Title	Instructors	Location	Time	Description	Cross listings	Fulfills	Registration notes	Syllabus	Syllabus URL
ARCH 0201-301	Introduction to Landscape	Catherine Seavitt		W 8:30 AM-11:29 AM	This course introduces students to the relevant topics, themes, and sites that help us understand the conception, production, evolution, and reception of designed and found landscapes throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It aims at building an understanding of landscapes as both physical spaces and cultural constructions at the nexus of art and science. We also explore how our understanding of landscapes contributes meaning to our relationships with nature and more-than-human species. Landscapes are the result of social, political, artistic, and intellectual endeavors. The topography, soil, and climate of a site also condition its design, use, and habitation. As much as designed and found landscapes are a product of their time, they also contribute to shaping history, both through their physical materiality and through the cultural worlds they enable. Embedding found and designed landscapes into their social, political, and cultural contexts allow us to address the role of so-called expert knowledge and the characters that have emerged both around and beyond the margins of this knowledge.		Cultural Diviserity in the U.S.
ARCH 1020-001	Introduction to Architecture	Scott L Aker		R 12:00 PM-1:29 PM	An exploration of the design process utilizing drawing and model-making techniques. Skills of representation and fabrication are introduced in the context of the development of each student's capacity to observe, interpret, and translate design concepts into physical form. The course includes a weekly lecture and studio component. The primary purpose of this course is to introduce the fundamental concepts and basic skills necessary in the design of a work of architecture. Fundamental concepts include a basic understanding of description, projection, and fabrication – in both two and three‐dimensions. Basic skills include freehand sketching and drawing, computer‐aided drawing (orthographic and axonometric) and the fabrication of scale models using hand, power, and digital tools.
ARCH 1020-201	Introduction to Architecture	Scott L Aker		T 12:00 PM-1:29 PM	An exploration of the design process utilizing drawing and model-making techniques. Skills of representation and fabrication are introduced in the context of the development of each student's capacity to observe, interpret, and translate design concepts into physical form. The course includes a weekly lecture and studio component. The primary purpose of this course is to introduce the fundamental concepts and basic skills necessary in the design of a work of architecture. Fundamental concepts include a basic understanding of description, projection, and fabrication – in both two and three‐dimensions. Basic skills include freehand sketching and drawing, computer‐aided drawing (orthographic and axonometric) and the fabrication of scale models using hand, power, and digital tools.
ARCH 1020-202	Introduction to Architecture	Scott L Aker		T 1:45 PM-3:15 PM	An exploration of the design process utilizing drawing and model-making techniques. Skills of representation and fabrication are introduced in the context of the development of each student's capacity to observe, interpret, and translate design concepts into physical form. The course includes a weekly lecture and studio component. The primary purpose of this course is to introduce the fundamental concepts and basic skills necessary in the design of a work of architecture. Fundamental concepts include a basic understanding of description, projection, and fabrication – in both two and three‐dimensions. Basic skills include freehand sketching and drawing, computer‐aided drawing (orthographic and axonometric) and the fabrication of scale models using hand, power, and digital tools.
ARCH 1020-203	Introduction to Architecture	Scott L Aker		T 3:30 PM-4:59 PM	An exploration of the design process utilizing drawing and model-making techniques. Skills of representation and fabrication are introduced in the context of the development of each student's capacity to observe, interpret, and translate design concepts into physical form. The course includes a weekly lecture and studio component. The primary purpose of this course is to introduce the fundamental concepts and basic skills necessary in the design of a work of architecture. Fundamental concepts include a basic understanding of description, projection, and fabrication – in both two and three‐dimensions. Basic skills include freehand sketching and drawing, computer‐aided drawing (orthographic and axonometric) and the fabrication of scale models using hand, power, and digital tools.
ARCH 2020-001	Design Fundamentals II	Seher Erdogan Ford Jason Jackson		R 12:00 PM-1:29 PM	A studio course exploring the relationship between two-dimensional images and three-dimensional digital and physical models. This studio course develops advanced techniques in digital representation and fabrication through an investigation of the theme of inhabitation in architecture. In the previous semester (ARCH 2010), you looked to nature to study, analyze and then translate complex geometry as it occurs in the natural world. This biomorphic study laid the foundation to learn how to describe non-Euclidean geometries through drawing techniques. Building on this knowledge, in ARCH 2020 you will learn to collect data by carefully mapping a body’s movement during a specific activity. You will analyze, document and ultimately represent this data through drawing. Through this process, you will build an understanding of how a body in motion inhabits space. The range of motion your body maps will be the frame of reference to design a site- specific architectonic enclosure. You will continue to expand your knowledge of digital drawing and fabrication tools using Rhino as your primary 3D modeling software as well as V-Ray for rendering.
ARCH 2020-201	Design Fundamentals II	Seher Erdogan Ford		TR 1:45 PM-3:44 PM	A studio course exploring the relationship between two-dimensional images and three-dimensional digital and physical models. This studio course develops advanced techniques in digital representation and fabrication through an investigation of the theme of inhabitation in architecture. In the previous semester (ARCH 2010), you looked to nature to study, analyze and then translate complex geometry as it occurs in the natural world. This biomorphic study laid the foundation to learn how to describe non-Euclidean geometries through drawing techniques. Building on this knowledge, in ARCH 2020 you will learn to collect data by carefully mapping a body’s movement during a specific activity. You will analyze, document and ultimately represent this data through drawing. Through this process, you will build an understanding of how a body in motion inhabits space. The range of motion your body maps will be the frame of reference to design a site- specific architectonic enclosure. You will continue to expand your knowledge of digital drawing and fabrication tools using Rhino as your primary 3D modeling software as well as V-Ray for rendering.
ARCH 2020-202	Design Fundamentals II	Seher Erdogan Ford		TR 3:30 PM-5:29 PM	A studio course exploring the relationship between two-dimensional images and three-dimensional digital and physical models. This studio course develops advanced techniques in digital representation and fabrication through an investigation of the theme of inhabitation in architecture. In the previous semester (ARCH 2010), you looked to nature to study, analyze and then translate complex geometry as it occurs in the natural world. This biomorphic study laid the foundation to learn how to describe non-Euclidean geometries through drawing techniques. Building on this knowledge, in ARCH 2020 you will learn to collect data by carefully mapping a body’s movement during a specific activity. You will analyze, document and ultimately represent this data through drawing. Through this process, you will build an understanding of how a body in motion inhabits space. The range of motion your body maps will be the frame of reference to design a site- specific architectonic enclosure. You will continue to expand your knowledge of digital drawing and fabrication tools using Rhino as your primary 3D modeling software as well as V-Ray for rendering.
ARCH 2020-203	Design Fundamentals II	Jason Jackson		TR 1:45 PM-3:44 PM	A studio course exploring the relationship between two-dimensional images and three-dimensional digital and physical models. This studio course develops advanced techniques in digital representation and fabrication through an investigation of the theme of inhabitation in architecture. In the previous semester (ARCH 2010), you looked to nature to study, analyze and then translate complex geometry as it occurs in the natural world. This biomorphic study laid the foundation to learn how to describe non-Euclidean geometries through drawing techniques. Building on this knowledge, in ARCH 2020 you will learn to collect data by carefully mapping a body’s movement during a specific activity. You will analyze, document and ultimately represent this data through drawing. Through this process, you will build an understanding of how a body in motion inhabits space. The range of motion your body maps will be the frame of reference to design a site- specific architectonic enclosure. You will continue to expand your knowledge of digital drawing and fabrication tools using Rhino as your primary 3D modeling software as well as V-Ray for rendering.
ARCH 2020-204	Design Fundamentals II	Jason Jackson		TR 3:30 PM-5:29 PM	A studio course exploring the relationship between two-dimensional images and three-dimensional digital and physical models. This studio course develops advanced techniques in digital representation and fabrication through an investigation of the theme of inhabitation in architecture. In the previous semester (ARCH 2010), you looked to nature to study, analyze and then translate complex geometry as it occurs in the natural world. This biomorphic study laid the foundation to learn how to describe non-Euclidean geometries through drawing techniques. Building on this knowledge, in ARCH 2020 you will learn to collect data by carefully mapping a body’s movement during a specific activity. You will analyze, document and ultimately represent this data through drawing. Through this process, you will build an understanding of how a body in motion inhabits space. The range of motion your body maps will be the frame of reference to design a site- specific architectonic enclosure. You will continue to expand your knowledge of digital drawing and fabrication tools using Rhino as your primary 3D modeling software as well as V-Ray for rendering.
ARCH 2101-301	Concepts for Understanding Space in the Americas	Fernando Lara		MW 10:15 AM-11:44 AM	To study the built environment of the Americas is to deal with an inherent contradiction. While our disciplines of architecture, urban design, landscape, and planning share the fundamental belief that spaces matter; an overwhelming majority of our knowledge comes from another continent. As reminded by Edward Said in the classic “Orientalism” of 1974, European culture developed narratives about all other societies on Earth and as a result established itself as the center of human knowledge. One could easily apply Said’s orientalism to a certain “occidentalism” of the American continent and we shall ask what such narrative entails. According to the Eurocentric narrative, the Americas were a vast continent empty of sophisticated cultures and ready to be conquered by superior knowledge of the self-proclaimed “old world”. This course looks into an array of spatial concepts developed by Americans (understood here of course as anyone who is rooted in the continent, from Chile to Alaska); in order to provide Penn undergraduate students with the intellectual tools to understand such spaces.
ARCH 3020-001	Architecture Design II	Elizabeth Lovett		R 12:00 PM-1:29 PM	An introduction to the design of architecture in the landscape. Issues of mapping, placement, scale, and construction are explored through studio design projects, site visits, and discussions. Course work focuses on the preparation and presentation of design projects emphasizing analytical skills along with the development of imaginative invention and judgment.
ARCH 3020-201	Architecture Design II	Elizabeth Lovett		TR 1:45 PM-3:44 PM	An introduction to the design of architecture in the landscape. Issues of mapping, placement, scale, and construction are explored through studio design projects, site visits, and discussions. Course work focuses on the preparation and presentation of design projects emphasizing analytical skills along with the development of imaginative invention and judgment.
ARCH 3020-202	Architecture Design II	Elizabeth Lovett		TR 3:30 PM-5:29 PM	An introduction to the design of architecture in the landscape. Issues of mapping, placement, scale, and construction are explored through studio design projects, site visits, and discussions. Course work focuses on the preparation and presentation of design projects emphasizing analytical skills along with the development of imaginative invention and judgment.
ARCH 3020-203	Architecture Design II			TR 1:45 PM-3:44 PM	An introduction to the design of architecture in the landscape. Issues of mapping, placement, scale, and construction are explored through studio design projects, site visits, and discussions. Course work focuses on the preparation and presentation of design projects emphasizing analytical skills along with the development of imaginative invention and judgment.
ARCH 3301-301	Architectural Representation	Scott L Aker		TR 10:15 AM-11:44 AM	This course explores the production of architectural representation as both a storytelling tool and a design language. Emphasizing the historical, theoretical, and practical applications of these methods, students will think critically about the role of architectural representations in society and gain a comprehensive understanding of the "stories" behind various drawing methods, the origins of their inventions, and the critical impacts these drawing types have had on the practice. Additionally, we will discuss representational "strategies" needed to effectively engage with these techniques in design work and project collaborations. Through various lectures, reading discussions, and hands-on workshops, we will explore the cultural impact of architectural drawings and develop critically reflective drawing skills, viewing architectural representation as both a process and a production of architecture. While not all architectural designs transform into buildings, every architectural drawing emerges with deliberate intention and purpose, serving as a storytelling medium and one of our most essential tools for communicating ideas. This universal language, powerful in its proper or improper application, has been employed to make the invisible visible, be it sensory experiences or underrepresented voices, and to give meaning and message to architectural form. The way architects represent buildings and ideas through various mediums bridges the realms of imagination and reality, acting as the conduit through which ideas, iterations, and methodologies take on tangible forms in our constructed environment. In this class, we will explore the role of mediums, their impact, and lessons from the historical theory of architectural drawings. We will start with a close reading of orthographic and oblique projections, collaging and textures, and aspects of generative representation influenced by historical and contemporary practices. Developing a critical eye toward various architectural mediums, students will learn to be critically reflective in their work to improve its effectiveness in communication. This class closely examines how architectural drawings guide the creation of physical spaces and reflect and shape cultural and historical narratives. Architectural Representation: Stories & Strategies will be structured around bi-weekly topics framed by theory readings, lectures, discussions, workshops, software tutorials, and drawing exercises. These activities will prompt students to experiment with representation techniques in the context of their own design projects in concurrent studios. As part of the course requirements, students will need to complete three representation exercises related to course topics and experiment in parallel with their current or past design courses. These exercises will be presented and discussed in class, providing a platform for peer learning and feedback. The final project will require students to select a representation strategy and critically evaluate the architectural possibilities that emerge from the close reading and analysis conducted throughout the course. Students will apply the representation technique to their portfolio, challenging them to explore and refine a representation from their studio work and storytelling skills.
ARCH 3302-001	Thinking through Making	Brian Szymanik		M 3:30 PM-4:29 PM	This course will consider the architectural model as an Interrogatory, exploratory, documentary, and/ or revelatory device through historical and contemporary lenses. Intended for both majors and non-majors, this introduction to the role of making in architectural production will provide students with a foundational understanding of the ways in which architects interpret, understand, and develop their work through tactile engagement with the material world. A focus on three dimensional representation will encourage students to consider the work of others while building individual skills in, and familiarity with, the workshop as a place of production, exploration, and possibility.
ARCH 3302-101	Thinking through Making	Brian Szymanik		W 3:30 PM-5:29 PM	This course will consider the architectural model as an Interrogatory, exploratory, documentary, and/ or revelatory device through historical and contemporary lenses. Intended for both majors and non-majors, this introduction to the role of making in architectural production will provide students with a foundational understanding of the ways in which architects interpret, understand, and develop their work through tactile engagement with the material world. A focus on three dimensional representation will encourage students to consider the work of others while building individual skills in, and familiarity with, the workshop as a place of production, exploration, and possibility.
ARCH 4320-401	Construction II	Patrick L.P. Morgan Ryan Palider Franca Trubiano		F 8:30 AM-11:29 AM	A continuation of Construction I, focusing on light and heavy steel frame construction, concrete construction, light and heavyweight cladding systems and systems building.	ARCH5320401
ARCH 4360-401	Structures II	Masoud Akbarzadeh Richard Farley		T 1:45 PM-3:14 PM	A continuation of the equilibrium analysis of structures covered in Structures I. The study of static and hyperstatic systems and design of their elements. Flexural theory, elastic and plastic. Design for combined stresses; prestressing. The study of graphic statics and the design of trusses. The course comprises both lectures and a weekly laboratory in which various structural elements, systems, materials and technical principles are explored.	ARCH5360401
ARCH 4998-001	Senior Thesis	Rashida Ng			The architecture senior thesis provides students with the opportunity to undertake an independent critical and speculative exploration of a chosen theme. The theme is required to connect architecture with at least one other discipline or subject in the College of Arts and Science. In addition, the questions formulated should establish a concrete link to debates that can be identified as architectural, whether belonging to the realm of individual buildings, urbanism, or product design. This means, that departing from a humanistic question, students should seek to establish clear connections to architectural discourse in the process of conducting their thesis. The thesis project initiates a set of issues and methods that students may continue to develop as they embark on their future professional and intellectual careers. Although the thesis is conceived independently, it is conducted under the supervision of faculty advisors and the thesis coordinator. For additional information, please contact the Chair of Undergraduate Architecture.
ARCH 5020-201	Design Studio II	Annette Fierro		MWR 1:45 PM-5:44 PM	This studio explores urban architecture as an embodiment of cultural values . Analytical techniques for representing urban conditions are explored extensively . Students are challenged to interact with large, complex programs , individually determining one large component of the assigned program. Siting, enclosure of space and dimensions of public space and commons are stressed in order to challenge students to project relevant and inventive architectural situations . Large scale site and ground plans are stressed in the development of the project.
ARCH 5120-001	History and Theory II	Joan I Ockman		T 3:30 PM-4:59 PM	ARCH 512 continues topics introduced in ARCH 511, in the midst of World War II, and traces the evolution of architecture culture up to the twenty-first century in the context of an increasingly complex and interconnected world. We are concerned with both material and ideological changes, with key architectural protagonists, projects, and contexts as well as the impact of external historical forces. Lectures move roughly chronologically through a varied array of issues, among them: postwar reconstruction and planning; the culture of the Cold War; the critique of interwar modernism; the emergence of new technologies and postindustrial processes; the burgeoning of suburbanization, consumer culture, and mass media; revisionist and radical approaches to form and space; the rise of new social movements; postmodernism; globalization and the advent of digital culture; and environmental, social, and geopolitical challenges at the turn of the century. As in the previous semester, the course is intended to provide students with a broad knowledge of the architectural history of the period under study and an understanding of architecture’s role and agency in a changing world.
ARCH 5120-002	History and Theory II	Daniela Fabricius Vanessa Grossman		T 3:30 PM-4:59 PM	ARCH 512 continues topics introduced in ARCH 511, in the midst of World War II, and traces the evolution of architecture culture up to the twenty-first century in the context of an increasingly complex and interconnected world. We are concerned with both material and ideological changes, with key architectural protagonists, projects, and contexts as well as the impact of external historical forces. Lectures move roughly chronologically through a varied array of issues, among them: postwar reconstruction and planning; the culture of the Cold War; the critique of interwar modernism; the emergence of new technologies and postindustrial processes; the burgeoning of suburbanization, consumer culture, and mass media; revisionist and radical approaches to form and space; the rise of new social movements; postmodernism; globalization and the advent of digital culture; and environmental, social, and geopolitical challenges at the turn of the century. As in the previous semester, the course is intended to provide students with a broad knowledge of the architectural history of the period under study and an understanding of architecture’s role and agency in a changing world.
ARCH 5120-201	History and Theory II			R 10:15 AM-11:44 AM	ARCH 512 continues topics introduced in ARCH 511, in the midst of World War II, and traces the evolution of architecture culture up to the twenty-first century in the context of an increasingly complex and interconnected world. We are concerned with both material and ideological changes, with key architectural protagonists, projects, and contexts as well as the impact of external historical forces. Lectures move roughly chronologically through a varied array of issues, among them: postwar reconstruction and planning; the culture of the Cold War; the critique of interwar modernism; the emergence of new technologies and postindustrial processes; the burgeoning of suburbanization, consumer culture, and mass media; revisionist and radical approaches to form and space; the rise of new social movements; postmodernism; globalization and the advent of digital culture; and environmental, social, and geopolitical challenges at the turn of the century. As in the previous semester, the course is intended to provide students with a broad knowledge of the architectural history of the period under study and an understanding of architecture’s role and agency in a changing world.
ARCH 5120-202	History and Theory II			R 10:15 AM-11:44 AM	ARCH 512 continues topics introduced in ARCH 511, in the midst of World War II, and traces the evolution of architecture culture up to the twenty-first century in the context of an increasingly complex and interconnected world. We are concerned with both material and ideological changes, with key architectural protagonists, projects, and contexts as well as the impact of external historical forces. Lectures move roughly chronologically through a varied array of issues, among them: postwar reconstruction and planning; the culture of the Cold War; the critique of interwar modernism; the emergence of new technologies and postindustrial processes; the burgeoning of suburbanization, consumer culture, and mass media; revisionist and radical approaches to form and space; the rise of new social movements; postmodernism; globalization and the advent of digital culture; and environmental, social, and geopolitical challenges at the turn of the century. As in the previous semester, the course is intended to provide students with a broad knowledge of the architectural history of the period under study and an understanding of architecture’s role and agency in a changing world.
ARCH 5120-203	History and Theory II			R 8:30 AM-9:59 AM	ARCH 512 continues topics introduced in ARCH 511, in the midst of World War II, and traces the evolution of architecture culture up to the twenty-first century in the context of an increasingly complex and interconnected world. We are concerned with both material and ideological changes, with key architectural protagonists, projects, and contexts as well as the impact of external historical forces. Lectures move roughly chronologically through a varied array of issues, among them: postwar reconstruction and planning; the culture of the Cold War; the critique of interwar modernism; the emergence of new technologies and postindustrial processes; the burgeoning of suburbanization, consumer culture, and mass media; revisionist and radical approaches to form and space; the rise of new social movements; postmodernism; globalization and the advent of digital culture; and environmental, social, and geopolitical challenges at the turn of the century. As in the previous semester, the course is intended to provide students with a broad knowledge of the architectural history of the period under study and an understanding of architecture’s role and agency in a changing world.
ARCH 5120-204	History and Theory II			R 10:15 AM-11:44 AM	ARCH 512 continues topics introduced in ARCH 511, in the midst of World War II, and traces the evolution of architecture culture up to the twenty-first century in the context of an increasingly complex and interconnected world. We are concerned with both material and ideological changes, with key architectural protagonists, projects, and contexts as well as the impact of external historical forces. Lectures move roughly chronologically through a varied array of issues, among them: postwar reconstruction and planning; the culture of the Cold War; the critique of interwar modernism; the emergence of new technologies and postindustrial processes; the burgeoning of suburbanization, consumer culture, and mass media; revisionist and radical approaches to form and space; the rise of new social movements; postmodernism; globalization and the advent of digital culture; and environmental, social, and geopolitical challenges at the turn of the century. As in the previous semester, the course is intended to provide students with a broad knowledge of the architectural history of the period under study and an understanding of architecture’s role and agency in a changing world.
ARCH 5120-205	History and Theory II			R 10:15 AM-11:44 AM	ARCH 512 continues topics introduced in ARCH 511, in the midst of World War II, and traces the evolution of architecture culture up to the twenty-first century in the context of an increasingly complex and interconnected world. We are concerned with both material and ideological changes, with key architectural protagonists, projects, and contexts as well as the impact of external historical forces. Lectures move roughly chronologically through a varied array of issues, among them: postwar reconstruction and planning; the culture of the Cold War; the critique of interwar modernism; the emergence of new technologies and postindustrial processes; the burgeoning of suburbanization, consumer culture, and mass media; revisionist and radical approaches to form and space; the rise of new social movements; postmodernism; globalization and the advent of digital culture; and environmental, social, and geopolitical challenges at the turn of the century. As in the previous semester, the course is intended to provide students with a broad knowledge of the architectural history of the period under study and an understanding of architecture’s role and agency in a changing world.
ARCH 5120-206	History and Theory II	Rami Kanafani		R 8:30 AM-9:59 AM	ARCH 512 continues topics introduced in ARCH 511, in the midst of World War II, and traces the evolution of architecture culture up to the twenty-first century in the context of an increasingly complex and interconnected world. We are concerned with both material and ideological changes, with key architectural protagonists, projects, and contexts as well as the impact of external historical forces. Lectures move roughly chronologically through a varied array of issues, among them: postwar reconstruction and planning; the culture of the Cold War; the critique of interwar modernism; the emergence of new technologies and postindustrial processes; the burgeoning of suburbanization, consumer culture, and mass media; revisionist and radical approaches to form and space; the rise of new social movements; postmodernism; globalization and the advent of digital culture; and environmental, social, and geopolitical challenges at the turn of the century. As in the previous semester, the course is intended to provide students with a broad knowledge of the architectural history of the period under study and an understanding of architecture’s role and agency in a changing world.
ARCH 5220-001	Visual Studies II	Nathan P Hume		W 10:15 AM-11:44 AM	The second course in the Visual Studies sequence emphasizes drawings as generative devices which project possibilities rather than just documenting design decisions. Assignments explore image construction through photography and rendering and the construction of a large cutaway section drawing which speculates on the development of the studio project.
ARCH 5320-401	Construction II	Patrick L.P. Morgan Ryan Palider Franca Trubiano		F 8:30 AM-11:29 AM	Lecture and Workshop course focused on light and heavy steel frame construction, concrete construction, light and heavyweight cladding systems and systems building. Construction Technology II is an advanced course in building technology and building information modeling that informs, instructs, and demonstrates the extent to which industrialized building systems and innovative building technologies impact and guide the architect’s design process. The course focuses on multistory buildings whose complexities require the adoption of varying material, constructional, and informational technologies. Students are guided by teaching assistants in the completion of a set of construction drawings that are reviewed using industry standard red-lining digital techniques.	ARCH4320401
ARCH 5360-401	Structures II	Masoud Akbarzadeh Richard Farley		T 1:45 PM-3:14 PM	The course is continuation of Structures I. A review of two-dimensional structural elements including slabs, plates, walls, curved surfaces, and solid structures are conducted . The sizing and selection of materials is undertaken using acceptable standards and code requirements . Additionally, prestressing and composite systems, materials, and elements are studied. Wind, seismic and flooding events are introduced through lateral stability criteria. A survey of current and future structural technology is undertaken . The course is made up of both lectures and a weekly laboratory in which various structural elements, systems, materials and technical principles are explored.	ARCH4360401
ARCH 5990-001	First Year Technology Lab	Masoud Akbarzadeh Richard Farley Patrick L.P. Morgan Ryan Palider Franca Trubiano		F 1:45 PM-3:14 PM	ARCH 5999 is a required lab/workshop that accompanies the core technology sequence in the M.Arch program in both the Fall and Spring terms. This non-graded lab section will offer additional instruction, workshops, lab time, and other support to the first year technology courses. Enrollment in ARCH 5999 is required for all undergraduate and graduate Architecture students taking ARCH 4350/5350, ARCH 4356/5356, ARCH 4310/5310, and/or ARCH 4320/5320.
ARCH 6020-201	Design Studio IV	Nathan P Hume		W 2:30 PM-6:29 PM MF 12:30 PM-6:29 PM	The fourth core studio aims to develop students’ understanding of building design through the coordination, negotiation, and feedback of multiple constituents and consultants . The integration of site, structure, mechanical systems, envelope, and material are key to the development of the work . The organization of the semester works to give an understanding of how critical input from a host of expertise serves the design process . The students work alongside engineers, material specialists, and other consultants to gain new insight into building and construction constraints, processes, and opportunities . The projects, sited in urban contexts, are 35,000 square foot buildings which engage with the 600 studio wide theme of the Public Commons - a term used for shared, equitable access of all communities to natural resources such as air, oceans and wildlife as well as to social creations such as libraries, public spaces, technology and scientific research.
ARCH 6340-001	Environmental Systems II	Eric Teitelbaum		T 10:15 AM-11:44 AM	The second course in the Environmental Systems sequence considers the environmental and global systems of larger, more complex buildings. Contemporary buildings are characterized by the use of systems such as ventilation, heating, cooling, dehumidification, lighting, acoustics, and controls that not only have their own demands, but interact dynamically with one another. At a global scale, factors that connect the built environment to carbon emissions are explored, developing careful and rigorous analysis techniques to minimize both lifecycle and operational carbon emissions of buildings. As more buildings over the coming decades become all-electric, frontiers and opportunities for novel system design are explored.
ARCH 6360-001	Material Formations	Jeffrey Anderson Robert James Stuart-Smith		M 9:00 AM-9:59 AM	Architectural design involves the incorporation of numerous technical and creative considerations that must be weighted and synthesized, and ultimately embodied in an architectural work’s material outcome. The effectiveness of this endeavor is tightly related to a design’s alignment with design-engineering, material and production constraints and opportunities. The building industry is increasingly adopting automated methods both in design and engineering software, and robotic means of fabrication and construction to decrease material, environmental and time costs. The discipline of architecture must not only keep apace with these developments, but also develop a creative and critical approach to the increasingly automated means by which buildings are designed and realized, re-casting it as an opportunity to engage in design with greater degrees of holistic thinking, while engaging in material and production decisions.
ARCH 6360-201	Material Formations	Robert James Stuart-Smith		M 10:15 AM-11:59 AM	Architectural design involves the incorporation of numerous technical and creative considerations that must be weighted and synthesized, and ultimately embodied in an architectural work’s material outcome. The effectiveness of this endeavor is tightly related to a design’s alignment with design-engineering, material and production constraints and opportunities. The building industry is increasingly adopting automated methods both in design and engineering software, and robotic means of fabrication and construction to decrease material, environmental and time costs. The discipline of architecture must not only keep apace with these developments, but also develop a creative and critical approach to the increasingly automated means by which buildings are designed and realized, re-casting it as an opportunity to engage in design with greater degrees of holistic thinking, while engaging in material and production decisions.
ARCH 6360-202	Material Formations	Patrick W Danahy		M 10:15 AM-11:59 AM	Architectural design involves the incorporation of numerous technical and creative considerations that must be weighted and synthesized, and ultimately embodied in an architectural work’s material outcome. The effectiveness of this endeavor is tightly related to a design’s alignment with design-engineering, material and production constraints and opportunities. The building industry is increasingly adopting automated methods both in design and engineering software, and robotic means of fabrication and construction to decrease material, environmental and time costs. The discipline of architecture must not only keep apace with these developments, but also develop a creative and critical approach to the increasingly automated means by which buildings are designed and realized, re-casting it as an opportunity to engage in design with greater degrees of holistic thinking, while engaging in material and production decisions.
ARCH 6360-203	Material Formations	Jeffrey Anderson		M 10:15 AM-11:59 AM	Architectural design involves the incorporation of numerous technical and creative considerations that must be weighted and synthesized, and ultimately embodied in an architectural work’s material outcome. The effectiveness of this endeavor is tightly related to a design’s alignment with design-engineering, material and production constraints and opportunities. The building industry is increasingly adopting automated methods both in design and engineering software, and robotic means of fabrication and construction to decrease material, environmental and time costs. The discipline of architecture must not only keep apace with these developments, but also develop a creative and critical approach to the increasingly automated means by which buildings are designed and realized, re-casting it as an opportunity to engage in design with greater degrees of holistic thinking, while engaging in material and production decisions.
ARCH 6710-001	Professional Practice I	Philip J Ryan		R 12:00 PM-1:29 PM	The Professional Practice Sequence comprises two essential courses: ARCH 6710 in the Spring of the second year and ARCH 7710 in the Fall of the third year. These courses play a pivotal role in integrating the student's design, history and theory, and technical expertise into the broader framework of the regulatory, business, and cultural realms they will encounter in their professional journey. The discipline of architecture demands an inquisitive mind capable of synthesizing a multitude of technical, aesthetic, social, and conceptual elements. This essential characteristic is not limited to the mere creation of built spaces; it also extends to formulating a process of labor that is both responsible and fair, and capable of adapting to the ever-changing conditions of the world. ARCH 6710 begins by briefly outlining the overall course sequence in order to locate the first section in the context of the next course in the Fall, ARCH 7710. From there the course uses each week to describe the methods involved in acquiring, designing, and constructing a building project. Lectures will delve deep into the mechanisms for articulating a design vision visually and verbally and the systems employed to ensure successful implementation of that vision. The lectures will draw connections between the student’s studio design knowledge to date and the instructor’s experience in practice including local building examples and current events. Due to the more limited time allotted per class for ARCH 6710, the course will be predominantly in-class lectures and out of class assignments.
ARCH 6850-401	Environmental Readings	Frederick R Steiner		F 8:30 AM-11:29 AM	In this seminar, we will explore the green thread in America thought and letters and analyze its influence on how we shape our environments through design and planning. The course has three parts. Throughout, the influence of literature on design and planning theory will be explored. The first part will focus on three most important theorists in environmental planning and landscape architecture: Frederick Law Olmsted Sr., Charles Eliot, and Ian McHarg. The second part of the course will critically explore current theories in environmental planning and landscape architecture. The topics include: frameworks for cultural landscape studies, the future of the vernacular, ecological design and planning, sustainable and regenerative design, the languages of landscapes, and evolving views of landscape aesthetics and ethics. In the third part of the course, students will build on the readings to develop their own theory for ecological planning or, alternatively, landscape architecture. While literacy and inquiry are addressed throughout the course, critical thinking is especially important for this final section.	CPLN6850401, LARP6850401
ARCH 6999-001	Second Year Technology Lab	Ezio Blasetti Efrie F Escott Robert James Stuart-Smith		T 12:00 PM-1:29 PM	ARCH 6999 is a required lab/workshop that accompanies the core technology sequence in the M.Arch program in both the Fall and Spring terms. This non-graded lab section will offer additional instruction, workshops, lab time, and other support to the second year technology courses. Enrollment in ARCH 5999 is required for all Master of Architecture students taking ARCH 6330, ARCH 6340, ARCH 6310, and/or ARCH 6360.
ARCH 7040-201	Design Studio VI	Caleb Birch Ehly Mehmet Ferda Kolatan		W 2:30 PM-6:29 PM MF 12:30 PM-6:29 PM	The sixth and final Design Studios offer an in-depth examination and exploration of relevant architectural subjects through critical conceptual thinking, rigorous research, and advanced design and representational methodologies. As the final studios in the M. Arch sequence, these studios lead inquiries into topical subjects and prepare students for lifelong engagement in the field. Studios are taught by leading practitioners in the field, who share their expertise with the students and equip them with the necessary tools to participate in the discipline at the highest level. All studios include travel to a domestic or international destination.
ARCH 7050-201	MSD-AAD Design Research Studio	Hina Jamelle		W 1:45 PM-5:44 PM MF 12:30 PM-6:29 PM	Students learn from industry leaders by electing their Design research Studio. The second semester design research studio focuses on large scale detail leading to a building design.
ARCH 7080-201	Bioclimatic Design Studio	Dorit Aviv		W 2:30 PM-6:29 PM MF 12:30 PM-6:29 PM	An advanced design studio for the MSD-EBD program that synthesizes the concepts and techniques of environmental building design. Topics and materials for the studio are developed in ARCH 7520: EBD Research Seminar, and summarized in a research report at the end of studio.
ARCH 7110-301	Topics in Arch Theory: Four Urban Thinkers in New York and Their Visions of the Modern City	Joan I Ockman		T 12:00 PM-2:59 PM	A seminar on advanced topics in architectural design and theory. Topics and instructors will vary.
ARCH 7120-301	Topics in Arch Theory II: Spatial Justice Collective -- Study and Praxis in Philadelphia	Rashida Ng Eduardo Rega Calvo		W 8:30 AM-11:29 AM	A seminar on advanced topics in architectural design and theory. Topics and instructors will vary.
ARCH 7121-301	Topics in Arch Theory: Against Abstraction: Relational Knowledges in Design	Fernando Lara		T 10:15 AM-1:14 PM	A seminar on advanced topics in architectural design and theory. Topics and instructors will vary.
ARCH 7122-301	Topics in Arch Theory II: Baroque Parameters	Andrew Saunders		T 1:45 PM-4:44 PM	A seminar on advanced topics in architectural design and theory. Topics and instructors will vary.
ARCH 7123-301	Topics in Arch Theory II: Amazonian Landscapes and Forest Histories of Architecture	Vanessa Grossman		F 10:15 AM-1:14 PM	A seminar on advanced topics in architectural design and theory. Topics and instructors will vary.
ARCH 7124-001	Architectural Envelopes - Technology, Climate, Expression	Ariel Genadt		R 3:30 PM-6:29 PM	A seminar on advanced topics in architectural design and theory. Topics and instructors will vary.
ARCH 7150-301	Contemporary Aesthetic Theory	Daniela Fabricius		F 8:30 AM-11:29 AM	This course offers a framework for a provocative history of ideas about beauty as they relate to contemporary thinking and their production of form in architecture. In a world increasingly defined by visuality, the concepts of beauty and visual sensation are not mere intellectual exercises but standards that define the very nature of design practice across disciplines, and that are essential to the worlds of objects, automobiles, furniture and architecture in the twenty-first century. Aesthetic theory is about beauty and about form and how it affects us every day. As architecture practice changes, the tools that are used to create form change due to new technologies, new materials and new tools for fabrication and aesthetics gives us an important way in to understanding the relationship between the object created and the user. This occurs in contemporary cultural landscapes in which we exist, and aesthetics is the organizing element. Through lectures and discussions of aesthetics readings in recitations focused on the object, students will work on a term paper that brings a clear understanding of aesthetics and its role in participating in culture through the objects of the automobile, furniture and architecture industries.
ARCH 7180-301	History and Theory of Architecture and Climate: Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century	Ariel Genadt		T 3:30 PM-6:29 PM	This history and theory seminar aims to equip students with a multifaceted understanding of key challenges and opportunities in designing climate-sensitive architecture in the 21st century, in view of the instabilities brought about by climate change and other human-inflicted disruptions to our planet’s ecosystems. It demonstrates how creative design ideas and applications can arise from cross-cultural pollination. To do so, the lectures, readings and student research draw on both vernacular buildings and authored case studies and theories in an array of contexts, diverse cultures living within a range of climates on all continents. The seminar’s theoretical premise is that architecture and climate have always affected one-another, even if the awareness of architecture’s effects on climate change is recent. The seminar therefore focuses on architect’s role within a design team as one that assesses and integrates quantifiable parameters for climatic performance through a qualitative socio-cultural lens. The seminar’s method is topical rather than historical. Each topic is presented from several facets, often with diverging views and motives. Each class is divided into a topical lecture and a students’ presentation and discussion of the characteristics of one climate region and its architectural challenges. In preparation of discussions students read and write critical responses. As a term project, students research and compare case studies, and present them graphically and verbally. The seminar is open to all graduate architecture students. The course is a core requirement for the MSD-EBD degree.
ARCH 7190-001	Archigram and Its Legacy: London, A Technotopia	Annette Fierro		T 3:30 PM-6:29 PM	Acknowledging the ubiquitous proliferation of "Hi-Tech" architecture in contemporary London, this research seminar examines the scope of technology as it emerges and re-emerges in the work of various architects currently dominating the city. This scope includes the last strains of post-war urbanism which spawned a legacy of radical archtecture directly contributing to the Hi-Tech; a particular focus of the course will be the contributing and contrasting influence provided by the counter-cultural groups of the 60's - Archigram, Superstudio, the Metabolists and others. Using the premise of Archigram's idea of infrastructure, both literal and of event, the course will attempt to discover relational networks between works of the present day (Rogers, Foster, Grimshaw, etc.). As this work practices upon and within public space, an understanding of the contribution of technology to urban theatricality will evolve which is relevant to contemporary spheres of technological design practices. Students will be required to produce and present a term research paper.
ARCH 7260-301	Furniture Design Strategic Process	Bradley G Ascalon Mikael L Avery		R 12:00 PM-2:59 PM	Like architecture, furniture exists at the intersection of idea and physical form. Due to the specific scale that furniture occupies, however, this physical form relates not only to the environment in which the furniture is set, but also intimately to the physical bodies that interact with and around it. Additionally, as a manufactured product, often specified in large quantities, furniture must also address not only poetic considerations, but practical and economic ones as well. Instead of being seen as one-off objects, the furniture created in this seminar focuses on furniture development as a strategic design process where the designer's role is to understand the various responsibilities to each stakeholder (client/manufacturer, market/customer, environment) and the additional considerations (materials, processes, manufacturability, etc.), and ultimately translate these points into a potentially successful product. In order to approach furniture in this manner, the course will be structured around specific design briefs and clustered into three distinct but continuous stages. First, through focused research into stakeholder needs and potential market opportunities, students will craft tailored design proposals and development concepts accordingly. Next, students will work toward visualizing a concept, complete with sketches, small mock-ups, scale- model prototypes, technical drawings, connections and other pertinent details in order to refine their proposals and secure a real world understanding of the manufacturing processes and the potential obstacles created by their decisions. From insights gained and feedback from these steps, students will ultimately develop a final design proposal for a piece, collection, or system of furniture that successfully leverages their understanding of a thoughtful and deliberate design strategy.
ARCH 7320-301	Tech Elective: Advanced Enclosures: Techniques and Materials	Charles Jay Berman		W 8:30 AM-11:29 AM	Several sections are offered from which students make a selection.
ARCH 7321-301	Tech Elective: Deployable Structures	Mohamad Al Khayer		R 8:30 AM-11:29 AM	Technology Designated Electives enable students to deepen their understanding of architectural issues, and M.Arch students must complete 1 CU of any ARCH 732x and/or ARCH 736x course(s). But these courses are not limited to students in the department of architecture any graduate student at Weitzman is invited to register for a Technology Designated Elective of interest, space permitting. Topics vary between semesters, and specific details can be found in the “Section Details” area in course search.
ARCH 7322-301	Tech Elective: Daylighting	Janki Vyas		T 5:15 PM-8:14 PM	Technology Designated Electives enable students to deepen their understanding of architectural issues, and M.Arch students must complete 1 CU of any ARCH 732x and/or ARCH 736x course(s). But these courses are not limited to students in the department of architecture any graduate student at Weitzman is invited to register for a Technology Designated Elective of interest, space permitting. Topics vary between semesters, and specific details can be found in the “Section Details” area in course search.
ARCH 7323-301	Tech Elective: Principles of Digital Fabrication	Mikael L Avery		R 3:30 PM-6:29 PM	Technology Designated Electives enable students to deepen their understanding of architectural issues, and M.Arch students must complete 1 CU of any ARCH 732x and/or ARCH 736x course(s). But these courses are not limited to students in the department of architecture any graduate student at Weitzman is invited to register for a Technology Designated Elective of interest, space permitting. Topics vary between semesters, and specific details can be found in the “Section Details” area in course search.
ARCH 7324-301	Tech Elective: Heavy Architecture	Philip J Ryan		R 3:30 PM-6:29 PM	Technology Designated Electives enable students to deepen their understanding of architectural issues, and M.Arch students must complete 1 CU of any ARCH 732x and/or ARCH 736x course(s). But these courses are not limited to students in the department of architecture any graduate student at Weitzman is invited to register for a Technology Designated Elective of interest, space permitting. Topics vary between semesters, and specific details can be found in the “Section Details” area in course search.
ARCH 7325-301	Inquiry into Biomaterial Architecture Development	Laia Mogas Soldevila		M 8:30 AM-11:29 AM	Technology Designated Electives enable students to deepen their understanding of architectural issues, and M.Arch students must complete 1 CU of any ARCH 732x and/or ARCH 736x course(s). But these courses are not limited to students in the department of architecture any graduate student at Weitzman is invited to register for a Technology Designated Elective of interest, space permitting. Topics vary between semesters, and specific details can be found in the “Section Details” area in course search.
ARCH 7326-301	Tech Elective: Embodied Carbon and Architecture	Stephanie Carlisle		R 3:30 PM-6:29 PM	Technology Designated Electives enable students to deepen their understanding of architectural issues, and M.Arch students must complete 1 CU of any ARCH 732x and/or ARCH 736x course(s). But these courses are not limited to students in the department of architecture any graduate student at Weitzman is invited to register for a Technology Designated Elective of interest, space permitting. Topics vary between semesters, and specific details can be found in the “Section Details” area in course search.
ARCH 7327-301	Tech Elective: Hybrid Formation	Zherui Wang		R 1:45 PM-4:44 PM	Technology Designated Electives enable students to deepen their understanding of architectural issues, and M.Arch students must complete 1 CU of any ARCH 732x and/or ARCH 736x course(s). But these courses are not limited to students in the department of architecture any graduate student at Weitzman is invited to register for a Technology Designated Elective of interest, space permitting. Topics vary between semesters, and specific details can be found in the “Section Details” area in course search.
ARCH 7330-001	New Materials and Methods	Laia Mogas Soldevila		T 8:30 AM-11:29 AM	There is today a renewed interest in materiality and materialization in architecture that is fueled by rapidly advancing fields in materials engineering combined with newly available cutting-edge digital design and fabrication environments. This MSD AAD required course helps students formulate a robust research proposal for their culminating design studio in large-scale robotic manufacturing using new materials. The course provides a forum for critical discussion of contemporary design practices that is exploratory and speculative in nature. In addition to collaborative thinking and debate, student groups will develop their own research interests to formulate contemporary positions through the research of materials, fabrication methods, and their application in experimental architectural design projects.
ARCH 7360-301	Tech Elective: Building Acoustics	Avi Bortnick		T 3:30 PM-6:29 PM	Technology Designated Electives enable students to deepen their understanding of architectural issues, and M.Arch students must complete 1 CU of any ARCH 732x and/or ARCH 736x course(s). But these courses are not limited to students in the department of architecture any graduate student at Weitzman is invited to register for a Technology Designated Elective of interest, space permitting. Topics vary between semesters, and specific details can be found in the “Section Details” area in course search.
ARCH 7362-301	Tech Elective: Healthy Buildings: Science & Application	Jie Zhao		R 5:15 PM-8:14 PM	Technology Designated Electives enable students to deepen their understanding of architectural issues, and M.Arch students must complete 1 CU of any ARCH 732x and/or ARCH 736x course(s). But these courses are not limited to students in the department of architecture any graduate student at Weitzman is invited to register for a Technology Designated Elective of interest, space permitting. Topics vary between semesters, and specific details can be found in the “Section Details” area in course search.
ARCH 7363-301	Tech Elective: Seeing Architecture: Technology, Ecology, Practice	Richard J Garber		W 8:30 AM-11:29 AM	Technology Designated Electives enable students to deepen their understanding of architectural issues, and M.Arch students must complete 1 CU of any ARCH 732x and/or ARCH 736x course(s). But these courses are not limited to students in the department of architecture any graduate student at Weitzman is invited to register for a Technology Designated Elective of interest, space permitting. Topics vary between semesters, and specific details can be found in the “Section Details” area in course search.
ARCH 7371-301	Remixed Realities	Jeffrey Anderson		T 1:45 PM-4:44 PM	This course will introduce students to workflows for authoring VR content in the Unity 3D Video Game Engine, teach them skills in developing custom interactions with the C# coding language, and challenge them to create speculative mixed reality scenarios. Students will explore several forms of mixed reality in a series of exercises leading up to a final narrative-based VR experience. We will speculate on the occupation of physical/digital hybrids by using a calibration routine to align digital geometry to physical spaces in VR; create volumetric documentary experiences using reality capture techniques to record existing spaces and objects; and develop rich VR experiences using remixed volumetrically captured geometry, digital geometry, and physical spaces.
ARCH 7420-301	Function of Fashion in Architecture	Danielle M Willems		M 7:00 PM-9:59 PM	The Function of Fashion in Architecture will survey the history of fashion and the architectural parallels starting from Ancient Civilization to Present. The focus will be on the relevance of garment design, methods and techniques and their potential to redefine current architecture elements such as envelope, structure, seams, tectonics and details. The functional, tectonic and structural properties of garment design will be explored as generative platforms to conceptualize very specific architectural elements. One of the challenges in the course is the re-invention of a means of assessment, the development of notations and techniques that will document the forces and the production of difference in the spatial manifestations of the generative systems.
ARCH 7440-401	Image, Object, Architecture	Mehmet Ferda Kolatan		M 7:00 PM-9:59 PM	As we have entered a postdigital era, the dominance of a purely technological approach as a vehicle for design innovation has waned. Questions of substance and disciplinary autonomy have found their way back into the contemporary cultural discourse, enriching the way we examine and deploy advanced technologies towards novel expressions in architecture. This seminar will investigate, through the production of estranged objects, opportunities for design that are being generated at the intersection of machinic and human minds, and speculate on possible futures in which concepts of nature and technology have been inseparably intertwined.	IPD5440401
ARCH 7540-301	Performance Design Workshop	Jihun Kim		W 8:30 AM-11:29 AM	The workshop applies simulation and diagramming techniques to a series of discrete design projects at different scales. The emphasis is on refinement and optimization of performance based building design. Performance analysis techniques can provide enormous amounts of information to support the design process, acting as feedback mechanisms for improved performance, but careful interpretation and implementation are required to achieve better buildings. Energy, lighting, and air flow are the three main domains convered in the workshop. Students will learn how to utilize domain tools at an advanced level, and utilize them as applications to examine the environmental performance of existing buildings. Using the results of analytical techniques, the students will develop high-performance design strategies in all three domains. Lectures will be given on specific topics each week. A series of analytical class exercises will be assigned to provide students with hands-on experience in using the computer models. A case-study building will be provided at the beginning of the course and students will model different components each week throughout the semester. Every week students present the progress of their work, which will be used to correct methodological and technical issues. Energy, lighting, and air flow are the three main domains covered in the workshop. Students will learn how to utilize domain tools at an advanced level, and utilize them as applications to examine the environmental performance of existing buildings. Using the results of analytical techniques, the students will develop high-performance design strategies in all three domains. Prerequisite: ARCH 7530 Lectures will be given on specific topics each week. A series of analytical class exercises will be assigned to provide students with hands-on experience in using the computer models. A case-study building will be provided at the beginning of the course and students will model different components each week throughout the semester. Every week students present the progress of their work, which will be used to correct methodological and technical issues.
ARCH 7620-401	Design and Development	Alan J Razak		F 8:30 AM-11:29 AM	This course provides an overview of the real estate development business looked at in relationship to urban design, city planning, and architectural design. It provides exposure to the many real-world considerations of private sector development as well as an introduction to the language of real estate. The class focuses on various commercial building types and product offerings with examples of how planning, architectural and other design professions fit into creation of real estate value and the development process. This will cover the practical considerations and typical trade-offs of commercial business practices and real estate investment parameters and how these influence the ways developers and designers work. Industry sectors may include housing (single, multifamily and affordable), office, retail, hospitality, and industrial, with project types ranging from greenfield, adaptive reuse, downtown development, mixed-use projects, and planned communities. Through exercises, lectures and case studies, we'll address what drives the decisions designers and non-designers make in the development process, and provide insight to help designers understand what makes developers tick. Visiting lecturers (typically architects and developers) will provide real-world examples. Weekly written exercises, case studies and presentation assignments stress critical thinking, evaluating projects by how well they do their job and analyzing how that job is defined.	CPLN6430401
ARCH 7650-301	Project Management	Charles A Capaldi		F 8:30 AM-11:29 AM	This course is an introduction to techniques and tools of managing the design and construction of large, and small, construction projects. Topics include project delivery systems, management tools, cost-control and budgeting systems, professional roles. Case studies serve to illustrate applications. Cost and schedule control systems are described. Case studies illustrate the application of techniques in the field.
ARCH 7680-401	Real Estate Development	Asuka Nakahara		W 3:30 PM-6:29 PM	This course evaluates "ground-up" development as well as re-hab, re-development, and acquisition investments. We examine raw and developed land and the similarities and differences of traditional real estate product types including office, R & D, retail, warehouses, single family and multi-family residential, mixed use, and land as well as "specialty" uses like golf courses, assisted living, and fractional share ownership. Emphasis is on concise analysis and decision making. We discuss the development process with topics including market analysis, site acquisition, due diligence, zoning, entitlements, approvals, site planning, building design, construction, financing, leasing, and ongoing management and disposition. Special topics like workouts and running a development company are also discussed. Course lessons apply to all markets but the class discusses U.S. markets only. Throughout the course, we focus on risk management and leadership issues. Numerous guest lecturers who are leaders in the real estate industry participate in the learning process. Format: predominately case analysis and discussion, some lectures, project visits.	REAL3210401, REAL8210401
ARCH 8020-201	Material Agencies: Robotics & Design Lab II	Robert James Stuart-Smith		W 2:00 PM-5:59 PM F 12:00 PM-5:59 PM M 4:00 PM-5:59 PM M 12:00 PM-3:59 PM	This course will leverage knowledge gained by students in the Fall and set an ambitious aim for the experimentation, development and demonstration of a robotically manufactured design prototype that is intrinsically related to a bespoke production process. The end product will involve a 1:1 part or whole, physically fabricated work that will be accompanied by either a live demonstration or video production. During the first half of the semester students will engage in the development of bespoke robotic tooling, sensor and programming capabilities in order to create novel manufacturing processes that explore ideas of intelligent or autonomous manufacturing with an emphasis on responsive or manipulation based processes. Industry processes will be leveraged yet re-cast through creative engagement with manufacturing materials, tools and production operations. Participants will follow a brief that specifies a line of inquiry or scenario, whilst allowing some degree of self-direction. Projects will engage in a speculative and critical approach to architectural design, production and use while leveraging robotics platforms, methods for machine vision, sensing and learning, in addition to an engagement with material dynamics and computer programming within design research. A successful project is expected to: demonstrate a rigorously crafted design artifact; explore novel approaches to design, material fabrication and user engagement, questioning the role and nature of architecture's physical and cultural contribution; and explore novel forms of robotic production and representation. Some proposals will involve live or filmed demonstrator performances. All projects will require a computer simulation or animation that demonstrates a temporal consideration for design, manufacture or use. The course introduces robot tooling, sensor-feedback procedures, 1:1 material prototyping, and building design with tectonic considerations. Examples of potentially relevant industry processes include: sheet-metal bending, incremental metal forming, additive and subtractive manufacturing.
ARCH 8040-301	Advanced RAS Programming	Jeffrey Anderson		T 8:30 AM-11:29 AM	This course will support ARCH 8020 Material Agencies II with a greater level of technical competency and detail. More ambitious functionality will be developed that will enable student's greater degrees of freedom and creativity in their engagement with design and production processes. While students will not engage in science/engineering development, research and software developed in such disciplines will be applied within design, fabrication and user occupation orientated scenarios. Topics will vary in application to suit studio briefs and shifting capabilities within industry and academia. Examples include mechanical and electrical design for bespoke robot tooling, use of Computer Vision for real-time sensing and live behavior-based adaptation, machine learning in design or fabrication applications, or deeper engagement in robot communication and control (E.g. Linux ROS Robot programming framework).
ARCH 8060-301	Experimental Tooling	Jonathan King		R 1:30 PM-3:29 PM R 12:00 PM-1:29 PM	This course aims to extend knowledge into state of the art materials, material applications and fabrication methods and contribute research and experimental results towards ARCH 8020 Material Agencies II course prototypical projects. Operating predominantly through research and controlled physical experiments, students will develop a material strategy for their ARCH 8020 Material Agencies II work, investigating scientific research papers, industry publications and precedent projects in order to develop know-how in materials and material applications. A material application method will be proposed and experimented with to evaluate and develop use within a robotic fabrication process. Submissions will incorporate experimental test results, methods and precedent research documentation.
ARCH 8080-301	Scientific Research and Writing	Laia Mogas Soldevila		W 8:30 AM-11:29 AM	Following a framing of architectural design-research and theory in Semester 1, this course aims to provide students with knowledge of state of the art robotics and design taking place in the research community and to introduce methods to evaluate and demonstrate academic research that encompasses both creative and technical work. Submissions will include a technical written statement related ARCH 8020 Material Agencies II work, which will be produced by participants under direction within this core seminar. This will train students for additional technical career opportunities and raise the level of discourse and prospects for further research from the program and its participants to a level suitable for continuation within PhD studies.
ARCH 8120-301	Methods In Architectural Research	Franca Trubiano		R 1:45 PM-4:44 PM	Methods in Architectural Research is a seminar aimed at first year, second semester PhD and MS students in Architecture who aim to develop their field definition (biblio + statement) and/or research proposal in pursuit of their advanced research degree. The course is also of interest to M.Arch students interested in advanced forms of academic research. The course will cover the full context of research methods in both the humanities and sciences attendant to architecture. Students will be tasked with identifying and naming a field of study, an initial research question to investigate, a methodology they will employ, and a value proposition for their work.