Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2002
Architecture (ARCH)
Rice Course Schedule as of 03/20/2002.
This schedule is maintained by the Office of the Registrar
(reg@rice.edu).
See also: Building Codes | Registration Information
NOTE: Course web pages are available for some ARCH courses.
ARCH 102 PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE I Credits 4.00 Spring 02
A development of communication of formal information from further investigation
of visual structures and their order. Requisite for architecture majors.
Prereq- permission of instructor required.
001 AH 212 - MWF 02:00PM - 05:00PM Staff Enr: 25 Max: 0
ARCH 132 CHANGING PERSPECTIVES IN ARCH Credits 2.00 Spring 02
Introductory tutorial. Readings, field trips, and seminar discussions.
Exploration of the role of the architect and architecture in the metropolis.
001 AH 117 - T 04:00PM - 05:30PM Staff Enr: 28 Max: 0
ARCH 202 PRINCIPLES OF ARCH II Credits 6.00 Spring 02
See Arch 201.
001 AH 146 - MWF 01:00PM - 05:00PM Staff Enr: 23 Max: 0
ARCH 214 DESIGN OF STRUCTURES II Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Application of materials & construction (wood, masonary, concrete & steel).
Case studies & field trips.
001 AH 117 - TTH 08:00AM - 09:15AM Staff Enr: 22 Max: 0
ARCH 302 PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE III Credits 6.00 Spring 02
Variety of intermediate level problems for developing comprehensive experience
in design methods and processes. Requisite for preprofessional major in
architecture.
Prereq- Arch 201, 202, 301.
001 AH 102 - MWF 01:00PM - 05:00PM Staff Enr: 29 Max: 0
ARCH 313 SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 02
No description
001 AH 117 - TH 07:00PM - 09:30PM Staff Enr: 5 Max: 0
ARCH 316 BUILDING CLIMATOLOGY Credits 3.00 Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
An introduction to the thermal performance of buildings. Course is divided
into 2 parts: Building Climatology and Air Conditioning Systems.
001 AH 117 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Staff Enr: 30 Max: 0
ARCH 334 BUILDING WORKSHOP II Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Real-life problems dealing with design and construction.
001 AH 230 - TTH 04:00PM - 05:20PM Staff Enr: 3 Max: 0
ARCH 346 19th-20th CENTURY ARCH HISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
This course is an overview of modern architecture with reference to related
issues in cultural modernity. The course will consider important work of the
19th and 20th century, although reference will be made to earlier material
where it bears on the issues under discussion.
The course begins with the
claim that the architecture of modernity has historically been conceived and
developed in relaiton to utopiam ideals, and that architectural modernism
cannot be adequately understood unless attention is paid to its various utopian
and dystopiam 'moments'. Also offered as HART 346.
001 AH 117 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Staff Enr: 23 Max: 0
ARCH 358 CAST MODERNITY Credits 3.00 Spring 02
This seminar will look at concrete's role as a facilitator of the conceptual
and theoretical agendas of the architecture of the 20th century. Just as the
Domino system enabled a new architecture at the beginning of the century, the
current interest in topological and non-trebeated form are again arguing for
concrete's unique properties.
001 TBA - F 09:00AM - 11:30AM Oliver, Douglas E. Enr: 7 Max: NA
ARCH 368 TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY Credits 3.00 Spring 02
History and philosophy of technology in the 20th century with emphasis on the
postwar years. This course will focus on actually doing history and philosophy
of technology by develpoing "programs" (formal studies, books, documentary
films) on everyday objects or innovations (nylon stockings, the running shoe,
the I.Q. tests, etc.) that have had invisible but profound effect on postwar
society.
001 AH 230 - M 10:00AM - 12:00PM Staff Enr: 14 Max: 0
ARCH 374 THE JOY OF MATERIALS Credits 3.00 Spring 02
An investigation of how materials influence and inspire the making of works of
architecture.
Prereq- permission of instructor required.
001 AH 117 - M 09:00AM - 12:00PM Staff Enr: 4 Max: 0
ARCH 376 COMING TO AMERICA Credits 3.00 Spring 02
This seminar will explore the impact of American methods and practices on 20th
century architectural theory and practice in Europe. The course will focus
primarily on a critical examination of several primary texts which will include
readings from Mendolsohn, A+P, Smithson, Archigram, Banham, Koolhaas, and
others.
Limited enrollment.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 0
ARCH 384 CONCEPTUAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 02
The first part of the course will examine the conceptual art practices that
begin in the 1960s including: Bochner, Kosuth, Art and Language, LeWitt,
Maacke, Kelly and Smithson. The second part of the course will focus on the
question of what constitutes a conceptual architecture by interrogating a
series of potential practices including: Super Studio, Archigram, Eisenman,
Libesking, Shinohara, Heiduf, Tschumi and others.
001 TBA - TBA Last, Nana Enr: 2 Max: NA
ARCH 386 ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIETY II (ENLIGHTENME Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Through a series of case studies, this course will examine the socio-cultural
consequences of exemplary buildings from the Englightenment through
Postmodernity.
001 AH 148 - W 09:00AM - 11:30AM Staff Enr: 0 Max: 0
ARCH 388 GRAY SPACE: INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE DOME Credits 3.00 Spring 02
The closet as we know it is a late-18th century invention. Prior to this time,
storage was relegated to objects-figures agianst the ground of an architectural
space. We will investigate and utilize various techniques in diagramming to
develop and synthesize our storage research. Enrollment is limited to 15.
001 TBA - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Staff Enr: 3 Max: 10
ARCH 402 PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE IV Credits 6.00 Spring 02
See Arch 302.
Prereq- Arch 401.
001 AH 236 - MWF 01:00PM - 05:00PM Staff Enr: 17 Max: 0
ARCH 423 PROFESSIONALISM & MGMT IN ARCH PRACTICE Credits 3.00 Spring 02
An introductory survey of the characteristics of the delivery of architectural
services by professional design organizations. Through readings and lectures,
students become familiar with the social, technical, legal, ethical, and
financial milieu of modern architecture practice.
001 AH 217 - TTH 08:00AM - 09:15AM Staff Enr: 1 Max: 0
ARCH 432 INTRO TO COMPUTER APPL IN ARCH Credits 3.00 Spring 02
This course is designed as a general introduction to computing in the context
of architectural design. Emphasis is on the use of digital media as design
tools and the appropriate use of these tools in the varying processes of
design. This course includes exposure to a broad spectrum of design, drafting,
modeling and presentation software.
001 AH 218 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Staff Enr: 9 Max: 0
ARCH 436 COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN IN ARCH Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Advanced computer graphic techniques using CAD in architecture as a design and
presentation medium.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 4 Max: 0
ARCH 438 FOUND IN THE TRANSLATION Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Advanced computer workshop investigating the translation of physical objects
and space into and out of the digital environment. Independent research will be
encouraged on new devices and methods. Enrollment is limited to 5.
001 AH 218 - T 11:00AM - 01:00PM Staff Enr: 0 Max: 0
ARCH 440 DIGITAL RENDERING, ANIMATION AND VIRTUAL Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Advanced course in computer modelling, rendering and graphics manipulation.
This course is designed to explore computer modelling and rendering techniques
and their role in the design process.
Prereq- Arch 435 or 635 (Lou DeLaura's Intro. AutoCAD) or permission of
instructor.
001 AH 218 - TTH 02:30PM - 04:00PM Staff Enr: 1 Max: 0
ARCH 454 20TH CENTURY NORTH AMER ARCH Credits 3.00 Spring 02
A seminar in history and criticism. In this course we will consider the
establishment of a canon of 20th century architecture in North America (US &
Canada). Each week we will take apart the various criteria that qualify
buildings for history including aesthetic and stylistic quality, technological
invention, architectural careerism, urban contributions, stylistic quality,
technological invention, architectural careerism, urban contributions,
geographic influence, typlogy, theory, art movements, and social implications.
The goal of the course is to investigate the way texts relate to build reality.
Prereq- permission of instructor is required.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 0
ARCH 461 SPECIAL PROJECTS Credits Spring 02
Independent research or design arranged in consultation with a faculty member.
Subject to approval of faculty advisor and director. Very limited enrollment.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 0
002 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 466 EXCESS AND FORM Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Forms bonded as they are to the resources they manage and distribute,
invariably inflect and reflect these underlying economies. This seminar will
explore the relationship between economics of excess and the diversification of
form. Readings and lectures explore the nature of expenditure and waste,
cross-pollination, symbiosis, autocatalysis, superabundance, genre mixing,
variation and mutation, and nonlinearity with a view toward their relevance to
architectural design and theory. Each student will pursue a case study
involving one or more of these themes.
001 AH 230 - T 10:00AM - 01:00PM Staff Enr: 0 Max: 0
ARCH 492 RESEARCH AND DESIGN Credits 3.00 Spring 02
This course will focus on the contemporary mutations emerging within the
American context with emphasis on social and economic factors. Research
oriented, workshop style with a view to developing materials for public
display
and information design.
001 AH 148 - T 04:00PM - 06:30PM Staff Enr: 5 Max: 0
ARCH 500 PRECEPTORSHIP PROGRAM Credits 15.00 Spring 02
Requisite for admission to graduate studies in architecture for all recipients
of Rice B.A. degrees in preprofessional or area majors. Student completes nine
to twelve months of full-time internship under guidance of an appointed
preceptor.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 16 Max: 0
ARCH 502 CORE DESIGN STUDIO II Credits 10.00 Spring 02
No description
Prereq- Arch 501.
001 TBA - MWF 01:00PM - 06:00PM Staff Enr: 14 Max: 0
ARCH 504 ARCHITECTURAL PROBLEMS Credits 10.00 Spring 02
Exploration of abstract thought and design capabilities relevant to systematic
processes of designing specific buildings and facilities. Course content is
topic oriented and varies section to section.
Prereq- Arch 503.
001 TBA - MWF 01:00PM - 06:00PM Cloepfil, Brad Enr: 5 Max: 0
Guthrie, David Morrow
002 TBA - MWF 01:00PM - 06:00PM Jimenez, Carlos Enr: 3 Max: NA
003 TBA - MWF 01:00PM - 06:00PM Krumwiede, Keith Enr: 2 Max: NA
004 TBA - MWF 01:00PM - 06:00PM Payne, Jason Enr: 4 Max: NA
005 TBA - TBA Brown, David P. Enr: 3 Max: NA
006 TBA - TBA Last, Nana Enr: 1 Max: NA
ARCH 514 DESIGN OF STRUCTURES II Credits 3.00 Spring 02
A course in structures for students in the Option I Program. Topics include:
structure in architecture; forces and equilibrium; structural materials; the
behavior, analysis, and design of structural elements and their connections.
001 AH 117 - TTH 08:00AM - 09:15AM Staff Enr: 13 Max: 0
ARCH 516 BUILDING CLIMATOLOGY Credits 3.00 Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
See Arch 316.
001 AH 117 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Staff Enr: 9 Max: 0
ARCH 600 M. ARCH. I INTERNSHIP Credits Spring 02
Practical work experience for students who have completed at least four
semesters in the Option I Program prior to their entrance into the regular
Master of Architecture studio sequence. Permission of instructor required.
Very limited enrollment.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 0
ARCH 602 ARCHITECTURAL PROBLEMS Credits 10.00 Spring 02
Emphasis on abstract thought and design capabilities relevant to systematic
processes of designing specific buildings and facilities.
Prereq- Arch 500 or Arch 501- 504.
001 TBA - MWF 01:00PM - 06:00PM Cloepfil, Brad Enr: 4 Max: 0
Guthrie, David Morrow
002 TBA - TBA Jimenez, Carlos Enr: 6 Max: NA
003 TBA - TBA Krumwiede, Keith Enr: 7 Max: NA
004 TBA - TBA Payne, Jason Enr: 6 Max: NA
005 TBA - TBA Brown, David P. Enr: 5 Max: NA
006 TBA - TBA Last, Nana Enr: 7 Max: NA
ARCH 613 SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 02
See Arch 313.
001 AH 117 - TH 07:00PM - 09:30PM Staff Enr: 2 Max: 0
ARCH 623 PROFESSIONALISM & MGMT IN ARCH PRACTICE Credits 3.00 Spring 02
See Arch 423.
001 AH 217 - TTH 08:00AM - 09:15AM Staff Enr: 20 Max: 0
ARCH 632 INTRO TO COMPUTERS IN ARCHITECTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Lectures and seminars dealing with problem-solving activities and
methodological issues in architectural design and urban design.
001 AH 218 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Staff Enr: 1 Max: 0
ARCH 634 BUILDING WORKSHOP II Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Repeatable for credit. See ARCH 334.
Prereq- Arch 433/633 or Arch 435/635 or instructor's approval.
001 AH 230 - TTH 04:00PM - 05:20PM Staff Enr: 16 Max: 0
ARCH 636 COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN IN ARCH Credits 3.00 Spring 02
See Arch 436.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 14 Max: 0
ARCH 638 FOUND IN THE TRANSLATION Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Graduate version of ARCH 438. Enrollment is limited to 5.
001 AH 218 - T 11:00AM - 01:00PM Staff Enr: 0 Max: 5
ARCH 640 DIGITAL RENDERING, ANIMATION AND VIRTUAL Credits 3.00 Spring 02
See Arch. 440.
001 AH 218 - TTH 02:30PM - 04:00PM Staff Enr: 7 Max: 0
ARCH 646 19TH-20TH CENTURY ARCH HISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 02
This course is an overview of modern architecture with reference to related
issues in cultural modernity. The course will consider important work of the
19th and 20th century, although reference will be made to earlier material
where it bears on the issues under discussion.
The course begins with the
claim that the architecture of modernity has historically been conceived and
developed in relaiton to utopiam ideals, and that architectural modernism
cannot be adequately understood unless attention is paid to its various utopian
and dystopiam 'moments'. Also offered as HART 646.
Also offered as HART 646
001 AH 117 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Staff Enr: 0 Max: 0
ARCH 654 20TH CENTURY NORTH AMER ARCH Credits 3.00 Spring 02
See Arch 454.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 0
ARCH 658 CAST MODERNITY Credits 3.00 Spring 02
See Arch 358.
001 TBA - F 09:00AM - 11:30AM Oliver, Douglas E. Enr: 4 Max: NA
ARCH 666 EXCESS AND FORM Credits 3.00 Spring 02
SEE ARCH 466.
001 AH 230 - T 10:00AM - 01:00PM Staff Enr: 8 Max: 0
ARCH 668 TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY Credits 3.00 Spring 02
No description
001 AH 230 - M 10:00AM - 12:00PM Staff Enr: 0 Max: 0
ARCH 674 THE JOY OF MATERIALS Credits 3.00 Spring 02
See Arch 374.
001 AH 117 - M 09:00AM - 12:00PM Staff Enr: 8 Max: 0
ARCH 676 COMING TO AMERICA Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Graduate level of ARCH 376.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 0
ARCH 684 CONCEPTUAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 02
The first part of the course will examine the conceptual art practices that
begin in the 1960s including: Bochner, Kosuth, Art and Language, LeWitt,
Maacke, Kelly and Smithson. The second part of the course will focus on the
question of what constitutes a conceptual architecture by interrogating a
series of potential practices including: Super Studio, Archigram, Eisenman,
Libesking, Shinohara, Heiduf, Tschumi and others.
001 TBA - TBA Last, Nana Enr: 12 Max: NA
ARCH 686 ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIETY II (ENLIGHTENME Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Through a series of case studies, this course will examine the socio-cultural
consequences of exemplary buildings from the Enlightenment through
Postmodernity.
Graduate version of ARCH 386.
001 AH 148 - W 09:00AM - 11:30AM Staff Enr: 14 Max: 0
ARCH 688 GRAY SPACE: INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE DOME Credits 3.00 Spring 02
The closet as we know it is a late-18th century invention. Prior to this time,
storage was relegated to objects-figures agianst the ground of an architectural
space. We will investigate and utilize various techniques in diagramming to
develop and synthesize our storage research. Enrollment is limited to 15.
001 TBA - TTH 02:30AM - 03:50AM Staff Enr: 4 Max: 5
ARCH 692 RESEARCH AND DESIGN Credits 3.00 Spring 02
NO DESCRIPTION
001 AH 148 - T 04:00PM - 06:30PM Staff Enr: 16 Max: 0
ARCH 700 PRACTICUM Credits Spring 02
Full-time internship service in approved local offices under interdisciplinary
supervision. Emphasis on "real world" design, planning, or research
experiences. Special tuition. May be taken in any semester or in summer.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 0
ARCH 702 PRE-THESIS PREPARATION Credits 0.00 Spring 02
No description
001 AH 148 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Staff Enr: 20 Max: 0
ARCH 706 WRITTEN THESIS Credits Spring 02
No description
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 1 Max: 0
ARCH 800 GRADUATE RESEARCH Credits Spring 02
No description
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 2 Max: 0
© 1999 Rice University