This is a stand-alone independent study designed by the student and faculty sponsor that involves frequent interaction between instructor and student. Qualitative and quantitative enrichment must be evident on the proposed contract before consent is given to undertake the study.

This is a stand-alone independent study designed by the student and faculty sponsor that involves frequent interaction between instructor and student. Qualitative and quantitative enrichment must be evident on the proposed contract before consent is given to undertake the study.

Visual communication skills necessary and related to architectural design presentation. Various media are explored, including model making and digital media. Limited to B.F.A. Design, MArch, MS Design majors.

This seminar will examine the theme of architecture and race within the context of the Americas and the Caribbean from the colonial era to the contemporary moment. The close examination of pertinent literature, history, and theory will help us to flesh out the ways that architecture narrates race, and vice versa.

Explores interrelation between building functions, loads, structural system, materials and construction methods of predominantly large-scale buildings and other structures made of steel, concrete, engineered wood and masonry.

Lectures, discussions and practicum sessions. This course is an intensive reading and writing course on the central theories and philosophies shaping architectural discourse in the 20th and 21st centuries, with an emphasis on the past forty years.