Architecture (ARCH)

ARCH 6000. REVIT. 3 Credit Hours.

Visualizing a form enhances a designer’s ability to communicate ideas. Course will demonstrate how REVIT can facilitate the Conception of a design from various points of genesis.

ARCH 6007. Art & Architecture in Greece. 3 Credit Hours.

An intensive on-site investigation of the role that the arts and architecture have played in the development of classical Greek civilization.

ARCH 6008. Art & Architecture in Italy I. 3 Credit Hours.

Investigations of the painting, sculpture, and architecture of the Classical, Early Christian, Byzantine, and Medieval periods in Italy with special emphasis on Rome.

ARCH 6009. Art & Architecture in Italy II. 3 Credit Hours.

Investigations of the painting, sculpture, and architecture of the Renaissance and Baroque periods in Italy with special emphasis on the works of Rome.

ARCH 6010. Media + Modeling 1. 3 Credit Hours.

Introductory approaches to two and three dimensional modeling and representation in architecture using both manual and digital media and techniques.

ARCH 6015. Structures 1. 3 Credit Hours.

This course provides students with a basic knowledge of analysis and design of building structures and the ordering of structural systems to resist gravity and lateral loads.

ARCH 6020. Media + Modeling 2. 3 Credit Hours.

Intermediate approaches to two dimensional modeling and representation in architecture using both manual and digital media techniques.

ARCH 6024. Architecture Core I Studio. 5 Credit Hours.

Foundation studies in architectural design emphasizing enalytical and analogical generative strategies applied to studio problems that engage architectural representation, composition, and fabrication. Credit not allowed for both ARCH 6024 and ARCH 4021.

ARCH 6028. Core 1 Studio. 5 Credit Hours.

Foundation studies in architectural design emphasizing analytical and analogical generative strategies applied to studio problems that engage architectural representation, composition, and fabrication.

ARCH 6029. Core 2 Studio. 5 Credit Hours.

Intermediate studies in architectural design emphasizing integrative design strategies that engage the programmatic, contextual, and constructed dimensions of architecture and its representations.

ARCH 6030. Core 3 Studio. 5 Credit Hours.

Intermediate studies in architectural design emphasizing integrative design strategies that engage the programmatic, contextual, and constructed dimensions of architecture and its representations.

ARCH 6039. Advanced Architectural Studio 1. 6 Credit Hours.

Architectural design studio exploring advanced issues in architecture from the perspectives of professional practice, sustainability, technology and urban design.

ARCH 6040. Advanced Architectural Studio 2. 6 Credit Hours.

Architectural design studio exploring advanced issues in architecture from the perspectives of professional practice, sustainability, technology and urban design.

ARCH 6047. Advanced Architecture Studio 1. 5 Credit Hours.

Architectural design studio exploring advanced issues in architecture from the perspectives of professional practice, sustainability, technology and urban design.

ARCH 6049. Design + Research Studio 1. 6 Credit Hours.

Advanced architectural design emphasizing innovation through applied research. Emerging methods of design generation/evaluation. Changing topics: healthcare, fabrication, urbanism, ecology, building performance, cultural institutions.

ARCH 6050. Design + Research Studio 2. 6 Credit Hours.

ARCH 6069. Advanced Architectural Design I. 6 Credit Hours.

Architectural design studio exploring advanced issues in architecture from the perspectives of professional practice, sustainability, technology and urban design.

ARCH 6072. Architectural Design and Research Studio 2. 6 Credit Hours.

ARCH 6100. Retrofitting Suburbia. 3 Credit Hours.

Study of suburban redevelopment trends, projects, and policies that improve environmental, social, and economic sustainability, with an emphasis on urban design strategies.

ARCH 6105. Architectural History I - Antiquity through the 18th Century. 3 Credit Hours.

Architectural history from aniquity through the 18th century emphasizing buildings in their cultural context as informed by social, technological, and constructive factors and theoretical positions. Credit not allowed for both ARCH 6105 and ARCH 4105 or ARCH 2111.

ARCH 6106. Architectural History II - 19th and 20th Century. 3 Credit Hours.

Architectural history during the 19th and 20th centuries emphasizing buildings in their cultural context as informed by social, technological, and constructive factors and theoretical positions. Credit not allowed for both ARCH 6106 and ARCH 4106 or ARCH 2112.

ARCH 6107. Intro to Historic Preser. 3 Credit Hours.

This course provides an overview of the history, philosophy, organization, current legislation, policies, and practice of historic preservation.

ARCH 6109. Architecture and Minimalism. 3 Credit Hours.

This course examines the influence of "minimalism," the 1960s art phenomenon, upon architecture culture and production from 1968-present.

ARCH 6127. Introduction to Art and Architecture in Italy. 1 Credit Hour.

Required preparation for the COA Summer Program in Italy. Includes the fundamentals of art and architecture; basic Italian language skills; library research for required summer program projects.

ARCH 6129. Form and Narrative: Cross Media Analysis. 3 Credit Hours.

This theory course will involve an extended comparison between architecture and related art forms, especially painting, film, and writing.

ARCH 6136. Architecture and Ideology. 3 Credit Hours.

Architecture and politics in Italy, Germany, and the Soviet Union between the wars.

ARCH 6143. Museums: History, Theory, Design. 3 Credit Hours.

Investigates museums as manifestations of the construction and content of knowledge, the public mission of cultural and scientific institutions and the framing of visitors experience.

ARCH 6151. Theories of Urban Design. 3 Credit Hours.

Contemporary theories of urban design and their relationship to the contemporary city examined through architects' writings, urban projects, and interdisciplinary criticism.

ARCH 6153. History and Theory of the Modern City. 3 Credit Hours.

An examination of the evolution of the modern city in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with particular reference to architectural, city planning, and urban design theories.

ARCH 6155. Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism in Europe. 3 Credit Hours.

A course on contemporary architecture and urban projects in Europe, including the architect's writings, published criticism, and analyses of the buildings and projects.

ARCH 6160. Race, Space, and Architecture in the United States. 3 Credit Hours.

This course examines the relationship between architecture - as social practice and as a labor market - and race in the United States.

ARCH 6210. Architectonics. 3 Credit Hours.

The study of architecture of form from both an historical and a mathematical perspective. The formal theory is applied mathematics, group theory, combinatroics, as well as recent studies in the history of mathematics.

ARCH 6226. Green Construction. 3 Credit Hours.

This course focuses on the means, methods, strategies, and technologies to improve the energy efficiency and performance of buildings, and to reduce the environmental impact of buildings.

ARCH 6227. Architecture and Ecology. 3 Credit Hours.

Introduction to ecological design theory, research, and practice in architecture, including writings, criticism, and analyses of buildings and projects.

ARCH 6228. Analytical Investigations in Urban Design. 3 Credit Hours.

Measures of urban and spatial form. Analysis of street connectivity. Models of space use and spatial congnition. Comparison and evaluation of design alternatives.

ARCH 6229. Construction Technology and Design Integration I. 3 Credit Hours.

Introduction to building anatomy, technical and expressive characteristics of materials and their organizational assembly. Credit not allowed for both ARCH 6229 and ARCH 4219.

ARCH 6242. Building Physics Modeling. 3 Credit Hours.

Survey of basic thermo-fluid energy and mass flows in buildings, the interrelations between these flows, physical system modeling, and implications for building performance goals.

ARCH 6243. Evidence-Based Design. 3 Credit Hours.

Fundamental concepts, research methods and case studies of evidence-based design.

ARCH 6251. Building Structures I. 3 Credit Hours.

Introduction to design and analysis of building structures and ordering of structural systems to resist gravity and lateral loads. Emphasis on wood structures.

ARCH 6268. Advanced Architecture, Culture and Behavior: Theories, Models and Methods. 3 Credit Hours.

Theories, models, methods and case studies linking architectural design to culture and behavior.

ARCH 6271. Healthcare Design of the Future. 3 Credit Hours.

Introduction to research-based approaches to integrated healthcare design innovation.

ARCH 6303. Urban Design: Policy and Implementation. 3 Credit Hours.

Introduction to urban design policy and practice across a range of scales including planning, architecture, landscape architecture, civil engineering, public policy and administration. Credit not allowed for both ARCH 6303 and CP 6834.

ARCH 6312. Ecological Practice: History, Polemics, and Poetics. 3 Credit Hours.

An historically and culturally grounded examination of the ecological perspective. Critical and productive engagement with green guidelines, laws, products, design briefs, and procedures.

ARCH 6313. Traditions of Architectural Practice. 3 Credit Hours.

Critical examination of architectural practice. Cultural derivation and technological transformation of various conventions of representation, construction, and design; speculations about future paradigms of architectural practice.

ARCH 6315. Practice of Architecture I. 3 Credit Hours.

Architectural practice from historical, sociological, and ethical perspectives with focus on professional leadership, practice management, and entrepreneurship.

ARCH 6316. Practice of Architecture 2. 3 Credit Hours.

Methods of architectural project delivery and project management. Fundamentals of building economics. Emergent models of research-driven architectural practice.

ARCH 6352. Theory of Architecture 2. 3 Credit Hours.

Approaches to architectural form, style, and tectonics from aesthetic, social, and technological perspectives. Instrumental and symbolic uses of architectural media in design and building production.

ARCH 6410. Collage Making. 3 Credit Hours.

Concepts of Collage within art, architecture, and culture, manual and electronic approaches to two and three-dimensional collage-making.

ARCH 6417. Building Furniture/Furnishing Buildings. 3 Credit Hours.

A course that focuses on schematic design and design development of furniture. The emphasis of this course is on conceptual and material/structural clarity.

ARCH 6426. 3D Modeling in Architecture. 3 Credit Hours.

Construction of 3D computer models of architectural structures. Topics include: geometry creation, light and materials property, rendering, data exchange, and basic animation.

ARCH 6447. Urban Ecological Design. 3 Credit Hours.

This course engages the contemporary issues of urban ecology and its articulation to design. It explores relationship between urban forms and flows of ecology, energy, material, water and information. Credit not allowed for both ARCH 6447 and CP 6836.

ARCH 6474. Architecture Modeling & Media 3. 3 Credit Hours.

Advanced approaches to two and three dimensional modeling and representation in architecture using both manual and digital media and techniques.

ARCH 6503. Building Information Modeling - Concepts and Applications. 3 Credit Hours.

Survey of Building Information Modeling - its technologies exploration of new technologies to be applied and new procedures of project execution.

ARCH 6506. Construction Materials, Systems, and Fabrications. 3 Credit Hours.

Physical and constructional properties of building materials. Fabrication techniques for building components. Digital representations of materials, components, and fabrication processes.

ARCH 6508. Shape Grammars. 3 Credit Hours.

Shape grammars are a powerful formal system for the generative description, interpretation and evaluation of designs.

ARCH 6510. Advanced Productions. 3 Credit Hours.

Advanced integration of digital design and production technologies through Mixed Reality (MR) geared towards collaborative immersive spatial design and production systems.

ARCH 6512. Research Colloquium. 3 Credit Hours.

Introduces students to the processes of developing a topic of inquiry and delivering projects in architectural design, and to prepare students for the development of a final MS research project to be delivered as a final deliverable of the MS program during the subsequent semester.

ARCH 6513. Building Systems & Data. 3 Credit Hours.

A focus on the overlap between AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) processes and the building models and data that support them.

ARCH 6531. Environmental Systems I. 3 Credit Hours.

Basics of heat, light, and sound applied to buildings. Thermal loading, passive thermal control, thermal comfort, climate, passive solar strategies, light and daylighting, acoustics.

ARCH 6XXX. Architecture Elective. 1-21 Credit Hours.

ARCH 7000. Master's Thesis. 1-21 Credit Hours.

ARCH 7013. Urban Design Studio 1. 6 Credit Hours.

Urban design studio problems focusing on analysis, design, and implementation strategies for contemporary urban problems.

ARCH 7014. Urban Design Studio 2. 6 Credit Hours.

Advanced urban design problems emphasizing the application of contemporary urban design research and multidisciplinary collaboration into the design process.

ARCH 7030. Media + Modeling 3. 3 Credit Hours.

Advanced approaches to two and three dimensional modeling and representation in architecture using both manual and digital media and techniques.

ARCH 7042. Urban Design Workshop. 3 Credit Hours.

Advanced problems in urban design and development focusing on the Atlanta region. Integration of urban design theory and methods, economic development, political registration, and communication.

ARCH 7102. Integrated Building Systems II. 3 Credit Hours.

Approaches building design and systems integration through the making of construction drawings and specifications of metal frame buildings, including structural steel calculations.

ARCH 7151. History of Urban Form. 3 Credit Hours.

History of the city as a collective work of architecture with an emphasis on the city's physical form and space.

ARCH 7350. Foundations of Architectural Theory. 3 Credit Hours.

Reviews thought and attitudes guiding architecture since the modern movement, their philosophical sources, and their relationship with architectural production. Defines architectural theory.

ARCH 7360. Design & Climate Change. 3 Credit Hours.

This course positions design as an essential component of research that explores the sociocultural and eco-political dimensions of climate change as it applies to the built environment.

ARCH 7471. Cognitive Function of Visual Design in Architecture. 3 Credit Hours.

Presents fundamentals of imaginative and cognitive functioning of visual design in buildings, and develops inter-disciplinary approaches to investigating visual form of buildings.

ARCH 7625. Theories of Inquiry. 3 Credit Hours.

Introduction to research paradigms and their assumptions. The formulation of questions and frameworks of description, representation, analysis, interpretation, and data control.

ARCH 8100. Introduction to Architectural Research 1. 3 Credit Hours.

Fundamental issues and methods across specializations in architectural research modules on causation and simulation.

ARCH 8101. Introduction to Architectural Research 2. 3 Credit Hours.

Fundamental issues and methods across specializations in architectural research; modules on representation and interpretation.

ARCH 8102. Introduction to Architectural Research 3. 3 Credit Hours.

Fundamental issues and methods across specializations in architectural research; modules on historiography and epistemology and on theories of design.

ARCH 8630. Architecture Space & Culture. 3 Credit Hours.

Accounts of the social functions of architectural space and associated design choices, across a variety of building types and scales of environmental design.

ARCH 8799. Qualifying Paper. 1-21 Credit Hours.

Preparation for Qualifying Paper in Doctorial Program in Architecture.

ARCH 8801. Special Topics. 1 Credit Hour.

ARCH 8803. Special Topics. 3 Credit Hours.

ARCH 8823. Special Topics: History, Theory, and Criticism. 3 Credit Hours.

ARCH 8833. Special Topics: Architectural Technology. 3 Credit Hours.

ARCH 8843. Special Topics: Professional and Social Practice. 3 Credit Hours.

ARCH 8873. Special Topics. 3 Credit Hours.

ARCH 8901. Special Problems. 1-21 Credit Hours.

ARCH 8903. Special Problems. 1-21 Credit Hours.

ARCH 8921. Special Problems: History, Theory, and Criticism. 1-21 Credit Hours.

ARCH 8996. Prep Doctoral Dissertation. 1-21 Credit Hours.

Preparation for Qualifying Paper in Doctorial Program in Architecture.

ARCH 8997. Teaching Assistantship. 1-9 Credit Hours.

For graduate students holding graduate teaching assistantships.

ARCH 8998. Research Assistantship. 1-9 Credit Hours.

For gratuate students holding graduate research assistantships.

ARCH 8999. Preparation for Doctoral Dissertation. 1-21 Credit Hours.

ARCH 9000. Doctoral Thesis. 1-21 Credit Hours.