Mobile Home Interior, Henry Youngren (B.Arch '26), from "Mobile Home" studio with Jared Abraham at CMU Architecture.
This course reimagines the Cabinet of Curiosities as an immersive space for lost stories, spectral histories and unstable memories. Rather than housing objects, these cabinets become architectures of transformation — where narratives dissolve, reassemble and unfold in unexpected ways.
This seminar explores the entangled histories of architecture and agriculture, focusing on land and labor. The course examines how rural space has been imagined, structured, and contested through design.
This course provides practice in the use of color to depict architectural surroundings. Following preliminary exercises using pastels, watercolor is used for most of the course.
This course focuses on professional and personal development for a career within the discipline of architecture.
This course prepares students for modeling geometry through the scripted development of parametric schemes, primarily for design applications.
Through transdisciplinary methods and a framework of thinking and practice that this course terms "Unreasonable Architecture," this course introduces 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.
In this course, students experience economic and spatial theory through board games and follow four industries (textiles, steel, agriculture and tech) through eight cities to compare their roles in the production of space.
This course engages critically with the outsized influence of antiquity on architectural theory and practice by following the intertwined histories of architecture and archaeology, from the mid-18th to the early 20th century.
Fulfills major and minor requirements for: Architectural History
Keywords: Design Ethics, Design Research
This architectural history course examines the development of American house and housing choices in cities and suburbs circa 1850-2000.
This architectural history course examines the ways in which the interactions of people, place, and period have created distinctive regional patterns in the USA.
This course is designed for students to better understand contemporary urban conditions through the study of urban history and hands-on research in the archives.
