Courses of Study 2012-2013 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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ANTHR—Anthropology |
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ANTHR 7423 - [Inter-war Anthropologies]
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014. Co-meets with ANTHR 4423 .
C. Garces.
Anthropologists and continental theorists have looked in recent years to turn-of-the-century American ethnology and comparative sociology for unconventional insight into political sovereignty or non-state modalities of traditional body politics. However, the wartime and inter-war era’s multiple dislocations and forms of exile also produced a variety of anthropological work speaking directly to the anxieties of today’s “global state” of perpetual armed conflict, economic insecurity, and rising xenophobic nationalism. This seminar will gather together and interrogate several key French, British, and U.S. anthropological texts, either researched or written during 1914-45, and consider them from the vantage point of their enduring critical stance towards modern political and economic belligerence.
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ANTHR 7426 - [Ideology and Social Production]
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014. Co-meets with ANTHR 4426 .
S. Sangren.
This course is premised on the notion that understanding social life requires understanding how social institutions are produced and sustained through time—that is to say, one must understand “society” as a process of production. By the same token, all cultures produce ideas or “representation” (e.g., about reality, nature, society, gender, authority) that serve to legitimize or validate each society’s particular social arrangements. These ideologies play an important role in social production, on the one hand, and are also products of social processes, on the other. This course focuses on the linkages between ideology and social production in readings drawn from social theory and ethnographic case studies. We discuss strongly diverging views (psychoanalytic, postmodernist, poststructuralist, practice-theory, neo-Marxist) on how best to conceive social processes. An integrating theme is that understanding ideology and its alienating operations is essential in developing a coherent understanding of what culture, in the last analysis, is.
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ANTHR 7427 - Gender Theory
Spring. 4 credits.
Co-meets with ANTHR 4427 .
K. March.
This seminar reads pivotal theoretical works in feminist anthropology critically. We will follow the development of anthropological theory with specific reference to sex, sexuality and gender, beginning with Margaret Mead and building toward the most recent efforts to theorize how gender constructs the sexed worlds of women and men around the world and how global changes are affecting those worlds.
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ANTHR 7429 - [Anthropology and Psychoanalysis]
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2014-2015. Co-meets with ANTHR 4429 .
S. Sangren.
Psychoanalysis holds that desire emerges from the clash between individuals’ predisposition and the need to accommodate to others in society. Yes anthropology has been resistant to the role that psychoanalytic theory might play in linking individual desire to culture. Does psychoanalysis have anything to offer cultural anthropology? Can understanding of collective institutions be advanced with reference to theories of individual motivation and desire? Conversely, can collective life be understood without reference to individual motivation and desire? Is desire best understood as sexual in nature, or is it better understood in more abstract and existential terms? With such questions in mind, this course surveys anthropology’s engagements with psychoanalysis. We read theoretical works as well as ethnographically grounded case studies on topics ranging from religious experience, mythic narratives, the cultural construction of gender and desire, and modern popular culture.
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ANTHR 7432 - [Queer Theory and Kinship Studies] (crosslisted)
(also FGSS 7432 )
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014. Co-meets with ANTHR 4432 /FGSS 4432 .
L. Ramberg.
For description, see FGSS 7432 .
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ANTHR 7435 - Postcolonial Science
Fall. 4 credits.
Co-meets with ANTHR 4435 /BSOC 4351 .
S. Langwick.
This course examines science and technology in so-called “non-Western” countries as well as the ways that science and technology are shaping new “transnational” or “global” relations. We will explore the post-colonial as a dynamic space that both plays off of and refigures the complicated dynamics of colonialism. The postcolonial challenges the dichotomies through which colonial power moved: western/indigenous, white/black, modern/traditional, global/local, developed/underdeveloped, and science/non-science. At the same time, it confronts the ways in which colonial histories are still embodied in institutions, identities, environments, and landscapes. Techno-scientific knowledge and practice have both enacted colonial divisions and been called on in post-colonial struggles. How them might we understand the work of scientific knowledge and practice in the kinds of hegemonies and struggles that shape our world today? We will explore this question by examining the way that technoscience is performed—by scientists, development workers, activists, government officials, and others. The class will pay particular attention to the located processes through which claims to the universal or global emerge. In addition by considering controversies over the environment, medicine, and indigenous knowledge, we will consider the effects of such claims.
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ANTHR 7437 - [Anthropology of Development]
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014. Co-meets with ANTHR 4437 .
M. Welker.
This course provides an anthropological perspective on international development. After reading orthodox theories of development and considering them in historical context, we will examine ethnographic accounts of postcolonial development that draw on political economy and poststructuralist traditions. The final portion of the course looks critically at the emergence of discourses such as participation, empowerment, social capital, civil society, and sustainability in mainstream development.
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ANTHR 7444 - God(s) and the Market
Spring. 4 credits.
Co-meets with ANTHR 4444 .
H. Miyazaki.
One of the oldest and most powerful insights of anthropology is that different domains of society such as religion and economy shape and condition each other. We will discuss a variety of old and new anthropological explorations into the intersections of religion and economy, from Max Weber’s classical study of the relationship between Protestantism and the rise of capitalism to recent studies of the work of faith in financial markets. This seminar is intended to bring together students interested in religion and students interested in business and economy.
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ANTHR 7453 - [Political Anthropology]
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014. Co-meets with ANTHR 4453 .
A.T. Smith.
This course is an exploration of major theoretical approaches to the study of political institutions, structures, and processes in different societies, with special reference to the nature of power, the role of symbolism and ideology in politics, the problem of sovereignty, and representations of the state. We will explore the constitution of political authority in reference to both ethnographic and archaeological investigations that will take us from the problems of early state origins to the transformations of the post-colonial. Throughout, our discussions will attempt to bring forward problems of structure and process, history and practice that animate anthropological approaches to political life.
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ANTHR 7467 - Self and Subjectivity
Spring. 4 credits.
Co-meets with ANTHR 4467 .
A. Willford.
This course examines theories of subjectivity and self-formation from a comparative, ethnographic perspective. We begin by examining classic and contemporary phenomenological, psychodynamic, semiotic, structuralist, and post-structuralist theories of self and/or subject formation. Moving into the ethnographic literature, we assess the utility of these models for understanding the selves of others, particularly in critical juxtaposition to multiple and alternate theories of the self and/or person as understood in different cultures. By examining debates in the anthropology of emotion, cognition, healing, and mental health we bring into sharper focus the particular theoretical and empirical contributions (and/or limits and failures) of anthropologists towards developing a cross-cultural psychology.
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ANTHR 7479 - Ethnicity and Identity Politics: An Anthropological Perspective (crosslisted)
(also AAS 7479 )
Fall. 4 credits.
Co-meets with ANTHR 4479 , AAS 4790 .
V. Munasinghe.
The most baffling aspect of ethnicity is that while ethnic sentiments and movements gain ground rapidly within the international arena, the claim that ethnicity does not exist in any objective sense is also receiving increasing credence within the academic community. How can something thought “not to exist” have such profound consequences in the real world? In lay understandings, ethnicity is believed to be a “natural” disposition of humanity. If so, why does ethnicity mean different “things” in different places? Anthropology has much to contribute to a greater understanding of this perplexing phenomenon. After all, the defining criterion for ethnic groups is that of cultural distinctiveness. Through ethnographic case studies, this course will examine some of the key anthropological approaches to ethnicity. We will explore the relationship of ethnicity to culture, ethnicity to nation, and ethnicity to state to better understand the role ethnicity plays in the identity politics of today.
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ANTHR 7495 - [Rice and Language: Geography, Movement, and Exchange] (crosslisted)
(also ARKEO 7495 , LING 7495 )
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2014-2015. Co-meets with ANTHR 4495 /ARKEO 4495 /IARD 4495 /LING 4495 .
M. Fiskesjö.
In recent years numerous breakthroughs have been made in the study of early human history and the formidable role of agriculture in that story. New insights in several disciplines have cast new light on areas previously believed to lie outside of the reach of science. Taking early crop domestication and agricultural expansions and parallel socio-cultural and linguistic developments such as migration and language diversification among early peoples of Asia as a special focus, we will consider evidence from the study of geography, water, rice domestication, plant genetics, human genetics, language, and identity and social change. We will pay special attention to the conversation between disciplines, to how data and insights can be compared from different disciplines, and how the significance of new insights can be enhanced in the light of the theories and methods in different academic disciplines. The focus is Asian rice, but geographically the course has numerous, worldwide comparative dimensions.
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ANTHR 7520 - Southeast Asia: Readings in Special Problems
Fall, spring. 1-4 credits, variable.
Staff.
Independent reading course on topics not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to supervise the course work.
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ANTHR 7523 - [Making History on the Margins: The China - SE Asia Borderlands]
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013–2014. Co-meets with ANTHR 4523 .
M. Fiskesjo.
This seminar course is a new in-depth look at classical issues regarding the making of history, revisiting the mountain borderlands in between China and Southeast Asia made famous by anthropologists (Leach, Lévi-Strauss, Kirch, and Friedman) attempting to understand structure, history, and center-periphery transformations. Are the peoples of this region (Kachin, Wa, Naga, etc predetermined by fateful forces and processes beyond their control, as prisoners of geography and circumstance, or what role do they have in the making of their own history? The course addresses themes from regional ethnography as well as theoretical issues, and forms an introduction to field research in this fertile region.
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ANTHR 7530 - South Asia: Readings in Special Problems
Fall, spring. 1-4 credits, variable.
Staff.
Independent reading course in topics not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to supervise the course work.
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ANTHR 7543 - [Religion and Ritual in China]
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014. Co-meets with ANTHR 4543 .
S. Sangren
This course explores topics in the anthropological study of Chinese religion, including aspects of cosmology, ritual, and mythology as they relate to Chinese society. A premise of the course is that religion embodies values basic to Chinese culture. Consequently, study of Chinese religion provides important insights into Chinese society. By the same token, Chinese religion must be understood in the context of Chinese social institutions (family, community, state).
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ANTHR 7545 - Peoples and Cultures of the Himalayas
Fall. 4 credits.
Co-meets with ANTHR 3545 .
K. March.
A comprehensive exploration of the peoples and cultures of the Himalayas. Ethnographic materials draw on the lifeways of populations living in the Himalayan regions of Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Tibet. Some of the cultural issues to be examined through these sources include images of the Himalayas in the West, forms of social life, ethnic diversity, political and economic history, and religious complexity.
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ANTHR 7550 - East Asia: Readings in Special Problems
Fall, spring. 1-4 credits, variable.
Staff.
Independent reading course in topics not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to supervise the course work.
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ANTHR 7725 - [American Indian Lands and Sovereignties]
Fall. 4 credits.
Next offered 2014-2015. Co-meets with ANTHR 4725 .
P. Nadasdy.
The relationship between North American Indian peoples and the states of Canada and the US is in many ways unique, the product of centuries of trade compacts, treaties, legislation, warfare, land claim negotiations, and Supreme Court (both US and Canadian) decisions. Those trying to make sense of the cross-cultural terrain of Indian-State relations find that apparently straightforward political and legal concepts such as “land,” “property,” “sovereignty,” and “identity” often seem inadequate, based as they are on European cultural assumptions. These terms tend to take on new – and often ambiguous – meanings in the realm of Indian-State relations. In the first part of this course, we will explore some of these ambiguous meanings, paying attention to the cultural realities they reflect and the social relationships they help shape. In the second part of the course, we will get a sense of the complex interplay of legal, political, and cultural forces discussed earlier in the semester by taking an in-depth look at several selected case studies.
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ANTHR 7910 - Independent Study: Grad I
Fall, spring. 1-4 credits, variable.
Enrollment is limited to: graduate students.
Staff.
Independent reading course in topics not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to supervise the course work.
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ANTHR 7920 - Independent Study: Grad II
Fall, spring. 1-4 credits, variable.
Enrollment is limited to: graduate students.
Staff.
Independent reading course in topics not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to supervise the course work.
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ANTHR 7930 - Independent Study: Grad III
Fall, spring. 1-4 credits, variable.
Enrollment is limited to: graduate students.
Staff.
Independent reading course in topics not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to supervise the course work.
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ARCH—Architecture |
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ARCH 1101 - Design I
Fall. 6 credits.
Enrollment limited to: department students only.
Staff.
Introduction to design as a conceptual discipline directed at the analysis, interpretation, synthesis, and transformation of the physical environment. Exercises are aimed at developing an understanding of the issues, elements, and processes of environmental design.
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ARCH 1102 - Design II
Spring. 6 credits.
Prerequisite: ARCH 1101 and ARCH 1501 . Enrollment limited to: department students.
Staff.
Continuation of ARCH 1101 . Covers human, social, technical, and aesthetic factors related to space and form. Design problems range from those of the immediate environment of the individual to that of small social groups.
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ARCH 1103 - Elective Design Studio
Fall. 6 credits.
Enrollment limited to: nonarchitecture students; permission of instructor.
Staff.
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ARCH 1104 - Elective Design Studio
Spring. 6 credits.
Prerequisite: ARCH 1103 and permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to: nonarchitecture students.
Staff.
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ARCH 1110 - Introduction to Architecture: Design Studio
Summer. 3 credits.
Not offered every year. Enrollment limited to: non-architecture majors in college, high school students in 11th and 12th grades, and any individuals with a minimum of a high school diploma interested in exploring the field of architecture.
Staff.
Designed to introduce students to ideas, principles, and methods of solving architectural problems in a studio setting. Through a graduated sequence of exercises culminating in a major semester project, students explore the architectural concepts of space, form, function, and technology. Instruction is via highly personalized critiques of individual student work by assigned department faculty members, as well as periodic reviews of the group by invited faculty and guest critics. The grade is based on the overall performance in the studio with special emphasis on the quality of a major studio project.
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ARCH 1300 - An Introduction to Architecture: Lectures
Summer. 3 credits.
Enrollment limited to: non-architecture majors in college, high school students in 11th and 12th grades, and anyone with minimum of a high school diploma interested in exploring the field of architecture.
Staff.
Survey course that covers the many facets of architecture: history, design principles, preservations, landscape architecture, building technology, and cultural factors. Course format comprises lectures, demonstrations, films, and field trips. Evaluation is based on quizzes and a final exam.
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ARCH 1301 - Introduction to Architecture
Fall. 3 credits.
Enrollment limited to: out-of-department students only.
Staff.
Intended to familiarize non-architecture students with the art and science of architecture. The fundamentals of plan, section, and elevation, the primary elements that comprise an architectural form; basic organizational principles; the ways in which we perceive architectural space; and the various concepts of function in relation to form will be included among the topics to be covered, using examples from numerous times and cultures as well as from contemporary Cornell campus.
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ARCH 1501 - Representation I: Freehand Architectural Drawing
Fall. 3 credits.
Enrollment limited to: department student or permission of instructor.
Staff.
Introduction to freehand drawing as an analytical tool within the design process.
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ARCH 1502 - Representation II: Media of Representation
Spring. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: ARCH 1501 or permission of instructor.
Staff.
The understanding of representational and fabrication techniques as generative tools in the design process.
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ARCH 1611 - Environmental Systems I: Site and Sustainability
Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
K. Pratt.
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.
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ARCH 1612 - Structural Concepts
Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
M. Cruvellier.
Fundamental concepts of structural behavior. Statics and strength of materials. Introduction to and analysis of simple structural systems.
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ARCH 1801 - History of Architecture I
Fall. 3 credits.
Staff.
The history of the built environment as social and cultural expression from the earliest to more recent times. Themes, theories, and ideas in architecture and urban design are explored, beginning with the earliest written records.
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ARCH 1802 - History of Architecture II
Spring. 3 credits.
May be taken independently of ARCH 1801 .
Staff.
The history of the built environment as social and cultural expression from more recent times to the present. Architecture and urban design themes, theories, and ideas are addressed in greater detail leading to the present time.
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ARCH 2101 - Design III
Fall, spring. 6 credits.
Prerequisites: ARCH 1501 –ARCH 1502 and ARCH 1102 . Enrollment limited to: department students.
Staff.
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ARCH 2102 - Design IV
Fall, spring. 6 credits.
Prerequisites: ARCH 1501 –ARCH 1502 and ARCH 2101 . Enrollment limited to: department students.
Staff.
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ARCH 2301 - Architectural Analysis I: Buildings, Drawings, and Texts
Fall. 3 credits.
Corequisite: ARCH 2101 .
Staff.
Agendas and approaches to the making and “reading” of space and form in 20th- and 21st-century architecture. Introduction to canonical works and texts, with frequent reference to relevant works prior to the 20th century, and with an emphasis on buildings and drawings as the vehicles of study, with occasional citations from painting, film, literature, and other critical works.
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ARCH 2601 - Environmental Systems I - Site Planning
Spring. 3 credits.
Staff.
Basic principles involved in design in the outdoor environment. A brief historical perspective. A development of inventory including grading and drainage. Foundations, surfacing, and construction.
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ARCH 2602 - Building Technology, Materials, and Methods
Fall. 3 credits.
Co-meets with ARCH 5602 .
J. Ochshorn.
Building construction is examined from the following standpoints: life safety (construction types, occupancy, assemblies, egress); accessibility (ramps, doors, etc.); sustainability; conveying systems (stairs, elevators, escalators); structural materials (properties, manufacturing strategies, typical applications, and connections); envelope theory (insulation, condensation, vapor and air barriers, pressure-equalization, movement, tolerances); cladding systems (masonry, precast, metal, glass); interior systems (walls, floors, and ceilings); and technical documentation (detail drawings).
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ARCH 2603 - Structural Concepts
Fall. 4 credits.
M. Cruvellier.
Fundamental concepts of structural behavior. Statics and strength of materials. Introduction to and analysis of simple structural systems.
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ARCH 2604 - Structural Elements
Spring. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: ARCH 2603 .
J. Ochshorn.
Concepts and procedures for the design of individual structural components (e.g., columns, beams) in steel, concrete, and timber construction.
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ARCH 2613 - Structural Systems
Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: ARCH 1612 .
M. Cruvellier.
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).
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ARCH 2614 - Building Technology I: Materials and Methods
Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
J. Ochshorn.
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.
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ARCH 2615 - Building Technology II: Structural Elements
Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
J. Ochshorn.
Concepts and procedures for the design, manufacture, and construction of structural components (e.g., walls, columns, beams, slabs) in steel, concrete, masonry, and timber.
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ARCH 2616 - Environmental Systems II: Building Dynamics
Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
K. Pratt.
This course examines the design and analysis of the building envelope, with a focus on the material and energetic transformations taking place at the boundary between architecture and environment. Topics include: comfort, building thermodynamics, envelope assemblies, thermal modeling, active and passive control systems, daylighting and architectural acoustics.
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ARCH 2809 - Undergraduate Independent Study in the History of Architecture and Urbanism
Fall, spring. 1-3 credits, variable.
Permission of instructor is required. May not be applied toward undergraduate history requirements.
Staff.
Independent study for undergraduate students.
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ARCH 3100 - Elective Design Studio
Fall, spring, or summer. 6 credits.
Permission of instructor is required. For students with Incomplete in ARCH 2102 OR ARCH 3101 .
Staff.
Nonsequence design used as temporary placement for incompletes in design sequence.
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ARCH 3101 - Design V
Fall, spring. 6 credits.
Prerequisites: ARCH 2102 . Enrollment limited to: department students.
Staff.
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ARCH 3102 - Design VI
Fall, spring. 6 credits.
Prerequisites: ARCH 3101 . Enrollment limited to: department students.
Staff.
One of the key design experiences during this semester will be the dialogic interaction of architectural conceptions and building subsystems as simulated in the design studio. The requirements of building subsystems are seen to both support and inform architectural concepts and form. Questions of passive architectural responses versus active technical responses, as well as issues of thermal comfort, energy efficiency, sustainability, structure, and life safety will be addressed.
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ARCH 3103 - Special Problems in Architectural Design
Fall or spring. 1-3 credits, variable.
Permission of instructor is required and approved independent study form. Does not count for design sequence credit.
Staff.
Independent study.
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ARCH 3109 - Elective Design Studio
Summer. 6 credits.
Permission of instructor required. Each student is assigned to a class of appropriate level.
Staff.
Nonsequence design studio used for off-campus foreign programs for third-year B.Arch. students. Credit will be applied toward ARCH 4101 upon successful completion of ARCH 3102 .
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ARCH 3301 - Architectural Analysis II: Architecture, the City, and Landscape
Fall or Spring. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: ARCH 2301 .
Staff.
Agendas and approaches to the making and reading of urban conditions and landscape designs in the 20th and 21st centuries. Introduction to canonical works and texts, with emphasis on architecture within and without the city as vehicles of study, and with frequent reference to urban and landscape theories and designs prior to the 20th century, as well as to representations of the city and garden from other media and disciplines.
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ARCH 3304 - Column, Wall, Elevation, Facade: A Study of the Vertical Surface in Architecture
Fall or spring. 3 credits.
Enrollment limited to: third-year students and above. Co-meets with ARCH 6304 .
J. Wells.
Field and figure relationships (interrelation of parts dominated by the general character of the whole) are the general themes for studying numerous issues relevant to the design of elevations and facades. The first part of the semester is a lecture/seminar format. Students are required to research and present a paper for discussion. In the latter part of the semester, students do exercises to demonstrate their understanding of the issues addressed.
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ARCH 3307 - Special Investigations in the Theory of Architecture I
Fall or spring. 1-3 credits, variable.
Permission of instructor is required and approved independent study form.
Staff.
Independent study.
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ARCH 3308 - Special Topics in the Theory of Architecture I
Fall or spring. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: ARCH 2301 –ARCH 3301 or permission of instructor.
Staff.
Topic TBA.
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ARCH 3309 - Elements, Principles, and Theories in Japanese Architecture
Spring. 3 credits.
Co-meets with .
L. Mirin.
Examination of Japanese architecture (buildings and gardens) and their contexts: landscapes, settlements, and cities. The course is addressed to those interested in Japanese architecture as a manifestation of Japanese culture and as a subject for analysis. Emphasis is on underlying concepts, ordering principles, formal typologies, space and its representation, perceptual phenomena, and symbolic content. Readings focus on theoretical treatments of these aspects by Japanese and western writers.
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ARCH 3402 - Architecture as a Cultural System
Fall or spring. 3 credits.
Co-meets with ARCH 5402 .
B. MacDougall.
What have been the major issues in the theory and practice of architectural design through time and across cultures, and how is aesthetic judgment related to more general systems of ordering within a particular society or group? This course draws on concepts, methods, and findings from the broad field of cultural anthropology to address these questions. Case studies and examples are drawn from a wide range of architectural traditions around the world for which there is significant ethnographic literature, with special emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa, India, and the United States. Topics include the ideational and formal relationships between folk and monumental traditions in complex societies; the structure of the ideal social order and its refraction in the material world; cosmological models and architectural form; geometries of non-Western traditions; and the relationship between indigenization and culture change.
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ARCH 3409 - Undergraduate Investigations in Architecture, Culture, and Society
Fall or spring. 1-3 credits, variable.
ermission of instructor is required and approved independent study form.
B. MacDougall.
Independent study.
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ARCH 3601 - Environmental Systems II: Thermal Environmental Systems
Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisites: ARCH 2601 .
Staff.
This course addresses the design of the indoor thermal environment, including the appropriate application of building envelope materials and assemblies, and an introduction to the principles of sustainability. Beginning with the basics of human thermal comfort, followed by the concept and practice of solar heating, passive cooling, indoor air quality, and human health, students will learn how to shape the form of a building to respond to climate and the needs of an occupant. In the second half of the semester, students address the design of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems, including heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) equipment, vertical transportation, communication, security, and fire protection systems.
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ARCH 3602 - Environmental Systems III: Building Systems Integration
Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisites: ARCH 2602 , ARCH 2603 , ARCH 3101 and ARCH 3601 .
Staff.
This course addresses the design of the visual and acoustical environments of buildings. Beginning with the basics of vision, followed by the concept and practice of daylighting, electric lighting sources, and human health, this course will provide students with a working understanding of light and sound as architectural media.
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ARCH 3603 - Structural Systems
Fall or spring. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: ARCH 2604 .
M. Cruvellier.
Concepts and procedures for the design of overall structural framing systems in steel, concrete, and timber construction.
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ARCH 3604 - Vertigo Structures
Fall or spring. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: ARCH 3603 or equivalent. Not offered every year. Co-meets with ARCH 6604 . Limited enrollment.
M. Cruvellier.
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ARCH 3605 - Bridge Design
Fall or spring. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: ARCH 3603 or equivalent. Not offered every year. Co-meets with ARCH 6605 . Limited enrollment.
M. Cruvellier.
The major visual impact of bridges on the built environment cannot be denied. And yet, during the past century, architects have virtually abandoned their historical role in the design of these structures. Engineers, on the other hand, have claimed bridge design as their responsibility and have hailed it as evidence of structural art. Are the basic principles of bridge design such that this situation makes sense for our society? Or is a rethinking of the manner in which bridges are designed called for? Students examine and experiment with the design of bridge structural forms, not only in terms of what is technically feasible but also, with equal emphasis, in the context of aesthetic, historical, and social considerations. Weekly meetings include lectures, discussion seminars, and studio-type design reviews.
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ARCH 3702 - Visual Imaging in the Electronic Age (crosslisted)
(also ART 2107 , CS 1620 , ENGRI 1620 )
Fall or spring. (Not offered every year) 3 credits.
Enrollment limited to: undergraduate non–computer scientists.
D. Greenberg.
Interdisciplinary survey course designed to introduce students in the creative arts, science, and engineering to the concepts of digital pictorial representation and display. It is a concept and theory course that concentrates on “why” rather than “how.” Topics include perspective representations, display technology, how television works, bandwidth concepts, digital photography, computer graphics modeling and rendering, matting and composing, color perception, data acquisition, volumetric imaging, and historical precedents, primarily from the art world. Also included are other modes of imaging.
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ARCH 3808 - Modernism
Fall or spring. 3 credits.
Prerequisites: ARCH 1801 –ARCH 1802 or permission of instructor. Not offered every year.
C. Otto.
Precursors and proponents of the modern movement from the late 19th century into the 1940s are considered in this course. The cultural intents of the modern are examined in architectural and urban design for individuals, groups, and institutions, from Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Frank Lloyd Wright to de Stijl, the Bauhaus, and design education. Attention is paid to the politics of design serving the state in the 1930s.
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ARCH 3809 - Architecture, Revolution, and Tradition
Fall or spring. 3 credits.
Prerequisites: ARCH 1801 –ARCH 1802 or permission of instructor. Not offered every year.
C. Otto.
From early 18th to early 19th century, European society underwent profound change. Political absolutism—the doctrine of unlimited governmental control—was challenged; enlightenment attitudes—commitments to human reason, science, and education—gained ascendancy. This course considers architectural and urban design in these times of tumult. It begins with efforts to foment architectural revolution within inherited traditions and ends with attempts to establish design traditions within revolutionary settings.
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ARCH 3812 - [Edge Cities: Celluloid New York and Los Angeles] (crosslisted)
(also AMST 3812 , PMA 3441 , VISST 3812 )
Spring. 3 credits.
Prerequisites: ARCH 1801 –ARCH 1802 or permission of instructor. Next offered 2013-2014.
S. Haenni, M. Woods.
For description, see AMST 3812
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ARCH 3815 - History of the Present - Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism
Fall or spring. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: ARCH 1801 –ARCH 1802 or permission of instructor.
C. Otto.
Theory and practice in architecture and urbanism are investigated from later Modernism to contemporary positions. Built work, theoretical texts and graphics, and the nature of design practice in locations worldwide (such as the United States and the Pacific Rim) raise issues of globalization and the specificity of place and cultural identity. By engaging the immediate past using methods of cultural and design history, the course problematizes the relationship (and relevance) of history to architectural practice and experience.
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ARCH 3819 - Special Topics in the History of Architecture and Urbanism
Fall or spring. 3 credits.
Prerequisites: ARCH 1801 –ARCH 1802 or permission of instructor. Not offered every year.
Staff.
Topics TBA.
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ARCH 3820 - The Topography and Urban History of Rome in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Fall or spring. 3 credits.
Counts as history of art elective for BArch and BFA students. Counts as Design Area Requirement for URS students. Cornell in Rome.
J. Gadeyne.
Rome is a prisoner of its past. The entire city confronts the student with almost 30 centuries of urban and architectural history. This course intends to reconstruct the urban history of Rome from its origins through the Middle Ages (10th century bc–12th century ad). The purpose of this course will be to discover the layers of Rome, combining archaeology with literature, architecture, and urban history with art history. The goal is a thorough and direct knowledge of the Roman and Medieval urban landscape and the way this landscape has sometimes survived until today. Special attention will be given to Roman and Medieval building typology, both private and public, and the development of the urban infrastructure (street system, water supply, fortifications, etc.). Strong emphasis will be placed upon continuity, use/reuse, and transformation of buildings and spaces, etc. Every week one or two different “regions” will be explored that are typical for a particular moment of the urban history. Visits to sites outside Rome also will be used to address the issue of urban history in Italy in antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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ARCH 3904 - Toward the Millennium
Fall or spring. 3 credits.
Prerequisites: ARCH 1801 –ARCH 1802 or permission of instructor. Not offered every year.
C. Otto.
Theory and practice in architecture and urbanism are investigated from the 1950s to the present. From the Americanized International Style to the more recent internationalism of design attitudes, the immediate past is explored historically to probe the matrix of meanings associated with contemporary form, urbanism, and technology.
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ARCH 4101 - Design VII
Fall, spring. 6 credits.
Prerequisite: ARCH 3102 and ARCH 3602 . Enrollment limited to: department students.
Staff.
Programs in architectural design, urban design, or architectural technology and environmental science and topical studies.
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ARCH 4102 - Design VIII
Fall, spring. 6 credits.
Prerequisite: ARCH 4101 . Enrollment limited to: department students.
Staff.
Programs in architectural design, urban design, or architectural technology and environmental science and topical studies.
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ARCH 4405 - Architecture and the Mythic Imagination
Fall. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: ARCH 3402 or permission of instructor. Not offered every year.
B. MacDougall.
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ARCH 4407 - Architectural Design and the Utopian Tradition
Fall. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: ARCH 3402 or permission of instructor. Not offered every year.
Staff.
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ARCH 4408 - Special Topics in Architecture, Culture, and Society
Fall, spring. 3 credits.
Permission of instructor is required.
Staff.
Topic TBA.
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ARCH 4500 - Architectural Publications
Fall or spring. 3 credits. (May be repeated for credit.)
Staff.
Colloquy and practicum on issues related to the production of an architectural journal, as well as other theoretical and practical production issues related to the exchange of architectural ideas. Exercises cover both theoretical as well as hands-on aspects of architectural publication.
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ARCH 4508 - Special Investigations in Visual Representation
Fall or spring. 1-3 credits, variable.
Permission of instructor is required and approved independent study form.
Staff.
Independent study.
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ARCH 4509 - Special Topics in Visual Representation I
Fall or spring. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: ARCH 1501 , ARCH 1502 , and ARCH 2503 , or permission of instructor.
Staff.
Topics TBA.
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ARCH 4513 - Furniture Design (crosslisted)
(also ARCH 4613 )
Fall or spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
Permission of instructor required. Students who wish to earn visual representation credit must enroll in ARCH 4513; technology credit, ARCH 4613 .
G. Hascup.
Explores the history, design, and materiality of furniture. Analyses of materials and joinery-connective systems are developed in parallel with ergonomic restraints. Design transformation occurs through cycles of conceptual alternatives (models and drawings), increasing in scale as the idea evolves. Full-scale prototypes and detailed tectonic drawings are required on three pieces. Multiple enrollment under different course offering numbers is not allowed.
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ARCH 4603 - Special Topics in Structures
Fall or spring. (Not offered every year) 3 credits.
Prerequisite: ARCH 2603 , ARCH 2604 , and ARCH 3603 or permission of instructor. Limited to 30 students.
Staff.
Topics TBA.
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ARCH 4604 - Special Investigations in Construction
Fall or spring. 1-3 credits, variable.
Permission of instructor is required and approved independent study form.
Staff.
Independent study.
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ARCH 4605 - Special Topics in Construction
Fall or spring. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: ARCH 2602 or permission of instructor.
Staff.
Topics TBA.
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ARCH 4609 - Special Investigations in Structures
Fall or spring. 1-3 credits, variable.
Permission of instructor is required and approved independent study form.
Staff.
Independent study.
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ARCH 4613 - Furniture Design (crosslisted)
(also ARCH 4513 )
Fall or spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
Permission of instructor required. Permission of instructor is required. Students who wish to earn visual representation credit must enroll in ARCH 4513 ; technology credit, ARCH 4613.
G. Hascup.
Explores the history, design, and materiality of furniture. Analyses of materials and joinery-connective systems are developed in parallel with ergonomic restraints. Design transformation occurs through cycles of conceptual alternatives (models and drawings), increasing in scale as the idea evolves. Full-scale prototypes and detailed tectonic drawings are required on three pieces. Multiple enrollment under different course offering numbers is not allowed.
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ARCH 4618 - Special Investigations in Environmental Systems and Conservation
Fall or spring. 1-3 credits, variable.
Permission of instructor is required and approved independent study form.
Staff.
Independent study.
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ARCH 4619 - Special Topics in Environmental Systems and Conservation
Fall or spring. 3 credits.
Prerequisites: ARCH 2601 , ARCH 3601 , and ARCH 3602 or permission of instructor.
Staff.
Topics TBA.
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ARCH 4621 - Sustainable Architecture: The Science and Politics of Green Building
Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
Co-meets with ARCH 5621 .
J. Ochshorn.
Students will examine the five basic components of sustainable building design (site, water, energy, materials, and IEQ) from both a historical perspective and as implemented through the LEED/USGBC rating system, in each case comparing the issues raised by building and environmental science with the political context within which those issues are considered.
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ARCH 4707 - Special Projects in Computer Graphics
(Not offered every year) Credit TBA.
Staff.
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ARCH 4708 - Special Projects in Computer Graphics
(Not offered every year) Credit TBA.
Staff.
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ARCH 4901 - Undergraduate Thesis in the History of Architecture and Urbanism
Fall or spring. 4 credits.
Prerequisite: B.S. honors candidates in history.
Staff.
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ARCH 5101 - Design IX
Fall or spring. 6 credits.
Prerequisite:ARCH 4102 . Enrollment limited to: department students.
Staff.
Programs in architectural design, building typology investigations, and research leading to complete development of the student’s thesis program. General instruction in the definition, programming, and development of a thesis.
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ARCH 5104 - Design Xa
Fall, spring, or summer. 6 credits.
Prerequisite: Nonadvancing grade in ARCH 5902 . Enrollment limited to: department students.
Staff.
A structured studio for those needing to take an alternative to design thesis. This course operates within one of advanced option design studios.
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ARCH 5110 - Thesis Proseminar
Fall, spring. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: ARCH 4101 . ARCH 5110 is a prerequisite for ARCH 5902 - Design X Thesis . Failure to earn grade of C in ARCH 5110 requires automatic registration in ARCH 5104 - Design Xa —an advanced option studio.
Staff.
Lectures, seminars, and independent research leading to the production of the student’s thesis program. General instruction in the conceiving, programming, and development of a thesis.
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ARCH 5111 - Core Design Studio I
Fall. 6 credits.
Enrollment limited to: departmental students.
Staff.
Introduction to fundamental concepts of architectural design and representation, including preliminary notions of site, program, and context. Emphasis on interpretive, analytical, and generative uses of drawing, physical modeling, and digital media in the design process.
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