ARCH 1105. Comprehensive Studio. (5) 11 contact hours. Prerequisite: major in Architecture. Corequisite: ARCH 1601. Laboratory/studios dealing with visual ordering systems, environmental design issues and creative problem identification/solving process, as well as development of visual and verbal communication skills. (Fall)

ARCH 1106. Comprehensive Studio. (5) 11 contact hours. Prerequisites: ARCH 1105 and 1601. Corequisite: ARCH 1602. Laboratory/studios concentrating on development of the vocabulary of form. Drawing, modeling, experimenting, and experiencing the conceptual development of shape, color, surface, space, volume, and the programmatic reasoning that is manifest in each. Advanced visual communication skills are emphasized. (Spring)

ARCH 1601. Architectural Seminar. (2) Corequisite: ARCH 1105. This course represents the first half of a series of lectures alternating between topics of architectural craft and architectural ideology. Conceptions of form, space and order, principles of spatial definition, and methods of representation are presented along with a range of theoretical positions concerning how architecture incorporates ideas. (Fall)

ARCH 1602. Architectural Seminar. (2) Corequisite: ARCH 1106. Prerequisites: ARCH 1105 and 1601. This course continues the format of ARCH 1601 and the lectures concerning architectural craft centering on topics of building elements, spatial sequence, scale and proportion, color and light, and the implications and potency of construction materials. (Spring)

ARCH 2105. Comprehensive Studio. (5) 11 contact hours. Prerequisites: ARCH 1106 and 1602. Laboratory/studios emphasizing the significant purposes for building; understanding the theoretical, technical and symbolic consideration of the environment relative to intervention, and intentions from behavioral information toward a comprehensive design process. (Fall)

ARCH 2106. Comprehensive Studio. (5) 11 contact hours. Prerequisites: ARCH 2105 and 2601. Laboratory/studios concentrating on the development, experimentation and understanding of the range, potential, materials, systems, and methods in the use of architectural technologies. (Spring)

ARCH 2601. Architectural Seminar. (W) (2) Prerequisites: ARCH 1602 and 1106. Corequisite: ARCH 2105. This seminar introduces models of design process to build judgmental capacity in the areas of function, spatial organization, culture, and landscape. Site planning is presented both as a technical demand and a formal device. Lectures, demonstrations and design workshops are used to build skill. (Fall)

ARCH 2602. Architectural Seminar. (W) (2) Prerequisites: ARCH 2601 and 2105. Corequisite: ARCH 2106. This seminar introduces both theoretical and practical background information in the areas of form, material and use. Each area is explored through readings, lectures, design workshops and field trips. (Spring)

ARCH 3101. Architectural Studio. (5) 9 contact hours. Prerequisites: ARCH 2106 and 2602. Third year design studios continue the investigations about the thoughtful making of buildings, within an increasingly holistic pedagogical framework, and with special regard to the utility of buildings and the human rituals of their occupation. (Fall)

ARCH 3102. Architectural Studio. (5) 9 contact hours. Prerequisite: ARCH 3101. Continuation of ARCH 3101. (Spring)

ARCH 4101. Architectural Studio. (5) 9 contact hours. Prerequisite: ARCH 3102. Series of studio sections offered with different emphasis and subject concentration to allow students to obtain a variety of studio experiences and pursue an area of study. (Fall)

ARCH 4102. Architectural Studio. (5) 9 contact hours. Prerequisite: ARCH 4101. (Spring)

Architectural History Courses

ARCH 2112. Medieval/Renaissance Architecture. (A) (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 2111. Medieval and renaissance architecture and communities; emphasis on the built environment as a cultural, economical, political, religious and visual expression. (Spring)

ARCH 3111. History and Theory of Architecture. (A) (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 2112 or permission of instructor. Study of theoretical, technical, and cultural background of architecture and urban design from c1750 to c1900. (Fall)

ARCH 3112. History and Theory of Architecture. (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 3111 or permission of instructor. Study of theoretical, technical, and cultural background of architecture and urban design from c1900 to the present. (Spring)

Building Systems Courses

ARCH 3142. Building Systems Two. (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 3141. Continuation of ARCH 3141. (Spring)

ARCH 3143. Building Systems Three. (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 3142. Continuation of ARCH 3142. (Fall)

ARCH 3144. Building Systems Four. (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 3143. Continuation of ARCH 3143 and foundations, lateral structural systems, high-rise, long-span structures, and lateral stability resistance. (Spring)

General Architectural Courses

ARCH 3160. Design Process. (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 2101 or consent of instructor. Design skills required by architects and other professionals in utilizing varying models of design, design judgment/evaluation, design synthesis and inquiry through design. Sources and uses of design information which may lead to a better fit between psychological demand and the built form. (Fall)

ARCH 3162. Passive Environmental Control Systems. (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 2101 or consent of the instructor. Design procedures for passive environmental technologies and their interrelationship with the building design process. (Fall)

ARCH 3163. Concepts of Architectural Acoustics. (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 2102 or consent of the instructor. Study of sound behavior, relationships between sound and building form, materials and structures, and spatial use including principles of sound and hearing, analysis of sound absorption and transmission. ASTM standard test methods, acoustical privacy in open plans, design for good hearing in rooms, and mechanical system noise and vibration control. (Fall)

ARCH 3164. Computer Applications in Architecture. (3) Prerequisite: ARCH 2102 or consent of the instructor. Introduction to computers and their impact on the architectural profession. Emphasis on graphics application programs (prepackaged) and their use in visualizing architecture. Introduction to BASIC programming language. (Fall, Spring)

ARCH 3890. Directed Independent Study. (1-3) Prerequisite: major in Architecture. This course is designed to allow students to pursue faculty-directed independent study topics not provided by other College offerings. May be repeated for credit with the approval of the College. May not be taken in conjunction with ARCH 4103 and ARCH 4104 without permission from Chair of Instruction. (Fall, Spring)

ARCH 4103. Architectural Studio. (5) 9 contact hours. Prerequisites: major in Architecture, ARCH 4102. (Fall)

ARCH 4104. Thesis Studio. (7) 15 contact hours. Prerequisites: ARCH 4103, 4111 with grades of C or better. Corequisite: ARCH 4112. Execution of thesis project proposed by the student and accepted by the faculty for ARCH 4111. (Spring)

ARCH 4111. Thesis/Project Proposal. (4) A proposal to initiate a thesis or terminal project, approval of which is required for admission to ARCH 4104. Work will be undertaken in close collaboration with a thesis adviser. (Fall)

ARCH 4112. Architectural Practice. (2) Corequisite: ARCH 4104. Learning objectives include an understanding of the practice of architecture today, its responsibilities and procedures, and emerging alternative forms of practice and roles of the architect. (Spring)

ARCH 5611. Theory of Design Seminar I. (3) (3G) Prerequisite: ARCH 6101. Study of architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present. Special emphasis will be placed on reading primary sources. (Fall)

ARCH 5612. Theory of Design Seminar II. (3) (3G) Prerequisite: ARCH 6102. Continuation of ARCH 5611. Intensive investigation of specific theoretical positions. (Spring)

ARCH 5641. Theory of Technology Seminar I. (3) (3G) Prerequisite: ARCH 6101. Survey of the uses and understandings of machines and images of machines since the beginning of the industrial revolution. (Fall)

ARCH 5642. Theory of Technology Seminar II. (3) (3G) Prerequisite: successful completion of ARCH 6102. Continuation of ARCH 5641. Intensive investigation of specific theoretical positions. (Spring)

ARCH 6101. Studio/Research. (7G) Introduction to the methods of architectural research and to the theme topic for the year. Course worksite chosen to offer the greatest possibilities to study architectural examples relevant to the theme. (Summer)

ARCH 6102. Design/Research Studio. (5G) Prerequisite: ARCH 6101. A coordinated set of representative research efforts and intensive individual research projects on the theme. Course content determined by theme for the year. (Fall)

ARCH 6103. Design/Research Studio. (5G) Prerequisite: ARCH 6102. Focus on individual topics of research and design that are related to the general theme. (Spring)

ARCH 6104. Design Studio. (7G) Prerequisite: ARCH 6103. An intensive design charrette which represents the culmination of the topical studies and research projects completed by the students and professors on the selected theme for the first year. (Summer)

ARCH 6121. Architecture and Cultural Context I. (4G) Prerequisite: ARCH 6101. Examination of paradigms of human activity, such as the means and methods of production and its influence on the products of culture; structuralism as a method of understanding philosophical and cultural phenomenon; literary and artistic criticism as a way of understanding cultural objects; and modernism and the history of technology as dual expressions of the industrial revolution. (Fall)

ARCH 6122. Architecture and Cultural Context II. (4G) Prerequisite: ARCH 6102. Continuation of ARCH 6121. (Spring)

ARCH 6811. Directed Independent Study (3G) Prerequisite: permission of graduate faculty member directing the study and the MSA coordinator. Directed individual study and in-depth analysis of a special area related to the annual theme of the program. May be repeated once. (Fall, Spring, Summer)