Architectural Drafting & Design (ARCH)
ARCH1013 | Site Analysis | Lecture (3 Credits)
Site Analysis explores how the building's site and environmental context influence architectural design. Develop technical understanding of site design through observation and documentation of physical, cultural, and sustainable practices.
ARCH1022 | Materials & Structures | Lecture (3 Credits)
Materials and Structures introduces the basic principles of building assemblies, systems, materials use, sustainability, and construction practices. Explore performance criteria, material properties, design and construction considerations, technological innovation, and the impact on the built and natural environment.
ARCH1131 | Building Systems | Lecture (3 Credits)
Analyze a breadth of building systems and their associative materials and assemblies. Analyze the basic principles of building structural and envelope systems.
ARCH1211 | Construction Drawings | Studio (5 Credits)
Create and coordinate a set of construction drawings. Develop visual communication, organization, and time management skills. Explain and apply systems of building information management.
Prerequisite(s): ARCH1111
ARCH1221 | Building Details | Lecture (3 Credits)
Analyze and develop critical intersections of building systems. Explain the relationship among systems. Identify the relationship between details and design intent.
ARCH1231 | Building & the Environment | Lecture (3 Credits)
Analyze varying building systems, their relationship to climate change, their integration into buildings, and their standards for documentation. Develop skills for design and documentation of ecologically sustainable building systems.
ARCH2011 | Residential Studio | Lecture/Studio (5 Credits)
Residential Studio explores the design process in a residential project through design documentation and representation. Emphasis is placed on the role of context, drawing as a design and communication tool, and the development of the design concept and building solution. Develop effective construction drawings and specifications for residential construction documentation.
ARCH2021 | Commercial Studio | Lecture/Studio (5 Credits)
Commercial Studio explores conceptual development for a commercial building through construction documentation and representation. Emphasis is placed on understanding the building site context, schematic design, preliminary code review, and advanced architectural visualization. Develop effective construction drawings and specifications for commercial construction documentation.
ARCH2022 | Building Regulations | Lecture (3 Credits)
Building Regulations reviews the history and application of building codes, zoning ordinances, and other regulatory factors. Examine the impact of zoning and building ordinances and their relationship to public health, safety, and welfare.
ARCH2111 | Construction Documents | Studio (5 Credits)
Create and develop building construction drawings and specification. Apply building regulations and codes to inform design development. Engage in collaborative building information management.
Prerequisite(s): ARCH1211
ARCH2122 | Building Materials | Lecture (3 Credits)
Analyze varying building systems details, material selections, and their specification standards. Develop skills for detailing, documenting, and specifying building materials.
ARCH2131 | Building Regulations | Lecture (3 Credits)
Examine the design implications of building regulations. Research building codes, zoning ordinances, and other regulatory factors. Explain the role of building regulations to public health. Analyze and apply building regulations to specific building conditions.
ARCH2211 | Capstone | Studio (5 Credits)
Engage in the design process and communicate design intent through architectural representation and construction documentation.
Prerequisite(s): ARCH2111
ARCH2221 | Portfolio | Lecture (3 Credits)
Create a curriculum vitae and portfolio of work suitable for entry into the profession and advancement in education. Expand professional behavior and communication skills.
ARCH2231 | Building Economics | Lecture (3 Credits)
Analyze and create building construction cost estimation. Explain and model building life cycle costs. Identify the relationship between whole building costs and climate change.
ARCH3011 | Housing Studio | Lecture/Studio (5 Credits)
Housing Studio examines opportunities by rethinking how we build, maintain, and occupy structures through a housing project. Emphasis is placed on modern construction techniques, building materials, and processes. Gain an effective understanding of design flexibility and a sense of community and placemaking through site context and barrier-free design.
ARCH3012 | Urbanism & Landscape | Lecture (3 Credits)
Urbanism and Landscape examines the physical and sociological elements of constructed environments. Learning focuses on context, topography, hydrology, site/place, user perception, landscapes, and urban form.
ARCH3013 | Structures | Lecture (3 Credits)
Structures examines how buildings carry and distribute load. Learning focuses on properties of conventional and emerging structural systems and examining the strength of materials, applied mechanics, and structural theory.
ARCH3021 | Community Studio | Lecture/Studio (5 Credits)
Community Studio examines equitable design practices used to develop and articulate a communitydriven project. Emphasis is placed on community engagement, addressing stakeholder needs, site and regulatory conditions, and barrier-free design. Explore project scale, use of materials, and placemaking to address issues related to the public realm.
ARCH3023 | Community Practice | Lecture (3 Credits)
Community Practice explores the process by which research, communication, collaboration, and community engagement lead to understanding. Learning focuses on documentation, interpretation, programming and equitable design practices in support of the designer's role connecting community to design objectives.
ARCH3120 | 2D Rendering | Lecture (3 Credits)
Research design thinking through 2D rendering methods. Explain the fundamentals of a design process, iteration, rigor, critical representation, and architectural communication.
ARCH3130 | Early Global History of Architecture | Lecture (3 Credits)
Research and analyze architecture of the world throughout history. Examine the relationships between culture, geography, politics, race, and the ways in which they shape the built environment.
ARCH3210 | Program & Society | Studio (5 Credits)
Research client, site and regulatory conditions to create a comprehensive architectural program. Utilize space planning strategies to create form. Use iterative design processes to evolve architectural thought. Expand design thinking and visualization skills toward the development of a complex architectural condition.
ARCH3220 | 2D Fabrication | Lecture (3 Credits)
Analyze architectural order through 2D fabrication. Develop, fabricate, and present varying ordering systems through iteration, rigor, critical representation, and architectural communication.
ARCH3230 | Late Global History of Architecture | Lecture (3 Credits)
Analyze the history and current context of modern architecture globally. Identify the societies and ideas that shape architecture history and theory. Examine the relationships between culture, geography, politics, race, and the ways in which they influence architectural thought and form.
ARCH3240 | Material Studies | Seminar (1 Credit)
Investigate the value, geography, global history, ecological impact, and strength properties of conventional, novel, and experimental materiality. Develop propositional learning skills and the understanding of technology, nature and design through material.
ARCH4011 | Prefabrication Studio | Lecture/Studio (5 Credits)
Prefabrication Studio examines innovative methods and processes used in the construction of a project using modular building components. Emphasis is placed on manufacturing techniques, material performance, and custom design solutions based on research and technological applications.
ARCH4012 | Building Systems | Lecture (3 Credits)
Building Systems examines the relationship between structure, enclosure, building controls, and mechanical and electrical systems. Learning focuses on issues related to building performance, constructability, systems integration, sustainability, life-cycle analysis, and the interrelationship of architecture and engineering functions.
ARCH4013 | Professional Practice | Lecture (3 Credits)
Professional Practice examines the financial, contractual, and ethical responsibilities of an architect and business practices. Learning focuses on the responsibilities of design professionals, practice models, and the process of marketing skills in a service industry.
ARCH4014 | 4D Design | Seminar (1 Credit)
4D Design explores the language of design, user experience and interaction with motion, sounds and interfaces. Develop design solutions that are influenced by 2D and 3D principles.
ARCH4021 | Adaptive Reuse Studio | Lecture/Studio (5 Credits)
Adaptive Reuse Studio explores the repurposing of an existing building for a new program and hospitality use. Emphasis is placed on preservation techniques, integration of new and existing structure, and building systems as well as the expression of the building's character. Gain effective collaborative skills through research and the exploration of sustainable techniques and environmental factors of the site.
ARCH4022 | Building Envelope | Lecture (3 Credits)
Building Envelope examines a building's performance and efficiency as it relates to its enclosure. Learning focuses on how the building envelope and internal building systems work together to create healthy, resilient, comfortable, and sustainable buildings.
ARCH4023 | Building Economics | Lecture (3 Credits)
Building Economics examines business strategies for the construction, renovation and/or redevelopment of buildings. Learning focuses on the tools of economic analysis, building life-cycle costs, market factors, building regulations, budgeting, and estimating.
ARCH4110 | Research & Culture | Studio (5 Credits)
Apply architectural research to design while engaging a real world client and project. Employ an inclusive and participatory design process through engagement with various community stakeholders. Examine the relationship of architecture to public process and community development.
ARCH4120 | 3D Fabrication | Lecture (3 Credits)
Apply analog and digital 3D fabrication techniques as a design and representation tool. Develop skills utilizing design thinking, ordering systems, and digital fabrication methodologies.
ARCH4130 | Globalization & the Vernacular | Lecture (3 Credits)
Identify distinctions between vernacular and formal architecture traditions around the globe. Elaborate on the tensions between the role of architecture in urban and rural landscapes, as well as the distinctions between city and country. Catalog global vs. local processes in the structure of the city and place making. Build vocabulary and make distinctions in terminology such as culture, diversity, equity, modernity, pre-modern, agricultural, rural.
ARCH4140 | Urbanism | Seminar (1 Credit)
Research and analyze ideas of urbanism and their relationship to architecture within a design process. Perform comparative analysis of the Twin Cities and other urban centers through a series of case studies.
ARCH4210 | Fabrication | Studio (5 Credits)
Design and fabricate for varying socio-economic, political, and cultural contexts through immersive learning. Acquire a depth of knowledge of varying cultures and human behaviors and how they manifest themselves architecturally. Engage in intensive, participatory, and prototyping processes.
ARCH4220 | Moving Image & Animation | Lecture (3 Credits)
Practice skills in still and moving architectural visualization as a design and representation tool. Develop new skills utilizing design thinking, story-telling, and rendering techniques.
ARCH4230 | Metropolis & Activism | Lecture (3 Credits)
Examine the structure of cities and human settlement. Analyze the bio-politics of the city through the lens of safety, equity, race, and social justice, and its effect on humanity and the environment. Explore changes in urbanism based on current cultural conditions.
ARCH4240 | Parametric Design | Seminar (1 Credit)
Analyze ideas of parametric design and their relationship to architecture and the design process. Perform exercises in varying ideas and processes of parametric design in architecture.
ARCH5011 | Integrated Studio | Lecture/Studio (5 Credits)
Integrated Studio builds upon previous coursework to design a comprehensive architectural project. Emphasis is placed on selecting structural and mechanical systems, material construction, identification of zoning and code constraints, and appropriate construction and assembly types. Demonstrate and communicate effective construction drawings, specifications, documentation, and integration of systems.
ARCH5014 | Virtual Environments | Seminar (1 Credit)
Virtual Environments explores tools and methods for creating time- and motion-based architectural visualization. Discover and develop techniques for visual storytelling, 2D and 3D rendering, and animation.
ARCH5021 | Capstone Studio | Lecture/Studio (5 Credits)
Capstone Studio explores a self-directed, comprehensive design project supported by design research and cultural and social contexts. Emphasis is placed on individual design philosophy, process, learning, working, and thinking associated with academic work and practice. Demonstrate design skills that synthesize a comprehensive and professional understanding to solve design problems through exploration and iteration.
ARCH5022 | Advanced Detailing | Lecture (3 Credits)
Advanced Detailing enhances knowledge of architectural detailing, specifications, building assembly, and construction practices. Learning focuses on the documentation necessary to effectively implement and communicate design intent for construction.
ARCH5024 | Independent Topics | Seminar (1 Credit)
Independent Topics provides an opportunity to explore individually selected subject matter. Discover and develop topics related to individual goals and self-discovery.
ARCH5110 | Integrative Design | Studio (5 Credits)
Integrate site, regulatory, and program elements to create an architectural work. Demonstrate design intent within the design and development of building systems. Demonstrate integrative design through varying forms of architectural representation.
ARCH5120 | Thesis Preparation | Lecture (3 Credits)
Propose topics of architectural inquiry through peer-reviewed research. Investigate physical and digital modes of representation. Utilize physical and digital modes of representation, design thinking, ordering systems, and investigative skills to develop, represent, and propose a thesis.
ARCH5130 | Systems & Envelope | Lecture (3 Credits)
Research and analyze the building envelope and its performative relationship to building systems. Discover ways in which building systems are designed to reinforce architectural thought. Analyze works of architecture with a focus on integrative thinking.
ARCH5140 | Entrepreneurship | Seminar (1 Credit)
Investigate how architectural businesses form, grow, hire, and create sustainable business plans with lasting value. Analyze real world examples of how the profession of architecture fiscally operates in foundation, operation, capital investment, asset building, and liability management.
ARCH5210 | Thesis | Studio (8 Credits)
Design, develop, and present a provocation that defends a thesis. Demonstrate the power of architecture to creatively solve cultural, environmental, technological, or other substantive problems. Individual design philosophies, processes, self-discipline, autonomy, and time management skills are rigorously developed with an emphasis on iteration and personal evolution.
Prerequisite(s): ARCH5120
ARCH5220 | Professional Practice | Lecture (3 Credits)
Analyze the role of the architect in society as a leader, collaborator, and catalyst toward a better world. Examine the ethical, social, and legal responsibilities of professional practice. Describe the role of equity, diversity, and inclusion within the profession.
ARCH5230 | Structures | Lecture (3 Credits)
Analyze the principles of building structures through quantitative and mathematical means. Examine conventional, unconventional, and emerging structural systems. Explain the relationship between structural systems and design intent.
ARCH5240 | Architectural Writing | Seminar (1 Credit)
Engage in scholarly architectural writing. Discover the means and methods of architectural writing. Gain exposure to scholarly publication opportunities. Generate works which successfully hold up to peer review. Perform peer review for other generated works.