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Monday Course Options:

ARCH 214 - Architecture and Design Core Studio IV: 2:00 PM - 4:50 PM
This studio continues to develop the students' design process and explores the concepts and strategies that have the capacity to significantly determine building form. Particular emphasis will be placed on the relationship of design to program, structure and materials through the study of dwellings. Special attention will be paid to an understanding of human scale and its impact upon design. Short sequential exercises enable students to develop an understanding of the use of different materials and their structural implications. Bearing wall, columnar (including free plan) and modular building systems will be studied. These shorter problems will be followed by a longer assignment that uses different urban sites in a variety of locations as the catalyst for an investigation into how the fundamental human need for shelter is affected by regional and cultural precedents and particular climatic conditions. Students are asked to address basic environmental issues by considering passive strategies for heating and cooling. The development of graphic, computer and three-dimensional communication skills development are also continued. 

Wednesday Course Options:

ARCH 214 - Architecture and Design Core Studio IV: 2:00 PM - 4:50 PM
This studio continues to develop the students' design process and explores the concepts and strategies that have the capacity to significantly determine building form. Particular emphasis will be placed on the relationship of design to program, structure and materials through the study of dwellings. Special attention will be paid to an understanding of human scale and its impact upon design. Short sequential exercises enable students to develop an understanding of the use of different materials and their structural implications. Bearing wall, columnar (including free plan) and modular building systems will be studied. These shorter problems will be followed by a longer assignment that uses different urban sites in a variety of locations as the catalyst for an investigation into how the fundamental human need for shelter is affected by regional and cultural precedents and particular climatic conditions. Students are asked to address basic environmental issues by considering passive strategies for heating and cooling. The development of graphic, computer and three-dimensional communication skills development are also continued. 

Thursday Course Options:

ARCH.325 - History of Modern Architecture: 9:30 AM - 10:50 AM
This course on modern architecture examines buildings, cities, and landscapes in relation to the visual arts, culture, politics, and technological and social change. It begins with the origins of modern architecture in Western Europe, and continues with an exploration of key 19th-century architects and theorists. It highlights the 20th-century avant-gardes and concludes with the crystallization of modern architecture in the West and around the world. The course seeks to explain the modern not only as a visual phenomenon, but also as an intellectual, philosophical, and cultural idea.

Honors: HONR.130.01 - Honors: Global Sustainability Crises: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
This variable topics course will develop students’ capacity to be informed, unbiased and ethical global citizens who are open to diverse perspectives and able to address the world’s most pressing issues collaboratively, equitably, and sustainably. Students will draw on historical and contemporary resources as well as marginalized narratives. Each section of the course will focus on a specific topic that will help students to understand the dynamics of global systems, to appreciate our interconnectedness, and to be more open, self-aware, and engaged citizens of the world.