Graduate Courses for Architecture (ARCH)

Schedule of Classes: Fall | Winter | Spring | Summer
(Only current and next semester available)

ARCH 400 Architecture Studio I (6 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH majors only.
Introduction to architectural design with particular emphasis on conventions and principles of architecture, visual and verbal communication skills, formal analysis, design process, spatial composition, architectural promenade, basic program distribution, and elementary constructional and environmental responses.

ARCH 401 Architecture Studio II (6 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH400 with a grade of C or better. For ARCH majors only.
Continuation of ARCH 400 with introduction to building typology, urban and contextual issues, design of the vertical surface, and architectural interiors.

ARCH 402 Architecture Studio III (6 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH401 with a grade of C or better. For ARCH majors only.
Architectural design studio with emphasis on building and facade typologies, the development of architectural promenade and sequence, public and/or civic infill buildings dependent upon the architectural promenade, and urban housing types of varying densities. The architect's obligations to urban context are explored in many dimensions including historical, typological, and physical.

ARCH 403 Architecture Studio IV (6 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH402 with a grade of C or better. For ARCH majors only.
Investigations into the relationship between the man-made and the natural world including introductory issues of assembly and material value. Design of the site and the building are combined into an integral process delimiting and probing the boundaries of each and exploring their reciprocal relationship. The architect's obligations to the natural and urban contexts are explored in many dimensions including historical, typological, environmental, and physical.

ARCH 404 Graduate Architecture Design Studio I (6 credits)
Restricted to Master of Architecture majors only. Recommended: For 3 1/2 year graduate students only.
Introduction to architectural design with particular emphasis on conventions and principles of architecture , visual and verbal communication skills, formal analysi, design process, spatial composition, architectural promenade, basic program distribution, and elementary constructional and environmental responses. Offered fall only.

ARCH 405 Graduate Architecture Design Studio II (6 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH404 with a grade of C (2.0) or better. For Master of Architecture majors only.
Architectural design studio with emphasis on building and facade typologies, the development of architectural promenade and sequence, public and/or civic infill buildings dependent upon the architectural promenade, and urban housing types of varying densities. The architect's obligations to urban context are explored in many dimensions including historical, typological, and physical. Offered spring only.

ARCH 406 Graduate Architecture Design Studio III (6 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH405 with a grade of C (2.0) or better. For Master of Architecture majors only.
Investigations into the relationship between the man-made and the natural world including introductory issues of assembly and material value. Design of the site and the building are combined into an integral process delimiting and probing the boundaries of each and exploring their reciprocal relationship. The architect's obligations to the natural and urban contexts are explored in many dimensions including historical, typological, environmental, and physical.

ARCH 407 Graduate Architecture Design IV (6 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH406 with a grade of C (2.0) or better. For Master of Architecture majors only.
Studio problems and theories concentrating on urbanism and urban design techniques. Issues and sites range from high-density urban in-fill to suburban and greenfield developmment in American and other contexts. Studio theories explore such topics as Contextualism, Neo-Traditional design, Transit Oriented Development, density, sustainable development, building typology, and street design.

ARCH 408 Intermediate Architectural Drawing (1-6 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH403 or equivalent and permission of department. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs.
Topical problems in architecture and urban design.

ARCH 410 Architecture Technology I (4 credits)
Prerequisites: MATH140 or MATH220; PHYS121 and (one of the following:BSCI205, GEOG140, GEOL120, GEOL123/AOSC123/METO123/GEOG123). Corequisite: ARCH400. 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 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH410. Corequisite: ARCH401. 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 Architecture Technology III (4 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH411 with a grade of C or better. Corequisite: ARCH402. For ARCH majors only.
Third course in a four course sequence. Design of steel, timber, and reinforced concrete elements and subsystems; analysis of architectural building systems. Introduction to design for both natural and man-made hazards.

ARCH 413 Architecture Technology IV (4 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH412. Corequisite: ARCH403. For ARCH majors only.
Final course in a four course sequence. Theory, quantification, and architectural design applications for HVAC, water systems, fire protection electrical systems, illumination, signal equipment, and transportation systems.

ARCH 418 Selected Topics in Architectural Technology (1-3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs.

ARCH 419 Independent Studies in Architectural Technology (1-4 credits)
Repeatable to 6 credits.
Proposed work must have a faculty sponsor and receive approval of the curriculum committee.

ARCH 420 History of American Architecture (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH221 or permission of department.
American architecture from the late 17th to the 21st century.

ARCH 422 History of Greek Architecture (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH221 or permission of department.
Survey of Greek architecture from 750-100 B.C.

ARCH 423 History of Roman Architecture (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH221 or permission of department.
Survey of Roman architecture from 500 B.C. To A.D. 325.

ARCH 426 Fundamentals of Architecture (3 credits)
Prerequisite: admission to 3 1/2 year M. ARCH program. For ARCH majors only.
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 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH426 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 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs.
Special topics in the history of architecture.

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

ARCH 433 History of Renaissance Architecture (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH221 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 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH221 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 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH221 or permission of department.
Architectural history from World War II to the present.

ARCH 437 History of Pre-Columbian Architecture (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH221 or permission of department.
History of architecture of the western hemisphere from the Pre-Classic period through the Spanish conquest.

ARCH 442 Studies in the Vertical Surface (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH401 or permission of department.
Theories of analysis and design related to vertical surface. Exercises include documentation, analysis, and design of facades.

ARCH 443 Visual Communication For Architects (3 credits)
Two hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisite: Admission to the 3 1/2 year M. ARCH program. Corequisite: ARCH400. 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 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH400 or permission of department. For ARCH majors only.
Study of visual principles of architectural and urban precedents through graphic analysis. Exercises include on-site observation, documentation and analysis. Focuses on the development of an architect's sketchbook as a tool for life-long learning.

ARCH 448 Selected Topics in Visual Studies for Architects (1-3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs.

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

ARCH 456 Great Cities (3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department.
Case studies from a selection of the great cities of the world.

ARCH 458 Selected Topics in Urban Planning (1-4 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs.
Proposed work must have a faculty sponsor and receive approval of the Curriculum Committee.

ARCH 459 Independent Studies in Urban Planning (1-4 credits)
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 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH400 or permission of department. For ARCH majors only.
Principles and methods of site analysis; the influence of natural and man-made site factors on site design and architectural form.

ARCH 461 Sustainability in Architecture (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH401 and ARCH410 or permission of department. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ARCH418S or ARCH461. Formerly ARCH418S.
Strategies of sustainability as related to the broader context of architectural problem solving.

ARCH 470 Computer Applications in Architecture (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH400 or permission of department. For ARCH majors only.
Introduction to computer utilization, with emphasis on architectural applications.

ARCH 478 Selected Topics in Architecture (1-4 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs.

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

ARCH 481 The Architect in Archaeology (3 credits)
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 credits)
Archaeological sites in Palestine (Israel and Jordan) from the reign of Herod the Great to the Moslem conquest.

ARCH 483 Field Archaeology (3 credits)
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 (1-3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs.

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

ARCH 600 Comprehensive Design Studio V (6 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH 403 or equivalent. Corequisite: ARCH611. For ARCH majors only.
Comprehensive building and site design. Course content bridges the gap between design and technology, between practice and education, in a studio setting. Explorations include the integration of conceptual and technical aspects of architectural form and assembly, highlighting the ways in which multiple layers of a building design are developed, coordinated and resolved.

ARCH 601 Topical Studio (6 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH 600. For ARCH majors only.
Topical architectural design studio with concentration on advanced theoretical, programmatic, contextual, and/or technical issues, with topical inquiry addressing but not limited to: architectural competitions, housing, sustainable design, collegiate architecture, regional architecture, classicism versus modernity.

ARCH 611 Advanced Architecture Technology Seminar (3 credits)
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 628 Selected Topics in Architectural History (1-3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 06 credits if content differs.
Special topics in the history of architecture.

ARCH 629 Independent Studies in Architectural History (1-4 credits)
Repeatable to 06 credits if content differs.
Proposed work must have faculty sponsor and receive approval of the Curriculum Committee.

ARCH 635 Seminar in the History of Modern Architecture (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH 427 or permission of department.
Advanced investigation of historical problems in modern architecture.

ARCH 654 Urban Development and Design Theory (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH401 or permission of department.
Advanced investigation into the history, and practice of urban design, planning, and development.

ARCH 655 Urban Design Seminar (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH654 or permission of department. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ARCH451 or ARCH655. Formerly ARCH451.
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 670 Advance Comprehensive Computer Technology in Architecture (3 credits)
Two hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisite: ARCH 403 and ARCH 470 or equivalent. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ARCH 678C or ARCH 670. Formerly ARCH678C.
Comprehensive use of computer technology in the design process. Use of digital versus analog modeling to study design alternatives. Methods of representation to best convey concepts and integration of technology.

ARCH 672 Seminar in Type and Typology (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH402 or permission of department.
The idea of type and typology, its implications for theory, scholarship, and practice in achitecture and urban design.

ARCH 673 Building Culture (3 credits)
One hour of lecture and two hours of discussion/recitation per week. Prerequisite: ARCH 402 or permission of department. Senior standing. For ARCH majors only.
Comprehension of major themes in the development of architectural building techniques and culture value systems in architecture are developed through lecture, discussion and analysis of seminal readings and buildings.

ARCH 674 Seminar in Regionalism (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH600 or permission of department.
Regional characterisitics of culture, climate, and landscape as determinants world architecture.

ARCH 676 Field Research in Architecture (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH600 or permission of department.
Recording and analysis of significant architectural complexes in situ.

ARCH 678 Selected Topics in Architecture (1-3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs.

ARCH 679 Independent Studies in Architecture (1-4 credits)
Prerequisite: Proposed work must have faculty sponsor and receive approval of the Cirriculum Committee. Repeatable to 04 credits if content differs.

ARCH 700 Advanced Urban Design Studio VII (6 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH 600 or permission of department.
Studio problems and theories concentrating on urbanism and urban design techniques. Issues and sites range from high density urban in-fill to suburban and greenfield development in American and other contexts. Studio theories explore such topics as Contextualism, Neo-Traditional design, Transit-Oriented Development, density, sustainable development building typology, and street design.

ARCH 770 Professional Practice (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH 601 or permission of department. For ARCH majors only.
Project management, organizational, legal, economic and ethical aspects of architecture.

ARCH 778 Selected Topics in Urban Planning (1-3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 06 credits if content differs.

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

ARCH 798 Thesis in Architecture (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ARCH 797, permission of department and 3.0 overall GPA. 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 credits)
12 hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisites: ARCH797, permission of department and 3.0 GPA overall. Corequisite: ARCH 798. For ARCH majors only. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs.
Development of master's thesis.