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Due to the tremendous variety of backgrounds from which the first professional degree is approached, it is usual that individual program requirements vary substantially. The ultimate content and sequence of coursework will be decided in consultation with the Graduate Coordinator and Graduate Advisor following recommendations of the Admissions Committee.
DESIGN SEQUENCEFirst Professional M.Arch. degree candidates are required to complete or receive credit for a minimum of seven semesters in the architectural design sequence. It is assumed that each student entering the design sequence has satisfactorily completed a college sequence in physics and mathematics so that concurrent enrollment in such courses does not conflict with design courses. While progress in the design sequence is not entirely contingent upon progress in related coursework, the general parallels set out in the sample course sequence which follows should serve as a general model and reference.
ARC 391/2/3/4
Architectural Design
The first four design studios are taught together in “vertical studio” format, combining students of differing degrees of design and drawing experience. Problems are set in order to maximize opportunities for learning, skill acquisition, and idea dissemination at all levels, from beginning to intermediate. Students thus progress at their own rate. There are typically four or five sections of this course, each with its own instructor. Topics are coordinated in content and timing and cover essential concerns and techniques of architectural design.
ARC 696
Advanced Architectural Design
After passing the mid-program portfolio review, or according to the discretion of the Admissions Committee, permission is granted to register for studios in the advanced design sequence. Topics vary with instructor and are aimed at deeper and broader investigations of the design of buildings, interiors, sites, and environmental interventions.
ARC 695
Architectural Design V
A “special case” within the advanced design studio sequence, this studio taken in conjunction with Technical Communications ARC 381T concentrates on the detailed design and documentation of a modestly scaled building project. This studio offers a special opportunity for the refinement of computer skills and is currently being offered in the AutoCAD environment.
Candidates must complete or receive credit for four semesters of media courses as follows.
ARC 381R
Architectural Drawing
An introductory drawing course directed to incoming students with little or no graphics background. When ability to waive this course is demonstrated, a major elective will be substituted in its place.
ARC 381K/L
Visual Communications
These two courses are taken concurrently with ARC 391 and 392, respectively, and simply acknowledge the relative significance of matters of technique development in the first vertical studios.
ARC 381R
Advanced Visual Communications
Advanced media techniques. Offerings vary but have included freehand drawing, modeling, photography, computer graphics, photogrammetry, and measured drawings. May be substituted with approved courses in the College of Fine Arts or the College of Communications.
ARC 381T
Technical Communications
Taken concurrently with ARC 696, this course is aimed at developing drawing, drafting, and organizational skills required to produce design development documents. Participation in the course requires CAD familiarity — a self-paced introductory class is offered by the Computer Laboratory. Where students can demonstrate thorough past experience with the computer, an alternative version may be offered.
Candidates must complete two survey courses and an advanced elective in Architectural Theory.
ARC 386K
Theory Survey I
A survey and discussion of selected works in philosophy having clear import for architecture — from notions of space and place, to views on rationality and design, systems of aesthetics, and ethics. Emphasis is placed upon both content and technique of presentation.
ARC 386L
Theory Survey II
A survey and discussion of selected works by major architectural theoreticians, from Vitruvius and Palladio, through Blondel and Durand, to Le Corbusier, Wright, Venturi, and Eisenmann. Emphasis on issues of timeliness/timelessness, as well as on the nature of “theory” in architecture as such.
ARC 386M
Advanced Theory Topics
Recent and current theories and ideologies of architecture and urban design typically presented in seminar format. As with the advanced history elective, the possibility exists to undertake related coursework in other departments of the University. Recent offerings include: Architecture and Contemporary Sculpture, Design Process, Economy/Value/Quality of Life, Landscape and Culture, Local Economic Development, Morphologies, Pictural Space, Qualitive Research Methods, Role of the Client, Theory of Value, Urban Economic Development, Planning, Twentieth-Century Housing, Gentle Architecture: Environmental Alternative, Housing America, Theory of Town Planning, and other advanced electives offered as a required part of the specific programs.
ARC 388K/L/M
History of Architecture, Survey I /II / III
The three surveys offer a global perspective of the history of architecture from prehistory through the twentieth century. Graduate sections stress methodology and historiography, issues of theory and practice, and comparative themes such as systems of structure and ornament. Surveys I and II consider the origins of architecture and topics on world architecture through the nineteenth century. Survey III concludes the sequence with a history of architecture in the twentieth century.
ARC 388R
Advanced History Topics
Offered in both lecture and seminar formats, these elective topics will vary according to the preoccupations of students or faculty research interests. Apart from courses in the School of Architecture, electives in art history or related fields may be substituted when approved by the Graduate advisor. Recent offerings include: Anglo-American Tradition in Architecture, Art Deco Architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright: Work and Ideas, Russian Avant-Garde Architecture, Architecture in the Age of Baroque, Architecture of French Enlightenment, Architecture of Mexico, Central European Architecture, Asian Architecture, Twentieth-Century Interiors, and Campus Architecture and Planning.
ARC 385K
Construction I
An introductory survey of materials and methods of construction systems and an introduction to structural systems in architecture generally. This course includes a lab component which will include various visits to building sites, manufacturing plants, or other locations.
ARC 385L
Construction II
An introduction to statics and strengths of materials, structural forces, and principles of equilibrium as they pertain to the particular interests of the architect. The course includes computer laboratory work.
ARC 385M
Construction III
An introduction to the philosophical and technical issues of system selection. This is an applied statics course that deals quantitatively with lateral loads, connections, and advanced structural systems.
ARC 385N
Construction IV
An applied statics course that deals with the design of elements and envelopes including steel, concrete, masonry and timber structural systems.
ARC 384K/L
Environmental Controls I & II
Survey of climatology, solar energy, air-conditioning, lighting, electrical circuitry, heating, water and plumbing, fire protection, vertical transportation, acoustics, and ventilating with a special concern for the fundamental physical properties of building elements and organization and the deployment of natural and passive control systems.
ARC 383S
Site Design
Fundamentals of building and landscape relationships.
ARC 383T
Site, Landscape, and Urban Studies
Topics in the history, design, and preservation of building sites, landscapes, and rural and urban communities.
ARC 382
Professional Practice
A structured study of ethical, legal, economic, and administrative processes and responsibilities of the practitioner in architecture and allied fields. Topics may include preservation law, community development, participatory design, and other aspects of organizations; methods and roles in design, planning, and preservation of the built environment.
CRP 383
Principles of Planning
A broad introduction to physical and social planning, urban design, and planning history with particular emphasis upon the interface between planning and architectural professions.
Elective Courses
A wide range of electives may be taken from course offerings in the School of Architecture and in other divisions of the University with the consent of the appropriate instructor and the Graduate advisor. A certain number of upper-division undergraduate courses may be taken within the guidelines of the Graduate Catalog. In addition, a course may sometimes be independently arranged with a member of the graduate faculty; such courses in architecture are assigned a number ending in “89” as follows.
ARC 389/ARC 689
Research in Architecture
Independent research in an architectural topic of student’s choice within the range of expertise of the faculty. Independent work may include design research and may on occasion substitute for full studio credit.
Please note that various required courses may be offered in the summer session and so allow for direct substitution with the electives noted here. Recent courses available during the summer include Constructions II, III, and IV, and Advanced Design.
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