Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE I

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 4

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

Long Title: PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE II

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisite(s): ARCH 101

Description: A development of communication of formal information from further investigation of visual structures and their order. Requisite for architecture majors. Cross-list: ARTS 102.

Long Title: CASE STUDIES IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course offers an introduction to the history of western art and architecture through weekly case studies of some of the most important public and private buildings in antiquity and the Middle Ages: from the Parthenon to a Roman house, Carnavan Castle to Chartres Cathedral. Topics explored throughout the course include the construction of imperial authority, ritual and the formation of space, and the relationship between structure and design. Cross-list: HART 104, MDST 104.

Long Title: WOODSHOP SAFETY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 1

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

Long Title: FRESHMAN SEMINAR ON ARCHITECTURAL ISSUES

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 2

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

Long Title: PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE II

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 6

Prerequisite(s): ARCH 102

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

Long Title: PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE II

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 6

Prerequisite(s): ARCH 201

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

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN OF STRUCTURES

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group III

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The course will introduce students to historical and contemporary structures through multi-media presentations, computer-based visualizations, field trips and hands-on experiments with materials of construction and physical models of structures. This is an introductory interactive course on the art and science of designing engineered structures and is intended for freshmen and sophomores interested in both civil engineering and architecture. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 507.

Long Title: DESIGN OF STRUCTURES II

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Application of materials & construction (wood, masonry, concrete & steel). Case studies & field trips. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 514.

Long Title: ISTANDUBL: LIFE OF AN IMPERIAL CITY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to the Ottoman capital and its monuments (15th century - 19th century). Major themes include the Byzantine legacy; imperial patronage; expressions of dynastic legitimacy, power and religion; ceremonial and imperial canon; the European influence; city's representations; leisure and public life.

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: DESIGN OF STRUCTURES II

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course is the 2nd 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.

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.

Long Title: CASE STUDIES IN SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will explore sustainable design from initial sustainable facility concepts and team organizations, to enlisting community support and process assessment. The course will develop into details about sustainable design, lessons learned, processes and outcomes. Cross-list: ENST 313, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 613.

Long Title: BRAZIL BUILT: THE CLINIC, THE TROPICAL, AND THE AESTHETIC

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Application of principles of analysis to construction of steel & concrete framed structures. Continuation of ARCH 213, 214. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 515.

Long Title: ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL SYSTEMS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group III

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to the thermal performance of buildings. Course is divided into 2 parts: Building Climatology and Air Conditioning Systems. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 516.

Long Title: LANDSCAPE AND SITE STRATEGIES FOR HOUSTON

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course is a workshop in site planning, with Houston as its focus. It will allow students to gain practice assessing, cataloging, and communicating the many complex issues that go into plugging a building into a site. We will navigate the networks created by natural environments, the build and legal environments, and access. The final product of this course is a site plan. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 617.

Long Title: DOING THE JITTERBUG

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The goal of this course is to probe this spectrum for opportunities to develop an invigorated notion of form and structure, one that has the capacity to adjust and adapt, negotiating between fully-infused networked organizations and atrophying into the regularity or planar surfaces. The work will be focused on a basic design problem: how to produce controlled transformations of a given geometrical module and how to create continuity between organizational states. In contradistinction to either the geodesic logic, where repetition is priviledged, or the logics of formal techniques of singular objects-the course will focus on developing an approach to architectural substance which has the capacity to operate on several scales and attain the several phase transitions within a coherent organization.

Long Title: METHODS OF MAKING

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The intent of this class is to saturate the design process with direct experience, to make fabrication synonymous with design. The focus is on identifying and developing an awareness of the underlying principles manifest in joining materials. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 622.

Long Title: WHAT IS ISLAMIC ART?

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

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

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. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: TEN MONUMENTS OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar examines ten key religious and secular buildings of the Islamic world, including some of the most celebrated monuments such as the Taj Mahal, in India, and the Alhambra Palace, in Spain. It covers a wide geographical area that stretches from modern Turkey, Egypt, and Syria, to Iran and India. Each session will alternate lecture and discussion and will focus on one building, exploring it in depth in relation to its aesthetic, cultural, religious, and political contexts. We will examine the formation of a visual vocabulary, its continuities, and variations, the complex layers of meanings embedded in these monuments, and will question patronage, imperial ideology, and cross-cultural encounters and influences. Cross-list: HART 323, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 628.

Long Title: STREETS AND URBAN LIFE: PARIS TO ISTANBUL

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This 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.

Long Title: VISUAL CULTURE OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD I

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to the arts and architecture of the Islamic world from the rise of Islam to the Mongol invasions. Explores the development of a visual tradition through its continuities, regional variations, exchanges, and intertextualities. Examines key religious and secular institutions and art forms through their aesthetic and historical contexts. Cross-list: HART 321.

Long Title: VISUAL CULTURE OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD II

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

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

Long Title: BUILDING WORKSHOP II

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Real-life problems dealing with design and construction. Instructor Permission Required.Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 634.

Long Title: CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A seminar in which the relationship between the construction of an object and its usefulness is explored. The premise in the course is that the way things are made can be one credible point of departure for the architectural design process. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 644.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY I

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will trace the development of Renaissance and Baroque architecture in Italy and France with reference to the dialectic of license and rule. The first part, which covers the period from 1400-1600, will focus on the civil, domestic and ecclesiastical architecture of the chief protagonists of the Italian Renaissance: Brunelleschi, Alberti, Bramante, Giulio Romano, Michelangelo and Palladio. Their buildings and urban initiatives will be interpreted in terms of continuities & discontinuities between an emerging theoretical tradition and the demands of actual practice. Cross-list: HART 345, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 645.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY II

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ARCH 345 OR ARCH 645

Description: This course is an overview of modern architecture with reference to related issues in cultural modernity. The course will consider important work of the 19th and 20th century, although reference will be made to earlier material where it bears on the issues under discussion. The course begins with the claim that the architecture of modernity has historically been conceived and developed in relation to utopian ideals, and that architectural modernism cannot be adequately understood unless attention is paid to its various utopian and dystopian 'moments'. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 646.

Long Title: TESTING, TESTING, 1, 2, 3

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Based on the tension implicit in this perceptual/material shift, this seminar seeks to straddle this divide through the strategic deployment of digital fabrication techniques in the design and construction of form active structural surfaces. The objective of the seminar is to engage digital fabrication in two ways. First, to explore a conceptual framework and a technical model of modulating continuous structural surfaces that does not rely on self-similar modularity. Second, to investigate material assemblies that not only enable new forms and material effects, but also sublimate the hierarchical separation of skin and frame.

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.

Long Title: ART AND EMPIRE: THE OTTOMAN WORLD

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

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

Long Title: CAST MODERNITY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will look at concrete's role as a facilitator of the conceptual and theoretical agendas of the architecture of the 20th century. Just as the Domino system enabled a new architecture at the beginning of the century, the current interests in topological and non-treated form are again arguing for concrete's unique properties. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 658.

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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 660.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

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

Long Title: SEMINAR: TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This research-based seminar is a quod libet course open to graduate and undergraduates alike. The course will place heavy emphasis on weekly writing and reading and formal research techniques. Students will select their own research topics and will develop written and graphic materials for seminar presentations and publication. Finished materials will be prepared for, and presented at, every class meeting. It is encouraged that this course be used in conjunction with a design studio, as a research, theory, and development arm. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 668.

Long Title: CITIES IN MUSLIM MEDITERRANEAN

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar examines the architectural and urban culture of the Ottoman Empire in the early modern and modern periods, and in different contexts including the imperial capital Istanbul and the port cities of Izmire and Salonica. We will begin by investigating questions of cultural legacy and appropriation; building patronage and urban development; court and urban life; in an attempt to address modernity outside European context.

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.

Long Title: MEAN GREEN MACHINE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This research course seeks to examine how sustainability can assume a generative (action). Instead of consumerist (passive), model. Focusing on inherent performative qualities of new smart materials, this course challenges the prevailing attitudes towards sustainability in architecture. The current model focuses on management - the management of energy consumption and waste production, focusing on smart materials, the seminar will set up an alternative taxonomy of sustainable design.

Long Title: REPOSITIONING THE SEAM (TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR)

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

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

Long Title: CONCEPTUAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The first part of the course will examine the conceptual art practices that began in the 1960s, including Bochner, Kosuth, art and language, LeWitt, Haacke, Kelly, and Smithson. The second part of the course will focus on the question of what constitutes a conceptual architecture by interrogating a series of potential practices including: Super Studio, Anchigram, Eisenman, Libeskind, Shinohara, Hejduf, Tschumi, and others. Cross-list: HART 392, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 684.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIETY II (ENLIGHTENMENT-POSTMODERNITY)

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Through a series of case studies, this course will examine the socio-cultural consequences of exemplary buildings from the Enlightenment through Postmodernity. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 686.

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: DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION PROJECT DELIVERY INNOVATION

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Process innovation in the design and construction industries is far too rare. Even with access to powerful tools such as CADD and the Internet, many opportunities for process improvement are overlooked and problems are repeatedly ignored. Within this course, cross-discipline project teams will use contemporary business tools to evaluate longstanding industry practices and develop ideas for process innovation. At the end of the semester, students will present innovation concepts to members of the Project Delivery Innovation Forum, a group of industry leaders that may select student ideas for further research on real projects. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 616.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN ADVANCED MATERIALS AND SYSTEMS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The purpose of this course is to explore the architectural potential of advanced materials and systems through a combination of research and fabrication. Students will be responsible for choosing a material or system, developing a history of the material/system's development and use, making a class presentation, and developing a web description of the material/system to be included in a class web page. Simultaneously, students will be required to contact both manufacturers and local fabricators in order to put together a small demonstration project, illustrating the material/system's potential.

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.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN ARCHITECTURE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

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

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN ARCHITECTURE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course is designed as a general introduction to computing in the context of architectural design. Emphasis is on the use of digital media as design tools and the appropriate use of these tools in the varying processes of design. This course includes exposure to a broad spectrum of design, drafting, modeling and presentation software. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 633.

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: COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN IN ARCHITECTURE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Advanced computer graphic techniques using CAD in architecture as a design and presentation medium. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 636.

Long Title: THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A workshop in three dimensional computer modeling and its theoretical implications for architecture and design. One class session each week will be a how to lecture covering the technical side of modeling. The other sessions will consist of group discussion through which we will explore the theoretical implications of the medium and test the limits of its use as architectural representation. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 639.

Long Title: THE STRUCTURE OF SPACE: TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The class will explore the potentials of software visualization and form fabrication in a focused semester long design exercise. The class will focus on the techniques and operations available to us in how we define and construct spatical territories before fabricating physical models of these investigations. (Basic understanding of Maya encouraged but no previous requisites required). Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 641.

Long Title: 20TH CENTURY NORTH AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A seminar in history and criticism. In this course we will consider the establishment of a canon of 20th century architecture in North America (US & Canada). Each week we will take apart the various criteria that qualify buildings for history including aesthetic and stylistic quality, technological invention, architectural careerism, urban contributions, stylistic quality, technological invention, architectural careerism, urban contributions, geographic influence, typology, theory, art movements, and social implications. The goal of the course is to investigate the way texts relate to build reality. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 654.

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.

Long Title: SPECIAL PROJECTS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3 TO 9

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

Long Title: CASE STUDY IN URBAN DESIGN: BRASILIA

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Starting with two principal documents describing the city of Brasilia, the original hand drawn competition entry in 1957 and a digital survey of 1997, this seminar will study modern urban design in relation to the 1950's project for a new Brazilian capital. The project of Brasilia, and its inevitable transformation over time, will be looked at historically, politically, culturally, formally and esthetically. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 669.

Long Title: THE IDEA OF HOUSING

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In the 1920's the architectural idea of housing and the philosophical idea of existentialism emerged simultaneously in presumably unrelated intellectual circles. Being and Time was published in 1927, the same year the Weissenhof Settlement opened to the public in Stuttgart. One need only emphasize the fact that Martin Heidegger is precisely the same age as both Le Corbusier and Mies to suggest an exploration of the possible connections between the two seemingly disparate intellectual trends. Whether this shared history represents only a coincidence or the overlap of significant content is an open question. The first part of the seminar will examine this question. The second part will catalogue the institutionalization of these ideas through the 1950s using a series of case studies. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 681.

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: ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIETY I

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Through a series of case studies, this course will examine the socio-cultural consequences of exemplary buildings from Antiquity through the 17th century. Cross-list: HART 455, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 685.

Long Title: PROBLEMS IN KNOWLEDGE AND DESIGN

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will present as series of lectures on the physics and metaphysics of creation and genesis from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines, slowly sewing them together within a general and non-classical approach to form. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 692.

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: DESIGN CAREER ACCELERATION

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

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

Long Title: PRECEPTORSHIP PROGRAM

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Studio

Credit Hours: 15

Description: Full time internship for nine to twelve months under guidance of appointed preceptor. Required for all recipients of Rice B.A. degrees in pre-professional program of area majors who seek admission to graduate studies in Architecture. 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 nonarchitectural bachelor's degree. Lectures, seminars, laboratories, and design studio projects adjusted to individual needs.

Long Title: CORE DESIGN STUDIO II

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 10

Description: This studio emphasizes the impact of building systems and protocols on the spatial and formal organization of architecture with a final project focused on the design of a public building in a metropolitan context. The studio focuses equally on the development of conceptual rigor and technical expertise.

Long Title: CORE DESIGN STUDIO III

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 10

Description: Design studio to follow ARCH 501, 502. Preparation for entering studios in the regular graduate programs in architecture and urban design in the following semester.

Long Title: CORE DESIGN STUDIO IV

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 10

Description: Exploration of abstract thought and design capabilities relevant to systematic processes of designing specific buildings and facilities. Course content is topic oriented and varies section to section.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN OF STRUCTURES

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: DESIGN OF STRUCTURES II

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course is the 2nd 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.

Long Title: DESIGN OF STRUCTURES II

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course in structures for students in the Option I Program. Topics include: structure in architecture; forces and equilibrium; structural materials; the behavior, analysis, and design of structural elements and their connections. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 214.

Long Title: DESIGN OF STRUCTURES III

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A second course in structures for students in the Qualifying Graduate Program. Topics include: additional topics in the behavior, analysis, and design of structural elements; synthesis of structural elements into structural systems; integration of structural systems with other building systems. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 315.

Long Title: ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL SYSTEMS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course addresses building environmental systems including power, water, and wastewater with an emphasis on air condition systems. Through multimedia presentations and fieldtrips, students are taught to analyze the thermal environment in a variety of building types and select equipment to meet these needs. Sustainability issues related to environmental systems such as energy conservational and life cycle costs are also addressed. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 316.

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.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL, VISUALIZATION, AND COMMUNICATION

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.

Long Title: M. ARCH. I INTERNSHIP

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: Practical work experience for students who have completed at least four semesters in the Option I Program prior to their entrance into the regular Master of Architecture studio sequence. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURAL PROBLEMS: STUDIO

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 10

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

Long Title: ARCHITECTURAL PROBLEMS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 10 OR 12

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

Long Title: ARCHITECTURAL PROBLEMS: STUDIO

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Studio

Credit Hours: 10

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

Long Title: ARCHITECTURAL PROBLEMS: STUDIO

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Studio

Credit Hours: 10

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

Long Title: BUILDING WORKSHOP: THEATER RENOVATION/PARIS PROGRAM

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 6

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

Long Title: HOUSTON ARCHITECTURE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: CASE STUDIES IN SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: WOODSHOP SAFETY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 1

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

Long Title: DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION PROJECT DELIVERY INNOVATION

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Process innovation in the design and construction industries is far too rare. Even with access to powerful tools such as CADD and the Internet, many opportunities for process improvement are overlooked and problems are repeatedly ignored. Within this course, cross-discipline project teams will use contemporary business tools to evaluate long- standing industry practices and develop ideas for process innovation. At the end of the semester, students will present innovation concepts to members of the Project Delivery Innovation Forum, a group of industry leaders that may select student ideas for further research on real projects. Cross-list: MGMT 716, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 416.

Long Title: LANDSCAPE AND SITE STRATEGIES FOR HOUSTON

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course is a workshop in site planning, with Houston as its focus. It will allow students to gain practice assessing, cataloging, and communicating the many complex issues that go into plugging a building into a site. We will navigate the networks created by natural environments, the build and legal environments, and access. The final product of this course is a site plan. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 317.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN ADVANCED MATERIALS AND SYSTEMS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The purpose of this course is to explore the architectural potential of advanced materials and systems through a combination of research and fabrication. Students will be responsible for choosing a material or system, developing a history of the material/system's development and use, making a class presentation, and developing a web description of the material/system to be included in a class web page. Simultaneously, students will be required to contact both manufacturers and local fabricators in order to put together a small demonstration project, illustrating the material/system's potential.

Long Title: DOING THE JITTERBUG

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The goal of this course is to probe this spectrum for opportunities to develp an invigorated notion of form and structure, one that has the capacity to adjust and adapt, negotiating between fully-infused networked organizations and atrophying into the regularity of planar surfaces. The work will be focused on a basic design problem: how to produce controlled transformations of a given geometrical module and how to create continuity between organizational states. In contradistinciton to either the geodesic logic, where repetition is priviledged, or the logics of formal techniques of singular objects-the course will focus on developing an approach to architectural substance which has the capacity to operate on several scales and attain the several phase transitions within a coherent organization. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 419.

Long Title: HISTORY OF BUILDING TECHNOLOGY/PARIS PROGRAM

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

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: METHODS OF MAKING

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Studio

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: PROFESSIONALISM AND MANAGEMENT IN ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: BUILDING WORKSHOP I

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Studio

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS IN ARCHITECTURE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Lectures and seminars dealing with problem-solving activities and methodological issues in architectural design and urban design.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN ARCHITECTURE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

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.

Long Title: BUILDING WORKSHOP II

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS OVERVIEW

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

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

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

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: THE STRUCTURE OF SPACE: TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY I

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

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

Long Title: 19TH-20TH CENTURY ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ARCH 345 OR ARCH 645

Description: This course is an overview of modern architecture with reference to related issues in cultural modernity. The course will consider important work of the 19th and 20th century, although reference will be made to earlier material where it bears on the issues under discussion. The course begins with the claim that the architecture of modernity has historically been conceived and developed in relation to utopian ideals, and that architectural modernism cannot be adequately understood unless attention is paid to its various utopian and dystopian 'moments'. Cross-list: HART 506, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 346.

Long Title: TESTING, TESTING, 1,2,3

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Based on the tension implicit in this perceptual/material shift, this seminar seeks to straddle this divide through the strategic deployment of digital fabrication techniques in the design and construction of form active structural surfaces. The objective of the seminar is to engage digital fabrication in two ways. First, to explore a conceptual framework and a technical model of modulating continuous structural surfaces that does not really on self-similar modularity. Second, to investigate material assemblies that not only enable new forms and material effects, but also sublimate the hierarchical separation of skin and frame.

Long Title: PHOTOGRAPHY FOR ARCHITECTS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: 20TH CENTURY NORTH AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: HOUSING AND URBAN PROGRAMS: ISSUES IN POLICY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will explore current issues in the formulation and implementation of housing and urban development programs in the U.S. Class members will each select a specific topic within a general policy area and make oral presentation to the class as well as submit a written paper on the topic at the end of the semester. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 455.

Long Title: AFFORDABLE HOUSING: A PRACTICUM IN DEVELOPMENT

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

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

Long Title: CAST MODERNITY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

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.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

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

Long Title: CONVERSATIONS: VISITING CRITIC SEMINAR

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

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

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: SEMINAR: TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This research-based seminar is a quod libet course open to graduates and undergraduates alike. The course will place heavy emphasis on weekly writing and reading and formal research techniques. Students will select their own research topics and will develop written and graphic materials for seminar presentations and publication. Finished materials will be prepared for, and presented at, every class meeting. It is encouraged that this course be used in conjunction with a design studio, as a research, theory, and development arm. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 368.

Long Title: ISSUES IN COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

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

Long Title: THE JOY OF MATERIALS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: MEAN GREEN MACHINE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This research course seeks to examine how sustainability can assume a generative (action), instead of consumerist (passive), model. Focusing on inherent performative qualities of new smart materials, this course challenges the prevailing attitude towards sustainability in architecture. The current model focuses on management - the management of energy consumption and waste production. Focusing on smart materials, the seminar will set up an alternative taxonomy of sustainable design.

Long Title: THE IDEA OF HOUSING

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: REPOSITIONING THE SEAM (TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR)

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

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

Long Title: TWENTIETH CENTURY IDEAS OF ARCHITECTURE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: CONCEPTUAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The first part of the course will examine the conceptual art practices that begin in the 1960s including: Bochner, Kosuth, Art and Language, LeWitt, Maacke, Kelly and Smithson. The second part of the course will focus on the question of what constitutes a conceptual architecture by interrogating a series of potential practices including: Super Studio, Archigram, Eisenman, Libesking, Shinohara, Heiduf, Tschumi and others. Graduate version of ARCH 384. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 384.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIETY I (ANTIQUITY THROUGH 17TH CENTURY)

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Through a series of case studies, this course will examine the socio-cultural consequences of exemplary buildings from Antiquity through the 17th Century. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 485.

Long Title: INTERPRETING BUILDINGS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: ARCHITECTURAL PROBLEMS: SEMINAR

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: PROBLEMS IN KNOWLEDGE AND DESIGN

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will present a series of lectures on the physics and metaphysics of creation and genesis from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines, slowly sewing them together with a general and non-classical approach to form. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 492.

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: DESIGN CAREER STRATEGIES

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

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

Long Title: PRACTICUM

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

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

Long Title: PRE-THESIS PREPARATION

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: DESIGN THESIS STUDIO

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 13

Long Title: WRITTEN THESIS RESEARCH

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: WRITTEN THESIS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 13

Long Title: SPECIAL PROJECTS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

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

Long Title: INDEPENDENT DESIGN PROJECTS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: GRADUATE RESEARCH

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3 TO 12

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.