Courses

FALL 2020

1ST YEAR

48100: ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO FOUNDATION I — CRITICAL CYBORG Instructors: Mary-Lou Arscott, Annie Ranttila, Sarah Rafson, Jinmo Rhee, Manuel Rodríguez Ladrón de Guevara, Sinan Goral This course is an introduction to a variety of modes of thinking, methods of work and scales of operation. The purpose is to begin to develop a critical practice that considers materiality, virtuality, time and space. (Pages 17, 20, 74, 90-91, 92-93, 94, 95, 96-97, 98-99, 100, 185, 224-225, 296-297, 300-301, 384, 396-397, 424-425)

62106: ARCHITECTURE & THE ARTS Instructor: Kai Gutschow This course investigates the relationship between architecture and the arts in both historical and contemporary global contexts. A theme throughout the course will be the impact that art and architecture can have on life, politics and the world around us when it becomes part of social activism.

62122: DIGITAL MEDIA I Instructor: Eddy Man Kim This course will engage in an overview of foundational workflows in digital media regarding two-dimensional representation techniques for spatial design processes. The course will cover Technical Drawing and 2D Graphics through the use of Rhino, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign programs. (Pages 21, 70-71, 134-135, 170-171, 180, 204, 240, 250, 251, 291, 324-325, 352-353, 359, 453, 455)

62125: DRAWING I Instructor: Douglas Cooper 62-125 is an introductory course in freehand architectural drawing. Its central learning objective is building capacity for visualizing three-dimensional space through freehand drawing. A parallel objective is fostering visual literacy: the ability to use line and tonal values to represent architectural space. (Pages 46, 232, 314-315, 386, 432-433)

48025: FIRST YEAR SEMINAR — ARCHITECTURE EDITION Instructor: Heather Workinger Midgley The main objective of this first-year seminar course focuses on how students learn, develop and make decisions as they transition into architecture education. The goal of this course is to promote academic success and encourage connections within the SoA and the university at large.

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2ND YEAR

48116: BUILDING PHYSICS Instructor: Ömer T. Karagüzel The Building Physics course is conceptually located at the nexus of sustainability, design and computation, with the goal of introducing fundamental theories of building physics and simulationaided design development skill sets in the fields of building lighting, thermal performance and room acoustics.

48200: ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO ELABORATION I — URBAN DWELLINGS Instructors: Jonathan Kline, Trevor Ryan Patt, Andrew Moss, Jennifer Lucchino, Jeff King, Lori Fitzgerald The urban dwellings studio is an immersion in foundational issues that asks students to iteratively model, draw, pull apart and put back together architectural propositions for living together in the city that challenge housing as a commodity.(Pages 18, 88-89, 101, 261, 270, 345, 350, 456)

48215/48647: MATERIALS & ASSEMBLY Instructor: Gerard Damiani Materials & Assembly introduces and examines the fundamentals between design intent and construction materials, the science of materials (performance) and their assemblies. (Pages 47, 54, 405, 428)

3RD, 4TH & 5TH YEARS

48250: CASE STUDIES IN ARCHITECTURE AND CITIES Instructor: Stefan Gruber This course introduces students to urbanism and explores architecture as a situated and relational practice subject to broader social, political, economic, ecological and cultural forces. Investigating cities as sites of the encounter of differences and competing interests, the course sheds light onto the production and social reproduction of space — or how we shape the built environment and, in turn, it shapes us.

48300/48630: ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO INTEGRATION I — ENVIRONMENT, FORM & FEEDBACK Instructors: Dana Cupkova, Sarosh Anklesaria, Heather Bizon, Matthew Huber, Pedro Veloso, Laura Garófalo, Emek Erdolu Environment, Form & Feedback (EFF) is founded on the premise that architecture is part of a larger planetary ecology. EFF is a core design studio

focused on architecture’s response to climate change within urban environments. (Pages 6-7, 34-35, 76-77, 176, 238-239, 254-255, 289)

48315/48635: ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS — CLIMATE & ENERGY IN BUILDINGS Instructor: Vivian Loftness This course introduces architectural design responses for energy conservation and natural conditioning, human comfort and the site-specific dynamics of climate. Students are expected to combine an understanding of the basic laws of comfort and heat flow with the variables of local climate to create energy design guidelines for their own work.

48525: THESIS SEMINAR Instructor: Joshua Bard This seminar is designed for students conducting a thesis project in the B.Arch and M.Arch programs. The seminar hinges around the transition from analytical to projective modes of thinking, with a focus on refining the scope of the thesis argument and making the topic(s) of inquiry actionable through design-based, primarily visual methods. ADVANCED SYNTHESIS OPTION STUDIOS (ASOS)

The Advanced Synthesis Option Studios (ASOS) are vertically-integrated advanced studios that encourage interdisciplinary collaboration from the arts and technology, research and design, from large scale urban and ecological thinking, to detailed investigations of materials, fabrication strategies and form strategies — the heart of the CMU and SoA experience.

48400/48500: ADVANCED SYNTHESIS OPTION STUDIO I — THE ART OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL: A HOME IS NOT A HOUSE Instructor: Gerard Damiani In 1969, Reyner Banham wrote "The Architecture of the WellTempered Environment," which constructed a history of the advancements of mechanical devices and systems for modern buildings with an understanding that they were an integral part of a building’s critical formation. However, he also found these technological themes were absent from many of the intellectual, cultural and societal discourses of the time. This studio starts where this book ends, utilizing research to continue the history of the technological environment

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to the present day. (Pages 177, 216, 220-221, 354-355, 413-414, 430-431)

48400/48500: ADVANCED SYNTHESIS OPTION STUDIO I — COMMONING THE CITY Instructors: Stefan Gruber (Fall)/ Jonathan Kline (Spring) This year-long research-based design studio is focused on bottom-up transformation of cities and explores how designers and planners can tap into the selforganizing behavior of cities in order to empower citizens to claim their right to the city.

48400/48500: ADVANCED SYNTHESIS OPTION STUDIO I — DWELL: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS Instructor: Christine Mondor This studio, The Other Side of the Tracks, will define and challenge the condition of otherness that is inherent in or created by urban environments. Students look through the lens of housing design and policy, extract the positions afforded by capital and explore the relationships that arise through the design, creation, stewardship and control of dwelling units and settlements. (Pages 450-451)

48400/48500: ADVANCED SYNTHESIS OPTION STUDIO I — UNEARTHED Instructor: Liza Cruze This course joins architecture and engineering students to develop, test and, with HATponic’s guidance, build full-scale components of the group-selected design for Center Of Life’s mobile aquaponics unit.

48400/48500: ADVANCED SYNTHESIS OPTION STUDIO I — THE TRANSFORMATION OF WASTE Instructor: Hal Hayes Students are challenged in this studio to explore, understand, embrace and incorporate essential urban infrastructure services and uses through architectural design theses that range from utopian dreams, through practical/ feasible solutions, to dystopian nightmares of what future realities may be. (Pages 114-115, 116-117)

48400/48500: ADVANCED SYNTHESIS OPTION STUDIO I — BOREAL LAMINATION Instructor: Jeremy Ficca This studio explores the cultural and technological branches of architecture materiality in a moment of environmental and societal crisis. It focuses on architectures of wood to explore the affordances of urban mass timber situated in a nordic culture with deep connections to the boreal forest. It expands mass timber's predominately technical discourse to consider its psychological, aesthetic and cultural domains. (Pages 196-197, 212, 292-293, 365)

48400/48500: ADVANCED SYNTHESIS OPTION STUDIO III — DESIGNING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Instructor: Bill Bates The focus of this course is on the importance of listening to diverse stakeholders and understanding the implications of systemic discrimination before attempting to address community problem solving. The subject matter will force students to research, examine and question commonly held assumptions about disenfranchised built environments. (Pages 106-107, 169, 174, 364, 369)

48400/48500: LANDSCAPES OF DISEASE AND HEALTH Instructor: Nida Rehman This advanced studio critically interrogates the role of architecture as an actor in the histories and geographies of disease. Architecture and planning have long been imagined and deployed in efforts to control and contain the transmission of pathogenic agents (and the human and nonhuman bodies that might carry them). (Pages 108-114)

SOA ELECTIVES

48095: SPATIAL CONCEPTS FOR NON-ARCHITECTS Instructor: Nina Barbuto This course serves as an introduction to the spatial concepts of architecture for students from other disciplines. A hands-on immersion, this course is focused entirely on the creative process and communication through making.

48356: COLOR DRAWING Instructor: Douglas Cooper Color Drawing builds knowledge and provides practice in the use of color, principally with watercolor, to depict architectural surroundings. (Pages 42-43, 412)

48371: AMERICAN HOUSE & HOUSING SINCE 1850 Instructor: Diane Shaw This architectural history course examines the development of the American house and housing choices between circa 1850–2000. Students look at urban and suburban housing types ranging from single-family detached dwellings to multi-unit housing.

48374: HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD Instructor: Francesca Torello This elective offers a first orientation in the complex history of architecture in the lands where Islam spread over the centuries. It provides a basic understanding of major epochs and regional variations and examines the social and historical context within which

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art and architecture developed. The aim is to foster the students' curiosity and their desire to later continue this exploration.

48455: ADVANCED STRUCTURES Instructor: Irving Oppenheim This course examines the following topics: structural behavior and member design in reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete; construction estimation and task planning; structural system design for buildings constructed with precast concrete, panelized systems, cast-in-place two-way systems, dia-grid exterior frames, tube-type and space frame structures; geometric structures; and the influence of earthquake effects and wind loads as enforced through building code requirements. (Page 241)

48531/48771: FABRICATING CUSTOMIZATION — PROTOTYPE Instructor: Jeremy Ficca This course emphasizes the reciprocity of design and prototyping, challenging students to leverage physical artifacts as tools for thinking. In this way, prototyping is a means of exploration, not merely a method of production or fabrication. More than a large model or mere three-dimensional rendering of form, the prototype is a testbed and instrument of design projection. (Page 288)

48568: ADVANCED CAD/BIM/3-D VISUALIZATION Instructor: Kristen Kurland This course introduces students to 3-D software tools, including AutoCAD 3-D, Revit Architecture and 3-D Studio MAX. Building information and parametric modeling, materials, lighting, rendering and animation concepts allow students to create integrated CAD/BIM projects, 3-D video animations and realistic renderings. (Pages 400-401)

48591: DIGITAL TOOLS Instructor: José Pertierra-Arrojo This course introduces students to the SoA’s Design Fabrication Lab and provides functional knowledge of laser cutting, 3-D printing and CNC routing across six sessions.

48339: MAKING THINGS INTERACTIVE Instructor: Jet Townsend Making Things Interactive (MTI) is a project-based course where physical computing and interaction design are used to create new forms of technology-mediated interaction. This course covers aspects of conceiving, designing,

developing and improving software and hardware interactions.

48545/48745: DESIGN FABRICATION Instructor: José Pertierra-Arrojo This course serves as an introduction to digital fabrication methods through an applied overview of the resources available in the SoA’s Design Fabrication Lab. (Pages 187, 219, 233)

48555/48755: INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURAL ROBOTICS Instructor: Ardavan Bidgoli This course provides an introduction to industrial robotics and automated fabrication within the field of architecture. A series of lectures covers the basic components as well as the workflows needed to design flexible automation, while work sessions develop skills in hands-on online programming, simulation, visual programming and interfacing sensors.

48432/48655: DESIGN INTEGRATION OF ACTIVE BUILDING SYSTEMS Instructor: Nina Baird This course focuses on the active systems typically included in commercial buildings and strategies for their successful integration with passive components. Students also consider building codes that address outside air requirements for ventilation and energy and water efficiency, and discuss where U.S. codes lead or lag in promoting exceptional building performance.

CFA ELECTIVES

62225/48783: GENERATIVE MODELING Instructor: Joshua Bard This course introduces students to the fundamentals of generative modeling using computer-aided design as practiced in the field of architecture. Core competencies are developed through modeling projects and software-intensive labs, while a broader critical framework for conceiving of contemporary and historical parametric practices is encouraged.

GRADUATE

48634: ARCHITECTURAL THEORY Instructor: Kai Gutschow This graduate history and theory seminar starts with the conviction that Architecture is not only space, materials, technology, structure, form, program andsite, but also culturally constructed discourse, meaning, communication, concept and debate — in other words, theory.

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48676 A: CONNECTED COMMUNITIES Instructor: Daragh Byrne This seminar examines the space between the smart city and smart home. We explore topics across research and practice in urban informatics, ubiquitous computing and smart and connected infrastructure applied to understanding and networking communities.

48697: PROFESSIONAL ETHICS & ARCHITECTURE WITH CASE STUDIES Instructor: Kai Gutschow This is a makeup course for M.Arch students that builds on students’ past experiences. The course and syllabi are modeled closely on the same course taught by the late Professor Ömer Akin in the spring 2020 semester, which was in turn based on his many years of teaching Ethics in various contexts in the SoA.

48700: PRACTICUM Instructor: Kai Gutschow This course investigates the educational impact of an internship in professional architecture- related work and supports the formation of critical perspectives on the methods of current practice and the profession.

48705: MUD URBAN PLACES STUDIO Instructor: Stefani Danes This studio is intended to introduce students to urban design and inform their understandings of the public realm, including the built form, the natural environment and processes that define it, all in relation to existing contexts. In particular, we address the nature of urban communities and their relationship to the shape and function of the city.

48718/48650: ADVANCED SYNTHESIS OPTION STUDIO I — COMMONING THE CITY Instructors: Stefan Gruber (Fall)/ Jonathan Kline (Spring) This year-long research-based- design studio is focused on bottom-up transformation of cities and explores how designers and planners can tap into the self-organizing behavior of cities in order to empower citizens to claim their right to the city.

48707: THE PRACTICE OF URBAN DESIGN Instructor: Paul Ostergaard This seminar is focused on the practice of urban design and examines six elements of urban design practice: public participation, engagement of major stakeholders, context and heritage, multidisciplinary teams, sustainable design and implementation.

48716: MSCD PRE-THESIS II Instructor: Daniel Cardoso Llach This seminar considers different approaches to methods and ends with a thesis proposal presentation open to all computational design faculty and students, including students’ advisory committees.

48724: SCRIPTING AND PARAMETRIC DESIGN Instructors: Ramesh Krishnamurti, Jinmo Rhee This course prepares students to model geometry through scripted development of parametric schemes for architecture applications — that is, it introduces students to basic scripting with a focus on algorithms relating to formmaking and reinforces and extends basic concepts of parametric modeling.(Pages 260, 419)

48725: REAL ESTATE DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT Instructor: Valentina Vavasis This course provides an overview of the real estate development process and explores the interdependence of real estate development and design. The primary objective of this course is to allow students to understand how real estate development, public policy and finance will affect their professional lives. 48727: INQUIRY INTO COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN Instructor: Daniel Cardoso Llach The subject of this course is the emergence of computation as a pivotal concept in contemporary architecture and other design fields. It explores design theories and practices responding to the so-called “computer revolution,” cybernetics, artificial intelligence and the linked transformations on our conceptions of design, creativity, nature, body and place.

48729: ENERGY, HEALTH, PRODUCTIVITY Instructor: Vivian Loftness This course explores the relationship of quality buildings, building systems, infrastructures and land-use to productivity, health, well-being and a sustainable environment. The course begins with a series of lectures on high performance enclosure, mechanical, lighting, interior and networked building design decisions.

48731: SYNTHESIS PREP Instructors: Azadeh Sawyer, Dana Cupkova This course ensures a delineated, focused scope with a refined timeline and deliverables for the summer synthesis effort. Students are expected to establish all precedent work in their area of study, with critical excerpts organized and professionally cited. (Pages 48-49)

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48733: ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE SIMULATIONS (EPS) IN PARAMETRIC MODELING & DESIGN Instructor: Ömer T. Karagüzel This course introduces fundamental knowledge in building physics in relation to a range of environmentally responsive building design principles and computational approaches for increased resiliency for human habitability with minimal reliance on mechanical systems.

48734: REACTIVE SPACE AND MEDIA ARCHITECTURE (RSMA) Instructor: Sinan Goral This course relies on multimedia sensing to observe, measure and quantify the spaces around us. We question why certain spaces make us feel certain ways, what role our senses play in perceiving physical environments and how we can implement physical installations, computationally driven design technology and virtual media to powerfully activate a space.

48740: URBAN DESIGN METHODS & THEORY Instructor: Jonathan Kline This course explores core urban design methods and theories organized into four themes intended to give students a foundational understanding of urban design, examine key critiques of urbanization, theoretically situate commoning and explore urban design’s agency and its limits.

48742: PLANNING AND PUBLIC POLICY FOR THE FUTURE OF URBANISM Instructor: Ray Gastil The focus of this seminar is the connection between policy, planning and the design of regions, cities and neighborhoods, including to the scale of the individual project or building. We examine how international, federal, state and local policy and planning all impact urban design and communities.

48750: HISTORIES OF URBAN DESIGN Instructor: Diane Shaw This course examines various histories of the design and redesign of cities and the reasons for those interventions. It explores the relationship between form and culture by considering the theoretical, social, political, economic and aesthetic forces that have shaped urban spaces (streets, squares, public realm and housing).

48763: PROTEAN SYSTEMS: SUSTAINABLE DESIGN FOR UNCERTAIN FUTURES Instructor: Joshua D. Lee This course explores the various types and scales of change and

reviews various concepts through a wide array of built precedents and products that have attempted (with varying degrees of success) to respond to these forces over time.(Pages 179, 252-253)

48765: AECM SYNTHESIS PROJECT — USING AECM TECHNOLOGIES FOR PUBLIC INTERESTS Instructor: Joshua D. Lee This course applies the diverse knowledge and skills AECM students have mastered during the program to a critical public interest issue. Topics vary by year.

48767 A: TRANSDISCIPLINARY THINKING Instructor: Stephen Quick This course is a compendium of architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) practice, methods and theories with an emphasis on how the AEC professions can more effectively work together by understanding each other’s roles, responsibilities and professional perspectives.

48768: INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (IEQ) — ENERGY, HEALTH AND PRODUCTIVITY Instructor: Nathan Sawyer This course is an introduction to the importance of the indoor environment on human health and productivity. The course provides an overview of the metrics utilized to define Indoor Environmental Quality and methods to identify their correlations to energy consumption, health, productivity and equitable design.

48774: MAAD PRO-SEMINAR I Instructor: Jeremy Ficca This course explores architecture's digital culture to introduce contemporary topics of architectural research, design, practice and construction. It outlines an evolving landscape of contemporary practice and research and the changing nature of the discipline.

48775: ARCHITECTURAL INTERFACES Instructor: Kyriaki Goti This course focuses on architectural strategies to explore technology's potential to democratize aspects of design and fabrication, encourage user engagement and stimulate human creativity and personal expression. (Page 133)

48798: HVAC AND POWER SUPPLY FOR LOW-CARBON BUILDINGS Instructor: Nina Baird This course is designed for architecture and engineering students. It provides an introduction to HVAC and power supply needs and to system choices likely to produce comfortable and healthful buildings that help us move toward a zero-carbon future.

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SPRING 2021

1ST YEAR

48105: ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO — FOUNDATION II Instructors: Gerard Damiani,Jenna Kappelt, Andrew Moss, José PertierraArrojo, Stephen Quick, Annie Ranttila This studio focuses on how to evaluate an architectural idea through analysis and representation. The semester starts with a series of projects that introduce the timeless compositional methods that architects consider when designing a memorable piece of architecture. (Pages 26-27, 175, 218, 234-235, 322)

62123: DIGITAL MEDIA II Instructor: Eddy Man Kim The previous course, Digital Media I, covers fundamental concepts and techniques of 2D digital media as applied in architectural design. Digital Media II builds on these concepts and focuses on 3D modeling and visualization. (Pages 28-29, 40, 51, 290, 351, 417)

62126: DRAWING II — DRAWING AND APPEARANCE Instructor: Douglas Cooper Drawing and Appearance is a traditional course in free-hand architectural drawing. Its central learning objective is building a capacity for visualizing threedimensional space through the making of handmade drawings. (Pages 209, 237, 382, 404, 454)

48240 HISTORICAL SURVEY OF WORLD ARCHITECTURE I Instructor: Diane Shaw Reflecting the inseparable relation between building and human needs, this course is not only a history of architecture, but also a history through architecture. Over the semester, it examines the history of architectural and urban design as a form of cultural expression unique to its time and place.

48026: FIRST YEAR SEMINAR — ARCHITECTURE EDITION II Instructor: Heather Workinger Midgley The first-year seminar (part 2) introduces students to opportunities at CMU and beyond. The goal of this course is to encourage students to pursue their interests inside and outside of the SoA by introducing a range of opportunities, including study abroad experiences, internships, academic minors/additional majors and research opportunities.

2ND YEAR

48205: ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO — ELABORATION II Instructors: Jeremy Ficca, Laura Garófalo, Kyriaki Goti, Eddy Man

Kim, Jeff King, Manuel Rodríguez Ladrón de Guevara This studio explores connections between architecture and materiality. It positions architecture as an applied material and spatial practice and asserts the centrality of materiality in the conceptualization, design and experience of the constructed environment. Materials are situated within systems of construction to foreground connections between materials and methods of construction. (Pages 8, 32-33, 41, 45, 52-53, 69, 70, 102103, 181, 202, 205, 208, 214, 236, 242, 264-265, 357, 378-379, 380-381)

48241: MODERN ARCHITECTURE Instructor: Kai Gutschow This historical survey of modern architecture picks up where the Survey I (48-240) leaves off, with the “crisis of modernity” in late 19th-century Europe. It surveys developments globally from pre-WWI through Postmodernism and into the 21st century. (Pages 258-259)

62275: FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN Instructor: Daniel Cardoso Llach This course takes computers outside the box and outlines a journey of discovery, revealing computation as the connective tissue encompassing multiple facets of architectural practice and experience. (Pages 136, 137, 138, 377) 48324: UNDERGRADUATE STRUCTURES/ STATICS Instructor: Irving Oppenheim In this course we examine structural types, structural behavior, material behavior and construction constraints that underlie our design of buildings, emphasizing the need for a designer to envision a complete 3-D structure.

3RD, 4TH & 5TH YEARS

48305: ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO — INTEGRATION II Instructors: Azadeh Sawyer, Erica Cochran Hameen, Stefani Danes, Lori Fitzgerald, Joshua D. Lee The Advanced Construction Studio focuses on the detailed development and refinement of architectural design as informed by the integration of structural, enclosure, environmental and material systems and the process of construction. (Pages 86-87, 199, 203, 256-257, 279, 282-283, 285, 287, 298-299, 312-313, 344, 368, 370, 392, 402-403, 415, 436, 457)

48380/48658 A3: REAL ESTATE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT Instructor: Valentina Vavasis This course investigates the real estate development process, both from the point of view of the architect and the point of view of the developer. It helps students to understand how financial, economic

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and political issues may affect their design practices.

48383/48648: ETHICS AND DECISION MAKING IN ARCHITECTURE Instructor: Valentina Vavasis This course investigates ethics for architecture and the built environment. The course covers ethics as a discipline and how to identify an ethical issue and work through an ethical problem. On a global scale, it addresses the historic intertwining of architecture and capital.

48381/48649: ISSUES OF PRACTICE Instructor: William Bates This course introduces students to the realm of architectural professional practice, focusing on the overlay of design within the context of the client’s role and the architect’s responsibilities in competent architectural project and practice management. The course introduces students to fundamental principles of business planning, risk management and regulatory constraints and legal responsibilities.

48497: PRE-THESIS Instructor: Kai Gutschow The primary aim of this course is to hatch and develop a beginning proposal for a professional architectural design thesis or independent project. 48692: SHAPING LIGHT THROUGH SIMULATION AND VIRTUAL REALITY Instructor: Azadeh Sawyer The intent of this course is to provide the tools necessary for an effective integration of light in the design process of buildings. The course introduces the fundamentals of lighting design and emphasizes their relevance in effective design. It provides an in-depth view of how simulation and VR technology can support the design of comfortable and high-performance buildings. (Pages 318-319)

ADVANCED SYNTHESIS OPTION STUDIOS (ASOS)

The Advanced Synthesis Option Studios (ASOS) are verticallyintegrated advanced studios that encourage interdisciplinary collaboration from the arts and technology, research and design, and large scale urban and ecological thinking, to detailed investigations of materials, fabrication strategies and form strategies — the heart of the CMU and SoA experience.

48410/48510: ADVANCED SYNTHESIS OPTION STUDIO II — RADICAL FOOD: FROM THE GLOBAL TO THE GUT Instructor: Sarosh Anklesaria The goal of the studio is to unpack the analogous relationships

between the futures of food systems and architecture, to situate these as counter arguments to the industrial-agricultural complex and use the context of Pittsburgh as a laboratory for these experiments.(Pages 122-123, 124-125, 126-127, 194-195, 358, 399)

48410/48510: ADVANCED SYNTHESIS OPTION STUDIO II — CLOTHESLINE_ BORDERLINE, DE-COLONIZING THE BODY. Instructor: Mary-Lou Arscott This studio examines the politics, economics and sustainability of the protective layer of textiles that we place on our human bodies. The studio looks at the history of fabric manufacturing in relation to colonial power and establishes principles to shape attitudes towards our bodies and to the cleaning and repair of its coverings. The studio takes on a radical analysis of attitudes to domestic life, to gender and to capitalism. (Pages 16, 75, 207, 244-245, 278, 323, 398, 416, 418, 444)

48410/48510: ADVANCED SYNTHESIS OPTION STUDIO II — DESIGN/BUILD THOREAU CABIN Instructor: Liza Cruze This studio considers Thoreau’s essay—so much of it about his own design/build experience—in today’s context. Collectively, the studio designs a cabin to meet the high standards of sustainability set by Eden Hall. After a round of prototyping, testing and design development, the studio creates a set of construction documents and shop drawings. (Pages 36-37, 164-165, 356)

48410: ADVANCED SYNTHESIS OPTION STUDIO II — LITHOPIC HOUSE: ECOLOGIES OF EARTHEN MATTER Instructor: Dana Cupkova Building upon concepts of material and urban ecologies, circular waste streams and synthetic natures, this studio is loosely based on the competition framework announced by The American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Custom Residential Architects Network (CRAN) knowledge community: HERE+NOW: A House for the 21st Century International Student Design Competition. (Pages 38-39, 246, 446-447)

48410/48510/48660/48776: ADVANCED SYNTHESIS OPTION STUDIO II — COOPERATIVE HOUSING FOR THE 2000-WATT SOCIETY Instructor: Stefan Gruber The studio explores cooperative ownership and the 2000-Watt Society model as a way to house the future world population of 10 billion and designing more equitable, inclusive, self-determined and resilient

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communities. It envisions new typologies of collective living and working in Pittsburgh’s Polish Hill. (Pages 118-119, 120-121)

48410/48510: ADVANCED SYNTHESIS OPTION STUDIO II — SMOKETOWN: THE OTHER GREAT BLACK RENAISSANCE, AN ALTERNATE-REALITY AUGUST WILSON CENTER Instructor: Hal Hayes This studio is based in an alternative history where Pittsburgh’s Lower Hill District was not bulldozed, the heart of its black community was not eviscerated and the collapse of its industrial economy did not drive a large segment of that population away. Instead, the physical, social and cultural fabric of the Hill District is intact and continues to thrive, partaking fully in the Pittsburgh Renaissance. (Pages 328-329, 374-375)

48410/48510: ADVANCED SYNTHESIS OPTION STUDIO II — INTENSIVITY Instructor: Trevor Ryan Patt This studio argues that urban properties are intensive and can be identified at all scales, even those smaller than a building. In particular, it works on thickening the moment of interface between architecture and urbanism by identifying and analyzing urban forces and focusing them in concentrated moments on the threshold between interior and exterior. (Pages 30-31, 168, 348-349)

48410/48510: ADVANCED SYNTHESIS OPTIONS STUDIO I — COMMONING THE CITY Instructors: Stefan Gruber (Fall)/ Jonathan Kline (Spring) This year-long research-based design studio is focused on bottom-up transformation of cities and explores how designers and planners can tap into the selforganizing behavior of cities in order to empower citizens to claim their right to the city. (Pages 66-67, 78-79, 217, 272-273, 362-363, 376, 406, 429, 438-439, 442-443)

48419/519: ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO — THESIS II Instructors: Heather Bizon, Sarah Rafson An architectural thesis is a proposition. A proposition that results from a critique and reexamination of the role of architecture as a critical participant in the conditioning of (public) space. A thesis demands that the student take a position and have something to say, something to contribute to the ongoing discourse in the widening sphere of architecture. (Pages 22, 24-25, 83, 84-85, 128-129, 182-183, 184, 274-275, 276-277, 407, 452)

SOA ELECTIVES

48359: DESIGN BUILD/BUILDING SYSTEMS Instructor: Liza Cruze Students in this seminar collectively assemble a catalog that inventories options for the building systems for cabins on Chatham University’s Eden Hall Campus. With the help of outside guests and lab-oriented exercises, students design the structure and building systems for cabins, diagram their assembly process and put together a detailed cost estimate for construction.

48367: MATERIAL HISTORIES Instructor: Francesca Torello This seminar looks at the history of the architecture of the last two centuries by following the thread of the history of materials. We discuss the ways in which buildings of the past and the practice of architecture were affected by the materials available, how they were produced the craft required to work them, and how architects have interpreted, manipulated or added to the meaning of materials through their own work. We critically assess the consequences of the choices we make as designers and engage with the presence of history as a layer of complexity embedded in the material itself. (Pages 104-105) 48440: AMERICAN REGIONS & REGIONALISM — AN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF PEOPLE, PLACE, AND PERIOD Instructor: Diane Shaw This course examines the ways in which the interactions of people, place and period have created distinctive regional patterns. It focuses on the periods before the 20th century, when the forces of vernacular traditions were strongest, but also makes forays into more recent trends of regionalism as an aesthetic choice, a theoretical stance and an intentional placemaking device.

48442: HISTORY OF ASIAN ARCHITECTURE Instructor: Katheryn Linduff The development of Indian, Chinese, Korean and Japanese architecture was guided by both originality and assimilation. This course introduces the evolution of urban spaces and the function of the architecture within them. It examines the impact of indigenous philosophical principles on the organization of villages, capital cities and religious centers.

48328/48737: DETAILING ARCHITECTURE(S) Instructor: Gerard Damiani This course examines the role of the architectural detail

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in the formation/thematic development of a work of architecture and how the detail reinforces the theoretical position of the architect. (Pages 316-317)

48355: PERSPECTIVE Instructor: Douglas Cooper This course emphasizes freehand drawing in general and freehand perspective technique in particular. It develops understandings of perspective first in figurative drawing exercises and then transfers them to drawings of buildings and other architectonic objects.

48470: DEPTH OF SURFACE Instructor: Scott Smith This course consists of a series of exercises (projects) based on the ideas of surface, sandwiching, layering, exterior and interior, concealment and reveal-ment, and strength gathered from sandwiching. (Page 247)

48548/48758: RESPONSIVE MOBILE ENVIRONMENTS Instructor: Daragh Byrne This course introduces foundational theories, methods and techniques that range across the aesthetic, the human-centered and the technical. Students apply this knowledge by working in teams to collaboratively prototype a responsive environment that adapts in real time to activities within it. In these teams, students work across disciplines to integrate technical and aesthetic frameworks for sensing, analysis and feedback of human activity in intelligent and augmented spaces. (Page 437)

48545/48745: DESIGN FABRICATION Instructor: José Pertierra-Arrojo This course serves as an introduction to digital fabrication methods through an applied overview of the resources available in the SoA’s Design Fabrication Lab. (Page 187)

48770: LEARNING MATTERS — EXPLORING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN Instructor: Ardavan Bidgoli With the recent blooming of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) came a renewed interest in how these technologies may impact architecture and other creative practices. This course introduces students to this emerging field, giving them the tools to make their own ML-based design tools by adapting state-of-the-art models, developing new models and understanding how data shapes machine learning processes. (Page 132)

48773: EMERGING MEDIA — URBAN DESIGN COMPUTATION Instructor: Nicolas Azel This course introduces computation for urban design through the use of geospatial data, design scripting and neighborhood-scale scenario planning.

48363: URBAN DESIGN MEDIA Instructor: Trevor Ryan Patt This design seminar expands on the notions of data and analysis that have come to occupy a fundamental entry point of contemporary understandings of urbanism and urban design. It discusses the ways in which cities are organized and communicated as information through quantitative data, graphic maps and spatial models.

48-569: GIS/CAFM Instructor: Kristen Kurland This course includes lectures, computer labs and a project using the leading desktop GIS software ArcGIS Pro from Esri, Inc. (Page 423)

48369: TERRA-COTTA ASSEMBLIES — CULTURAL EXPRESSION AND CLIMATE CHANGE Instructor: Laura Garófalo This seminar speculates that by merging communication with environmental performance, a material like terra-cotta can be instrumental in returning cultural expression to the building skin. With a focus on the topics that define the ecological turn and how to manifest them through form, technique, and material, the seminar culminates in a collective project.

48372: TECHNOPOP ARCHITECTURE — SYSTEMS OF TECHNOLOGICAL INCLUSION Instructor: Kyriaki Goti This course explores architectural strategies that enable intuitive making in virtual environments. Students develop speculative architectural scenarios that make advanced fabrication methods accessible, affordable and inclusive. (Page 137)

48336: ARCHITECTURE AND RESISTANCE — OF EMPOWERMENT AND ECOLOGICAL THINKING Instructor: Sarosh Anklesaria In this course, students develop a foundational understanding of key concepts of contemporary relevance that frame the relationships between architecture, society and ecology.

48175/62175: DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY Instructor: Ramesh Krishnamurti Descriptive geometry deals with manually solving problems in threedimensional geometry through working with two-dimensional planes using these basic mechanical tools.

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CFA ELECTIVES

62408/62708 & 62418/62718: THEATER ARCHITECTURE I & II Instructors: Hal Hayes, Dick Block This seminar explores architectural design process, design specialization and project development through the typology of theaters. Students study pre-design methodology, professional team structure, expert consultants’ roles and design coordination. We also study theater specific systems, occupancy and structural issues.

62528/62728: OF QUARANTINES AND SANITARY ENCLAVES — THE SPATIAL POLITICS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE Instructor: Nida Rehman Architectural spaces, infrastructures, landscapes, urban environments nd national territories are deeply intertwined with experiences and understandings of epidemic disease. This advanced seminar offers critical perspectives on the spatial politics and built environments of infectious disease and public health.

62706: GENERATIVE SYSTEMS FOR DESIGN Instructors: Ramesh Krishnamurti, Pedro Veloso This course shows how techniques inspired by natural and urban phenomena and derived from computational design and artificial intelligence can lead to novel design solutions. The course fosters students’ capacity to computationally formulate design problems with an emphasis on the synthesis of design alternatives.

GRADUATE

48637: GRADUATE STRUCTURES/STATICS Instructor: Irving Oppenheim This course examines structural types, structural behavior, material behavior and construction constraints that underlie our design of buildings, emphasizing the need for a designer to envision a complete 3-D structure.

48640: M.ARCH STUDIO — INTEGRATION II Instructor: Matthew Huber The Advanced Construction Studio focuses on the detailed development and refinement of architectural design as informed by the integration of structural, enclosure, environmental and material systems and the process of construction. (Pages 215, 340)

48677: URBAN LAND INSTITUTE (ULI) HINES COMPETITION Instructor: Valentina Vavasis This competition and course allows cross-disciplinary teams of graduate students to work

collaboratively to create a complex urban design and real estate proposal that addresses a real site in North America as part of the prestigious Urban Land Institute (ULI) Hines competition held January 11-25, 2021.

48706: URBAN DESIGN STUDIO II — URBAN SYSTEMS Instructor: Nida Rehman This studio considers the built environment and environmental justice through the lens of Pittsburgh’s air. Specifically, it asks how urban design (and architecture and planning) might engage with and help mitigate the causes and effects of contaminated air, with attention to how the effects of toxic atmospheres on frontline communities have been shaped by uneven development and systemic racism. (Pages 366-367)

48718/48650: ADVANCED SYNTHESIS OPTION STUDIO I — COMMONING THE CITY Instructors: Stefan Gruber (Fall)/ Jonathan Kline (Spring) This year-long research-based- design studio is focused on bottom-up transformation of cities and explores how designers and planners can tap into the selforganizing behavior of cities in order to empower citizens to claim their right to the city. 48711: PARADIGMS OF RESEARCH IN ARCHITECTURE Instructor: Joshua D. Lee This course provides an introduction to a wide range of research strategies—including experimental, simulation, qualitative, correlational, interpretivehistorical, logical argumentation, case study and mixed methods— which can be used across a wide spectrum of knowledge production.

48712: ISSUES OF GLOBAL URBANIZATION Instructor: Stefan Gruber This seminar investigates the future of cities focusing on three existential challenges of our urban age: the escalating environmental crisis, growing social inequity and technological dislocation.

48713: MUD URBAN ECOLOGY Instructor: Christine Mondor This course examines the shifting regimes of urban ecology and equips students with skills and core concepts that enable them to lead or contribute to transition through design.

48715: MSCD PRE-THESIS I Instructor: Daragh Byrne This seminar introduces graduate students in Computational Design to the rudiments of graduate- level academic research and offers a space to discuss inchoate

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research methods, questions and projects in the field. It emphasizes the materialities and socio-technical infrastructures of computing. (Page 385)

48720: PLANNING BY DESIGN — CAMPUSES, WATERFRONTS, DISTRICTS, AND CITIES Instructor: Ray Gastil This course focuses on the connection between urban design decisions and the challenges of urban planning and development, based on the premise that a better understanding of this relationship will contribute to critical knowledge, policy and practice for a robust, equitable and forwardlooking urbanism responsive to the unprecedented density of urbanization, interaction and information in the 21st century.

48721: BUILDING CONTROLS AND DIAGNOSTICS Instructor: Ömer T. Karagüzel This course leverages students’ theoretical knowledge of energy and environmental performance assessment methods with a hands-on approach, which addresses research-grade concepts of building controls and diagnostics through actual building case studies and the application of field measurement techniques. 48722: BUILDING PERFORMANCE MODELING Instructor: Ömer T. Karagüzel This course focuses on conceptual foundations and practical applications of advanced and integrated whole-building energy simulation programs with an emphasis on architectural building envelope systems, mechanical electrical building systems and their controls, and building integrated solar photovoltaic power systems.

48723: ADVANCED BUILDING SYSTEMS INTEGRATION FOR PERFORMANCE Instructor: Azizan Abdul-Aziz This course introduces methods and approaches that provide fundamental scientific, technological and ecological opportunities in building design for a more sustainable future. Students learn about innovative building systems in working towards an integrated and multidisciplinary design practice.

48752: ZERO-ENERGY HOUSING Instructor: Nina Baird This graduate-level course explores the requirements and strategies for achieving successful net-zero multifamily housing. It considers the design approaches, codes, policy, technology and energy

infrastructure that support net-zero or carbon-neutral performance.

48756: PROJECT PLANNING AND REPORTING Instructors: Gerrod Winston, Najeeb Hameen This course exposes students to advanced project scheduling methods and familiarizes them with the primary reporting practices as performed in the construction industry, such as change management, resource charts and project status reports.

48759: VALUE-BASED DESIGN Instructor: William Bates This course begins with an in-depth exploration of the fundamentals of project values, incentives, motivations and the diverse (and sometimes conflicting) perspectives of a project’s stakeholders. It is built around the evaluation of Value-Based Design (VBD) in three case-study projects from the Pittsburgh area. The projects offer examples of the influential power of a project’s design and construction team to address the needs of both public and private stakeholders.

48795 A3/48795 A4: LEED, GREEN DESIGN, AND BUILDING RATING IN GLOBAL CONTEXT Instructor: Nina Baird This graduate-level mini-course uses the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system and other global rating systems for communities, infrastructure and buildings as vehicles to gain perspective about the interpretation of sustainable design around the world.

48781: SPATIAL ANALYSIS IN INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING Instructor: Kristen Kurland This course includes lectures, computer labs and a project using the leading desktop GIS software ArcGIS Pro from Esri, Inc.

48700: PRACTICUM Instructor(s): Various The MSAECM program requires an internship, so CPT will enable an F1 student to complete the required internship.

48703: MASTER’S PROJECT Instructor(s): Various Master’s Project allows opportunities for M.A. students to pursue a project related to their academic interests.

48736: MASTER’S INDEPENDENT STUDY Instructor(s): Various Independent Study allows Master’s students to pursue self-directed study with a

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faculty advisor pending written approval of the faculty member and the track chair.

48769: THESIS/PROJECT Instructor(s): Various Classes provide both depth and breadth, while the culminating thesis project allows students the opportunity to narrow their research focus to a topic of personal and professional interest. (Page 341)

48791: M.S. PROJECT Instructor(s): Various M.S. Project allows opportunities for M.S. students to pursue a project related to their academic interests.

48792: PHD INDEPENDENT STUDY Instructor(s): Various Independent Study allows opportunities for PhD students to pursue self-directed study with a faculty advisor pending written approval of the faculty member and the committee chair.

48-793: PHD THESIS Instructor(s): Various In the thesis proposal phase, the PhD student completes the preliminary research needed to plan a course of action leading to a successful dissertation on a selected topic. The thesis proposal must be publicly defended. This phase ends when the thesis proposal is accepted, whereupon the doctoral candidate is deemed to be in all but dissertation (ABD) status. (Pages 19, 23, 44, 50, 68, 82, 178, 186, 198, 243, 271, 284, 371, 393, 422, 445)