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- An exploration of the fundamental principles of human physiology, thermal and luminous comfort, and indoor quality. Emphasis is on bioclimatic and psychrometric climate analysis and its relationship to architectural design, understanding the energy exchange between body in space, the natural meaning of enclosures, and nonstructural materials and systems. The focus is on passive heating, cooling, and daylighting systems and their design. Exercises include vital sign analysis of existing spaces (thermal, air, luminous), forming hypotheses of building performance, using scientific instrumentation, tenant survey techniques, and physical modeling and simulation techniques related to daylighting and shading techniques. + This course focuses on the relationship between the built environment and its context through an introduction to key environmental theories and principles, climate/microclimate types, thermal comfort and thermal delight theories. The course introduces the fundamentals of building physics as it pertains to building thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer, and airflow, and emphasis is placed on passive strategies of heating, cooling, and daylighting. Students will develop the ability to design architecture that, through material selection, form, orientation and climate-specific strategies, mitigates its impacts on the climate and the ecosystem. Environmental and Ecological Systems will introduce analysis and simulation tools which put the environmental principles covered in course lectures into practice. Projects will run in coordination with design projects in ARCH 2830 and will explore site-specific climate analysis, the deployment of environmental strategies at multiple scales, and the design of daylighting and shading strategies informed by digital simulations and physical models.

diff --git a/courses/ARCH-2550.html b/courses/ARCH-2550.html index 7c562be7a..d00fbc6a5 100644 --- a/courses/ARCH-2550.html +++ b/courses/ARCH-2550.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARCH-2550: Digital Constructs 4 - + @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ARCH-2550

- Building on techniques taught in Digital Constructs 3, this course will expand upon the role of technology in architecture by introducing advanced methods of design analysis and resolution. Students will learn to address issues of optimization, environmental surroundings, structure, and site by using various contemporary analytic software programs. This course is offered in the spring semester and is required of all second-year architecture undergraduates in the B.Arch. program. Coordination of the relationship of course content to Architectural Design Studio 4 will be between the Digital Constructs 4 faculty instructor and the second-year architectural design studio coordinator and faculty. + Building on techniques taught in ARCH 2540 , this course will expand upon the role of technology in architecture by introducing advanced methods of design analysis and resolution. Students will learn, CAD drawing conventions, file organization and management generative design & scripting, and advanced rendering techniques. This course is offered in the spring semester and is required of all second-year architecture undergraduates in the B.Arch. program.

diff --git a/courses/ARCH-4150.html b/courses/ARCH-4150.html index 6f7c6c4bb..3d9214274 100644 --- a/courses/ARCH-4150.html +++ b/courses/ARCH-4150.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARCH-4150: Contemporary Design Approaches - + @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ARCH-4150

- Reflecting on the knowledge and understandings acquired in all the previous courses in the history, theory, and criticism sequence, this course is a critical inquiry into the principal ideologies and premises of the most substantive architectural practices in the contemporary world. As such, the content of the course must necessarily evolve as the intellectual and cultural parameters of both theory and practice in the contemporary world change. The principal aim of the critique of various contemporary positions is to reinforce in students the importance of developing and critically maintaining their own values, vision, and voice in the design and making of architecture that was initiated in ARCH 2150, The Ethos of Architecture. Fundamental to this process is to encourage the students’ awareness of the necessity to challenge their own subjectivities, biases, and presuppositions. + This course builds upon the historical and theoretical discourse established in the HTC sequence and challenges students to position themselves critically within contemporary design practice. Central to this course is the history and theory of architecture and urban form, and the ability to identify the influences of diverse social, cultural, economic, and political forces that impact the design of the built environment. The course examines how contemporary urban and architectural design practices engage cultural diversity, design justice, environmental justice, intersectionality, and social equity. Students will be able to identify contemporary theories and tools that address climate change through ecological design, and social responsibility. The course will also identify theories and practices engaged in the integration of information, data, digital networks, and artificial intelligence in the creation of architectural and urban form.

diff --git a/courses/ARCH-4200.html b/courses/ARCH-4200.html index f0e472906..c34601637 100644 --- a/courses/ARCH-4200.html +++ b/courses/ARCH-4200.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARCH-4200: Portfolio Development - + @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ARCH-4200

- A graphic portfolio of architectural design work is a living document representing the diversity, competence, and growth of + A graphic portfolio of architectural design work is a living document representing the diversity, competence, and growth throughout an architect's career. Central to this course is the development of professional development skills in preparation for internships and a professional career in architecture, including the All-Institute ARCH AWAY experience. Students will have the ability to conceive, design, and construct a portfolio, using images and text, that integrates work examples exhibiting a diverse range of skills including, design studio, history theory, professional work, technical and environmental courses. Other skills covered include the design of a curriculum vitae tailored to architecture, and the allied design fields.

diff --git a/courses/ARCH-4320.html b/courses/ARCH-4320.html index 29dd9b278..fbf141bc8 100644 --- a/courses/ARCH-4320.html +++ b/courses/ARCH-4320.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARCH-4320: Building Integration 1: Design - + @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ARCH-4320

- This course provides critical technical knowledge and skills for students to critically address environmental building regulations and the practice of + This course provides critical technical knowledge and skills for students to critically address environmental building regulations and the practice of health safety and welfare in the design of the built environment. It prepares students with the necessary foundational knowledge to work collaboratively with adjacent expert professionals to foster an integrative design process and places emphasis on developing critical approaches to both active and passive building systems and building enclosures. The course will deliver material through lectures, software tutorials and skill building workshops and requires the students to have a baseline of established knowledge on the subjects. As such, this class cannot be taken without first passing the pre-requisite courses, Construction Systems (CS) and Environmental and Ecological Systems (EES).

diff --git a/courses/ARCH-4330.html b/courses/ARCH-4330.html index e70dd486b..f8344c1a0 100644 --- a/courses/ARCH-4330.html +++ b/courses/ARCH-4330.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARCH-4330: Structures 2 - + @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ARCH-4330

- This course builds on the material presented in Structures 1, with an emphasis on the analysis and design of structures compressed primarily of steel and site cast and pre-cast concrete, with an overview of load-bearing masonry and advanced systems. The theoretical concepts covered in the introduction course form the conceptual basis for work in Structures 2, with relevant new concepts/techniques covered. Innovative, non-normative structural systems are investigated and discussed. Analysis and design will proceed using primarily computer-aided techniques. The course approach will involve in-class presentations, homework and project work, computer lab, field trips, and case studies. WebCT will be used to expand the student’s access to course materials and allow for a measure of distance learning. Sustainability: The following notions are introduced as important attributes of sustainable structures and construction: structural robustness, and programmatic flexibility. (Design optimization approaches are introduced and explored as avenues to accomplish more optimum design conditions under increasingly strict design constraints.) + This course builds on the material presented in ARCH 2330, with the analysis and design of structures comprising steel, concrete, timber, and masonry. The theoretical concepts covered in the introductory course form the conceptual basis for work in Structures 2, with relevant new concepts/techniques covered. Students will explore load transfer in different structural assemblies and consider how seismic and other complex loading can impact architectural considerations. Innovative, non-normative structural systems are investigated and discussed. Design optimization approaches are introduced and explored as avenues to accomplish more optimum design conditions under increasingly strict design constraints. The course approach will involve in class presentations, homework, exams, worked problems, and case studies.

diff --git a/courses/ARCH-4540.html b/courses/ARCH-4540.html index d8db1fcd5..bf6ca2d6d 100644 --- a/courses/ARCH-4540.html +++ b/courses/ARCH-4540.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARCH-4540: Professional Practice 1 - + @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ARCH-4540

- An introduction to architectural practice as related to accomplishing design projects. An overview of professional obligations, registration and conduct, architects’ roles in project delivery, and office organization and management for delivering professional services. In-depth examination of architects’ responsibilities for health, safety, and welfare in design; building code requirements for fire protection, life safety, and accessibility; economics of building systems and assemblies; design and construction contracts; and design documentation. + This course is an introduction to professional responsibility and practice. Course topics include health, safety and welfare in design, life safety analysis, occupancy load and egress design, planning / zoning site plan development, planning board approval process, project estimating, specifications, accessibility, Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJ), zoning variances, and design strategies that employ sustainability, resiliency and energy efficiency.

diff --git a/courses/ARCH-4550.html b/courses/ARCH-4550.html index 9c0469761..9bbac042d 100644 --- a/courses/ARCH-4550.html +++ b/courses/ARCH-4550.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARCH-4550: Professional Practice 2 - + @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ARCH-4550

- This course covers topics that are essential to developing an effective professional architectural practice. The course will address professional obligations and ethics, contracts, registration, office organization, and management. The course will emphasize effective communication, negotiating, public speaking, and team development. + This course covers topics that are essential to developing an effective professional architectural practice, including; professional ethics and conduct, regulations including legal practice structures in New York State, career paths, licensure paths and career opportunities, requirements of AXP and ARE, business practices, including finances, project management, risk, business planning, marketing, business development, office organization and project delivery, leadership and collaboration in diverse multidisciplinary teams, consultants, project management skills and basic services and fees, and key stakeholders in the design process.

diff --git a/courses/ARCH-4590.html b/courses/ARCH-4590.html index dbb9b408a..f12e423c7 100644 --- a/courses/ARCH-4590.html +++ b/courses/ARCH-4590.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARCH-4590: Entrepreneurship &architecture - + @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ARCH-4590

- This course addresses the range of economic issues related to the practice of architecture. Topics will include economic cycles and building construction, globalization of architectural practice, case studies of models of practice, setting and negotiation of fees for services, economic relationships of architects and consultants, cost estimation. + This course provides students with professional career skills, and entrepreneurial business models for collaborative teamwork and leadership. In this course students will discover and define business opportunities via a user-centered approach; learn to design, test, and refine products/services to address an ambiguous problem or opportunity; create and evaluate sustainable business models; communicate business opportunities to motivate investors, employees, and customers; and learn to contribute to successful startup team dynamics.

diff --git a/courses/ARCH-4770.html b/courses/ARCH-4770.html index 2dbad6c0c..fbde5f8e8 100644 --- a/courses/ARCH-4770.html +++ b/courses/ARCH-4770.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARCH-4770: Architectural Design Studio 5 - + @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ARCH-4770

- This is an upper division architectural design studio that explores topics of contemporary interest to the discipline. Students apply for this studio based on their personal interest and professional objectives. Three such studios Architectural Design Studio 5, Architectural Design Studio 6, and Architectural Design Studio 7, are required for the degree. This course is offered in the fall and spring semesters and is required of all architecture undergraduates in the B.Arch. program. + This is third year architectural design studio employs a design research format to investigate a range of contemporary topics of interest to the discipline, including but not limited to, advanced fabrication, institutional & civic buildings, urban design, landscape architecture, community stakeholders. ARCH 4770 & ARCH 4780; are available at CASE NY, and the SoA Study Abroad programs. Students apply for this studio based on their personal interest and professional objectives. ARCH 4770 & ARCH 4780, are required for the degree.

diff --git a/courses/ARCH-4780.html b/courses/ARCH-4780.html index 386e54f09..79851bafd 100644 --- a/courses/ARCH-4780.html +++ b/courses/ARCH-4780.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARCH-4780: Architectural Design Studio 6 - + @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ARCH-4780

- This is an upper division architectural design studio that explores topics of contemporary interest to the discipline. Students apply for this studio based on their personal interest and professional objectives. Three such studios Architectural Design Studio 5, Architectural Design Studio 6, and Architectural Design Studio 7, are required for the degree. This course is offered in the fall and spring semesters and is required of all architecture undergraduates in the B.Arch. program. + This is third year architectural design studio employs a design research format to investigate a range of contemporary topics of interest to the discipline, including but not limited to, advanced fabrication, institutional & civic buildings, urban design, landscape architecture, community stakeholders. ARCH 4770 & ARCH 4780; are available at CASE NY, and the SoA Study Abroad programs.

diff --git a/courses/ARCH-4790.html b/courses/ARCH-4790.html index fccd31f5d..c124a9e2c 100644 --- a/courses/ARCH-4790.html +++ b/courses/ARCH-4790.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARCH-4790: Architectural Desgin Studio 7 - + @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ARCH-4790

- This is an upper division architectural design studio that explores topics of contemporary interest to the discipline. Students apply for this studio based on their personal interest and professional objectives. Three such studios: Architectural Design Studio 5, Architectural Design Studio 6, and Architectural Design Studio 7, are required for the degree. This course is offered in the fall semester and is required of all first-year architecture undergraduates in the B.Arch. program. + This fifth-year architectural design studio employs a design research format to investigate a range of contemporary topics of interest to the discipline, including advanced fabrication, institutional & civic buildings, urban design, landscape architecture, and community stakeholders. Students apply for this studio based on their personal interest and professional objectives.. This course is offered in the fall semester and is required of all architecture undergraduates in the B.Arch. program.

diff --git a/courses/ARCH-4820.html b/courses/ARCH-4820.html index ea8121221..cf1497ee9 100644 --- a/courses/ARCH-4820.html +++ b/courses/ARCH-4820.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARCH-4820: Comprehensive Design Studio 1 - + @@ -34,13 +34,22 @@ ARCH-4820

- This studio is a design-based studio that focuses on the integration of structural, technical, detail, zoning, and code-related issues with respect to the design of a moderate to large-scale building of civic importance. Such building types are (but not limited to) libraries, theaters, city halls, judicial buildings, educational buildings, etc. An important focus of the design project will be the relationship of the building to its urban context. An essential part of the design will involve programming of the building as well as responding to numerous of the learning outcomes defined by the NAAB (the accrediting agency for professional architecture programs) for a comprehensive design project. This course is required of all architecture undergraduates in the B.Arch. program. + The focus of this studio is the design and programming of a civic building in an urban setting. In this course, "students develop the ability to make design decisions within an architectural project while demonstrating synthesis of user requirements, regulatory requirements, site conditions, and accessible design, and consideration of the measurable environmental impacts of their design decisions." NAAB (SC.5 Design Synthesis).

5 credits
+
Prereqs: diff --git a/courses/ARCH-4830.html b/courses/ARCH-4830.html index a7a2f5e9e..1698657cc 100644 --- a/courses/ARCH-4830.html +++ b/courses/ARCH-4830.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARCH-4830: Integrated Design Development Studio - + @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ARCH-4830

- This studio is a technology-based design studio emphasizing the materialization and making of architectural design projects. The integration of building code requirements for fire protection, life safety, accessibility, building environmental systems, structure, construction, and materiality is central to the effective achievement of design intent. Students become aware of how these issues affect and inform design decisions. They learn to integrate technology, systems, and materials in the comprehensive resolution of building design and gain exposure to construction documents and design documentation. Construction and site visits are an integral part of the studio as is an integrated electronic media seminar on CAD applications. Students must co-register for ARCH 4540, a concurrent 2-credit course that introduces codes, the regulatory process, agreements, contract documents, building design cost control, and administration. This course is required of all architecture undergraduates in the B.Arch. program. + This design studio continues to develop and refine the studio project from ARCH 4820. In this course "students develop the ability to make design decisions within architectural projects while demonstrating integration of building envelope systems and assemblies, structural systems, environmental control systems, life safety systems, and the measurable outcomes of building performance." NAAB (SC.6 Design Integration).

diff --git a/courses/ARCH-4910.html b/courses/ARCH-4910.html index a0ad43dbe..977567d4c 100644 --- a/courses/ARCH-4910.html +++ b/courses/ARCH-4910.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARCH-4910: Final Project Design Research Seminar - + @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ARCH-4910

- This seminar is the first required course of the two-semester, 5th-year Final Project course sequence in the undergraduate program and as such serves as a prerequisite to the spring semester ARCH 4920 Final Project Design Studio. The Design Research Seminar provides a forum for readings and discussions as well as design and/or material experimentation as it relates to the respective Final Project instructor’s thematic framework. The seminar also covers fundamentals related to standard methods of research and analysis. This 3-credit course is required of all architecture undergraduates in the B.Arch. program. + This seminar is the first required course of the two-semester, 5th-year Final Project course sequence in the undergraduate program and as such serves as a prerequisite to the spring semester ARCH 4920. The Design Research Seminar provides a forum for readings and discussions as well as theoretical, historical, and disciplinary investigations as they relate to the respective Final Project instructor's thematic framework.

diff --git a/courses/ARCH-5100.html b/courses/ARCH-5100.html index 6f8d535a8..8a70dca78 100644 --- a/courses/ARCH-5100.html +++ b/courses/ARCH-5100.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARCH-5100: History, Theory, Criticism I - + @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ARCH-5100

- This course will examine the spectrum of architectural phenomena and ideas without a specific chronology using examples ranging from antiquity to the contemporary world in western and non-western civilizations and produced in both vernacular and disciplinary cultures. An essential part of this course is to stimulate students’ curiosity about architecture and the larger world and introduce them to key issues of architecture regarding space, form, critique, technology, aesthetics, societal and cultural contexts, etc. Particular emphasis will be given to the emergence of modernism in architecture. Crucial to the goals of this course is to encourage students to pursue and develop their own unique vision and voice in architecture throughout their education and practice. Fundamental to this process is making students aware of the necessity to challenge their own subjectivities, biases, and presuppositions. + This course will examine the spectrum of architectural phenomena and ideas without a specific chronology using examples ranging from antiquity to the contemporary world in western and non-western civilizations and produced in both vernacular and disciplinary cultures. An essential part of this course is to stimulate students' curiosity about architecture and the larger world and introduce them to key issues of architecture regarding space, form, critique, technology, aesthetics, societal and cultural contexts, etc. Particular emphasis will be given to the emergence of modernism in architecture. Crucial to the goals of this course is to encourage students to pursue and develop their own unique vision and voice in architecture throughout their education and practice. Fundamental to this process is making students aware of the necessity to challenge their own subjectivities, biases, and presuppositions.

diff --git a/courses/ARCH-5110.html b/courses/ARCH-5110.html index 6c3af951c..549787084 100644 --- a/courses/ARCH-5110.html +++ b/courses/ARCH-5110.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARCH-5110: History, Theory, Criticism 2 - + @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ARCH-5110

- This course addresses the history of architectural and related developments in selected Western and non-Western civilizations in order to construct a conceptual and strategic understanding of the relationships between architecture, culture, civilization, technology, and thought. In doing so, it will focus on key constructed spatial phenomena of the pre-modern world and, where relevant, elucidate the connection of these works of architecture and their motivating ideals to those of the modern and contemporary world. + This course addresses the history of architectural and related developments in selected Western and non- Western civilizations in order to construct a conceptual and strategic understanding of the relationships between architecture, culture, civilization, technology, and thought. In doing so, it will focus on key constructed spatial phenomena of the pre-modern world and, where relevant, elucidate the connection of these works of architecture and their motivating ideals to those of the modern and contemporary world. In addition to class meetings with ARCH 4100, this course meets regularly for recitation sessions.

diff --git a/courses/ARCH-5140.html b/courses/ARCH-5140.html index 980c3e5cc..dc29a8944 100644 --- a/courses/ARCH-5140.html +++ b/courses/ARCH-5140.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARCH-5140: Structures I - + @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ARCH-5140

- Introduction to Structures introduces the student of Architecture to the principles of structural mechanics and their application to basic architectural structures comprised primarily of wood. The fundamentals of statics are presented in order to gain an understanding of the way in which external forces produce internal stresses in individual members and, in essence, flow through the building system to be resolved at the foundation level. The principles of strength of materials are studied to understand how particular structural materials and configurations manage to resist these forces without unacceptable distortions, or even failure. Wood structural properties are studied in all their complexity as a means to internalize the more theoretical topics broached. Through in-class presentations, reading, homework and project work, computer lab, field trips, and case studies, the student will be aided in developing this intuitive (while practical) understanding. It is recognized that intuitions of building technologies are not acquired quickly but result from much study, observation, and practice. Introduction to Structures makes use of the several approaches above to ensure that the beginning student is provided with a broad, solid base for future structural investigations. WebCT will be used to expand the student’s access to course materials and allow for a measure of distance learning. Sustainability: the following notions are introduced as important attributes of sustainable structures and construction: durability and service life and life cycle cost. This course is required of all architecture graduate students in the M.Arch. program. + Through in-class presentations, homework, exams, and worked problems, students will learn the basic principles of structural systems, when to apply them, and how they resist gravitational and lateral forces. In addition, students will learn the principles of statics and apply them to basic structural analyses of common structural elements. It is recognized that intuitions of building technologies are not acquired quickly but result from much study, observation, and practice. Structures 1 makes use of the approaches above to ensure that the beginning student is provided with a broad, solid base for future structural investigations.

diff --git a/courses/ARCH-5160.html b/courses/ARCH-5160.html index 7d094d2aa..8d84d1b8a 100644 --- a/courses/ARCH-5160.html +++ b/courses/ARCH-5160.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARCH-5160: Digital Constructs I - + @@ -34,13 +34,21 @@ ARCH-5160

- This course focuses upon contemporary means of producing and communicating architectural ideas. Students will use digital methodologies through all phases of a project as well as advanced representation and digital fabrication techniques. The use of digital modeling as a sketch and iterative tool will be emphasized. Tools taught in Digital Constructs 1 will support softwares taught in Digital Constructs 2. This course is required of all first-year architecture graduate students in the M.Arch. program. Coordination of the relationship of course content to Graduate Architecture Design 1 will be between the Digital Constructs 1 faculty instructor and the architectural design studio coordinator and faculty. + This course focuses upon contemporary means of producing and communicating architectural ideas. Students will use digital methodologies through all phases of a project as well as advanced representation and digital fabrication techniques. The use of digital modeling as a sketch and iterative tool will be emphasized. Tools taught in Digital Constructs 1 will support software taught in ARCH 2530. This course is required of all first-year architecture graduate students in the M.Arch. program. Coordination of the relationship of course content to ARCH 5200 will be between the Digital Constructs 1 faculty instructor and the architectural design studio coordinator and faculty.

2 credits
+
+
+ Corequisites: +
+ +
Prereqs: diff --git a/courses/ARCH-5170.html b/courses/ARCH-5170.html index 53874c35b..2982f2edc 100644 --- a/courses/ARCH-5170.html +++ b/courses/ARCH-5170.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARCH-5170: Digital Constructs 2 - + @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ARCH-5170

- Building on techniques taught in Digital Constructs 1, this course will expand upon the role of technology in architecture by introducing advanced methods of design analysis and resolution. Students will learn to address issues of optimization, environmental surroundings, structure, and site by using various contemporary analytic softwares. This course is required of all second-year architecture graduate students in the M.Arch. program. Coordination of the relationship of course content to Graduate Architecture Design 2 will be between the Digital Constructs 2 faculty instructor and the studio coordinator and faculty. + Building on techniques taught in ARCH 5160, this course will expand upon the role of technology in architecture by introducing advanced methods of design analysis and resolution. Students will learn to address issues of optimization, environmental surroundings, structure, and site by using various contemporary analytic software. This course is required of all second-year architecture graduate students in the M. Arch. program. Coordination of the relationship of course content to ARCH 5210 will be between the Digital Constructs 2 faculty instructor and the studio coordinator and faculty.

diff --git a/courses/ARCH-5200.html b/courses/ARCH-5200.html index f61da5a68..da041c19a 100644 --- a/courses/ARCH-5200.html +++ b/courses/ARCH-5200.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARCH-5200: Graduate Arch Design I - + @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ARCH-5200

- This studio focuses on the relationship between building and landscape in terms of conceptual, pragmatic, ideological, aesthetic, and functional issues. As such, it endeavors to examine critically the disciplinary boundary between building and landscape. It also critically assesses the connections and inherent complexities between an institutional situation, workplace activity, and residential inhabitation in order to explore questions of publicness and privacy. This studio also addresses the tectonic dimensions of construction and structure in architectural design. + This first graduate design studio addresses the fundamentals of architecture while focusing on the relationship between building and landscape in terms of conceptual, pragmatic, ideological, aesthetic, and functional issues. As such, it endeavors to examine critically the disciplinary boundary between building and landscape. It also critically assesses the connections and inherent complexities between an institutional situation, workplace activity, and residential inhabitation in order to explore questions of publicness and privacy. This studio also addresses the tectonic dimensions of construction and structure in architectural design.

diff --git a/courses/ARCH-5210.html b/courses/ARCH-5210.html index 4b35fb0ea..24d5d639a 100644 --- a/courses/ARCH-5210.html +++ b/courses/ARCH-5210.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARCH-5210: Graduate Architecture Design 2 - + @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ARCH-5210

- This design studio builds on prior studios emphasizing projects of greater scale and complexity. Typically, the studio designs large-scale housing developments but other projects of similar complexity may be used. The studio requires the analysis and critique of precedent and the writing of an architectural program. + This design studio builds on ARCH 5200 by emphasizing projects of greater scale and complexity, requiring students to collaborate individually and in teams on their design. The studio project is a large-scale multi family housing development in an urban setting. The studio requires the analysis and critique of housing precedents and the design of multifamily units with structured parking and site design.

diff --git a/courses/ARCH-5300.html b/courses/ARCH-5300.html index d3b74e754..448c5b92e 100644 --- a/courses/ARCH-5300.html +++ b/courses/ARCH-5300.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARCH-5300: Materials And Construction Systems - + @@ -34,11 +34,11 @@ ARCH-5300

- Materials and Construction Systems centers on the development of a technical knowledge of, sensibility to, and intuition for the process by which an architectural design is realized in built form. The course introduces structural and material strategies and explores their creative and technical application to the architectural design process. In addition, the course establishes an understanding of the most common building materials including their physical properties, appropriate applications, and the implications of their uses in the larger context of embodied energy and material life cycles. The interdependence among building materials, acoustic qualities, enclosure systems, interior, finish, and other systems is investigated, with an emphasis on the broader architectural design endeavor. Complementing performance characteristics, the phenomenology of materials is introduced as a key concept in architectural design. An understanding of assemblies and integration is developed both from a design and engineering perspective as well as in construction application. The course approach will involve in class presentations, design projects and experiments, and the in depth analysis of architectural case studies. The importance of proper detailing, construction, and maintenance to accomplish lasting and efficient enclosures is highlighted. + This course will provide a basic understanding of the components, assemblies, and processes used in building construction, with an emphasis in structural typologies, materials, and enclosure systems, including frames, load-bearing walls, and structural forms. Typologies will be analyzed through their different materials component (wood, steel, concrete, timber) and construction methods (prefab, formwork, assembly, form-finding). From this fundamental point of departure, the course will examine the construction systems as a composition of building elements (walls, floors, columns, etc.) as well construction methods (casting, laminating, bending, stacking, connecting). Additional coursework will analyze enclosure systems and building envelopes that extend the structural system or attach to it, creating an interior to control and mediate between external environmental factors and internal programmatic requirements.

- 3 credits + 2 credits
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- Materials And Construction Systems (3c) + Materials And Construction Systems (2c)
  • Lonn J. Combs
    • diff --git a/courses/ARCH-5310.html b/courses/ARCH-5310.html index 22046af6c..c5ea0aa43 100644 --- a/courses/ARCH-5310.html +++ b/courses/ARCH-5310.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARCH-5310: Environmental & Ecological Sys - + @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ARCH-5310

    - An exploration of the fundamental principles of human physiology, thermal and luminous comfort, and indoor quality. Emphasis is on bioclimatic and psychrometric climate analysis and its relationship to architectural design, understanding the energy exchange between body in space, the natural meaning of enclosures, and nonstructural materials and systems. The focus is on passive heating, cooling, and daylighting systems and their design. Exercises include vital sign analysis of existing spaces (thermal, air, luminous), forming hypotheses of building performance, using scientific instrumentation, tenant survey techniques, and physical modeling and simulation techniques related to daylighting and shading techniques. This course is required of all architecture graduate students in the M.Arch. program. + This course focuses on the relationship between the built environment and its context through an introduction to key environmental theories and principles, climate/microclimate types, thermal comfort and thermal delight theories. The course introduces the fundamentals of building physics as it pertains to building thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer, and airflow, and emphasis is placed on passive strategies of heating, cooling, and daylighting. Students will develop the ability to design architecture that, through material selection, form, orientation and climate-specific strategies, mitigates its impacts on the climate and the ecosystem. Environmental and Ecological Systems will introduce analysis and simulation tools which put the environmental principles covered in course lectures into practice.

    diff --git a/courses/ARCH-5330.html b/courses/ARCH-5330.html index 4e219a795..ab015ef99 100644 --- a/courses/ARCH-5330.html +++ b/courses/ARCH-5330.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARCH-5330: Entrepreneurship &architecture - + @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ARCH-5330

    - This course addresses the range of economic issues related to the practice of architecture. Topics will include economic cycles and building construction, globalization of architectural practice, case studies of models of practice, setting and negotiation of fees for services, economic relationships of architects and consultants, cost estimation. + This course provides students with professional career skills, and entrepreneurial business models for collaborative teamwork and leadership. In this course students will discover and define business opportunities via a user-centered approach; learn to design, test, and refine products/services to address an ambiguous problem or opportunity; create and evaluate sustainable business models; communicate business opportunities to motivate investors, employees, and customers; and learn to contribute to successful startup team dynamics.

    diff --git a/courses/COMM-4535.html b/courses/COMM-4535.html index 9cd77dccf..c6cdf341b 100644 --- a/courses/COMM-4535.html +++ b/courses/COMM-4535.html @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
  • Yalun Zhou
- Seats Taken: 16/19 + Seats Taken: 15/19
diff --git a/json/searchable_catalog.json b/json/searchable_catalog.json index a7745ff3e..bf3ad0f68 100644 --- a/json/searchable_catalog.json +++ b/json/searchable_catalog.json @@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-2360", "credits" : "4 credits", - "description" : "An exploration of the fundamental principles of human physiology, thermal and luminous comfort, and indoor quality. Emphasis is on bioclimatic and psychrometric climate analysis and its relationship to architectural design, understanding the energy exchange between body in space, the natural meaning of enclosures, and nonstructural materials and systems. The focus is on passive heating, cooling, and daylighting systems and their design. Exercises include vital sign analysis of existing spaces (thermal, air, luminous), forming hypotheses of building performance, using scientific instrumentation, tenant survey techniques, and physical modeling and simulation techniques related to daylighting and shading techniques.", + "description" : "This course focuses on the relationship between the built environment and its context through an introduction to key environmental theories and principles, climate/microclimate types, thermal comfort and thermal delight theories. The course introduces the fundamentals of building physics as it pertains to building thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer, and airflow, and emphasis is placed on passive strategies of heating, cooling, and daylighting. Students will develop the ability to design architecture that, through material selection, form, orientation and climate-specific strategies, mitigates its impacts on the climate and the ecosystem. Environmental and Ecological Systems will introduce analysis and simulation tools which put the environmental principles covered in course lectures into practice. Projects will run in coordination with design projects in ARCH 2830 and will explore site-specific climate analysis, the deployment of environmental strategies at multiple scales, and the design of daylighting and shading strategies informed by digital simulations and physical models.", "name" : "Environmental And Ecol System" }, { @@ -710,7 +710,7 @@ "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-2550", "credits" : "2 credits", - "description" : "Building on techniques taught in Digital Constructs 3, this course will expand upon the role of technology in architecture by introducing advanced methods of design analysis and resolution. Students will learn to address issues of optimization, environmental surroundings, structure, and site by using various contemporary analytic software programs. This course is offered in the spring semester and is required of all second-year architecture undergraduates in the B.Arch. program. Coordination of the relationship of course content to Architectural Design Studio 4 will be between the Digital Constructs 4 faculty instructor and the second-year architectural design studio coordinator and faculty.", + "description" : "Building on techniques taught in ARCH 2540 , this course will expand upon the role of technology in architecture by introducing advanced methods of design analysis and resolution. Students will learn, CAD drawing conventions, file organization and management generative design & scripting, and advanced rendering techniques. This course is offered in the spring semester and is required of all second-year architecture undergraduates in the B.Arch. program.", "name" : "Digital Constructs 4" }, { @@ -1144,7 +1144,7 @@ "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4150", "credits" : "3 credits", - "description" : "Reflecting on the knowledge and understandings acquired in all the previous courses in the history, theory, and criticism sequence, this course is a critical inquiry into the principal ideologies and premises of the most substantive architectural practices in the contemporary world. As such, the content of the course must necessarily evolve as the intellectual and cultural parameters of both theory and practice in the contemporary world change. The principal aim of the critique of various contemporary positions is to reinforce in students the importance of developing and critically maintaining their own values, vision, and voice in the design and making of architecture that was initiated in ARCH 2150, The Ethos of Architecture. Fundamental to this process is to encourage the students\u2019 awareness of the necessity to challenge their own subjectivities, biases, and presuppositions.", + "description" : "This course builds upon the historical and theoretical discourse established in the HTC sequence and challenges students to position themselves critically within contemporary design practice. Central to this course is the history and theory of architecture and urban form, and the ability to identify the influences of diverse social, cultural, economic, and political forces that impact the design of the built environment. The course examines how contemporary urban and architectural design practices engage cultural diversity, design justice, environmental justice, intersectionality, and social equity. Students will be able to identify contemporary theories and tools that address climate change through ecological design, and social responsibility. The course will also identify theories and practices engaged in the integration of information, data, digital networks, and artificial intelligence in the creation of architectural and urban form.", "name" : "Contemporary Design Approaches" }, { @@ -1165,7 +1165,7 @@ "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4200", "credits" : "1 credit", - "description" : "A graphic portfolio of architectural design work is a living document representing the diversity, competence, and growth of", + "description" : "A graphic portfolio of architectural design work is a living document representing the diversity, competence, and growth throughout an architect's career. Central to this course is the development of professional development skills in preparation for internships and a professional career in architecture, including the All-Institute ARCH AWAY experience. Students will have the ability to conceive, design, and construct a portfolio, using images and text, that integrates work examples exhibiting a diverse range of skills including, design studio, history theory, professional work, technical and environmental courses. Other skills covered include the design of a curriculum vitae tailored to architecture, and the allied design fields.", "name" : "Portfolio Development" }, { @@ -1214,7 +1214,7 @@ "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4320", "credits" : "3 credits", - "description" : "This course provides critical technical knowledge and skills for students to critically address environmental building regulations and the practice of", + "description" : "This course provides critical technical knowledge and skills for students to critically address environmental building regulations and the practice of health safety and welfare in the design of the built environment. It prepares students with the necessary foundational knowledge to work collaboratively with adjacent expert professionals to foster an integrative design process and places emphasis on developing critical approaches to both active and passive building systems and building enclosures. The course will deliver material through lectures, software tutorials and skill building workshops and requires the students to have a baseline of established knowledge on the subjects. As such, this class cannot be taken without first passing the pre-requisite courses, Construction Systems (CS) and Environmental and Ecological Systems (EES).", "name" : "Building Integration 1: Design" }, { @@ -1228,7 +1228,7 @@ "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4330", "credits" : "3 credits", - "description" : "This course builds on the material presented in Structures 1, with an emphasis on the analysis and design of structures compressed primarily of steel and site cast and pre-cast concrete, with an overview of load-bearing masonry and advanced systems. The theoretical concepts covered in the introduction course form the conceptual basis for work in Structures 2, with relevant new concepts/techniques covered. Innovative, non-normative structural systems are investigated and discussed. Analysis and design will proceed using primarily computer-aided techniques. The course approach will involve in-class presentations, homework and project work, computer lab, field trips, and case studies. WebCT will be used to expand the student\u2019s access to course materials and allow for a measure of distance learning. Sustainability: The following notions are introduced as important attributes of sustainable structures and construction: structural robustness, and programmatic flexibility. (Design optimization approaches are introduced and explored as avenues to accomplish more optimum design conditions under increasingly strict design constraints.)", + "description" : "This course builds on the material presented in ARCH 2330, with the analysis and design of structures comprising steel, concrete, timber, and masonry. The theoretical concepts covered in the introductory course form the conceptual basis for work in Structures 2, with relevant new concepts/techniques covered. Students will explore load transfer in different structural assemblies and consider how seismic and other complex loading can impact architectural considerations. Innovative, non-normative structural systems are investigated and discussed. Design optimization approaches are introduced and explored as avenues to accomplish more optimum design conditions under increasingly strict design constraints. The course approach will involve in class presentations, homework, exams, worked problems, and case studies.", "name" : "Structures 2" }, { @@ -1301,14 +1301,14 @@ "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4540", "credits" : "2 credits", - "description" : "An introduction to architectural practice as related to accomplishing design projects. An overview of professional obligations, registration and conduct, architects\u2019 roles in project delivery, and office organization and management for delivering professional services. In-depth examination of architects\u2019 responsibilities for health, safety, and welfare in design; building code requirements for fire protection, life safety, and accessibility; economics of building systems and assemblies; design and construction contracts; and design documentation.", + "description" : "This course is an introduction to professional responsibility and practice. Course topics include health, safety and welfare in design, life safety analysis, occupancy load and egress design, planning / zoning site plan development, planning board approval process, project estimating, specifications, accessibility, Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJ), zoning variances, and design strategies that employ sustainability, resiliency and energy efficiency.", "name" : "Professional Practice 1" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4550", "credits" : "2 credits", - "description" : "This course covers topics that are essential to developing an effective professional architectural practice. The course will address professional obligations and ethics, contracts, registration, office organization, and management. The course will emphasize effective communication, negotiating, public speaking, and team development.", + "description" : "This course covers topics that are essential to developing an effective professional architectural practice, including; professional ethics and conduct, regulations including legal practice structures in New York State, career paths, licensure paths and career opportunities, requirements of AXP and ARE, business practices, including finances, project management, risk, business planning, marketing, business development, office organization and project delivery, leadership and collaboration in diverse multidisciplinary teams, consultants, project management skills and basic services and fees, and key stakeholders in the design process.", "name" : "Professional Practice 2" }, { @@ -1329,7 +1329,7 @@ "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4590", "credits" : "2 credits", - "description" : "This course addresses the range of economic issues related to the practice of architecture. Topics will include economic cycles and building construction, globalization of architectural practice, case studies of models of practice, setting and negotiation of fees for services, economic relationships of architects and consultants, cost estimation.", + "description" : "This course provides students with professional career skills, and entrepreneurial business models for collaborative teamwork and leadership. In this course students will discover and define business opportunities via a user-centered approach; learn to design, test, and refine products/services to address an ambiguous problem or opportunity; create and evaluate sustainable business models; communicate business opportunities to motivate investors, employees, and customers; and learn to contribute to successful startup team dynamics.", "name" : "Entrepreneurship &architecture" }, { @@ -1434,21 +1434,21 @@ "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4770", "credits" : "5 credits", - "description" : "This is an upper division architectural design studio that explores topics of contemporary interest to the discipline. Students apply for this studio based on their personal interest and professional objectives. Three such studios Architectural Design Studio 5, Architectural Design Studio 6, and Architectural Design Studio 7, are required for the degree. This course is offered in the fall and spring semesters and is required of all architecture undergraduates in the B.Arch. program.", + "description" : "This is third year architectural design studio employs a design research format to investigate a range of contemporary topics of interest to the discipline, including but not limited to, advanced fabrication, institutional & civic buildings, urban design, landscape architecture, community stakeholders. ARCH 4770 & ARCH 4780; are available at CASE NY, and the SoA Study Abroad programs. Students apply for this studio based on their personal interest and professional objectives. ARCH 4770 & ARCH 4780, are required for the degree.", "name" : "Architectural Design Studio 5" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4780", "credits" : "5 credits", - "description" : "This is an upper division architectural design studio that explores topics of contemporary interest to the discipline. Students apply for this studio based on their personal interest and professional objectives. Three such studios Architectural Design Studio 5, Architectural Design Studio 6, and Architectural Design Studio 7, are required for the degree. This course is offered in the fall and spring semesters and is required of all architecture undergraduates in the B.Arch. program.", + "description" : "This is third year architectural design studio employs a design research format to investigate a range of contemporary topics of interest to the discipline, including but not limited to, advanced fabrication, institutional & civic buildings, urban design, landscape architecture, community stakeholders. ARCH 4770 & ARCH 4780; are available at CASE NY, and the SoA Study Abroad programs.", "name" : "Architectural Design Studio 6" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4790", "credits" : "5 credits", - "description" : "This is an upper division architectural design studio that explores topics of contemporary interest to the discipline. Students apply for this studio based on their personal interest and professional objectives. Three such studios: Architectural Design Studio 5, Architectural Design Studio 6, and Architectural Design Studio 7, are required for the degree. This course is offered in the fall semester and is required of all first-year architecture undergraduates in the B.Arch. program.", + "description" : "This fifth-year architectural design studio employs a design research format to investigate a range of contemporary topics of interest to the discipline, including advanced fabrication, institutional & civic buildings, urban design, landscape architecture, and community stakeholders. Students apply for this studio based on their personal interest and professional objectives.. This course is offered in the fall semester and is required of all architecture undergraduates in the B.Arch. program.", "name" : "Architectural Desgin Studio 7" }, { @@ -1462,14 +1462,14 @@ "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4820", "credits" : "5 credits", - "description" : "This studio is a design-based studio that focuses on the integration of structural, technical, detail, zoning, and code-related issues with respect to the design of a moderate to large-scale building of civic importance. Such building types are (but not limited to) libraries, theaters, city halls, judicial buildings, educational buildings, etc. An important focus of the design project will be the relationship of the building to its urban context. An essential part of the design will involve programming of the building as well as responding to numerous of the learning outcomes defined by the NAAB (the accrediting agency for professional architecture programs) for a comprehensive design project. This course is required of all architecture undergraduates in the B.Arch. program.", + "description" : "The focus of this studio is the design and programming of a civic building in an urban setting. In this course, \"students develop the ability to make design decisions within an architectural project while demonstrating synthesis of user requirements, regulatory requirements, site conditions, and accessible design, and consideration of the measurable environmental impacts of their design decisions.\" NAAB (SC.5 Design Synthesis).", "name" : "Comprehensive Design Studio 1" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4830", "credits" : "5 credits", - "description" : "This studio is a technology-based design studio emphasizing the materialization and making of architectural design projects. The integration of building code requirements for fire protection, life safety, accessibility, building environmental systems, structure, construction, and materiality is central to the effective achievement of design intent. Students become aware of how these issues affect and inform design decisions. They learn to integrate technology, systems, and materials in the comprehensive resolution of building design and gain exposure to construction documents and design documentation. Construction and site visits are an integral part of the studio as is an integrated electronic media seminar on CAD applications. Students must co-register for ARCH 4540, a concurrent 2-credit course that introduces codes, the regulatory process, agreements, contract documents, building design cost control, and administration. This course is required of all architecture undergraduates in the B.Arch. program.", + "description" : "This design studio continues to develop and refine the studio project from ARCH 4820. In this course \"students develop the ability to make design decisions within architectural projects while demonstrating integration of building envelope systems and assemblies, structural systems, environmental control systems, life safety systems, and the measurable outcomes of building performance.\" NAAB (SC.6 Design Integration).", "name" : "Integrated Design Development Studio" }, { @@ -1518,7 +1518,7 @@ "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-4910", "credits" : "3 credits", - "description" : "This seminar is the first required course of the two-semester, 5th-year Final Project course sequence in the undergraduate program and as such serves as a prerequisite to the spring semester ARCH 4920 Final Project Design Studio. The Design Research Seminar provides a forum for readings and discussions as well as design and/or material experimentation as it relates to the respective Final Project instructor\u2019s thematic framework. The seminar also covers fundamentals related to standard methods of research and analysis. This 3-credit course is required of all architecture undergraduates in the B.Arch. program.", + "description" : "This seminar is the first required course of the two-semester, 5th-year Final Project course sequence in the undergraduate program and as such serves as a prerequisite to the spring semester ARCH 4920. The Design Research Seminar provides a forum for readings and discussions as well as theoretical, historical, and disciplinary investigations as they relate to the respective Final Project instructor's thematic framework.", "name" : "Final Project Design Research Seminar" }, { @@ -1814,21 +1814,21 @@ "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-5100", "credits" : "4 credits", - "description" : "This course will examine the spectrum of architectural phenomena and ideas without a specific chronology using examples ranging from antiquity to the contemporary world in western and non-western civilizations and produced in both vernacular and disciplinary cultures. An essential part of this course is to stimulate students\u2019 curiosity about architecture and the larger world and introduce them to key issues of architecture regarding space, form, critique, technology, aesthetics, societal and cultural contexts, etc. Particular emphasis will be given to the emergence of modernism in architecture. Crucial to the goals of this course is to encourage students to pursue and develop their own unique vision and voice in architecture throughout their education and practice. Fundamental to this process is making students aware of the necessity to challenge their own subjectivities, biases, and presuppositions.", + "description" : "This course will examine the spectrum of architectural phenomena and ideas without a specific chronology using examples ranging from antiquity to the contemporary world in western and non-western civilizations and produced in both vernacular and disciplinary cultures. An essential part of this course is to stimulate students' curiosity about architecture and the larger world and introduce them to key issues of architecture regarding space, form, critique, technology, aesthetics, societal and cultural contexts, etc. Particular emphasis will be given to the emergence of modernism in architecture. Crucial to the goals of this course is to encourage students to pursue and develop their own unique vision and voice in architecture throughout their education and practice. Fundamental to this process is making students aware of the necessity to challenge their own subjectivities, biases, and presuppositions.", "name" : "History, Theory, Criticism I" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-5110", "credits" : "4 credits", - "description" : "This course addresses the history of architectural and related developments in selected Western and non-Western civilizations in order to construct a conceptual and strategic understanding of the relationships between architecture, culture, civilization, technology, and thought. In doing so, it will focus on key constructed spatial phenomena of the pre-modern world and, where relevant, elucidate the connection of these works of architecture and their motivating ideals to those of the modern and contemporary world.", + "description" : "This course addresses the history of architectural and related developments in selected Western and non- Western civilizations in order to construct a conceptual and strategic understanding of the relationships between architecture, culture, civilization, technology, and thought. In doing so, it will focus on key constructed spatial phenomena of the pre-modern world and, where relevant, elucidate the connection of these works of architecture and their motivating ideals to those of the modern and contemporary world. In addition to class meetings with ARCH 4100, this course meets regularly for recitation sessions.", "name" : "History, Theory, Criticism 2" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-5140", "credits" : "3 credits", - "description" : "Introduction to Structures introduces the student of Architecture to the principles of structural mechanics and their application to basic architectural structures comprised primarily of wood. The fundamentals of statics are presented in order to gain an understanding of the way in which external forces produce internal stresses in individual members and, in essence, flow through the building system to be resolved at the foundation level. The principles of strength of materials are studied to understand how particular structural materials and configurations manage to resist these forces without unacceptable distortions, or even failure. Wood structural properties are studied in all their complexity as a means to internalize the more theoretical topics broached. Through in-class presentations, reading, homework and project work, computer lab, field trips, and case studies, the student will be aided in developing this intuitive (while practical) understanding. It is recognized that intuitions of building technologies are not acquired quickly but result from much study, observation, and practice. Introduction to Structures makes use of the several approaches above to ensure that the beginning student is provided with a broad, solid base for future structural investigations. WebCT will be used to expand the student\u2019s access to course materials and allow for a measure of distance learning. Sustainability: the following notions are introduced as important attributes of sustainable structures and construction: durability and service life and life cycle cost. This course is required of all architecture graduate students in the M.Arch. program.", + "description" : "Through in-class presentations, homework, exams, and worked problems, students will learn the basic principles of structural systems, when to apply them, and how they resist gravitational and lateral forces. In addition, students will learn the principles of statics and apply them to basic structural analyses of common structural elements. It is recognized that intuitions of building technologies are not acquired quickly but result from much study, observation, and practice. Structures 1 makes use of the approaches above to ensure that the beginning student is provided with a broad, solid base for future structural investigations.", "name" : "Structures I" }, { @@ -1842,42 +1842,42 @@ "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-5160", "credits" : "2 credits", - "description" : "This course focuses upon contemporary means of producing and communicating architectural ideas. Students will use digital methodologies through all phases of a project as well as advanced representation and digital fabrication techniques. The use of digital modeling as a sketch and iterative tool will be emphasized. Tools taught in Digital Constructs 1 will support softwares taught in Digital Constructs 2. This course is required of all first-year architecture graduate students in the M.Arch. program. Coordination of the relationship of course content to Graduate Architecture Design 1 will be between the Digital Constructs 1 faculty instructor and the architectural design studio coordinator and faculty.", + "description" : "This course focuses upon contemporary means of producing and communicating architectural ideas. Students will use digital methodologies through all phases of a project as well as advanced representation and digital fabrication techniques. The use of digital modeling as a sketch and iterative tool will be emphasized. Tools taught in Digital Constructs 1 will support software taught in ARCH 2530. This course is required of all first-year architecture graduate students in the M.Arch. program. Coordination of the relationship of course content to ARCH 5200 will be between the Digital Constructs 1 faculty instructor and the architectural design studio coordinator and faculty.", "name" : "Digital Constructs I" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-5170", "credits" : "2 credits", - "description" : "Building on techniques taught in Digital Constructs 1, this course will expand upon the role of technology in architecture by introducing advanced methods of design analysis and resolution. Students will learn to address issues of optimization, environmental surroundings, structure, and site by using various contemporary analytic softwares. This course is required of all second-year architecture graduate students in the M.Arch. program. Coordination of the relationship of course content to Graduate Architecture Design 2 will be between the Digital Constructs 2 faculty instructor and the studio coordinator and faculty.", + "description" : "Building on techniques taught in ARCH 5160, this course will expand upon the role of technology in architecture by introducing advanced methods of design analysis and resolution. Students will learn to address issues of optimization, environmental surroundings, structure, and site by using various contemporary analytic software. This course is required of all second-year architecture graduate students in the M. Arch. program. Coordination of the relationship of course content to ARCH 5210 will be between the Digital Constructs 2 faculty instructor and the studio coordinator and faculty.", "name" : "Digital Constructs 2" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-5200", "credits" : "5 credits", - "description" : "This studio focuses on the relationship between building and landscape in terms of conceptual, pragmatic, ideological, aesthetic, and functional issues. As such, it endeavors to examine critically the disciplinary boundary between building and landscape. It also critically assesses the connections and inherent complexities between an institutional situation, workplace activity, and residential inhabitation in order to explore questions of publicness and privacy. This studio also addresses the tectonic dimensions of construction and structure in architectural design.", + "description" : "This first graduate design studio addresses the fundamentals of architecture while focusing on the relationship between building and landscape in terms of conceptual, pragmatic, ideological, aesthetic, and functional issues. As such, it endeavors to examine critically the disciplinary boundary between building and landscape. It also critically assesses the connections and inherent complexities between an institutional situation, workplace activity, and residential inhabitation in order to explore questions of publicness and privacy. This studio also addresses the tectonic dimensions of construction and structure in architectural design.", "name" : "Graduate Arch Design I" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-5210", "credits" : "5 credits", - "description" : "This design studio builds on prior studios emphasizing projects of greater scale and complexity. Typically, the studio designs large-scale housing developments but other projects of similar complexity may be used. The studio requires the analysis and critique of precedent and the writing of an architectural program.", + "description" : "This design studio builds on ARCH 5200 by emphasizing projects of greater scale and complexity, requiring students to collaborate individually and in teams on their design. The studio project is a large-scale multi family housing development in an urban setting. The studio requires the analysis and critique of housing precedents and the design of multifamily units with structured parking and site design.", "name" : "Graduate Architecture Design 2" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-5300", - "credits" : "3 credits", - "description" : "Materials and Construction Systems centers on the development of a technical knowledge of, sensibility to, and intuition for the process by which an architectural design is realized in built form. The course introduces structural and material strategies and explores their creative and technical application to the architectural design process. In addition, the course establishes an understanding of the most common building materials including their physical properties, appropriate applications, and the implications of their uses in the larger context of embodied energy and material life cycles. The interdependence among building materials, acoustic qualities, enclosure systems, interior, finish, and other systems is investigated, with an emphasis on the broader architectural design endeavor. Complementing performance characteristics, the phenomenology of materials is introduced as a key concept in architectural design. An understanding of assemblies and integration is developed both from a design and engineering perspective as well as in construction application. The course approach will involve in class presentations, design projects and experiments, and the in depth analysis of architectural case studies. The importance of proper detailing, construction, and maintenance to accomplish lasting and efficient enclosures is highlighted.", + "credits" : "2 credits", + "description" : "This course will provide a basic understanding of the components, assemblies, and processes used in building construction, with an emphasis in structural typologies, materials, and enclosure systems, including frames, load-bearing walls, and structural forms. Typologies will be analyzed through their different materials component (wood, steel, concrete, timber) and construction methods (prefab, formwork, assembly, form-finding). From this fundamental point of departure, the course will examine the construction systems as a composition of building elements (walls, floors, columns, etc.) as well construction methods (casting, laminating, bending, stacking, connecting). Additional coursework will analyze enclosure systems and building envelopes that extend the structural system or attach to it, creating an interior to control and mediate between external environmental factors and internal programmatic requirements.", "name" : "Materials And Construction Systems" }, { "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-5310", "credits" : "4 credits", - "description" : "An exploration of the fundamental principles of human physiology, thermal and luminous comfort, and indoor quality. Emphasis is on bioclimatic and psychrometric climate analysis and its relationship to architectural design, understanding the energy exchange between body in space, the natural meaning of enclosures, and nonstructural materials and systems. The focus is on passive heating, cooling, and daylighting systems and their design. Exercises include vital sign analysis of existing spaces (thermal, air, luminous), forming hypotheses of building performance, using scientific instrumentation, tenant survey techniques, and physical modeling and simulation techniques related to daylighting and shading techniques. This course is required of all architecture graduate students in the M.Arch. program.", + "description" : "This course focuses on the relationship between the built environment and its context through an introduction to key environmental theories and principles, climate/microclimate types, thermal comfort and thermal delight theories. The course introduces the fundamentals of building physics as it pertains to building thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer, and airflow, and emphasis is placed on passive strategies of heating, cooling, and daylighting. Students will develop the ability to design architecture that, through material selection, form, orientation and climate-specific strategies, mitigates its impacts on the climate and the ecosystem. Environmental and Ecological Systems will introduce analysis and simulation tools which put the environmental principles covered in course lectures into practice.", "name" : "Environmental & Ecological Sys" }, { @@ -1898,7 +1898,7 @@ "attributes" : null, "code" : "ARCH-5330", "credits" : "2 credits", - "description" : "This course addresses the range of economic issues related to the practice of architecture. Topics will include economic cycles and building construction, globalization of architectural practice, case studies of models of practice, setting and negotiation of fees for services, economic relationships of architects and consultants, cost estimation.", + "description" : "This course provides students with professional career skills, and entrepreneurial business models for collaborative teamwork and leadership. In this course students will discover and define business opportunities via a user-centered approach; learn to design, test, and refine products/services to address an ambiguous problem or opportunity; create and evaluate sustainable business models; communicate business opportunities to motivate investors, employees, and customers; and learn to contribute to successful startup team dynamics.", "name" : "Entrepreneurship &architecture" }, {