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.

Introduction to the mechanical behavior of building materials. Basic structural concepts, including statics and strength of materials, are addressed in a practical hands-on manner.

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.

Comprehensive projects focus on complex design issues dealing with building systems.

Comprehensive projects focus on complex design issues dealing with building systems.

Projects developed and presented by student with individual attention from instructor. Each project reviewed by open jury system with visiting critics. Readings from texts and journals. Design projects, sketch problems.

Projects developed and presented by student with individual attention from instructor. Each project reviewed by open jury system with visiting critics. Readings from texts and journals. Design projects, sketch problems.

This course explores architectural research and speculative design in the context of the historic Emily Dickinson Homestead in Amherst, Massachusetts. Working in collaboration with the Emily Dickinson Museum, students will investigate historical evidence, landscape history, and architectural precedents in order to reconstruct or interpret lost or undocumented structures associated with the Dickinson property.