M.Arch. Classes Eligible for Equivalency

ARCH 5201 Professional Practice, 3 credits

Description

Examination of organizational and management theories and practices for delivering professional design services. Includes a historical overview of the profession and a review of the architect's responsibilities from the precontract phase through cost estimating and specifications to construction. Application of computer technology in preparing specifications.

Goals and Objectives

  • Explore issues that make up architectural practice today, such as leadership, communication, marketing, management, codes, financial and legal issues, and professional ethics
  • Introduce students to the IDP process, resume writing, and interviewing strategies

Student Performance Criteria

  • A.1 Communication skills
  • A.3 Visual communication skills
  • A.5 Investigative skills
  • A.10 Cultural diversity
  • B.7 Financial considerations
  • C.1 Collaboration
  • C.3 Client role in architecture
  • C.4 Project management
  • C.5 Practice management
  • C.6 Leadership
  • C.7 Legal responsibilities
  • C.8 Ethics and professional judgment
  • C.9 Community and social responsibility

Topical Outline

  • Readings and discussion (40 percent)
  • Writing and group exercises (60 percent)

Textbooks and Learning Resources (e.g. for fall 2011)

  • Esslinger, Hartmut. A Fine Line: How Design Strategies are Shaping the Future of Business. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009.
  • Harvard Business Review on Managing Projects. Boston: Harvard Business School, 2005.
  • Harvard Business Review on Green Business Strategy. Boston: Harvard Business School Pub., 2007.
  • Piven, Peter, L. Bradford. Perkins, and William Mandel. Architect's Essentials of Starting, Assessing, and Transitioning a Design Firm. Hoboken: Wiley, 2008.
  • Koren, David. Architect's Essentials of Marketing. Hoboken: Wiley, 2005.
  • Valence, Jean R. Architect's Essentials of Professional Development. Hoboken: Wiley, 2003.
  • Rubeling, Albert W. How to Start and Operate Your Own Design Firm: A Guide for Interior Designers and Architects. New York: Allworth, 2007.
  • Wintner, Steve L., and Michael Tardif. Financial Management for Design Professionals: The Path to Profitability. Chicago: Kaplan AEC Education, 2007.
  • Bell, Bryan, and Katie Wakeford. Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism. New York: Metropolis, 2008.
  • Haviland, David S. The Architect's Handbook of Professional Practice: Student Edition. Washington: Institute, 1984.
  • www.aia.org
  • www.ncarb.org

ARCH 5402 Architecture, Culture, and Society, 3 credits

Description

Social and cultural values are both reflected in buildings, landscapes, and cities, and constructed by them. At the same time, this articulation of people and built environments is framed by general socio-economic and political systems of ordering that often transcend locale. This course explores how these complexities might impact design practice, drawing on concepts and methods from disciplines such as anthropology, geography and cultural studies, architectural history and theory, and referring to examples from around the world.

ARCH 5511 Constructed Drawing I, 3 credits

Description

Focuses on bridging hand-drawing and sketching with digital representation as vehicles for design thinking and perception. Observational, analytical, and transformational exercises develop creative proficiency in freehand drawing and orthographic projection, as well as computational thinking. Develops understanding of and proficiency in projective drawing in both analog and digital forms. Students are introduced to a variety of digital representation applications, including modeling, rendering, animation, and scripting.

Typical topics covered in the course (may vary by year):

  • Line weights, line quality, line control
  • Curves
  • Contours and fields
  • Orthographic projection
  • Descriptive geometry
  • Axonometry
  • Surface development
  • Compound curvature and surface generation
  • Temporal representation, movement, and time
  • Dimensional color
  • Elevations, plans, and sections
  • Translations and transformations
  • Boolean operations

ARCH 5512 Digital Representation and Fabrication, 3 credits

Description

Develops understanding of and proficiency in projective drawing in both analog and digital forms. Students continue to develop a variety of digital representation applications, including modeling, rendering, animation, and scripting.

Typical topics covered in the course (may vary by year):

  • Transformations and operations, basic 3D modeling
  • Drawing methods and modes, parallel projections, perspective projections
  • Parametric modeling: Aggregation, tessellations, attractor points and curves, recursive patterns
  • Light and material, Rendering
  • Composite drawing
  • Moving image and animation

ARCH 5611 Environmental Systems I: Introduction to Sustainable Design, 3 credits

Description

This course examines the relationships between building, site, landscape and sustainability through the lens of ecology and systems thinking. Topics include: basic concepts of sustainability, energetic processes, climate, spatial data visualization, global warming, solar geometry, landscape processes, microclimates, site strategies and grading, building footprint & sustainable building metrics.

Typical topics covered in the course (may vary by year):

  • Energy use in buildings. What is energy?
  • Energy measures, cost, emissions, and benchmarking
  • Climate analysis, vernacular design strategies
  • Solar geometry, solar access, radiation
  • Architecture and natural light
  • Light and human vision, photometric quantities, material properties
  • HDR photography, daylight model making
  • Daylighting design principles
  • Daylight simulations, daylight metrics, visual comfort
  • Psychrometrics, thermal comfort
  • Heat transfer, insulation materials
  • Insulation materials, internal gains from people, lights, and equipment
  • Window technologies
  • Introduction to energy load simulations
  • HVAC systems
  • Natural ventilation, buoyancy and wind driven flows, wind

ARCH 5612 Structural Concepts, 3 credits

Description

Fundamental concepts of structural behavior. Statics and strength of materials. Introduction to and analysis of simple structural systems.

Typical topics covered in the course (may vary by year):

  • Structures overview I (concepts, elements and systems)
  • Structures overview II (overall building stability)  
  • Loads I (gravity dead loads & live loads)
  • Loads II (2D modeling for 3D structures)
  • Statics I (forces and moments)
  • Statics II (equations of equilibrium; support reactions)
  • Materials (mechanical properties: stress, strain, theory of elasticity)
  • Tension Elements (material capacity; hangers)
  • Tension Elements (stays, ties & guys)
  • Beams I (bending moments and shear forces)
  • Beams II (BM & SF diagrams)
  • Beams III (bending stresses, section properties)
  • Beams IV (form characteristics)
  • Beams V (shear stresses, deflections)
  • Preliminary examination
  • Beams VI (continuity, pre-stressing)
  • Beams VII (beam grids & slabs)
  • Columns I (material and buckling capacities; section properties)
  • Columns II (buckling restraints)
  • Walls (types; especially gravity load-bearing)
  • Trusses I (basic behavior, form characteristics)
  • Trusses II (preliminary analysis methods)
  • Trusses III (space frames, tensegrity systems)

ARCH 5613 Structural Systems, 3 credits

Description

Behavior and design of overall structural systems for buildings. Particular focus on systems used for resisting lateral loads (rigid frames, braced frames, and shear walls) and for spanning long distances (trusses and space frames; cables and membranes; and arches, domes, and shells).

Typical topics covered in the course (may vary by year):

  • 3D structural systems overview: gravity & lateral loading
  • 3D structural systems overview: vertical + "horizontal" subsystems
  • Braced frame systems
  • Shear wall systems
  • Rigid frame systems
  • One-way and two-way beam systems
  • Plate and slab systems
  • Truss systems
  • Space frame systems
  • Vierendeel and tensegrity systems
  • Cable-stayed and suspension systems
  • Cable-net systems
  • Tension membrane systems
  • Arch and vault systems
  • Dome systems
  • Thin shell and grid-shell systems
  • Shell systems and folded plate systems

ARCH 5614 Building Technology I: Materials and Methods, 3 credits

Description

Building construction is examined from the following standpoints: life safety (including fire safety and zoning constraints on site planning); building service systems (plumbing, electrical, vertical transportation, security, fire protection); materials, sustainability, and life-cycle analysis; accessibility; technical documentation and outline specifications.

Typical topics covered in the course (may vary by year):

Life-Safety, Accessibility, Sustainability, and Technical Documentation

  • Fire sprinklers and fire areas; construction types and occupancy
  • Area calculations, examples
  • Mixed occupancies, barriers, and assemblies
  • Accessibility
  • Introduction to sustainability
  • Materials, life-cycle analysis, and life-cycle cost
  • Security systems

Construction Systems

  • Structure, enclosure, and building systems
  • Control layers
  • Movement, joints, and flashing
  • Sealant joints
  • Wall sections: foundations
  • Wall sections: brick and stone veneer
  • Wall sections: curtain walls and glazing systems
  • Wall sections: metal and precast panels
  • Wall sections: EIFS
  • Roofing
  • Large-scale views (stairs, elevators, escalators)
  • Schedules and interior finishes
  • Plumbing and electrical systems

ARCH 5615 Building Technology II: Structural Elements, 3 credits

Description

Concepts and procedures for the design, manufacture, and construction of structural components (e.g., walls, columns, beams, slabs) in steel, concrete, masonry, and timber.

Typical topics covered in the course (may vary by year):

Wood

  • Review of statics and strength of materials
  • Wood properties
  • Wood systems
  • Wood beam design principles
  • Design of other wood elements
  • Mass timber

Steel

  • Steel properties
  • Steel systems
  • Steel beam design principles
  • Design of other steel elements
  • Steel building details

Masonry, reinforced concrete

  • Load-bearing masonry properties and systems (I)
  • Load-bearing masonry properties and systems (II)
  • Reinforced concrete beam design principles
  • Reinforced concrete shear, deflection, columns
  • Reinforced concrete properties
  • Reinforced concrete systems

ARCH 5616 Environmental Systems II: Building Dynamics, 3 credits

Description

This course examines the design and analysis of the building envelope, focusing on the material and energetic transformations taking place at the boundary between architecture and the environment. Topics include comfort, building thermodynamics, envelope assemblies, thermal modeling, active and passive control systems, daylighting, and architectural acoustics.

Typical topics covered in the course (may vary by year):

  • Climate, site, context
  • Solar form-finding, ray-casting methods, sun exposure analysis
  • Sustainability concepts, energy, and renewables, carbon footprint
  • PV systems, single zone energy modeling
  • Energy modeling, mmbodied carbon
  • Energy modeling, embodied carbon, continued
  • HVAC systems
  • Facades, passive systems, natural ventilation, case study
  • Detailing, thermal bridging
  • Moisture control
  • Daylight systems, visual comfort, view
  • Electric lighting
  • Acoustics

ARCH 5801 History of Architecture I, 3 credits

Description

The history of the built environment as social and cultural expression from the earliest times to the beginning of the modern period is studied through selected examples from across the world. Themes, theories, and ideas in architecture and urban design are explored through texts, artifacts, buildings, cities, and landscapes.

Typical topics covered in the course (may vary by year):

  • Nature, environment, habitat, and the ecological concept of "human webs"
  • Cities on river valleys: Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley
  • The American web: human-environment systems and interactions
  • Nature and techne in Ancient Greece
  • The Roman Empire and The Han Dynasty
  • Inter-civilizational and inter-ecological exchanges: goods, germs, and religions
  • Histories and kingdoms south of the Sahara Desert
  • The "hydraulic Civilizations" of South-East Asia. The city of temples: Angkor Wat
  • The Unity of Heaven and Earth Constantinople, Ravenna, Venice, ca. 300 CE–1400 CE
  • Northern Europe: allegories of nature in Gothic Architecture and the Italian Renaissance: gardens, landscapes, and cross-cultural dialogues
  • Islamic empires and spaces of the Ummah
  • Sugar plantations, silver mines, and mercantile capitalism
  • The little ice age of the 17th century
  • Pre-contact America and the Columbian exchange

ARCH 5802 History of Architecture II, 3 credits

Description

The history of the built environment as social and cultural expression from the modern period to the present day is studied through selected examples from across the world. Architecture and urban design themes, theories, and ideas are explored through texts, artifacts, buildings, cities, and landscapes.

Typical topics covered in the course (may vary by year):

  • Enlightenment and architecture in Europe
  • Enlightenment, race and architecture in the colonial and postcolonial Americas
  • Panopticism
  • Plantations and production architecture across the Atlantic
  • French Revolution and architecture
  • American Revolution and architecture
  • Haitian Revolution and architecture
  • Indigenous architectures of Americas
  • Edo Japan
  • Nationalism and historicism
  • Gothic ideal
  • Late Ottoman architecture
  • Industrial Revolution and racial capitalism in architecture
  • Global use of steel, glass, iron: world fairs, bridges, transportation infrastructures, railways, and the early skyscrapers
  • Orientalism and colonization in North Africa
  • Colonization in Asia
  • Socialism and architecture
  • Urbanization and design in Europe
  • Global Art Nouveau,
  • Avant-gardes and architecture: Futurism, Expressionism, De Stijl, Constructivism, etc…
  • The Werkbund and the Bauhaus
  • Taylorism and scientific management
  • Latin American vanguards
  • Early 20th century Modernism in Western Europe
  • Early 20th century Modernism in Central and Southern Europe
  • Early 20th century Modernism in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe
  • Early 20th century Modernism in the Americas: USA, Canada, Latin America
  • Early 20th century Modernism in Asia
  • Early 20th century Modernism in the Middle East and Africa
  • Land settlement and collective housing in Europe and North America
  • Land settlement and collective housing in Asia, South America, and Africa
  • Domesticity, home technologies, and gender
  • Fascism and architecture in Germany, Italy, and Spain
  • Post-war new monumentalities and counter-monumentalities
  • Architecture and developmentalism in Asia, Africa, and the Americas
  • The post-war radical architecture
  • Post-war office in the U.S.
  • Post- and Cold-War house and housing in Cold War's Western Block
  • Post-and Cold-War house and housing in Cold War's Eastern Block
  • Decolonization and independence in Asia and Africa
  • Post-1960 revivalism, typology and postmodern style in Europe and N. America
  • Post-1960 revivalism in Asia
  • Post-1960 environmentalism in Europe and North America
  • Post-1960 environmentalism in Asia and Africa
  • Poststructuralist turn (Deconstruction, etc.)
  • Globalization and contemporary architecture around the world
  • Digitalization, computation, cybernetics, and architecture
  • Informal settlements and contemporary architectural responses
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