Fall 2026

The focus of this seminar is to understand how practices and policies from American plantation life to the modern U.S. city have created racial and economic inequality, human exposure to environmental hazards and climate risks, and how community organizing power has altered these conditions at all levels of government.

This seminar explores architecture’s capacity to operate as an extension of natural ecosystems and to actively contribute to the ecological regeneration of the built environment across scales.

This course explores new forms of media and representation in urban design.

This course explores various types and scales of change; compares the ways that architects, engineers, contractors, and facility managers deal with change; and analyzes the effectiveness of various precedents.

Building Information Modeling (BIM) enables architects to manage project information in one integrated environment, supporting design, analysis, coordination, and communication.

This course is designed to apply the diverse knowledge and skills that AECM students have acquired during the program to a critical public interest issue related to Pittsburgh’s built environment.

This course is a compendium of Architectural, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) practice, methods and management with an emphasis on how the AEC professions can more effectively work together by understanding each other’s roles, responsibilities and professional perspectives.

This course introduces the importance of the indoor environment and human health and productivity. 

This course guides students through the development of a focused research proposal for the MSBPD thesis. 

This graduate course treats the building enclosure, mechanical HVAC systems, and the electric grid as one integrated, coupled system.