Undergraduate Course Descriptions

Core Courses

Year	Studio	Skills	History & Theory	Building Technology
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
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
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
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