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USC Catalogue 2018-2019 [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 421 Digital Architectural Photography

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Perceiving and documenting the built environment through the perspective and frame of the digital camera. Mastering the basic principles of the digital image through an understanding of frame, light, exposure, color correction, and printing output.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 422L Architectural Photography — Film and Digital

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    See how light alters the visual impact of architectural forms; master high-resolution images both with film and digital; become a professional image developer/processor utilizing photographic software.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 423 Light, Color and the Character of Material

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Color theory, constructed drawings, constructed shadows, descriptive geometry, constructed perspective drawing, and layered wash techniques lead to experimentation with methods representing materiality and construction in design projects.
    Registration Restriction: Not open to Freshman and Sophomore students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 424L Field Studies in Architecture

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    (Study abroad programs only.) Field studies using direct observation, site recordings/documentation, analysis and evaluation supplemented by discussions and readings in architecture.
    Prerequisite: Department approval.
    Recommended Preparation: core curriculum.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 425L Field Studies in Urbanism

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    (Study abroad programs only.) Field studies using direct observation, site recordings/documentation, analysis and evaluation supplemented by discussions and readings in urbanism.
    Prerequisite: Departmental approval.
    Recommended Preparation: core curriculum.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 426L Field Studies in Tectonics

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    (Study abroad programs only.) Field studies using direct observation, site recordings/documentation, analysis and evaluation supplemented by discussions and readings in tectonics.
    Prerequisite: Departmental approval.
    Recommended Preparation: core curriculum.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 430 Design Teaching Methods

    Units: 2
    The teaching of architectural design is introduced through readings, seminar discussions, and the observation of teaching in action. In addition to a one hour per week seminar, each student will participate in a design practicum.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 302L.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 432 People, Places and Culture: Architecture of the Public Realm

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Critical observation of the architecture of public buildings and places and the importance of design in promoting a better contemporary public life.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 439 Landscape Architecture Media Workshop

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Introductory media workshop for new landscape architecture students in the 3-year graduate program. Topics include: hand drawing, measuring, architectural drawings, computer software tutorials, and field trips. 
    Registration Restriction: Open only to master students in Landscape Architecture
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 440m Literature and the Urban Experience

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Post-industrial revolution urban environments and dynamic relationships in cities such as Manchester, Paris, St. Petersburg, New York, and Los Angeles, as revealed in novels, architecture, and urban forms.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 442m Women’s Spaces in History: “Hussies,” “Harems” and “Housewives”

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Methods for studying patterns of spatial differentiation of women throughout history from home to city embodied in gender specific language and gendered spaces.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as SWMS-442
  

  • ARCH 444 Great Houses of Los Angeles

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    An introduction to the architectural philosophies of seven influential California architects through readings and site visits to significant case studies.
    Duplicates Credit in former ARCH 322.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 447 Ecological Factors in Design

    Units: 3
    Lectures, laboratory exercises and field trips introduce basic knowledge of incorporating ecological factors in urban design and interaction of landscape science with the human environment.
    Duplicates Credit in former ARCH 361
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 454 Contemporary Asian Architecture

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Exploration of various “Asian” architectures, comparisons of areas, identifying current trends and impact of Asia on Southern California and Los Angeles.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 465 The Landscape Imaginary

    Units: 4
    A cross-cultural introduction to ideas about and attitudes toward nature, landscape and the environment.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 470a Architectural Studies Capstone

    Units: 1
    Introduction to methods of inquiry, research framework, and scholarly writing necessary to develop a comprehensive foundation for the Architectural Studies Capstone (ARCH 470b).
    Registration Restriction: Open only to seniors in Architectural Studies
    Duplicates Credit in former ARCH 470
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 470b Architectural Studies Capstone

    Units: 3
    Collaborative research project and research paper in an area of concentration.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 470a  
    Registration Restriction: Open only to seniors in Architectural Studies
    Duplicates Credit in former ARCH 470
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 481 Furniture Design

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    An investigation into 20th century furniture design and its relationships to architecture, art and design.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 490x Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Individual research and readings.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 499 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 500aL Comprehensive Architectural Design

    Units: 6
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Selected areas of specialization; projects chosen from a variety of studio offerings, all with an emphasis on the comprehensive design of buildings.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 402a  and ARCH 402b  
    Corequisite: ARCH 501 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 500zL Comprehensive Architectural Design

    Units: 0
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Selected areas of specialization; projects chosen from a variety of studio offerings, all with an emphasis on the comprehensive design of buildings.
    Prerequisite: 402abL;
    Corequisite: ARCH 501 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Letter Grade

  

  • ARCH 501 Critical Topics in Architecture

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Seminar supporting the research, development, and writing of Degree Project Paper provides a comprehensive base of information for the final Bachelor of Architecture studio.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 402bL .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 502aL Architectural Design V

    Units: 6
    Terms Offered: Sp
    The final architectural project under the guidance of a faculty adviser to demonstrate architectural knowledge, skills, and professional interests and goals.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 500aL  and ARCH 501 
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Architecture seniors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: In Progress and Letter

  

  • ARCH 502zL Architectural Design V

    Units: 0
    Terms Offered: Sp
    The final comprehensive architectural project under the guidance of a faculty adviser to demonstrate architectural knowledge, skills, and professional interests and goals.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: In-progress & Letter Grade

  

  • ARCH 505aL Graduate Architecture Design I

    Units: 6
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    A general introduction to architectural principles, intended to develop design and critical thinking skills and proficiency to communicate those ideas effectively.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 505bL Graduate Architecture Design I

    Units: 6
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    A general introduction to architectural principles, intended to develop design and critical thinking skills and proficiency to communicate those ideas effectively.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 507 Theories of Computer Technology

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Fundamental theories and meanings of computation as a technique in architectural design.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 510 Independent Degree Project Preparation

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Research and analysis, including written and graphic components, that tests a question/proposition in detail in preparation for Independent Degree Project Document.
    Corequisite: ARCH 501 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 511L Building Systems: Materials and Construction

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Studies of construction system development within the architectural design context; processes and issues of selection, evaluation, optimization, integration, design control, and innovation.
    Prerequisite: Departmental approval.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 512 Material + Process: Material Systems

    Units: 2
    Confronts the conventional concepts behind modern building science and material applications, reapplying the processes of fabrication and methods of construction to investigate materiality.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 211  or ARCH 511L .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 513L Seminar: Advanced Structures

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Issues and problems in the development of structural systems for buildings; design criteria, system choice, design development, optimization, subsystem integration.
    Instruction Mode: Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 514a Global History of Architecture

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    A historical survey of global architecture, analyzed as a product of social, cultural, religious and political forces. 4500 BCE to 1500 CE.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 514b Global History of Architecture

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    A historical survey of global architecture, analyzed as a product of social, cultural, religious and political forces. 1500 CE to present.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 515L Seminar: Advanced Environmental Systems

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    A compressed course in design criteria and calculation methods for mechanical and passive solar systems (loads, plant system, duct, and storage sizing) and lighting and acoustics (CIE and IES methods, dBA and NC systems).
    Instruction Mode: Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • 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 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 The Natural Landscape

    Units: 3
    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 Urban Plant Ecology: Environmental Perspectives

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Principles and concepts of plant ecology for urban planting design; introduction to California native plant species and communities with field trips and case studies.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 538L Urban Plant Ecology: Cultural Perspectives

    Units: 4
    Cultural perspectives of urban planting design and plant species found in Southern California emphasizing aesthetic, functional and ecological designs.
    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: Lab Required, Lecture
    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 Urban Landscape: Process and Place

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Projects are examined as incremental interventions in the formation and qualities of the evolving urban landscape. Case studies are explored to understand purposes, typologies, catalytic capacities, and strategies for urban landscape design.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 545 Urban Landscape: Contemporary History and Prospect

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Explores contemporary landscape architecture propositions and projects in the context of cities. The exploration methodology includes the study of epochal projects and theoretical texts organized by central themes of nature and culture.
    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 Urban Nature

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Interactions of cities and nature: introduction to the ecology of cities; major threats to urban biodiversity interacting with human attitudes; review of restoration and conservation projects.
    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 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 Landscape Architecture

    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.
    Corequisite: ARCH 414  
    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: Lab Required
    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 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

 

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