ARCH -- Architecture
 

ARCH 400 Architecture Studio I (6) Three hours of lecture and nine hours of studio per week. Prerequisite: ARCH majors only. Introduction to the processes of visual and architectural design including field problems.

ARCH 401 Architecture Studio II (6) Three hours of lecture and nine hours of studio per week. Prerequisite: ARCH 400 with a grade of C or better. For ARCH majors only. Continuation of ARCH 400.

ARCH 402 Architecture Studio III (6) Three hours of lecture and nine hours of studio per week. Prerequisite: ARCH 401 with a grade of C or better. For ARCH majors only. Design projects involving the elements of environmental control, basic structural systems, building processes and materials.

ARCH 403 Architecture Studio IV (6) Prerequisite: ARCH 402 with a grade of C or better. For ARCH majors only. Three hours of lecture and nine hours of studio per week. Design projects involving forms generated by different structural systems, environmental controls and methods of construction.

ARCH 408 Selected Topics in Architecture Studio (1-6) Prerequisite: ARCH 403 or equivalent and permission of department. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. Topical problems in architecture and urban design.

ARCH 410 Technology I (4) Prerequisites: MATH 220; and {PHYS 121 and PHYS 122) or PHYS 117}. Corequisite: ARCH 400. For ARCH majors only. First course in a four course sequence which develops the knowledge and skills of architectural technology. Addresses climate, human responses to climate, available materials, topography and impact on culture. Principles of assembly, basic structural principles and philosophies of construction.

ARCH 411 Technology II (4) Prerequisite: ARCH 410. Corequisite: ARCH 401. For ARCH majors only. Second course in a four course sequence. Building construction processes and terminology; use and performance characteristics of primary building materials; principles of structural behavior related to the building systems; equilibrium and stability, stiffness and strength, types of stress, distribution of force and stress, resolution of forces, reactions, bending moments, shear, deflection, buckling.

ARCH 412 Technology III (4) Prerequisite: ARCH 411. Corequisite: ARCH 402. For ARCH majors only. Design of steel, timber, and reinforced concrete elements, and subsystems; analysis of architectural building systems. Introduction to design for both natural and other hazards.

ARCH 413 Technology IV (4) Prerequisite: ARCH 412. Corequisite: ARCH 403. For ARCH majors only. Final course in a four course sequence. Theory, quantification, and architectural design applications for water systems, fire protection, electrical systems, illumination, signal equipment, and transportation systems.

ARCH 415 Environmental Control and Systems II (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 313, ARCH 402. For ARCH majors only. Theory, quantification, and architectural design applications for water systems, fire protection, electrical systems, illumination, signal equipment, and transportation systems.

ARCH 418 Selected Topics in Architectural Science (1-4) Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 7 credits if content differs.

ARCH 419 Independent Studies in Architectural Science (1-4) Repeatable to 7 credits. Proposed work must have a faculty sponsor and receive approval of the curriculum committee.

ARCH 420 History of American Architecture (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 221 or permission of department. American architecture from the late 17th to the 20th century.

ARCH 422 History of Greek Architecture (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 220 or permission of department. Survey of Greek architecture from 750-100 B.C.

ARCH 423 History of Roman Architecture (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 220 or permission of department. Survey of Roman architecture from 500 B.C. To A.D. 325.

ARCH 426 Fundamentals of Architecture (3) Prerequisite: admission to 3 1/2 year M. ARCH program. Thematic introduction of a variety of skills, issues, and ways of thinking that bear directly on the design and understanding of the built world.

ARCH 427 Theories of Architecture (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 221 or permission of department. For ARCH majors only. Selected historical and modern theories of architectural design.

ARCH 428 Selected Topics in Architectural History (1-3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 7 credits if content differs.

ARCH 429 Independent Studies in Architectural History (1-4) Repeatable to 6 credits. Proposed work must have a faculty sponsor and receive approval of the curriculum committee.

ARCH 432 History of Medieval Architecture (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 220 or permission of department. Architecture of western Europe from the early Christian and Byzantine periods through the late Gothic, with consideration of parallel developments in the eastern world.

ARCH 433 History of Renaissance Architecture (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 221 or permission of department. Renaissance architectural principles and trends in the 15th and 16th centuries and their modifications in the Baroque period.

ARCH 434 History of Modern Architecture (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 221 or permission of department. Architectural trends and principles from 1750 to the present, with emphasis on developments since the mid-19th century.

ARCH 435 History of Contemporary Architecture (3) For ARCH majors only. Concentration on the developments in architecture in Europe and the U.S. since World War II, their antecedents in the 1920s and 1930s, and the various reactions to modernism in the post-war era.

ARCH 436 History of Islamic Architecture (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 220 or permission of department. Survey of Islamic architecture from the seventh through the eighteenth century.

ARCH 437 History of Pre-Columbian Architecture (3) Architecture of Pre-Columbian Mexico and Central America from the Pre-Classic Period through the Spanish conquest.

ARCH 443 Visual Communication (2) Two hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisite: admission to the 3 1/2 year M. ARCH program. For ARCH majors only. Investigation of the relationship between drawing from life and architectural drawing, the conventions of architectural drawing and the role of architectural drawing as a means to develop, communicate, and generate architectural ideas.

ARCH 445 Visual Analysis of Architecture (3) Two hours of lecture and two hours of studio per week. Prerequisite: ARCH 401 and ARCH 343, or permission of department. Visual principles of architectural design through graphic analysis.

ARCH 448 Selected Topics in Visual Studies (1-4) Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 7 credits if content differs.

ARCH 449 Independent Studies in Visual Studies (1-4) Repeatable to 6 credits. Proposed work must have a faculty sponsor and receive approval of the curriculum committee.

ARCH 450 Introduction to Urban Planning (3) Introduction to city planning theory, methodology and techniques, dealing with normative, urban, structural, economic, social aspects of the city; urban planning as a process. Architectural majors or by permission of the instructor. Lecture, seminar, 3 hours per week.

ARCH 451 Urban Design Seminar (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 350 or permission of department. Advanced investigation into problems of analysis and evaluation of the design of urban areas, spaces and complexes with emphasis on physical and social considerations, effects of public policies, through case studies. Field observations.

ARCH 453 Urban Problems Seminar (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. A case study of urban development issues, dealing primarily with socio-economic aspects of changes in the built environment.

ARCH 454 Theories of Urban Form (3) Theories of planning and design of urban spaces, building complexes, and new communities.

ARCH 458 Selected Topics in Urban Planning (1-4) Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 7 credits if content differs.

ARCH 459 Independent Studies in Urban Planning (1-4) Repeatable to 6 credits. Proposed work must have a faculty sponsor and receive approval of the curriculum committee.

ARCH 460 Site Analysis and Design (3) Prerequisite: ARCH majors only or permission of department. Principles and methods of site analysis; the influence of natural and man-made site factors on site design and architectural form.

ARCH 470 Computer Applications in Architecture (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 400 or permission of department. Introduction to computer programming and utilization, with emphasis on architectural applications.

ARCH 472 Economic Determinants in Architecture (3) Introduction to economic factors influencing architectural form and design, including land economics, real estate, financing, project development, financial planning, construction and cost control.

ARCH 478 Selected Topics in Architecture (1-4) Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 7 credits if content differs.

ARCH 479 Independent Studies in Architecture (1-4) Repeatable to 6 credits. Proposed work must have a faculty sponsor and receive approval of the curriculum committee.

ARCH 480 Problems and Methods of Architectural Preservation (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 420 or permission of department. Theory and practice of preservation in America, with emphasis on the problems and techniques of community preservation.

ARCH 481 The Architect in Archaeology (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. The role of the architect in field archaeology and the analysis of excavating, recording, and publishing selected archaeological expeditions.

ARCH 482 The Archaeology of Roman and Byzantine Palestine (3) Archaeological sites in Palestine (Israel and Jordan) from the reign of Herod the Great to the Moslem conquest.

ARCH 483 Field Archaeology (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Participation in field archaeology with an excavation officially recognized by proper authorities of local government.

ARCH 488 Selected Topics in Architectural Preservation (1-4) Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 7 credits if content differs.

ARCH 489 Independent Studies in Architectural Preservation (1-4) Repeatable to 6 credits. Proposed work must have a faculty sponsor and receive approval of the curriculum committee.

ARCH 600 Architecture Studio V (6) Three hours of lecture and nine hours of studio per week. Prerequisite: ARCH 403 or equivalent. Comprehensive building and urban design; studio options in advanced topical problems.

ARCH 601 Architecture Studio VI (6) Three hours of lecture and nine hours of studio per week. Prerequisite: ARCH 600. Continuation of ARCH 600.

ARCH 610 Appropriate Technologies in Architecture (3) Historical and current theories, practices and attitudes regarding the application of technologies to design and construction of buildings, civil structures and other infrastructures in rural and urban environments.

ARCH 611 Advanced Architecture Technology Seminar (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 413. Corequisite: ARCH 600. For ARCH majors only. Technology in design of buildings. Application of technological issues in building design; integration of technology in architecture; technology as a form determinant in architecture; other conceptual and philosophical issues related to the application of technology in the design, construction, and use of buildings.

ARCH 612 Advanced Structural Analysis in Architecture (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 416. Qualitative and quantitative analysis and design of selected complex structural systems.

ARCH 616 Advanced Architectural Structures (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 375, ARCH 403, ARCH 412, ARCH 415 or equivalent. For ARCH majors only. Analysis of structural issues in architectural design; structure as an architectural form determinant; integration of architectural, structural and other technical disciplines in building design.

ARCH 617 Advanced Environmental Control and Systems (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 375, ARCH 403, ARCH 412, ARCH 415 or equivalent. For ARCH majors only. Analysis, computer applications, and integration of environmental control and systems in architectural design.

ARCH 621 Seminar in History of American Architecture (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 221 or ARCH 222 or permission of instructor. Advanced investigation of historical problems in American architecture.

ARCH 628 Selected Topics in Architectural History (1-3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 7 credits if content differs. Special topics in the history of architecture.

ARCH 629 Independent Studies in Architectural History (1-3) Repeatable to 7 credits if content differs. Proposed work must have faculty sponsor and receive approval of the Educational Policy Committee.

ARCH 635 Seminar in the History of Modern Architecture (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 434 or permission of department. Advanced investigation of historical problems in modern architecture.

ARCH 654 Urban Development and Design Theory (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Advanced investigation into planning, development, and urban design theory and practice.

ARCH 674 Seminar in Regionalism (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Regional characterisitics of culture, climate, and landscape as determinants of vernacular architecture, especially in Third World countries.

ARCH 675 Advanced Architectural Construction and Materials (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 375, ARCH 403, ARCH 412, ARCH 415. For ARCH majors only. Processes of construction, assembly, integration, and coordination of architectural, mechanical, electrical, and structural aspects of building; special attention to design development of building details.

ARCH 676 Field Research in Architecture (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Recording and analysis of significant architectural complexes in situ.

ARCH 678 Selected Topics in Architecture (1-6) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs.

ARCH 679 Independent Studies in Architecture (1-6) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Repeatable to 6 credits.

ARCH 700 Architecture Studio VII (6) Three hours of lecture and nine hours of studio per week. Prerequisite: ARCH 601. Continuation of ARCH 601.

ARCH 770 Professional Practice (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 601. Project management, organizational, legal, economic and ethical aspects of architecture.

ARCH 797 Thesis Proseminar (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 601. Directed research and preparation of thesis program.

ARCH 798 Thesis in Architecture (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 797. Corequisite: ARCH 799. For ARCH majors only. Complements the research of ARCH 799, with presentation of the design research to student's thesis committee.

ARCH 799 Master's Thesis Research (1-6) 12 hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisites: ARCH 601, permission of department and 3.0 GPA overall. Corequisite: ARCH 798. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. Development of master's thesis.