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USC Catalogue 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

Courses of Instruction

The terms indicated are expected, but are not guaranteed. For the courses offered during any given term, consult the Schedule of Classes.
 

Architecture

All courses must be taken in sequential order, a before b.
  

  • ARCH 517 Current Topics in Building Science

    Units: 1
    Max Units: 6.0
    Critical studies in building science ranging from sustainability, lighting, acoustics, materials and methods, structures, energy issues, digital media, and fabrication. Students focus on minimum of two topics.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 518 Advanced Surface Tectonics: Methods in Material and Enclosure

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Studies in contemporary building systems through analysis, research, and computational methods leading to the design of a prototypical building surface.
    Recommended Preparation: A prior knowledge of fundamental building systems and 3D modeling.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 519 Sustainability in the Environment: Infrastructures, Urban Landscapes, and Buildings

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Methodologies and exercises on contextual design and environmentally sound technologies (EST’s) applications for the sustainability of urban infrastructures, operative landscapes, and building integration in the urban system.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 520 Housing and Community Design for an Aging Population

    Units: 2
    Exploration of the role design plays in enhancing independence and well-being for older people by examining cross-cultural models of housing and community design.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 521 Health and the Designed Environment: Landscape, Place, and Architecture

    Units: 4
    Case study-oriented course presenting critical relationships between human health and well-being and architectural and landscape architectural design at three scales: buildings, public space, and the urban landscape.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 522 Healthcare Design

    Units: 2
    The evolution of healthcare design and construction is traced from small scale to major medical centers with emphasis on technology, landscape design and public health.
    Registration Restriction: Not open to freshmen and sophomores
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 523aL Structural Design and Analysis

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to behavior and analysis of building structures. Structural loading, materials, and element types will be explored to understand the basic building blocks of buildings.
    Recommended Preparation: One-semester college-level course in physics or calculus.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 523bL Structural Design and Analysis

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Investigation and design of building structural systems for gravity, wind and seismic loading. Comprehensive design exploration of framing type, materials, detailing, layout, form and integration.
    Recommended Preparation: One-semester college-level course in physics or calculus.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 524 Professional Practicum

    Units: 1
    Max Units: 2.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Comparative studies of professional practice between U.S. firms and firms in other countries.
    Registration Restriction: Open to international upper-division undergraduate and graduate architecture students only
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • ARCH 525 Professional Practice: Pre-Design, Project and Office Administration

    Units: 3
    Design methodology, typology programming, site analysis, budget formulation and pro-forma procedures. Office management, emphasizing professional service and professional ethics as well as project management focusing on the architect’s responsibilities during construction.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 526 Professional Practice: Legal and Economic Context, Project Documentation

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Design methodology, typology programming, site analysis, budget formulation and pro-forma procedures. Office management, emphasizing professional service and professional ethics as well as project management focusing on the architect’s responsibilities during construction.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 500a  or ARCH 605b .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 527 Case Studies: The Development of Urban Housing

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    An exploration of the various elements and stages of the housing development process.
    Recommended Preparation: a preliminary understanding of real estate or housing.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 528 Urban Housing: Types and Typologies

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Applications and precedents for the architect interested in designing multi-family housing. Review of the sources of modern housing types, the impact of building codes and technology on the form and construction of housing, and study of housing densities; comparative analysis of multi-family residential patterns. Major emphasis on critical knowledge of historic housing typologies as they are applied to site conditions and groupings, building form, section, organization, and the design of individual dwellings.
    Recommended Preparation: two years of undergraduate architectural studies.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 529 Urban Housing: Programs, Precedents, and Recent Case Studies

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Historical overview of the major domestic and international housing developments and innovations since the early 20th century. Case study format examining a wide range of issues that determine the form of urban housing in various cultures. Major emphasis on the detail analysis of social, technical, and design factors affecting recent housing developments.
    Recommended Preparation: two years of undergraduate architectural studies.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 530 Landscape Architecture Practice

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to the principles and ethics, scope and activities, and types of organization for landscape architecture practice.
    Duplicates Credit in former ARCH 630.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 531 Urban Ecology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Lectures, laboratory exercises and field trips introducing basic knowledge of the continually transforming landscape as a base for human settlement.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 532 Elements of the Urban Landscape

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Study of the basic spatial and infrastructure elements of the city, and how urban places are formed. Typological analysis of buildings, open space, and urban patterns.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 533 Urban Landscape Case Studies

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Lectures, discussion, and individual research on the physical, formal, and spatial characteristics of historical urban centers.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 534 Landscape Construction: Topographic Design

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Techniques, strategies, materials, and standards to topographic design and construction in landscape architecture. In-class labs practice basic grading, drainage design, and stormwater management.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 535 Landscape Construction: Performance Approaches

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Develop tools and knowledge to expand the performative boundaries of landscape architecture beyond common typologies. Topics range from ecological infrastructure to design with weather patterns. A systematic approach to case studies, landscape technologies, and field trips seeds the knowledge base and respresentational methods necessary to design and build these complex landscape performances.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 536 The Landscape Planning Process

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Methods of assessing urban places regarding natural, social, cultural and political factors; identification of landscape architecture planning and project implementation issues and strategies.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 537 Plant Ecology + Identification

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Principles and concepts of plant ecology and regional plant identification; introduction to California native plant species and communities with field trips and case studies.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 538L Planting Design

    Units: 2
    Principles of planting design for landscape architecture focusing on form/space and sustainable performance. Planting design strategies for improved planetary health and resilience.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 537 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 539L Media for Landscape Architecture

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Development of methods and skills for the study of landscape architecture design and for project presentation, including natural resource and urban mapping.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Planning and Landscape Architecture majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 540 Topics in Media for Landscape Architecture

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 6.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Exploration of emerging techniques for landscape architecture study, presentation and documentation; topics vary from year to year; may be repeated for credit when subject matter is different.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 541aL Landscape Architecture Design

    Units: 6
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Projects on urban sites with emphasis on cultural and ecological purpose and on urban place and form; use of traditional and digital media.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 541bL Landscape Architecture Design

    Units: 6
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Projects in urban settings with emphasis on landscape continuities as well as development of integrative schematic proposals and detailed open space design.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 542aL Landscape Architecture Design

    Units: 6
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Project strategies for urban infrastructure repair and intervention, phasing, and design of initial catalytic projects.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 541bL .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 542bL Landscape Architecture Design

    Units: 6
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Projects for the public realm with emphasis on urbanity and connectivity, place and meaning.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 541bL .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 543 Research Methods

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Introduction to methods of inquiry and documentation including critical review of published materials, techniques for systematic observation, generating findings from comparative studies of relevant precedents and problems, and legible presentation of outcomes.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 544 Landscape as Urbanism: Case Studies

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Cities predominantly in the Global South are studied in relationship to landscape systems. Focus on historic and future urbanization at the interface of natural systems and climate dynamics.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 545 Contemporary Theories of Landscape Architecture

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Explores contemporary landscape architecture theories, propositions and projects in the context of cities. The exploration methodology includes the study of epochal projects and theoretical texts.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 546 Topics in Landscape Architecture: Issues and Practices

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 06
    A broad range of developing urban landscape conditions and issues, both domestic and global, are given focused attention.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 547 Advanced Topics in Urban Ecology

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Builds on knowledge related to the impacts of anthropocentrism on our current environmental/landscape condition - stresses on biodiversity, urban heat island, sea-level rise, etc, and strategies at mitigating these conditions - urban forestry, building soils, etc.
    Recommended Preparation: ARCH 531 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 548 Media for Landscape Architecture: 3D Design

    Units: 3
    Developing and communicating landscape architecture design intent using visualization tools for three-dimensional studies.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 549 Fundamentals of Heritage Conservation

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSm
    Concepts and strategies for conservation of significant elements of the built environment: buildings, sites and communities as revealed by readings, site visits, and case studies.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 550 Heritage Conservation Policy and Planning

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Conservation practice within an economic, political, and cultural context looking at the regulatory environment, public advocacy and policy, real estate development, heritage tourism, environmental sustainability, cultural diversity, and interpretation.
    Recommended Preparation: ARCH 549 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 551 Conservation Methods and Materials

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Concepts and techniques for building conservation including identification of treatments, recordation and research, material properties and behavior, building forensics, and project implementation.
    Recommended Preparation: ARCH 549 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 552 Introduction to Historic Site Documentation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Survey of basic guidelines and standards for documentation in historic preservation, including cultural resource surveys, historic structures reports and Historic American Building Survey and Historic American Engineering Record recordation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 553 History of American Architecture and Urbanism

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    History of American architecture and urbanism from prehistory to World War II examined in relation to European influences and indigenous developments.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 554 Heritage Conservation Practicum — Advanced Documentation

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Heritage conservation practicum utilizing in-depth documentation methodology to explore the historic built environment of greater Los Angeles. Topics will vary from year to year; may be repeated for credit when subjectmatter is different.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 555 Global Perspectives in Heritage Conservation

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 4.0
    Terms Offered: Fa
    In-depth analysis of international heritage conservation practice with a focus on a single country, continent, or world region outside the United States. Topics will vary from year to year; may be repeated for credit when subject matter is different.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 556 Readings in Heritage Conservation Theory

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Trans-disciplinary intensive reading and discussion course related to issues in contemporary heritage conservation.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 549 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 557 Sustainable Conservation of the Historic Built Environment

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Analysis of the intersection between “green building” and historic resources with an emphasis on stewardship and sustainability.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 558 Fundamentals of Place-Making

    Units: 2
    Concepts and strategies for urban design and place-making for heritage conservation as revealed by place-making exercises, site visits, and case studies.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 559 Cultural Resource Management

    Units: 3
    An introduction to the field of cultural resource management/archaeology as it is practiced in the United States, examining archaeological theory, methods, legal frameworks and research.
    Recommended Preparation: ARCH 549 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 560 A History of Architectural Theory: 1400-1914

    Units: 2
    A seminar on architectural history from Alberti to Scott, reviewing primary texts and subsequent criticisms.
    Duplicates Credit in former ARCH 441
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 561 Urbanism Themes and Case Studies

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Examines urbanism through case studies in theory and design to understand the impacts of globalization, technology, and sustainability on the contemporary city.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 562 Architecture Themes and Case Studies

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Architectural themes and case studies focusing on the design and development of architecture, from the industrial city to today.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 563 Contemporary Architectural Theory

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Investigates, compares, and critiques modern and contemporary theories of the designed and built environment by focusing on key figures, movements, and texts.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 564 Descriptive and Computational Architectural Geometry

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Introduction to the history, methods, and cases of descriptive and computational geometry impacting representational, modeling, and historically significant paradigms of architectural design. Introduces a range of geometric first principles, technologies and techniques through contemporary design tools.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 565 Global History of Designed Landscapes

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Understanding of the global history of landscape design in relation to social, political, religious, environmental and aesthetic principles; current design theory, projects and their historical references are critically reviewed and analyzed.
    Duplicates Credit in ARCH 465 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 566 Cross Cultural Topics in Landscape Architecture History

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 6.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Comparative analysis and appreciation of landscape architecture as a manifestation of nature, society, and design. Topics and world regions vary from year to year; may be repeated for credit when subject matter is different.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 567L Landscape Architecture Vertical Workshop and Debate Series

    Units: 0.5
    Max Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    A dynamic and topical supplement that provides critical content in the form of a post-mid review workshop and series of debates led by distinguished guests. 
    Corequisite: ARCH 541aL  and ARCH 541bL  and ARCH 542aL  and ARCH 542bL  and ARCH 642L  and ARCH 698bL 
    Registration Restriction: Open only to master students in Landscape Architecture
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 569 The Invented Landscape of Southern California

    Units: 3
    An analysis of the successive stages of land planning, garden design and plant introductions that have influenced the Southern California landscape.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 570 Cultural Landscape Practicum

    Units: 3
    An introduction to the theories, tools and techniques for documenting and researching cultural landscapes.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 571 Community-Based Design, Conservation and Planning

    Units: 2
    Introduces methods of designing with communities rather than for them. It focuses on public history, cultural asset mapping and participatory design.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 572 Advanced Building Skins: Designing High-Performance Facade Systems

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Fundamental technical skillset applicable to the design and delivery of high-performance facade systems. The predominant focus will be the design of contemporary glazed curtainwalls and rainscreen systems in their many forms.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 573 Seismic Design

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Theory, design methodology and practice of how seismicity affects architecture and structural system selection required for robust earthquake performance and seismic sustainability.
    Recommended Preparation: Basic knowledge of physics and/or exposure to architectural design. Two semesters of building structures required for MArch students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 574 Parametric Design

    Units: 3
    An in depth and critical look into the reasons and uses for parametric design and its relationship to contemporary form, fabrication, and construction of the built environment.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 575a Systems

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Application of the scientific principles governing the thermal environment and human physiology to contemporary issues of environmentally responsive building energy concepts and systems.
    Recommended Preparation: ARCH 505aL , ARCH 505bL .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 575b Systems

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    The fundamental scientific principles governing light and sound in the built environment will be examined in the context of human physiological, psychological and biological needs.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 575a 
    Recommended Preparation: ARCH 505aL , ARCH 505bL 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 576 Sustainable Design for Healthy Indoor Environments

    Units: 3
    Course outlines the building design and its performance diagnostic processes required to assure indoor environmental quality and the building occupants’ environmental health, productivity, and physiological comfort.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 577L Lighting Design

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    The physics, technical knowledge, professional knowledge, design, and documentation processes used in architectural lighting design, including first principles, manual calculations and computer simulations.
    Recommended Preparation: Some knowledge of physics and exposure to the design process and design presentation skills.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 578 Technology-Enabled Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) Projects

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    (Enroll in CE 578 )
  

  • ARCH 579 Sustainable Building and Environment using LEED Metrics

    Units: 3
    Fundamental knowledge of sustainable building concepts, current environmental design building rating systems, building performance and diagnostics metrics, as well as reference standards related to sustainable design.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 580L Field Studies

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Off-campus field studies using direct observation, site recordings/documentation, analysis and evaluation supplemented by discussions and readings.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 581 Techniques in Digital Fabrication

    Units: 3
    A practical introduction to digital fabrication. Covered topics include 3D surface milling, thermoforming, materials, casting and shop technology as applied to repeatable surfaces in architecture.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 585 Visual Storytelling and Entrepreneurship in Media

    Units: 2
    Investigating visual stories as an active tool to critically explore and express design ideas; positions social media and crowdfunding as a foundation for creative action. 
    Registration Restriction: Not open to Freshmen and Sophomores.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 586 City Cine: Visuality, Media and Urban Experience

    Units: 4
    Explores the relationship between urban experience and visual media (from the photographic, to the filmic, to the digital) from circa 1880 to the present.
    Duplicates Credit in the former ARCH 434
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 588 Physical Computing: Linking Architectural Computing with the Physical World

    Units: 3
    Provides hands-on prototyping experience with environmental sensing, actuation, and embedded computing technologies.
    Recommended Preparation: While no experience working with electronics is required, basic knowledge and willingness to learn programming and physical prototyping is assumed.
    Registration Restriction: Not open to freshmen and sophomores
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 590 Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Research leading to the master’s degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • ARCH 596 Building Science Thesis Preparation

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Exploration of topics leading to the development of a thesis prospectus. Topics may be in the areas of building structures, seismic design, environmental control, passive and active energy, or other relevant topics.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • ARCH 599 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Selected topics in various specialty areas of architecture.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 605zL Graduate Architecture Design II

    Units: 0
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Advanced topical investigations emphasizing diverse areas of specialization. Projects will be faculty-led research investigations that concentrate on diverse areas of vital concern.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 605b  
  

  • ARCH 605aL Graduate Architecture Design II

    Units: 6
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Basic principles of structural (seismic/wind and gravity), HVAC, building envelope, access/egress, building service systems; and sustainable strategies are critical to the proper execution of performative goals. The integration of building systems will be delineated to demonstrate the tectonic viability a design solution.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 505b .
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Architecture majors.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 605bL Graduate Architecture Design II

    Units: 6
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Comprehensive project emphasizing the interaction between general principles and local sites, building technologies and total building design.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 505b .
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Architecture majors.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 606 Advanced Architectural Theory

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Interrogates the architectural and cultural landscape of our contemporary cities through a combination of lectures and seminars on theories of place, identity, aesthetics, and technology.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 607 Advanced Computation

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 6.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Introduction to a range of new technologies and techniques examining their technical and theoretical implications including advanced computational design techniques and geospatial design tools.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 608 Urban Theory: Los Angeles Case Study

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Critically investigates the urban condition of Los Angeles through lectures, readings, and field visits. Aims to heighten awareness of the entwinement of environment, culture, architecture and the contemporary city.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 609 Advanced Fabrication

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 6.0
    Terms Offered: FaSm
    Introduction to a range of new technologies and techniques examining technical and theoretical implications including a range of digital fabrication technologies, robotics and film-making techniques.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 610L Advanced Graduate Architecture Design

    Units: 6
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Elective advanced design and research studio investigations. As faculty-led topical themes, the design-based projects will engage critical topics engaging diverse areas of specialization.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 605b .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 611 Advanced Building Systems Integration

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Design criteria development, material and construction process methods, occupancy based load profiles, performance/material life-cycle-mandates, durability for advanced building systems including integrity in sustainable urban systems.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 613L Seminar: Structures Research

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    An overview of research topics in building structures; detailed investigation of selected major issues.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 614 Contemporary Issues in Architecture: A Critical Dialectic

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Issues that are important to the contemporary built environment are explored using a dialectical format to encourage debate, augmented by invited speakers and topical readings.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 214a , ARCH 214b  and ARCH 514a , ARCH 514b .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 615L Seminar: Environmental Systems Research

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    A detailed examination of current issues in the thermal, acoustical, and radiant environment; recent developments in criteria, systems, controls, design tools and simulations; an understanding of the relationships between environmental factors, economics, and architectural goals.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 619 Digital Fabrication - Materials and Methods of Production

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Overview of multiple fabrication, manufacturing, and construction techniques used in the production of architecture, furniture and industrial design.
    Registration Restriction: Not open to freshman, sophomore and junior students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 635 Landscape Construction: Assembly and Documentation

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Learn and practice the process by which a landscape design is assembled through materials systems and design documentation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 639 Media for Landscape Architecture: Dynamic Systems

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Computational capacities of parametric software, including flow dynamics, procedural media, and geospatial analysis, to analyze and generate both existing and emergent systems at the landscape scale.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 548 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 642L Landscape Architecture Design

    Units: 6
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Fully integrated landscape place design; reclamation sites at significant urban or natural locations.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 542aL , ARCH 542bL .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 672 Future Building Skins: Advanced Applications in Architecture

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Focuses on the development of novel facade solutions that respond to shortcomings of contemporary facades applications in both new and existing buildings.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 690aL Directed Research

    Units: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • ARCH 690bL Directed Research

    Units: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • ARCH 691a Heritage Conservation Thesis Preparation and Thesis

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Introduction to, and exploration of, topics leading to the development of a thesis prospectus and directed research towards the completion of the master’s thesis in heritage conservation.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 549  
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Master of Heritage Conservation students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In Progress/Credit/No Credit

  

  • ARCH 691b Heritage Conservation Thesis Preparation and Thesis

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Introduction to, and exploration of, topics leading to the development of a thesis prospectus and directed research towards the completion of the master’s thesis in heritage conservation.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 549  
    Registration Restriction: Open only to master students in Heritage Conservation
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In Progress/Credit/No Credit

  

  • ARCH 691z Heritage Conservation Thesis Preparation and Thesis

    Units: 0
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Introduction to, and exploration of, topics leading to the development of a thesis prospectus and directed research towards the completion of the master’s thesis in heritage conservation.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 549  and ARCH 553 .
    Credit Restriction: Credit on acceptance of thesis. Registration restricted to Master of Heritage Conservation and Historic Preservation students who have satisfactorily completed 12 hours of graduate course work and have permission of the Program Director.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • ARCH 692aL Building Science Thesis

    Units: 6
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Research and thesis for the Master of Building Science degree.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 596 .
    Credit Restriction: Credit on completion of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • ARCH 692bL Building Science Thesis

    Units: 6
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Research and thesis for the Master of Building Science degree.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 692aL  
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Master of Building Science students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: In Progress/Credit/No Credit

  

  • ARCH 692zL Building Science Thesis

    Units: 0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Research and thesis for the Master of Building Science degree.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 596 .
    Credit Restriction: Credit on completion of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • ARCH 693aL M.Arch. Thesis, Option I

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Directed research option for M.Arch. degree.
    Credit Restriction: Credit on acceptance of research project.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

 

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