62 courses in Waterloo’s course catalog for 2020–21 (Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2021), from UW Open Data. ucalendar asks programs not to read that year’s calendar, so this stands in for it. Original: ucalendar.uwaterloo.ca/2021/COURSE/course-ARCH.html
Introduction to the use of graphic media in architecture. Students will engage in exercises in drawing using various media, acquire digital skills, and develop fluency in diverse forms of architectural presentation. [Offered: F]
Prereq: Architecture students only
STU · Course ID 003492On ucalendarARCH 110 today
Introduction to computing techniques in architecture. Students will be instructed in the conceptual foundations for computer use in architecture, graphic applications for the computer and skills for two-dimensional drawing, three-dimensional modelling and graphic techniques for visualization and portfolio development. Students will gain fluency in a range of software applications for the purposes of developing technical and visual proficiencies to be integrated into the design process. [Offered: W]
Prereq: ARCH 110
LEC · Course ID 003494On ucalendarARCH 113 today
This course offers a broad introduction to the evolution of ideas, principles and vocabulary of architecture over time, establishing the concept that architecture conveys meaning through its own expressive language. It will familiarize students with the primary concepts of architecture; develop an awareness of the influences of architectural form; and introduce students to different modes of verbal and written communication, including the language of architectural criticism, analysis and interpretation. [Offered: F]
Prereq: Architecture students only
LEC · Course ID 015753On ucalendarARCH 120 today
An introduction to environmental design practices leading to low carbon design. Topics of discussion include passive heating and cooling, solar geometry, climate and meteorological influences, microclimate, site design, daylighting, active systems, embodied energy, sustainable rating systems, sustainable design philosophies such as cradle to cradle, biomimicry and design for disassembly. Energy-related issues will be addressed and energy-based software design programs will be introduced. Understanding the role of design in an energy efficient or passive solar building will be a central learning outcome. [Note: Field trip fee: $15. Offered: W]
Prereq: Architecture students. Antireq: ARCH 226
LEC · Course ID 003541On ucalendarARCH 126 today
This course will introduce an approach to cultural history and attempt to localize modern humanity by looking at the principal icons and images that have been central to the compelling myths of Modernism, the principal movement and source of art and architecture in 20th century Western culture. This course will examine how living myths are recapitulated or transformed in relationship to the artistic and cultural conventions of the period. [Offered: F]
Prereq: Architecture students only
LEC · Course ID 003496On ucalendarARCH 142 today
An overview of the cultural history of antiquity and the Early Middle Ages up to the rise of feudalism and the rediscovery of Aristotle: from 2000 BC to 1100 AD. Recognition of patterns of life and the concepts of order and conduct, the metaphors and myths which evolve during this time period through the study of the ideas, literature, art, architecture, technology and town design from ancient Greece and Rome and the lands surrounding the Mediterranean until the end of the first millennium. [Offered: W]
Prereq: ARCH 142
LEC · Course ID 003497On ucalendarARCH 143 today
A focus on the construction of small-scale buildings will introduce the fundamentals of building construction demonstrating relationships between contemporary design and material selections. Design development practices will reference; regulatory frameworks, building science, soils, foundations, light wood construction, engineered wood, masonry (brick, concrete block, load bearing, veneer systems), shallow foundations, residential codes, barrier free design. [Note: Field trip fee: $20. Offered: F]
Prereq: Architecture students only
LEC · Course ID 003500On ucalendarARCH 172 today
Focusing on the construction of medium-to large-scale buildings examines relationships between design development, and the building science, and construction practices of structural systems and enclosures. Case studies and projects will be used to investigate steel framing systems (traditional, long span, architectural exposed structural steel [AESS]); reinforced, precast, fibre reinforced and prestressed concrete construction; heavy timber construction (traditional, glulam, cross laminated timber [CLT]); deep foundations; building envelopes (curtain wall, window walls, glazing, insulation strategies, and roofing systems); fire protective design. [Offered: W]
Prereq: ARCH 172
LEC · Course ID 003520On ucalendarARCH 173 today
This course offers a vehicle for introducing additional electives to the program on a short-term basis, and for developing future permanent courses.
LEC · Course ID 003501On ucalendarARCH 174 today
This course offers a vehicle for introducing additional electives to the program on a short-term basis, and for developing future permanent courses.
LEC · Course ID 010127On ucalendarARCH 175 today
Development of the means to appreciate the art and science of building; introduction to the study of theories of architecture; development of skills in graphic communication; introduction to a study of building elements; promotion of the application of theory in the practice of design. [Note: Field trip (one week). Field trip cost: $300 - $450. Offered: F]
Prereq: Architecture students only
STU · Course ID 003502On ucalendarARCH 192 today
Further development of basic skills, and the application of theory and design in small scale architectural design projects. Introduction to issues of inhabitation, program and context. [Offered: W]
Prereq: ARCH 192
STU · Course ID 003503On ucalendarARCH 193 today
This course will introduce students to the tools, work-flows, and culture surrounding computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) and its creative applications within architecture. Students will learn how to work with CAD/CAM technologies such as laser cutters, three-dimensional (3D) printers and computer numerical control (CNC) routers while expanding their knowledge of two- and three-dimensional CAD geometries that inform the digital fabrication process. [Offered: F]
Prereq: ARCH 113
LEC · Course ID 015006On ucalendarARCH 212 today
This course will elaborate upon the graphic and communication conventions established in the fundamental architecture curriculum through a series of assignments ranging from conventional architectural techniques to introductory principles of graphic and industrial design. The intention is to: cultivate an understanding of fundamental concepts and techniques in leading vector and raster-based graphic tools for design development and presentation; to develop an understanding of the paradigm shift from digital media as a representation tool to that of design development; to expand the depth and breath of skills necessary for modern design industry; and to apply design techniques and technologies to and from industrial and graphic design. [Offered: S]
Prereq: Level at least 2B Architecture
LEC · Course ID 012948On ucalendarARCH 215 today
This course provides an historical overview of the ideas of nature and landscape in Western thought. 'Nature', 'Ecology', and 'Landscape' are treated as cultural constructs, related to specific philosophical, technological, economic, political, and social issues. Many of these issues will be considered as the course of study traces the evolution and transformation of contemporary landscape. [Offered: S]
LEC · Course ID 009510On ucalendarARCH 225 today
This course presents the cultural history of the High and Late Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Reformation: from the 12th to 17th centuries. Recognition of the patterns of life of feudalism, the medieval world, scholasticism, the humanist re-interpretation of the place of Man in the universe, the protestant challenge to established doctrines of faith, and the new understanding of the human and natural worlds in the wake of the European discovery of Asia and the Americas. Analysis of the art and architecture from this era with emphasis on the French and German Gothic, and the Italian Renaissance and its spread and transformation in the rest of Europe. [Offered: F]
Prereq: ARCH 143
LEC · Course ID 003515On ucalendarARCH 246 today
This course investigates the cultural and architectural history of the scientific, agricultural, industrial and social revolutions. Depiction of early modern culture and those of the Enlightenment and the long nineteenth century as one in which the notion of environmental order as the fulfilling of natural law is replaced by a notion of order as the historical creation of autonomous will. Analysis of the art and architecture from this era with emphasis on the Baroque, Neo-Classicism, Historicism, and the Industrial Revolution. Selected works in philosophy, literature, art and architecture will be studied. [Offered: S]
Prereq: ARCH 246
LEC · Course ID 003536On ucalendarARCH 248 today
Introduction to the main concepts in creating and using photographic images. This will be accomplished in the context of various academic applications including site and model documentation, portfolio, and thesis presentation. The course will include both analog and digital procedures but with a heavy emphasis on monochrome silver images. A limited number of analog and digital cameras are available on a loan basis. Materials at student's expense. [Note: Lab Fee $10. Offered: S]
Prereq: Level at least 2A Architecture students. Antireq: FINE 227
LEC · Course ID 012286On ucalendarARCH 256 today
Fundamental concepts of mechanics and structures, as related to architectural design, study of loading conditions, forces, moments, systems of forces, conditions of equilibrium for two- and three-dimensional structures, centre of gravity of loads and areas, bar forces in trusses, simple frame analysis, moment of inertia. Concepts of simple stress and strain; shear and bending moments in simple beams; shear and moment diagrams, qualitative deflected shapes, flexural and shearing stresses, deflection calculations; compression members; Euler's formula. [Offered: F]
Prereq: Level at least 1B Architecture students. Antireq: ARCH 163
LEC · Course ID 003498On ucalendarARCH 260 today
This course offers a vehicle for introducing additional electives to the program on a short-term basis, and for developing future permanent courses.
LEC · Course ID 003521On ucalendarARCH 274 today
This course offers a vehicle for introducing additional electives to the program on a short-term basis, and for developing future permanent courses.
LEC · Course ID 010175On ucalendarARCH 275 today
Architectural case studies are used to examine conceptual development, structural design, building process and the selection of structural timber systems. Topics such as flexural, compression and truss members, connections, and plywood construction are studied using calculations, design aids, rules of thumb and the latest CSA design standards. [Offered: S]
LEC · Course ID 003529On ucalendarARCH 276 today
Architectural case studies are used to examine conceptual development, structural design, building process and the selection of structural timber systems. Topics such as flexural, compression and truss members, connections, and plywood construction are studied using calculations, design aids, rules of thumb and the latest CSA design standards. [Offered: S]
LEC · Course ID 014259On ucalendarARCH 277 today
This course offers a student an opportunity for independent research into architectural problems not offered in the regular curriculum, guided exploration of specific architectural problem areas, of appropriate complexity to the particular term.
Prereq: Level at least 2A Architecture
RDG · Course ID 003530On ucalendarARCH 284 today
This course offers a student an opportunity for independent research into architectural problems not offered in the regular curriculum, guided exploration of specific architectural problem areas, of appropriate complexity to the particular term.
Prereq: Level at least 2A Architecture
LEC · Course ID 003531On ucalendarARCH 285 today
The exploration of design as a thinking process through the medium of small scale design projects. The development and analysis of architectural propositions concerning personal space within the context of a larger community. [Note: Required two day field trip, cost range $150 - $200. Offered: F]
Prereq: ARCH 193
STU · Course ID 003532On ucalendarARCH 292 today
Design involving problems of human perception and dimension in more complex environments, and dealing with issues of public and private space. Development of skills in analysis and programming, and further exploration of questions of siting and context. [Note: Field trip (one week). Estimated field trip cost: $400 - $500. Offered: S]
Prereq: ARCH 292
STU · Course ID 003533On ucalendarARCH 293 today
This intermediate level course provides a more in-depth theoretical foundation in architectural design by computer, including three-dimensional modelling, light and colour, rendering, image processing and animation. Practice is provided by weekly tutorial exercises and a small term design project. [Note: Formerly ARCH 212. Offered: W]
Prereq: ARCH 113
LEC · Course ID 011139On ucalendarARCH 314 today
An introduction to the structure and form of urban environments as understood through the urban architecture. The forces that determine the creation and development of urban places will be examined. Topics include the plan as a generative form, urban building types, urban morphology, and the shape of the public realm, infrastructure as both system and architectural object, nature and the park, and real estate and development controls. Of special interest will be analyses of the suburb, and urban master plans. [Offered: W]
Prereq: Level at least 2B Architecture students or Honours Environment and Business students
LEC · Course ID 003512On ucalendarARCH 327 today
The course develops a trans-disciplinary overview to design approaches in architecture and urbanism using image- and symbol-making as key activities in designing environments. The course evaluates the quality of results and the quality of process of design of environments. The students address topics within a wide range of subject matter groupings, from sustainable architecture to engineering, landscape and infrastructure, to branding and aesthetic practices, to design within the municipal political forum. Students present seminars on diverse categories of design as a means to develop a personal design ethos. The final submission includes a set of drawings, diagrams and images that represent a set of design principles allowing students to consciously take a position in the world as a designer. [Offered: F, W]
Prereq: Level at least 3A Architecture
SEM · Course ID 014260On ucalendarARCH 328 today
This course focuses on understanding the premise that hand skills can facilitate and help inform conceptual and academic skills. The content provides a broad-based introduction to woodworking equipment, its fabrication methods and methodology. A combination of lectures and hands-on experiences are used to equip students with the basic skills and knowledge required to conceptualize, fabricate, and finish a designed object from wood. [Offered: W]
Prereq: Level at least 3A Architecture. Antireq: ARCH 385 (Topics Course - Working with Wood)
LEC · Course ID 014261On ucalendarARCH 331 today
A design/build workshop which offers opportunities for hands-on experience in three-dimensional design. Advancements of technical and design skills provide the underpinnings for the projects. Students are encouraged to explore a variety of media and techniques such as woodworking and metalworking, allowing for both individual and small team investigations. A logbook will be kept to record creative intentions and the design process from conception to completion. [Offered: F, W]
Prereq: Level at least 2B Architecture students
LEC · Course ID 010398On ucalendarARCH 332 today
This course examines the cultural, architectural and urban history of that complex period known as modernism. It is an overview of the individual works, movements and critical texts associated with the evolution of modern architecture and urbanism from the beginning of the 20th century to the early years of the second millennium. The social, technological and aesthetic ambitions of the modern project are critically reviewed and its development and dissemination in Europe, the Americas and Asia is traced. Selected works are examined in depth as examples of the canonic and variant forms of modernism. [Offered: W]
Prereq: ARCH 247
LEC · Course ID 010399On ucalendarARCH 342 today
Beginning with the introduction of important theories of architecture in vogue prior to 1850, this course examines texts, movements, buildings, projects, and urban proposals of the period in order to understand the structure of contemporary architectural theory.
Prereq: ARCH 247
LEC · Course ID 003535On ucalendarARCH 345 today
This course provides an opportunity for the student to independently engage in the respected tradition of the Architectural Competition. The competition entry and accompanying research paper must focus on the use of architectural precedents as the basis for the creation of typologically based propositions. Submission to the external competition is mandatory, the timing and detailed requirements of which will determine the personalized academic requirements for this course. [Offered: W, S]
Prereq: Level at least 3A Architecture
SEM · Course ID 014262On ucalendarARCH 346 today
The course introduces the study of philosophical issues as they pertain to architecture, urbanism, image-making and symbol manipulation. The course focuses on the work of a selection of living and recent philosophers whose issues are relevant to questions of everyday 21st century life, with reference to their basis in the history of philosophy. Work by philosophers such as Giorgio Agamben, Kwame Anthony Appiah and Judith Butler on ethics, Gilles Deleuze on meaning, Friedrich Kittler on media and technology, Jean-Luc Nancy on community and Slavoj Zizek on psychoanalysis and political economy, as well as Canadian scholars such as Marshall McLuhan and Harold Innis is addressed. Students participate in a seminar format with a series of presentations linking their design projects with philosophical issues, and submit a final project making use of text and diagrams. [Offered: F, W]
Prereq: Level at least 3A Architecture
SEM · Course ID 014263On ucalendarARCH 347 today
Architectural case studies are used to examine conceptual development, structural design, building process and the selection of structural steel and concrete systems. Topics such as tension, flexural and compression members; and connections are studied using calculations, design aids, rules of thumb and the latest CSA design standards. [Offered: W]
LEC · Course ID 003539On ucalendarARCH 362 today
The physio-technical factors that influence building design for performance, durability, efficiency, health, and sustainability will be explored. Common building design construction problems, their causes and solutions, will be examined with the aid of case studies. Using the principles of building science, good details of masonry, wood, steel, and glass will be developed. [Offered: W]
Prereq: ARCH 173. Antireq: ARCH 264
LEC · Course ID 011141On ucalendarARCH 364 today
This course allows for additional electives to the program on a short-term basis, and for developing future permanent courses.
LEC · Course ID 003545On ucalendarARCH 374 today
This course allows for additional electives to the program on a short-term basis, and for developing future permanent courses.
LEC · Course ID 003549On ucalendarARCH 375 today
This course offers a student an opportunity for independent research into architectural problems not offered in the regular curriculum. It allows guided exploration of a specific architectural problem area, of appropriate complexity to the particular term.
Prereq: Level at least 3A Architecture
RDG · Course ID 003554On ucalendarARCH 384 today
This course offers a student an opportunity for independent research into architectural problems not offered in the regular curriculum. It allows guided exploration of a specific architectural problem area, of appropriate complexity to the particular term.
Prereq: Level at least 3A Architecture
RDG · Course ID 003555On ucalendarARCH 385 today
Development of design skills and theoretical knowledge through their application in projects involving various building types in urban situations. Emphasis is placed upon issues of materiality and technology in architectural design. [Note: Required four to five day field trip, cost range $400 - $500. Offered: W]
Prereq: ARCH 293
STU · Course ID 003556On ucalendarARCH 392 today
This Design Studio is subdivided into distinct studio sections, each of which provides a specific platform for advanced research and design presented within the context of a topic or set of issues to be explored in relation to a specific design project, program and site. These studios range in both scale and scope, traversing an array of academic investigations, design hypotheses, research agendas, interdisciplinary explorations, and pedagogical intentions. These topics foreground the disciplinary arenas within architecture in the areas of architectural theory, media, technology, urbanism, and landscape. [Offered: F]
Prereq: ARCH 392
STU · Course ID 003557On ucalendarARCH 393 today
History of settlement and building in Rome and the surrounding area from antiquity to the present. Acts of design in architecture, urban form and landscape related to political, cultural and spiritual authority of Rome. Comparison drawn between the image of the city, represented in literature and art, and the material facts of the place. Field trips, lecture. [Note: Course fee: Required travel fee applies to this course, please contact the Architecture Student Services Co-ordinator for current fees. [Offered: F]
Prereq: Level at least 3B Architecture. Coreq: ARCH 492
LEC · Course ID 003561On ucalendarARCH 428 today
A global cities course enabling students to travel abroad and study first hand the architecture and urbanism of cities across Europe, Asia and South America. These course offerings are thematically based and involve field trips to specific architectural sites, cities, and regions around the world. [Note: Additional course travel fee applies to this course, please contact the Architecture Student Services Co-ordinator for current fees. Offered: F,W,S]
Prereq: Level at least 3A Architecture
SEM · Course ID 015005On ucalendarARCH 429 today
This course presents a thematically organized survey of contemporary architectural theory that focuses on the relationship between seminal theoretical texts and critical developments in contemporary architectural theory and practice. The course is intended to be a forum for discussion of selected topics in contemporary culture, and to provide students with an advanced knowledge base in contemporary architectural theory to ground more specialized architectural electives while acting as a support for thesis and other forms of advanced architectural research. [Offered: F]
Prereq: ARCH 342
LEC · Course ID 011174On ucalendarARCH 442 today
This course explores the relationship between Architecture and the development of early, modern and science fiction films via the examination of the source and methods of portrayal of architectural expression in film. Films will be viewed to examine precedents for imagery, set design, location selection, as well as the integrated vision of the urban and dystopic environmental future. Futuristic film architecture will provide an opportunity to study a vision of the future of urban built form and provide a forum for critical discussion. Assignments will require that the students become familiar with different methods of media; for example - video filming, sound and visual editing, web page production. [Offered: F]
Prereq: Level at least 3A
LEC · Course ID 011766On ucalendarARCH 443 today
The course provides a survey of the history of settlement and urban form on the Italian peninsula from antiquity to the present day. In it the influences upon the structure of public and private space are outlined for each historical period. These include constants such as geography and climate, but more especially the factors that induce and manifest change: politics, warfare, economics, social structure, the arts and theory. [Note: Course fee: $550.00. Offered: F]
Prereq: Level at least 4A Architecture. Coreq: ARCH 492
LEC · Course ID 003559On ucalendarARCH 446 today
The course addresses the issues of architecture and urbanism in Rome and Italy from 1750 to the present. It explores the relationship between cultural, political and artistic phenomena such as Futurism, Novecento and Rationalism, that anticipate and create modernism in Italy. [Two one day field trips, estimated cost $60.00. Offered: F]
Prereq: Level at least 4A Architecture. Coreq: ARCH 492
LEC · Course ID 003562On ucalendarARCH 449 today
This course is focused on the integrated environmental systems of buildings with an aim to develop the knowledge and skills appropriate to architectural practice. Subjects covered include environmental parameters, air and water systems, heating and cooling loads, energy conservation, ventilating and air conditioning systems, plumbing and waste systems, artificial source lighting and daylighting, acoustics, and fire protection criteria and systems, with reference to building codes and standards. [Offered: S]
LEC · Course ID 010396On ucalendarARCH 463 today
Students will investigate and report on technical issues as they relate to the development of the comprehensive building project in the parallel Design Studio. Innovation and integration in architectural design will be stressed with respect to structure, building envelope, environmental systems, health and life safety, movement systems, site planning and the integration of information technology. [Offered: S]
Prereq: Level at least 4A Architecture. Coreq: ARCH 493
LEC · Course ID 010400On ucalendarARCH 473 today
This course allows for additional electives to the program on a short-term basis, and for developing future permanent courses.
LEC · Course ID 003567On ucalendarARCH 474 today
This course allows for additional electives to the program on a short-term basis, and for developing future permanent courses.
LEC · Course ID 003571On ucalendarARCH 475 today
This course offers a student an opportunity for independent research into architectural problems not offered in the regular curriculum. It allows guided exploration of a specific architectural problem area, of appropriate complexity to the particular term.
Prereq: Level at least 4A Architecture
LEC · Course ID 003575On ucalendarARCH 484 today
This course offers a student an opportunity for independent research into architectural problems not offered in the regular curriculum. It allows guided exploration of a specific architectural problem area, of appropriate complexity to the particular term.
Prereq: Level at least 4A Architecture
LEC · Course ID 003577On ucalendarARCH 485 today
The studio course is mounted in Rome, Italy, with the school's own faculty and premises, and offers a unique opportunity to undertake design studies in a truly rich architectural heritage. The main focus is the nature of the institution and its relationship to the city and its culture. Students participating in the Rome term are expected to defray the costs of travel, accommodation and food. For students unable to study in Rome, an alternative studio is offered in Cambridge. It presents similar design projects and theoretical questions in a North American context. [Offered: F]
Prereq: ARCH 393
STU · Course ID 003579On ucalendarARCH 492 today
This studio represents a culmination of the pre-professional degree, through the integration and application of skills and knowledge to a complex building project. Students will develop designs to a high level of detail. A concern for technical material, environmental and legal aspects of architecture will support open speculation and innovative design. [Offered: S]
Prereq: ARCH 492
STU · Course ID 003581On ucalendarARCH 493 today
A range of special topics within visual and digital media that include course offerings in parametric design and scripting, advanced visualization, interaction design, and digital fabrication. [Offered: F,W,S]
Prereq: Level at least 3A Architecture
SEM · Course ID 015001On ucalendarARCH 510 today
A range of special topics courses within urbanism and landscape. [Offered: F,W,S]
Prereq: Level at least 3A Architecture
SEM · Course ID 015003On ucalendarARCH 520 today
A range of special topics courses within cultural and architectural history, theory and criticism. [Offered: F,W,S]
Prereq: Level at least 3A Architecture
SEM · Course ID 015004On ucalendarARCH 540 today
A range of special topics courses within building technologies, structures, materials and methods and environmental systems including coursework in alternative energy systems, ecological design and design build. [Offered: F,W,S]
Prereq: Level at least 3A Architecture
SEM · Course ID 015002On ucalendarARCH 570 today