUCTION

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

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. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

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: BUILDING WORKSHOP: THEATER RENOVATION/PARIS PROGRAM

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 6

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

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: Seminar

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: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

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. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INNOVATION IN DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

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/Laboratory

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.

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: Laboratory

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: Laboratory

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: ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Architectural acoustics comprises four areas of study: room acoustics, sound insulation, mechanical systems noise and vibration control and reinforcement. This course concentrates on room acoustics and explains the basic acoustical principles beginning with practical definitions of industry-wise acoustical terms. This view of the essentials necessary to architectural design of acoustically sensitive spaces focuses on questions like what acoustical factors should be considered when designing a space and how to specify the correct acoustical ceiling system for your design needs which may vary from space to space. During this course students will learn how to create a space that takes a space that takes acoustics into consideration, what products to use, when and where to use them. Technical knowledge will be supported by the field studies (tours to the important halls in Houston will be arranged).

Long Title: WHOLE WORLDS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The seminar aims to conceptualize and project on the idea of architectural world-making, i.e. constructing alternative worlds through architecture. During the last two decades, architectural world-making has mostly been speculated as a social (participation) or a systemic (infrastructure) phenomenon, judged on the basis of its inclusiveness and performance within larger contingencies. On the other hand, the question of disciplinary specificity has by and large been limited to self-referntial attributes of exclusive singularity. As part of outlining new directions in relation to these questions, the seminar will specualate and project on an alternative framework of architectural world-making, which both aims multiplicity and singularity while projecting unconventional associations between the two. Through focusing on a particular lineage of architectural ideas, projects and texts, the seminar aims to instigate further interplay between critical thinking and speculative work for future architectures. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 442. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 642 if student has credit for ARCH 442.

Long Title: CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

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

Long Title: HISTORY AND THEORY II - PRE 1890

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: HISTORY AND THEORY III - 1890-1968

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ARCH 345 OR ARCH 645 OR HART 345 OR HART 645

Description: This course will survey the history of architecture and urbanism from the mid-18th century to the 1960's. It will trace the critical shifts in architectural thought and practice that inaugurated, constituted, and questioned architectural modernism. In particular, the course will consider the development of architectural knowledge as the field engaged the great social, cultural, and technological changes of the period. These changes include the rise of: scientific inquiry and its implications for the study of history and aesthetics; nationalism; state institutions; industrialization; new social, economic and political forms; urbanization and suburbanization; the middle class and new audiences for architecture; photography and other media; new transportation technologies; new materials and techniques of construction; and disciplinary professionalization and specialization. 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: HISTORY AND THEORY IV - 1968 TO PRESENT

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): (ARCH 225 OR ARCH 525) AND (ARCH 345 OR ARCH 645) AND (ARCH 346 OR ARCH 646)

Description: This course provides an overview of key projects and concepts of contemporary architecture and related fields. Lectures on case-studies drawn from around the world from the late 20th century through the present are complimented by weekly seminars. This course is required for students in the undergraduate an undergraduate architecture programs, enrollment of other students is welcome but may be limited based on availability and approval of the instructor. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 352. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 652 if student has credit for ARCH 352.

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: Seminar

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: PROBLEMATIZING TH EPRACTICE OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: . Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 362. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 662 if student has credit for ARCH 362.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The object of this workshop is to explore, practice and develop a series of drawing methods and techniques in the context of the architectural design process. Emphasis will be on the development of free-hand drawing skills that will enhance the ability the ability of the design in communicating conceptual ideas. The course will consist of a combination of lectures/demonstrations, in-class drawing exercises, and out-of-class assignments. Two sketch books (one at mid-term and one at the end of the semester) will also be required. Attendance is critical. Please come to the first class prepared to draw with pen and an 8 1/2 x 11 or 9 x 12 sketch pad. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 363. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 663 if student has credit for ARCH 363. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: HOW MANY MODIFIERS?

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The course explroes permutations of contemporary relationships between ecology (as both nature and systmes) and urbanism, and the networks of ideas that produce emerging subsets that include Landscape Urbanism, Landscape Infrastructure, Ecological Urbanism, and others. Foundational texts formulating multi-scaler approaches to organizaiton will provide a frame work through which analyze critical design projects that catalyze landscape, urbanism, infrastructure, and architecture. This framework will then provide a means to project alternatuive figurations of large scale organizational systems. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 364.

Long Title: CONVERSATIONS: VISITING CRITIC SEMINAR

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

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: DESIGNING THE SOCIAL: ARCHITECTURE & COLLECTIVE ASSOC. - 'COMRADES,' 'THE DUDE,' AND BEYOND

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Although one can point to the New England town hall in Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America" (1835/40) or the bowling alley in connection with Robert D. Putnam's "Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community" (2000), architecture's social agency has been notoriously and productively difficult to pin down and architecture's relationship to the social sciences has been as tense as it has been constant. The course will focus its efforts on architecture's past and potential contribution to what has historically been called 'civic association' - the realm of social activity outside the market and purview of the state. Each class will focus on a particular architectural mode of social projection through the close reading of a single architectural work. In the major assignment for the course, students will be asked to conceive alternate architectural modes of social engagement and to speculate on their potential implications. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 370. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 670 if student has credit for ARCH 370.

Long Title: ISLAND IRREDENTA: TAIWAN

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar seeks to use Taiwan as a model to explore the implications of architectural engagement with a post-industrial operating across several scales, from the local to the global. The shift in Taiwan's industrial base has spurred massive investment in new infrastructure and a series of extra-large public architectural projects by global practices such as UN Studio, Toyo Ito, Richard Rogers, OMA and RUR. Added to this economic re-alignment are Taiwan's ambiguous, "unredeemed" international status and its island geography, which uniquely suit of restudying the role of architecture to simultaneously crate a global identity and serve an splintered local constituency. The insistence on the architectural project situated in an increasingly precarious context will form sphere and better definitions of architecture's relationship to post-industrial infrastructure. The seminar is structured around weekly discussions of reading material paired with case studies of Taiwan's infrastructural development and recent large-scale architectural interventions. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 377. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 673 if student has credit for ARCH 377. Repeatable for Credit.

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: THE ARCHITECTURE OF BOOKS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Over the past decades, the conception of books has become an integral part of any architectural practice. This seminar aims to introduce students to the book as a means to think about the production of space, and as a critical vessel to discuss and disseminate architectural ideas. In the first part of the seminar students will engage in an in-depth analysis of seminal architectural publications, considering their historical background, conceptual background and introducing such topics as typography and layout- and in-class discussions of relevant literature. The second part will be dedicated to the actual "building" of a small architectural publication, which will reflect critical and editorial skills as well as the craft of bookmaking. Instructor Permission Required.Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 376. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 676 if student has credit for ARCH 376.

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: NONLINEAR HISTORY AND THE EVOLUTION OF CITIES

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Using Manuael DeLanda's "A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History" as the framework the seminar will explore the evolution of three types of cities from three different times. The intent is to use DeLanda's work diachronically while looking at the cities synchronically.

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.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course addresses the development of skills for the teaching of History & Technology core courses. Weekly meetings will be held and supervised by faculty in the teaching of whose courses practicum students are involved. Department Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURAL PROBLEMS: SEMINAR

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will analyze the essential quality of contemporary built environments - architectural and urban space. The analysis will look at the texts and projects that are indispensable to an understanding of what contemporary space actually is and how it came to dominate the contemporary city over the course of the past century. The second half of the seminar will focus on the unexpected origins of that space in the natural world. Driven by a powerful organic ideal, space emerges as the engine of badly needed reforms in Megalopolis today.

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 polemical 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: PRACTICUM

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

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: Research

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.