UVa Course Catalog (Unofficial, Lou's List)
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Architecture and Landscape Architecture
ALAR 5010Introduction 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.
ALAR 5020Introduction 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.
ALAR 5030Introduction 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.
ALAR 5201Building 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.
Course was offered Fall 2023, Fall 2022
ALAR 5203Building Venice (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
ALAR 5401Urban 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.
Course was offered Fall 2023, Fall 2022
ALAR 5403Venice: City and Landscape (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
ALAR 5500Special Topic in Architecture and Landscape Architecture (3)
Topical offerings in architecture and landscape architecture.
Course was offered Summer 2012, Summer 2011
ALAR 7020Foundation Studio III (6)
Intermediate-level design problems, emphasizing structure, enclosure, life safety and building systems. Prerequisite: ALAR 7010
ALAR 8010Research Studio 1 (6)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 8020Research Studio 2 (6)
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
ALAR 8030Design Studio 3 (6)
Advanced vertical studio, exploring complex issues and sites, often through interdisciplinary design research. Prerequisite: ALAR 7010 and ALAR 8010.
ALAR 8060Urbanism 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 8100Thesis I (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 8102Design 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 8993Independent Study (1 - 6)
Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor
ALAR 8995Thesis II (6)
Thesis II . Prerequisite: ALAR 8100 and permission of the chair.
ALAR 8999Non-Topical Design Research-Masters (1 - 12)
Offered
Fall 2024
Independent Design Thesis Studio. Prerequisite: ALAR 8100 and permission of the chair.
History of Art and Architecture
ARAH 5253Italian Fifteenth Century Painting I (3)
Italian Fifteenth Century Painting I
ARAH 5559New Course in History of Art (3 - 4)
Offered
Fall 2024
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of History of Art.
ARAH 5575Topics in Modern Art History (3)
examines focused topics in the history of modern art
Course was offered Fall 2012
ARAH 5753Southern 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 8051Theory and Interpretation in the Visual Arts (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
Investigates problems in the theory and interpretation of the visual arts
ARAH 8060Prospectus and Grant Writing (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
This course will guide students through the process of drafting a clear and compelling dissertation prospectus in collaboration with program faculty and peers.
ARAH 8091MA Thesis Research (3)
MA Thesis Research
ARAH 8092MA 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 8695Special Reading Problems (3 - 12)
Offered
Fall 2024
Special Reading Problems
ARAH 8998Non-Topical Rsch, Masters Prep (1 - 12)
Offered
Fall 2024
For master's research, taken before a thesis director has been selected.
ARAH 8999Non-Topical Research, Masters (1 - 12)
Offered
Fall 2024
For master's research, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
ARAH 9500Seminar in Ancient Architecture/Archaeology (3)
Investigates problems in ancient architecture/archaeology.
ARAH 9505Seminar in Ancient Art/Archaeology (3)
Investigates problems in ancient art/archaeology
ARAH 9510Seminar in Medieval Architecture (3)
Investigates problems in medieval architecture
ARAH 9515Seminar in Medieval Art (3)
Investigates problems in medieval art
ARAH 9520Seminar in Renaissance/Baroque Architecture (3)
Investigates problems in Renaissance and/or Baroque architecture.
ARAH 9525Seminar in Renaissance/Baroque Art (3)
Investigates problems in renaissance/baroque art
ARAH 9535Seminar in 18th/19th Art (3)
Investigates problems in 18th-19th century art
ARAH 9540Seminar in 20th/21st Century Architecture (3)
Investigates problems in 20th/21st century architecture
ARAH 9545Seminar in 20th/21st Century Art (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
Investigates problems in 20th/21st century architecture.
ARAH 9560Seminar in Architecture Theory, Comparative & Other Topics (3)
Investigates problems in architecture theory, comparative, and other topics.
Course was offered Spring 2014, Spring 2011
ARAH 9565Seminar in Art Theory, Comparative & Other Topics (3)
Investigates problems in architecture theory, comparative, and other topics
ARAH 9570Seminar in the Architecture of the Americas (3)
Investigates problems in architecture of the Americas
ARAH 9575Seminar in the Art of the Americas (3)
Investigates problems in art of the Americas
Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2018, Spring 2015
ARAH 9580Seminar in the Architecture of East, South, and Southeast Asia (3)
Investigates problems in architecture of East, South, and Southeast Asia
ARAH 9585Seminar in the Art of East, South, and Southeast Asia (3)
Investigates problems in art of East, South, and Southeast Asia
ARAH 9590Seminar in the Architecture of Africa or Islam (3)
Investigates problems in architecture of Africa or Islam
Course was offered Spring 2011
ARAH 9595Seminar in the Art of Africa or Islam (3)
Investigates problems in art of Africa or Islam.
Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2019
ARAH 9995Supervised Research (3 - 12)
Offered
Fall 2024
Supervised Research
ARAH 9998Non-Topical Rsch,Doctoral Prep (1 - 12)
Offered
Fall 2024
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected.
ARAH 9999Non-Topical Research, Doctoral (1 - 12)
Offered
Fall 2024
For doctoral research taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
Architecture
ARCH 1010Lessons of the Lawn (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
ARCH 1020Lessons in Making (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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/.
ARCH 1030Foundation Studio I (4)
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.
ARCH 1031Summer 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.
ARCH 1040Introduction 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 1500Special Topics in Architecture (1 - 6)
Topical offerings in architecture.
Course was offered Fall 2022
ARCH 2010Foundation Studio II (6)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 2011Summer 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.
ARCH 2020Foundation Studio III (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 2010
ARCH 2021Summer 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.
ARCH 2070Design & Thinking (3)
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 2100Design 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 2114Sustainability 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. Grad course will have add¿l course requirement.
ARCH 2150Global Sustainability (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
ARCH 2220Principles 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 2500Special Topics in Architecture (3)
Topical offerings in the subject of Architecture.
ARCH 2710CAAD 3D Geometrical Modeling and Visualization (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 2715Elements of Design (3)
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 3010Foundation Studio IV (6)
Offered
Fall 2024
This studio course emphasizes conceptualization and synthesis of complex programs in contemporary contexts at multiple scales. Prerequisite: ARCH 2020
ARCH 3011Design Thinking Studio I (6)
Offered
Fall 2024
This is a studio based course on Architectural design thinking with a focus on creative approaches to analyzing and solving diverse problems.
ARCH 3020Foundation Studio V (6)
This studio course emphasizes conceptualization and synthesis of complex programs in contemporary contexts at multiple scales. Prerequisite: ARCH 3010
ARCH 3021Design Thinking Studio II (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 3070
ARCH 3070Foundations 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.
ARCH 3071Design 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.
Course was offered Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
ARCH 3110Sustainable 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 3120Theories of Architecture (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 3122Contemporary 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 3140Architectural Analysis: Key Buildings of Modernism (3)
Investigates the link between ideas and forms of significant buildings in the canon of modern architecture.
ARCH 3203Design 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 3240Introduction to Structural Design (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
ARCH 3260Building Matters (3)
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.
ARCH 3271Breaking 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.
Course was offered Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016
ARCH 3274Parametric 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 3410CAAD 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.
Course was offered Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009
ARCH 3500Special Topics in Architecture (3)
Topical offerings in architecture.
ARCH 3559New Courses in Architecture (3)
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject Architecture.
Course was offered Spring 2019
ARCH 3710Photography 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 3993Independent Study (1 - 3)
Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor
ARCH 4010Research Studio (6)
Offered
Fall 2024
This studio course emphasizes conceptualization and synthesis of complex programs in contemporary contexts at multiple scales. Prerequisite: ARCH 3020
ARCH 4011Design Thinking Studio III (6)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 4020Advanced Design Research Studio (6)
Students pursue a semester long advanced design project. Prerequisite: ARCH 4010.
ARCH 4021Ind 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
ARCH 4100Independent Design Research (Thesis) Seminar (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 4201Forms 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 4401Drawing 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 4500Special Topics in Architecture (1 - 3)
Topical offerings in architecture.
ARCH 4510J-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 4820Teaching 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.
ARCH 4821Research Experience (3)
Student will engage with faculty on selected topics in Architecture Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor
ARCH 4993Independent Study (1 - 4)
Offered
Fall 2024
Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor
ARCH 4995Independent Design Research (Thesis) Studio (6)
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 5010Introduction 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 5011International 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 5012Greek 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 5020Introduction 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 5030Architecture 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 5110Design 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 5111House (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 5113Behavioral Design (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
Course was offered Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020
ARCH 5114Sustainability 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 5130Paper 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.
ARCH 5132Paper 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.
ARCH 5140Advanced 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.
Course was offered Fall 2010, Fall 2009
ARCH 5150Global Sustainability (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
ARCH 5160Models 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 5170New 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 5180Issues 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 5201Forms 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 5250Applied 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
Course was offered Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020
ARCH 5320Some 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 5321Some Assembly Required: Design Build (4)
The course focuses on the study of modern fabrication practices in the context of design/build projects.
ARCH 5342Parametric 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.
ARCH 5370Depth 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 5380Soft 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.
Course was offered Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009
ARCH 5400Experimental 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 5401Drawing 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 5403Soundscape 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 5420Digital Animation & Storytelling (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 5422Computer 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.
ARCH 5423Grasshopper: 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 5424Direct 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.
ARCH 5430Land 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 5450Digital 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 5470Information 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 5473Design 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 5474Design 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 5490CNC 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 5500Special Topics in Architecture (1 - 6)
Offered
Fall 2024
Topical offerings in architecture.
ARCH 5501Special Topics in Architecture (0)
Topical offerings in architecture.
ARCH 5510J-Term Courses (1 - 3)
J Term Courses
ARCH 5590Faculty Research Seminar (1 - 4)
Affords students opportunities to participate in specific faculty's advance research projects.
ARCH 5605Urban 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 5607International Design Research (3)
Interanally-focused independent design research conducted under the guidance and direct supervision of a faculty member.
ARCH 5608China 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 5609India 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.
ARCH 5610Urban 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 5612Modes 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 5613Networked 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 5614Urban Strategies (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 5620Robotic 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 5630Design 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.
Course was offered Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010
ARCH 5660Design 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 5700InfoLab: 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 5710Photography 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 5712Design 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 5713DRAWING: 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
Course was offered Fall 2020, Fall 2018
ARCH 5714Site 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.
Course was offered Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
ARCH 5715Elements of Design (3)
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.
ARCH 5717Mapping 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.
Course was offered Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020
ARCH 5750Drawing 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 5760Drawing 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.
ARCH 5770Drawings 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 5780Painting 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.'
ARCH 5782The 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 5800Vicenza 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 5801Vicenza 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 5993Independent Study (1 - 6)
Offered
Fall 2024
Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor
ARCH 6010Foundation Studio I (6)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 6020Foundation Studio II (6)
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.
ARCH 6110Sustainable 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 6120Architectural Theory and Analysis (3)
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.
ARCH 6140Architectural Analysis: Key Buildings of Modernism (3)
Investigates the link between ideas and forms of significant buildings in the canon of modern architecture.
ARCH 6231Building Workshop I (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 6232Systems, 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 6261Building Workshop II (3)
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.
ARCH 6262Lecture 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.
Course was offered Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021
ARCH 6264Lecture 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 6266Lecture 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 6410Advanced 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.
Course was offered Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009
ARCH 6500Special Topics in Architecture (1 - 3)
Topical offerings in architecture.
Course was offered Fall 2021
ARCH 6710CAAD 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 7010Foundation Studio III (6)
Offered
Fall 2024
Intermediate-level design problems, emphasizing analysis and synthesis of complex contextual, cultural, and constructional issues. Prerequisite: ARCH 6020 or chair permission.
ARCH 7020Foundation Studio IV (6)
Intermediate-level design problems, emphasizing structure, enclosure, life safety and building systems. Prerequisite: ARCH 7010
ARCH 7100Design Research Methods (3)
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 712020th and 21st Century History of Ideas (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 7122Contemporary 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 7210Advanced Structural Design (3)
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.
ARCH 7230Building Workshop III (3)
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.
ARCH 7240Advanced Structural Systems (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 7250Environmental Systems (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
ARCH 7270BIM 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 7271Adv. 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.
Course was offered Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016
ARCH 7272BIM 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.
Course was offered Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013
ARCH 7274Parametric 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 7500Special Topics in Architecture (1 - 3)
Topical offerings in architecture.
Course was offered Spring 2023
ARCH 7993Independent Study (1 - 3)
Offered
Fall 2024
Independent Study Prerequisite: Permission of the chair.
ARCH 8230Building 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.
ARCH 8300Preservation/ Adaptive Use (1 - 4)
Individual study directed by a faculty member.
ARCH 8480Professional Practices (3)
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.
ARCH 8500Special Topics in Architecture (1 - 6)
Topical offerings in architecture.
ARCH 8612A 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 8613Networked 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 8801Research Experience (3)
Student will engage with faculty on selected topics in Architecture Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor
ARCH 8993Advanced Independent Research (1 - 3)
Advanced independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor Prerequisite: Permission of the chair.
ARCH 8999Non-Topical Research, Masters (1 - 12)
Advanced independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor Prerequisite: Permission of the chair.
Architectural History
ARH 1004History of Architecture (3)
Surveys architecture from the Ancient to the present.
ARH 1010History of Architecture I (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 1020History 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.
ARH 2252High 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 2401History 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 2500Special Topics in Architectural History (1 - 3)
Topical offerings in architectural history.
Course was offered January 2021, Fall 2017, Spring 2014
ARH 2700Thomas 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 2702Public Humanities and Cultural Change (3)
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 2753Arts & 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.
ARH 3003Evidence 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.
Course was offered Fall 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2019
ARH 3006Digital 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 3010Research Studio 1 (3)
Advanced vertical studio, exploring complex issues and sites, often through interdisciplinary design research.
ARH 3030World 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 3040Metropolis (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 3100History 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 3101Early Medieval Architecture (3)
The architecture of Western Europe from c. 800-1150.
ARH 3102Later Medieval Architecture (3)
The architecture of Western Europe from c. 1140-1500.
ARH 3103Reconstructing 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 3205Rome, 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 3206Mediterranean 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 3207Arts 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 3403World 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.
ARH 3500Special Topics in Architectural History (1 - 3)
Offered
Fall 2024
Topical offerings in architectural history.
ARH 3591Architectural 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.
Course was offered Fall 2017, Fall 2013
ARH 3603Archaeological 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.
Course was offered Fall 2017, Fall 2013, Fall 2010
ARH 3604Field Methods I Building Archaeology (3)
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.
ARH 3606Landscape 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.
Course was offered Fall 2014, Fall 2011
ARH 3607Architecture 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
Course was offered Fall 2013, Fall 2012
ARH 3608Historic Preservation Theory and Practice (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 3609Community 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 3610Representing 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 3611Historic 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 3613UNESCO, 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.
Course was offered Fall 2021, Fall 2020
ARH 3614Theory & 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 3616History 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 3618Materials and Culture (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
Course was offered Fall 2023, Fall 2022
ARH 3620Cultural 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 3701Early American Architecture (3)
American architecture from the first European contact to the death of Jefferson. Lectures and field trips.
ARH 3702Later American Architecture (3)
Surveys American architecture from 1800 to the present.
Course was offered Fall 2018, Spring 2017
ARH 3801East 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 4201Art 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 4500Special Topics in Architectural History (1 - 3)
Topical offerings in architectural history.
ARH 4510J-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 4591Undergraduate Seminar in the History of Architecture (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
Research seminar in select topics in architectural history.
ARH 4993Independent Studies in Architectural History (1 - 4)
Offered
Fall 2024
Advanced work on independent research topics by individual students.
ARH 4999Major Special Study: Thesis (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
Advanced independent research projects by fourth year architectural history students. Prerequisite: Instructor approval and departmental approval of topic.
ARH 5001Library 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 5201Art and Architecture of Venice (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
Course was offered Fall 2023, Fall 2022
ARH 5500Selected Topics in Architectural History (1 - 3)
Special topics pursued in a colloquium.
ARH 5600Arch History Practicum: Preserv Intern (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
ARH 5611Architectural 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 5612ArchHist Practicum: Pres Intern II (1 - 3)
Offered
Fall 2024
Continuation of Internship in historic preservation/architectural history. 6-8 hours weekly. Course may include site visits. Graduate students will undertake additional course requirements.
ARH 5613A 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 5614Historic 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 5993Independent Studies in Architectural History (1 - 4)
Offered
Fall 2024
Advanced work on independent research topics by individual students. Departmental approval of the topic is required.
ARH 6004History of Architecture (3)
Surveys architecture from the Ancient to the present. Graduate course will have additional course requirements.
Course was offered Summer 2021
ARH 6010Research Studio 1 (3)
Advanced vertical studio, exploring complex issues and sites, often through interdisciplinary design research.
ARH 6011Race 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.
Course was offered Fall 2022, Fall 2021
ARH 6811Gender & 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.
Course was offered Fall 2022, Fall 2021
ARH 7010History 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 7020History 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.
ARH 7030World 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 7040Metropolis (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 7100History 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 7101Early Medieval Architecture (3)
The architecture of Western Europe from c. 800-1150.
ARH 7102Later Medieval Architecture (3)
The architecture of Western Europe from c. 1140 and 1500.
ARH 7103Adv. 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 7205Rome, 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 7206Mediterranean 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 7207Arts 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 7401History 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 7403World 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.
ARH 7500Special Topics in Architecture History (1 - 3)
Topical offerings in architectural history.
ARH 7603Archaeological 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.
Course was offered Fall 2017, Fall 2013, Fall 2010
ARH 7604Historical 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.
Course was offered Fall 2015, Fall 2012, Fall 2009
ARH 7606Landscape 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.
Course was offered Fall 2014, Fall 2011
ARH 7607Adv 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
Course was offered Fall 2013, Fall 2012
ARH 7612Theory 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 7613UNESCO, 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.
Course was offered Fall 2021, Fall 2020
ARH 7616History 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 7620Cultural 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 7700Adv 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 7701Early American Architecture (3)
A survey of American architecture from the first European contact to 1800 including Jefferson, urban form and landscape design.
ARH 7702Later 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 7801Adv. 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 7993Independent Study: Architectural History (1 - 3)
Offered
Fall 2024
Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor.
ARH 8001Methods in Architectural History (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
Required for candidates for the degree of Master of Architectural History. An investigation of the nature of architectural history, materials, methods, and writings.
ARH 8002Digital Technologies in Architectural History (3)
The study of analytic and digital technologies for Architectural History Master Students.
Course was offered Fall 2010
ARH 8003Evidence 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
Course was offered Fall 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2019
ARH 8005Critical 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 8006Digital 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 8500Special Topics in Architecture History (1 - 3)
Offered
Fall 2024
Topical offerings in architectural history.
Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2020
ARH 8540Seminar in 20th/21st Century Architecture (3)
Special research topics pursued in a seminar.
Course was offered Spring 2019
ARH 8601Historic Preservation Theory and Practice (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 8604Field Methods I Building Archaeology (3)
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 8609Community 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 8610Representing 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 8611Historic 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 8618Materials and Culture (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
Course was offered Fall 2023, Fall 2022
ARH 8994Thesis (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
Preparation and completion of a thesis..
ARH 8995MA Thesis Research (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
Research on topic for Master Thesis.
ARH 8999Thesis Project (6 - 12)
Offered
Fall 2024
For Thesis Preparation, taken before a thesis director has been selected.
ARH 9100Seminar in Medieval Architecture (3)
Special research topics pursued in a seminar.  Past topics have discussed Gothic/Non-Gothic, Norman, and Monastic architecture. 
ARH 9500Special Topics in Architectural History (1 - 3)
Topical offerings in architectural history.
Course was offered Fall 2019
ARH 9510Seminar in Medieval Architecture (1 - 3)
Special research topics pursued in a seminar.
ARH 9520Seminar 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 9530Seminar in 18th/19th Century Architecture (3)
Special research topics pursued in a seminar.
Course was offered Spring 2010
ARH 9540Seminar in 20th/21st Century Architecture (3)
Special research topics pursued in a seminar.
ARH 9550Seminar in Ancient/Archaeology Architecture (1 - 3)
Special research topics pursued in a seminar.
ARH 9560Seminar in Theory, Comparative, & Other Topics (3)
Special research topics pursued in a seminar.
ARH 9570Seminar in Architecture of the Americas (3)
Special research topics pursued in a seminar.
Course was offered Fall 2013, Fall 2011, Fall 2010
ARH 9580Seminar in Architecture of East, South, and Southeast Asia (1 - 3)
Special research topics pursued in a seminar.
Course was offered Fall 2015
ARH 9590Seminar in Architecture of Africa or Islam (3)
Special research topics pursued in a seminar.
Course was offered Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Fall 2010
ARH 9993Independent Studies in Architectural History (3)
Advanced work on independent research topics by individual students. Departmental approval of the topic is required.
ARH 9999Non-Topical Research (3 - 12)
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
Landscape Architecture
LAR 3500Special Tops in Landscape Arch (3)
Topical offerings in landscape architecture.
Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2019
LAR 4230Cultural 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 5010Introduction 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 5020Introduction 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 5030Introduction 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 5140Theories 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.
LAR 5200Adv 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.
LAR 5230Cultural 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.
LAR 5280Green Infrastructure: Sites (3)
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.
LAR 5290Green Infrastructure: Cities (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 5452Healthy 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 5500Special Topics in Landscape Architecture (1 - 3)
Topical offerings in landscape architecture.
LAR 5590Faculty Research Seminar (1 - 3)
Affords students opportunities to participate in specific faculty's advance research projects.
LAR 5993Advanced Independent Research (1 - 3)
Offered
Fall 2024
Advanced independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
LAR 6010Foundation Studio I (6)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 6020Foundation Studio II (6)
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.
LAR 6110History of Landscape Design I (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 6120History of Landscape Design II (3)
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 6210EcoTech I (4)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 6220EcoTech II (4)
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 6710Media I (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 6720Design 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 7010Foundation Studio III (6)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 7020Foundation IV (6)
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
LAR 7110Theorizing Landscape Architecture (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 7120Design Research Seminar (3)
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 7180Landscape 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 7210EcoTech III (4)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 7220EcoTech IV (4)
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 7224Planted 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 7310Planted 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 7415Scripting 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.
Course was offered Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2014, Fall 2013
LAR 7416Digital 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 7500Special Topics in Landscape Architecture (1 - 3)
Offered
Fall 2024
Topical offerings in landscape architecture.
LAR 7710Design 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 7750Gaming 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 7993Independent Study (1 - 3)
Offered
Fall 2024
Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor .
LAR 8010Comprehensive 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.
Course was offered Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009
LAR 8020Foundation 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 8110Greater 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 8140Adv 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.
Course was offered Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
LAR 8210Plant Craft (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
LAR 8222Seeing Plants: Observation + Documentation (3)
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 8320Professional Practice (3)
Introduction to methods and models of design practice administration: proposal, contracts, project management, collaboration and licensure.
LAR 8500Special 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 8710Water and the City (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
LAR 8801Research Experience (3)
Student will engage with faculty on selected topics in Landscape Architecture Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor
LAR 8993Independent Study (1 - 4)
Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor. Prerequisite: Landscape Architecture faculty approval of topic.
LAR 8999Non-Topical Research (3 - 12)
Non-Topical Research.
Planning Application
PLAC 2500Topical Offerings in Planning (3)
Topical Offerings in Planning
PLAC 3500Topical Offerings in Planning (3)
Topical Offerings in Planning
PLAC 4010Neighborhood Planning Studio (4)
Offered
Fall 2024
Explores neighborhood, planning issues from the professionals' and citizens' perspectives. Cross-listed with PLAC 5610.
PLAC 4500Topical Offerings in Planning (3)
Topical Offerings in Planning
PLAC 4993Applied Independent Study (1 - 4)
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.
PLAC 5240Collaborative Planning for Sustainability (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 5250Applied 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
PLAC 5252Applied 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 5430Land 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 5500Topical Offerings in Planning (1 - 4)
Topical Offerings in Planning
PLAC 5610Neighborhood Planning Studio (4)
Explores neighborhood, planning issues from the professionals' and citizens' perspectives. Cross-listed with PLAC 5610.
PLAC 5616Civic 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 5623Inclusive Cities (3)
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 5720Transportation 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.
PLAC 5721Transportation 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 5740Transportation 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 5800Green Infrastructure: Cities (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 5812Ecological 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.
Course was offered Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
PLAC 5820Sustainable Planning and Design Workshop (3)
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 5822Plant Cultures and Ecologies (3)
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 5860Green Infrastructure: Sites (3)
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.
PLAC 5863Climate 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.
Course was offered Fall 2022, Fall 2021
PLAC 5993Applied Independent Study (1 - 6)
Offered
Fall 2024
Applied independent study.
PLAC 6010Environmental 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 6090Planning Capstone (4)
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.
PLAC 6862Planning 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 7500Topical Offerings in Planning (3)
Topical Offerings in Planning
PLAC 8240Advanced 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 8500Topical Offerings in Planning (1 - 6)
Topical Offerings in Planning
Course was offered Fall 2019
Urban and Environmental Planning
PLAN 1010Introduction to Urban and Environmental Planning (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
Analyzes community and environmental planning in the United States; the planning process; and sustainable communities.
PLAN 2020Planning Design (4)
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
PLAN 2030Neighborhoods, Community, & Regions (3)
Explores theories and concepts of economic, social, and cultural forces that influence urban and regional spatial structure.
Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
PLAN 2110Digital Visualization for Planners (4)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 2111GIS for Planners (3)
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 2500Special Topics in Planning (1 - 3)
Topical offerings in planning.
PLAN 3011Race and the American City (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
Course was offered Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020
PLAN 3020Planning in Government (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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
PLAN 3030Neighborhoods, Community and Regions (3)
Explores theories and concepts of economic, social, and cultural forces that influence urban and regional spatial structure.
PLAN 3040Metropolis (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.
PLAN 3050Planning Methods (3)
Analyzes methods used in quantitative and qualitative investigations of urban and regional settings for planning purposes.
PLAN 3060Law, Land and the Environment (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 3070Global 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 3122Urban Analytics (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
PLAN 3250Mediation 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 3310Divided 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 3454Introduction to the Real Estate Development Process (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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
PLAN 3500Special Topics in Planning (1 - 3)
Topical offerings in planning.
PLAN 3810Climate 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. Students will learn through readings,discussions,lectures, & workshops to develop interdisciplinary creative problem-solving skills
PLAN 3811Gender & Built Environment (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 3813Community-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.
Course was offered Fall 2022, Fall 2021
PLAN 3840Ethics of Cities and Environment (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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
Course was offered Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020
PLAN 3860Cities 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.
PLAN 3870Environment 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.
Course was offered Fall 2019, Fall 2018
PLAN 4500Special 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 4510J-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 4800Professional Practice (1 - 3)
Offered
Fall 2024
Structured internship experience and reporting as a reflective practitioner for ten weeks or 200 hours of experience.
PLAN 4901Distinguished Major Thesis 1 (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
Course was offered Fall 2023, Fall 2022
PLAN 4902Distinguished Major Thesis 2 (3)
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 4993Independent Study (1 - 4)
Offered
Fall 2024
Elective courses offered at the request of faculty or students to provide an opportunity for internships, fieldwork, and independent study.
PLAN 4999Planning Senior Project (3)
Note: Third- and fourth-year undergraduate students may, with instructor permission, enroll in selected 5000-level courses.
PLAN 5020Planning 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.
PLAN 5040Planning 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 5110Digital 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 5140Advanced 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.
Course was offered Fall 2010, Fall 2009
PLAN 5200Real Estate Develop Process I (3)
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 5201Real 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 5204Real 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 5205Real 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.
Course was offered Fall 2022, Fall 2021
PLAN 5210Real 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 5220Real Estate Finance Fundamentals (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 5230Design Dimensions of Real Estate (3)
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 5300Preservation Planning (3)
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.
PLAN 5400Housing and Community Development (3)
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.
PLAN 5401Models 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 5420Economic 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 5421Building Construction Concepts and Methods (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
This course is an introduction to construction techniques and methods. This course covers project delivery methods, estimating, plan reading, and scheduling.
PLAN 5440Neighborhood 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 5452Healthy 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.
PLAN 5470Site 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 5500Special Topics in Planning (1 - 4)
Varies annually to meet the needs of graduate students.
PLAN 5580Short Courses in Planning (1)
Offered
Fall 2024
A series of one-credit short courses, whose topics vary from semester to semester.
PLAN 5581Short 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 5600Land 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.
PLAN 5611Barcelona 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 5614Urban Strategies (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 5621Informal 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.
Course was offered Fall 2023, Fall 2022
PLAN 5710Transportation 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 the environment.
PLAN 5740Transportation Planning and Policy (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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
PLAN 5810Toward 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 5816Water 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.
Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020
PLAN 5870Environment 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.
Course was offered Fall 2019, Fall 2018
PLAN 5890Sustainable 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.
Course was offered Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Spring 2010
PLAN 5891International 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 5892Psychology 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 5993Applied Independent Study (1 - 4)
Offered
Fall 2024
Individual study directed by a faculty member. Prerequisite: Planning faculty approval of topic.
PLAN 6011Race and the American City (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
Course was offered Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020
PLAN 6013Communication and Planning Analytics (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
Course was offered Fall 2023
PLAN 6015Sustainable 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 6020Methods 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, and scenario planning, as well as strategies like asset mapping, visual preference surveys, games, art-based visioning, participatory budgeting.
PLAN 6030Introduction 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.
Course was offered Fall 2018, Fall 2017
PLAN 6040Quantitative Methods of Planning Analysis (3)
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.
PLAN 6050Land Use and Environmental Law (3)
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.
PLAN 6070Planning Theory and Practice (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 6110Digital 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.
Course was offered Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
PLAN 6120Digital Technology for Planning and Design - GIS (4)
Offered
Fall 2024
Technology class introducing students to the fundamental applications of geographic information systems central to planning analysis and practice.
PLAN 6122Urban Analytics (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2022
PLAN 6130Advanced 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 6310Divided 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 6454Introduction to the Real Estate Development Process (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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
PLAN 6500Special Topics in Planning (1 - 6)
Topical offerings in planning.
Course was offered Fall 2019, Spring 2015
PLAN 6810Climate 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 6811Gender & Built Environment (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 6813Community-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.
Course was offered Fall 2022, Fall 2021
PLAN 6840Ethics of Cities and Environment (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
Course was offered Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021
PLAN 6860Cities + 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.
PLAN 7010Research Studio 1 (3)
Advanced vertical studio, exploring complex issues and sites, often through interdisciplinary design research.
PLAN 7040Advanced 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.
PLAN 7401Models 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 7810Sustainable 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.
Course was offered Fall 2016, Fall 2015
PLAN 7993Independent Study (1 - 4)
Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor.
PLAN 8020Methods 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.
Course was offered Fall 2018, Fall 2017
PLAN 8030Neighborhoods, 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 8040Adv 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 8050Advanced 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.
Course was offered Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
PLAN 8070Planning 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.
Course was offered Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
PLAN 8500Advanced Special Topics in Planning (1 - 3)
Varies annually to meet the needs of graduate students.
Course was offered Fall 2020, Fall 2017, Fall 2016
PLAN 8580Advanced Short Courses in Planning (1)
A series of one-credit short courses, whose topics vary from semester to semester.
PLAN 8600Land 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.
Course was offered Fall 2016, Fall 2015
PLAN 8710Advanced 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 8811Advanced 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 8840Adv 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.
Course was offered Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
PLAN 8892Psychology 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 8993Independent Studies in Urban and Environmental Planning (1 - 4)
Offered
Fall 2024
Advanced work on independent research topics by individual students. Departmental approval of the topic is required.
PLAN 8994Thesis (3 - 6)
Offered
Fall 2024
Preparation and completion of a thesis.
PLAN 8998Non-Topical Research, Masters (1 - 12)
For Thesis Preparation, taken before a thesis director has been selected.
PLAN 8999Master's Thesis (3 - 6)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
Architecture School
SARC 1500SARC Seminars (1)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 2100Design 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 2500Special Topics in the School of Architecture (1 - 4)
Topical offerings in the School of Architecture.
SARC 3500Special Topics in the School of Architecture (1 - 4)
Topical offerings in the School of Architecture
Course was offered Spring 2015, Spring 2014
SARC 3559New Course in Architecture (3)
New course in the subject of the School of Architecture
Course was offered Spring 2016, Fall 2014, Fall 2013
SARC 3993Independent Study: School of Architecture (1 - 4)
Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor
SARC 5130Design Research Journal I (1)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
SARC 5131Design Research Journal II (1)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
SARC 5132Design Research Journal III (1)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
SARC 5400Data Visualization (3)
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.
SARC 5500Special Topics in the School of Architecture (1 - 4)
Topical offerings in the School of Architecture.
SARC 5555Visualization 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.
SARC 5559New Course in Architecture (3)
New course in the subject of the School of Architecture
SARC 5710Hoos 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 5711CPT Internship (1)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
SARC 5720Transportation 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 5760Drawing 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.
SARC 5801Italian 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 5993Independent Study: School of Architecture (1 - 4)
Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor
SARC 6100Urbanizing 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 6101Buildings, Cities, Narratives (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 6200History 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 6203Design 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 6710Design Computation 1 (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 6720Design Computation 2 (3)
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 8101Theories 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 8120Ethics, Politics, & Aesthetics (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 8500Adv Special Topics in the School of Architecture (1 - 4)
Topical offerings in the School of Architecture.
SARC 8812Ecological 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.
Course was offered Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
SARC 9911Research Colloquium I (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 9912Research Colloquium II (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 9913Research Colloquium III (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 9914Research Colloquium IV (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 9993Advanced Independent Research (1 - 6)
Offered
Fall 2024
Advanced independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor. Prerequisite: Permission of the Director.
SARC 9998Non-Topical Doctoral Prep (1 - 12)
Offered
Fall 2024
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected.
SARC 9999Non-Topical Research (1 - 12)
Offered
Fall 2024
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.