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Sustainable Design

Learn passive and innovative strategies to minimize a building’s aggressive energy and resource consumption. You’ll examine the benefits of renewable resources and well-building design, focusing on best practices revealed both in vernacular architecture and forward-thinking contemporary design case studies. (This course is cross-listed with ARH 613.)

Material and Methods of Construction: Building Detailing

Gain proficiency in the technical and tactile aspects of architectural design by developing a sophisticated wall section. You will design key details, which provide a significant portion of a completed documentation for a building design.

Materials and Methods

Material choices are design decisions. You’ll evaluate the unique properties and construction methods of materials, including the social constructs, environmental impacts, and design opportunities they provide.

Studio 9: Thesis Preparation and Development

Cultivate your point of view using architecture as a lens. You’ll conduct research-driven architectural investigations to identify your thesis topic, develop your architectural language, and use site and demographic analysis as design criteria for the final thesis project in the subsequent semester.

Digitally Generated Fabrication

Explore methods of advanced architectural fabrication in relation to architectural design and construction processes. Through your work, you will engage in several techniques, processes, and technologies that are applicable towards architectural production.

Studio 1: Conceptual Design Studio

Learn design principles for creating spaces for people. You will utilize design, methodology, and space-making principles to gain fundamental knowledge and skills in environmental design and prepare for future architecture and landscape architecture studios.

Structures

Gain an understanding of how structural systems and materials impact architectural form and structural design. You will study the elements, connections, and organizations used in the construction process, from elemental to complex structures in different materials.

From Theory to Practice

How do architects make the leap between theoretical interests and design projects? You will analyze the ideas and techniques of architects whose work operates between theory and practice and position your own thesis work in relation to the key themes of program, structure, and form.

Architecture Theory

The influence of architecture goes far beyond the buildings you see. Discover the history of the most significant architectural ideas and strategies and learn to articulate your position within its spectrum.

Studio 4: Assembly Building and Context

Theaters are cultural institutions for collective story-telling. Design a theater by developing a critical viewpoint on the role of society, community, and culture. You will develop a design methodology through the analysis of the site as well as a cultural artifact. Iterative use of hand drawing, physical model-making, and digital… Read More