Course Descriptions

SoA GRADUATE COURSES

Course information can also be found in the UNC Charlotte Graduate Catalog.

CORE COURSES

MArch Courses

• ARCH 5201 – Architectural History I: Prehistory – 1750 (History & Theory)
• ARCH 5202 – Architectural History II: 1750 – Present (History & Theory)
• ARCH 5203 – Architectural History III: Contemporary Theory (History & Theory)
• ARCH 5206 – Professional Practice (History & Theory)
• ARCH 5301 – Materials (Building Technology)
• ARCH 5302 – Environmental Systems Principles (Building Technology)
• ARCH 5304 – Structural Systems (Building Technology)
• ARCH 5305 – Structural Principles (Building Technology)
• ARCH 5604 – Computational Methods (Skills)
• ARCH 5605 – Computational Practice (Skills)
• ARCH 6101 – Design Studio: Fundamentals
• ARCH 6102 – Design Studio: Fundamentals II
• ARCH 6602 – Representation I (Skills)
• ARCH 6603 – Representation II (Skills)
• ARCH 7103 – Design Studio Integrated Project

MUD Courses

• MUDD 6101 – Urban Design Studio I: Fundamentals
• MUDD 6102 – Lee – Urban Design Studio II: Open Space and Infrastructure
• MUDD 6050 – Urban Design Elective – Ryan – Dilemmas of Modern City Planning: Equity in Design
• MUDD – Anderson – Community Planning Workshop
• MUDD 6050 – Cooke – Hip Hop Urbanism
• MUDD 6050 – Ryan – Site Seeing, Sensing, Knowing

MS Courses

• ARCH 5600 – Makas – Critical Approaches to Heritage
• ARCH 5611 – Waller – Computational Research Methods
• ARCH 6050 – McCormick – Sustainability Research Methods

TOPICAL COURSES – OFFERED PAST SEMESTERS

Design Studios

• ARCH 7101/2 – Design Studio Topics
  • Anderson – Urban Agrihood
  • Anderson – HOPESTEAD
  • Carlson-Reddig – Bio.D Asheville
  • Dickey – Design Matter(s)
  • Ellinger – Sensor Data for Healthier Indoor Environments
  • Kesavan – The Self and Society
  • Lee – Making the Silver Line Sustainable – A LEED-ND Studio
  • Lee – Place-making with Sustainable Design Principles – A LEED-ND Studio
  • McCormick – Protective Atmospheres & Entomologigal Happenings
  • Reddrick & Ault – The Studio @ Little
  • Sauda – Space + Technology @ Burson Hall
  • West – Landscapes of the Imagination
  • Wong – Living Rubrics: Emergent Techniques for Space-House-City
  • Wong – Saccade Space
• 7104 – Design Studio Diploma Project
  • Diarte – Building from Waste
  • Forget – Domestic Futures
  • Green – Charlotte’s Unified Development Ordinance
  • Hsu – Vacant_CLT: Architecture, Community, Preservation
  • Kim – Adaptable Kinetic Facades
  • Kim – Net Zero Retrofitting
  • Jarrett – Critical Ecologies
  • Papinikolaou – Architectures of Hyper Mobility

ARCH 5204 – History / Theory / Methods Topics

• Balmer – From Auschwitz to Zapruder: mapping the mid-century
• Brownell – Material Transformations: Technology and Change in the Built Environment
• Dal Pra – Italian Culture in Venice (Spring Break Study Abroad )
• Ellinger – Computational Research
• Emerling – Contemporary Art History
• Gamez – Learning from Los Angeles: The Architecture of Seven Ecologies
• Gin + Moore – Landscapes of Peacebuilding: Christianity, Slavery, and the City of Charlotte
• Klein – Architecture and Production: from Assembly Line to 3-D Printing
• ​Klein – Architectural History and Criticism Methodologies
• Klein – Utopian Cities
• Makas – Critical Approaches to Heritage
• Makas – Civil Rights Memory
• Makas – Museums, Memorials, and Race
• Murtha – Anthropology of Landscapes
• Nolan – Ancient to Baroque Rome
• Ryan – Anarchicts Guide to House Museums
• Sauda – Architecture User Interface
• Sauda – Theory of Computational Design
• Sauda – Data Analytics Methods: Data, Architecture and Contemporary City
• West – Humanitarian Architecture: Small Scale Architecture in a Big Scale World
• Wong – Landscape Assemblages in Art and Architecture
• Wong – Design Methodologies
• Wong – History and Theory of Architectural Space

ARCH 6306 – Tech Topics

• Azarbayjani – Eco-Responsive–Next Generation Facades
• Futrell – Daylighting
• Kim – Sustainable Facade Design
• Lee – Urban Analytics
• McCormick – Build, Test, Iterate Repeat
• McCormick – High Performance, Low Tech
• McCormick + Tempest – Art, Technology & Climate Change
• Thaddeus – The Structure of the Everyday​
• Zhang – Atmospheric Animations
• Vasquez-Pena – Performance-based Parametric Design
• Zhang – Atmospheric Animations

ARCH 5050 – Architectural Electives

• Anderson – Architecture & Activism: Humanitarian Design in Practice
• Anderson – Inclusive Design Practice: Who has the right to the city?
• Anderson – Community Planning Workshop
• Ault – Unpacking: Applying Historical Techniques in Design Thinking
• Bacon – Architecture + Popular Culture
• Brownell – The Material Landscape
• Cabral / Sacks – Everything Has to be Right
• Carlson-Reddig – MARK
• Christine – Airport Terminal Planning & Design
• Cooke – Hip Hop Urbanism
• Ellinger – Composite Design: Advanced Materials in Architecture
• Ellinger – Digital Ecological Systems
• Dickey – Robots, Cyborgs, and Architecture
• Dickey + Lindsey – Sound, Body, Space
• Forget – Post-Film Architecture
• Forget – Public Transportation
• Gamez – Community Planning Workshop
• Gamez – Alphabet City: Urbanism in the Global South / New South
• Harrison – Detailing the Design
• Holmes – Architecture as Narrative: The Exhibition
• Jarrett – Japanese Conceptions of Space
• Lee – GeoDesign
• Manack – Good Fast Cheap
• Ranis – Sculpture Projects
• Ryan – Dilemmas of Modern City Planning: Design for Equity
• Ryan – Equity in Design
• Ryan – Urban Form: Race and Place
• Ryan – Site Seeing, Sensing, Knowing
• Snyder – Specification and Invention: The Metal Building in an Expanded Field
• Wickliff – Technical Communication
• Wong – Design Drawing Representation