| Title | Instructors | Location | Time | Description | Cross listings | Fulfills | Registration notes | Syllabus | Syllabus URL | ||
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| ARCH 303-920 | Design Fundamentals | Scott L Aker Richard Wesley |
MTWR 01:30 PM-05:00 PM | The creation of a successful product requires the integration of design, engineering, and marketing. The purpose of this intensive studio course is to introduce basic concepts in the design of three-dimensional products. For purposes of the course, design is understood as a creative act of synthesis expressed through various modes of 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional representation. The course develops basic design skills ranging from hand sketching to the use of digital modeling software and rapid prototyping. Fulfills the requirement for a design background course in the interdisciplinary graduate program in Integrated Product Design (IPD). | IPD503920 | Permission Needed From Department | |||||
| ARCH 500-901 | Arch: Summer Preparatory Design Studio | Larry Mitnick Ezio Blasetti Danielle M Willems |
MTWRF 11:00 AM-03:00 PM | The Summer Preparatory Studio offers an intensive drawing and design experience to candidates for admission to the Graduate Program in Architecture who have not completed the necessary design studio prerequisites or who are required to have additional design experience to qualify for matriculation into the Master of Architecture Professional Degree Program in September. Enrollment in this program does not count towards the Master of Architecture degree. The intent of the drawing component of the course is to familiarize the student with primarily black and white mediums (pencil, charcoal, ink, etc). Exercises are designed to sharpen the student's ability to see selectively and to transform image to paper through both line and tonal renditions in freehand sketch form. Exercises will also familiarize the student with basic drafting skills necessary for architectural communication and provide an introduction to computer-aided design through applications of the intensive Rhino and Illustrator tutorials given in the Digital Navigation course. The design part of the course presents a rhythm of basic three-dimensional design studies and simple architectural studio investigations. These are intended to build fundamental skills and acquaint the student with the architectural issues of form/space, conceptualization, transformation of scale, simple functional and constructional problems and a sensitivity to context. Course enrollment is by permit only. | Permission Needed From Department | ||||||
| ARCH 500-920 | Arch: Summer Preparatory Design Studio | Larry Mitnick Ezio Blasetti Danielle M Willems |
CANCELED | The Summer Preparatory Studio offers an intensive drawing and design experience to candidates for admission to the Graduate Program in Architecture who have not completed the necessary design studio prerequisites or who are required to have additional design experience to qualify for matriculation into the Master of Architecture Professional Degree Program in September. Enrollment in this program does not count towards the Master of Architecture degree. The intent of the drawing component of the course is to familiarize the student with primarily black and white mediums (pencil, charcoal, ink, etc). Exercises are designed to sharpen the student's ability to see selectively and to transform image to paper through both line and tonal renditions in freehand sketch form. Exercises will also familiarize the student with basic drafting skills necessary for architectural communication and provide an introduction to computer-aided design through applications of the intensive Rhino and Illustrator tutorials given in the Digital Navigation course. The design part of the course presents a rhythm of basic three-dimensional design studies and simple architectural studio investigations. These are intended to build fundamental skills and acquaint the student with the architectural issues of form/space, conceptualization, transformation of scale, simple functional and constructional problems and a sensitivity to context. Course enrollment is by permit only. | Permission Needed From Department | ||||||
| ARCH 674-920 | Curricular Practical Training - International Students Only | Charles A Capaldi | This course provides international Master of Architecture students the opportunity for practical training in architecture in the United States (CPT). The course develops critical thinking about the organization, operation, and ethics of professional practice in architecture. Coursework includes on-line readings and assignments that focus on the work experience. It also allows students to begin accumulating the training units required for professional licensure following the definitions developed by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NACARB) Intern Development Program (IDP). This course will allow international Master of Architecture students to work in an internship with an architecture firm in the United States without shortening their limited OPT time. The course is offered for .20 course units during the summer. The employment must relate to the major and the experience must be part of the program of study. The course may be taken multiple times after completing at least two terms of coursework; students are not eligible after graduation. Eligible students must work a minimum of 35 hours per week for 10 consecutive weeks. Course enrollment is by permit only. Please contact Leigh Anne Scarborough (ARCH Dept.) at lascarbo@sas.upenn.edu. | HSPV674920, LARP674920, CPLN674920 | Permission Needed From Department | ||||||
| ARCH 706-001 | Independent Thesis | CANCELED | In the final semester of the program, students select from three options; 1) An elective design studio; selected from among the advanced architectural design studios offered by the Department of Architecture; 2) a research studio, the exploration of a topic or theme established by an individual faculty member or group of faculty members; or 3) an independent thesis, the exploration of a topic or theme under the supervision of a thesis advisor. | ||||||||
| ARCH 707-001 | Aad Fabrication Studio | Andrew Saunders | MWF 09:00 AM-01:00 PM | The final studio course in the MSD-AAD sequence. Through this studio, students engage in the challenges and opportunities presented by changes in society, technology, and urban experience. Through design projects, they explore alternative modes and markets for practice, along with new directions and new tools for design. | |||||||
| ARCH 707-002 | Aad Fabrication Studio | Matias Del Campo | MWF 09:00 AM-01:00 PM | The final studio course in the MSD-AAD sequence. Through this studio, students engage in the challenges and opportunities presented by changes in society, technology, and urban experience. Through design projects, they explore alternative modes and markets for practice, along with new directions and new tools for design. | |||||||
| ARCH 707-003 | Aad Fabrication Studio | CANCELED | The final studio course in the MSD-AAD sequence. Through this studio, students engage in the challenges and opportunities presented by changes in society, technology, and urban experience. Through design projects, they explore alternative modes and markets for practice, along with new directions and new tools for design. | ||||||||
| ARCH 708-001 | Bioclimatic Design | Suryakiran Jathan Prabhakaran Dorit Aviv |
MF 08:00 AM-12:00 PM W 07:00 PM-11:00 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 752: EBD Research Seminar, and summarized in a research report at the end of studio. | Permission Needed From Department | ||||||
| ARCH 715-001 | Aesthetic Theory | Daniela Fabricius | T 09:00 AM-12:00 PM | 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 tits role in participating in culture through the objects of the automobile, furniture and architecture industries. | Course Online: Synchronous Format | ||||||
| ARCH 732-001 | Tech Designated Elective | Dorit Aviv | MEYH B3 | W 09:00 AM-12:00 PM | Several sections are offered from which students make a selection. | ||||||
| ARCH 747-001 | Robotic Fabrication | Matias Del Campo | MEYH B3 | R 09:00 AM-12:00 PM | Automation and robotics have helped manufacturing increase productivity by 1,500% since 1945 (McKinsey 2017). In contrast, however, construction productivity has remained relatively stagnant during the same time. The construction industry is facing pressure to change. For the robotics industry, construction presents potential use cases and unique applications that can utilize a variety of evolving technologies from drones, ground robotics, teleoperation, machine vision, additive manufacturing, and assistive robotics. These technologies take advantage of the digital revolution and utilize ideas in automobile and aerospace engineering. Our interest in these technologies is that they open new opportunities for design. Robotic fabrication will explore the theory and design of a project that will form a component of the culminating design studio for the MSD AAD program. Theory will be exolored through a series of lectures and the design component will focus on a one to one scale fabrication of a project determined by the design studio curriculum. | ||||||
| ARCH 754-001 | Perform Design Workshop | Jihun Kim | TR 08:00 AM-11:00 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 753 | Course Online & In-Person Options,Synchronous | https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2021B&course=ARCH754001 | |||||
| ARCH 791-901 | Digiblast | Danielle M Willems Ezio Blasetti |
MTWRF 10:00 AM-05:00 PM | This is a non-credit course for entering Master of Architecture students. The course will cover digital modeling and workflow and will prepare students for techniques used in PennDesign's 500 and 600 level design studios. Course fee: $750.00. Note: course fees apply only to students who are NOT enrolled in ARCH-500. Course enrollment is by permit only. | Permission Needed From Department | ||||||
| ARCH 792-901 | Arch Summer Institute: Advanced Architectural Design Digital Workshop | Caleb W White Brian A Deluna |
MTWRF 10:00 AM-05:00 PM | This is a non-credit course for entering Master of Science in Design: Advanced Architectural Design students. The Digital Methods workshop provides a comprehensive introduction to four elements critical to the workflow of the graduate studios at PennDesign: 3D modeling, scripting, visualization and fabrication. Short daily lectures situating digital technologies in contemporary design practice are followed by hands-on tutorials in Maya and Rhinoceros. The first half of the workshop provides an operative knowledge of the many geometry types, modeling techniques, scripting languages and simulation tools available for studio work. Visualization techniques are also introduced, and students will learn to efficiently produce presentation-quality renderings, animations and technical line drawings from digital models. Students also learn protocols for transferring data between various design software packages and how to create data compatible with PennDesign's digital fabrication equipment. Course fee: $750.00. Course enrollment is by permit only. | Permission Needed From Department | ||||||
| ARCH 793-901 | Arch Summer Institute: History of Architecture | Taryn R Mudge | MTWRF 08:30 AM-10:30 AM | This is a non-credit course for entering Master of Architecture students. The course will cover western architecture from ancient Egypt to the modern age and will satisfy the history pre-requisite condition for matriculation in the fall. Course fee: $750.00. Course enrollment is by permit only. | Permission Needed From Department | ||||||
| ARCH 794-901 | Arch Summer Institute: Physics For Architects | Richard Farley | MWR 08:15 PM-09:45 PM | This is a non-credit course for entering Master of Architecture students. The course will cover the following: mechanics, heat, light, sound and electricity. The course will satisfy the physics pre-requisite condition for matriculation in the fall. Course fee: $750.00. Course enrollment is by permit only. | Permission Needed From Department | ||||||
| ARCH 799-901 | Ebd Workshop: Ebd Workshop | Hans Peter Tursack | MTWRF 10:00 AM-05:00 PM | This is a required, non-credit course for entering Master of Science in Design: Environmental Building Design students. The workshop provides an introduction to digital modeling and scripting techniques for environmental performance analysis. Students also learn protocols for transferring data between various design software packages and how to create data compatible with the School of Design's plotting and digital fabrication equipment. Course fee: $750.00. Course enrollment is by permit only. | Permission Needed From Department | ||||||
| ARCH 800-901 | Intro To 3d Programming | Ezio Blasetti | MTWRF 10:00 AM-05:00 PM | ARCH 800 is a two week required introductory course for matriculating RAS students. This course introduces computer programming (Python, Grasshopper, etc.) within a 3D modelling/simulation environment, and introduces students to Penn's ARI Robotics Lab. | Permission Needed From Department |