* ARCH 0002a, Architecture as Space  Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

This first-year seminar explores how architectural spaces, large and small, both public and private, have been designed, discussed, and experienced throughout history. The focal point of the course is to explore how architects, writers, artists, and filmmakers have mined the evocative richness of architectural space through various media. Ideas about multi-sensory and multi-temporal space, intimate and infinite space, domestic space, as well as modalities of excitement and belonging, as well as terror and anxiety will be discussed and explored. The goal is to sensitize students to the power of space to shape our mood and behavior. In addition, the course familiarizes students with Yale’s campus architecture and its vast archival and museum collections. Enrollment limited to first-year students.  HU
TTh 11:35am-12:50pm

ARCH 1001a, Introduction to Architecture  Staff

This course is an introduction to the language of architecture, both graphic and verbal. It does not look at buildings in a historical sequence, but rather through a number of different lenses, each one of which focuses on a different aspect of architecture – from the immediate and tactile to the contextual and theoretical. Primarily it is an opportunity to train your eyes to see – to observe the built world around you with greater precision and understanding. Weekly required reading assignments are to be completed during the week in which they are assigned. Required readings are supplemented by a list of recommended texts. Because the best way to see something is to draw it, drawing assignments are given weekly. These drawings are made in a sketchbook that is maintained throughout the semester. Students are also required to take lecture notes in the sketchbook. Completed assignments are reviewed weekly, and the sketchbooks are reviewed at midterm and at the end of the semester. Prior drawing experience is not required. This course is required for all architecture students This course is open to all students in the university, with the exception of first year students in Yale College.  HU  0 Course cr
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ARCH 2001a / HSAR 3326a, Architecture Before Modernity  Staff

Introduction to the history of architecture from antiquity to the dawn of the Enlightenment and beyond, focusing on narratives that continue to inform the present. The course begins in Africa and Mesopotamia, follows routes from the Mediterranean into Asia and back to Rome, Byzantium, and the Middle East, and then circulates back to mediaeval Europe, before juxtaposing the indigenous structures of Africa and America with the increasingly global fabrications of the Renaissance and Baroque. Emphasis on challenging preconceptions, developing visual intelligence, and learning to read architecture as a story that can both register and transcend place and time, embodying ideas within material structures that survive across the centuries in often unexpected ways.  HU  0 Course cr
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ARCH 2003b / HSAR 3312b / HUMS 3050b, Modern Architecture in a Global Context, 1750-present  Craig Buckley

Architects, movements, and buildings central to the development of modern architecture from the mid eighteenth century through to the present. Common threads and differing conceptions of modern architecture around the globe. The relationship of architecture to urban transformation; the formulation of new typologies; architects' responses to new technologies and materials; changes in regimes of representation and media. Architects include Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, John Soane, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Lina Bo Bardi, Louis Kahn, and Kenzo Tange.   HU  0 Course cr
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* ARCH 2105a / HIST 1755a / HSHM 2390a / URBN 3320a, Reckoning Environmental Uncertainty: A Global History since 1100  Anthony Acciavatti

How have people made decisions about the future when the environment is uncertain? This lecture class provides a global perspective on how societies have tried to understand and live with an unpredictable world. Beginning in 1100, we examine a series of historical episodes when communities faced environmental dangers, uncertain futures, and how they managed risk. Case studies include water and landscape management in the Song Dynasty, navigation across the Pacific Ocean, utopian cities in the Americas, agricultural and urban systems in South Asia, environmental design in West Africa, and the global rise of weather observatories to monitor atmospheric changes. Rather than telling a linear history of progress or decline, the course asks a more fundamental question: how do people claim to know the environment, and how does uncertainty shape that knowledge? Throughout the semester, we examine how different cultures develop their own strategies for understanding a world that has never been entirely predictable. Drawing on the histories of science, technology, architecture, and the environment, students see how debates about risk, planetary health, and expertise have deep historical roots.  HU  0 Course cr
TTh 4pm-5:15pm

ARCH 2600a / AMST 1197a / HIST 1125a / HSAR 3219a / URBN 1101a, American Architecture and Urbanism  Staff

An introduction to the field of American architecture and urbanism: the study of buildings, architects, designs, styles, and urban landscapes, viewed in economic, political, social, and cultural contexts. Organized chronologically, from pre-Colonial times to the present, as well as thematically, the course studies the formation and meaning of the built environment in America. The many topics encountered along the way include the public and private investment in the built environment; history of housing in America; transportation and infrastructure; architectural practice; and the social and political nature of city building and urban change. Attention also paid to the transnational nature of American architecture—the role of colonialism, the global exchange of architectural ideas, and the international careers of some architects. We will take advantage of our local setting, New Haven, as a cross-section of American architectural and urban history and a storehouse of key examples of building types, urban landscapes, and architectural styles. Upon completion, students should be expected to grasp the basic periods, trends, and processes in American architectural history and their connection to urban patterns. This course aims to give students the tools to appreciate and interpret the built environments that surround them, from impressive monuments to ordinary structures  HU  0 Course cr
TTh 11:35am-12:25pm

ARCH 2601a / URBN 1102a, Introduction to Urban Design  Staff

This course provides an introduction to the theory and practice of urban design within the context of the broader fields of urbanism and urban history. That is to say that the design of the built environment will be considered in relation to patterns and practices of urban life and culture, and as a response to historical transformations of the political, economic and technological forces that have shaped cities since antiquity, but especially since the industrial revolution. The course will attempt to negotiate between the broader landscape suggested by these forces and the specifics of particular cities at critical moments in their development and the projects which represent the efforts of those cities and their designers to come to terms with the dynamics of urban change. Thus the lectures will include monographic treatments of specific cities and exemplary urban design projects, as well as the general issues and principles of city design suggested by those case studies, including consideration of their implications for contemporary practice. The weekly classes will provide opportunities for the introduction of supplementary examples from the wider field of international urbanism, as well as introducing techniques of urban representation and analysis relevant to the assignments and to student work in studios. Classes will also provide time for discussion of readings and lectures and issues of current interest.    HU  0 Course cr
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* ARCH 3000a, Methods and Form in Architecture I  Michael Schlabs and Anne Barrett

Analysis of architectural design of specific places and structures. Analysis is governed by principles of form in landscape, program, ornament, and space, and includes design methods and techniques. Readings and studio exercises required. Enrollment limited to 25. Open only to Architecture majors.  1½ Course cr
MWF 1:30pm-3:25pm

* ARCH 4000a, Senior Studio  Adam Hopfner

Advanced problems with emphasis on architectural implications of contemporary cultural issues. The complex relationship among space, materials, and program. Emphasis on the development of representations—drawings and models—that effectively communicate architectural ideas. To be taken before ARCH 494. Enrollment limited to Architecture majors.  1½ Course cr
MWF 1:30pm-3:25pm

* ARCH 4700a, Individual Tutorial  Michael Schlabs

Special courses may be established with individual members of the department only. The following conditions apply: (1) a prospectus describing the nature of the studio program and the readings to be covered must be approved by both the instructor and the director of undergraduate studies; (2) regular meetings must take place between student and instructor; (3) midterm and final reviews are required. For juniors and seniors with DUS approval; meetings by appointment with DUS.
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* ARCH 4701a, Individual Tutorial Lab  Michael Schlabs

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* ARCH 4900a / URBN 4900a, Senior Research Colloquium  Kyle Dugdale

Research and writing colloquium for seniors in the Urban Studies and History, Theory, and Criticism tracks. Under guidance of the instructor and members of the Architecture faculty, students define their research proposals, shape a bibliography, improve research skills, and seek criticism of individual research agendas. Requirements include proposal drafts, comparative case study analyses, presentations to faculty, and the formation of a visual argument. Guest speakers and class trips to exhibitions, lectures, and special collections encourage use of Yale's resources.
T 1:30pm-3:25pm