Enrollment and Registration
Summer Session
On-Campus Design Studio Courses
June 1 - July 24, 2009
ARCH 1102: Design II
Design II is the second of the required ten architectural design studios. Students are asked to develop the skills to identify, construct, and develop an architectural argument: to think stategically. Analytical procedures introduce and engage the student in architectural systems through which an architectural concept has been demonstrated. These analytical exercises provide the foundation for a series of architectural projects that can range in scale, site, and program that have included stategic constructions, residential proposals, and both popular culture and industrial programs located within rural, urban, and agricultural landscapes.
ARCH 2100: Elective Design Studio
Limited to transfer students and students from schools of architecture other than Cornell.
ARCH 2101: Design III
The major theme of Arch 2101 is the issue of architectural space: how it is defined and why it is important. In the first part of the semester, the problems generally address types of spatial definition. The intention is to give students an understanding of design criteria and the requisite skills to address the semester’s major design problem. The major problem is a building type (spatial in nature) with a public sequence and a hierarchical set of spaces, generally a museum or similar type, but can also include hotels, libraries, or border stations. Site issues and historical context are introduced and problems are selected that exaggerate these issues. Students are required to conduct research that will help to inform their architectural decisions as well as expose them to knowledge outside of architecture. Students are introduced to programming of buildings and are required to participate in the development of the program. In many cases the programs in second year are for real buildings, and students are given the option to add an important function to the program.
ARCH 2102: Design IV
The issue of the building in its context, the formation of concepts and “parti” appropriate to the site and the building are important issues. At the same time, the issues of composition and the development of the vertical surfaces of building are stressed. In this instance, the use of materials becomes an important issue. Students are expected to integrate simple structure, building envelope, public circulation, spatial concepts, and conceptual ideas appropriate to the problem at a fairly sophisticated level.
ARCH 3100: Elective Design Studio
Limited to transfer students and students from schools of architecture other than Cornell.
ARCH 3101: Design V
ARCH 3102: Design VI
The design studios in the first three years of the undergraduate program are conceived of as a core curriculum intended to provide students with basic information, skills, experiences to prepare them for the varied and specialized experiences in the advanced fourth and fifth year studios and beyond.
While the first year curriculum is typically the most rigidly structured and coordinated in order to support the students in their initial studies, the third year tends to be more varied and complex focusing on shared objectives and themes within the year but as well emphasizing substantial variation in means, in types of case studies, the diversity of issues and emphasis.
The third year studio functions therefore both as a context for the consolidation of skills and lessons from previous years, but as well as a format for the synthesis of lessons, experiences, and concepts from the broader curriculum in technology, history, theory, the social sciences, and beyond. While still a part of a structured, directed curricular agenda, it is as well as critical step in the professional maturation of the students where the lessons reside in the pieces coming together more independent research, exploration, critical thinking to reveal the diversity of viable perspective and valuable result.
ARCH 4100: Design VII
Limited to transfer students and students from schools of architecture other than Cornell.
ARCH 4101: Design VII
ARCH 4102: Design VIII
ARCH 5101: Design IX
The fourth and fifth year design studios in Ithaca are typically visiting critic studios which bring a variety of people from major architectural firms worldwide. The problems are set by the visiting critics and are generally large-scale, many being real projects from the various backgrounds of the critics. Polemical issues are varied due to the nature of the studio. Students are exposed to a variety of approaches to the making of architecture. The learning objectives are to present a unique experience and to promote a realistic approach to comprehensive design. These studios allow students to explore more of their personal interests in architecture and prepare them for their thesis projects. These studios are very heavily research based and are generally focused on one of six topics including: Digital Fabrication, Material Investigation, Interpretation of Culture and Landscape, Professional Practice, Infrastructure, and Structure.
ARCH 5103: Design Sequence
Structured studio for those needing to retake ARCH 5101. The course operates within the fourth-year design studios
ARCH 5110: Thesis Proseminar
In addition to identifying and researching a specific “architectural project” (which may or may not be the design of a building, students are asked to locate their investigation within contemporary debates surrounding a number of longstanding disciplinary problems. Positioning your own project within (or between) the present-day manifestations of such age-old topics as Site, Function, Design Process, Building Techniques, Form, Meaning, Professionalism -and their current translation into fields, events, surfaces, effects, intelligence etc.- will not only provide the context for the student’s work, but can help move a thesis beyond the personal interpretation of “known facts”, and enable it to actively move toward a “true theory”, one that the student can continue to test in future professional and academic endeavors.
Architectural History
ARCH 3808: Modernism
June 1 - June 19, 2009 (3 weeks)
3cr
Pre-requisite: ARCH 1801-1802 or 5801-5802 or permission of instructor.
meeting time TBA
can be used to fulfill one history of architecture departmental elective requirement
Christian F. Otto
The built domain that we live in today is largely shaped by Modernism. In this course, we will explore the architecture of major creators, such as Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, and the impact of critical institutions, such as de Stijl and the Bauhaus. The class will emphasize discussion based on primary sources and analytic assessments of Modernist design and urbanism.
Structural Concepts
June 1 - June 26, 2009 (4 weeks)
ARCH 2603
ARCH 5603
The course begins with the calculation of loads and supporting reactions and then considers in succession the behavior of hangers, trusses, beams, columns, suspension cables, arches, and frames. Classes are of the lecture format, approximately evenly divided between presentations of governing formulas/ physical analysis of basic structural concepts and sessions of working case studies that illustrate buildings in which these concepts are related to architectural design intent.
Structural Elements
June 15 - July 24, 2009 (6 Weeks)
ARCH 2604
ARCH 5604
Design and analysis of tension, compression, and bending elements in wood, steel, and reinforced concrete. Includes beam-column behavior for reinforced concrete, and a discussion of loads (wind, seismic, live load reduction) and load combinations. Allowable stress design is used for wood and steel; strength design for reinforced concrete.
Patricia Brizzio, B.Arch 2007"Recognizing the very basic genetic information of Nervi’s Palazzo dello Sport, a dome whose tension ring is the seating area, I proposed a multiple differentiation of the structure."
