Courses of Study 2015-2016 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
Courses of Study 2015-2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

ARCH—Architecture

  
  • ARCH 3821 - History of European Landscape Architecture


         
    Fall. Not offered every year. 3 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 1801  and ARCH 1802 , or permission of instructor.

    L. Mirin.

    Survey from classical times to the present, emphasizing design principles and techniques that have established the landscape architecture tradition in Europe. Particular reference is made to the manner in which gardens, streets, plazas, parks, and new towns reflect in their built form, a range of responses to demands of culture, economics, technology, security, the law, and ecology.

  
  • ARCH 3822 - History of American Landscape Architecture


         
    Spring. Not offered every year. 3 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 1801  and ARCH 1802 , or permission of instructor.

    L. Mirin.

    Landscape architecture in the United States from Jefferson to the present is examined as a unique expression of the American experience. Influences exerted by the physical landscape, the frontier and utopian spirit, and the cultural assumptions of democracy and capitalism are traced as they affect the forms of urban parks, private and corporate estates, public housing, transportation planning, national parks, and other open-space designs.

  
  • ARCH 3823 - Urban Design, Architecture, and Art in Renaissance and Baroque Rome


    (CU-ITL)     
    Fall, spring. Not offered every year. 3 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 1801  and ARCH 1802 , or permission of instructor. Counts as architectural history elective for B.Arch. students; art history elective for B.F.A. students; Literature and the Arts (LA) requirement for B.F.A. and B.S. in URS students. Offered in Rome.

    J. Blanchard.

    This course focuses on the Renaissance and Baroque phases (15th-18th centuries) of Rome’s history. The first class sessions will survey the city’s urban history and form from its origins to the present, and we will often turn our attention to earlier and later developments, without an understanding of which the Renaissance and Baroque periods would be only partially intelligible. While the history of urban and architectural design will be our main focus, we will also look at key episodes of painting and sculpture, especially by artists who are also among the principal  architects of these periods (Michelangelo, Bernini).

  
  • ARCH 4100 - Elective Design Studio


         
    Fall, spring, or summer. 6 credits.

    Permission of instructor required.

    Staff.

    Non sequence design studio for students who are not architecture majors at Cornell and for department students taking design studio for non-sequence credit.

  
  • ARCH 4101 - Design VII


         
    Fall, spring. 6 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 3102 . Enrollment limited to: B.Arch. students.

    Staff.

    Advanced programs in architectural design, with options in, but not limited to, urban design, architectural technology, computational design, ecology, culture, and representation.

  
  • ARCH 4102 - Design VIII


         
    Fall, spring. 6 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 4101 . Enrollment limited to: B.Arch. students.

    Staff.

    Advanced programs in architectural design, with options including, but not limited to, urban design, architectural technology, computational design, ecology, culture, and representation.

  
  • ARCH 4300 - Architectural Publications

    (crosslisted) ARCH 4500  
         
    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.

  
  • ARCH 4408 - Special Topics in Architecture, Culture, and Society


         
    Fall, spring. 3 credits.

    Permission of instructor required.

    Staff.

    This course addresses pertinent issues relative to the subject of Architecture, Culture and Society. The instructor(s) of the course are drawn from the permanent and visiting faculty who may either broadly or narrowly define the course’s scope and content. For precise content please see the Architecture Department webpage http://aap.cornell.edu/academics/architecture/elective-courses-option-studios.

  
  • ARCH 4500 - Architectural Publications

    (crosslisted) ARCH 4300  
         
    Fall or spring. 3 credits (may be repeated for credit).

    Staff.

    For description, see ARCH 4300 .

  
  • ARCH 4508 - Special Investigations in Visual Representation


    (CU-UGR)     
    Fall or spring. 1-3 credits, variable.

    Permission of instructor required. Prerequisite: approved independent study form.

    Staff.

    Independent study.

  
  • ARCH 4509 - Special Topics in Visual Representation I


         
    Fall or spring. 3 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 1501  and ARCH 1502 , or permission of instructor.

    Staff.

    This course addresses pertinent issues relative to the subject of Visual Representation. The instructor(s) of the course are drawn from the permanent and visiting faculty who may either broadly or narrowly define the course’s scope and content. For precise content please see the Architecture Department webpage http://aap.cornell.edu/academics/architecture/elective-courses-option-studios.

  
  • ARCH 4513 - Furniture Design

    (crosslisted) ARCH 4613  
         
    Fall or spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Permission of instructor required. This course is applied as open elective credit for M.Arch. students. Students who wish to earn undergraduate visual representation credit must enroll in ARCH 4513; undergraduate 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.

  
  • ARCH 4601 - [Ecological Literacy and Design]

    (crosslisted) DEA 4220  
    (CU-SBY)     
    Fall. Next offered 2016-2017. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Course fee: field trips approx. $25.

    J. Elliott.

    For description, see DEA 4220 .

  
  • ARCH 4603 - Special Topics in Structures


         
    Fall or spring. Not offered every year. 3 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 1612 ARCH 2613 , and ARCH 2615  or permission of instructor.

    Staff.

    This course addresses pertinent issues relative to the subject of Structures. The instructor(s) of the course are drawn from the permanent and visiting faculty who may either broadly or narrowly define the course’s scope and content. For precise content please see the Architecture Department webpage http://aap.cornell.edu/academics/architecture/elective-courses-option-studios.

  
  • ARCH 4604 - Special Investigations in Construction


    (CU-UGR)     
    Fall or spring. 1-3 credits, variable.

    Permission of instructor and approved independent study form are required.

    Staff.

    Independent study.

  
  • ARCH 4605 - Special Topics in Construction


         
    Fall or spring. 3 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 2615  or permission of instructor.

    Staff.

    This course addresses pertinent issues relative to the subject of Construction. The instructor(s) of the course are drawn from the permanent and visiting faculty who may either broadly or narrowly define the course’s scope and content. For precise content please see the Architecture Department webpage http://aap.cornell.edu/academics/architecture/elective-courses-option-studios.

  
  • ARCH 4609 - Special Investigations in Structures


    (CU-UGR)     
    Fall or spring. 1-3 credits, variable.

    Permission of instructor and approved independent study form are required.

    Staff.

    Independent study.

  
  • ARCH 4613 - Furniture Design

    (crosslisted) ARCH 4513  
         
    Fall or spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Permission of instructor required. This course is applied as open elective credit for M.Arch. students. Students who wish to earn undergraduate visual representation credit must enroll in ARCH 4513 ; undergraduate technology credit, ARCH 4613.

    G. Hascup.

    For description, see ARCH 4513 .

  
  • ARCH 4618 - Special Investigations in Environmental Systems and Conservation


    (CU-SBY, CU-UGR)     
    Fall or spring. 1-3 credits, variable.

    Permission of instructor and approved independent study form are required.

    Staff.

    Independent study.

  
  • ARCH 4619 - Special Topics in Environmental Systems and Conservation


         
    Fall or spring. 3 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 1611 , ARCH 2613 , and ARCH 2616  or permission of instructor.

    Staff.

    This course addresses pertinent issues relative to the subject of Environmental Systems and Conservation. The instructor(s) of the course are drawn from the permanent and visiting faculty who may either broadly or narrowly define the course’s scope and content. For precise content please see the Architecture Department webpage http://aap.cornell.edu/academics/architecture/elective-courses-option-studios.

  
  • ARCH 4621 - Sustainable Architecture: The Science and Politics of Green Building


    (CU-SBY)     
    Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    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.

  
  • ARCH 4707 - Special Projects in Computer Graphics


         
    Fall or spring. Not offered every year. 1-4 credits, variable. Letter grades only.

    Staff.

    Independent study.

  
  • ARCH 4708 - Special Projects in Computer Graphics


         
    Fall or spring. Not offered every year. 1-4 credits, variable. Letter grades only.

    Staff.

  
  • ARCH 5100 - Elective Design Studio


         
    Fall, spring, summer. 6 credits.

    Permission of instructor required.

    Staff.

    Non sequence design studio for students who are not architecture majors at Cornell and for department students taking design studio for non-sequence credit.

  
  • ARCH 5101 - Design IX


         
    Fall or spring. 6 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 4102 . Enrollment limited to: B.Arch. students.

    Staff.

    Advanced programs in architectural design, with options in, but not limited to, urban design, architectural technology, computational design, ecology, culture, and representation.

  
  • ARCH 5103 - Substitute Design Studio


         
    Fall, spring. 6 credits.

    Permission of instructor and approved petition required. Students who have enrolled in the yearlong ARCH 5903 Expanded Thesis but do not continue the Expanded Thesis must petition to change the first semester to ARCH 5103 Substitute Design Studio in order to receive a semester grade for the first semester. Meets the graduation requirements for ARCH 5101 .

    Staff.

  
  • ARCH 5104 - Design Xa


         
    Fall, spring, or summer. 6 credits.

    Prerequisite: Nonadvancing grade in ARCH 5902 . Enrollment limited to: B.Arch. 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.

  
  • ARCH 5111 - Core Design Studio I


         
    Fall. 6 credits.

    Enrollment limited to: M.Arch. 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.

  
  • ARCH 5112 - Core Design Studio II


         
    Spring. 6 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 5111 . Enrollment limited to: M.Arch. students.

    Staff.

    Continuation of subjects developed in the first term. Focus on issues of program and architectonics in the design of a building type in context; introduction to site planning.

  
  • ARCH 5113 - Core Design Studio III


         
    Fall. 6 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 5112 . Enrollment limited to: M.Arch. students.

    Staff.

    Focus on relational and ecological design thinking through interpretive, analytical, programmatic and generative uses of digital media. Emphasis on context, nonstandard architectonics and systems in the design of a mid-scale building.

  
  • ARCH 5114 - Core Design Studios IV: Integrative Design Practices


         
    Spring. 6 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 5113 . Enrollment limited to: M.Arch. students. Offered in New York City.

    Staff.

    Focus on the development of architectural ideas in constructed, material form. The studio explores emergent topics and constructive methods in contemporary architectural practice. Design study includes the creation of a comprehensive set of representations that describes an architectural project in detail. Students work in collaborative groups and in consultation with advisors drawn from professional practice to develop a project that engages a complex range of topical areas, including: structural and environmental systems, building envelope systems, materiality and construction, life-safety planning, and sustainability.

  
  • ARCH 5115 - Core Design Studios V: Expanded Practices


         
    Fall. 6 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 5114 , ARCH 5611 , ARCH 5613 , ARCH 5614 , ARCH 5615 , ARCH 5616 . Enrollment limited to: M.Arch. students.

    Staff.

    These studios use an expanded form of design practice to address meta-issues in global urbanism. They recognize that architectural production is becoming increasingly heterogeneous and networked, and that real-world projects are seldom defined by site boundaries, or the work of a single profession. On-site design research and speculation are used to situate projects within larger social, political and environmental systems, creatively engage the perspectives of other actors shaping the built environment, and opportunistically orchestrate real world processes and interactions.  

  
  • ARCH 5116 - Vertical Design Studio


         
    Spring. 6 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 5115 . Enrollment limited to: M.Arch. students.

    Staff.

    The vertical studios are topical in nature and engage contemporary issues in architectural practice and research.

  
  • ARCH 5201 - Professional Practice


         
    Fall, spring. 3 credits.

    Fall enrollment limited to: AAP NYC participants. In the fall, offered at AAP NYC. In the spring, offered in Ithaca.

    Staff.

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

  
  • ARCH 5203 - Multicultural Work Environments


    (CU-ITL)     
    Fall or spring. 1 credit. S-U grades only.

    Enrollment limited to: B.Arch. and M.Arch. students whose architectural internships are in a country other than that of their citizenship or prior work experience. Students with summer internships formally enroll in the course during the fall semester after their internship, but must submit approved independent study and ISSO forms during the spring semester prior to the internship and after obtaining an internship offer. Students with part-time fall or spring internships enroll in the course during their internship semester and must submit approved independent study and ISSO forms immediately after obtaining an internship offer. Students with internships during a leave of absence must formally enroll in the course during the semester immediately following their leave, but must submit approved independent study and ISSO forms during the semester immediately prior to the internship and after obtaining an internship offer. For more information contact ISSO at www.isso.cornell.edu.

    Staff.

    Independent study. Promotes an understanding of the cultural assumptions we bring to the work environment and the effects of cultural differences on the ways in which architecture is practiced. A 5-10 page paper relates the experience of the internship to one or more texts approved by the instructor. Course may be taken more than once, but a maximum of 1 credit may be used to fulfill departmental free elective distribution requirement.

  
  • ARCH 5204 - Professional Training


         
    Fall, spring. 1 credit. S-U grades only.

    Enrollment limited to: B.Arch. and M.Arch. students. Offered at AAP in New York City. A maximum of 1 credit may be used to fulfill departmental free elective distribution requirement. International students enrolled in the AAPNYC program who select to pursue part-time fall or spring internships must submit approved ISSO forms before AAP NYC architecture professional placement work begins at any placement site. For more information contact ISSO at www.isso.cornell.edu.

    Staff.

    Theme directed experience of internship host firms.

  
  • ARCH 5208 - Special Topics in Professional Practice


         
    Fall or spring. 3 credits.

    Permission of instructor is required.

    Staff.

    This course addresses pertinent issues relative to the subject of professional practice. The instructor(s) of the course are drawn from the permanent and visiting faculty who may either broadly or narrowly define the course’s scope and content. For precise content please see the Architecture Department webpage http://aap.cornell.edu/academics/architecture/elective-courses-option-studios.

  
  • ARCH 5301 - Theories and Analyses of Architecture I


         
    Fall. 3 credits.

    Staff.

    Introduces students to influential critical and creative themes in modern architecture. Topics cover influential 20th-century discourses and practices prior to the 1960s, the questions and contexts that they engage, and their implications for contemporary thinking and design. Discussions and assignments aim at developing critical and graphical readings of both works and writings.

  
  • ARCH 5302 - Theories and Analyses of Architecture II


         
    Spring. 3 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 5301 .

    Staff.

    Continuation of ARCH 5301  focusing on themes in architectural discourse, design, and inquiry from the 1960s to the present, and their creative/critical implications.

  
  • ARCH 5402 - Architecture, Culture, and Society


         
    Spring. 3 credits.

    Staff.

    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, as well as architectural history and theory, and referring to examples from around the world. 

  
  • ARCH 5511 - Constructed Drawing I


         
    Fall. 3 credits.

    Enrollment limited to: M.Arch. students or permission of instructor.

    Staff.

    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 line drawing and orthographic projection as well as computational thinking.

  
  • ARCH 5512 - Constructed Drawing II


         
    Spring. 3 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 5511  or approved equivalent.

    Staff.

    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, and animation, and scripting.

  
  • ARCH 5611 - Environmental Systems I: Site and Sustainability


    (CU-SBY)     
    Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Staff.

    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.

  
  • ARCH 5612 - Structural Concepts


         
    Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Staff.

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

  
  • ARCH 5613 - Structural Systems


         
    Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 5612 .

    Staff.

    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).

  
  • ARCH 5614 - Building Technology I: Materials and Methods


         
    Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Staff.

    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.

  
  • ARCH 5615 - Building Technology II: Construction Elements


         
    Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 5612 . Offered in New York City.

    Staff.

    Concepts and procedures for design, manufacturing, and construction in steel, concrete, masonry, timber, and new materials supplemented by examples and case studies. Taught concurrently with the integrative design studio, this course will also include field trips to construction sites, recently completed buildings, and/or fabrication shops/labs, in order to understand and design the integration of elements in both contemporary and emerging construction and fabrication.

  
  • ARCH 5616 - Environmental Systems II: Building Dynamics


         
    Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

    Offered in New York City.

    Staff.

    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.

  
  • ARCH 5801 - History of Architecture I


         
    Fall. 3 credits.

    Staff.

    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.

  
  • ARCH 5802 - History of Architecture II


         
    Spring. 3 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 5801  or approved equivalent.

    Staff.

    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.

  
  • ARCH 5810 - American Architecture and Building I


         
    Fall. 3 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 5801  and ARCH 5802  or permission of instructor.

    Staff.

    Review of architecture, building, and responses to the landscape from the prehistoric period to the Civil War. Architecture and building as social and collaborative arts are emphasized and thus the contributions of artisans, clients, and users as well as professional architects and builders are examined. The architectural expressions of Native Americans, African Americans, women, and others are treated in addition to those of European colonists and settlers.

  
  • ARCH 5811 - American Architecture and Building II


         
    Spring. 3 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 5801  and ARCH 5802  or permission of instructor.

    Staff.

    This course surveys American architecture and building from the late 19th century to the present day. The themes of technology, money, art, and urbanism are the conceptual connective tissue of the class. Modernity (the experiences of modern life) and modernisms (the architectural languages of modern life) will be highlighted in the works of Charles F. McKim, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn,Richard Meier, Frank Gehry, Diller + Scofidio Renfrow, Thom Mayne, and others. The mediation and re-presentation of buildings and spaces through other media (music, photography, painting, dance, poetry, literature, and film) are also explored. Walking tours as well as research for landmarking of a picture palace in Queens, New York, will be part of the class.

  
  • ARCH 5819 - Special Topics in the History of Architecture and Urbanism


         
    Fall or spring. 3 credits.

    Prerequisites: ARCH 5801  and ARCH 5802  or permission of instructor.

    Staff.

    This course addresses pertinent issues relative to the subject of History of Architecture and Urbanism. The instructor(s) of the course are drawn from the permanent and visiting faculty who may either broadly or narrowly define the course’s scope and content. For precise content please see the Architecture Department webpage http://aap.cornell.edu/academics/architecture/elective-courses-option-studios.

  
  • ARCH 5821 - History of European Landscape Architecture


         
    Fall (not offered every year). 3 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 5801  and ARCH 5802  or permission of instructor.

    L. Mirin.

    Survey from classical times to the present, emphasizing design principles and techniques that have established the landscape architecture tradition in Europe. Particular reference is made to the manner in which gardens, streets, plazas, parks, and new towns reflect in their built form, a range of responses to demands of culture, economics, technology, security, the law, and ecology.

  
  • ARCH 5822 - History of American Landscape Architecture


         
    Spring (not offered every year). 3 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 5801  and ARCH 5802  or permission of instructor.

    L. Mirin.

    Landscape architecture in the United States from Jefferson to the present is examined as a unique expression of the American experience. Influences exerted by the physical landscape, the frontier and utopian spirit, and the cultural assumptions of democracy and capitalism are traced as they affect the forms of urban parks, private and corporate estates, public housing, transportation planning, national parks, and other open-space designs.

  
  • ARCH 5902 - Design X Thesis


    (CU-UGR)     
    Fall, spring. 8 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 5101  and Required Directed Elective. Enrollment limited to: B.Arch. students. Requirement for B.Arch. candidates who must satisfactorily complete a thesis.

    Staff.

  
  • ARCH 5903 - Design IX & X Expanded Design Thesis


    (CU-UGR)     
    Fall, spring (yearlong). 14 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 4102  and approval of expanded thesis application. Students who carry a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.7 and minimum studio GPA of 3.8 are eligible to apply. Will satisfy requirement for B.Arch. candidates who must satisfactorily complete a thesis.

    Staff.

    The Expanded Design Thesis is designed for undergraduate students who wish to pursue a yearlong investigation. The expanded thesis must include substantial research and the completed work should be of wider scope and greater depth than is normal for a one-semester thesis. The thesis topic should extend the student’s work already begun in a course or a sequence of courses taken before the fifth year.

  
  • ARCH 6109 - Special Problems in Design


         
    Fall or spring. 1-3 credits, variable.

    Permission of instructor required. Approved independent study form required. Does not count toward design sequence credit. Approved independent study form required.

    Staff.

    Independent study.

  
  • ARCH 6110 - Graduate Design Seminar


         
    Summer. 3 credits.

    Required introductory course for all M. Arch.II students. Offered in New York City.

    Staff.

  
  • ARCH 6115 - Special Topics in Urbanism


         
    Fall or spring. 3 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 5801  and ARCH 5802 , or permission of instructor.

    Staff.

    Topics TBA.

  
  • ARCH 6301 - Design Research


         
    Summer. 3 credits.

    Staff.

    Introduction to themes of inquiry in contemporary architecture, including critical motives in research, topical ” problems,” and materials and tactics of investigation.

  
  • ARCH 6304 - Column, Wall, Elevation, Facade: A Study of the Vertical Surface in Architecture


         
    Fall or spring. 3 credits.

    Co-meets with ARCH 3304 .

    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.

  
  • ARCH 6305 - Theory and Criticism in Architecture


         
    Fall or spring. 3 credits.

    Permission of instructor required.

    Staff.

    Inquiry into the fundamental principles of architectural criticism in theory and practice, with emphasis on the structures of criticism in the 20th century.

  
  • ARCH 6307 - Special Investigations in the Theory of Architecture II


         
    Fall or spring. 1-4 credits, variable.

    Permission of instructor required. Approved independent study form required.

    Staff.

    Independent study.

  
  • ARCH 6308 - Special Topics in the Theory of Architecture II


         
    Fall or spring. 3 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 5301  and ARCH 5302 , permission of instructor.

    Staff.

    This course addresses pertinent issues relative to the subject of Theory of Architecture. The instructor(s) of the course are drawn from the permanent and visiting faculty who may either broadly or narrowly define the course’s scope and content. For precise content please see the Architecture Department webpage http://aap.cornell.edu/academics/architecture/elective-courses-option-studios.

  
  • ARCH 6309 - Elements, Principles, and Theories in Japanese Architecture


         
    Spring. 3 credits.

    Co-meets with ARCH 3309 .

    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.

  
  • ARCH 6310 - Modern Landscape Architecture


         
    Fall. Not offered every year. 3 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 5301  and ARCH 5302  or permission of instructor. Co-meets with ARCH 3310 .

    L. Mirin.

    This course will examine the work of an innovative group of internationally prominent landscape architects working since 1900. Projects and designers will represent a worldwide and multicultural perspective. The relationship between dynamic social and technological changes will be emphasized as a method of understanding the meaning of modernism as applied to the landscape architecture profession. Parallel developments in other fields of creative endeavor, such as architecture and the fine arts, will be assessed as a means of understanding the direction and flow of design trends. The format is lecture and discussion.

  
  • ARCH 6311 - Tales of Two Cities


         
    Fall. Not offered every year. 3 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 5301  and ARCH 5302 , or permission of instructor. Co-meets with ARCH 3311 .

    Staff.

    Spurred on by rapid technological innovations, Paris and New York altered the fabrics of their urban personalities with dramatic landscape architectural productions. Public parks, grand avenues, social housing schemes, playground designs, urban corporate estates, rooftop gardens, waterfront recovery and international expositions are but some of the areas which will be investigated during the course. The cross fertilization of ideas between important figures in landscape architecture such as Jean Adolphe Alphand, Eugene Haussmann, Gabriel Gueverkian, in Paris, and Frederick Law Olmsted, Robert Moses and Gilmore Clarke in New York will be reviewed to understand how the “old world” and the “new” contributed to distinctly innovative approaches affecting each city’s open space designs.

  
  • ARCH 6401 - Architecture in its Cultural Context I


         
    Fall. 4 credits.

    Permission of instructor required.

    Staff.

  
  • ARCH 6402 - Architecture in its Cultural Context II


         
    Spring. Not offered every year. 4 credits.

    Permission of instructor required.

    Staff.

  
  • ARCH 6409 - Graduate Investigations in Architecture, Culture, and Society


         
    Fall or spring. 1-4 credits, variable.

    Permission of instructor required. Approved independent study form required.

    Staff.

    Independent study.

  
  • ARCH 6508 - Special Investigations in Visual Representation II


    (CU-UGR)     
    Fall or spring. 1-3 credits, variable.

    Permission of instructor and approved independent study form are required.

    Staff.

    Independent study.

  
  • ARCH 6509 - Special Topics in Visual Representation II


         
    Fall or spring. 3 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 5511  and ARCH 5512  or permission of instructor.

    Staff.

    This course addresses pertinent issues relative to the subject of Visual Representation. The instructor(s) of the course are drawn from the permanent and visiting faculty who may either broadly or narrowly define the course’s scope and content. For precise content please see the Architecture Department webpage http://aap.cornell.edu/academics/architecture/elective-courses-option-studios.

  
  • ARCH 6604 - Vertigo Structures


         
    Fall or spring. Not offered every year. 3 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 5603  or equivalent. Co-meets with ARCH 3604 .

    M. Cruvellier.

  
  • ARCH 6605 - Special Topics in Construction


         
    Fall, spring. Not offered every year. 3 credits.

    Staff.

    This course addresses pertinent issues relative to the subject of Construction. The instructor(s) of the course are drawn from the permanent and visiting faculty who may either broadly or narrowly define the course’s scope and content. For precise content please see the Architecture Department webpage http://aap.cornell.edu/academics/architecture/elective-courses-option-studios.

  
  • ARCH 6608 - Special Topics in Sustainability


    (CU-SBY)     
    Fall or spring. 3 credits.

    Prerequisite: Required environmental systems sequence course, or permission of instructor.

    Staff.

    This course addresses pertinent issues relative to the subject of sustainability. The instructor(s) of the course are drawn from the permanent and visiting faculty who may either broadly or narrowly define the course’s scope and content. For precise content please see the Architecture Department webpage http://aap.cornell.edu/academics/architecture/elective-courses-option-studios.

  
  • ARCH 6609 - Special Investigations in Structures


         
    Fall or spring. 1-3 credits, variable.

    Staff.

    Independent study.

  
  • ARCH 6800 - State of the Discipline


         
    Fall or spring. 4 credits.

    Staff.

    This seminar will provide a survey of architectural historiography paying particular attention to the paradigm shifts of recent decades. Through the critical readings of important texts we will discuss the current state of the field while simultaneously reconsidering our position in it. The course will address how we apply theory to practice, develop research strategies that maximize methodological alliances, imbue the study of the past with contemporary relevance, and contribute as much to other disciplines as we borrow from them.

  
  • ARCH 6801 - Foundations of the Discipline


         
    Fall or spring. 4 credits.

    Staff.

    Explorations of seminal positions that established the disciplinary praxis of the history of architecture and urbanism, based on case studies.

  
  • ARCH 6802 - Seminar in Urban History


         
    Fall or spring. 4 credits.

    Permission of instructor required.

    Staff.

  
  • ARCH 6803 - Seminar in History of Theory


         
    Fall or spring. 4 credits.

    Permission of instructor required.

    Staff.

  
  • ARCH 6804 - Seminar in Italian Renaissance: Architecture, Politics, and Urbanism


         
    Fall or spring. 4 credits.

    Permission of instructor required.

    M. Lasansky.

  
  • ARCH 6805 - Practicum


         
    Fall or spring. 4 credits.

    Staff.

    This course exercises history of architecture and urbanism’s capacities for affecting contemporary events through critical associations with the past. The workshop culminates in an exhibition, publication, symposium, curricular initiative, or other public occasion. Enrollment of qualified graduate students from associated fields is encouraged.

  
  • ARCH 6816 - Seminar in Special Topics in the History of Architecture and Urbanism


         
    Fall or spring. 4 credits.

    Permission of instructor required.

    Staff.

  
  • ARCH 6819 - Seminar in Special Topics in the History of Architecture and Urbanism


         
    Fall or spring. 4 credits.

    Permission of instructor required.

    Staff.

    This course addresses pertinent issues relative to the subject of History of Architecture and Urbanism. The instructor(s) of the course are drawn from the permanent and visiting faculty who may either broadly or narrowly define the course’s scope and content. For precise content please see the Architecture Department webpage http://aap.cornell.edu/academics/architecture/elective-courses-option-studios.

  
  • ARCH 7101 - Problems in Architecture Design


         
    Fall or spring. 1-9 credits, variable. Letter grades only.

    Permission of instructor required. Approved independent study form required. Does not count toward design sequence credit.

    Staff.

    Independent study.

  
  • ARCH 7111 - Design A


         
    Summer. 6 credits.

    Enrollment limited to: M.Arch.II students. Offered in New York City.

    Staff.

    Exploration of themes, methods, and technologies in contemporary design.

  
  • ARCH 7701 - Architectural Science Laboratory


         
    Fall. 6 credits.

    Enrollment limited to: architectural science graduate students.

    D. Greenberg.

    Projects, exercises, and research in the architectural sciences.

  
  • ARCH 7702 - Architectural Science Laboratory


         
    Spring. 6 credits.

    Enrollment limited to: architectural science graduate students.

    D. Greenberg.

    Projects, exercises, and research in the architectural sciences.

  
  • ARCH 7809 - Graduate Independent Study in the History of Architecture and Urbanism


         
    Fall or spring. 1-12 credits, variable.

    Permission of instructor required. Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

    Staff.

    Independent study.

  
  • ARCH 7903 - Thesis or Research in Architectural Science


         
    Fall. 1-12 credits, variable.

    Enrollment limited to: architectural science graduate students.

    Staff.

    Independent study.

  
  • ARCH 7904 - Thesis or Research in Architectural Science


         
    Spring. 1-12 credits, variable.

    Enrollment limited to: architectural science graduate students.

    Staff.

    Independent study.

  
  • ARCH 7912 - Design B: Topics Studio


         
    Fall. 6 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 7111 . Enrollment limited to: M.Arch.II students.

    Staff.

    Graduate vertical research studio.

  
  • ARCH 8104 - Design VIIa


         
    6 credits.

    Prerequisite: Nonadvancing grade in ARCH 8912 . Enrollment limited to: M.Arch. students.

    Staff.

    A structured studio for those needing to take an alternative to design thesis. This course operates within one of the advanced option design studios.

  
  • ARCH 8911 - Proseminar in Design Research


         
    Spring. 3 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 5301  and ARCH 5302 . Enrollment limited to: M.Arch. students.

    Staff.

    ARCH 8911 offers a synthesis of design and research methods for the development of an independent thesis proposal. Course work includes exposure to different theories and practices of design inquiry, explorations of critical positions for individual development, and preparation of a document encapsulating research leading to a thesis proposition. Successful completion of the course, which includes approval of the thesis document, is a prerequisite for advancement into ARCH 8912 - Independent Design Thesis .

  
  • ARCH 8912 - Independent Design Thesis


         
    Fall. 9 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 5116 , ARCH 8911 , and all required core M.Arch. courses. Enrollment limited to: M.Arch. students.

    Staff.

    An independent design project on a topic selected and developed by the student and researched in ARCH 8911 . Marking the transition between academic and professional practices, the thesis project is an opportunity for each student to define an individual position with regard to the discipline of architecture.

  
  • ARCH 8913 - Design C: Topic Studio


         
    Spring. 6 credits.

    Prerequisite: ARCH 7912 . Enrollment limited to: M.Arch.II students.

    Staff.

    Graduate vertical design studio.

  
  • ARCH 8920 - M.A. Essay Research


         
    Fall. 4 credits.

    Permission of instructor required. Approved independent study form required.

    Staff.

    Independent research for the M.A. essay.

  
  • ARCH 8921 - M.A. Essay in the History of Architecture and Urbanism


         
    Fall or spring. 6 credits.

    Staff.

    Independent preparation of the M.A. essay,

  
  • ARCH 9901 - Ph.D. Dissertation in the History of Architecture and Urbanism


         
    Fall or spring. 1-12 credits, variable.

    Staff.

    Independent study for the doctoral degree.

 

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