Core Design Studio I
ARCH 511 Course Schedule: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 12:20 pm - 4:25 pm
Prerequisite: Professional M.Arch. candidate status
Professor: Jim Williamson
Course Overview: Introduction to fundamental concepts of architectural design and representation, including preliminary notions of site, program, and context. Emphasis on interpretive, analytical, and generative uses of drawing and physical modeling in the design process.
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Theories and Analyses of Architecture I
ARCH 531 Course Schedule: Fridays, 9:05 am - 11:00 am
Location: 157 East Sibley Hall
Prerequisite: Professional M.Arch. candidate status
Professor: Val Warke
Course Overview:
Introduces students to influential critical and creative themes in modern architecture. Topics cover influential 20th-century discourses and practices prior to the 1960’s, the questions and contexts that they engage, and their implications for contemporary thinking and design. Discussions and assignments aim at developing critical and graphical readings of both works and writings.
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Analog / Freehand Constructed Drawing
ARCH 551 Course Schedule: Wednesdays, 9:05 am - 12:05 pm
Location: Studio
Prerequisite: Professional M.Arch. candidate status
Professor: Jerry Wells
Course Overview:
Focuses hand drawing and sketching as vehicles for design thinking and perception. Observational, analytical, and transformational exercises develop creative proficiency in freehand drawing, line drawing, and orthographic projection.
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Structural Concepts
ARCH 563/263
Course Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:05 am - 11:00 am.
Location: 157 East Sibley Hall
Prerequisite: Math 111 or approved equivalent
Professor: Mark Cruvellier
Course Overview: The first of three required courses in the structures sequence introduces students to the traditional basic concepts of statics and strength of materials; the subject matter is taught, however, from a holistic point of view so that material is presented in the context of architectural ideas and examples. The course begins with the calculation of loads and support reactions and then considers in succession the behavior of hangers, trusses, beams, columns, suspension cables, arches, and frames.
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History of Architecture I
ARCH 581/181 Course Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:30 pm - 4:25 pm.
Location: 157 East Sibley Hall
Prerequisite: None
Professor: Medina Lasansky Course Overview: The history of the built environment as social and cultural expression from the earliest times to the beginning of the modern period is studied through selected examples from across the world. Themes, theories, and ideas in architecture and urban design are explored through texts, artifacts, buildings, cities, and landscapes.
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