Fall 2023 - Undergrad architecture COURSES
Course information can also be found in the UNC Charlotte Undergraduate Catalog and the Bachelor of Arts in Architecture Academic Plan of Study.
ARCH 4102 - Topical Studios
register for T01 temporary seciton, a google form to rank your preferences will be sent out in April
- Forget - TBD
- Kesavan - The Self and Society
- Lee - TBD
- Reddrick & Ault - The Sudio @ Little (meets at Little, 615 S. College St., Suite 1600 - uptown Charlotte)
- Ryan - Introduction to Urban Design (meets at Dubois Center, uptown Charlotte)
- Zhang - TBD - maybe Air Partitioning
ARCH 4204 - History/Theory Topics
- Klein - Architectural History and Criticism Methodologies
- Makas - Critical Approaches to Heritage
- Murtha - Anthropology of Landscapes
- Nanny - Contemporary Art History
- West - Humanitarian Architecture: Small-Scale Design in a Big-Scale World
ARCH 4050 - Architecture Topics
- Burch - Puppetry
- Elmore - Entrepeneurship and the Arts
- Fillmore - Lighting for the Performing Arts
- Forget - Post-Film Architecture
- Gordon - Technical Communication
- Jarrett - Japanese Conceptions of Space
- Manack - Good Fast Cheap
- Ranis - Sculpture Projects
- Ryan - Equity in Design
- Sachs - Introduction to Physical Crafting
- Thaddeus - The Structure of the Everyday
- Zhang - Atmospheric Animations: Collaborative-Vision in Motion
Core Courses
Year | Studio | Skills | History & Theory | Building Technology |
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1st - Fall 1st - Spring |
ARCH 1101 - Studio I ARCH 1102 - Studio II |
COAA 1101 - College Success Skills ARCH 1602 - Writing Reading Thinking Architecture |
LBST 2213 - Environmental Ethics |
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2nd - Fall 2nd - Spring |
ARCH 2101 - Studio III ARCH 2102 - Studio IV |
ARCH 4201 - History I ARCH 4202 - History II |
ARCH 4301 - Materials ARCH 4302 - Environmental Systems |
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3rd - Fall 3rd - Spring |
ARCH 3101 - Studio V ARCH 3102 - Studio VI |
ARCH 4604 - Computational Methods ARCH 4605 - Computational Practice |
ARCH 4303 - Structures I ARCH 4304 - Structures II |
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4th - Fall 4th - Spring |
ARCH 4101 - Studio VII ARCH 4102 - Studio VIII |
ARCH 4203 - History III |
Offered Past Semesters
ARCH 4101 - 4th Year Topical Studios
- Anderson - Urban Affordable Housing LS3P (Charlotte)
- Balmer / Wong - Rome Program
- Dessi-Olive - How to Grow a House
- Dickey - Design Matter(s): Manipulation and Scale
- Forget - Architecture & Media (Charlotte, Japan, open site)
- Forget - Experimental Buildings
- Gamez - The Studio @ CTI: Phase III (Bahamas)
ARCH 4204 - History / Theory Topics
- Balmer - From Auschwitz to Zapruder: mapping the mid-century
- Brownell - Material Transformations: Technology and Change in the Built Environment
- Gamez - Learning from Los Angeles: The Architecture of Seven Ecologies
- Gin + Moore - Landscapes of Peacebuilding: Christianity, Slavery, and the City of Charlotte
- Klein - Architecture & ProductionKlein - Utopian Cities
- Klein - Architectural History and Criticism Methodologies
- Makas + Snyder - Freelon + Civil Rights Memory
- Makas - Museums, Memorials, and Race
- Nolan - Ancient to Baroque Rome
- Ryan - Anarchicts Guide to House Museums
- Sauda - Architecture User Interface
- Sauda - Theory of Computational Design
- Wong - History and Theory of Architectural Space
- Wong - Landscape Assemblages in Art and Architecture
ARCH 4050 - Electives
- Anderson - Inclusive Design Practice: Who has the right to the city?
- Anderson - Community Planning Workshop
- Ault - Unpacking: Applying Historical Techniques in Design Thinking
- Azarbayjani - Eco-Responsive--Next Generation Facades
- Bacon - Architecture + Popular Culture
- Balmer - Modern and Contemporary Rome (Spring 2022 Rome Students only)
- Brownell - Material Transformations
- Cabral / Sacks - Everything Has to be Right
- Carlson-Reddig - MARK
- Christine - Airport Terminal Planning & Design
- Cooke - Hip Hop Urbanism
- Dickey + Lindsey - Sound, Body, Space
- Dickey - Robots, Cyborgs, and Architecture
- Ellinger - Composite Design: Advanced Materials in Architecture
- Ellinger - Digital Ecological Systems
- Forget - Public Transportation
- Futrell - Daylighting
- Gamez - Community Planning Workshop
- Harrison - Detailing the Design
- Holmes - Architecture as Narrative: The Exhibition
- Kim - Sustainable Facade Design
- Lee - GeoDesign
- Lee - Urban Analyitics
- Manack - Good Fast Cheap
- McCormick - Build, Test, Iterate Repeat
- McCormick - High Perormance, Low Tech
- Ryan - Dilemmas of Modern City Planning: Equity in Design
- Ryan - Urban Form: Race and Place
- Ryan - Site Seeing
- Sauda - Theory of Computational Design
- Snyder - Specification and Invention: The Metal Building in an Expanded Field
- Vasquez-Pena - Performance-based Parametric Design
- West - Architecture & Activism: Humanitarian Design in Practice
- Wong - Design Drawing Representation