Independent Design Research Studio for 4th year students in their final year. Prerequisite: ARCH 4010 and ARCH 4100, permission of the chair.

Combining tools, spaces, and skills of Arts Grounds, this course explores the design and construction of large moving creatures that culminates in The Stan Winston and Steven Warner Festival of the Moving Creature. Students will gain hands-on experience with materials, craft, and prototyping, and learn lessons from professional designers, artists, and Hollywood creature makers. This is a collaborative course, diving into storytelling and movement to bring each student's vision to life. Graduate students will have additional requirements.

Topical offerings in architecture. For a one-page course description and recommended baseline academic experience, please be in touch with the faculty member or academic advisor. 

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.

This course grows from the idea that excellence and innovation in all the arts come from constant practice. Students will commit to making an iteration of a creative project of their choosing every day for 100 days. In class we will evaluate ongoing work and discuss the role of discipline, routine, and iteration in the creative process. Students will be expected to post their work every day on Instagram.

Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor

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.

This course introduces a range of design methodologies and techniques necessary for developing projects within the ARCH 6020 Foundation Studio II. Emphasis is on connecting thinking to making with topics on site analysis, material experimentation, innovation through prototype fabrication, digital simulation, and constructive sections.

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.

This course offers a panoramic view of today¿s construction systems¿from foundation to roof. All common systems of construction will be covered including light frame wood construction, heavy timber, masonry, steel, site-cast concrete, and precast concrete. Lectures and readings address the history, theory, and practice of each type of construction including typical and innovative details of assembly. Graduate version has additional requirements.