* 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 1300b, Drawing Architecture  Staff

Introduction to the visual and analytical skills necessary to communicate architectural ideas. Observation and documentation of architectural space on the Yale campus. Drawing exercises introduce the conventions of architectural representation: plan, section, elevation, and isometric drawings, as well as freehand perceptual drawings of architectural space.  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 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
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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 3001b, Methods and Form in Architecture II  Violette de la Selle and Summer Sutton Adlparvar

Continuation of ARCH 250. 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.  1½ Course cr
MWF 1:30pm-3:25pm

* ARCH 3102a / URBN 3303a, History of Landscape in Western Europe and the United States: Antiquity to 1950  Warren Fuermann

This course is designed as an introductory survey of the history of landscape architecture and the wider, cultivated landscape in Western Europe and the United States from the Ancient Roman period to mid-twentieth century America. Included in the lectures, presented chronologically, are the gardens of Ancient Rome, medieval Europe, the early and late Italian Renaissance, 17th century France, 18th century Britain, 19th century Britain and America with its public and national parks, and mid-twentieth century America. The course focuses each week on one of these periods, analyzes in detail iconic gardens of the period, and places them within their historical and theoretical context.  HU  RP
Th 1:30pm-3:25pm

* ARCH 3106b, Creativity, Innovation, and “The New”  Mark Gage

This seminar explores the role of “The New” in the design of our world. Through exploring the history of newness as an idea, its current understanding within philosophy, and examining its understanding in multiple creative fields today including art, architecture, product design, social microcultures, cars, food, fashion, and toys, students gain both knowledge about the role of “The New” in human society and are exposed to cutting-edge ideas in multiple disciplines. Through the study of emerging creative trends, detailed historic case studies, both philosophical and popular readings, and engaged group discussion we examine the very concept of “The New” from all possible angles—what it is, its history, why it is desired, the motivations of those that produce and promote it, who profits from it, and the morality of its continued rehearsal in a world with evolving ethics regarding the use of human labor and natural resources in the production of things. This course encourages students to consider these positions through not only research, presentations and discussion, but also speculative ‘making’ that challenges students to address the subject of “The New” themselves—through the very process of design. No particular skills or previous exposure to the design world is required.   HU
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* ARCH 3108b, Groundlessness  Ife Vanable

Groundlessness offers an extra-disciplinary interrogation and analysis of histories, theories, and inventions of zoning, land use classification, property valuation, and air rights in the making and imagining of territories deemed urban and otherwise from the late nineteenth century (following Reconstruction in the United States) to the present. Working across media from policy to poetry, film to form, memoir to historiography, fiction to finance, Groundlessness troubles and complicates the grounds and grounding(s) of urban and environmental imaginaries. Attending to cultural, aesthetic, technological, legal, economic, and environmental conditions, this course asks how these factors shape the work of the racial as visually and spatially performed (and in part, contribute to disdain for housing the black and poor in tall towers; the difficulty with imagining folks racialized as black holding a position up in the sky). Groundlessness explores the many ways the work of constructing the built environment occurs well before and beyond the involvement of any architect; and ultimately seeks out the promise and freedoms of leaving the land behind (and below), living untethered from the land, on invented lands, unstable ground, off the ground, and up high.  WR, HU, SO
T 1:30pm-3:25pm

* ARCH 3120a, Nonfiction Writing  Christopher Hawthorne

A seminar and workshop in the craft of nonfiction writing as pertains to a given subcategory or genre. Each section focuses on a different form of nonfiction writing and explores its distinctive features through a variety of written and oral assignments. Students read key texts as models and analyze their compositional strategies. They then practice the fundamentals of nonfiction in writing and revising their own essays. Section topics, which change yearly, are listed at the beginning of each term on the English department website. This course may be repeated for credit in a section that treats a different genre or style of writing; ENGL 121 and ENGL 3461 may not be taken for credit on the same topic. Formerly ENGL 421.  WR, HU
TTh 2:35pm-3:50pm

* ARCH 3308a / URBN 3201a, Reimagining the City: Mediums of Speculation  Joyce Hsiang

This course examines how “the city” has been deployed not only as a subject of speculation, but also as a medium for reimagining worlds. This seminar studies and explores the ways architects, urbanists, designers, writers, artists, and filmmakers have reimagined the city to uncover, probe, and critique ideas, ideals and values about urbanism and the built environment contained and imbricated by these representations. It focuses on the architecture of the built environment depicted in paintings, photographs, films, drawings, maps, models, urban plans, virtual reality machines, and games as well as literary fiction. The course is structured according to various mediums of speculation reimagining the city, montaging a visual history of urbanism and architectural theories about the city. The course toggles between close reading/viewing and analysis of creative forms of writing, art, architecture, and film, and a series of in-class workshops in support of creative exercises. Discussion of assigned readings and course materials is interspersed with organized screenings, viewings of collections, and visits to archives. Workshops engage a range of creative mediums to provide students opportunities and tools to experiment with and develop methods of speculation as they critique and create their own re-imaginings of the city.
T 1:30pm-3:25pm

* ARCH 3310a / URBN 3607a, A Post-Extractivist Urban World  Ana Duran

Since the 1970s, historical ecologists have been advocating for the recognition of Indigenous systems of agroecology and “beyond-human settlement” as key to achieving sustainable and abundant futures in Amazonia and beyond. Based on growing scientific evidence of the multiple benefits that these systems offer, the Science Panel for the Amazon, many South American governments, foundations, NGOs and development banks are endorsing the co-design and co-development of communal or community-based sociobioeconomies. This project proposes to contribute design intelligence to this praiseworthy vision by focusing on questions of how the logistical, circulation, production, and innovation hubs of polycultural agroforestry and community-based sociobioeconomies could be represented, projected, and eventually, implemented: where, why, along which routes, and with which biomaterials and construction systems, to serve which communities and contribute to which economies. To achieve specificity of purpose we propose to work with a constellation of stakeholders in Tingo María, Huánuco, Perú: members of existing Andean settler communities, Indigenous communes, the municipal government of Tingo María, a private agroforestry enterprise, the local university, and potential donors of future sociobioeconomies and innovation programs will be included in our workshops and discussions. Priority will be given to urban studies majors  HU  1½ Course cr
F 4pm-5:55pm

* ARCH 3601a / URBN 3306a, Difference and the City  Justin Moore

Difference and the City is a transdisciplinary, cross-institutional hybrid seminar examining how the built environment shapes—and can positively transform—social, cultural, economic, environmental, and spatial inequities. Drawing on student-selected case studies from New York to Nairobi, Baltimore to Buenos Aires, and beyond, the course explores interconnected urban challenges: housing access and community development, food systems and economic inclusion, climate migration and environmental injustice, mobility infrastructure, and the contested politics of public space, heritage, and belonging. Students with backgrounds or interests in architecture, landscape, urban design, planning, preservation, public policy, and allied fields collaborate through seminar discussions, analytic exercises, and workshops to develop counter-stories that surface overlooked actors, buried histories, and unrealized possibilities. The heart of the course is an independent final project—a research paper or design project tailored to each student's background and interests—that moves from analysis to proposition, advancing new knowledge and ideas for more just, inclusive, and resilient places.
T 4pm-5:55pm

* 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 4001. 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 or b, Individual Tutorial Lab  Michael Schlabs

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* ARCH 4702b, Individual Tutorial Laboratory  Michael Schlabs

An independent tutorial focusing on methods and techniques of representation in architecture, including the synthesis of studio work using a variety of visual media. Concurrently with ARCH 471 or after a spring term abroad.  RP  ½ Course cr
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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

* ARCH 4901b / URBN 4901b, Senior Project  Kyle Dugdale

An essay or project in the student's area of concentration. Students in the history, theory, and criticism track or in the urban studies track pursue independent research with an adviser; this project must terminate in a senior essay.
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