This course prepares students for modeling geometry through the scripted development of parametric schemes, primarily for design applications. The goal of the course is to introduce students to basic scripting in a geometrical modeling environment with a focus on form-making algorithms, and to reinforce and extend basic concepts of parametric modeling.
This project-based design seminar concentrates on how critical design theory and powerful storytelling might pave the way for a more responsible, equitable and exciting future.
Through transdisciplinary methods and a framework of thinking and practice that this course terms “Unreasonable Architecture,” the course aims to introduce a more expanded knowledge framework of meaning that includes indigenous systems and spatial technologies that sit outside the constraints of modern reason and economic legibility.
This course explores the architectural and urban design histories of American cities, tracing their evolution from colonial settlements to the late 20th century.
This course seeks to further system-based understanding and reflect critically on industry-based development.
This course examines the issues of the destruction and reconstruction of buildings and cities. In doing so, we raise questions about the nature of architecture and cityscapes, cultural loss and cultural recovery, and how buildings and cities have come to represent other issues such as national identity and progress.
This architectural history course surveys the built environment of Mexico and Guatemala during the Mesoamerican and Spanish Colonial eras.
This course focuses on a design practice working with diverse populations by focusing on human behavior in the environment and lenses for conceptualizing problems and interventions.
Part one of this seminar course is situated at the intersection of global infrastructural history and architectural world-making across the modern era.
Part two of this seminar course focuses on the intersections of infrastructural theory and architectural world-making.
In partnership with the Architectural Crafts Collective (ACC), this course focuses on the design and planning of the 2026 CMU Spring Carnival Gateway Pavilion.
