Instructor: Heather Workinger Midgley
T • 2:00-3:20pm • In-Person • 3 units (Mini 1)

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.

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Instructor: Tommy CheeMou Yang
MWF • 2:00-4:50pm • In-Person • 15 units

As the second studio within the Poiesis Sequence, this studio will nurture a way of making and thinking in design that aims to cultivate the practice of architecture as an act of creative citizenship.

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Instructor: Doug Cooper
T • 8:00-10:50am • In-Person • 6 units

The central learning objective of Drawing II is building a capacity for visualizing three-dimensional space through freehand drawing. It has two secondary objectives: using line, tone and color to represent architectural space and architectural proposals.

Fulfills minor requirements for: Architectural Representation and Visualization, Architecture (non-majors)

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Instructor: Matthew Huber
R • 8:00-10:50am • In-Person • 6 units

This is the second course in a two-course sequence that introduces students to a broad range of architectural drawing techniques and practices that document, communicate, and generate design possibilities.

Fulfills minor requirements for: Architectural Representation and Visualization, Computational Design, Architecture (non-majors)

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Instructor: Diane Shaw
TR • 11:00am-12:20pm • In-Person • 9 units

This course cuts a broad swath through time, geography and cultures, surveying critical episodes in the built environment of Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and the Americas from ancient times through the 19th century.

Fulfills minor requirements for: Architectural History, Architecture (non-majors)

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Instructor: Jared Abraham
MWF • 1:00-4:50pm • In-Person • 18 units

This studio aims to entirely reimagine the Mobile Home; to challenge its cultural stigma, and to propose new and innovative thinking on home design, home delivery, mobility, community, and the ever-evolving definition of the American Dream.

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Instructor: Stefani Danes
MWF • 1:00-4:50pm • In-Person • 18 units

This course explores the premise that the quality of our process defines the quality of our project. The studio project is an International Fabric Arts Design Center dedicated to the creation, study, and exhibition of contemporary works in cloth and fiber.

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Instructor: Eddy Man Kim
MWF • 1:00-4:50pm • In-Person • 18 units

Working with a real client, this studio will explore these issues in practice by operating as a professional agency producing content, design, and delivery of a public exhibition in support of bird-safe architectural design.

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Instructor: Steve Lee
TR • 1:00-4:50pm • In-Person • 18 units

The Design/Build Options Studio is part of a year-long, interdisciplinary, design-build project to improve the quality of life through design intervention(s) on campus.

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Instructor: Jackie Joseph Paul McFarland
MWF • 1:00-4:50pm • In-Person • 18 units

This studio will explore the idea of the ancestral home through an AfroFuture perspective, by reimaging what an ancestral home would/could be 100 years into the future where governments have been decentralized and technology is unreliable.

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Instructor: Ted Segal
W • 12:00-12:50pm • Remote • 3 units

This course introduces structural systems and the materials and elements that make up those systems.

Fulfills minor requirements for: Architectural Technology (non-majors)

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Instructor: Kai Gutschow
MWF • 10:00-10:50am • In-Person • 9 units

This course investigates the global history of modern architecture and theory across the 20th century. It asks critical questions about the canon, the changing nature of history and theory, the biases embedded in terms like “modernism,” “progress,” and “Non-Western,” and the deep legacies of colonialism, globalization, extractivism, and capitalism in which modern architecture so actively participated.

Fulfills minor requirements for: Architectural History, Architecture (non-majors)

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Instructor: Eddy Man Kim
TR • 11:00am-12:20pm • In-Person • 9 units

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.

Fulfills minor requirements for: Computational Design

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Coordinator: Jeremy Ficca
MWF • 2:00-4:50pm • In-Person • 18 units

This studio introduces integrated architectural design as the synthesis of disparate elements, demands, and desires. It situates architecture as a technological, cultural, and environmental process that is inherently contingent and entangled, yet tethered to a historical project of autonomy.

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Instructor: Tamara Dudukovich
W • 7:00-9:00pm • In-Person • 6 units

This course explores economic, structural, and political forces that drive real estate development decisions. Students gain insight into relationships among architects, developers, and communities.

Fulfills minor requirements for: Architecture (non-majors)

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Instructor: Valentina Vavasis
T • 7:00-9:00pm • In-Person • 6 units

This course investigates ethics for architecture and the built environment. Students will learn about ethics as a discipline, how to identify an ethical issue, and how one might work through an ethical problem.

Fulfills minor requirements for: Architecture (non-majors)

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Instructor: Stuart Coppedge
M • 7:00-9:00pm • In-Person • 6 units

This course explores the interdependence of contracts, drawings, specifications, and correspondence and introduces the concept of the Standard of Care. It introduces the economic, cultural, and political contexts in which architecture is created.

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Instructor: Mary-Lou Arscott
W • 9:00-9:50am • In-Person • 3 units

This 3 unit course is designed for B.Arch and M.Arch students a year before their final Spring semester. The course develops an understanding of research methods, and explores the formation of ideas for architecture thesis projects.

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Instructor: Sarosh Anklesaria
TR • 1:00-4:50pm • In-Person • 18 units

This studio, “Obsolescence: Exploring Praxis, Material Cultures, and Labor in South Asia,” will consider aging modernisms of the Global South, particularly in the context of western India as a site for intervention and study.

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Instructor: Priyanka Bista
TR • 1:00-4:50pm • In-Person • 18 units

This studio, “Empathy, Architecture, and the Anthropocene: Designing spaces that cultivate empathy between humans and the nonhuman other,” will aim to rethink the traditional design process that takes a checklist approach to work with species to find ways to integrate species requirements from the initial stages to detailing.

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Instructor: Heather Bizon
TR • 1:00-4:50pm • In-Person • 18 units

The studio, “Past Futures: The American Rust Belt - Architecture, Environment and Aesthetics through Speculative Fictions,” will ask: How will the aesthetics of the background reality in the Rust Belt be altered in the next two decades? How do the variables in the past affect future conditions: social, political, ecological? How do these conditions affect typology, scale, and tectonics? We will consider these relationships as potential moments for discovery and innovation.

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Instructor: Dana Cupkova
TR • 1:00-4:50pm • In-Person • 18 units

The ambition of this studio, “Image Deep: /Imagine: Exploring Design Prompts in AI: Variations on Social Housing and Material Ecologies in the era of Climate Change,” will be to examine architecture that inquires into embodied energy as a primary inspiration for formation of matter.

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Instructor: Hal Hayes
TR • 1:00-4:50pm • In-Person • 18 units

This studio, “Ephemeral, enduring: Performance Architecture for a New Permanent and Seasonal Theater for the Festival d’Avignon,” will allow SoA students to collaborate with Drama and Masters of Arts Management (MAM) students to study and design a new seasonal and permanent theater for the Festival d’Avignon.

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Instructor: Zaid Kashef Alghata
TR • 1:00-4:50pm • In-Person • 18 units

This studio, “Domesticating Bigness: Speculating on a future for ecological social housing infrastructures,” will research typically non-architecturally designed structures and social housing projects to design a multi-use infrastructural typology that produces an alternative understanding of domestic spaces, organizations, and scales and to speculate on new ecological living forms.

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Instructor: Steve Lee
TR • 1:00-4:50pm • In-Person • 18 units

The Design/Build ASO Studio “XS” is part of a year-long, interdisciplinary, design-build project to provide a diverse group of students with the opportunity to work with their eyes, hands and brains to transform an idea from a virtual world into the physical world.

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Instructor: Sarah Rafson and Laura Garófalo
TR • 1:00-4:50pm • In-Person • 18 units

Marking the transition between academic and professional practices, the thesis project is an exciting opportunity for students to define their unique positionality and modes of practice relative to the discipline of architecture. Together, the studio, “Independent Thesis / Collective Studio: Inquiries, Observations, and Provocations through Architecture,“ will create a public exhibition and symposium to discuss the ideas and projects students propose.

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Instructor: Joshua Lee
MW • 8:30-9:50am • In-Person • 6, 9, or 12 units

This course provides an introduction to a wide range of research strategies including Experimental, Simulation, Quantitative, Qualitative, Correlational, Interpretive-historical, Logical Argumentation, Case Study, and Mixed Methods that can be used successfully across a wide spectrum of knowledge production.

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Instructors: Azadeh Sawyer, Matthew Huber, Jeffrey Davis
MWF • 2:00-4:50pm • In-Person • 18 units

Architecture transforms and shapes relations between individuals, communities, objects and environments. Praxis II will continue to understand architecture as a modulator of complex cultural and historical flows, but will aim to do so by intensively exploring, evaluating, and expanding the role that tectonic cultures and their associated modes of architectural expression play in shaping our world.

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Instructor: Jeremy Ficca
TR • 9:30-10:50am • In-Person • 9 units

This course introduces students to contemporary methods of construction and draws attention to the materialization of architectural intent. It foregrounds the historical, technological, and conceptual basis of construction systems to understand building as process and cultural artifact.

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Instructor: Jeffie Chang
TR • 2:00-3:20pm • Remote • 9 units

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.

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Instructor: Valentina Vavasis
R • 7:00-9:00pm • In-Person • 6 units

This course investigates ethics for architecture and the built environment. Students will learn about ethics as a discipline, how to identify an ethical issue, and how one might work through an ethical problem.

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Instructor: Kai Gutschow
MWF • 10:00-10:50am • In-Person • 6 or 9 units

This course investigates the global history of modern architecture and theory across the 20th century. It asks critical questions about the canon, the changing nature of history and theory, the biases embedded in terms like “modernism,” “progress,” and “Non-Western,” and the deep legacies of colonialism, globalization, extractivism, and capitalism in which modern architecture so actively participated.

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Instructor: Mary-Lou Arscott
T • 9:00-9:50am • In-Person • 3 units

This 3 unit course is designed for B.Arch and M.Arch students a year before their final Spring semester. The course develops an understanding of research methods, and explores the formation of ideas for architecture thesis projects.

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Instructor: Tamara Dudukovich
W • 7:00-9:00pm • In-Person • 6 or 9 units

This course explores economic, structural, and political forces that drive real estate development decisions.

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Instructor: Stuart Coppedge
M • 7:00-9:00pm • In-Person • 6 units

This course explores the interdependence of contracts, drawings, specifications, and correspondence and introduces the concept of the Standard of Care. It introduces the economic, cultural, and political contexts in which architecture is created.

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Instructor: Nida Rehman
MWF • 2:00-4:50pm • In-Person • 18 units

This studio will expand on MUD students’ understanding of neighborhood-scaled urban design through the examination of urban systems and systemic processes, focusing on the infrastructures of toxicity, and modes of local action against them.

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Instructor: Suzy Li
T • 11:00am-12:20pm • In-Person • 9 units

In this course, students will collect US or global data and apply ArcGIS skills to map urban systems and use spatial data science to make inferences.

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Instructor: Christine Mondor
T • 6:00-8:50pm • In-Person • 9 units

This class will examine the shifting regimes of urban ecology and equip students with skills and core concepts that enable them to lead or contribute to transition through design.

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Instructor: Jonathan Kline
TR • 1:00-4:50pm • In-Person • 18 units

Commoning the City is a yearlong research-based-design thesis studio focused on social justice and community-led urban transformations, positioning design as an agent of change that can support citizens claiming their Right to the City.

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Instructor: Valentina Vavasis
In-Person & Remote • 3 units

This course is for graduate students participating in the prestigious national Urban Land Institute (ULI) Hines Competition, an intensive real estate and urban design competition that takes place January 9-23, 2023. The purpose of the competition and companion course is for cross-disciplinary teams of graduate students to work collaboratively to create a complex urban design and real estate proposal on a real site in North America.

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Instructor: Wei Liang
TR • 2:00-3:20pm • In-Person • 12 units

The building performance modeling course focuses on conceptual foundations and practical applications of advanced and integrated whole-building energy simulation programs with emphasis on architectural building envelope systems, mechanical electrical building systems and controls, and on-site renewable energy systems.

Fulfills minor requirements for: Building Science

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Instructor: Dana Cupkova
Day TBD • Time TBD • In-Person • 18 or 22 units

The Sustainable Design Synthesis course leads students through an independent thesis development, co-advised by wider CMU faculty to develop a complete yearlong design-research project.

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Instructor: Azadeh Sawyer
W • 10:00am-12:20pm • In-Person • 9 units

In this course, we will explore the quantities and qualities of light. We will study how we can design with and for light while understanding the paradox of lighting design—that it is both science and art.

Fulfills minor requirements for: Building Science

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Instructor: Kristen Kurland
TR • 11:00am-12:20pm • In-Person & Remote • 9 or 12 units

The course includes in-person and asynchronous video lectures to learn important GIS concepts. Software tutorials and in-person/remote technical sessions cover leading GIS software from Esri Inc. Applications include ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Map Viewer, ArcGIS Story Maps, and Dashboards. CAFM/IWMS software will be reviewed.

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Instructor: Tiancheng Zhao
TR • 11:00am-12:20pm • In-Person • 12 units

Fulfills minor requirements for: Building Science

The course will introduce students to collecting and processing data acquired from building systems and evaluating their performance.

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Instructor: Nina Baird
MW • 11:00am-12:20pm • In-Person • 6 units (Mini 1)

This graduate level mini-course uses global building rating systems to gain perspective about sustainable design around the world. The course is organized within the framework of the US Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Rating Systems.

Fulfills minor requirements for: Building Science

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Instructor: Nina Baird
MW • 11:00am-12:20pm • In-Person • 6 units (Mini 2)

This graduate level mini-course that compares global community and infrastructure rating systems to gain perspective about sustainable infrastructure development and community design. The course uses two rating systems--the US Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Cities & Communities Rating System and the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) Envision Rating System.

Fulfills minor requirements for: Building Science

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Instructors: Najeeb Hameen, Gerrod Winston
F • 2:00-4:50pm • In-Person • Variable units

The goal of this course is to expose the class to advanced project scheduling methods and familiarize the students with the primary reporting practices as performed in the construction industry such as change management, resource charts, and project status reports.

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Instructor: William Bates
MW • 2:00-3:20pm • In-Person • Variable units

This course will begin with an in-depth exploration of the fundamentals of project values, incentives, and motivations and the diverse and sometimes conflicting perspectives of a project’s stakeholders. It will be built around the evaluation of Value Based Design (VBD) in three case study projects.

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Instructor: Daragh Byrne, Emek Erdolu
F • 10:00-11:50am • In-Person • 6 units

This seminar introduces graduate students in Computational Design to the rudiments of graduate level academic research, and offers a space to discuss inchoate research methods, questions, and projects in the field.

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Day TBD • Time TBD • Remote • 12 units

Instructor: Vivian Loftness
Day TBD • Time TBD • In-Person • 18 units

The MSBPD Thesis course engages students in a year-long research project within the areas of high performance building systems and systems integration, indoor environmental quality, and design for sustainability and climate.

Instructors: Various
Day TBD • Time TBD • In-Person • Variable units

Instructor: Doug Cooper
R • 2:00-4:50pm • In-Person • 9 units

This freehand drawing course considers perspective from three understandings of perceptual psychology. It considers perspective as discovered truth, absolute truth of the visual field, and as an imposed schema.

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Instructor: Gerard Damiani
F • 9:30am-12:20pm • In-Person • 9 units

This course examines the role of the architectural detail in the formation/thematic development of a work of architecture and how the detail reinforces the theoretical position of the architect.

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Instructor: Joshua Bard
MW • 9:30-10:50am • In-Person • 9 units

Digital Fabrication is a project-based seminar exploring the application of Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) in architecture. The course focuses on Transdimensional Fabrication, a manufacturing framework that forefronts design thinking across space and time.

Fulfills minor requirements for: Architectural Design Fabrication, Computational Design

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Instructor: Wei Liang
TR • 2:00-3:20pm • In-Person • 12 units

The building performance modeling course focuses on conceptual foundations and practical applications of advanced and integrated whole-building energy simulation programs with emphasis on architectural building envelope systems, mechanical electrical building systems and controls, and on-site renewable energy systems.

Fulfills minor requirements for: Building Science

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Instructor: Steve Lee
TR • 3:30-4:50pm • In-Person • 9 units

The Design/ Build ASO Studio is part of a year-long, interdisciplinary, design-build project to provide a diverse group of students with the opportunity to work with their eyes, hands, and brains to transform an idea from a virtual world into the physical world.

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Instructor: Vicky Achnani
Day TBD • Time TBD • 3 units

In this course, students will fabricate and construct the Carnival Entryway Pavilion, to be completed for the 2023 CMU Carnival, April 13-15.

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Instructor: Vicky Achnani
Day TBD • Time TBD • 9 units

This course is for the team responsible for the design and project management of the Carnival Entryway Pavilion, to be completed for the 2023 CMU Carnival, April 13-15.

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Instructor: Nathan Sawyer
M • 9:30-10:50am • 3 units

This course will guide students through the process of designing in Revit from the schematic, conceptual design phase, to the construction document phase.

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Instructor: Laura Garófalo
M • 11:00am-12:20pm • 6 units

In this course, students will study and experiment with the relationships and perception of space and form through two- and three-dimensional optical experiments using color.

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Instructor: Stefan Gruber
W • 7:00-8:20pm • In-Person • 3 or 6 units

The seminar is an investigation into the future of cities focusing on three existential challenges: the escalating environmental crisis, growing social inequity and technological dislocation.

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Instructor: Francesca Torello
MW • 11:00am-12:20pm • In-Person • 9 units

In this class we will introduce urban history and its methods as we focus on key moments of Istanbul’s history. We will delve deeply into the city’s powerful and at times competing historical narratives.

Fulfills minor requirements for: Architectural History

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Instructor: Diane Shaw
TR • 3:30-4:50pm • In-Person • 9 units

In this course, we will examine the ways in which the interactions of people, place, and period have created distinctive regional patterns. We will primarily focus on the periods before the 20th century, when the forces of vernacular traditions were strongest, but we will also make forays into more recent trends of regionalism as an aesthetic choice, a theoretical stance, and an intentional place-making device.

Fulfills minor requirements for: Architectural History

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Instructor: Xin Chen
MW • 11:00am-12:20pm • Remote • 9 units

Students will develop critical thinking skills in architectural analysis through an engaging hands-on learning experience by making connections and parallels between buildings from different cultures and between historical and modern eras. The course will also motivate next-generation architects to include an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective in their own works of design.

Fulfills minor requirements for: Architectural History

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Instructor: Priyanka Bista
TR • 11:00am-12:20pm • In-Person • 9 units

The seminar emerges from the instructor's work co-founding the "Vertical University" project in Nepal. Through the course readings, we will begin to unpack these colonial narratives and start to understand indigenous knowledge systems and perhaps new forms of conservation practices.

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Instructor: Jackie McFarland
WF • 11:00am-12:20pm • In-Person • 9 units

The intent of this course is the explore how Afrofuturism allows one to sift perspectives out of a Eurocentric, white, patriarchal, heteronormative perspective to give agency to those who see and experience the world through different eyes. In this seminar we will explore different ways the black imagination has been used to create a world where African-Americans render themselves visible in the past, present, and future.

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Instructor: Zaid Kashef Alghata
W • 2:00-4:50pm • 9 units

This seminar investigates how transient civilizations transformed their way of living and building, making significant technological advances in water infrastructure and leaving monumental public projects behind. The seminar aims to further understand the close relationship between architecture and the water systems it plugs into.

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Instructor: Nida Rehman
W • 9:30am-12:20pm • In-Person• 9 units

Representations of cities in the so-called global south often present a lagging modernity amidst unrelenting urbanization, fractured infrastructures, social inequities, and climate catastrophe. In this seminar, we critically question such discourses, examining the historic and ongoing processes of colonial and capitalist enclosure, extraction, and exploitation that have shaped urban environments in South Asia from the mid-19th century onwards.

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Instructor: Francesca Torello
MW • 3:30-4:50pm • In-Person • 9 units

The course follows the intertwined histories of architecture and archaeology from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth century, critically engaging with the outsized influence of classical antiquity on architectural theory and practice and its role of authority and model in the Western artistic and cultural debate.

Fulfills minor requirements for: Architectural History

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Instructor: Nina Baird
TR • 3:30-4:50pm • In-Person • 9 units

This graduate level course explores the requirements and strategies for achieving successful net zero multifamily housing. Through lectures, research, discussion, and a final applied project, we consider the design approaches, codes, policy, technology, and energy infrastructure that support net zero or carbon neutral performance.

Fulfills minor requirements for: Architectural Technology (non-majors)

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Instructor: Hal Hayes, Dick Block
R • 9:30am-12:20pm • In-Person • 6 units

Discover the critical elements of theater architecture design, typology & occupancy. A diverse student cohort drawn from Architecture, Drama & Arts Management students will work with the actual client, the Festival d’Avignon, and Theater consultants Jean Guy Lecat & Len Auerbach to plan and program the project design challenge, which will be the subject of the co-requisite Architecture studio (48:405/505/750).

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Instructor: Hal Hayes & Dick Block
R • 9:30am-12:20pm • In-Person • 3 units

This course is a continuation of Theater Architecture 1, 62408/708, which is a prerequisite. A diverse student cohort drawn from Architecture, Drama & Arts Management students will work with the programming and planning guidelines that were developed in Theater Architecture 1 to further define the building design (Architecture students), performing arts programming (MAM students), and production systems (Drama students) for the subject theater project.

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Instructor: Daragh Byrne
TR • 10:00-11:50am • In-Person • 9 or 12 units

As part of this project-based course, students will get hands-on with emerging technologies, concepts and applications in the Internet of Things through a critical lens.

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Instructor: Jinmo Rhee
TR • 2:00-3:20pm • In-Person • 12 units

The main goal of this course is to foster the student's capacity to formulate design problems computationally, with emphasis on the synthesis of design alternatives. This course provides an overview of the main topics in Generative Systems, with historical notes and technical specifications. Throughout the semester, the students will address different design problems with different generative techniques.

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Instructor: Paul Pangaro
MW • 10:00-11:20am • 9 or 12 units

Cybernetics can be understood as the study of “systems with purpose”, whether machines or living things, including their unpredictable interactions. Central to Cybernetics is conversation as a mechanism of design, inclusivity, participation, innovation, and the impetus to action.

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Instructor: Heather Bizon
F • 2:00-4:50pm • In-Person • 9 units

We will investigate the means and methods of representation relative to the formless and the built environment. Participants in the seminar develop an archive, original visualizations that utilizes multiple mediums and platforms, and culminate in a final project a part of an exhibition.

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Instructor: Vicky Achnani
TR • 9:30-10:50am • 9 units

The exercise of making a chair can be a grounds for experimentation and learning to shape the material into the desired object. Prototyping and making largely help develop the understanding concept of joinery/material behavior, and properties in relation to form. The exercise allows understanding chair as a piece of furniture, the manner of making that gives qualities to an abstract design or idea, the know-how of handling material, emergence of tacit knowledge in the maker, and tolerance and feedback from the material.

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Instructor: Sarah Rafson
MW • 9:00-9:50am • In-Person • 3 units

Are you interested in exploring exhibition design, curating, or publishing as part of your practice? This course will give you hands-on experience, inviting you into the process of planning, designing, and curating the 2023 EX-CHANGE, an exhibition and publication that will be launched at the School of Architecture in fall 2023.

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Instructor: Paul Pangaro
TR • 10:00-11:20am • In-Person • 6 units

Collaborations for Wicked Challenges is a Mini-A3 (6-week) 6-unit course that will design a global public colloquium to be hosted at CMU in Fall 2023. The unique genesis of the colloquium will be the concerns, worldview, and values of grad students and rising faculty, who will then be paired with local and international practitioners in systems, cybernetics, and wicked design challenges. The resultant public conversations will become the basis for on-going design and co-creation, to be documented and widely shared to benefit future researchers. For more information, contact Paul Pangaro, Visiting Scholar SoA/SoD, ppangaro@cmu.edu.

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