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ARCH 102 PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE I Credits 4.00 Spring 2000 A development of communication of formal information from further investigation of visual structures and their order. Requisite for architecture majors. By permission of instructor only. 001 MWF 02:00PM-05:00PM Samuels, Danny *CURRENT ENR: 0 001 Grenader, Nonya *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 132 CHANGING PERSPECTIVES IN ARCH Credits 2.00 Spring 2000 Introductory tutorial. Readings, field trips, and seminar discussions. Exploration of the role of the architect and architecture in the metropolis. 001 T 04:00PM-05:30PM Casbarian, John *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 202 PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE II Credits 6.00 Spring 2000 See Arch 201. 001 MWF 01:00PM-05:00PM TBA Wittenberg, Gordon *CURRENT ENR: 0 001 Brown, David *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 214 STRUCTURAL&CONSTRUCTION SYS II Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 Application of materials & construction (wood, masonary, concrete & steel). Case studies & field trips. 001 TTH 08:00AM-09:15AM Oberholzer, Mark *CURRENT ENR: 0 001 Brown, David *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 302 SELECTED ARCH PROBLEMS I Credits 6.00 Spring 2000 Variety of intermediate level problems for developing comprehensive experience in design methods and processes. Requisite for preprofessional major in architecture. Prereq- Arch 201, 202, 301. 001 MWF 01:00PM-06:00PM Parsons, Spencer *CURRENT ENR: 0 001 Krumweide, Keith *CURRENT ENR: 0 001 Williams, William *CURRENT ENR: 0 001 Oliver, Douglas *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 316 BUILDING CLIMATOLOGY Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III An introduction to the thermal performance of buildings. Course is divided into 2 parts: Building Climatology and Air Conditioning Systems. 001 TTH 09:25AM-10:40AM Oberholzer, Mark *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 330 METHODS OF MAKING II Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 Continuation of ARCH 322/622. Limited enrollment. 001 TBA TBA TBA Guthrie, David *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 346 19TH-20TH CENTURY ARCH HISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I This is a survey course that covers primarily western architectural history from 1750-1980. Rationalism, The Picturesque, Neo-Classicism, Eclecticism, Art Nonveau, De Stijl, The Bauhaus, Le Corbusier, Frank LLoyd Wright, Corporate Modernism and Urban Renewal are the major architectural topics that will be discussed against and backdrop of the conditions of modernity. Also offered as Hart 346. 001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM ML*254 Biln, John *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 350 URBAN IDENTITY, UTOPIA AND REFUSAL Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I This course is intended to function as a small research seminar. Interested students will participate in exploring a related set of concerns involving the development of historical urban utopii conditioned by desires both to express socil resistance and to produce new social identities. 001 TBA TBA Biln, John *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 358 NEW THEORIES OF COMPOSITION Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 Lectures on the following topics: "Urbanism, Formalism, Episteme" - "Life: Dynamics & Cybernetics" - "Behavior: The Final Frontier" - "The Modulating/Modulated Universe" - "Character and Ecological Adaptation" - "Global Image Context" - " Recording Technologies: Daguerre to genetic reproduction" - "Cinematic Migration". 001 TBA TBA Kwinter, Sanford *CURRENT ENR: 0 001 Mau, Bruce *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 360 CRISIS AND COMMUNICATIONS Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 As the demands for design today shift toward social, economic and technological concerns, the group/crisis model is re-emerging in both corporate and popular and radical milieus. We will study the history of these developments, form our own collective operation and produce a publication that reflects this emerging new approach to design culture. This is both a history and research course and a hands-on course in communications design. Prereq- permission of instructor. 001 TBA TBA Kwinter, Sanford *CURRENT ENR: 0 001 Mau, Bruce *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 362 THE PHILOSOPHY OF MATTER, FORCE AND EVEN Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 A lecture course on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze will deal with the metaphysical foundations of contemporary space and time. Readings will include Deleuze's analyses of Spinoza, Leibniz, Nietzsche, and Bergson. Strong emphasis will be placed on reading, writing, as well as on design applications of principles from the work. Prereq- permission of instructor. 001 TBA TBA Kwinter, Sanford *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 368 TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 History and philosophy of technology in the 20th century with emphasis on the postwar years. This course will focus on actually doing history and philosophy of technology by develpoing "programs" (formal studies, books, documentary films) on everyday objects or innovations (nylon stockings, the running shoe, the I.Q. tests, etc.) that have had invisible but profound effect on postwar society. 001 TBA TBA TBA Kwinter, Sanford *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 372 SILENCE/SOUND/NOISE Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 This course will examine the sonorous dimensions and implications of architecture. While the course will provide and overview of basic principles of acoustics and architecture's materiality in relation to sound, the primary focus will be the architectural implications of sound dominant rather than vision dominant moes of thought. Limited enrollment. 001 TBA TBA TBA Brown, David *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 374 THE JOY OF MATERIALS Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 An investigation of how materials influence and inspire the making of works of architecture. Prereq- permission of instructor required. Enrollment is limited. 001 TBA TBA Jimenez, Carlos *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 376 COMING TO AMERICA Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 This seminar will explore the impact of American methods and practices on 20th century architectural theory and practice in Europe. The course will focus primarily on a critical examination of several primary texts which will include readings from Mendolsohn, A+P, Smithson, Archigram, Banham, Koolhaas, and others. Limited enrollment. 001 TBA TBA TBA Krumweide, Keith *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 386 ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIETY II (ENLIGHTENME Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 Through a series of case studies, this course will examine the socio-cultural consequences of exemplary buildings from the Englightenment through Postmodernity. Enrollment is limited to 25. 001 TBA TBA Last, Nana *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 402 SELECTED ARCH PROBLEMS II Credits 6.00 Spring 2000 See Arch 302. Prereq- Arch 401. 001 MWF 01:00PM-06:00PM Parsons, Spencer *CURRENT ENR: 0 001 Krumweide, Keith *CURRENT ENR: 0 001 Williams, William *CURRENT ENR: 0 001 Oliver, Douglas *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 408 TORSION AND BLDG IN MATERIALS Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 Stress, strain and torsion in materials will be analyzed in several works of modern architecture and sculpture. How materials resist bending or rupture and the imminence of either possibility will be studied in the context of more traditional ideas of space and time in modern architecture. Student projects will rely on experience with autocad and the willingness to learn stress/strain modelling software. Extensive reading and class participation is required. Prereq- one structure course; modern architecture survey; senior level UG design; and autocad experience. 001 Bell, Michael *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 420 HISTORY OF BUILDING TECHNOLOGY Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 Survey of the history of building technology from ancient times to the present. Emphasis on relation of techniques to social, cultural, and intellectual milieu. 001 MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM Wittenberg, Gordon *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 423 PROFESSIONALISM & MGMT IN ARCH PRACTICE Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 An introductory survey of the characteristics of the delivery of architectural services by professional design organizations. Through readings and lectures, students become familiar with the social, technical, legal, ethical, and financial milieu of modern architecture practice. 001 TTH 08:00AM-09:15AM Furr, James *CURRENT ENR: 0 001 Fleishacker, Alan *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 426 DESIGNING THE LOW-COST HOUSE Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 The spring course begins the sequence to produce a small house under the auspices of the Rice Building Workshop. The history and development of the small house will be examined, followed by an analysis of the proposed mid-town site and it's context. Construction technologies, materials, costs, climate conditions, and code issues will be considered. Each student will develop a design approach in some detail, and a single proposal (or merging of proposals) will be selected and documented for permitting and construction. All phases of the project will incorporate collaboration with the larger community, from neighborhood organizations to local contractors. 001 TBA TBA Grenader, Nonya *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 428 ARCH'S AMOROUS DISCOURSE Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 This is an elective course to explore the possibilities for innovative low-cost housing and to have the opportunity to become involved with hands-on processes of building. 001 El-Dahdah, Fares *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 429 BUILDING LOW COST HOUSE II Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 This elective course will continue student involvement in the hands-on process of constructing a new structure for Project Row Houses, a noted grass-roots art project promoting neighborhood revitalilization and community service in the Third Ward. Enrollment is limited. 001 TBA TBA Samuels, Danny *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 432 INTRO TO COMPUTER APPL IN ARCH Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 This course is designed as a general introduction to computing in the context of architectural design. Emphasis is on the use of digital media as design tools and the appropriate use of these tools in the varying processes of design. This course includes exposure to a broad spectrum of design, drafting, modeling and presentation software. 001 TTH 09:25AM-10:50AM TBA Delaura, Louis *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 436 COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN IN ARCH Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 Advanced computer graphic techniques using CAD in architecture as a design and presentation medium. 001 TTH 08:00AM-09:15AM TBA Delaura, Louis *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 440 DIGITAL RENDERING, ANIMATION AND VIRTUAL Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 Advanced course in computer modelling, rendering and graphics manipulation. This course is designed to explore computer modelling and rendering techniques and their role in the design process. Prereq- Arch 435 or 635 (Lou DeLaura's Intro. AutoCAD) or permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to 8. 001 TTH 02:30PM-04:00PM TBA Nichols, Christopher *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 448 LATE 20TH CENT ARCH & URBANISM Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 The course considers the historical circumstances of the architecture of the very recent past, covering the years 1950-1993. The goal of the course is to define the relevant issues in contemporary architectural discourse and illustrate them with detailed case studies. The design process and the lived-in form of architecture and urbanism will be the primary focus, and the scope of the inquiry will comprehend the development of current building types, new technological practices, emerging urban patterns, the changing role of the architect, and stylistic trends. Architecture will be considered both as a theoretical discourse, a highly self-conscious and intellectual pursuit, and as a worldly and contradictory practice. Permission of instructor required. Enrollment is limited to 20. 001 MW 10:00AM-11:30AM TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 452 BUILDING WORKSHOP Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 This elective course is to design, fabricate, and erect a small structure during the semester. Students in the workshop will work together with each other, with the parent group at Edgar Allen Poe Elementary School, and with the instructor, to develop a design for the bus shelter in detail, to fabricate it using all necessary materials and processes and to erect it on the site. Work will proceed in the Building Workshop facilities in Ryon Lab. Prereq- permission of instructor required. 001 TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 454 20TH CENTURY NORTH AMER ARCH Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 A seminar in history and criticism. In this course we will consider the establishment of a canon of 20th century architecture in North America (US & Canada). Each week we will take apart the various criteria that qualify buildings for history including aesthetic and stylistic quality, technological invention, architectural careerism, urban contributions, stylistic quality, technological invention, architectural careerism, urban contributions, geographic influence, typlogy, theory, art movements, and social implications. The goal of the course is to investigate the way texts relate to build reality. Prereq- permission of instructor is required. 001 TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 461 SPECIAL PROJECTS Credits 0.00 Spring 2000 Independent research or design arranged in consultation with a faculty member. Subject to approval of faculty advisor and director. Very limited enrollment. 001 TTH 09:25AM-10:40AM Casbarian, John *CURRENT ENR: 0 002 Casbarian, John *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 464 INDEPENDENT PROJECTS IN FURN DESIGN AND Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 This course will examine alternative materials and material technologies, both existing and emerging, and their impact on the design and fabrication of furniture. The class will initially focus on research into impact of innovations in materials and practices on the production of furniture over the course of the last century. Each student will specifically address the use made by various designers of these changes. The remainder of the course will see each student focus on the investigation of a specific material and its possible methods of manipulation via a simultaneous process of research/design resulting in the fabrication of a proto type. Prereq- permission of instructor. 001 TBA TBA Krumweide, Keith *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 470 TAUTNESS AND PARTICULATES Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 The research of underlying regulartory systems - material, theoretical, legislative - leads to the development/proposal of new system strands that attempt to redefine the bulit and economic environment at multiple scales of invention. Conducted in three parts, the seminar begins with series of presentation, followed by individual research, leading to the innovative collective; particulates of the metropolis. 001 TBA TBA Finley, Dawn *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 492 URBANISM Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 This course will focus on the contemporary mutations emerging within the American context with emphasis on social and economic factors. Research oriented, workshop style with a view to developing materials for public display and information design. 001 TBA TBA TBA Kwinter, Sanford *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 500 PRECEPTORSHIP PROGRAM Credits 15.00 Spring 2000 Requisite for admission to graduate studies in architecture for all recipients of Rice B.A. degrees in preprofessional or area majors. Student completes nine to twelve months of full-time internship under guidance of an appointed preceptor. 001 TBA TBA Casbarian, John *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 502 CORE DESIGN STUDIO II Credits 10.00 Spring 2000 Prereq- Arch 501. 001 MWF 01:00PM-06:00PM Pope, Albert *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 504 CORE DESIGN STUDIO IV Credits 10.00 Spring 2000 Prereq- Arch 503. 001 MWF 01:00PM-06:00PM Mangurian, Robert *CURRENT ENR: 0 001 Ray, Mary *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 514 BLDG TECHNOLOGY & STRUCTURES I Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 A course in structures for students in the Qualifying Graduate Program. Topics include: structure in architecture; forces and equilibrium; structural materials; the behavior, analysis, and design of structural elements and their connections. 001 TTH 08:00AM-09:15AM Brown, David *CURRENT ENR: 0 001 Oberholzer, Mark *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 516 BUILDING CLIMATOLOGY Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III See Arch 316. 001 TTH 09:25AM-10:40AM Oberholzer, Mark *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 600 M. ARCH OPTION I Credits 0.00 Spring 2000 Practical work experience for students who have completed at least four semesters in the Qualifying Graduate Program prior to their entrance into the regular Master of Architecture studio sequence. Permission of instructor required. Very limited enrollment. 001 TBA TBA El-Dahdah, Fares *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 602 ARCHITECTURAL PROBLEMS Credits 10.00 Spring 2000 Emphasis on abstract thought and design capabilities relevant to systematic processes of designing specific buildings and facilities. Prereq- Arch 500 or Arch 501- 504. 001 MWF 01:00PM-06:00PM Bell, Michael *CURRENT ENR: 0 002 MWF 01:00PM-06:00PM TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 003 MWF 01:00PM-06:00PM Jimenez, Carlos *CURRENT ENR: 0 004 TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 608 TORSION & BLDG IN MATERIALS Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 A design studio, following Arch 607, where a building program is carried from predesign analysis, through design, to design development. Prereq- Arch 501- 504, Arch 607. 001 Bell, Michael *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 615 MODEL SHOP LAB Credits 1.00 Spring 2000 See Arch 115. 001 TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 620 HISTORY OF BLDG. TECH. Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 Same as Arch 420. 001 MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM Wittenberg, Gordon *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 623 PROFESSIONALISM & MGMT IN ARCH PRACTICE Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 See Arch 423. 001 TTH 08:00AM-09:15AM Furr, James *CURRENT ENR: 0 001 Fleishacker, Alan *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 624 THEORY AND MODERNISM Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 This course will reflect on that peculiarly modernist agenda of radical social transformation assumed to be possible largely or exclusively through spatial - Architectoral means. The course will briefly review the core assumptions of this belief, as articulated in period texts and projects, and then consider the histoical failures of this transformative project 001 TBA TBA TBA Biln, John *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 626 DESIGNING THE LOW-COST HOUSE Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 See Arch 426. 001 TBA TBA Grenader, Nonya *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 628 ARCH'S AMOROUS DISCOURSE Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 This is an elective course to explore the possibilities for innovative low-cost housing and to have the opportunity to become involved with hands-on processes of building. 001 El-Dahdah, Fares *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 629 BUILDING LOW COST HOUSE II Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 See Arch 429. 001 TBA TBA Samuels, Danny *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 630 METHODS OF MAKING II Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 Contiuation of ARCH 322/622. Limited enrollment. 001 TBA TBA TBA Guthrie, David *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 632 INTRO TO COMPUTERS IN ARCHITECTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 Lectures and seminars dealing with problem-solving activities and methodological issues in architectural design and urban design. 001 TTH 09:25AM-10:50AM TBA Delaura, Louis *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 636 COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN IN ARCH Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 See Arch 436. 001 TTH 08:00AM-09:15AM TBA Delaura, Louis *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 640 DIGITAL RENDERING, ANIMATION AND VIRTUAL Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 See Arch. 440. 001 TTH 02:30PM-04:00PM TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 646 19th-20TH CENTURY ARCH HISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 See Arch 646. Also offered as Hart 646. 001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM ML*254 Biln, John *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 648 LATE 20TH CENT ARCH & URBANISM Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 See Arch 448. Permission of instructor required. Enrollment is limited to 20. 001 MW 10:00AM-11:30AM TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 650 URBAN IDENTITY, UTOPIA AND REFUSAL Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 For class description see ARCH 350. 001 TBA TBA Biln, John *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 652 BUILDING WORKSHOP Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 See Arch 452. 001 TTH 04:00PM-05:20PM TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 654 20TH CENTURY NORTH AMER ARCH Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 See Arch 654. 001 TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 656 NEW MODELS OF SPACE & FORM II Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 See Arch 356. 001 Kwinter, Sanford *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 658 NEW THEORIES OF COMPOSITION Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 See Arch 358. 001 TBA TBA Kwinter, Sanford *CURRENT ENR: 0 001 Mau, Bruce *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 660 CRISIS AND COMMUNICATION Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 See Arch 360. 001 TBA TBA Kwinter, Sanford *CURRENT ENR: 0 001 Mau, Bruce *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 662 THE PHILOSOPHY OF MATTER, FORCE AND EVEN Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 See Arch 362. 001 TBA TBA Kwinter, Sanford *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 664 INDEPENDENT PROJECTS IN FURN DESIGN AND Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 See Arch 464. 001 TBA TBA Krumweide, Keith *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 668 TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 001 TBA TBA TBA Kwinter, Sanford *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 670 TAUTNESS AND PARTICULATES Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 001 TBA TBA Finley, Dawn *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 672 SILENCE/SOUND/NOISE Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 001 TBA TBA TBA Brown, David *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 674 THE JOY OF MATERIALS Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 See Arch 374. 001 TBA TBA Jimenez, Carlos *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 676 COMING TO AMERICA Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 001 TBA TBA TBA Krumweide, Keith *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 686 ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIETY II (ENLIGHTENME Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 Through a series of case studies, this course will examine the socio-cultural consequences of exemplary buildings from the Enlightenment through Postmodernity. Enrollment is limited to 25. 001 TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 692 URBANISM Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 001 TBA TBA TBA Kwinter, Sanford *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 700 PRACTICUM Credits 0.00 Spring 2000 Full-time internship service in approved local offices under interdisciplinary supervision. Emphasis on "real world" design, planning, or research experiences. Special tuition. May be taken in any semester or in summer. 001 TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 701 PRE-THESIS PREPARATION Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 001 TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 702 PRE-THESIS PREPARATION Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 001 W 07:00PM-10:00PM El-Dahdah, Fares *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 706 WRITTEN THESIS Credits 10.00 Spring 2000 001 TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 711 SPECIAL PROJECTS Credits 0.00 Spring 2000 Independent research or design arranged in consultation with a faculty member subject to approval of the student's faculty advisor and director. 001 TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 002 TBA TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 714 INDEPENDENT DESIGN PROJECTS Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 001 TBA TBA El-Dahdah, Fares *CURRENT ENR: 0 ARCH 800 GRADUATE RESEARCH Credits 3.00 Spring 2000 001 TBA TBA El-Dahdah, Fares *CURRENT ENR: 0
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