Fall 2026

In this course, students learn how to use a Geographic Information System (GIS) to investigate spatial relationships, patterns and processes of cultural, biological, demographic, economic, social, environmental, health and other phenomena.

This course serves as an introduction to the spatial concepts of architecture for students from other disciplines. The hands-on course is focused entirely on project design work.

This course is an advanced seminar exploring the intersection of computational design, digital fabrication, and ceramic material intelligence.

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.

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.