ARCH 2100 - Studio 1: Foundations of Architecture
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Fall 2019 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023
Provides a framework for students to learn the basic strategies and techniques of architectural design. This project-based studio focuses on concepts of medium-scale building design, site, and climate. Through multiple design exercises, students learn how these factors assist in shaping our buildings. Recommended corequisite: ARCH 2115.
ARCH 3114 - History and Theory of Architecture 1
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Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
Focusing on buildings, surveys the built environment starting with some of the first structures built by humans and moving through time to the Industrial Revolution. The course focuses on the development of major styles, influential people, and the drivers of building form. Recommended corequisite: ARCH 3100.
ARCH 4100 - Studio 3: Capstone in Architecture
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Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2024 / Spring 2025 / Spring 2026
Engages students in complex design challenges such as integrating building technology, structural systems, user experiences, and environmental sustainability. Students will focus on contemporary architectural issues within the profession and produce design proposals that address key topics such as climate-resilient, human-centric, and systematically responsive design solutions. Recommended corequisite: ARCH 4115.
ARCH 4115 - Architecture Building Technology
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Fall 2023 / Fall 2024 / Fall 2025
Presents the fundamentals of building physics and climate science through experimentation and testing. Students learn the concepts related to structural and mechanical systems necessary for proper building function by first studying and then implementing the key systems through hypothetical building assignments. This class covers active and passive green building systems that are necessary when designing structures for an evolving climate.
ENVD 1020 - Studio 1: Introduction to Architecture
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Fall 2020 / Fall 2025
Introduces students to strategies and techniques of architectural design and communication in a hands-on studio environment. Students explore architectural form-making and design opportunities through an iterative design process culminating with a small-scale architectural project that responds to environmental, contextual and programmatic needs. Course is part of a co-requisite sequence: ENVD 1020, Studio 1: Introduction to Architecture, an 7-week class which is taken in the second half of the first semester. ENVD 1010, Studio 1: Introduction to Environmental Products of Design, taken during the first 7-weeks of the semester, and ENVD 1002, Technology 1: Applications for Environmental Design is a 14-week class that is taught alongside the two 7-week studios.
ENVD 1040 - Studio 1: Introduction to Sustainable Planning and Urban Design
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Spring 2023
Explores concepts and strategies related to urban planning and design. Students collaboratively develop a design solution to a small-scale problem within an urban fabric using basic skills of analysis and design iteration. Course is part of a co-requisite sequence: ENVD 1040, Studio 1: Introduction to Sustainable Planning and Urban Design, an 8-week class which is taken in the second half of the first semester. ENVD 1030, Studio 1: Introduction to Landscape Architecture, taken during the first 8-weeks of the semester, and ENVD 1012, Technology 2: Visual Communications, a 16-week class that is taught alongside the two 8-week studios.
ENVD 1102 - Design and Communication 2
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Spring 2019
Using both lectures and drawing exercises, this class extends understandings of the representational conventions used by the design professions through its introduction to the possibilities offered by traditional techniques for the advanced practices for design visualization, representation, and communication. Recommended corequisites: ENVD 1104 and ENVD 2003.
ENVD 1120 - Studio 2: Fundamentals of Environmental Design 2
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Fall 2019 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2022
Explores the core principles shared across environmental design disciplines, including Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Environmental Product Design, and Sustainable Planning and Urban Design. Through a multidisciplinary studio approach, students engage in spatial problem-solving, sustainable design strategies, peer-to-peer collaboration, and design thinking. Hands-on projects challenge students to apply foundational tools and methods to real-world challenges, considering social, environmental, and cultural impacts in both built and natural environments. The course is part of a co-requisite sequence: ENVD 1120, Studio 2: Fundamentals of Design 2, a 7-week class which is taken in the second half of the first semester. ENVD 1110, Studio 2: Fundamentals of Environmental Design 1, taken during the first 7-weeks of the semester, and ENVD 1022, Technology 3: Intermediate Applications for Environmental Design, a 14-week class that is taught alongside the two 7-week studios.
ENVD 3009 - Special Topics in Environmental Design
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Spring 2022
Seminar or design lab on special issues in environmental design, including study abroad. May be repeated up to 21 total credit hours. Variable topic class.
ENVD 3150 - Professional Communication for Design Students
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Spring 2020
Prepares students for the projects they will undertake as design professionals. Enriches students' awareness of writing as a life-long tool and communicates the importance of writing well, while emphasizing effective written and oral communication skills.
ENVD 4300 - Advanced Design Lab 2
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Spring 2019
Design lab exploring new and emerging themes in design. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours.
ENVD 4365 - Topics in Environmental Design: Technology and Practice
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Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2024
Provides an advanced seminar on new technologies and issues of professional practice in the environmental design professions. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours.
ENVD 4979 - Honors Thesis
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Spring 2022
Working with an advisor, students prepare, complete, and defend a research-based honors thesis project, in an area of Environmental Design. May be repeated up to 3 total credit hours.
