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SARC SARC 3100-001 PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF ARTS ADMINISTRATION George Sampson SARC 3104-001/5104 DESIGN THINKING George Sampson SARC 5100-001 ARTS MARKETING THEORY & PRACTICE George Sampson & Margaret Guggenheimer SARC 3559/5559 and PHS 3559/520 BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH: LOCAL TO GLOBAL Schaeffer Somers & Wendy Cohn SARC 5500-001 WATER SUSTAINABILITY Brian Richter
VISUALIZATION MODULES SARC 5555-001 CHIAROSUCURO 1 Charles Menefee SARC 5555-002 INFOGRAPHICS TBA
SARC 5555-003 THINKING AND MAKING IN DESIGN WG Clark SARC 5555-004-005-006 WORKFLOWS TBA SARC 5555-007 CONCRETE CASTING, DESIGN THINKING AND PROTOTYPING Alexander Kitchin
ARCH ARCH 2150/5150 GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY Carla Jones
ARCH 2230/6232 SYSTEMS, SITES, AND BUILDINGS William Sherman ARCH 4820/8800 TEACHING SEMINAR: LESSONS IN MAKING Sanda Iliescu ARCH 5130 PAPER MATTERS I単aki Alday, Robin Dripps, Ghazal Abbasy-Asbagh, Rebecca Cooper ARCH 5420 DIGITAL ANIMATION & STORYTELLING Earl Mark ARCH 5470 INFORMATION SPACE Eric Field
ARCH 5500-001 CRITICAL EVALUATION OF CURRENT SPATIAL PRACTICE Robin Dripps ARCH 5500-002 DESIGN REVOLUTION 2.0_ GRASSHOPPER SPATIAL PRACTICE Lucia Phinney ARCH 5590-001 CATASTROPHE AND CREATION I単aki Alday ARCH 5590-002 SPECIAL APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY Eric Field ARCH 5590-003 ALL THE WORLD IS A STAGE Melissa Goldman ARCH 5610 URBAN LAND Manuel Bailo ARCH 5750 DRAWING AND COMPOSITION Pam Black ARCH 6270 PARAMETRIC STRUCTURAL DESIGN Jeana Ripple
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ARH 1010/7010 HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE I Lisa Reilly
ARH 2401/7401 HISTORY OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE Sheila Crane ARH 2753 ARTS & CULTURES OF THE SLAVE SOUTH Maurie McInnis & Louis Nelson ARH 3601/7601 EAST MEETS WEST Yunsheng Huang ARH 3606/7606 LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY Fraser D. Neiman ARH 5500-001 BAROQUE TO PALLADIAN Shiqiao Li ARH 5500-002 A CRITICAL APPROACH TO DIGITAL HUMANITIES Lisa Reilly ARH 5601 HISTORIC PRESERVATION THEORY AND PRACTICE Daniel Bluestone ARH 5604 FIELD METHODS I: READING AND RECORDING HISTORIC BUILDINGS Louis Nelson ARH 5607 HISTORIC PRESERVATION AT UVA Brian Hogg ARH 9540 ARTS AND CRAFTS Richard Guy Wilson
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LAR 4120/5120 HISTORY OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN I: ANTIQUITY TO 1800 Michael Lee LAR 4140/5140 THEORIES OF MODERN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Elizabeth Meyer LAR 5210 TOPICS IN CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE: PUBLIC SPACE Elizabeth Meyer LAR 5290/PLAC 5800 GREEN LANDS: GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE Karen Firehock LAR 7180 TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION IN LANDSCAPE HISTORY Michael Lee
PLAC/ PLAN PLAC 5240 COLLABORATIVE PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABILITY Frank Dukes
PLAC 5430 COMMUNITIES AND APPROACHES TO LAND DEVELOPMENT Fred Missel PLAC 5610 NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING STUDIO Suzanne Moomaw PLAC 5800/LAR 5290 GREEN LANDS: GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE Karen Firehock PLAN 1010 INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING Tim Beatley PLAN 3310/5310 HISTORY OF CITIES AND PLANNING Daphne Spain PLAN 5400 HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Suzanne Moomaw PLAN 5580-001 SITE PLANNING Satyendra Huja PLAN 5580-002 FACILITATION SKILLS Tanya Denckla Cobb PLAN 5580-003 ADVANCED APPLICATION OF SPATIAL ANALYSIS Scott Kaiser & Richard Walker PLAN 5600 LAND USE AND GROWTH MANAGEMENT Ellen Bassett
PLAN 5601 REGIONAL PLANNING Jeffrey Walker PLAN 5710 TRANSPORTATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT Andrew Mondschein PLAN 5740 TRANSPORTATION PLANNING & POLICY Andrew Mondschein
SARC SARC 3100-001 / ARAD 3100 / COMM 3600 PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF ARTS ADMINISTRATION George Sampson T, R - 5:00-6:15PM // 3 Credits Arts Administration is a discipline existing at the crossroads of commerce and art, where an artistic creation – or any creative product such as an architectural design - meets its audience. Principles and Practices is the entry-level survey course which explores that intersection in theory and in practice, introducing tools of both business and community building. The contention of the course is that concepts from both for-profit and nonprofit sectors contribute to our understanding of human creativity and its management and that the proper emphasis should be on points of connection among art forms rather than on issues which separate them. The course is designed to be of practical and intellectual value for creative citizens of all stripes including current student leaders.
SARC 3104-001/5104 / ARAD 5500 DESIGN THINKING George Sampson T, R - 11:00AM-12:15PM // 3 Credits Design Thinking teaches that design is not a link in a chain but the hub of a wheel, a way of approaching issues and opportunities by utilizing knowledge from many domains and fields. It is a technique for addressing problems focusing on fundamental human needs using empathy, derived from observation and insight, as a core component. Group work in a studio-like setting comports well with architectural practice yet extends beyond physical products to encompass services and multi-faceted problems like climate change.
SARC 5100-001 ARTS MARKETING THEORY & PRACTICE George Sampson & Margaret Guggenheimer T, R - 3:30-4:45PM // 3 Credits Arts administration is an interdisciplinary field that studies the practical management of arts, cultural, and entertainment organizations and businesses and raises questions about the role of the arts in our society. The metaphor of a crossroads is useful to illustrate the meeting of commerce and art, where artistic creation seeks an audience and the artist and community most intimately interact. The arts marketer is a key animator of this crossroads, balancing the needs and desires of the audience with the necessity to nurture and facilitate artists and their work. As an important interpreter of the work, the arts marketer uses tools of business: management, strategy, marketing, financial accounting, operations, and negotiation; and tools of community building: fundraising, development, education, outreach, engagement, volunteerism, public policy, and partnerships; to create thriving cultural connections between artists and audiences. Arts Marketing Theory & Practice lays a foundation of traditional arts marketing techniques and addresses the 21st-century need to balance innovative web-based communications with new strategies to attract diverse audiences through relevancy, accessibility, and interactivity. In this course, students will explore arts marketing theory and practice through readings, class discussion, guest lectures, Harvard Business School case studies, and assignments and projects related to University and Charlottesville arts and cultural organizations. Group work and presentations for real-world marketing projects will be balanced by individual work in responses, case studies, and a required final paper outlining a marketing plan.
SARC 3559/5559 and PHS 3559/520 BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH: LOCAL TO GLOBAL Schaeffer Somers & Wendy Cohn T, R - 9:30-10:45AM // 3 Credits How do sidewalks, block parties, food deserts, and transit systems impact our health? This course
maps the intersections between architecture, urban planning, and public health that shape the built environment, health and well being of our local and global communities. Lectures and learning applications will present the evidence and its limits on topics such as food security, age-friendly cities, obesity, social equity and vulnerable populations.
SARC 5500-001 WATER SUSTAINABILITY Brian Richter R - 9:00-11:30AM // 3 Credits This course will explore the dimensions of what “sustainability” means in the context of water use and management. We will examine the different ways in which water is used, valued, and governed, examining sustainability through different lenses and perspectives. Lectures by global water experts, along with discussion sessions and readings, will provide students with a solid foundation for the building blocks of water sustainability.
VISUALIZATION MODULES SARC 5555-001 CHIAROSUCURO 1 Charles Menefee T - 3:30-6:00PM // 1 Credit Sept. 02-23, 2014 SARC 5555-002 INFOGRAPHICS TBA T - 7:00-9:30PM // 1 Credit Nov. 4 - 25, 2014
SARC 5555-003 THINKING AND MAKING IN DESIGN WG Clark T, H - 3:30-4:45PM // 1 Credit Sept. 02-23, 2014 SARC 5555-004-005-006 WORKFLOWS TBA T - 3:30-6:00PM // 1 Credit per module Mod. 1: Sept. 2 - 23, 3014 Mod. 2: Sept. 30 - Oct. 28, 2014 Mod. 3: Nov. 4 - 25, 2014
The primary goal of ‘workflows’ is to introduce students to the various digital communication tools available to designers as well as their roles, abilities and limitations within the design process. Communication within design fields is primarily visual; therefore this course will stress the importance of each student developing a rigorous and efficient process for creating/constructing drawings, graphics and other forms of visual representation. As graphics and drawings are rarely created using a single tool, ‘workflows’ will introduce a series of different processes and techniques for working between and across multiple design tools simultaneously to visualize and represent design ideas. We will not treat digital drawings and visualizations as precious or singular artifacts, but rather as design tools that gain layers of information and complexity with the application of multiple representational techniques and software. Through a series of projects students will test and experiment with graphic communication tools to enhance their own design process. This visualization module will be split into three sequential portions focusing on different aspects of visual representation.
SARC 5555-007 CONCRETE CASTING, DESIGN THINKING AND PROTOTYPING Alexander Kitchin W - 3:30-6:00PM // 3 Credits This class will combine what was two short modules - introduction to casting and advanced
casting – into one semester-long class. You will become fluent in concrete casting and advanced form-making, and explore how design can grow from material, and how the act of making informs form. This is a design thinking class, considering design an intellectual, visual, tactile, physical and iterative process. These are hands-on shop-centered classes that intend to not only gain a working knowledge of concrete, but to push the boundaries and investigate yet unknown potential of the process and the material. With this intimate knowledge of the material and its making, you will be simultaneously developing individual product designs and prototyping them at full-scale. These products may be architectural, landscape or industrial elements. Prototyping designs integral with your studio projects is encouraged. This course will cover the basics of concrete casting, including form-making, formulas, textures, colors, surfaces, and admixes, and then move into more advanced concepts, formulas, applications and methods, including rubber molds, fiberglass molds, cnc formwork, repetitive casting and advanced applications of ultra high performance concrete in furniture-scale, building and landscape components. You will design and cast several pieces that explore the potential of the material through small-scale prototypes and then produce a final project as a potentially market or project-ready product.
ARCH ARCH 2150/5150 GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY Carla Jones T, R - 2:00-3:15PM // 3 Credits The search for new social, spatial and technological systems that do not require undue and increasing amounts of finite resources is known as “sustainability.” Over the past 50 years, Earth’s human population has doubled, to 7
billion people, and is projected to increase to 9 billion by 2050. When multiplied by a growing per-capita rate of consumption, the resulting effect is an accelerated depletion of natural resources, loss of natural capital, worldwide water and energy shortages, pressure on global food supplies, loss of precious biodiversity, increasing global health challenges and social upheaval. These issues threatening human well-being and the Earth’s ecosystems. This integrated and interdisciplinary course prepares students to understand, innovate and lead efforts to confront these issues. It provides foundational knowledge on the multifaceted aspects of both problems and solutions, and challenges participants to deepen their understanding of global sustainability issues by working collaboratively on a real-world, sustainability project. The course is also the required foundation for the new, cross-grounds Minor in Global Sustainability: http://www.arch.virginia. edu/undergraduate/minors/SustainabilityMinor/
ARCH 2230/6232 SYSTEMS, SITES, AND BUILDINGS William Sherman T, R - 12:30-1:45PM // 3 Credits The interplay of scientific knowledge, technological innovation, social organization and cultural expression give rise to emergent modes of thought that are deeply woven into the design of our buildings and communities. This course introduces a way of understanding, describing and designing the interaction of human constructs and existing ecosystems. In this course, we will reconsider basic assumptions that underlie the design of human habitation, exploring both the intelligence of ideas evolved over long time frames and the possibilities emerging from the rapid advance of analytic capacities and material innovation. Following an introduction to the behavior of systems and ecosystems, we will study the interaction between human experience, spatial construction and the inherited dynamics of energy, heat, air, light and water.
ARCH 4820/8800 TEACHING SEMINAR: LESSONS IN MAKING Sanda Iliescu ARCH 5130 PAPER MATTERS Iñaki Alday, Robin Dripps, Ghazal Abbasy-Asbagh, Rebecca Cooper W - 9:00-11:30AM // 3 Credits
long-term one semester/one year projects with the ongoing definition of an editorial line.
ARCH 5420 DIGITAL ANIMATION & STORYTELLING Earl Mark T, R - 2:00-3:15PM // 3 Credits
Arch 5420 is a 3-credit workshop/seminar that explores moviemaking through exercises in computer animation. Approximately four independently developed short animations constitute the work Which is the role of publications in the contemof the term culminating in a one to five minute porary architectural debate? How can the new time-length final movie project. Subject areas for acknowledges acquire some durability, at least individual projects may range from short narrative for a while? Which are the interesting contents movies involving character animation to the analfor us? Does a publication generate reflections ysis of micro-scale environments or larger scale and new acknowledge by itself? Which are the architectural and landscape settings. Motion capmedia? ture, sound and video editing are integral to the For the last 5 semesters, this seminar has worked work of the class. over these questions and explored vehicles to share, communicate, excite the inner debate, and The principal software is Maya, a widely used compile/produce/attract knowledge. We experi- technology in computer animation and movie proment the critical edition of contents, reflect on the duction. Maya provides an advanced set of anipotentials instruments and educate in the related mation techniques, such as instantiated motion, skills (writing, graphics…). The Seminar is help- inverse kinematics, compositing, fluid dynamics, ing the School in designing an ambitious program hair and clothing simulation and other special of publications that is, first of all, an intellectual effects. Also used in the term will be software exercise that reflects about our contents, values, for digital video editing, compositing, morphing, design priorities and ways of communicating. Ed- sound capture and editing. Maya will be available iting, physically or digitally, defines our position on Apple and Windows computers throughout the and ambition in a world in continuous and fast school. Free educationally restricted copies of evolution with a challenging competitive aware- Maya are available for degree students who have access to a personal computer. We will also inness of what is going on. troduce inertial motion capture equipment for full The seminar is composed by a group of faculty and body suit motion capture. students working together as an editorial council and a publisher that has produced already several It is anticipated that an interdisciplinary group of books (Paper Matters student’s work Sp12, Vor- students admitted to the seminar will bring pertex 01, March book, Catalyst -with student’s work spectives from across the fine arts and design. F12-Sp13), magazines (collaboration with Lunch Most classes will meet in Campbell 105. Other lo07/08/09, Snack), guides (Grad and Ugrad Final cations will also be used for tutorials on additional reviews Sp13) and digital platforms (archdaily, The equipment as will be announced in class. Linker, and Paper Matters Press). The seminar will take one day a week, for 2.5 hours, combining the personal or team research on themes and other publications, the editorial staff meetings and the publisher production of layouts and texts. Will combine short projects and
ARCH 5470 INFORMATION SPACE Eric Field T, R - 11:00AM-12:15PM // 3 Credits
ARCH 5500-001 CRITICAL EVALUATION OF CURRENT SPATIAL PRACTICE Robin Dripps We live in a world rich with information. This M - 9:00-11:30AM // 3 Credits course concentrates on the identity and role of information in our environs: in language, in the buildings and cities that we inhabit, in our expanding communications networks, in science, medicine, economics, art, politics; and in the tools and technologies we create to help us navigate, understand, and collaborate on the problems that we face. Science and technology, including the building sciences, environmental sciences, and political sciences, make a ton of information available to us. We can model, map, and simulate almost anything, and produce multitudes of data. But most of us don’t understand `data`. We need to see it. We need to visualize it - to contextualize it, draw its relationships, and envision the scenarios surrounding it - to make effective decisions. Too often, though data is available, we don’t use it or misuse it, because it lacks context and meaning to understand. We understand better if we make it visual.
The body of built work, hypothetical projects, and theoretical writings produced over the last thirty years represents a significant shift in ideas and practices that define the constructed environment. The open and experimental nature of the thinking and work within this time frame is unique within the history of human artifice. Prompted by new technologies in representation, communication, computation, and fabrication along with new understandings and valuations of the human condition relative to natural processes, the architecture, landscapes, and patterns of urban settlement of this period have gained enough maturity so that common themes, patterns, and modes of spatial practice can be understood in relationship to what went before. This course will explore significant works of spatial design together with the theories and technologies that make these possible in order to develop a better understanding of where we are at the moment and how we might move ahead.
This class is about using information to construct visual and spatial thinking - to find, indeed invent, approaches toward seeing, envisioning, and understanding - to make better informed decisions about the problems of our world. To do this we will study - and make - useful, compelling and beautiful information visualizations.
Lectures will present work within thematic categories while discussion will link these to current theoretical texts and propose relationships and counter relationships to past thinking and production. Diagram workshops will uncover evolving spatial paradigms.
With a dual focus on craft and content, this course will look both practically and theoretically at how we build information, why, and how we use it and populate it in our world. We will study language, graphics, and urban form as dialects of `Information Space`, while we learn and experiment with technologies in HTML5 and interactive web-based graphical information tools as a vehicle to build new architectures and interfaces that construct, use, and analyze information well.
ARCH 5500-002 DESIGN REVOLUTION 2.0_ GRASSHOPPER SPATIAL PRACTICE Lucia Phinney T, H - 2:00-3:15PM // 3 Credits The first digital design revolution, involving such platforms as AutoCAD, Microstation, Photoshop, and 3DMax ushered in an exciting new world of 3D virtual model space and rendering for architecture. Within a paradigm based on drafting, these platforms were designed for production and as tools for photo realistic visualization within a conventional workflow.
In contrast to the earlier paradigm, grasshopper creates variable relationships between geometries rather than constructing the geometries independently. This creates the potential for rapid sketch exploration of complete relational domains as well as for smooth transitions from one geometry to another. Operating first as a mode of sketching, it can also facilitate the increasing precision of idea and crafting that is necessary through design development and fabrication. The reach of this software has significantly increased in the last three years such that it has become the leader of the second digital design revolution. An emerging collection of add-ons, all offered by independent developers operating within the grasshopper platform, collectively provide a comprehensive approach to design workflow. These tools are expanding the fields of architecture and landscape architecture. They facilitate 1) the collection of data such as demographics, energy flows, site conditions, etc. 2) communication protocols between data streams and 3D modeling programs, 3) the graphic analysis of this data -translating from lists to three dimensional form, 4) the ability to re-order layers of data, perception, and performance in terms of spatial formations, aka -design, 5) the ability to take graphic files into CNC fabrication for models and prototypes. Designers can more easily integrate performance simulations from the beginning of a project to its completion. Similarly, we can design, simulate, prototype and test new modes of causally determined hybrid ecologies that re-connect human habitats with the surrounding biotic matrix. Current explorations within this expanded field are allowing designers to address such confrontational 21st century issues as climate change, biodiversity and sustainable resource use. The course will be structured as a sequence of grasshopper tutorials that will cover the workings of the software. The tutorials will form the basis for short projects that students will complete each week. A presentation of the work by notable designers working within the arena of parametric design and an exploration of the new spatial vocabulary enabled by the software will provide context for the semester.
ARCH 5590-001 CATASTROPHE AND CREATION IĂąaki Alday Meeting time TBD // 3 Credits This work is part of a larger research on the relation between the dynamics that produce catastrophic events and the creative potentials of those dynamics. Among all possible phenomena, the research focuses in the how the flood and the riparian systems associated with it are integrated in the design process. Human settlements along the rivers have adopted basically two attitudes, separately or partially combined: protection and/ or some degree of acceptance. The river provides the basic resource for the settlement while, often, the level changes threaten it. This intrinsic conflict between a basic resource and life and goods danger is recurrent along the history and around the globe. Different civilizations have developed devices of measure and construction works to control the river expansion. The technical advances have allowed an increasing level of control, pushed by the densification and the land use. This evolution has transformed the flood from a seasonal natural process to an occasional catastrophic event. During the second half of the XX century, big scale engineering solutions have been seen as the most reliable way to protect cities, crops, industries and people, while increasing the opportunities for occupation and production in former flood plains. However, new floods for which the protection systems revealed ineffective, producing catastrophic results of unprecedented damage, have raised critical questions. Climate change and bigger and bigger variations of volumes of water in the rivers are challenging the levels of security. Social awareness about ecological conditions, along with a new critical approach to a single logic solutions imposed over complex environments, are demanding new ways to think about the relation between rivers (in all their complexity) and human settlements. During the last decade of the past century and the first of the current one, a number of designs have tested new ways to integrate the river dynamics in anthropic environments. This work is a first attempt to create a ‘map’ of the design with the flood, identifying and selecting case studies; finding the relations between
catastrophes, political-social-technical initiatives and plans, and design solutions; and finally, understanding the influences in between design solutions.
ARCH 5610 URBAN LAND Manuel Bailo R - 1:00-3:30PM // 3 Credits
ARCH 5590-002 SPECIAL APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY Eric Field R - 1:00-3:30PM // 1-4 Credits
Students enrolled in the UrbanLand Seminar will have an opportunity to work closely with this new reality. The program will guide students to help them find a space where the disciplines of urban design, architecture and landscape architecture can merge to create their best efforts. The students will learn to understand our professions as an open space for exploration. Students will work with faculty to investigate the historic memory of the place, as well as to the environmental and architectural actions that constitute a powerful catalyst of our contemporary urbanity. One of the principal aims of the program is to understand that time can be used as a tool, moving away from the idea of designing finished objects. Students will be encouraged to understand the role of the ephemeral in the design process, while also keeping in mind the power of the material dimensions of the city.
This course is an independent research seminar for students wishing to explore and apply topics in advanced technology that are above and beyond what can be investigated in a standard course. Students would take this course to pursue new independent research or to extend a topic they are working on in another course or studio. The focus of this seminar is a topically applied exploration in a selected problem or technology. The course is essentially an independent-study within a group seminar environment, oriented toward problem solving through the use of advanced technologies. Each participant in the seminar will identify a specific topic or problem along with a technology to apply to the study of that problem. The semester will be spent working through the problem with advice from the instructor and other seminar participants, and collaboratively reviewing, discussing, and learning approaches and solutions.
ARCH 5590-003 ALL THE WORLD IS A STAGE Melissa Goldman R - 11:00 - 1:30PM // 3 Credits From the stage to the streetscape, we, as designers, build worlds. In this class, we will study the techniques of scenic design and architecture through modeling, prototyping, fabrication, and installation. We will cover script analysis to site analysis, material exploration to building techniques, theater design to the sets within them. Undergraduate and graduate students from Drama and SARC are welcome with instructor permission.
ARCH 5750 DRAWING AND COMPOSITION Pam Black T - 3:30-6:00PM // 3 Credits This course does the following: -emphasizes drawing from direct observation -explores figure/ground relationship -encourages finding accuracy through expression This course focuses primarily on the human form to study line, tone, mass, proportion and composition. Working from a live model, students will be introduced to various drawing techniques and media with an emphasis on the creative process. The premise of this course is based on “drawing to know� which promotes the idea of learning through experimentation. Through direct observation exercises, students become familiar with the structure underlying the human body and relate this to still-life, landscape and architecture. The drawing skills acquired in this course can be applied to all areas of design.
ARCH 6270 PARAMETRIC STRUCTURAL DESIGN Jeana Ripple M - 11:00-12:15PM // 3 Credits M - 12:30-1:45PM [Discussion] Our tools affect the ways we think and design, reinforcing systems through which we explore design potential. New integration of structural analysis into standard design software links design with immediate analysis and feedback, allowing architects to extend their structural intuition. This course covers basic structural systems – their historical development, design considerations, and analysis through physical and parametric modeling.
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ARH 1010/7010 HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE I Lisa Reilly M,W, F - 10:00-10:50AM // 4 Credits “We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us” (Winston Churchill, 1943) Architecture is the one art form that is inescapable as it provides the environment for our daily lives. We will explore how architecture affects us, as well as how it informs us about past societies. What does it tell us about the priorities and values of the cultures we are examining? In what ways does architecture shape human experiences; how does it enhance or detract from human activities? These are among the questions that will be asked from both historical and contemporary perspectives. This course will cover material from the pre-historic period through c. 1420 largely in Europe with some examples from Asia, Africa and the Americas. We will analyze monuments such as the Colosseum, the Great Stupa at Sanchi and Teotihuacan. Classes will be a combination of lectures and in-class activities as you learn the fundamentals of architectural history as well as how to analyze buildings.
This course is required for all entering undergraduates in the School of Architecture and fulfills the fine arts requirement for students in the College of Arts & Sciences. It is open to any student interested in learning how to understand and analyze the built environment.
ARH 2401/7401 HISTORY OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE TBA T, R - 2:00-3:15PM // 3 Credits This course examines the history of architecture over the past two centuries, focusing especially on developments from the 1870s through the 1970s. Throughout the course we will consider how architecture participates in imagining and producing modern subjects, in response to changing aesthetic, technological, social, environmental, and theoretical challenges. Key topics will include changing utopian visions, the ordering of urban space, the influence of new visual technologies and new modes of publicity on architecture, the contested boundaries of public and private space, the global circulation of architects and architectural ideas, as well as the shifting importance of nationalism, internationalism, and transnationalism to architectural production and urban development. Although considerable attention will be paid to buildings, cities, and landscapes in Europe, the course emphasizes networks of movement and exchange encompassing Latin America, North Africa, Turkey, India, and Japan. Course meetings will focus on case studies of significant sites that we will examine in detail as a springboard for broader discussions of thematic issues, including those raised by the readings.
ARH 2753 ARTS & CULTURES OF THE SLAVE SOUTH Maurie McInnis & Louis Nelson T, R - 2:00-3:15PM // 4 Credits “Arts and Cultures of the Slave South” is an undergraduate, interdisciplinary course that covers the American South to the Civil War. While the course centers on the visual arts—architecture, material culture, decorative arts, painting, and sculpture— it is not designed as a regional history of art, but an exploration of the interrelations between histo-
ry, material and visual cultures, foodways, music and literature in the formation of Southern identities. The course will cover subjects ranging from African American spirituals to creolization and ethnicities in Louisiana, from the plantation architectures of both big house and outbuildings to the narratives of former slaves. In the process, students will be introduced to the interpretive methods central to a wide range of disciplines, from archaeology and anthropology, to art and architectural history, to material culture, literature, and musicology. In addition to two weekly lectures by co-faculty Maurie McInnis and Louis Nelson, students will also attend weekly discussion sections and special events including guest lectures, field trip, a movie night, and samplings of traditional southern foods.
ARH 3601/7601 EAST MEETS WEST Yunsheng Huang M - 9:00-11:30AM // 3 Credits This is a lecture class to introduce the brief history of architectural exchanges between the East and West world. The interaction in architecture is a post-renaissance phenomenon. The separated world had few chances to understand and learn from each other before sixteenth century. Both sides developed their own architectural forms and styles separately and they have reflected different traditions. Eighteenth century was a time when Westerners actively explored to the East. The western professionals brought strong influence to the architecture of the Eastern world. While the East nations were anxious to adopt the Western architectural forms, architects and scholars in the West found interest and value in Eastern architectural forms. The relevant works of Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, Le Corbusier, I. M. Pei, Minoru Yamasaki, and others are discussed. The significance and impact of this interaction for modern architecture will be analyzed.
ARH 3606/7606 LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY Fraser D. Neiman W - 3:30-6:00PM // 3 Credits This course examines current archaeological approaches to the reconstruction and explanation of the ways in which humans at once shaped and adapted to past landscapes. It highlights the roles that linked ecological, economic, and social dynamics play in conditioning trajectories of change in past land use, and the ways in which archaeological evidence can advance our understanding of those processes. It emphasizes current theoretical perspectives, as well as GIS and statistical methods for the analysis of diverse data including artifact scatters, topography, and pollen spectra. The course is structured around three projects in which students will have an opportunity to make sense of real archaeological data from ongoing research into past landscape dynamics at Monticello. We will begin with a very brief overview of current approaches to landscape archaeology, and then quickly turn to methods for studying settlement patterns, spatial variaton in agricultural land use, and change in agricultural strategies and their ecological consequences. For each of these topics, we’ll look at recent examples from the archaeological literature, consider the appropriate methods for our data from Monticello, and see what we can learn from our applications.
ARH 5500-001 BAROQUE TO PALLADIAN: ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE 1660-1730 Shiqiao Li T - 3:30-6:00PM // 3 Credits This seminar traces English architectural developments in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries as they were intertwined with larger intellectual concerns of power (empiricism and experimental knowledge) and virtue (humanism and the virtuoso pursuits). Conducted as student-led presentations on readings and case studies, this seminar explores the foundational intellectual and architectural formulations in England that, in part, gave rise to Thomas Jefferson’s social and architectural vision.
ARH 5500-002 A CRITICAL APPROACH TO DIGITAL HUMANITIES Lisa Reilly W - 2:00-4:30PM // 3 Credits We will critically assess the role of digital humanities in art and architectural history through an analysis of digital projects as well as tools. Readings will be selected from critical texts such as Thomas DeCosta Kaufmann’s Towards a Geography of Art and Marvin Trachtenberg’s Building in Time.The course will also include workshops on topics such as viewshed analysis, thick mapping, and 3d visualizations.
ARH 5604 FIELD METHODS I: READING AND RECORDING HISTORIC BUILDINGS Louis Nelson M - 9:00-11:30PM // 3 Credits
This combined upper level undergraduate and graduate class is a field based seminar on methods of analyzing and recording historic buildings, especially vernacular American buildings and landscapes. Students will be introduced to an intensive building analysis geared to understanding change over time. Students will also learn methods of careful field recording for the purposes of both documentation and analysis. As a field-based course, some of our class time will be spent in the field examining, measuring, and recording ARH 5601 HISTORIC PRESERVATION THEORY AND buildings. These skills are useful to any architect interested in working with the historic built enviPRACTICE ronment, any preservationist, and any architecturDaniel Bluestone al historian interested in working with vernacular R - 3:30-6:00PM // 3 Credits architecture or engaging in a rigorous assessment In its relation to the existing environment, pres- of the material qualities of American architecture. ervation is essentially a conservative act. It of- The students will complete three major requireten privileges the past over the future. However, ments. The first, driven by the class lectures, is depending on the local context, making historic an essay examination of the student’s command preservation a priority can work to either conser- of the knowledge base of traditional materials vative or radical ends. This course surveys a broad and technologies, information essential to readspectrum of preservation activities and grapples ing and recording a building in the field. The next with the ways in which people have come to un- two are tied to our project site. The first will be to derstand and value the past. Preservation will be undertake a thorough examination of one material discussed in the context of cultural history and dimension of the buildings on the site—subjects the changing relationship between existing build- range from nail technologies to 20th century floorings and landscapes and attitudes toward history, ing materials—and write a report of your findings. memory, invented tradition, and place. Reviewing The next is the production of one exacting field both European and American material, the course drawing of a building on the building site, proscrutinizes disparate forms of preservation induced to professional standards. cluding natural conservation, building restoration, monument and memorial construction, rituals of ancestor worship, philosophies of treating his- ARH 5607 toric materials, and strategies for rebuilding after HISTORIC PRESERVATION AT UVA war. The course will foster an understanding of Brian Hogg the social, cultural, and ideological complexity of F - 9:00-11:30AM // 3 Credits preservation and promote a critical understanding Historic Preservation at UVA uses the architecture of various concepts of history as they inform conand landscape of the University to show how retemporary preservation projects. search, physical investigation, careful planning, design, and thoughtful execution create successful projects. The class will use projects that are in planning, under construction, or have recently
been completed to explore building and landscape topics. The focus will be on the Rotunda. Class projects that allow students to engage the Rotunda and buildings will be concentrated in the Jefferson precinct, though some may involve later structures.
ARH 9540 ARTS AND CRAFTS Richard Guy Wilson M - 3:30-6:00PM // 3 Credits This course will examine the works, theories, and contexts of the Arts and Crafts and related movements in the period 1860-1930. Attention will be directed to the designs and the writings of the principle proponents along with later commentary and interpretations. Many issues including social and cultural reform preoccupied the different movements, but several themes seem to emerge: morality, nationalism, tradition, and modernity. For the participants the direct and vital relation of these concepts to the physical making of buildings, objects, and landscapes became central. Image and style, or how buildings, furniture, gardens, landscape, and cities (and other related objects) looked, had moral and national dimensions. Although some aspects of the Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau have been interpreted as “modern” there was another aspect that was conservative and looked to tradition.
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LAR 4120/5120 HISTORY OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN I: ANTIQUITY TO 1800 Michael Lee T, R - 9:30-10:45AM // 3 Credits This lecture course surveys the history of gardens and designed landscapes from antiquity to the beginnings of modern industrial societies around 1800. Structured in roughly chronological order, it presents the major elements and typologies of landscape design that emerged during these
centuries and that continue to provide a shared conceptual and formal vocabulary for modern practice. The course situates representative sites in relation to their most relevant geographical, socio-political, and economic contexts. Using primary documents and critical essays, we explore the ideological dimensions of works of landscape architecture and analyze the means by which design decisions reflect broader social forces and material cultures.
LAR 4140/5140 THEORIES OF MODERN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Elizabeth Meyer T, R - 9:30-10:45AM // 3 Credits This three-credit course explores the modern designed landscape as a distinct mode of cultural production while underscoring landscape architectural theory’s interconnections with changing societal constructions of nature, environmentalism and the modernizing city. The lectures and readings examine: 20th-21st century design treatises, and manifestos; contemporary theoretical writings from outside the design fields: and designed gardens and urban landscapes that are motivated by, or that motivate, those writings. The course recovers the theory (and practice) of modern, postmodern and altermodern landscape architecture from its marginalization as an anti-urban aesthetic of open spaces. Instead, it reveals how landscape architects have re-imagined the modern city-aslandscape and landscape-as-infrastructure for over a century. Unlike the narrow and limiting way that landscape practices were characterized in many mid 20th century historical narratives and theoretical texts, actual works of modern landscape architecture were not anti-urban, passive or open space. Rather, landscape architecture theories and practices were engaged in creating new hybrid forms of urbanism/suburbanism and new modes of expression located at the intersection of scientific (from geologic and ecological principles to complexity theory) and artistic discourses. By examining this hybrid design language and its resultant full spaces, students will expand their understanding of what constituted the landscape of
modernity and its contemporary trajectory. Since recent criticism of mid-twentieth century modernism has focused on the ethical and aesthetic limitations of those mainstream concerns, knowledge of these “marginal” 20th century landscape theories and practices is germane to design, history and planning students who are interested in green urbanism, landscape urbanism, operations and process, ecology and technology, public space, and sustainability as well as feminist theory and criticism.
LAR 5210 TOPICS IN CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE: PUBLIC SPACE Elizabeth Meyer M - 9:00-11:30AM // 3 Credits
locality’s green infrastructure and develop a strategy to preserve or restore a healthy ecosystem for people and wildlife in urban and rural settings. Course is essential for planners, landscape architects or architects to develop in ways to maximize environmental quality and community health.
LAR 7180 TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION IN LANDSCAPE HISTORY Michael Lee T - 1:00-3:30PM // 3 Credits
This seminar explores the role of technological revolutions in the practice and culture of landscape architecture. By examining innovations that have had the greatest impact on the field, we will develop a general framework for understanding A decade ago, urban scholars lamented the devo- the reciprocal dynamics linking creativity in landlution of public space as vital arena for social in- scape design with advances in technical skills and teraction and political action. Increasingly, over knowledge. management by “business improvement districts” Course sessions will consist of case studies drawn rendered many allegedly public spaces incapaprimarily from the early modern period and Indusble of hosting the sort of informal, unexpected trial Revolution. Themes will include innovations encounters that should happen in the city. The in hydraulics and irrigation design, transportation public realm as a space of encounter where one infrastructure and civil engineering, construction recognizes difference, developing empathy and materials and techniques, horticulture and the tolerance for others in support of constructing a plant trade, administrative science and the advent democratic community, seemed idealistic and anof “bureaucratic vision,” and the evolution of landtiquated. But, recent political protests and occuscape representation in book and print culture. pations occurring in public spaces near and far— Our theoretical framework will include readings from Cairo’s Tahir Square and NYC’s Zucotti Park from the history of science, the sociology of techto DC’s National Mall--suggest that the efficacy nology, and classic treatises in landscape theory of physical spaces as social condensers, the role of urban gatherings in the construction of group and practice. identity, and the symbolism of the public realm as a “space appearance” are not yet depleted in our information society. In fact, the public sphere of virtual space and physical space is increasingly intertwined and entangled.
LAR 5290/PLAC 5800 GREEN LANDS: GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE Karen Firehock T - 9:30AM-12:15PM // 3 Credits Green infrastructure is the network of waterways, wetlands, wildlife habitats, parks, farms, or forests that provide ecosystem services. We will assess a
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PLAC 5240 COLLABORATIVE PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABILITY Frank Dukes T - 3:30-6:00PM // 3 Credits Planners, elected officials, community leaders and public policy professionals find themselves confronted as never before by challenges to the very functions of government. “Collaborative Planning for Sustainability” proposes that communities can only be sustained ecologically, socially, and economically with informed, legitimated participation by citizens actively engaged in public governance. Public decisions are generally better when developed by processes that are inclusive of diverse views, transparent and inviting to those such decisions affect, and responsive to participant needs. Such processes need to encourage behavior that builds relationships of integrity and trust and decisions that are creative, effective and legitimate. People yearn for accessible forums and processes to engage one another productively and safely, to speak of their own concerns, needs and aspirations, and even to learn the real needs of their neighbors. Such caring can engender conflict, which may be harmful, but authentic collaborative processes provide an opportunity to transform civic disarray into civic virtue. Students will develop a capacity to assess the strengths and weaknesses of collaborative processes, learn best practices for engaging stakeholders and publics, and practice designing and conducting public meetings, dialogues and other forums over contentious issues.
PLAC 5430 COMMUNITIES AND APPROACHES TO LAND DEVELOPMENT Fred Missel T - 3:30-6:00PM // 3 Credits Comprehensive Land Development and Site Feasibility provides an introduction to the fundamentals of the urban and suburban land development process. The course will begin with a variety of case studies and discussions relating to the more subjective subjects relating to land development. These subjects form the foundation of strong,
understandable and livable communities. The class will analyze multiple community styles and typologies both historic and contemporary. Discussions will include why the community is or is not successful. Students will be asked to identify characteristics that make a strong community and will be asked to critique existing developments using those criteria. Other foundational topics to be discussed include sustainability, livability, and pros and cons of design guidelines and standards implementation.
PLAC 5610 NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING STUDIO Suzanne Moomaw W - 1:00-3:30PM // 4 Credits This course gives students the opportunity to apply theoretical concepts and planning practices in a real-world neighborhood situation. The emphasis is on a design-based, community-focused project. It is intended to broaden the perspective of the planners’ agenda to include social, economic, civic, and design aspects of neighborhood planning. Students will use a range of analytical, design, and technological tools to assist in the analysis, modeling, and communication of their findings. Final reviews will include critiques from practitioners and faculty.
PLAC 5800/LAR 5290 GREEN LANDS: GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE Karen Firehock T - 9:30AM-12:15PM // 3 Credits Green infrastructure is the network of waterways, wetlands, wildlife habitats, parks, farms, or forests that provide ecosystem services. We will assess a locality’s green infrastructure and develop a strategy to preserve or restore a healthy ecosystem for people and wildlife in urban and rural settings. Course is essential for planners, landscape architects or architects to develop in ways to maximize environmental quality and community health.
PLAN 1010 INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING Tim Beatley M, W - 2:00-3:15PM // 3 Credits The course provides a comprehensive introduction to the planning of cities and communities. Sustainability is the primary lens through which community planning is viewed, and the creation of sustainable cities and communities the overall goal. The course examines in depth a number of aspects of the built and natural environment, including urban form and spatial patterns; transportation and mobility; housing and neighborhood design; food, energy and urban metabolism; and nature in the city, among others.
PLAN 3310/5310 HISTORY OF CITIES AND PLANNING Daphne Spain T, R - 9:30-10:45AM // 3 Credits This course is an overview of urban planning from antiquity to the present, with emphasis on the 19th and 20th century American city as the context in which the profession emerged and grew. An underlying assumption is that knowledge of the past is a valuable asset for planners because it informs the present and influences the future of cities. The course is intended for planning students and students outside the field seeking an understanding of the profession and its relationship to urban development.
mester students should know: 1. The origins and history of the American planning profession 2. Major events, figures, and topics typically covered in the AICP exam 3. Multiple sources of historical data 4. How to write a concise essay 5. How cities and the planning profession have influenced each other Students this semester will benefit from reports prepared by students in previous years. Posted on Collab, they can be used as preparation for the AICP exam or to generate ideas for this semester’s projects.
PLAN 5400 HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Suzanne Moomaw T, R - 9:30-10:45AM // 3 Credits This course is designed to provide a fundamental understanding of the policies, practices, and conceptual frameworks that have guided housing and community development efforts in the United States. The course will introduce the concepts, initiatives, and institutions that advance our ability as a nation to build strong, viable communities.
PLAN 5580-001 SITE PLANNING Satyendra Huja M - 9:00-11:45AM // 1 Credit The American planning profession originated in Sept. 01-22, 2014 response to the “search for order” accompanying 19th century urbanization and industrialization. Initial voluntary efforts at municipal reform were eventually supplanted by the work of experts from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, and the social sciences. The course addresses these experts, major events, and dates, but it also highlights lesser-known figures commonly overlooked in traditional histories. Like all history classes, this course requires considerable reading. Selections are a mix of primary sources that expose students to the language and thinking of the historical era, and secondary sources that analyze or reflect on trends. By the end of the se-
The purpose of this course is to provide basics of site plan preparation and approval. Site planning is an essential element of all development. Site plans are required for all development except for single family detached homes. Site plan specifies how a site will be planned for different kinds of development. These include: residential, commercial, industrial, and mixed use. Quality of community depends upon quality of site planning. This course will cover: Definitions and purposes of site planning, content of site plan, preparation of site plan, and review and approval process.
PLAN 5580-002 FACILITATION SKILLS Tanya Denckla Cobb M - 9:00-11:45AM // 1 Credit Oct. 6 - Nov. 3, 2014 Good group skills are becoming an imperative skill in today’s fast-paced collaborative work environment. This course is based on the premise that the only (best) way to develop or improve these skills is through reflective and deliberative practice. Students will learn the basics of group facilitation, including accepted core values and ethics of facilitation, as well as procedural, behavioral, and problem solving techniques that comprise a group facilitation “tool kit.” Instruction will involve a combination of dynamic group exercises, experiential role-plays, and mini-lectures, with the key emphasis on practicing and experiencing group facilitation.
PLAN 5580-003 ADVANCED APPLICATION OF SPATIAL ANALYSIS Scott Kaiser & Richard Walker T - 6:30-8:30PM // 1 Credit Nov. 4 - Nov. 25, 2014 PLAN 5600 LAND USE AND GROWTH MANAGEMENT Ellen Bassett M - 1:00-3:30PM // 3 Credits PLAN 5601 REGIONAL PLANNING Jeffrey Walker R - 7:00-9:30PM // 3 Credits As of 2010 in the U.S., there were 19,540 Incorporated Places (units incorporated under state law as a city, town, borough, or village, each with legally prescribed limits, powers, and functions), reflective of a high degree of political fragmentation, a central impediment to the realization of expanded regional planning, coordination and cooperation across the country. Nevertheless, the arguments on behalf of the pursuit of such planning—from reduced duplication of services and economy of
scale savings, to enhanced capacity of metro and rural areas alike to respond to increasingly pressing needs; be it through integrated transportation planning, growth management, natural resource conservation, or economic development, remain compelling indeed. In this course, beginning with the origins of regional planning and continuing through the present “new regionalism” movement, we explore a comprehensive series of applications and issues pertaining to regional planning, its potential, and prospects for the future.
PLAN 5710 TRANSPORTATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT Andrew Mondschein W - 1:00-3:30PM // 3 Credits This course examines the impacts of transportation systems on the environment, including local and regional emissions and global climate change. Both technological solutions and comprehensive transportation and land use approaches to mitigating impacts are explored. The course addresses several specific issues including multimodal transportation, environmental justice, resiliency, incentives and pricing sustainable transportation.
PLAN 5740 TRANSPORTATION PLANNING & POLICY Andrew Mondschein M, W - 11:00AM-12:15PM // 3 Credits In this this course, we explore planning, policymaking, and management of transportation systems across many modes, and how transportation planners are tackling the complex challenges that arise from providing mobility and accessibility to diverse places and populations. We cover subjects including building transportation infrastructure, managing traffic, planning for multiple modes, goods movement, sustainability and equity.