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| Architecture and Landscape Architecture | |
| ALAR 5010 | Introduction to Design (1) |
| Introduction to design concepts from the scale of the city to the body, developing an understanding of design process and compositional strategies in architecture and landscape architecture. Prerequisite: Admission to the Master of Architecture or Master of Landscape Architecture Program - required for entry into the three year course of professional study unless waived by the Department Chair. Course was offered Summer 2024, Summer 2023, Summer 2022, Summer 2020, Summer 2019, Summer 2018, Summer 2017, Summer 2016, Summer 2015, Summer 2014, Summer 2013, Summer 2012, Summer 2011, Summer 2010 | |
| ALAR 5020 | Introduction to Design Visualization (1) |
| Introduction to both digital and manual representational techniques, developing the precision and facility necessary for visual communication. Prerequisite: Admission to the Master of Architecture or Master of Landscape Architecture Program - required for entry into the three year course of professional study unless waived by the Department Chair. Course was offered Summer 2024, Summer 2023, Summer 2022, Summer 2020, Summer 2019, Summer 2018, Summer 2017, Summer 2016, Summer 2015, Summer 2014, Summer 2013, Summer 2012, Summer 2011, Summer 2010 | |
| ALAR 5030 | Introduction to Design Theory and Analysis (1) |
| Introduction to the analysis of the physical environment at the intersection of historical understanding and contemporary imagination. Prerequisite: Admission to the Master of Architecture or Master of Landscape Architecture Program - required for entry into the three year course of professional study unless waived by the Department Chair. Course was offered Summer 2024, Summer 2023, Summer 2022, Summer 2020, Summer 2019, Summer 2018, Summer 2017, Summer 2016, Summer 2015, Summer 2014, Summer 2013, Summer 2012, Summer 2011, Summer 2010 | |
| ALAR 5201 | Building and Landscape Systems of Venice (3) |
| The course aims at understanding the resilience of the physical and material of structure of Venice from the scale of the lagoon to the historical & contemporary construction methods used in creating & preserving the buildings and landscape. The course will involve workshops & seminars as well as many field trips. Guest lecturers will provide expertise on a range of materials & practices. Students will develop a research topic related to studio. | |
| ALAR 5203 | Building Venice (3) |
| This course examines the construction of the buildings, urban spaces, and site conditions of Venice and the Veneto from the origins of the city to the present-day. The course will involve workshops and seminars, as well as many field trips. Guest lecturers will provide expertise on a range of materials and practices. Students will keep a sketchbook to develop their studies through drawings and reflective notes. Course was offered Fall 2024 | |
| ALAR 5401 | Urban Analysis of Venice and the Veneto (3) |
| This course will focus on the analysis of urban space and flows, with a focus on the development of representational techniques that investigate the relationship between building/landscape form and urban life. The course will engage a range of media, from hand drawing through digital mapping, photography and film. The students will be expected to develop a capacity to diagram both static and dynamic conditions that structure the urban experience. | |
| ALAR 5403 | Venice: City and Landscape (3) |
| This course explores the relationship of Venice to its lagoon and the mainland through the mapping and analysis of the urban and ecological systems. The research will inform the studio and independent research, and will vary in its specific focus in accordance with each year's program research goals. Course was offered Fall 2024 | |
| ALAR 5500 | Special Topic in Architecture and Landscape Architecture (3) |
| Topical offerings in architecture and landscape architecture. Course was offered Summer 2012, Summer 2011 | |
| ALAR 7020 | Foundation Studio III (6) |
| Intermediate-level design problems, emphasizing structure, enclosure, life safety and building systems. Prerequisite: ALAR 7010 Course was offered Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| ALAR 8010 | Research Studio 1 (6) |
| Advanced vertical studio, exploring complex issues and sites, often through interdisciplinary design research. Part one of a two-part comprehensive design sequence. Some studios sections for this course may have an embedded travel. Prerequisite: ARCH 7020 or LAR 7020. | |
| ALAR 8020 | Research Studio 2 (6) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Advanced vertical studio, exploring complex issues and sites, often through interdisciplinary design research. Typical projects include brownfields, urban landscape infrastructure, and sustainable designs. Some studios sections for this course may have an embedded travel. Prerequisite: ALAR 8010 Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| ALAR 8030 | Design Studio 3 (6) |
| Advanced vertical studio, exploring complex issues and sites, often through interdisciplinary design research. Prerequisite: ALAR 7010 and ALAR 8010. | |
| ALAR 8060 | Urbanism Design Studio (6) |
| This design studio pulls together many issues that graduate students have studied individually in design technology, theory and history courses into a complex and integrated section of a living and working community. This research looks at integrating infrastructure systems as a community connection system, energy producing ecology and as a civic public space symbol. | |
| ALAR 8100 | Thesis I (3) |
| This course is for students in architecture/landscape undertaking an independent design/thesis studio in the spring semester, or students interested in strategic design thinking. Methods for initiating a thesis, research systems, documentation strategies, design experimentation, and modes of production and presentation will be covered. Collective critical discussion, analysis, and feedback as well as production of a final book will be required. | |
| ALAR 8102 | Design Research Seminar (1 - 2) |
| This course is for architecture or landscape architecture students expecting to undertake an independent thesis studio during the following fall semester. ALAR 8100 is the prerequisite. This student-driven course will engage with faculty and other students to support their independent work. Students are expected to gather the appropriate resources and focus on contextualizing their work. | |
| ALAR 8993 | Independent Study (1 - 6) |
| Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor Course was offered Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013 | |
| ALAR 8995 | Thesis II (6) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Thesis II . Prerequisite: ALAR 8100 and permission of the chair. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010 |
| ALAR 8999 | Non-Topical Design Research-Masters (1 - 12) |
| Independent Design Thesis Studio. Prerequisite: ALAR 8100 and permission of the chair. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014 | |
| History of Art and Architecture | |
| ARAH 5253 | Italian Fifteenth Century Painting I (3) |
| Italian Fifteenth Century Painting I | |
| ARAH 5559 | New Course in History of Art (3 - 4) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of History of Art. | |
| ARAH 5575 | Topics in Modern Art History (3) |
| examines focused topics in the history of modern art Course was offered Fall 2012 | |
| ARAH 5753 | Southern History and Material Culture (3) |
| Southern History & Material Culture is an intensive graduate-level introduction to the decorative arts, history and material culture of the American South. The four-week course includes a number of lectures, collection studies and workshops by members of the staff of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Old Salem, Inc., the faculty of the University of Virginia, and guest scholars. | |
| ARAH 8051 | Theory and Interpretation in the Visual Arts (3) |
| Investigates problems in the theory and interpretation of the visual arts | |
| ARAH 8060 | Prospectus and Grant Writing (3) |
| This course will guide students through the process of drafting a clear and compelling dissertation prospectus in collaboration with program faculty and peers. Course was offered Fall 2024 | |
| ARAH 8091 | MA Thesis Research (3) |
| MA Thesis Research | |
| ARAH 8092 | MA Thesis Writing (3) |
| The MA thesis, up to 50 pages in length, will be prepared under the supervision of the major advisor, reviewed by a three-person committee and defended orally before the end of term. | |
| ARAH 8695 | Special Reading Problems (3 - 12) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Special Reading Problems Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ARAH 8998 | Non-Topical Rsch, Masters Prep (1 - 12) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | For master's research, taken before a thesis director has been selected. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ARAH 8999 | Non-Topical Research, Masters (1 - 12) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | For master's research, taken under the supervision of a thesis director. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ARAH 9500 | Seminar in Ancient Architecture/Archaeology (3) |
| Investigates problems in ancient architecture/archaeology. | |
| ARAH 9505 | Seminar in Ancient Art/Archaeology (3) |
| Investigates problems in ancient art/archaeology Course was offered Fall 2023, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| ARAH 9510 | Seminar in Medieval Architecture (3) |
| Investigates problems in medieval architecture | |
| ARAH 9515 | Seminar in Medieval Art (3) |
| Investigates problems in medieval art Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010 | |
| ARAH 9520 | Seminar in Renaissance/Baroque Architecture (3) |
| Investigates problems in Renaissance and/or Baroque architecture. | |
| ARAH 9525 | Seminar in Renaissance/Baroque Art (3) |
| Investigates problems in renaissance/baroque art Course was offered Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2018, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| ARAH 9535 | Seminar in 18th/19th Art (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Investigates problems in 18th-19th century art Course was offered Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2010 |
| ARAH 9540 | Seminar in 20th/21st Century Architecture (3) |
| Investigates problems in 20th/21st century architecture Course was offered Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| ARAH 9545 | Seminar in 20th/21st Century Art (3) |
| Investigates problems in 20th/21st century architecture. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2012, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| ARAH 9560 | Seminar in Architecture Theory, Comparative & Other Topics (3) |
| Investigates problems in architecture theory, comparative, and other topics. Course was offered Spring 2014, Spring 2011 | |
| ARAH 9565 | Seminar in Art Theory, Comparative & Other Topics (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Investigates problems in architecture theory, comparative, and other topics Course was offered Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2010 |
| ARAH 9570 | Seminar in the Architecture of the Americas (3) |
| Investigates problems in architecture of the Americas | |
| ARAH 9575 | Seminar in the Art of the Americas (3) |
| Investigates problems in art of the Americas | |
| ARAH 9580 | Seminar in the Architecture of East, South, and Southeast Asia (3) |
| Investigates problems in architecture of East, South, and Southeast Asia | |
| ARAH 9585 | Seminar in the Art of East, South, and Southeast Asia (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Investigates problems in art of East, South, and Southeast Asia Course was offered Fall 2022, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2012 |
| ARAH 9590 | Seminar in the Architecture of Africa or Islam (3) |
| Investigates problems in architecture of Africa or Islam Course was offered Spring 2011 | |
| ARAH 9595 | Seminar in the Art of Africa or Islam (3) |
| Investigates problems in art of Africa or Islam. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2019 | |
| ARAH 9995 | Supervised Research (3 - 12) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Supervised Research Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ARAH 9998 | Non-Topical Rsch,Doctoral Prep (1 - 12) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Summer 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Summer 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Summer 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Summer 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Summer 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Summer 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ARAH 9999 | Non-Topical Research, Doctoral (1 - 12) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | For doctoral research taken under the supervision of a dissertation director. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| Architecture | |
| ARCH 1010 | Lessons of the Lawn (3) |
| The study of architecture as a speculation on origins is located at the conjunctive core of any liberal arts curriculum and serves as the physical armature and conceptual foundation of the University. This course is concerned with the contemporary imagination, attempting to make the discipline of architecture meaningful to a wide range of citizens in its public obligation to be constructive and optimistic in the most profoundly ethical, pragmatic, and magical of terms. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| ARCH 1020 | Lessons in Making (3) |
| In this course we explore the delights and dilemmas of design. With paper, pencils, cardboard, and glue, we draw, sketch, and construct collages and architectural models. As we do so, we ask fundamental questions. What is design? What exactly do designers do when they design? What makes the practice meaningful, and what makes it difficult? To see work from past years, visit: https://web.arch.virginia.edu/designfundamentals/. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| ARCH 1030 | Foundation Studio I (4) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | The studio course introduces first year students from architecture, urban and environmental planning, and architectural history to the built environment related to scales from the body to buildings, landscapes, and cities.Students explore comprehensive and foundational design principles, skill sets, and critical thinking. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013 |
| ARCH 1031 | Summer Foundation Studio I (4) |
| The studio course introduces architecture, urban and environmental planning, and architectural history to the built environment related to scales from the body to buildings, landscapes, and cities.Students explore comprehensive and foundational design principles, skill sets, and critical thinking. Course was offered Summer 2024, Summer 2023, Summer 2022, Summer 2021, Summer 2020, Summer 2019, Summer 2018, Summer 2017, Summer 2016, Summer 2015, Summer 2014 | |
| ARCH 1040 | Introduction to Design (4) |
| Introduction to the principles, methods, and processes that designers use to observe and design the constructed environment. Working in both two and three-dimensional analog and digital media, students will analyze inputs and propose places through innovative forms of visual communication. Spatial, conceptual, relational, and critical thinking will all be creatively explored within a lively interdisciplinary community. Course was offered Fall 2015 | |
| ARCH 1500 | Special Topics in Architecture (1 - 6) |
| Topical offerings in architecture. Course was offered Fall 2022 | |
| ARCH 2010 | Foundation Studio II (6) |
| The foundations studios involve beginning design students in thoughtful application of fundamental design principles, foundational techniques of representation and fabrication and comprehensive critical design strategies. These courses foster the development of the beginning design student's design methodology founded on thoughtful, creative, ethical and rigorous work practices in service of exploring meaningful formal and spatial propositions.
Prerequisite: ARCH 1010, 1020, 1030. | |
| ARCH 2011 | Summer Intro to Design Studio (6) |
| Prerequisite: For undergraduate transfer students accepted by the Dept. of Architecture only. This introductory architectural design studio explores comprehensive & foundational design principles, skill sets, & critical thinking. The material covered is presented through a series of lectures, projects, exercises,workshops, symposia & reviews involving the beginning design student in the thoughtful application of comprehensive critical design. Course was offered Summer 2024, Summer 2023, Summer 2022, Summer 2021, Summer 2020, Summer 2019, Summer 2018, Summer 2017, Summer 2016, Summer 2015, Summer 2014, Summer 2013, Summer 2012, Summer 2011 | |
| ARCH 2020 | Foundation Studio III (6) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | The foundations studios involve beginning design students in thoughtful application of fundamental design principles, foundational techniques of representation and fabrication and comprehensive critical design strategies. These courses foster the development of the beginning design student's design methodology founded on thoughtful, creative, ethical and rigorous work practices in service of exploring meaningful formal and spatial propositions.
Prerequisite: ARCH 2010 Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Summer 2010, Spring 2010 |
| ARCH 2021 | Summer Intro to Design Studio 1 (6) |
| Prerequisite: ARCH 2010 or 2011, for undergraduate transfer students accepted by the Dept. of Architecture only.
The second architectural studio in the core curriculum fosters the development of the beginning design student's design methodology founded on thoughtful, creative, ethical and rigorous work practices in service of exploring meaningful formal and spatial propositions. Course was offered Summer 2024, Summer 2023, Summer 2022, Summer 2021, Summer 2020, Summer 2019, Summer 2018, Summer 2017, Summer 2016, Summer 2015, Summer 2014, Summer 2013, Summer 2012, Summer 2011 | |
| ARCH 2070 | Design & Thinking (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | ARCH 2070 (Formally 3070 Foundations in Design Thinking) introduces the fundamentals of Design, actively implementing the methods designers utilize for spaces, systems, and products. Open to the University, students learn interpersonal skills, a designing/making process, stakeholder/project management, and visual communication techniques. The course culminates in a demonstration showcase with opportunities for professional feedback. |
| ARCH 2100 | Design in the World (3) |
| This course examines the visual, cultural, historical, and ethical aspects of design and the constructed environment using examples from a broad range of design disciplines. Through lectures, readings, discussions, and short design projects, students will learn to analyze and critique the objects, spaces, buildings, and experiences that shape the environments we collectively make and inhabit. | |
| ARCH 2114 | Sustainability and Systems in the Built Environment (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This course takes a systems perspective to study and design for sustainability in the built environment at various scales (e.g., materials, buildings, cities, and regions) and for different types of systems (e.g., physical, social, information). Students from SEAS, A-School, and other majors are welcome in this course, which emphasizes interdisciplinary design collaboration and diversity of thought. Grad course will have add¿l course requirement. |
| ARCH 2150 | Global Sustainability (3) |
| Earth's ecosystems are unraveling at an unprecedented rate, threatening human wellbeing and posing substantial challenges to contemporary society. Designing sustainable practices, institutions, and technologies for a resource-constrained world is our greatest challenge. This integrated and interdisciplinary course prepares students to understand, innovate and lead the efforts necessary to engage in this task. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2011 | |
| ARCH 2220 | Principles of Tectonics (3) |
| With a focus on the interplay between design methods and building practices through history, this course explores the fundamental tectonic principles that shape the work of architecture. | |
| ARCH 2500 | Special Topics in Architecture (3) |
| Topical offerings in the subject of Architecture. | |
| ARCH 2710 | CAAD 3D Geometrical Modeling and Visualization (3) |
| A comprehensive hands-on course in three-dimensional computer aided design that ranges from beginning to advanced methods in geometrical modeling, macro programming, and visualization used in design related disciplines. The class explores approaches to design made possible through computer-based methods. Lectures and workshops provide a conceptual and applied framework, examine state-of-the-art techniques today,and speculate on future advances | |
| ARCH 2715 | Elements of Design (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This seminar is about architectural design. Approximately twenty-five lecture/discussions span various aspects of design beginning with principles and including topics such as multiple ideas, multiple studies, abstraction, proportion and composition. Final topics include practical and esthetic considerations of design and materials. A class notebook is required for lecture notes and assignments of writings and drawings. Course was offered Spring 2024 |
| ARCH 3010 | Foundation Studio IV (6) |
| This studio course emphasizes conceptualization and synthesis of complex programs in contemporary contexts at multiple scales.
Prerequisite: ARCH 2020 | |
| ARCH 3011 | Design Thinking Studio I (6) |
| This is a studio based course on Architectural design thinking with a focus on creative approaches to analyzing and solving diverse problems. | |
| ARCH 3020 | Foundation Studio V (6) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This studio course emphasizes conceptualization and synthesis of complex programs in contemporary contexts at multiple scales.
Prerequisite: ARCH 3010 Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| ARCH 3021 | Design Thinking Studio II (6) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This is a studio based course on Architectural design thinking with a focus on creative approaches to analyzing and solving diverse problems.
Prerequisite: ARCH 3070 Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015 |
| ARCH 3070 | Foundations in Design Practices (4) |
| This course will introduce a range of design practices with the goal of establishing a set of skills necessary for addressing complex design challenges in the subsequent Design Thinking Studios. Project-based exercises will explore methods of analysis, techniques of representation & systems of assembly at a variety of scales (detail, body, enclosure, systems, etc.). This course is limited to Architecture Majors in the Design-Thinking Concentration. Course was offered Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015 | |
| ARCH 3071 | Design Practices Lab (1) |
| This course is a required, one-credit lab that is coordinated with Arch 3070 and consists of workshops and tutorials to facilitate the development of skills necessary for students in the Design-Thinking Concentration. | |
| ARCH 3110 | Sustainable Communities (3) |
| This seminar examines how the intertwined principles of sustainable communities--environmental quality and beauty, social equity and economic health--are reflected in buildings, landscapes and cities. Through theory and policy readings, discussions and site visits, we will examine how communities can improve air, water and land quality, renewable energy, mobility, local food and overall wellbeing and sense of place. | |
| ARCH 3120 | Theories of Architecture (3) |
| This class examines major themes & methodologies found in or taken up by twentieth century architectural theory. The course considers architecture through a wider set of cultural studies that include critical theory, phenomenology, semiotics, structuralism, post-structuralism & psychoanalysis. Questions involve the associations constructed between architecture & autonomy, technology, perception, art, theory & practice. Prereq: ARH 1010 &1020 | |
| ARCH 3122 | Contemporary Spatial Practices (3) |
| This seminar will present a critical account of contemporary spatial practices and develop a theoretical framework of spatial operations enabling students to situate their own work within this new territory. | |
| ARCH 3140 | Architectural Analysis: Key Buildings of Modernism (3) |
| Investigates the link between ideas and forms of significant buildings in the canon of modern architecture. | |
| ARCH 3203 | Design Logics (3) |
| We will explore the logic model as a theoretical framework for understanding the health impact of the built environment as the basis for evidence-based practices of design. The logic model is a tool for synthesizing and visualizing causal pathways that lead to health outcomes. Students learn to conduct a rigorous literature review, diagram data, visualize environments, and develop logic models of key buildings and urban landscapes. | |
| ARCH 3240 | Introduction to Structural Design (3) |
| A first course in structures for undergraduates to develop analytic and critical skills through both mathematical and visual investigation. Topics include statics, mechanics of materials, computer-based structural analysis, and the design and behavior of basic structural elements and systems. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| ARCH 3260 | Building Matters (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Explores and evaluates the properties of basic building materials and construction assemblies. Introduces building construction from a variety of viewpoints, with emphasis on ecological thinking in architectural decision-making. Students will analyze and critique materials and construction systems, and how they correspond to aesthetic, technical, financial and ethical issues. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| ARCH 3271 | Breaking BIM (3) |
| This course offers an introduction to the principles of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and the interface and workflow of Autodesk's Revit. Topics include the BIM workflow, associative modeling, conceptual massing, building components, site tools, customizing components, materials, detailing, schedules, and visualization. With successful completion students will be able to use Revit proficiently in a design process. | |
| ARCH 3274 | Parametric Structural Design (3) |
| New integration of structural analysis into standard design software links design with immediate analysis and feedback, allowing architects to extend their structural intuition. This course covers basic structural systems, their historical development, design considerations, and analysis through physical and parametric modeling.
Prerequisite: ARCH 3240 or permission of instructor Course was offered Spring 2021, Spring 2020 | |
| ARCH 3410 | CAAD 3D Modeling & Visualization (3) |
| A comprehensive course in three-dimensional computer aided design and visualization methods used in architecture and landscape architecture. The class explores design worlds that are made accessible through computer-based media. Lectures provide a theoretical framework for computer-aided design, describe current methods, and speculate on advanced methods. | |
| ARCH 3500 | Special Topics in Architecture (3) |
| Topical offerings in architecture. Course was offered Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Janiuary 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, January 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2019, Summer 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017, Spring 2017, Summer 2016, Spring 2010 | |
| ARCH 3559 | New Courses in Architecture (3) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject Architecture. Course was offered Spring 2019 | |
| ARCH 3710 | Photography and Digital Media (3) |
| This course seeks to give students the ability to conceive and create digital photographic imagery with control and sophistication. Topics include fundamentals of photography, color theory, digital control of visual qualities, and methods of image montage for both still images and short animations. Methods include production and presentation for both printed hard copy and for the World Wide Web. Course was offered Summer 2016 | |
| ARCH 3993 | Independent Study (1 - 3) |
| Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor Course was offered Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| ARCH 4010 | Research Studio (6) |
| This studio course emphasizes conceptualization and synthesis of complex programs in contemporary contexts at multiple scales.
Prerequisite: ARCH 3020 | |
| ARCH 4011 | Design Thinking Studio III (6) |
| This is a studio based course on Architectural design thinking with a focus on creative approaches to analyzing and solving diverse problems.
Prerequisite: ARCH 3021 | |
| ARCH 4020 | Advanced Design Research Studio (6) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Students pursue a semester long advanced design project. Prerequisite: ARCH 4010. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| ARCH 4021 | Ind Design Thinking Research Studio (6) |
| This is a studio based course on Architectural design thinking with a focus on creative approaches to analyzing and solving diverse problems. Prerequisite: ARCH 3011/3021 Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016 | |
| ARCH 4100 | Independent Design Research (Thesis) Seminar (3) |
| Architectural research methods are introduced and applied to the development of an undergraduate thesis in Architecture. Students develop and investigate research questions, research methods, and data sources. | |
| ARCH 4201 | Forms and Materials of the Buildings of Venice (3) |
| The course aims at introducing the physical essence of Venice through direct contact with selected materials by means of manifold complementary approaches. Different specialists, from week to week, will go into depth on the techniques & their aesthetics through time, taking the students to sites of interest. Among others, the course provides an experience in a glass furnace as part of a practical design atelier, & focuses on marbles & stones. | |
| ARCH 4401 | Drawing Venice (3) |
| This course will focus on the analysis of urban space and flows, with a focus on the development of representational techniques that investigate the relationship between urban form and urban life. The course will engage a range of media, from hand drawing through digital mapping, photography and film. The students will be expected to develop a capacity to diagram both static and dynamic conditions that structure the urban experience. | |
| ARCH 4500 | Special Topics in Architecture (1 - 3) |
| Topical offerings in architecture. | |
| ARCH 4510 | J-Term Courses (1 - 3) |
| January Term courses provide students with unique opportunities: new courses that address topics of current interest, study abroad programs, undergraduate research seminars, and interdisciplinary courses. The intensive format of "J-term" classes encourages extensive student-faculty contact and allows students and faculty to immerse themselves in a particular subject. | |
| ARCH 4820 | Teaching Experience (3) |
| Selected students lead a seminar (of 8 to 10 younger students each) for 'Lessons of the Lawn' and 'Lessons in Making.' All student assistants attend class lectures (for a second time) and then meet with their seminar groups weekly, leading discussions of topics and questions raised by the instructor. Course was offered Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| ARCH 4821 | Research Experience (3) |
| Student will engage with faculty on selected topics in Architecture Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor Course was offered Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012 | |
| ARCH 4993 | Independent Study (1 - 4) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Summer 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Summer 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Summer 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Summer 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Summer 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ARCH 4995 | Independent Design Research (Thesis) Studio (6) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Independent Design Research Studio for 4th year students in their final year. Prerequisite: ARCH 4010 and ARCH 4100, permission of the chair. Course was offered Spring 2014, Spring 2013 |
| ARCH 5010 | Introduction to Architecture (1) |
| This studio-based course introduces students to foundational elements and methods of architectural design and representation. The course provides incoming M.Arch students the basic skills required for the successful completion of the program's core studio sequence. Course was offered Summer 2021 | |
| ARCH 5011 | International Summer Studio (6) |
| Students will design proposals for the complex cultural, formal, spatial and constructional context of a particular location outside the US. Pedagogical objectives include strengthening analytical and creative abilities at multiple scales through an iterative design process, studying material and tectonics, developing critical thinking abilities, and improving graphic, verbal and written communication skills. | |
| ARCH 5012 | Greek Odyssey in the Anthropocene (3) |
| Inspired by Homeric poems and Odysseus' travels, as well as current sustainability challenges in the Aegean Sea, this experiential educational abroad program introduces students to both past, present, and future ways of life in Athens and other Greek islands. | |
| ARCH 5020 | Introduction to Design Visualization (1) |
| A complimentary workshop to the studio component, this course introduces students to foundational concepts and techniques of architectural visualization and its relation to software and digital technologies. Course was offered Summer 2021 | |
| ARCH 5030 | Architecture Pro Seminar (1) |
| This seminar is a forum for discussion and debate on contemporary architectural topics. The seminar addresses the instrumental and methodological diversity of architectural practice and the role of design in larger societal debates. Course was offered Summer 2021 | |
| ARCH 5110 | Design Approaches to Existing Sites (3) |
| Explores various approaches by designers to the contexts of their work. Examines buildings, urban infrastructure, and landscape interventions, and includes lectures, discussions, and presentations by visitors and students. Course was offered Fall 2011 | |
| ARCH 5111 | House (3) |
| This course is about understanding important houses of the modern movement. After choosing an iconic house for study students conduct independent research on its design for the semester. The study culminates in a class presentation regarding the house with respect to its basic ideas, design intentions, order and construction. The class meets once a week for work sessions with the instructor. Course was offered Spring 2021, Spring 2020 | |
| ARCH 5113 | Behavioral Design (3) |
| Just as physics and math inform design, so can behavioral sciences, which offer rigorous and rapidly advancing insight into how people interact with their environments and with each other. This project-based course will expand students' design repertoires by connecting to psychology and related fields. This course is for "designers" broadly construed: those who wish to influence areas such as architecture, engineering, policy, and business. | |
| ARCH 5114 | Sustainability and Systems in the Built Environment (3) |
| This course takes a systems perspective to study and design for sustainability in the built environment at various scales (e.g., materials, buildings, cities, and regions) and for different types of systems (e.g., physical, social, information). Students from SEAS, A-School, and other majors are welcome in this course, which emphasizes interdisciplinary design collaboration and diversity of thought. | |
| ARCH 5130 | Paper Matters (1) |
| Which is the role of publications in the contemporary architectural debate & in a school of architecture? The seminar has the purpose of experimenting the critical edition of contents, reflect on the instruments & educate in the related skills. It will combine the research on themes & other publications, the presence of experts & the editorial staff meetings, & will include short exercises, the definition of an editorial line. Course was offered Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013 | |
| ARCH 5132 | Paper Matters II (2) |
| Which is the role of publications in the contemporary architectural debate & in a school of architecture? The seminar has the purpose of experimenting the critical edition of contents, reflect on the instruments & educate in the related skills. It will combine the research on themes & other publications, the presence of experts & the editorial staff meetings, & will include short exercises, the definition of an editorial line. Course was offered Fall 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016 | |
| ARCH 5140 | Advanced Design Themes of Great Cities (3) |
| This course discusses the design qualities of the world's great cities. Each session focuses on the defining characteristics of different cities such as their natural settings, public spaces, transportation systems, types of buildings, and everyday details. | |
| ARCH 5150 | Global Sustainability (3) |
| Earth's ecosystems are unraveling at an unprecedented rate, threatening human wellbeing & posing substantial challenges to contemporary society. Designing sustainable practices, institutions, & technologies for a resource-constrained world is our greatest challenge. This integrated and interdisciplinary course prepares students to understand,innovate & lead the efforts necessary to engage in this task. Graduate course will have additional course requirements. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| ARCH 5160 | Models for Higher Density Housing (3) |
| This seminar will focus on density and contemporary housing issues, specifically related to affordable housing. As cities have spread out or decayed at the core, the variety of housing options has decreased leading to a growing divide between where and how people can afford to live. Assignments range from readings and leading discussion to case study presentations of recent global and local housing designs. | |
| ARCH 5170 | New Urban Housing (3) |
| The class attempts to give students an introduction to the design issues associated with high-density urban housing. This area was a focus of experimentation for the first generation of modern architects. Today, pressures from urban sprawl and concerns for sustainable patterns of living have renewed the need to find ways of making modern urban neighborhoods. Issues of innovation and continuity need to be explored. This seminar will discuss the history of modern housing and explore a range of contemporary architectural projects, built and unbuilt. | |
| ARCH 5180 | Issues in Contemporary Architecture (3) |
| Participants will investigate a diverse range of issues confronted in the conception, making and interpretation of contemporary architecture, including urban, social, aesthetic, representational, and technological concerns. Questions will be examined through a case study model grounded in history and supplemented by readings. During each class, 2-3 buildings will be formally analyzed to illustrate the thematic investigation. Course was offered Spring 2012, Spring 2011 | |
| ARCH 5201 | Forms and Materials of the Buildings of Venice (3) |
| The course aims at introducing the physical essence of Venice through direct contact with selected materials by means of manifold complementary approaches. Different specialists, from week to week, will go into depth on the techniques & their aesthetics through time, taking the students to sites of interest. Graduate students will undertake additional course requirements. | |
| ARCH 5250 | Applied Real Estate (4) |
| The course emulates the real estate development process in a specific geographic and socio-economic setting. In this studio, students will form small teams assigned to develop a project for a specific site. The students begin with site analysis, develop a proposed "product," conduct all the key financial analyses, and identify and develop the materials that would be necessary to move the project through public approval. Prerequisite: PLAN 5220 | |
| ARCH 5320 | Some Assembly Required: Research and Development (3) |
| This course functions as research and development seminar - the research and development initiatives will consist of three distinct and critically interdependent phases: first, case study analysis and interpretation; secondly, development of issue-specific project proposal; and thirdly, innovative advancement of research topic. In consultation with the course instructor, research initiatives focus on a specific topic of building construction | |
| ARCH 5321 | Some Assembly Required: Design Build (4) |
| The course focuses on the study of modern fabrication practices in the context of design/build projects. | |
| ARCH 5342 | Parametric Energy Design (3) |
| This course offers a foundation in understanding climate and energy in buildings and cities, and teaches the tools to parametrically analyze, model, visualize and design for energy impacts. Starting from real energy in real buildings through physical and data exploration, the course then teaches parametric tools to propose interventions and analyze for performance. The course is open to students in both Architecture and Engineering. Course was offered Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013 | |
| ARCH 5370 | Depth of Surface (3) |
| Construction systems and material selection must be a generative process not a reactive application. What are the possibilities for the Depth of Surface to exploit the tension between internal criteria and external forces & context? The fundamental issues of buildability must be driven by a sense of 'what do you want to see?' as well as the pragmatic - with the detail reinforcing, not diluting, the whole. How can overall composition, form, performance and structure of building envelope come together (via detail) within a specific conceptual context? | |
| ARCH 5380 | Soft Surface Operations (3) |
| We will explore the parameters of shaping the flow of light, wind, and water; then test these discoveries through full-scale mock-ups, exploring practical potentials as well as the experiential aspects of weather phenomena and surface performance. Working with a set of high performance fabrics, it will be possible to produce operable, interactive, beautiful surfaces that create comfortable semi-exterior conditions year-round. | |
| ARCH 5400 | Experimental Technologies (3) |
| Covering theory to practice, the course is an introduction to the use of digital technologies for the analysis, simulation and visualization of space, time and processes on cultural sites. The course focuses on the use of computer technologies for the visualization, exploration and analysis of natural and built environments (broad enough to include issues and methodologies of interest to architects, landscape architects, archaeologists and architectural historians). Topics are explored through class lectures on the theory and application of computational/visualization technology, guest lectures, example projects, field trips to project site and exercises examining emergent issues. | |
| ARCH 5401 | Drawing Venice (3) |
| This course will focus on the analysis of urban space and flows, with a focus on the development of representational techniques that investigate the relationship between urban form and urban life. The course will engage a range of media, from hand drawing through digital mapping, photography and film. The students will be expected to develop a capacity to diagram both static and dynamic conditions that structure the urban experience. | |
| ARCH 5403 | Soundscape Venice (3) |
| This seminar will accompany and inform the work of the Venice studio in advancing our understanding of sonic environments. Working with both architectural and urban spaces in Venice, students will discover the city through their ears as well as their eyes. The course will include texts on contemporary sound culture as well as field studies of specific regions of the city. The sound projects will become part of a new web site, "Soundscape Venice". | |
| ARCH 5420 | Digital Animation & Storytelling (3) |
| An exploration of moviemaking through exercises in computer animation. Approximately five independently developed short animations constitute the work of the semester, culminating in a one- to five-minute long final movie project. It is anticipated that an interdisciplinary group of students admitted to the seminar will bring perspectives from across the visual & design arts. Movie projects may range in creative subject areas. Instructor Consent | |
| ARCH 5422 | Computer Animation: Design in Motion (3) |
| Arch 5422 is a hands-on workshop in moviemaking by techniques in three-dimensional computer animation with composite video, sound editing and capture. We screen independent and feature film animation and ongoing student work concluding in a 1 to 5 min. final project. Short readings are in film and cognitive science. Students may enroll from diverse areas such as design, art, drama, computer science, the physical sciences, and education. Course was offered Summer 2021, Summer 2020, Summer 2019, Summer 2018, Summer 2017, Summer 2016, Summer 2015, Summer 2014, Summer 2013, Summer 2012, Summer 2011 | |
| ARCH 5423 | Grasshopper: Sites and Systems (3) |
| This comprehensive introduction to grasshopper also covers the spatial inventions of current design practice through case studies and demonstrations. Ideas and techniques such as variables, fields, transformations, attraction, data structures, and conditional logic will be explored in the first half of the semester. Mesh structures, grasshopper fabrication, analytic methods, and workflow for studio projects are the focus of the final six week. | |
| ARCH 5424 | Direct Cinema Media Fabrics (3) |
| An interdisciplinary workshop and seminar that combines documentary moviemaking and video input with virtual and physical media output. Video and sound recording or a motion capture body suit may be used to collect initial data. The data may be translated to facilitate the making or movement of physical objects. Or, the data may be translated to figure creatively in virtual representations such as used in motion picture production. Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2014, Spring 2013 | |
| ARCH 5430 | Land Development Workshop (3) |
| Explores the land development process from the perspective of the private land developer interacting with local governments. Includes development potential, site, and traffic analysis; land planning; development programming; and services to accommodate new development and public regulation of land development. Course was offered Fall 2012 | |
| ARCH 5450 | Digital Moviemaking & Animation (3) |
| Visual storytelling is the basis for making movies in this hands-on production oriented class. The technology of both computer graphics animation and digital video production are explored. Themes may incorporate short character studies or visual narratives related to the built and natural environment, such as its observable symbols and images, the process of physical and conceptual assembly, transformations of light and form, spatial or formal composition, the movement of people and objects, and similar phenomena that vary over time. Students have the option to use either computer graphics animation or video production. The links between perception, representation, and design are examined within both a historical and a contemporary critical framework. Prerequisite: ARCH 3410/6410 or instructor permission. | |
| ARCH 5470 | Information Space (3) |
| We live in a world rich with information. This course concentrates on the identity and role of information in our environs: in the buildings and cities that we inhabit and in the evolving networks and World Wide Web that are increasingly a part of our daily lives. The course looks practically and theoretically at how we build information, why, and how we use and populate it in our world. In both the physical and digital realms we study language, graphics, and urban form as `Information Space`, and look for ways to build new architectures that use information well. The course uses web design technology as a vehicle to explore these themes. | |
| ARCH 5473 | Design Workflows I (3) |
| Design Workflows I is the first of two foundational courses in visualization that facilitates the development of critical workflows for design. The first semester focuses on the theme of Representation, examining techniques for extraction and translation of1 spatial data systems, combining mapping and drawing techniques with a student's own research interests. Course was offered Fall 2019 | |
| ARCH 5474 | Design Workflows II (3) |
| Design Workflows II is the second of two foundational courses in visualization that facilitates the development of critical workflows for design. The final semester focuses on the theme of Communication, with exercises in fabrication and dissemination that build on research themes developed during the first semester. Course was offered Spring 2021, Spring 2020 | |
| ARCH 5490 | CNC Fabrication (3) |
| This is a seminar about computation and the physical making of architecture. The course centers on student research into computer-controlled modeling and fabrication through hands-on use of CNC machines and advanced CAD technologies. The course focuses on the making of objects, parts, and systems at real-world, real-material scales and on the invention of strategies that link geometric form and computation with fabrication and material processing. | |
| ARCH 5500 | Special Topics in Architecture (1 - 6) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Topical offerings in architecture. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Spring 2022, Janiuary 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Summer 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Summer 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ARCH 5501 | Special Topics in Architecture (0) |
| Topical offerings in architecture. | |
| ARCH 5510 | J-Term Courses (1 - 3) |
| J Term Courses | |
| ARCH 5590 | Faculty Research Seminar (1 - 4) |
| Affords students opportunities to participate in specific faculty's advance research projects. Course was offered Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| ARCH 5605 | Urban Materiality. The construction of the Public Space (3) |
| This class will introduce students to understand the city scale and landscape design in terms of materiality. The students will learn how to use the materials to resolve urban and landscape issues. | |
| ARCH 5607 | International Design Research (3) |
| Interanally-focused independent design research conducted under the guidance and direct supervision of a faculty member. | |
| ARCH 5608 | China Design Workshop (3) |
| The course will combine field analysis, precedent study, and collaborative design proposals into contemporary Chinese architecture and urban form. Focused readings will supplement the design investigation. | |
| ARCH 5609 | India Research Seminar (3) |
| Students will study seminal and everyday works of architecture and urbanism through sketches, drawings, paintings, collage, photographs, video and narrative. They will investigate literary, historical and philosophical foundations through the close reading of texts and films. Discussions will focus on the evolving environmental, political, religious, social discourse that informs the contemporary India built environment. Course was offered Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012 | |
| ARCH 5610 | Urban Land (3) |
| The UrbanLand is a research seminar about the catalysts of the contemporaneous urbanity. This seminar will address the impunity spaces in between the Urban and the Land. How can we design and provoke the new urbanity?
How can we work in the UrbanLand spaces in the mechanical to digital era? Which are our new tools? How the city will deals with the landscape? How can we design a new generous UrbanLand? | |
| ARCH 5612 | Modes of Inscription (3) |
| This course contextualizes contemporary design practices in architecture, landscape, and urbanism across a wide variety of geographies and scales; showcasing the role of the designer in inscribing the earth. Graduate course will have additional course requirements | |
| ARCH 5613 | Networked Cities (3) |
| By 2050 the North American population will grow by 130 million, with urban development occurring in 11 identified megaregions within the United States. This seminar will investigate the Northeastern Seaboard - specifically, the region around Washington DC - as a system of networked cities at multiple scales. Introducing ArcGIS to investigate growing patterns. | |
| ARCH 5614 | Urban Strategies (3) |
| Worldwide urbanization processes will increase in the next years reaching a rate of 75% until the middle of the century. Shrinkage, stagnation and rapid growth will be simultaneous phenomena and to achieve urban sustainability it will be important to innovate analytical methods and urban design frameworks. Discussions, lectures, and readings in combination with an urban design group project will introduce students to contemporary urban design methodologies. | |
| ARCH 5620 | Robotic Ecologies (3) |
| The seminar will explore recent advances in the interdisciplinary fields of architecture, landscape and urbanism, where design research has intersected with the advanced sciences to produce entirely new modes of thinking, designing and building. We will explore the promise of robotics to productively intermesh and interact with the complex ecologies of our physical environment. | |
| ARCH 5630 | Design of Cities (3) |
| Cities are physical artifacts that are experienced psychologically and socially. This course investigates the theories surrounding these processes to reach an understanding of humanistic urban design intentions. Experiential realities are explored through case studies, readings, and mapping exercises. | |
| ARCH 5660 | Design and Leadership (3) |
| The aim of this course is to give students a fundamental and practical understanding of leadership and the role that design plays in exercising leadership and mobilizing the resources of a group. This is a course designed for students currently being educated in the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning. The purpose is to increase significantly one's individual capacity to sustain the demands of leadership and to strengthen considerably one's individual ability to exercise both leadership and authority within in the larger arena of public life. | |
| ARCH 5700 | InfoLab: Laboratory for Visualizing Information (3) |
| The design process has become an essential filter of all types of information. Due to contemporary forms of communication and media, this process has now been charged with the task of gathering, filtering, comprehending, processing, interpreting, forming and representing information in a clear and coherent manner. This laboratory seeks to introduce its participants to various modes of forming and representing information, qualifying, quantifying and visualizing it with the ultimate goal of familiarizing themselves with contemporary representational techniques and creating new visualization tools. | |
| ARCH 5710 | Photography and Digital Methods (3) |
| This course seeks to give students the ability to conceive and create digital photographic imagery with control and sophistication. Topics include fundamentals of photography, color theory, digital control of visual qualities, and methods of image montage. Methods include production and presentation for both print and monitor screen. | |
| ARCH 5712 | Design Drawing (3) |
| This course is about drawing as a necessary component of design. It is conducted as a studio course dedicated to hand drawing skills, particularly as they relate to architectural studies. Classes are held one day each week and consist of drawing exercises. Grades are determined by a submitted portfolio. Course was offered Spring 2023 | |
| ARCH 5713 | DRAWING: Site Reading (3) |
| Practice in freehand representation of habitable conditions or "sites" analytically and experientially attending to organization, proportion, positioning, and critical relationships across multiple scales and contexts including material, spatial, structural, constructive, and social processes | |
| ARCH 5714 | Site Reading: Re-Cognition (3) |
| Re-cognizing or understanding again the potential in drawings full of thought about building rather than form through the employment of simple rapid techniques to indicate intention through tone, line, and texture. Precedents will be found, organized, discussed, and emulated. Techniques will be practiced and tested for effectiveness at conveying thought and intention. | |
| ARCH 5715 | Elements of Design (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This seminar is about architectural design. Approximately twenty-five lecture/discussions span various aspects of design beginning with principles and including topics such as multiple ideas, multiple studies, abstraction, proportion and composition. Final topics include practical and esthetic considerations of design and materials. A class notebook is required for lecture notes and assignments of writings and drawings. Course was offered Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019 |
| ARCH 5717 | Mapping as Critical Practice (3) |
| This course introduces contemporary cartographic and data visualization techniques as design tools for the strategic development of critical, theoretical, and experimental frameworks for architecture, urbanism, and intermedia design practices. | |
| ARCH 5750 | Drawing and Composition (3) |
| This course covers the fundamentals of drawing with a focus on the human figure. The assignments address line, tone, volume, space, scale, proportion and artistic expression. The analysis of human form (inside and out) is applied to rendering buildings, interiors, still life and landscapes. | |
| ARCH 5760 | Drawing For Design (3) |
| This course will cover the fundamentals of drawing with a focus on the human figure. It will address line, tone volume, space, scale, proportion and artistic expression. The analysis of human form will also be applied to rendering still-life, buildings, interiors and landscapes. Various wet and dry media will be introduced to illustrate the drawing objectives. An emphasis on 'process' will direct the momentum of this course. Course was offered Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| ARCH 5770 | Drawings and Collages (3) |
| In this course we make collages, drawings, and mixed media projects. Rather than distinguishing collage and drawing as separate categories, we explore their exciting in-between territory. We make plane (and plain) images: configurations of relatively stable, still marks on two-dimensional surfaces. We use traditional drawing methods (graphite, colored pencil or ink on paper) as well as more unusual tools and materials (sidewalk chalk, earth, trash, recycled materials). Through brief weekly readings and discussions we explore the relationship between aesthetics and ethics between "good forms" and forms that in some way contribute or allude to the "common good." | |
| ARCH 5780 | Painting and Public Art (3) |
| In this course we make paintings and mixed media projects. We stress the process rather then the artistic product and, like artist Sol LeWitt, define painting 'as an activity on a flat plane.' We make plane (and plain) images: configurations of relatively stable, still marks on two-dimensional surfaces. We use traditional methods (watercolor or ink on paper, acrylics on canvas) as well as more unusual tools and materials (sidewalk chalk, earth, trash, recycled materials). Through weekly readings and discussions we explore the relationship between aesthetics and ethics between 'good forms' and forms that in some way contribute or allude to the 'common good.' Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2018, Spring 2015, Spring 2013, Fall 2011, Fall 2010 | |
| ARCH 5782 | The Art of Looking (3) |
| In this class we explore ways of enriching our experience of art and architecture that I examine in my book manuscript The Art of Looking. Chapters that we will read and discuss cover such topics as the role of play in art, mistakes in the design process, and the importance of emptiness in visual compositions. Students will give one in-class presentation and write one brief paper on a topic of their choice. | |
| ARCH 5800 | Vicenza Program I (3) |
| Summer study abroad in Vicenza, Italy. Students will be introduced to Italian culture through the study of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning. Both the formal ideals as well as the constructed reality of these three subjects will be studied through critical observation and documentation of universal conditions and critical junctures. | |
| ARCH 5801 | Vicenza Program II (3) |
| Vicenza Program II will be taught in the summer study abroad program in Vicenza, Italy. Students will continue to be introduced to Italian culture through the study of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning. | |
| ARCH 5993 | Independent Study (1 - 6) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Summer 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ARCH 6010 | Foundation Studio I (6) |
| Introductory design problems in architecture for  First Professional degree students.  Emphasizes developing a systemic approach to design on the land and in the city through experience with a constructional kit of parts and an awareness of the role of architectural theory and history in the design process. The faculty reviews all work in ARCH 6010-6020 to determine the progress and potential of each student. | |
| ARCH 6020 | Foundation Studio II (6) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | The second graduate foundation studio develops spatial, programmatic, tectonic relationships through the design of a civic, urban institution. Students utilize architectural design as a form of analysis and exploration. Primary modes of architectural design include physical model-making at multiple scales, analytical drawings in plan and section, the study of material tectonic precedents, and the visual and verbal articulation of an argument. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| ARCH 6110 | Sustainable Communities (3) |
| This seminar examines how the intertwined principles of sustainable communities--environmental quality and beauty, social equity & economic health--are reflected in buildings, landscapes & cities. Through theory and policy readings, discussions & site visits, we will examine how communities can improve air, water and land quality, renewable energy, mobility, local food and overall well-being and sense of place. Graduates will write an extra paper. | |
| ARCH 6120 | Architectural Theory and Analysis (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Investigates the role that ideas play in the conception, making, and interpretation of buildings and cities, and assists students in clarifying their own values and intentions as designers. Lectures cover a broad range of topics, with special emphasis placed on contemporary issues. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ARCH 6140 | Architectural Analysis: Key Buildings of Modernism (3) |
| Investigates the link between ideas and forms of significant buildings in the canon of modern architecture. Course was offered Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| ARCH 6231 | Building Workshop I (3) |
| The Building Workshop I addresses building science and technology topics that influence the built environment for safe and healthy human occupation. BIW 1 focuses on the dimension and performance of basic elements of construction, analyzed through a variety of historical, typological, and geographic precedents. | |
| ARCH 6232 | Systems, Sites & Building (4) |
| Examines the role of design in mediating between dynamic climatic forces such as wind, energy and light and the human response to the environment. Weaving discussions of fundamental principles with case studies and illustrative exercises, the course focuses on the design of the boundary between the internal and external environments. | |
| ARCH 6261 | Building Workshop II (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | The Building Workshop II addresses building science and technology topics that influence the built environment for safe and healthy human occupation. BIW 2 focuses on tactile material practices and innovation through prototype fabrication, digital simulation, and physical performance testing. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011 |
| ARCH 6262 | Lecture Series Discussion Group (1) |
| Students will attend 6 of the School of Architecture public lecture series and exchange feedback on architectural career paths and architecture's role in cultural, social, environmental, and economic contexts. | |
| ARCH 6264 | Lecture Series Discussion Group II (1) |
| Students will attend 6 of the School of Architecture public lecture series and exchange feedback on architectural career paths and architecture's role in cultural, social, environmental, and economic contexts. ARCH 6264 must be taken after ARCH 6262. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2022 | |
| ARCH 6266 | Lecture Series Discussion Group III (1) |
| Students will attend 6 of the School of Architecture public lecture series and exchange feedback on architectural career paths and architecture's role in cultural, social, environmental, and economic contexts. ARCH 6266 must be taken after ARCH 6262 and ARCH 6264. | |
| ARCH 6410 | Advanced CAAD 3D Modeling & Visualization (3) |
| A comprehensive course in three-dimensional computer aided design and visualization methods used in architecture and landscape architecture. The class explores design worlds that are made accessible through computer-based media. Lectures provide a theoretical framework for computer-aided design, describe current methods, and speculate on advanced methods. | |
| ARCH 6500 | Special Topics in Architecture (1 - 3) |
| Topical offerings in architecture. Course was offered Fall 2021 | |
| ARCH 6710 | CAAD 3D Geometrical Modeling and Visualization (3) |
| A comprehensive hands-on course in 3D computer aided design, geometrical modeling and visualization from a beginning to an advanced level. Includes macro programming, parametrical modeling and light energy rendering used by designers in different fields. Lectures and workshops provide both a conceptual and applied framework. Graduate and undergraduate students undertake separate case study projects appropriate to their distinct academic programs. | |
| ARCH 7010 | Foundation Studio III (6) |
| Intermediate-level design problems, emphasizing analysis and synthesis of complex contextual, cultural, and constructional issues. Prerequisite: ARCH 6020 or chair permission. | |
| ARCH 7020 | Foundation Studio IV (6) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Intermediate-level design problems, emphasizing structure, enclosure, life safety and building systems. Prerequisite: ARCH 7010 Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015 |
| ARCH 7100 | Design Research Methods (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This course introduces research methodologies within design and related disciplines. Students gather the appropriate resources and practice applying them to contextualize aspects of the built environment, learning techniques for conducting research and appropriate application of various methods. Students also utilize design processes to develop and refine research questions. |
| ARCH 7120 | 20th and 21st Century History of Ideas (3) |
| This course will investigate the role that ideas play in the conception, making and interpretation of buildings. As a basis for this inquiry, the course will explore significant architectural and urban theories, design strategies, and architectural projects developed primarily from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Lectures will cover a broad range of theoretical positions that have influenced or emerged from form making. | |
| ARCH 7122 | Contemporary Spatial Practices (3) |
| This seminar will present a critical account of contemporary spatial practices and develop a theoretical framework of spatial operations enabling students to situate their own work within this new territory. | |
| ARCH 7210 | Advanced Structural Design (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This graduate-level course introduces novel workflows for the design of structurally informed architecture using emerging methods in computational structural analysis and parametric design. Students will build upon their understanding of conventional material mechanics and structural analysis to design materially-efficient structures that combine architectural intent with an understanding of how structural action can be manipulated. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ARCH 7230 | Building Workshop III (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | The Building Integration Workshop Series addresses building science and technology topics that influence the built environment for safe and healthy human occupation. BIW III focuses on the synthesis of building structure, construction, energy use, and ethical considerations. Students develop a complete architectural project, critical building sections, and construction details using Building Information Modeling and other tools. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| ARCH 7240 | Advanced Structural Systems (3) |
| A graduate-level introduction to structural design that uses mathematic and geometric principals to inform design tools and methods based upon an understanding of material and structural behavior. The course covers statics, material mechanics, computational analysis and design, and the behavior of structural systems through a framework involving ethics, climate, and culture. | |
| ARCH 7250 | Environmental Systems (3) |
| The course involves the study of human comfort, environmental conditioning systems, building systems, daylighting and lighting technology. Students will be exposed to digital simulation tools to assess daylighting and energy use. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| ARCH 7270 | BIM and Revit 1 (1) |
| This visualization module offers an introduction to the principles of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and the interface and workflow of Autodesk's Revit. Topics include the BIM interface, parametric objects, parametric families, file organization, workflow, drawing setup, and output techniques. No experience with BIM is required for this module. | |
| ARCH 7271 | Adv. Breaking BIM (3) |
| This course offers an introduction to the principles of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and the interface and workflow of Autodesk's Revit. Topics include the BIM workflow, associative modeling, conceptual massing, building components, site tools, customizing components, materials, detailing, schedules, and visualization. With successful completion students will be able to use Revit proficiently in a design process. | |
| ARCH 7272 | BIM and Revit 2 (1) |
| This visualization module is the second component in the Building Information Modeling (BIM) sequence and serves as an advanced study of the principles of BIM. Emphasis will be on the exploitation of parametric tools and data within BIM software for specific design agendas. Topics will include scheduling, energy analysis and adaptive components. BIM and Revit 1 is a prerequisite unless sufficient knowledge of Revit can be demonstrated. | |
| ARCH 7274 | Parametric Structural Design (3) |
| New integration of structural analysis into standard design software links design with immediate analysis and feedback, allowing architects to extend their structural intuition. This course covers basic structural systems, their historical development, design considerations, and analysis through physical and parametric modeling.
Prerequisite: ARCH 7240 or permission of instructor Course was offered Spring 2021, Spring 2020 | |
| ARCH 7500 | Special Topics in Architecture (1 - 3) |
| Topical offerings in architecture. Course was offered Spring 2023 | |
| ARCH 7993 | Independent Study (1 - 3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Independent Study Prerequisite: Permission of the chair. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ARCH 8230 | Building Synthesis (4) |
| This course investigates, develops and applies environmental and design strategies at various scales of operation through the concurrent ARCH 8020 Comprehensive Design Research Studio 2. Course was offered Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| ARCH 8300 | Preservation/ Adaptive Use (1 - 4) |
| Individual study directed by a faculty member. | |
| ARCH 8480 | Professional Practices (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Introduces the primary issues involved in the practice of architecture: professional ethics, business practices, project process and management, personnel management, management of the process of producing a building, and the methods available to do so. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| ARCH 8500 | Special Topics in Architecture (1 - 6) |
| Topical offerings in architecture. | |
| ARCH 8612 | A Primer for Urban Design (3) |
| Topical in its structure, A Primer for Urban Design examines the conceptual underpinnings and theoretical frameworks of the most influential twentieth and twenty first century urban projects. Through a selection of case studies, the course will specifically focus on the transformative role of the design disciplines in shaping and transforming cities and open territories. Graduate course will have additional course requirements. | |
| ARCH 8613 | Networked Cities (3) |
| By 2050 the North American population will grow by 130 million, with urban development occurring in 11 identified megaregions within the United States. This seminar will investigate the Northeastern Seaboard - specifically, the region around Washington DC - as a system of networked cities at multiple scales. Introducing ArcGIS to investigate growing patterns. Graduate course will have additional course requirements. | |
| ARCH 8801 | Research Experience (3) |
| Student will engage with faculty on selected topics in Architecture Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor Course was offered Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012 | |
| ARCH 8993 | Advanced Independent Research (1 - 3) |
| Advanced independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor Prerequisite: Permission of the chair. Course was offered Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| ARCH 8999 | Non-Topical Research, Masters (1 - 12) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Advanced independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor Prerequisite: Permission of the chair. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| Architectural History | |
| ARH 1004 | History of Architecture (3) |
| Surveys architecture from the Ancient to the present. Course was offered Summer 2021, Summer 2019, Summer 2018, Summer 2017, Summer 2016, Summer 2014, Summer 2013, Summer 2012, Summer 2011, Summer 2010 | |
| ARH 1010 | History of Architecture I (3) |
| We will explore how architecture affects us, as well as how it informs us about past societies. In what ways does architecture shape our experiences; how does it enhance or detract from human activities? This course will cover material from the pre-historic period through c. 1420 largely in Europe with some examples from Asia, Africa and the Americas. Classes will be a combination of lectures and in-class activities. | |
| ARH 1020 | History of Architecture II (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This course will examine architecture and urbanism from around 1400 C.E. to the present, tracing connections and distinctions that have guided the design, uses, and meanings of built environments around the globe. You will be introduced to celebrated buildings and less well-known sites and cities, with particular attention to the aesthetic, social, cultural, and institutional situations in which they developed. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| ARH 2252 | High Renaissance and Mannerist Art (3) |
| Studies the painting, architecture, and sculpture or the sixteenth century, emphasizing the works of major artists, such as Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Giorgione, and Titian. Detailed discussion of the social, political, and cultural background of the arts. Course was offered Spring 2017 | |
| ARH 2401 | History of Modern Architecture (3) |
| Tracing the history of architecture and urbanism from 1870 through the 1970s, this course considers how architecture has participated in and responded to shifting aesthetic, technological, social, environmental, and theoretical challenges during this period. While Europe is an important terrain of investigation, the course emphasizes networks of exchange with Latin America, North Africa, Turkey, India, and Japan. | |
| ARH 2500 | Special Topics in Architectural History (1 - 3) |
| Topical offerings in architectural history. | |
| ARH 2700 | Thomas Jefferson and American Architecture (3) |
| Thomas Jefferson architecture was an art that encompassed more than simply shelter but embodied cultural and political values. This course will focus on his architectural and other designs (gardens, interiors, towns, campuses) and his interest in the arts. Course may include field trips. | |
| ARH 2702 | Public Humanities and Cultural Change (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Public Humanities and Cultural Change introduces undergraduate students to the power of place and story in the shaping of the American imagination. The multi-disciplinary course centers 1) engaging complex pasts, 2) place-based and community-based methodologies, 3) the inherently political nature of public humanities, and 4) impactful public engagement, especially across difference. |
| ARH 2753 | Arts & Cultures of the Slave South (4) |
| This interdisciplinary course covers the American South to the Civil War. While the course centers on the visual arts, architecture, material culture, decorative arts, painting, and sculpture; it is not designed as a regional history of art, but an exploration of the interrelations between history, material and visual cultures, foodways, music and literature in the formation of Southern identities. Course may include field trips. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Fall 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2011 | |
| ARH 3003 | Evidence and Archives in Architectural History: Vernacular Architecture (3) |
| Vernacular Architecture is the architecture of the everyday. This class uses archival evidence to recover the context and meanings of everyday buildings. | |
| ARH 3006 | Digital Humanities and Visual Culture (3) |
| We will critically assess the role of digital humanities in art and architectural history through an analysis of extant digital projects, discussions of ethical concerns, and data visualizations as well as a wide range of available tools such as GIS, Storymap, view-shed analysis, & 3D visualizations.We will consider best practices in digital site development employing a design thinking process. Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2021 | |
| ARH 3010 | Research Studio 1 (3) |
| Advanced vertical studio, exploring complex issues and sites, often through interdisciplinary design research. | |
| ARH 3030 | World Vernacular Architecture (3) |
| Vernacular Architecture is often understood to be all the built environment that is not 'High Architecture.' This is a profound misunderstanding; Vernacular is any aspect of the built environment examined through the lens of the local AND it is a method of interrogating the relationship between architecture and the human experience. This lecture class enlists global examples to explore the many complex dimensions of vernacular. Course was offered Fall 2015, Spring 2014 | |
| ARH 3040 | Metropolis (3) |
| This lecture course focuses on cities as centers of cultural, social, and artistic activity. It considers how we define cities, the forces that create and sustain them, and what makes them culturally distinctive. It looks at several cities at their moments of cultural, political, and architectural glory: Istanbul in the 16thcentury, London in the late 17th and 18th centuries, Paris in the 19th century, New York in the 20th century, and Shanghai in the 21st century. | |
| ARH 3100 | History of Medieval Architecture (3) |
| Examines the architecture of Medieval Western Europe, emphasizing the period from 1000-1400. Includes the iconography, function, structure and style of buildings, and the use of contemporary texts. | |
| ARH 3101 | Early Medieval Architecture (3) |
| The architecture of Western Europe from c. 800-1150. | |
| ARH 3102 | Later Medieval Architecture (3) |
| The architecture of Western Europe from c. 1140-1500. | |
| ARH 3103 | Reconstructing the Medieval Haj (3) |
| Our course will reconstruct the journey of Ibn Jubayr, a twelfth century Spanish Muslim who recorded his haj from Spain to Mecca. Using his lively travel diary, we will analyze the visual culture and built environment of the medieval Mediterranean and together recreate key sites from his journey with easy to use digital tools such as Neatline. Course was offered Spring 2014, Spring 2013 | |
| ARH 3205 | Rome, Istanbul, Venice (3) |
| This course will consider architecture, urbanism and landscape in three cities with multilayered histories: Rome, Venice, and Istanbul. While conditioned by distinct historical and topographic circumstances, each city negotiated complex and varied local traditions: Roman and Medieval in Rome; Byzantine and Gothic in Venice; and Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman in Istanbul. | |
| ARH 3206 | Mediterranean Architecture (3) |
| This course will consider a range of buildings and landscapes from across the Mediterranean world, encompassing Italy, Spain, the Ottoman Empire, North Africa and Egypt. Its chronological and geographical scope are meant to bring into question some the conventional categories by which art and architectural history are studied: Medieval, Renaissance, Italian, Islamic, Eastern, Western, etc. Course was offered Spring 2010 | |
| ARH 3207 | Arts and Architecture of the Islamic World (3) |
| In order to understand the production, representation and perception of space in the Islamic world, this survey course examines significant works of arts, architecture, urbanism & landscape from 650 to 1800. While studying common themes & shared values of the Islamic world, the course questions the disparities and novelties in the reception of Islam as a social, cultural & political practice, mapping distant geographies from Al-Andalus to India Course was offered Spring 2011 | |
| ARH 3403 | World Contemporary Architecture (3) |
| As the construction of cities redistributes its activities across the world in the twenty-first century, this course considers the ways in which architecture and architects are changed by a complex shifting field of forces. These forces include critical and ethical discourses, digital media, global finance and trade, developments in materials science, environmental awareness, and geo-political strategies. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014 | |
| ARH 3500 | Special Topics in Architectural History (1 - 3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Topical offerings in architectural history. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, January 2021, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2013, Fall 2012 |
| ARH 3591 | Architectural History Colloquium (3) |
| The Architectural History Colloquium combines lecture and discussion. Subject varies with the instructor, who may decide to focus attention either on a particular period, artist, or theme, or on the broader question of the aims and methods of architectural history. Subject is announced prior to each registration period. Enrollment is capped at 20. | |
| ARH 3603 | Archaeological Approaches to Atlantic Slavery (3) |
| This course explores how archaeological and architectural evidence can be used to enhance our understanding of the slave societies that evolved in the early-modern Atlantic world. The primary focus is the Chesapeake and the British Caribbean, the later exemplified by Jamaica and Nevis. The course is structured around a series of data-analysis projects that draw on the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery. | |
| ARH 3604 | Field Methods I Building Archaeology (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This class is a field-based seminar on methods of analyzing and recording historic buildings, especially vernacular buildings and landscapes. Students will be introduced to intensive building analysis geared to understanding change over time. Students will also learn methods of careful field recording for both documentation and analysis. Graduate students will undertake additional course requirements. Course may include site visits. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2015, Fall 2012, Fall 2009 |
| ARH 3606 | Landscape Archaeology (3) |
| This course examines current archaeological approaches to the reconstruction and explanation of the ways in which humans at once shaped and adapted to past landscapes. It emphasizes current theory as well as GIS and statistical methods for the analysis of diverse data from pollen spectra to topography. The course is structured around a series of projects in which students will have an opportunity to make sense of real archaeological data. | |
| ARH 3607 | Architecture and the Asia Trade (3) |
| This course presents a series of case studies on trading events between Asia & Europe from Renaissance to the nineteenth century,&examines how architecture &urbanism in Asia changed in response to the practical needs of foreign trade. In tracing the impact of trade on architectural traditions in both Europe and Asia,this course offers an opportunity to document,organize,analyze& theorize one of the most important forces in the devel. of the world | |
| ARH 3608 | Historic Preservation Theory and Practice (3) |
| This seminar surveys preservation from its historical beginnings through contemporary emerging trends, focusing on the changing nature of its ideals and practice in a critical and international perspective. We will explore the role of historic preservation and heritage in cultural politics, historical interpretation, urban development, and planning and design practice. | |
| ARH 3609 | Community History Workshop (3) |
| The Community History Workshop is both an in-depth historical analysis of the architecture, urban form, and planning of a selected community, and a forum for speculative futures and plan making for the community, informed by the historical analysis. This preservation-focused course explores the historical significance of the built landscape as an element in. | |
| ARH 3610 | Representing Buildings and Landscapes (3) |
| This field-based workshop explores advanced methods of both traditional and digital representation of historic buildings and landscapes. While engaging cutting-edge methods of digital representation, an emphasis will be placed on critical perspectives on storytelling, meaning, and representation. | |
| ARH 3611 | Historic Preservation at UVA (3) |
| This course surveys the changing ideals, philosophy, and methods that have guided the historic preservation of buildings and landscapes at the University of Virginia. Taught by preservation professionals from the University's Office of the Architect the course will explore in case studies and readings the design and conservation decisions made on the Rotunda. | |
| ARH 3613 | UNESCO, World Heritage and Tourism (3) |
| Open to all, this course concerns the interplay of UNESCO, heritage practices, & tourism in a comparative, international context. We will ask questions concerning definitions of heritage, decision-making concerning heritage resources, tangible & intangible heritage, tourism, & the ties between heritage & economic development. among other questions. While focused on China & the Asia-Pacific Region. | |
| ARH 3614 | Theory & Practice in Rural Preservation (3) |
| This course investigates rural heritage sites, communities, and areas in Virginia's countryside in a context of historic trends and national practice. Exploring principles of historic preservation and land conservation, students will develop a critical understanding of the interactions of nature and culture in the settlement, development, & evolution of the countryside as part of an urban/rural continuum. | |
| ARH 3616 | History of American Building Technology (3) |
| This course examines the history of American building technology. Over the past three centuries, a wide range of materials and techniques have been used to erect the structures in which we live, work, and play. Local buildings will serve as case studies for investigating this technology - from commonplace building materials such as wood, masonry, steel, and concrete to less familiar materials such as structural tile and iron vaulting. Course was offered Spring 2021 | |
| ARH 3618 | Materials and Culture (3) |
| Combining seminar discussions, shop exercises and laboratory exercises, this course explores the material culture of architecture from the perspective of materials science. Material culture is the physical stuff that is part of human life, and includes everything humans make and use including materials we use to shape the environment. | |
| ARH 3620 | Cultural Landscape of Virginia (3) |
| A cultural landscape tells the story of interactions between a natural landscape and cultural groups. In this course we'll focus on the history and development of the Virginia cultural landscape in the regional South, as well as its connections throughout North America and the Atlantic World. Course was offered Spring 2022 | |
| ARH 3701 | Early American Architecture (3) |
| American architecture from the first European contact to the death of Jefferson. Lectures and field trips. | |
| ARH 3702 | Later American Architecture (3) |
| Surveys American architecture from 1800 to the present. Course was offered Fall 2018, Spring 2017 | |
| ARH 3801 | East Asia Architecture (3) |
| Surveys traditional architecture in China, Japan, and Korea, focusing on the main features and monuments of East Asian and landscape architecture. | |
| ARH 4201 | Art and Architecture of Venice (3) |
| This course examines the art and architecture of Venice from the fifth century until the seventeenth century. We consider the major "nuclei" of the city like Piazza San Marco and personalities that shaped the built and artistic environment - Codussi, Sansovino, Palladio, and Titian for example. Our study explores the factors that contributed to Venetian art such as political and social context and contact with Byzantine, Islamic and northern Europe. | |
| ARH 4500 | Special Topics in Architectural History (1 - 3) |
| Topical offerings in architectural history. | |
| ARH 4510 | J-Term Courses (3) |
| January Term courses provide students with unique opportunities: new courses that address topics of current interest, study abroad programs, undergraduate research seminars, and interdisciplinary courses. The intensive format of "J-term" classes encourages extensive student-faculty contact and allows students and faculty to immerse themselves in a particular subject. | |
| ARH 4591 | Undergraduate Seminar in the History of Architecture (3) |
| Research seminar in select topics in architectural history. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| ARH 4993 | Independent Studies in Architectural History (1 - 4) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Advanced work on independent research topics by individual students. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ARH 4999 | Major Special Study: Thesis (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Advanced independent research projects by fourth year architectural history students. Prerequisite: Instructor approval and departmental approval of topic. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ARH 5001 | Library Methodology (1) |
| Required for all entering M.A. students. Introduces research tools and methods for architectural history and related disciplines, reflecting the current breadth of scholarship in the field. Specific research resources are analyzed in terms of their scope, special features, and applications to meeting research and information needs. | |
| ARH 5201 | Art and Architecture of Venice (3) |
| This course examines the art and architecture of Venice from the fifth century until the seventeenth century. We consider the major "nuclei" of the city like Piazza San Marco and personalities that shaped the built and artistic environment -- Codussi, Sansovino, Palladio, & Titian for example. Our study explores the factors that contributed to Venetian art such as political and social context and contact with Byzantine, Islamic and northern Europe. | |
| ARH 5500 | Selected Topics in Architectural History (1 - 3) |
| Special topics pursued in a colloquium. Course was offered Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Fall 2021, January 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012 | |
| ARH 5600 | Arch History Practicum: Preserv Intern (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Internship at World Heritage Site; Monticello or the University of Virginia. Some projects have a digital component. Graduate course will have additional course requirements. Course may include site visits. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016 |
| ARH 5611 | Architectural Field School: The Cultural Landscape of Birdwood (3) |
| Through lectures, readings, discussions and on-site tutorials, students in this course will learn fieldwork and archival research methodology through a detailed exploration of the historic UVA Birdwood site. Students will analyze and interpret the data collected to prepare field reports and formal architectural drawings explicating the meanings and significance of the site. 9am to 12pm daily, with time spent both on-site and in the studio. | |
| ARH 5612 | ArchHist Practicum: Pres Intern II (1 - 3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Continuation of Internship in historic preservation/architectural history. 6-8 hours weekly. Course may include site visits. Graduate students will undertake additional course requirements. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 |
| ARH 5613 | A Design Process. Gaudi's Origin and Legacy (3) |
| Gaudi is one of the best known Catalan architects from Barcelona. He is famous for his buildings and his furniture, but he is not known as an urban designer. This class will introduce the students to understanding the city scale in terms of Materiality. It will be apparent by looking at Gaudi's work how important it is to understand the laws of construction and framework for creating a good design. | |
| ARH 5614 | Historic Preservation in Venice (3) |
| Not only is Venice an extraordinary repository of early modern architecture, it is also a locus of cutting edge conservation technologies and progressive design strategies for historic sites. The 1964 Venice Charter was a landmark document in historic preservation and has positioned Venice at the front edge of new conservation technologies for decades while the International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, founded in 1980. | |
| ARH 5993 | Independent Studies in Architectural History (1 - 4) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Advanced work on independent research topics by individual students. Departmental approval of the topic is required. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ARH 6004 | History of Architecture (3) |
| Surveys architecture from the Ancient to the present. Graduate course will have additional course requirements. Course was offered Summer 2021 | |
| ARH 6010 | Research Studio 1 (3) |
| Advanced vertical studio, exploring complex issues and sites, often through interdisciplinary design research. | |
| ARH 6011 | Race and the American City (3) |
| A seminar exploring how racialized inequalities have shaped American cities North & South,past & present,and the influence of racialized urban structures on the idea & experience of race in America. Topics include the effects of segregation,redlining,urban planning,redevelopment,white flight,ghettoization & neoliberal development on the form & culture of American cities & structures of inequality in the US. Graduate level will have additional req. | |
| ARH 6811 | Gender & Built Environment (3) |
| This class explores the wide range of approaches that have been taken to the complex relationships between body, sex, gender, and the built environment. Some see buildings as a direct expression of sexed bodies (phallic towers and breast-like domes), while others see buildings and settlements as expressions and reiterations of the gender structures of a culture. | |
| ARH 7010 | History of Architecture I (3) |
| This course will introduce students to the tools of visual analysis, reading architectural drawings and the study of architecture as a part of the larger cultural, social and political context of its society. While the course will focus on Western Europe, it will also include topics from the eastern Mediterranean and Asia. | |
| ARH 7020 | History of Architecture II (3) |
| This course will examine architecture and urbanism from around 1400 C.E. to the present, tracing connections and distinctions that have guided the design, uses, and meanings of built environments around the globe. You will be introduced to celebrated buildings and less well-known sites and cities, with particular attention to the aesthetic, social, cultural, and institutional situations in which they developed. Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| ARH 7030 | World Vernacular Architecture (3) |
| Vernacular Architecture is often understood to be all the built environment that is not 'High Architecture.' This is a profound misunderstanding; Vernacular is any aspect of the built environment examined through the lens of the local AND it is a method of interrogating the relationship between architecture and the human experience. This lecture class enlists global examples to explore the many complex dimensions of vernacular. Course was offered Fall 2015, Spring 2014 | |
| ARH 7040 | Metropolis (3) |
| This lecture course focuses on cities as centers of cultural, social, and artistic activity. It considers how we define cities, the forces that create and sustain them, and what makes them culturally distinctive. It looks at several cities at their moments of cultural, political, and architectural glory: Istanbul in the 16thcentury, London in the late 17th and 18th centuries, Paris in the 19th century, New York in the 20th century, and Shanghai in the 21st century. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017 | |
| ARH 7100 | History of Medieval Architecture (3) |
| Examines the architecture of Medieval Western Europe, emphasizing the period from 1000-1400. Includes the iconography, function, structure and style of buildings, and the use of contemporary texts. | |
| ARH 7101 | Early Medieval Architecture (3) |
| The architecture of Western Europe from c. 800-1150. | |
| ARH 7102 | Later Medieval Architecture (3) |
| The architecture of Western Europe from c. 1140 and 1500. | |
| ARH 7103 | Adv. Reconstructing the Medieval Haj (3) |
| Our course will reconstruct the journey of Ibn Jubayr, a twelfth century Spanish Muslim who recorded his haj from Spain to Mecca. Using his lively travel diary, we will analyze the visual culture and built environment of the medieval Mediterranean and together recreate key sites from his journey with easy to use digital tools such as Neatline. Course was offered Spring 2014, Spring 2013 | |
| ARH 7205 | Rome, Istanbul, Venice (3) |
| This course will consider architecture, urbanism and landscape in three cities with multilayered histories: Rome, Venice, and Istanbul. While conditioned by distinct historical and topographic circumstances, each city negotiated complex and varied local traditions: Roman and Medieval in Rome; Byzantine and Gothic in Venice; and Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman in Istanbul. | |
| ARH 7206 | Mediterranean Architecture (3) |
| This course will consider a range of buildings and landscapes from across the Mediterranean world, encompassing Italy, Spain, the Ottoman Empire, North Africa and Egypt. Its chronological and geographical scope are meant to bring into question some the conventional categories by which art and architectural history are studied: 'Medieval,' 'Renaissance,' 'Italian,' 'Islamic,' 'Eastern,' 'Western,' etc. Course was offered Spring 2010 | |
| ARH 7207 | Arts and Architecture of the Islamic World (3) |
| In order to understand the production, representation and perception of space in the Islamic world, this survey course examines significant works of arts, architecture, urbanism & landscape from 650 to 1800. While studying common themes & shared values of the Islamic world, the course questions the disparities and novelties in the reception of Islam as a social, cultural & political practice, mapping distant geographies from Al-Andalus to India Course was offered Spring 2011 | |
| ARH 7401 | History of Modern Architecture (3) |
| Tracing the history of architecture and urbanism from 1870 through the 1970s, this course considers how architecture has participated in and responded to shifting aesthetic, technological, social, environmental, and theoretical challenges during this period. While Europe is an important terrain of investigation, the course emphasizes networks of exchange with Latin America, North Africa, Turkey, India, and Japan. | |
| ARH 7403 | World Contemporary Architecture (3) |
| As the construction of cities redistributes its activities across the world in the twenty-first century, this course considers the ways in which architecture and architects are changed by a complex shifting field of forces. These forces include critical and ethical discourses, digital media, global finance and trade, developments in materials science, environmental awareness, and geo-political strategies. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014 | |
| ARH 7500 | Special Topics in Architecture History (1 - 3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Topical offerings in architectural history. |
| ARH 7603 | Archaeological Approaches to Atlantic Slavery (3) |
| This course explores how archaeological and architectural evidence can be used to enhance our understanding of the slave societies that evolved in the early-modern Atlantic world. The primary focus is the Chesapeake and the British Caribbean, the later exemplified by Jamaica and Nevis. The course is structured around a series of data-analysis projects that draw on the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery. | |
| ARH 7604 | Historical Archaeology (3) |
| An introduction to analytical methods in historical archaeology, their theoretical motivation, and their practical application in the interpretation of the archaeological record of the early Chesapeake. The use of computers in the analysis of real archaeological data is emphasized. | |
| ARH 7606 | Landscape Archaeology (3) |
| This course examines current archaeological approaches to the reconstruction and explanation of the ways in which humans at once shaped and adapted to past landscapes. It emphasizes current theory as well as GIS and statistical methods for the analysis of diverse data - from pollen spectra to topography. The course is structured around a series of projects in which students will have an opportunity to make sense of real archaeological data. | |
| ARH 7607 | Adv Architecture and the Asia Trade (3) |
| This course presents a series of case studies on trading events between Asia & Europe from Renaissance to the nineteenth century,&examines how architecture &urbanism in Asia changed in response to the practical needs of foreign trade. In tracing the impact of trade on architectural traditions in both Europe and Asia,this course offers an opportunity to document,organize,analyze& theorize one of the most important forces in the devel. of the world | |
| ARH 7612 | Theory and Practice in Rural Preservation (3) |
| This course investigates rural heritage sites, communities, and areas in Virginia's countryside in a context of historic trends and national practice. Exploring principles of historic preservation and land conservation, students will develop a critical understanding of the interactions of nature and culture in the settlement, development, & evolution of the countryside as part of an urban/rural continuum. Graduate course will have additional course requirements. Course was offered Spring 2015 | |
| ARH 7613 | UNESCO, World Heritage and Tourism (3) |
| Open to all, this course concerns the interplay of UNESCO, heritage practices, & tourism in a comparative, international context. We will ask questions concerning definitions of heritage, decision-making concerning heritage resources, tangible & intangible heritage, tourism, & the ties between heritage & economic development, among other questions. While focused on China & the Asia-Pacific Region. Graduate students will have additional course requirements. | |
| ARH 7616 | History of American Building Technology (3) |
| This course examines the history of American building technology. Over the past three centuries, a wide range of materials and techniques have been used to erect the structures in which we live, work, and play. Local buildings will serve as case studies for investigating this technology - from commonplace building materials such as wood, masonry, steel, and concrete to less familiar materials such as structural tile and iron vaulting. Graduate course will have additional course work. Course was offered Spring 2021 | |
| ARH 7620 | Cultural Landscape of Virginia (3) |
| A cultural landscape tells the story of interactions between a natural landscape and cultural groups. In this course we'll focus on the history and development of the Virginia cultural landscape in the regional South, as well as its connections throughout North America and the Atlantic World. The graduate course will have additional course requirements. Course was offered Spring 2022 | |
| ARH 7700 | Adv Thomas Jefferson and American Architecture (3) |
| Thomas Jefferson, architecture was an art that encompassed more than simply shelter but embodied cultural and political values. This course will focus on his architectural and other designs (gardens, interiors, towns, campuses) and his interest in the arts. Graduate students will undertake additional course requirements. Course may include field trips. | |
| ARH 7701 | Early American Architecture (3) |
| A survey of American architecture from the first European contact to 1800 including Jefferson, urban form and landscape design. | |
| ARH 7702 | Later American Architecture (3) |
| A survey of American architecture from 1800 to present including landscape and urban design. Course was offered Fall 2018, Spring 2017 | |
| ARH 7801 | Adv. East Asia Architecture (3) |
| A survey and introduction of traditional architecture and allied arts in China, Japan and Korea. Study of the main features and major monuments of East Asian architecture and landscape architecture. | |
| ARH 7993 | Independent Study: Architectural History (1 - 3) |
| Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| ARH 8001 | Methods in Architectural History (3) |
| Required for candidates for the degree of Master of Architectural History. An investigation of the nature of architectural history, materials, methods, and writings. | |
| ARH 8002 | Digital Technologies in Architectural History (3) |
| The study of analytic and digital technologies for Architectural History Master Students. Course was offered Fall 2010 | |
| ARH 8003 | Evidence and Archives in Architectural History: Vernacular Architecture (3) |
| Vernacular Architecture is the architecture of the everyday. This class uses archival evidence to recover the context and meanings of everyday buildings. Graduate course will have additional course requirements | |
| ARH 8005 | Critical Curatorial Practices (3) |
| This course introduces the critical practice of curating exhibitions for the public realm. It scrutinizes influential exhibitions in historical contexts to understand their impact on society and on the design professions, especially in setting new agendas. During the semester, students will research, curate and mount an exhibition at the School of Architecture based on a given archive and theme. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2021 | |
| ARH 8006 | Digital Humanities and Visual Culture (3) |
| We will critically assess the role of digital humanities in art and architectural history through an analysis of extant digital projects, discussions of ethical concerns, and data visualizations as well as a wide range of available tools such as GIS, Storymap, view-shed analysis, and 3D visualizations. We will consider best practices in digital site development employing a design thinking process. Graduate course will have additional course requirements. Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2021 | |
| ARH 8500 | Special Topics in Architecture History (1 - 3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Topical offerings in architectural history. |
| ARH 8540 | Seminar in 20th/21st Century Architecture (3) |
| Special research topics pursued in a seminar. Course was offered Spring 2019 | |
| ARH 8601 | Historic Preservation Theory and Practice (3) |
| This seminar surveys preservation from its historical beginnings through contemporary emerging trends, focusing on the changing nature of its ideals and practice in a critical and international perspective.We will explore the role of historic preservation and heritage in cultural politics, historical interpretation, urban development, & planning & design practice. Graduate Students will undertake additional course requirements. | |
| ARH 8604 | Field Methods I Building Archaeology (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This class is a field based seminar on methods of analyzing and recording historic buildings, especially vernacular buildings and landscapes. Students will be introduced to intensive building analysis geared to understanding change over time, while learning methods of careful field recording for both documentation and analysis. Graduate students will undertake additional course requirements. Course may include site visits. |
| ARH 8609 | Community History Workshop (3) |
| The Community History Workshop is both an in-depth historical analysis of the architecture, urban form, and planning of a selected community, and a forum for speculative futures and plan making for the community, informed by the historical analysis. This preservation-focused course explores the historical significance of the built landscape as an element in. Graduate course will have additional course requirements. | |
| ARH 8610 | Representing Buildings and Landscapes (3) |
| This field-based workshop explores advanced methods of both traditional and digital representation of historic buildings and landscapes. While engaging cutting-edge methods of digital representation, an emphasis will be placed on critical perspectives on storytelling, meaning, and representation. Graduate course will have additional course requirements. | |
| ARH 8611 | Historic Preservation at UVA (3) |
| This course surveys the changing ideals, philosophy, and methods that have guided the historic preservation of buildings and landscapes at the University of Virginia. Taught by preservation professionals from the University's Office of the Architect the course will explore in case studies and readings the design and conservation decisions made on the Rotunda. Graduate course will have additional course requirements. | |
| ARH 8618 | Materials and Culture (3) |
| Combining seminar discussions, shop exercises and laboratory exercises, this course explores the material culture of architecture from the perspective of materials science. Material culture is the physical stuff that is part of human life, and includes everything humans make and use including materials we use to shape the environment. Graduate course will have additional course requirements. | |
| ARH 8994 | Thesis (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Preparation and completion of a thesis.. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2011 |
| ARH 8995 | MA Thesis Research (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Research on topic for Master Thesis. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ARH 8999 | Thesis Project (6 - 12) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | For Thesis Preparation, taken before a thesis director has been selected. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Summer 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ARH 9100 | Seminar in Medieval Architecture (3) |
| Special research topics pursued in a seminar. Past topics have discussed Gothic/Non-Gothic, Norman, and Monastic architecture. | |
| ARH 9500 | Special Topics in Architectural History (1 - 3) |
| Topical offerings in architectural history. Course was offered Fall 2019 | |
| ARH 9510 | Seminar in Medieval Architecture (1 - 3) |
| Special research topics pursued in a seminar. | |
| ARH 9520 | Seminar in Renaissance Architecture (3) |
| Seminar discussion of special research topics. Past topics have discussed anthropomorphism in Renaissance and Baroque architecture; Alberti's De re Aedificatoria; Renaissance and Baroque buildings in their larger settings; the Rome of Julius II; Renaissance and Baroque classification of Buildings; Renaissance Space; Brunelleschi and Alberti; Renaissance urbanism; Rome and the Renaissance; and the Renaissance palace. | |
| ARH 9530 | Seminar in 18th/19th Century Architecture (3) |
| Special research topics pursued in a seminar. Course was offered Spring 2010 | |
| ARH 9540 | Seminar in 20th/21st Century Architecture (3) |
| Special research topics pursued in a seminar. Course was offered Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| ARH 9550 | Seminar in Ancient/Archaeology Architecture (1 - 3) |
| Special research topics pursued in a seminar. | |
| ARH 9560 | Seminar in Theory, Comparative, & Other Topics (3) |
| Special research topics pursued in a seminar. | |
| ARH 9570 | Seminar in Architecture of the Americas (3) |
| Special research topics pursued in a seminar. | |
| ARH 9580 | Seminar in Architecture of East, South, and Southeast Asia (1 - 3) |
| Special research topics pursued in a seminar. Course was offered Fall 2015 | |
| ARH 9590 | Seminar in Architecture of Africa or Islam (3) |
| Special research topics pursued in a seminar. | |
| ARH 9993 | Independent Studies in Architectural History (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Advanced work on independent research topics by individual students. Departmental approval of the topic is required. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| ARH 9999 | Non-Topical Research (3 - 12) |
| For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director. Course was offered Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| Landscape Architecture | |
| LAR 3500 | Special Tops in Landscape Arch (3) |
| Topical offerings in landscape architecture. | |
| LAR 4230 | Cultural Landscapes (3) |
| Graduate seminar on contemporary theory and practice for preserving and interpreting a broad range of cultural landscapes and historic sites. Evaluation of these theories and practices through critical review of case studies, and close reading and discussion of current texts. Field trip/exercises to be subject of student seminar research. Course was offered Fall 2010 | |
| LAR 5010 | Introduction to Landscape Architecture Design Foundations (1) |
| The studio based course introduces students to design methodologies through a series of applied projects. Students will gain foundational skills that will prepare them for the foundational studios in the first year of the Master of Landscape Architecture Program. Course was offered Summer 2021 | |
| LAR 5020 | Introduction to Landscape Architecture Representation (1) |
| A workshop based course that will present workflows and skills in analog and digital tools for the representation of landscape projects. Course was offered Summer 2021 | |
| LAR 5030 | Introduction to Landscape Architecture Design Theory (1) |
| A seminar that will examine foundational theories in the discipline of landscape architecture to develop a critical approach to contemporary practice. Course was offered Summer 2021 | |
| LAR 5140 | Theories of Modern Landscape Architecture (3) |
| Lectures and discussions sections examining the interrelationships between modern designed landscapes, and the theoretical texts that influenced, or were influenced by them. Readings include primary sources, such as, design treatises, manifestos, park reports and essays, as well as related texts in ecology, art, architecture, geography. Graduate course will have additional course requirements. Prerequisite: LAR 5120 or instructor permission. Course was offered Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAR 5200 | Adv Healing Spaces (3) |
| Lectures and workshops investigating theme of designed landscapes as means to physically and mentally heal human beings. Topics include a historical overview of various healing landscapes, and an examination of various healing practices in different cultures. Field trips to hospitals, hospices and out-patient clinics in the Charlottesville area. Graduate course will have additional course requirements. Course was offered Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAR 5230 | Cultural Landscapes (3) |
| Seminar introduces contemporary theory and practice for describing, interpreting, planning, preserving, and designing vernacular and designed cultural landscapes (urban/peri-urban/rural; sylvan & postindustrial) and historic sites. Exploration through case study review, close reading and discussion of texts, short position papers & field trips. Graduate course will have additional course requirements. Course was offered Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2010 | |
| LAR 5280 | Green Infrastructure: Sites (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Cities have altered natural drainage patterns, vegetation, local climate and habitats. Cities can use natural elements such as plants, trees and wetlands combined with engineered structures as "constructed green infrastructure" to redesign degraded urban sites. Students will utilize "green infrastructure" to create conceptual designs for sites to absorb stormwater, clean the air, or provide food and recreation. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012 |
| LAR 5290 | Green Infrastructure: Cities (3) |
| Green infrastructure includes water, habitats, parks, soils, and forests essential for healthy communities and building community resiliency. Working in teams, students conduct field work and determine community needs and opportunities for a community's urban forests, water, recreation, and historic and cultural resources. Students then complete a strategic green infrastructure plan for a city. | |
| LAR 5452 | Healthy Cities (3) |
| This class explores what makes a healthy city, what are the constituent parts of that system and what are different peoples needs across the life span, from perinatal to older age. The class begins by exploring concepts of health including health resilience - and focuses on how our cities can be better designed to optimize human flourishing. | |
| LAR 5500 | Special Topics in Landscape Architecture (1 - 3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Topical offerings in landscape architecture. Course was offered Fall 2021, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2012, Spring 2010 |
| LAR 5590 | Faculty Research Seminar (1 - 3) |
| Affords students opportunities to participate in specific faculty's advance research projects. Course was offered Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| LAR 5993 | Advanced Independent Research (1 - 3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Advanced independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAR 6010 | Foundation Studio I (6) |
| Series of short analytical and conceptual design projects with special emphasis on the landscape medium, on site readings, and site-specific design approaches. Some studios sections for this course may have an embedded travel. | |
| LAR 6020 | Foundation Studio II (6) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | LAR 6020 focuses on process and form, exploring how dynamic bio-physical processes shape the form of landscapes and in turn are altered by the designed landscapes. Series of analytical exercises and field visits leading to a schematic design proposal for an urban landscape project. Some studios sections for this course may have an embedded travel. Prerequisite: LAR 6010. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| LAR 6110 | History of Landscape Design I (3) |
| This course surveys the pre-modern history of gardens and designed landscapes. The sessions follow a roughly chronological sequence, with a thematic focus appropriate to each landscape culture, e.g. water infrastructure and agricultural systems, public and private space, theater and performance, court rituals, horticultural display, natural philosophy and aesthetic theory, visual representation, and the professionalization of landscape design. | |
| LAR 6120 | History of Landscape Design II (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This course examines gardens and landscapes of the modern period, tracing the complex relations between innovations in landscape design and social, technological, and ideological developments of the past 200 years. Case studies focus on the United States and Europe, with thematic emphasis on the rise of the bourgeoisie. Graduate course will have additional course requirements. |
| LAR 6210 | EcoTech I (4) |
| Applies concepts and principles of earthwork, land manipulation, water, and drainage and basic construction in short exercises. Basic concepts of ecology and plants will be incorporated. Introduces digital applications in a combined lecture and workshop format. The course may have an embedded travel. Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in LAR 6010 or LAR 7010 Studio or Instructor Permission. | |
| LAR 6220 | EcoTech II (4) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | The course intends to establish a solid base of technical knowledge about the physical and performative characteristics of traditional landscape materials, plants, and emerging alternatives. The course may have an embedded travel. Must be enrolled in LAR 6020 or taken LAR 6210 or Instructor Permission. |
| LAR 6710 | Media I (3) |
| This course introduces a range of conceptual frameworks & techniques that embrace the highly generative agency of representational media in the design process. Varying theoretical perspectives, grounded in landscape's history & conventions, situate student learning activities to iterate between different representational techniques, utilizing both analog & digital technologies, skills, & workflows to support a critical & creative design practice. | |
| LAR 6720 | Design Computation (3) |
| Design Computation introduces computational thinking and design in the context of long-standing site and architectural technologies. Topics include temporal representation, spatial structures, associative modeling, cartography, and spatial analytics. | |
| LAR 7010 | Foundation Studio III (6) |
| Semester long design project, with a community engagement component at an urban or suburban site that explores the contemporary public realm at multiple scales, from the urban watershed to the detail. Some studios sections for this course may have an embedded travel. Prerequisite: LAR 6020. | |
| LAR 7020 | Foundation IV (6) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Territorial scale issues in contemporary contexts of cities impacted by urgent environmental, economic and social circumstances are explored. Design propositions are generated at the scale of landscape infrastructure to that of individual citizens. Some studios sections for this course may have an embedded travel. Prerequisite: of LAR 7010 Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017 |
| LAR 7110 | Theorizing Landscape Architecture (3) |
| Seminar exploring topics in landscape architecture theory through direct readings, discussions & research papers. Topics vary from year to year--e.g. public space, representing temporality & process, changing conceptions of nature & ecology (from sustainability to emergence), gender & design, the works of a specific designer or region. Graduate course will have additional course requirements. | |
| LAR 7120 | Design Research Seminar (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This course is for landscape architecture students. This student-driven course will engage with faculty and other students to support their design research. Students are expected to gather the appropriate resources and focus on contextualizing their work |
| LAR 7180 | Landscape and Technology (3) |
| This seminar examines the impact of technological revolutions on landscape design. Case studies include innovations in hydraulics and irrigation, horticulture and the plant trade, transportation and civil engineering, construction techniques, and landscape representation. Readings address modern conceptions of the nature/technology divide, the social dimensions of technological development, and the relation of these domains to landscape design. | |
| LAR 7210 | EcoTech III (4) |
| The course presents historical and contemporary approaches to landscape regeneration and the methods and technologies that are applied. The course may have an embedded travel. Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in LAR 7010 Studio or taken LAR 6220 or Instructor Permission. | |
| LAR 7220 | EcoTech IV (4) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Culminating course looking at large scale earthwork and construction methods that integrates the principles of water and land into the foundation studio, with an emphasis in landscape infrastructure, coastal, living systems, and management. The course may have an embedded travel. Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in LAR 7020 Studio or taken LAR 7210 or Instructor Permission. |
| LAR 7224 | Planted Form and Function III (3) |
| Urban forests are a consequence of a non-planned decision. They are an addition of independent interventions through the history of the city. The objective of the course will be to rethink urban forests taking as a base the existing reality, reviewing its history, but also learning from the original forest to propose new typologies of design where city and trees will share the same objective: working together with complexity and efficacy. | |
| LAR 7310 | Planted Form (3) |
| PLANTED FORM explores the power of plants to make extra-ordinary sensory experiences and to form socio-ecological performative spaces. It is offered as an Advanced Elective, one of a set required courses to attain an MLA. An extensive and specific vegetation vocabulary becomes a design catalog of plant architecture and planted form lexicons. Course was offered Fall 2019 | |
| LAR 7415 | Scripting Civic Engagement: Web Technologies (3) |
| This course introduces various technologies, primarily web-based, that enable designers to promote civic engagement through the analysis and activation of public space. Course format is interactive and interdisciplinary, combining hands-on tutorials (Mapbox, HTML, CSS, dataviz, social media APIs.) with contemporary case studies in placemaking, activism, and civic tech. No prior coding knowledge required. | |
| LAR 7416 | Digital Practices IV (1) |
| Course explores ways of representing, analyzing and designing the landscape through a variety of 2D and 3D media. Through a series of lectures, exercises, fieldwork, case studies, reading discussions and workshops, students will be introduced to a diverse body of representational models and methods to address form, scale, materiality, context and time unique to the praxis of landscape architecture Course was offered Spring 2018 | |
| LAR 7500 | Special Topics in Landscape Architecture (1 - 3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Topical offerings in landscape architecture. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019 |
| LAR 7710 | Design Computation III (2) |
| Course explores ways of representing, analyzing and designing the landscape through a variety of 2D and 3D media. Through a series of lectures, exercises, fieldwork, case studies, reading discussions and workshops, students will be introduced to a diverse body of representational models and methods to address form, scale, materiality, context and time unique to the praxis of landscape architecture. Course was offered Fall 2019 | |
| LAR 7750 | Gaming Landscape Representation: Imaging the Green New Deal (3) |
| How we image the world directly informs how we see and act in the world. As we face the social & environmental crises of climate change,imaging of the future must be bold and compelling.Within the framework of the Green New Deal and its urgent context,a newly accessible,uniquely versatile, & culturally significant tool will be employed. Graduate course will have additional course requirements Course was offered Spring 2021, Spring 2020 | |
| LAR 7993 | Independent Study (1 - 3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor . Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAR 8010 | Comprehensive Studio (6) |
| Semester -long design project that integrates eco-technology course content - earthwork, planted systems, and site assemblies - with a conceptual design idea, leading to the comprehensive and rigorous design development of a landscape. Prerequisite: ALAR 7020. | |
| LAR 8020 | Foundation Studio IV (6) |
| Advanced vertical studio, exploring complex issues and sites, often through interdisciplinary design research. Typical projects include brownfields, urban landscape infrastructure, and sustainable designs.
Prerequisite: ALAR 8010 Course was offered Spring 2019, Spring 2018 | |
| LAR 8110 | Greater Berlin (3) |
| This seminar explores the complex history and dynamics of Berlin¿s urban landscapes. Using analytic lenses ranging from data visualization to cultural theory and film studies, we will collectively build a graphic and conceptual atlas that manifests the fractured, and often dissonant, strata that have produced contemporary Berlin. Both historical and projective in scope, the course aims to remap Berlin as a physical and cultural landscape | |
| LAR 8140 | Adv Theories of Modern Landscape Architecture (3) |
| Lectures and discussions sections examining the interrelationships between modern designed landscapes, and the theoretical texts that influenced, or were influenced by them. Readings include primary sources, such as, design treatises, manifestos, park reports and essays, as well as related texts in ecology, art, architecture, geography, and cultural theory. | |
| LAR 8210 | Plant Craft (3) |
| Explore the art and craft of designing with plants with a focus on species, space and community -- both plant communities and communities of people. Through rapid design exercises creatively employing large-scale hand and digital drawings and full-scale mockups, students will explore how to move from inspiration to plant selection, procurement, installation and maintenance of horticulture-focused designed landscapes. Course was offered Fall 2024 | |
| LAR 8222 | Seeing Plants: Observation + Documentation (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Learn to better understand plant communities by observing plants, identifying their defining characteristics, and using different drawing and painting techniques to document them. This class will explore the two seasons of Winter and Spring to observe the changes in the landscape by closely looking at plants. |
| LAR 8320 | Professional Practice (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Introduction to methods and models of design practice administration: proposal, contracts, project management, collaboration and licensure. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAR 8500 | Special Studies in Landscape Architecture (1 - 4) |
| Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. | |
| LAR 8710 | Water and the City (3) |
| In this course students will learn about the relationship between urban areas and the rivers, coasts, canals, lakes, lagoons, and other forms of water that support them. We'll draw from notable examples across the Americas and Europe, and study the technologies and ideas that humans have used to live with water. Students will develop their own maps, models, and technical drawings of a case study of their choosing. Course was offered Fall 2024 | |
| LAR 8801 | Research Experience (3) |
| Student will engage with faculty on selected topics in Landscape Architecture Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor | |
| LAR 8993 | Independent Study (1 - 4) |
| Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor. Prerequisite: Landscape Architecture faculty approval of topic. Course was offered Spring 2021, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| LAR 8999 | Non-Topical Research (3 - 12) |
| Non-Topical Research. Course was offered Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| Planning Application | |
| PLAC 2500 | Topical Offerings in Planning (3) |
| Topical Offerings in Planning | |
| PLAC 3500 | Topical Offerings in Planning (3) |
| Topical Offerings in Planning | |
| PLAC 4010 | Neighborhood Planning Studio (4) |
| Explores neighborhood, planning issues from the professionals' and citizens' perspectives. | |
| PLAC 4500 | Topical Offerings in Planning (3) |
| Topical Offerings in Planning | |
| PLAC 4993 | Applied Independent Study (1 - 4) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Elective courses offered at the request of faculty or students to provide an opportunity for internships, fieldwork, or independent study. Prerequisite: Planning faculty approval of topic. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 |
| PLAC 5240 | Collaborative Planning for Sustainability (3) |
| Collaborative Planning for Sustainability asserts that communities can only be sustained ecologically, socially, and economically by community members working together to solve problems. Most people yearn for ways to engage one another productively to care for their environment and their communities. Such caring can engender conflict, but when done well, authentic collaborative planning can transform civic disarray into civic virtue. | |
| PLAC 5250 | Applied Real Estate (4) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | The course emulates the real estate development process in a specific geographic and socio-economic setting. In this studio, students will form small teams assigned to develop a project for a specific site. The students begin with site analysis, develop a proposed "product," conduct all the key financial analyses, and identify and develop the materials that would be necessary to move the project through public approval. Prerequisite: PLAN 5220 |
| PLAC 5252 | Applied Real Estate II (4) |
| The studio allows students to both learn & apply the real estate development process in a specific geographic & socio-economic parameter. Students will form small teams assigned to develop a project for a specific site. Students begin with site analysis, develop a proposed site & conditions, conduct all the key financial analyses, & identify & develop the materials that would be necessary to move the project through public approval & completion. Course was offered Spring 2023 | |
| PLAC 5430 | Land Development Workshop (3) |
| Explores the land development process from the perspective of the private land developer interacting with local governments. Includes development potential, site, and traffic analysis; land planning; development programming; and services to accommodate new development and public regulation of land development. | |
| PLAC 5500 | Topical Offerings in Planning (1 - 4) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Topical Offerings in Planning Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Summer 2013, Spring 2013, Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| PLAC 5610 | Neighborhood Planning Studio (4) |
| Explores neighborhood, planning issues from the professionals' and citizens' perspectives. Cross-listed with PLAC 5610. | |
| PLAC 5616 | Civic Technology Principles and Practice (3) |
| Civic tech is a framework that planners can use to promote positive social change through digital and information technologies. This course leverages the particular skills, training, experiences that students bring with them, but it does not teach new technical skills. Students work with an external partner to design and implement a group project that advances the public interest. Readings and discussions highlight important concepts and cases. Course was offered Fall 2023, Spring 2021 | |
| PLAC 5623 | Inclusive Cities (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This course will help you identify global segregation trends in cities and the role of planning and designing interventions to reduce inequality and segregation towards disadvantaged socio-economic groups, racial minorities, people with physical and cognitive disabilities, children, older adults, refugees, gender minorities, etc. This course will build your confidence in your ability to design and plan participatory, inclusive, and innovative ways of re-thinking the city. Course was offered Fall 2022 |
| PLAC 5720 | Transportation and Land Use (3) |
| Reviews basic relationships between land use and transportation. Considers the decision process, planning principles, impact measures, and the methodological framework for identifying and evaluating practices in action on a regional, local, and neighborhood scale. Course was offered Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014 | |
| PLAC 5721 | Transportation and Design (3) |
| Students will analyze Charlottesville in terms of its pedestrian-orientation and transit-readiness, simultaneously honing down fundamental skills and understandings essential for place-making and multi-modal transportation-planning. Course was offered Fall 2018 | |
| PLAC 5740 | Transportation Planning and Policy (3) |
| This course introduces graduate and advanced undergraduate students to current issues in the field of transportation planning and policy. It addresses all modes of transportation (auto, walk, bike) and considers multiple scales (national, state, regional and local). Through the analysis of key topics such as congestion, air quality, social equity, and security, we will gain an understanding of how decisions about the transportation system are made and the role of transportation planners and advocates in these decisions. Course was offered Fall 2009 | |
| PLAC 5800 | Green Infrastructure: Cities (3) |
| Green infrastructure includes water, habitats, parks, soils, and forests essential for healthy communities and building community resiliency. Working in teams, students conduct field work and determine community needs and opportunities for a community's urban forests, water, recreation, and historic and cultural resources. Students then complete a strategic green infrastructure plan for a city. | |
| PLAC 5812 | Ecological Democracy (3) |
| Students will participate in community engaged design and/or research activities that help better connect people with their environments. Subject matter might include civic environmentalism, greening alleys and other semi-public spaces, climate change education, sustainable design, etcetera. | |
| PLAC 5820 | Environmental Planning and Design (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Students act as a consultant team to develop sustainable planning and design strategies for sites which rotate each year. Course was offered Fall 2009 |
| PLAC 5822 | Plant Cultures and Ecologies (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Plants lie at the intersection of climate change, food security, ecological risk, geopolitical conflict, and cultural self-determination. Yet, they remain largely overlooked and marginalized as a practical body of knowledge to the alarming ignorance of the botanical world. Through selected topics, this course will investigate the role and agency of plants in transforming the built environment, urbanization, and climate adaptation, among others. |
| PLAC 5860 | Green Infrastructure: Sites (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Cities have altered natural drainage patterns, vegetation, local climate and habitats. Cities can use natural elements such as plants, trees and wetlands combined with engineered structures as "constructed green infrastructure" to redesign degraded urban sites. Students will utilize "green infrastructure" to create conceptual designs for sites to absorb stormwater, clean the air, or provide food and recreation. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2010 |
| PLAC 5863 | Climate Adaptation Planning (3) |
| Adaptation refers to actions taken at the individual, local, regional, and national levels to reduce the risks posed by a changing climate. This course contrasts the theory and academic research of climate adaptation planning with the state of practice in communities around Virginia. Anticipated impacts such as sea level rise, heat waves, and coastal storms will be explored as well as implications for natural ecosystems & urban infrastructure. | |
| PLAC 5993 | Applied Independent Study (1 - 6) |
| Applied independent study. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| PLAC 6010 | Environmental Planning Design Studio (4) |
| The course is an introductory studio for the degree of Master of Urban and Environmental Planning. The course covers the history of planning, emergence of sub-fields, ethical considerations, and methodological approaches to planning. The main applied emphasis is on physical planning/urban design and the way in which public planning shapes the built environment. Enrollment restricted to First Year MUEPs; all others permission of instructor. | |
| PLAC 6090 | Planning Capstone (4) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This course serves as the fourth semester integrative class for the MUEP. Students work on a group project for a community client. Course entails understanding and drafting MOUs, creating concrete work plans, engaging with the public, gathering data and investigating strategies and alternatives. Final product should be a meaningful, implementable planning document for community use. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018 |
| PLAC 6862 | Planning for Climate Change (3) |
| This course is three-credit course that will examine the impacts of climate change on cities & explore the various ways local governments & other stakeholders are working to manage climate change & enhance community resilience. Because the course is a PLAC,students will be working on developing an actual strategic framework for addressing climate change with a client city.Students will get exposures to the central analyses used in climate change Course was offered Spring 2015 | |
| PLAC 7500 | Topical Offerings in Planning (3) |
| Topical Offerings in Planning | |
| PLAC 8240 | Advanced Collaborative Planning for Sustainability (3) |
| Examines the processes by which consensus can be developed, focusing general negotiation theory and skill development, including the concept of principled negotiation; the conflict landscape, including government and non-government organizations; and negotiation resources and opportunities, including organizations, processes, and enabling legislation. Course was offered Fall 2016 | |
| PLAC 8500 | Topical Offerings in Planning (1 - 6) |
| Topical Offerings in Planning Course was offered Fall 2019 | |
| Urban and Environmental Planning | |
| PLAN 1010 | Introduction to Urban and Environmental Planning (3) |
| Analyzes community and environmental planning in the United States; the planning process; and sustainable communities. | |
| PLAN 2020 | Planning Design (4) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Studies the principles of design; the architecture of cities and urban design; perception of space and visual analysis; graphic presentation, including mapping techniques; and inventories, information storage, retrieval and use. Prerequisite PLAN 2110 Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| PLAN 2030 | Neighborhoods, Community, & Regions (3) |
| Explores theories and concepts of economic, social, and cultural forces that influence urban and regional spatial structure. | |
| PLAN 2110 | Digital Visualization for Planners (4) |
| Digital technology for representing and analyzing planning data will include photo-editing, web page design, geographic information system mapping, spreadsheet modeling, and document layout and production. The major emphasis will be on two- and three- dimensional representation of spaces common to planning: streetscape, neighborhoods, communities and regions. Representation of the past, the present and prospective futures to both professional and citizen audiences will receive critical attention. | |
| PLAN 2111 | GIS for Planners (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This course will provide an introduction to geographic information systems (GIS) concepts and software. It is intended for undergraduate planning students but open to other undergraduates. The course introduces the concepts of GIS as well as practical training on ESRI's ArcGIS suite. Students successfully completing the course will have general familiarity with the major functionality of ArcGIS |
| PLAN 2500 | Special Topics in Planning (1 - 3) |
| Topical offerings in planning. | |
| PLAN 3011 | Race and the American City (3) |
| A seminar exploring how racialized inequalities have shaped American cities North & South, past & present, and the influence of racialized urban structures on the idea & experience of race in America. Topics include the effects of segregation, redlining, urban planning, redevelopment, white flight, ghettoization, & neoliberal development on the form & culture of American cities & structures of inequality in the US. | |
| PLAN 3020 | Planning in Government (3) |
| Examines the role of planning in government decision-making. Focuses on local government, but intergovernmental aspects of planning that influence local decisions are also stressed. Studies planning processes, such as transportation, community development, and social planning. | |
| PLAN 3030 | Neighborhoods, Community and Regions (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Explores theories and concepts of economic, social, and cultural forces that influence urban and regional spatial structure. Course was offered Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| PLAN 3040 | Metropolis (3) |
| This lecture course focuses on cities as centers of cultural, social, and artistic activity. It considers how we define cities, the forces that create and sustain them, and what makes them culturally distinctive. It looks at several cities at their moments of cultural, political, and architectural glory: Istanbul in the 16thcentury, London in the late 17th and 18th centuries, Paris in the 19th century, New York in the 20th century, and Shanghai in the 21st century. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017 | |
| PLAN 3050 | Planning Methods (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Analyzes methods used in quantitative and qualitative investigations of urban and regional settings for planning purposes. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| PLAN 3060 | Law, Land and the Environment (3) |
| This course introduces the legal framework and major legal issues arising in land use and environmental planning. We focus on notable US Supreme Court decisions related to tools such as zoning, the comprehensive plan, and eminent domain, as well as controversies and cases surrounding federal environmental laws such as NEPA, the Clean Water and Air Acts, and the Endangered Species Act. No previous legal knowledge or coursework necessary. | |
| PLAN 3070 | Global Political Economy (3) |
| Critical perspectives to reveal how global systems of power shape society, environment, and economy. Comprehensive understanding of how political economy historically and culturally mediates contemporary issues such as: socio-economic inequality and persistent poverty; public and ecological health crises; disinformation, agency, and public right-to-know; environmental degradation and disasters; demands for rights, justice, and accountability. Course was offered Fall 2023 | |
| PLAN 3122 | Urban Analytics (3) |
| Urban analytics draws upon statistics, visualization, and computation to better understand and ultimately to shape cities. This course emphasizes geospatial data, familiarizes students with statistical computing using R, and introduces principles and techniques of machine learning. Students will also learn to explain and to critique the results of visualization, analysis, and predictive modeling. Course was offered Fall 2024 | |
| PLAN 3250 | Mediation Theory and Skills (1) |
| This highly engaging one-credit, pass-fail course will introduce students to the principles and practices of mediation, with an emphasis on inter-personal conflict. | |
| PLAN 3310 | Divided America: Racism, Planning, and Policy in the City, 1945-1965 (3) |
| As the nation grapples with disparate impact of health, education, safety and mobility for people of color, historical context is critical. This interdisciplinary course focuses on the two decades after World War Two that cemented the racial wedge in the nation. Using planning history and the legal decisions, the course begins with the Armistice and concludes with the signing of the Civil Rights Bill of 1965 that outlawed voting discrimination. | |
| PLAN 3454 | Introduction to the Real Estate Development Process (3) |
| This course will provide students with an interdisciplinary learning process related to real estate development including finance, branding, design, planning, land use, site planning permitting, adaptive reuse among others. Situated in an actual case, students will have the opportunity to work with a multi-disciplinary team on a real-world development project. Graduate course will have additional course requirement Course was offered Fall 2024 | |
| PLAN 3500 | Special Topics in Planning (1 - 3) |
| Topical offerings in planning. Course was offered Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, January 2021, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2017 | |
| PLAN 3810 | Climate Justice in Cities (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This course introduces design & systems thinking techniques to address the interrelated crises of climate change & social inequity in U.S. cities. It asks how such transformational change might work - examining the socio-technical context,challenges, & opportunities that animate systems change in the built world. Students will learn through readings,discussions,lectures, & workshops to develop interdisciplinary creative problem-solving skills |
| PLAN 3811 | Gender & Built Environment (3) |
| This class explores the wide range of approaches that have been taken to the complex relationships between body, sex, gender, and the built environment. Some see buildings as a direct expression of sexed bodies (phallic towers and breast-like domes), while others see buildings and settlements as expressions and reiterations of the gender structures of a culture. | |
| PLAN 3813 | Community-Engaged Methods (3) |
| This class explores methods of inquiry that share power in the production of knowledge, & that honor both technical & lived expertise. We will discuss theoretical & ethical frames for the co-production of scholarship, what it means to be an action-oriented scholar & workshop participatory action research techniques including photovoice, appreciative inquiry,counter-mapping. | |
| PLAN 3840 | Ethics of Cities and Environment (3) |
| Detailed exploration of the normative debate surrounding environmental issues. Focus on the foundations of environmental economics, questions about the value of endangered species, concerns of future generations, appropriateness of a sustainable society, notions of stewardship, and obligations toward equity. Graduate course will have additional course requirements | |
| PLAN 3860 | Cities and Nature (3) |
| This class begins with the premise that contact with nature is essential to modern life.The class will examine the evidence for why nature in important,and the many creative ways in which cities can plan for,and design-in nature, and foster meaningful and everyday connections with the natural world. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014 | |
| PLAN 3870 | Environment and the Economy (3) |
| Focuses on a central question: Can local economies be sustainable and equitable without damaging the environment? Within this question are embedded topics-environmental racism, brownfield reclamation, environmental policy, and community organizing and engagement. This course addresses the challenge of balancing environmental impact, social equity, and economic growth. | |
| PLAN 4500 | Special Topics in Planning (3) |
| Elective courses offered at the request of faculty or students to provide an opportunity for internships, fieldwork, and independent study. | |
| PLAN 4510 | J-Term Courses (3) |
| January Term courses provide students with unique opportunities: new courses that address topics of current interest, study abroad programs, undergraduate research seminars, and interdisciplinary courses. The intensive format of "J-term" classes encourages extensive student-faculty contact and allows students and faculty to immerse he topics of "J-term" courses change each semester and offer focused study, often related travel or current events. Course was offered January 2018 | |
| PLAN 4800 | Professional Practice (1 - 3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Structured internship experience and reporting as a reflective practitioner for ten weeks or 200 hours of experience. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| PLAN 4901 | Distinguished Major Thesis 1 (3) |
| This course provides a framework for the completion of a Distinguished Major Thesis, a treatise containing an exposition of a chosen urban and environmental planning topic. A faculty advisor guides a student through the beginning phases of the process of research and writing. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Distinguished Major Program. | |
| PLAN 4902 | Distinguished Major Thesis 2 (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This is the second semester of a two semester sequence for the purpose of the completion of a Distinguished Major Thesis. A faculty member guides the student through all phases of the process which culminates in an open presentation of the thesis to an audience including a faculty evaluation committee.
Prerequisite: PLAN 4901 Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023 |
| PLAN 4993 | Independent Study (1 - 4) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Elective courses offered at the request of faculty or students to provide an opportunity for internships, fieldwork, and independent study. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| PLAN 4999 | Planning Senior Project (3) |
| Note: Third- and fourth-year undergraduate students may, with instructor permission, enroll in selected 5000-level courses. Course was offered Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| PLAN 5020 | Planning Design (4) |
| Explores methods of urban design analysis, stressing observational and representational methods. Emphasizes relationships among public and private buildings, spaces, and transportation corridors in commercial centers. Cross-listed with PLAN 2020. Course was offered Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| PLAN 5040 | Planning in Government (3) |
| Examines the role of planning in government decision-making. Focuses on local government, but intergovernmental aspects of planning that influence local decisions are also stressed. Studies planning processes, such as transportation, community development, and social planning. Course was offered Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013 | |
| PLAN 5110 | Digital Visualization for Planners (4) |
| Digital technology for representing and analyzing planning data will include photo-editing, web page design, geographic information system mapping, spreadsheet modeling, and document layout and production. The major emphasis will be on two- and three- dimensional representation of spaces common to planning: streetscape, neighborhoods, communities and regions. Graduate Students will undertake additional course requirements. | |
| PLAN 5140 | Advanced Design Themes of Great Cities (3) |
| This course discusses the design qualities of the world's great cities. Each session focuses on the defining characteristics of different cities such as their natural settings, public spaces, transportation systems, types of buildings, and everyday details. | |
| PLAN 5200 | Real Estate Develop Process I (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Foundational course for SARC real estate offerings. Covers fundamentals from basic real estate relationships, land acquisition decisions, "the cash cycle", legal aspects, public processes including entitlements, risk management, ethics, and preliminary feasibility analysis. The emphasis is on the creation of value in real estate (viewed holistically as financial profit informed by equity, sustainability, and design.) |
| PLAN 5201 | Real Estate Finance (3) |
| Covers fundamental of real estate finance. Students will obtain understanding the development process, the constraints and opportunities, and ways finance impacts upon the feasibility and success of any real estate project. Prerequisite: Plan5200 | |
| PLAN 5204 | Real Estate Investing (3) |
| Focuses on the fundamentals of real estate investing in a built-environment; familiarizes students with value-add real estate through the vision of adaptive reuse and explores how endogenous and exogenous factors affect real estate valuations; explores financing, risks, and leverage. | |
| PLAN 5205 | Real Estate Affordable Housing (3) |
| Course examines the production of affordable housing in different real estate markets in the USA. Covers US housing policy, local and state planning parameters and the use of critical tools including tax credits, TIF, public private partnerships and equity-limiting models such as community land trusts. | |
| PLAN 5210 | Real Estate Develop Process II (3) |
| This course builds on PLAN 5200 and begins from the point at which a developer is prepped for pursuing a fully entitled project. A design team must be assembled, plans put in place, permits pulled, financing arranged and construction plans developed and implemented for a product to be brought to the market; where does one begin? The course will be organized around phases, and utilize a [TBD] mixed-use project as a test-case/scenario. | |
| PLAN 5220 | Real Estate Finance Fundamentals (3) |
| Finance is a critical element in determining whether a real estate development project goes forward and whether the project actually looks and performs in accordance with the original design and social/economic objectives. In this course, students will learn the fundamental analyses of real estate finance and develop an understanding of the ways finance impacts upon project completion and architectural and community outcomes. | |
| PLAN 5230 | Design Dimensions of Real Estate (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Course examines the role good design and planning plays in adding value to real estate. Using a comparative case approach, the course will help students develop an understanding of how developer decision-making in regards to specific projects and their final built form is influenced by locational considerations, financial constraints, broader market dynamics, public perceptions of the project, and the legal framework. |
| PLAN 5300 | Preservation Planning (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Studies current literature on the identification, evaluation, and treatment of historic places. Develops techniques for surveying, documenting, evaluating, and planning for preservation. Analyzes current political, economic, and legal issues in preservation planning. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 |
| PLAN 5400 | Housing and Community Development (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Provides an introduction to the housing and community development area of planning practice. Topics include the housing and development industries, neighborhood change processes, social aspects of housing and development, and housing and development programs and policy issues. Course was offered Fall 2023, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| PLAN 5401 | Models for Higher Density Housing (3) |
| This seminar will focus on density and contemporary housing issues, specifically related to affordable housing. As cities have spread out or decayed at the core, the variety of housing options has decreased leading to a growing divide between where and how people can afford to live. Assignments range from readings and leading discussion to case study presentations of recent global and local housing designs. Course was offered Fall 2022, Spring 2015 | |
| PLAN 5420 | Economic Development (3) |
| Explores the economy of a community, neighborhood, or region as an essential element, in livability and sustainability. Planners engage economic development by working with the community to assess needs and opportunities, through public-private business partnerships, and in development review. | |
| PLAN 5421 | Building Construction Concepts and Methods (3) |
| This course is an introduction to construction techniques and methods. This course covers project delivery methods, estimating, plan reading, and scheduling. Course was offered Fall 2024 | |
| PLAN 5440 | Neighborhood Planning (3) |
| As the "building blocks" of cities, neighborhood plans involve citizens in addressing issues of housing, jobs, public services, education, recreation, and transportation. | |
| PLAN 5452 | Healthy Cities (3) |
| This class explores what makes a healthy city, what are the constituent parts of that system and what are different peoples needs across the life span, from perinatal to older age. The class begins by exploring concepts of health including health resilience - and focuses on how our cities can be better designed to optimize human flourishing. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016 | |
| PLAN 5470 | Site Selection and Project Feasibility (3) |
| This class addresses the very beginning of the land and building development process: the search for potential sites. Students weekly select sites and conduct feasibility evaluations which are then discussed extensively in class. Students learn about the wide range of factors (regulatory requirements, community acceptance, ability to finance, infrastructure, market potential and others). Course was offered Spring 2012, Spring 2011 | |
| PLAN 5500 | Special Topics in Planning (1 - 4) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Varies annually to meet the needs of graduate students. Course was offered Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Fall 2010 |
| PLAN 5580 | Short Courses in Planning (1) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | A series of one-credit short courses, whose topics vary from semester to semester. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| PLAN 5581 | Short Courses in Planning I (1) |
| A series of one-credit short courses, whose topics vary from semester to semester. Course was offered Fall 2014 | |
| PLAN 5600 | Land Use and Growth Management (3) |
| Introduces the theory and practice of land use planning and growth management as they have evolved historically and as expressed in contemporary practice. Addresses the need and rationale for land use planning as well as its tools. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| PLAN 5611 | Barcelona Urban History (3) |
| The students will understand the history of Barcelona from its Roman foundation to the extension of its medieval walls. The development of its urban structural grid, example of Cerdà , as well as its current state of remodeling for the Olympic games, and the ongoing urban transformations will all be studied in this class. This course will consist of lectures, field trips & practical exercises; specifically we will develop a graphic interpretation. | |
| PLAN 5614 | Urban Strategies (3) |
| Worldwide urbanization processes will increase in the next years reaching a rate of 75% until the middle of the century. Shrinkage, stagnation and rapid growth will be simultaneous phenomena and to achieve urban sustainability it will be important to innovate analytical methods and urban design frameworks. Discussions, lectures, and readings in combination with an urban design group project will introduce students to contemporary urban design methodologies. | |
| PLAN 5621 | Informal Urbanism (3) |
| The growth of the informal sector worldwide has led to a polarization between formal and informal practices. Although the informal economy and its multifarious related activities contribute significantly to cities' development, it is often stigmatized as an urban mistake, and little is known about how it works. This course will investigate the spatial, social, and economic dimensions of informal practices and their role in the resilience, governance, and spatial justice of cities and regions around the world. | |
| PLAN 5710 | Transportation and Environment (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Course examines the impacts of transportation systems on the environment from roadside air quality to global climate change, exploring sustainable transportation policy, multimodal transportation, environmental justice, resilience,and community-based solutions.Building on course readings and discussion, PhD students will propose and develop a research paper on a topic of their choosing within the overall theme of transportation and the environment. |
| PLAN 5740 | Transportation Planning and Policy (3) |
| This course introduces graduate and advanced undergraduate students to current issues in the field of transportation planning and policy. It addresses all modes of transportation (auto, walk, bike) and considers multiple scales (national, state, regional and local). Through the analysis of key topics such as congestion, air quality, social equity, and security, we will gain an understanding of how decisions about the transportation system Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013 | |
| PLAN 5810 | Toward the Resilient City (3) |
| Examines sustainable communities and the environmental, social, economic, political, and design standards that underlie them. Focuses on reviewing case studies of cities, towns, and development projects that reflect principles of sustainability. Graduate course will have additional course requirements. | |
| PLAN 5816 | Water Sustainability (3) |
| Students will explore the ways that people have utilized rivers for their subsistence and livelihoods over thousands of years to the present, and how the well-being of river-based communities can be disrupted by large water development projects such as dams. We will examine what sustainable development means in the context of water development, drawing from inter-disciplinary perspectives. | |
| PLAN 5870 | Environment and the Economy (3) |
| Focuses on a central question: Can local economies be sustainable and equitable without damaging the environment? Within this question are embedded topics' environmental racism, brownfield reclamation, environmental policy, and community organizing and engagement. Graduate course will have additional course requirements. The course addresses the challenges of balancing environment, economics, and equity. | |
| PLAN 5890 | Sustainable International Development (3) |
| This course will explore development related root causes of environmental degradation in an international context. The course examines theoretical frameworks explaining the linkage between underdevelopment and environmental issues in a developing country context. Specifically, the course will explore the importance of overconsumption, technology, poverty, and inequality as complex set of factors contributing to the environmental crisis. | |
| PLAN 5891 | International Cities (3) |
| This course takes a case study approach to examine the sustainable development issues of 10 cities around the world with attention mainly to urban landscape and urban ecology. One outstanding topic will be studied in depth for each city, such as ecology of large urban park for New York city and urban development in mountainous regions for Chongqing, China. The goal of this course is to give students a global view on these issues. Course was offered Spring 2012 | |
| PLAN 5892 | Psychology of Environment and Space (3) |
| This course provides a strong foundation in environmental psychology theory and methods. It will help you understand the human response to the designed environment, and how people feel, perceive and respond to the environment, as well as equip you with research skills to measure human-environment interactions. | |
| PLAN 5993 | Applied Independent Study (1 - 4) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Individual study directed by a faculty member. Prerequisite: Planning faculty approval of topic. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| PLAN 6011 | Race and the American City (3) |
| A seminar exploring how racialized inequalities have shaped American cities North & South, past & present, and the influence of racialized urban structures on the idea & experience of race in America. Topics include the effects of segregation, redlining, urban planning, redevelopment, white flight, ghettoization & neoliberal development on the form & culture of American cities & structures of inequality in the US. Graduate level will have additional requirements. | |
| PLAN 6013 | Communication and Planning Analytics (3) |
| Required first semester course that introduces students to spatial analysis and representation through selected computer-based applications. Emphasis on 2D analysis and representation, use of secondary data and development of visualization techniques, and ways to communicate data and alternatives to a public audience. | |
| PLAN 6015 | Sustainable Global Communities (3) |
| Examines sustainable communities through environmental, social, economic, political, and design lenses. Using case studies of cities, towns, and development projects from around the world, students will have the opportunity to reflect on principles of sustainability and innovative applications used by planners and designers from across the globe and that span multiple geographic scales. Course was offered Fall 2023 | |
| PLAN 6020 | Methods of Community Research and Engagement (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Explores methods beyond the conventional town-hall meeting to gather insights from communities on planning issues. Topics will include more traditional methods of qualitative research such as focus groups, interviews, charrettes, participatory action research, and scenario planning, as well as strategies like asset mapping, visual preference surveys, games, art-based visioning, participatory budgeting. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2017 |
| PLAN 6030 | Introduction to GIS (3) |
| Geographic Information System (GIS) is a data management tool, a mapping tool, a visualization tool & a spatial analysis engine. While this is an introductory GIS course, it will focus on how planners can use GIS to develop critical spatial thinking & address current problems in our natural & built environment. Graduate course will have additional course requirements on spatial analysis. | |
| PLAN 6040 | Quantitative Methods of Planning Analysis (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Applies quantitative skills to the planning process: analyzes decision situations and develops precise languages communicating the quantitative dimensions of planning problems. Includes lectures, case studies, and applied assignments addressing statistical methods, survey methods, census data analysis, program and plan evaluation, and emerging methods used by planners. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| PLAN 6050 | Land Use and Environmental Law (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This course introduces the legal framework & major legal issues arising in land use & environmental planning. We focus on notable US Supreme Court decisions related to tools such as zoning, the comprehensive plan, & eminent domain, as well as controversies & cases surrounding federal environmental laws such as NEPA, the Clean Water & Air Acts, & the Endangered Species Act. Graduate course will have additional course requirements. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| PLAN 6070 | Planning Theory and Practice (3) |
| In this course students grapple with the dynamic tensions between planning and democracy, the various responses that have been proposed, and planning failures and successes. They explore the development of theories about how we ought to plan, why, and for whom. | |
| PLAN 6110 | Digital Technology for Planning and Design I - 2D/3D (3) |
| Required first semester technology-oriented course that introduces students to spatial analysis and representation using a variety of computer-based applications. Emphasis on 2D and 3D analysis and representation, use of secondary data and development of visualization techniques. | |
| PLAN 6120 | Digital Technology for Planning and Design - GIS (4) |
| Technology class introducing students to the fundamental applications of geographic information systems central to planning analysis and practice. | |
| PLAN 6122 | Urban Analytics (3) |
| Urban analytics draws upon statistics, visualization, and computation to better understand and ultimately to shape cities. This course emphasizes geospatial data, familiarizes students with statistical computing using R, and introduces principles and techniques of machine learning. Students will also learn to explain and to critique the results of visualization, analysis, and predictive modeling. Graduate course will have additional requirements. | |
| PLAN 6130 | Advanced GIS (3) |
| This course focuses on case studies of real world GIS applications. Three cases covering urban and environmental planning at different scales will be introduced. To address these cases, students will learn advanced GIS skills in geodatabase design, data editing, spatial analysis, modeling and visualization. Class time is divided by multimedia lectures, hands-on demonstrations, project status updates from students, and diagnostic discussions Course was offered Spring 2019, Spring 2018 | |
| PLAN 6310 | Divided America: Racism, Planning, and Policy in the City, 1945-1965 (3) |
| As the nation grapples with disparate impact of health, education, safety and mobility for people of color, historical context is critical. This interdisciplinary course focuses on the decades after World War 2 that cemented the racial wedge in the US. Using planning history and the legal decisions, the course begins with the Armistice and concludes with the Voting Rights Bill of 1965. Graduate students will have additional research requirements. Course was offered Fall 2021 | |
| PLAN 6454 | Introduction to the Real Estate Development Process (3) |
| This course will provide students with an interdisciplinary learning process related to real estate development including finance, branding, design, planning, land use, site planning permitting, adaptive reuse among others. Situated in an actual case, students will have the opportunity to work with a multi-disciplinary team on a real-world development project. Graduate course will have additional course requirement Course was offered Fall 2024 | |
| PLAN 6500 | Special Topics in Planning (1 - 6) |
| Topical offerings in planning. Course was offered Fall 2019, Spring 2015 | |
| PLAN 6810 | Climate Justice in Cities (3) |
| This course introduces design & systems thinking techniques to address the interrelated crises of climate change & social inequity in U.S. cities. It asks how such transformational change might work - examining the socio-technical context, challenges, & opportunities that animate systems change in the built world. Graduate course will have additional course requirements. | |
| PLAN 6811 | Gender & Built Environment (3) |
| This class explores the wide range of approaches that have been taken to the complex relationships between body, sex, gender, and the built environment. Some see buildings as a direct expression of sexed bodies (phallic towers and breast-like domes), while others see buildings and settlements as expressions and reiterations of the gender structures of a culture. | |
| PLAN 6813 | Community-Engaged Methods (3) |
| This class explores methods of inquiry that share power in the production of knowledge, & that honor both technical & lived expertise. We will discuss theoretical & ethical frames for the co-production of scholarship, what it means to be an action-oriented scholar & workshop participatory action research techniques including photovoice, appreciative inquiry,counter-mapping. Graduate course will have additional course requirements. | |
| PLAN 6840 | Ethics of Cities and Environment (3) |
| Detailed exploration of the normative debate surrounding environmental issues. Focus on the foundations of environmental economics, questions about the value of endangered species, concerns of future generations, appropriateness of a sustainable society, notions of stewardship, and obligations toward equity. Graduate course will have additional course requirements. | |
| PLAN 6860 | Cities + Nature (3) |
| This class begins with the premise that contact with nature is essential to modern life.The class will examine the evidence for why nature in important,and the many creative ways in which cities can plan for,and design-in nature, and foster meaningful and everyday connections with the natural world. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014 | |
| PLAN 7010 | Research Studio 1 (3) |
| Advanced vertical studio, exploring complex issues and sites, often through interdisciplinary design research. | |
| PLAN 7040 | Advanced Metropolis (3) |
| This lecture course focuses on cities as centers of cultural, social, and artistic activity. It considers how we define cities, the forces that create and sustain them, and what makes them culturally distinctive. It looks at several cities at their moments of cultural, political, and architectural glory: Istanbul in the 16thcentury, London in the late 17th and 18th centuries, Paris in the 19th century, New York in the 20th century, and Shanghai in the 21st century. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017 | |
| PLAN 7401 | Models for Higher Density Housing (3) |
| This seminar will focus on density and contemporary housing issues, specifically related to affordable housing. As cities have spread out or decayed at the core, the variety of housing options has decreased leading to a growing divide between where and how people can afford to live. Assignments range from readings and leading discussion to case study presentations of recent global and local housing designs. Course was offered Spring 2015 | |
| PLAN 7810 | Sustainable Communities (3) |
| Examines sustainable communities and the environmental, social, economic, political, and design standards that underlie them. Focuses on reviewing case studies of cities, towns, and development projects that reflect principles of sustainability. | |
| PLAN 7993 | Independent Study (1 - 4) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 |
| PLAN 8020 | Methods of Community Research and Engagement (3) |
| Explores methods beyond the conventional town-hall meeting to gather insights from communities on planning issues.Topics will include more traditional methods of qualitative research such as focus groups, interviews, charrettes, participatory action research, & scenario planning, as well as strategies like asset mapping, visual preference surveys, games, art-based visioning, participatory budgeting. Ph.D students will undertake additional course requirements. | |
| PLAN 8030 | Neighborhoods, Community and Regions (3) |
| Explores theories and concepts of economic, social, and cultural forces that influence urban and regional spatial structure. Course was offered Spring 2015 | |
| PLAN 8040 | Adv Quantitative Methods of Planning Analysis (3) |
| Addresses the law as it relates to planning practice. Includes substantial work in traditional areas of land-use law, but also deals with the law as an instrument for change. Emphasizes developing legal research skills and performing legal analysis. A core course. Course was offered Spring 2016 | |
| PLAN 8050 | Advanced Law, Land and the Environment (3) |
| This course examines major legal issues surrounding land use planning & environmental protection. Intended to introduce students to critical legal concepts (e.g.,due process,precedent,standing) as well as the parameters set for planning by the US Constitution,key Constitutional amendments, & various statutes including main federal environmental laws.Where appropriate state level laws and cases are reviewed. Ph.D. students will have additional requirements. | |
| PLAN 8070 | Planning Theory and Practice (3) |
| In this course students grapple with the dynamic tensions between planning and democracy, the various responses that have been proposed, and planning failures and successes. They explore the development of theories about how we ought to plan, why, and for whom. This course will have additional course requirements compared to PLAN 6070. | |
| PLAN 8500 | Advanced Special Topics in Planning (1 - 3) |
| Varies annually to meet the needs of graduate students. | |
| PLAN 8580 | Advanced Short Courses in Planning (1) |
| A series of one-credit short courses, whose topics vary from semester to semester. | |
| PLAN 8600 | Land Use and Growth Management (3) |
| Addresses the need and rationale for land use planning as well as its tools. Introduces the theory and practice of land use planning and growth management as they have evolved historically and as expressed in contemporary practice. | |
| PLAN 8710 | Advanced Transportation and Environment (3) |
| Course examines the impacts of transportation systems on the environment from roadside air quality to global climate change, exploring sustainable transportation policy, multimodal transportation, environmental justice, resilience,and community-based solutions. Building on course readings and discussion, PhD students will propose and develop a research paper on a topic of their choosing within the overall theme of transportation and environment. Course was offered Fall 2016 | |
| PLAN 8811 | Advanced Gender & Built Environment (3) |
| This class explores the wide range of approaches that have been taken to the complex relationships between body, sex, gender, and the built environment. Some see buildings as a direct expression of sexed bodies (phallic towers and breast-like domes), while others see buildings and settlements as expressions and reiterations of the gender structures of a culture. | |
| PLAN 8840 | Adv Ethics of Environmental & Cities (3) |
| Detailed exploration of the normative debate surrounding environmental issues. Focus on the foundations of environmental economics, questions about the value of endangered species, concerns of future generations, appropriateness of a sustainable society, notions of stewardship, and obligations toward equity. Graduate Students will undertake additional course requirements. | |
| PLAN 8892 | Psychology of Environment and Space (3) |
| This course provides a strong foundation in environmental psychology theory and methods. It will help you understand the human response to the designed environment, and how people feel, perceive and respond to the environment, as well as equip you with research skills to measure human-environment interactions. Graduate course will have additional course requirements. | |
| PLAN 8993 | Independent Studies in Urban and Environmental Planning (1 - 4) |
| Advanced work on independent research topics by individual students. Departmental approval of the topic is required. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016 | |
| PLAN 8994 | Thesis (3 - 6) |
| Preparation and completion of a thesis. | |
| PLAN 8998 | Non-Topical Research, Masters (1 - 12) |
| For Thesis Preparation, taken before a thesis director has been selected. Course was offered Summer 2021, Summer 2020, Summer 2019, Summer 2018, Summer 2017, Summer 2016, Summer 2015, Summer 2014, Summer 2013, Summer 2012, Summer 2011, Summer 2010 | |
| PLAN 8999 | Master's Thesis (3 - 6) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | A thesis is optional for the Master of Urban and Environmental Planning degree. Students should begin early to explore topics and to identify potential committee members. A guideline document is available. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
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| SARC 1500 | SARC Seminars (1) |
| SARC 1500 courses are 1-credit seminars capped at 20 first-year students, all of whom are assigned to the instructor as advisees. They are topically focused on an area identified by the faculty member; they also include a significant advising component centered on undergraduate issues (e.g., choosing a major, study abroad opportunities, undergraduate research, etc.). | |
| SARC 2100 | Design in the World (3) |
| This course examines the visual, cultural, historical, and ethical aspects of design and the constructed environment using examples from a broad range of design disciplines. Through lectures, readings, discussions, and short design projects, students will learn to analyze and critique the objects, spaces, buildings, and experiences that shape the environments we collectively make and inhabit. | |
| SARC 2500 | Special Topics in the School of Architecture (1 - 4) |
| Topical offerings in the School of Architecture. | |
| SARC 3500 | Special Topics in the School of Architecture (1 - 4) |
| Topical offerings in the School of Architecture Course was offered Spring 2015, Spring 2014 | |
| SARC 3559 | New Course in Architecture (3) |
| New course in the subject of the School of Architecture | |
| SARC 3993 | Independent Study: School of Architecture (1 - 4) |
| Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor Course was offered Fall 2016, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010 | |
| SARC 5130 | Design Research Journal I (1) |
| Design Research Journal I is an independently driven course focused on the conceptualization and production of a student-developed journal, Lunch. A small team of student editors create a new volume within the journal series, focused on a theme of their selection. It runs as three consecutive courses for a total of 3 credits. SARC 5130 includes thematic development, literature review, outreach, editorial roles, and submission process. Course was offered Fall 2024 | |
| SARC 5131 | Design Research Journal II (1) |
| Design Research Journal II is an independently driven course focused on the conceptualization and production of a student-developed journal, Lunch. A small team of student editors create a new volume within the journal series, focused on a theme of their selection. It runs as three consecutive courses for a total of 3 credits. SARC 5131 includes development of the journal¿s structure, selection of submissions, and editorial feedback to authors. Course was offered Fall 2024 | |
| SARC 5132 | Design Research Journal III (1) |
| Design Research Journal III is an independently driven course focused on the conceptualization and production of a student-developed journal, Lunch. A small team of student editors create a new volume within the journal series, focused on a theme of their selection. It runs as three consecutive courses for a total of 3 credits. SARC 5132 includes publication design and layout, execution of production files, and selection of the next editors. Course was offered Fall 2024 | |
| SARC 5400 | Data Visualization (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Thinking with Images. People have been looking at data for centuries -- with their eyes -- to discover patterns, meaning, and insight into the most important challenges of their time. This course teaches visual and spatial thinking coupled with visual data tools and interactive web coding to envision information. Far beyond plotting, finding ways to respond to complex problems, we will study and make useful, compelling, and beautiful tools to see. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016 |
| SARC 5500 | Special Topics in the School of Architecture (1 - 4) |
| Topical offerings in the School of Architecture. Course was offered Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2020, Spring 2018, January 2018, Spring 2017, January 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Summer 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Summer 2011, Spring 2011 | |
| SARC 5555 | Visualization Elective (1 - 3) |
| Students select from a number of visualization one to three credit modules focusing on all forms of visualization. During this semester, students must select from among the digital visualization choices. Course was offered Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012 | |
| SARC 5559 | New Course in Architecture (3) |
| New course in the subject of the School of Architecture | |
| SARC 5710 | Hoos on the Road (3) |
| This course will engage students in the challenges & opportunities facing American communities. It will include on-Grounds class time, site visits to communities that are implementing new strategies to meet the challenges of the 21st century, & meetings with decision makers.Students will review original legislation & policies that have impacted communities. | |
| SARC 5711 | CPT Internship (1) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This course ifs for international students doing CPT (Curricular Practical Training) Employment. Students will report and reflect on their experiences within professional practice and in their specific their discipline. Course was offered Fall 2024, Summer 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Summer 2018 |
| SARC 5720 | Transportation and Land Use (3) |
| Reviews basic relationships between land use and transportation. Considers the decision process, planning principles, impact measures, and the methodological framework for identifying and evaluating practices in action on a regional, local, and neighborhood scale. | |
| SARC 5760 | Drawing For Design (3) |
| This course will cover the fundamentals of drawing with a focus on the human figure. It will address line, tone volume, space, scale, proportion and artistic expression. The analysis of human form will also be applied to rendering still-life, buildings, interiors and landscapes. Various wet and dry media will be introduced to illustrate the drawing objectives. An emphasis on 'process' will direct the momentum of this course. Course was offered Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012 | |
| SARC 5801 | Italian Language and Culture (2) |
| Continuation of Italian language study begun in semester prior to arrival in Venice. In addition, introduction to a range of cultural aspects of living in Italy. | |
| SARC 5993 | Independent Study: School of Architecture (1 - 4) |
| Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2011, Fall 2010 | |
| SARC 6100 | Urbanizing Worlds (3) |
| This course presents an inter-disciplinary examination of historic and contemporary ideas and practices that shape urban form. Through lectures by faculty members from all four academic departments in the school, the material introduces students to the socioeconomic, cultural, ecological, and political dimensions of urbanization. Course was offered Fall 2018 | |
| SARC 6101 | Buildings, Cities, Narratives (3) |
| This is a foundational course introducing the field of architecture and urbanism as it has been historically constructed; it investigates the formulation of canons, contrarian practices, and narratives that frame discourses and practices today. The objectives are to understand the genealogies of the modern tradition, establish a knowledge of the disciplinary milestones, and to articulate critical theoretical frameworks. | |
| SARC 6200 | History of Architecture (3) |
| his course uses a thematic structure to develop an understanding of the history of architecture as a formal, spatial, tectonic and cultural practice. | |
| SARC 6203 | Design Logics (3) |
| We explore the logic model as a framework for analyzing the health impact of built environments in evidence-based practices of design. The logic model is a tool for synthesizing and visualizing causal pathways that lead to health outcomes. Students learn to conduct a literature review, diagram data, visualize environments, and develop logic models of key buildings and urban landscapes. The graduate course will have additional course requirements. | |
| SARC 6710 | Design Computation 1 (3) |
| The Design Computation sequence introduces computational thinking and design in the context of long-standing architectural technologies. Design Computation 1 focuses on computational fundamentals, spatial structures, and associative modeling | |
| SARC 6720 | Design Computation 2 (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | The Design Computation sequence introduces computational thinking and design in the context of long-standing architectural technologies. Design Computation 2 focuses on cartography, the visual display of information, and spatial data analytics. |
| SARC 8101 | Theories of Knowledge in the Constructed Environment (3) |
| This course provides a framework for the comparison of different theories of knowledge relevant to the School of Architecture's four disciplines through a comparative study of research methods in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. The course's goal is to develop critical thinking as the basis for considering the value of specific research questions and to provide a link between research questions and the methods used to explore them. | |
| SARC 8120 | Ethics, Politics, & Aesthetics (3) |
| The shaping, production and analysis of the constructed environment has ethical, political and aesthetic implications that are often inextricably related. Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics is an interdisciplinary theory course that examines major issues and methodologies in twentieth century theories of history, production, time, space and representation: including critical theory, phenomenology, semiotics, post-structuralism and psychoanalysis. | |
| SARC 8500 | Adv Special Topics in the School of Architecture (1 - 4) |
| Topical offerings in the School of Architecture. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017 | |
| SARC 8812 | Ecological Democracy (3) |
| Students will participate in community engaged design and/or research activities that help better connect people with their environments. Subject matter might include civic environmentalism, greening alleys and other semi-public spaces, climate change education, sustainable design, etcetera. | |
| SARC 9911 | Research Colloquium I (3) |
| The research colloquium focuses on individual research, methods and project development. The course provides a forum for the interaction and learning among graduate students from various disciplines, and at different stages in the progress of research. The objective is for students to learn how to articulate their inquiry, and to critically question and compare their own research and methods of inquiry to those found in other disciplines. | |
| SARC 9912 | Research Colloquium II (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | The research colloquium focuses on individual research, methods and project development. The course provides a forum for the interaction and learning among graduate students from various disciplines, and at different stages in the progress of research. The objective is for students to learn how to articulate their inquiry, and to critically question and compare their own research and methods of inquiry to those found in other disciplines. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015 |
| SARC 9913 | Research Colloquium III (3) |
| The research colloquium focuses on individual research, methods and project development. The course provides a forum for the interaction and learning among graduate students from various disciplines, and at different stages in the progress of research. The objective is for students to learn how to articulate their inquiry, and to critically question and compare their own research and methods of inquiry to those found in other disciplines. | |
| SARC 9914 | Research Colloquium IV (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | The research colloquium focuses on individual research, methods and project development. The course provides a forum for the interaction and learning among graduate students from various disciplines, and at different stages in the progress of research. The objective is for students to learn how to articulate their inquiry, and to critically question and compare their own research and methods of inquiry to those found in other disciplines. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016 |
| SARC 9993 | Advanced Independent Research (1 - 6) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Advanced independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor. Prerequisite: Permission of the Director. Course was offered Fall 2024, Summer 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016 |
| SARC 9998 | Non-Topical Doctoral Prep (1 - 12) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016 |
| SARC 9999 | Non-Topical Research (1 - 12) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017 |