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Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2000
Architecture (ARCH)
Rice Course Schedule as of 01/03/2000.
This schedule is maintained by the Office of the Registrar
(reg@rice.edu).
ARCH 102 PRINCIPLES OF ARCH I Credits 4.00 Spring 00
A development of communication of formal information from further investigation
of visual structures and their order. Requisite for architecture majors. By
permission of instructor only.
001 TBA Grenader, Nonya S. Enr: 0 Max: NA
Samuels, Danny Marc
ARCH 115 MODEL SHOP LAB Credits 1.00 Spring 00
Safety and craft are the core of the course. Students will learn setup,
adjustment and accessory application for each of the major shop machines, and
will use this knowledge to complete assigned projects. Laboratory experience
with the tools and machinery available in the Architecture model shop is
required before access to the shop can be granted.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ARCH 132 ARCHITECTURE & THE METROPOLIS Credits 2.00 Spring 00
Introductory tutorial. Readings, field trips, and seminar discussions.
Exploration of the role of the architect and architecture in the metropolis.
001 TBA Casbarian, John J. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 202 PRINCIPLES OF ARCH II Credits 6.00 Spring 00
See Arch 201.
001 TBA - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM Brown, David P. Enr: 0 Max:
Wittenberg, Gordon G.
ARCH 214 STRUCTURAL&CONSTRUCTION SYS II Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Application of materials & construction (wood, masonary, concrete & steel).
Case studies & field trips.
001 TBA Brown, David P. Enr: 0 Max: NA
Oberholzer, Mark Andrew
ARCH 302 SEL'D ARCH PROBLEMS I Credits 6.00 Spring 00
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 TBA Krumwiede, Keith Enr: 0 Max: NA
Oliver, Douglas E.
Parsons, Spencer W.
Williams, William Daryl
ARCH 316 BUILDING CLIMATOLOGY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* 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 TBA Oberholzer, Mark Andrew Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 343 CITIES AND HISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I, II
Cities conform to general historical trends, yet all cities are bound to
particular geographic and cultural circumstances that make the history of each
unique. In each lecture a single city will be examined in terms of its formal
and geographical particulars and the consequence it has had on social and
cultural history. The architecture of each city is a unique expression of a
mixture of desire and habit, making it a complex cultural artifact with legions
of authors and just as many interpreters. The course is organized
chronologically, beginning with the ancient cities of Jerusalem, Athens, Rome &
Teotihuacan, then turning to post antique centers such as Instanbul and Cairo,
non-Western settings as
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ARCH 346 19TH-20TH CENTURY ARCH HISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
This is a survey course that covers primarily western architectural history
from 1750-1980. Rationalism, The Picturesque, Neo-Classicism, Eclecticism, Art
Nonveau, De Stijl, The Bauhaus, Le Corbusier, Frank LLoyd Wright, Corporate
Modernism and Urban Renewal are the major architectural topics that will be
discussed against and backdrop of the conditions of modernity.
Also offered as HART 346
001 TBA Biln, John Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 350 URBAN IDENTITY, UTOPIA AND REFUSAL Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
This course is intended to function as a small research seminar. Interested
students will participate in exploring a related set of concerns involving the
development of historical urban utopii conditioned by desires both to express
socil resistance and to produce new social identities.
001 TBA Biln, John Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 358 NEW THEORIES OF COMPOSITION Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Lectures on the following topics: "Urbanism, Formalism, Episteme" - "Life:
Dynamics & Cybernetics" - "Behavior: The Final Frontier" - "The
Modulating/Modulated Universe" - "Character and Ecological Adaptation" -
"Global Image Context" - " Recording Technologies: Daguerre to genetic
reproduction" - "Cinematic Migration".
001 TBA Kwinter, Sanford N. Enr: 0 Max: 12
ARCH 360 CRISIS AND COMMUNICATIONS Credits Spring 00
As the demands for design today shift toward social, economic and technological
concerns, the group/crisis model is re-emerging in both corporate and popular
and radical milieus. We will study the history of these developments, form our
own collective operation and produce a publication that reflects this emerging
new approach to design culture. This is both a history and research course and
a hands-on course in communications design.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
001 TBA Kwinter, Sanford N. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 362 THE PHILOSOPHY OF MATTER, FORCE AND EVEN Credits 3.00 Spring 00
A lecture course on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze will deal with the
metaphysical foundations of contemporary space and time. Readings will include
Deleuze's analyses of Spinoza, Leibniz, Nietzsche, and Bergson. Strong
emphasis will be placed on reading, writing, as well as on design applications
of principles from the work.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
001 TBA Kwinter, Sanford N. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 374 THE JOY OF MATERIALS Credits 3.00 Spring 00
An investigation of how materials influence and inspire the making of works of
architecture.
Prereq- permission of instructor required.
001 TBA Jimenez, Carlos Enr: 0 Max: 16
ARCH 386 ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIETY II (ENLIGHTENME Credits Spring 00
Through a series of case studies, this course will examine the socio-cultural
consequences of exemplary buildings from the Englightenment through
Postmodernity.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 15
ARCH 402 SELECTED ARCH PROBLEMS II Credits 6.00 Spring 00
See Arch 302.
Prereq- Arch 401.
001 TBA Krumwiede, Keith Enr: 0 Max: NA
Oliver, Douglas E.
Parsons, Spencer W.
Williams, William Daryl
ARCH 408 TORISON AND BENDING MATERIALS Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Stress, strain and torsion in materials will be analyzed in several works of
modern architecture and sculpture. How materials resist bending or rupture and
the imminence of either possibility will be studied in the context of more
traditional ideas of space and time in modern architecture. Student projects
will rely on experience with autocad and the willingness to learn stress/strain
modelling software. Extensive reading and class participation is required.
Prereq- one structure course; modern architecture survey; senior level UG
design; and autocad experience.
001 TBA Bell, Michael J. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 412 ADV DESIGN-STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS Credits Spring 00
Advanced course in structural design. Topics include factors controlling
structural design of buildings, floor systems, building systems, facade
treatments, long span structures, pneumatic and cable structures, and new
structural systems and materials. Case studies will also be conducted.
Prereq- Arch 213,214,315, or equivalent.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ARCH 420 HISTORY OF BLDG. TECHNOLOGY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Survey of the history of building technology from ancient times to the present.
Emphasis on relation of techniques to social, cultural, and intellectual
milieu.
001 TBA Wittenberg, Gordon G. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 423 MANAG'T-ARCH PRACTICE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
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 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 426 DESIGNING THE LOW-COST HOUSE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
The spring course begins the sequence to produce a small house under the
auspices of the Rice Building Workshop. The history and development of the
small house will be examined, followed by an analysis of the proposed mid-town
site and it's context. Construction technologies, materials, costs, climate
conditions, and code issues will be considered. Each student will develop a
design approach in some detail, and a single proposal (or merging of proposals)
will be selected and documented for permitting and construction. All phases of
the project will incorporate collaboration with the larger community, from
neighborhood organizations to local contractors.
001 TBA Grenader, Nonya S. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 428 ARCH AMOROUS DISCOURSE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
This is an elective course to explore the possibilities for innovative low-cost
housing and to have the opportunity to become involved with hands-on processes
of building.
001 TBA El-Dahdah, Fares Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 429 BUILDING LOW COST HOUSE II Credits 3.00 Spring 00
This elective course will continue student involvement in the hands-on process
of constructing a new structure for Project Row Houses, a noted grass-roots art
project promoting neighborhood revitalilization and community service in the
Third Ward.
001 TBA Samuels, Danny Marc Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 432 INTRO TO COMPUTER APPL IN ARCH Credits 3.00 Spring 00
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 TBA - TTH 09:25AM - 10:50AM Delaura, Louis P. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 436 COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN Credits Spring 00
Advanced computer graphic techniques using CAD in architecture as a design and
presentation medium.
001 TBA - TTH 08:00AM - 09:15AM Delaura, Louis P. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 437 REPRESENTATIONAL ISSUES OF COMPUTER-AIDE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
A workshop in three dimensional computer modeling and its theoretical
implications for architecture and design. One class session each week will be
a "how to" lecture covering the technical side of modeling. The other sessions
will consist of group discussion through which we will explore the theoretical
implications of the medium and test the limits of its use as architectural
representation.
Prereq- permission of isntructor required. Limited enrollment.
001 TBA Delaura, Louis P. Enr: 0 Max: NA
Staff
99/ TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ARCH 440 ADVANCED COMPUTER MODELLING & RENDERING Credits 3.00 Spring 00
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 TBA - TTH 02:30PM - 04:00PM Nichols, Christopher Pete Enr: 0 Max: 8
ARCH 442 ADV COMPUTER ANIMATION IN ARCH Credits 3.00 Spring 00
The course will focus on the exploring methods of using computer animation to
achieve certain goals on particular projects that will be defined by the group
early in the semester. Since Alias/Wavefront will be the primary tool for
demonstrating and learning animation techniques, the students are expected to
have a strong knowledge in modeling as well as a basic concept of animation in
Alias/Wavefront in order to participate in the class. As a group the class
will attempt to explore the process, tools, means and implications of using
computer animation in design, architecture, spatial exploration and
visualization.
Prereq- permission of instructor required. Arch 433,633, Arch 439,639
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 448 LATE 20TH CENT ARCH & URBANISM Credits 3.00 Spring 00
The course considers the historical circumstances of the architecture of the
very recent past, covering the years 1950-1993. The goal of the course is to
define the relevant issues in contemporary architectural discourse and
illustrate them with detailed case studies. The design process and the
lived-in form of architecture and urbanism will be the primary focus, and the
scope of the inquiry will comprehend the development of current building types,
new technological practices, emerging urban patterns, the changing role of the
architect, and stylistic trends. Architecture will be considered both as a
theoretical discourse, a highly self-conscious and intellectual pursuit, and as
a
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 20
ARCH 452 BUILDING WORKSHOP Credits 3.00 Spring 00
This elective course is to design, fabricate, and erect a small structure
during the semester. Students in the workshop will work together with each
other, with the parent group at Edgar Allen Poe Elementary School, and with the
instructor, to develop a design for the bus shelter in detail, to fabricate it
using all necessary materials and processes and to erect it on the site. Work
will proceed in the Building Workshop facilities in Ryon Lab.
Prereq- permission of instructor required.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 454 20TH CENT NORTH AMER ARCH Credits 3.00 Spring 00
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 Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 461 SPECIAL PROJECTS Credits Spring 00
Independent research or design arranged in consultation with a faculty member.
Subject to approval of faculty advisor and director.Very limited enrollment.
001 TBA Casbarian, John J. Enr: 0 Max: NA
002 TBA Casbarian, John J. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 464 INDEPENDENT PROJECTS IN FURN DESIGN AND Credits 3.00 Spring 00
This course will examine alternative materials and material technologies, both
existing and emerging, and their impact on the design and fabrication of
furniture. The class will initially focus on research into impact of
innovations in materials and practices on the production of furniture over the
course of the last century. Each student will specifically address the use
made by various designers of these changes. The remainder of the course will
see each student focus on the investigation of a specific material and its
possible methods of manipulation via a simultaneous process of research/design
resulting in the fabrication of a proto type.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 6
ARCH 470 TAUTNESS AND PARTICUALTES Credits 3.00 Spring 00
The research of underlying regulatory
systems - material, theoretical,
legislative - leads to the development/proposal of new system strands that
attempt to redefine the built and economic environment at mulitple scales of
invention. Conducted in three parts, the seminar begins with a series of
presentations, followed by individual research, leading to the innovative
collective: particulates of the metropolis.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 500 PRECEPTORSHIP PROGRAM Credits 15.00 Spring 00
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 Casbarian, John J. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 502 QUALIFYING GRAD WORKSHOP II Credits 13.00 Spring 00
No description
Prereq- Arch 501.
001 TBA Pope, Albert H. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 504 QUALIFYING GRADUATE PROGRAM IV Credits 10.00 Spring 00
No description
Prereq- Arch 503.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 514 BUILDING TECHNOLOGY-STRUCTURES Credits 3.00 Spring 00
A course in structures for students in the Qualifying Graduate Program. Topics
include: structure in architecture; forces and equilibrium; structural
materials; the behavior, analysis, and design of structural elements and their
connections.
001 TBA Brown, David P. Enr: 0 Max: NA
Oberholzer, Mark Andrew
ARCH 516 BLDG CLIMA&ENV CONT SYS Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
See Arch 316.
001 TBA Oberholzer, Mark Andrew Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 600 QUALIFYING GRADUATE PROGRAM INTERNSHIP Credits Spring 00
Practical work experience for students who have completed at least four
semesters in the Qualifying Graduate Program prior to their entrance into the
regular Master of Architecture studio sequence. Permission of instructor
required. Very limited enrollment.
001 TBA El-Dahdah, Fares Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 602 ARCHITECTURAL PROBLEMS Credits 10.00 Spring 00
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 Bell, Michael J. Enr: 0 Max: NA
002 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA
003 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA
004 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 608 ADV BLDG DESIGN PROBLEMS Credits 3.00 Spring 00
A design studio, following Arch 607, where a building program is carried from
predesign analysis, through design, to design development.
Prereq- Arch 501- 504, Arch 607.
001 TBA Bell, Michael J. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 612 ADV DES OF STRUC SYSTEM Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Arch 412.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ARCH 615 MODEL SHOP LAB Credits 1.00 Spring 00
See Arch 115.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 620 HISTORY OF BLDG. TECH. Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Same as Arch 420.
001 TBA Wittenberg, Gordon G. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 623 MANAG'T-ARCH PRACTICE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Arch 423.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 626 DESIGNING THE LOW-COST HOUSE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Arch 426.
001 TBA Grenader, Nonya S. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 628 ARCH AMOROUS DISCOURSE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
This is an elective course to explore the possibilities for innovative low-cost
housing and to have the opportunity to become involved with hands-on processes
of building.
001 TBA El-Dahdah, Fares Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 629 BUILDING LOW COST HOUSE II Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Arch 429.
Also offered as ARCH 429
001 TBA Samuels, Danny Marc Enr: 0 Max: 20
ARCH 632 INTRO TO COMPUTERS IN ARCHITECTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Lectures and seminars dealing with problem-solving activities and
methodological issues in architectural design and urban design.
001 TBA - TTH 09:25AM - 10:50AM Delaura, Louis P. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 636 INTRODUCTION TO URBAN ISSUES Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Arch 436.
001 TBA - TTH 08:00AM - 09:15AM Delaura, Louis P. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 637 REPRESENTATIONAL ISSUES OF COMPUTER-AIDE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Arch 437.
Also offered as ARCH 437
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 640 ADVANCED COMPUTER MODELLING & RENDERING Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Arch. 440.
001 TBA - TTH 02:30PM - 04:00PM Nichols, Christopher Pete Enr: 0 Max: 8
Staff
ARCH 642 ADV COMPUTER ANIMATION IN ARCH Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Arch 442.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 643 CITIES AND HISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Arch 343.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ARCH 646 19TH-20TH CENTURY ARCH HISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Arch 646.
Also offered as HART 646
001 TBA Biln, John Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 648 LATE 20TH CENT ARCH & URBANISM Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Arch 448. Permission of instructor required.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 20
ARCH 650 URBAN IDENTITY, UTOPIA AND REFUSAL Credits 3.00 Spring 00
For class description see ARCH 350.
001 TBA Biln, John Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 652 BUILDING WORKSHOP Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Arch 452.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 654 20TH CENT NORTH AMER ARCH Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Arch 654.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 656 NEW MODELS OF SPACE & FORM II Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Arch 356.
001 TBA Kwinter, Sanford N. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 658 NEW THEORIES OF COMPOSITION Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Arch 358.
001 TBA Kwinter, Sanford N. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 660 CRISIS AND COMMUNICATION Credits Spring 00
See Arch 360.
001 TBA Kwinter, Sanford N. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 662 THE PHILOSOPHY OF MATTER, FORCE AND EVEN Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Arch 362.
001 TBA Kwinter, Sanford N. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 664 INDEPENDENT PROJECTS IN FURN DESIGN AND Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Arch 464.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 6
ARCH 670 THE BAUHAUS AND THE TEXTS OF MODERNISM Credits 3.00 Spring 00
An examination of the textual background of one of the most influential sources
of modern design in the 20th century, the Bauhaus. Writings of three directors
will be examined: Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer, and Mies van der Rohe, and
others. Models for an exhibition on the work of a bauhausler who emigrated to
Israel in the mid 1930s and applied the political, technical and formal lessons
of his school in the production of several hundred projects.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 674 THE JOY OF MATERIALS Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Arch 374.
001 TBA Jimenez, Carlos Enr: 0 Max: 16
ARCH 686 ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIETY II (ENLIGHTENME Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Through a series of case studies, this course will examine the socio-cultural
consequences of exemplary buildings from the Enlightenment through
Postmodernity.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 25
ARCH 692 CONTEMPORARY URBANISM Credits 3.00 Spring 00
A lecture course offered with the Rice Center for Urbanism. It will develop
three critical perspectives from which to analyze and evaluate contemporary
urban production. These perspectives are loosely defined as the environmental,
the morphological, the historical. Each of these perspectives will generate a
specific definition of the city which will be presented and subsequently
discussed in an effort to form hybrid strategies of intervention.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
ARCH 700 PRACTICUM Credits Spring 00
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 Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 701 PRE-THESIS PREPARATION Credits 3.00 Spring 00
No description
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 702 DESIGN THESIS STUDIO Credits 0.00 Spring 00
No description
001 TBA El-Dahdah, Fares Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 706 WRITTEN THESIS Credits 0.00 Spring 00
No description
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 711 SPECIAL PROJECTS Credits Spring 00
Independent research or design arranged in consultation with a faculty member
subject to approval of the student's faculty advisor and director.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
002 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 714 INDEPENDENT DESIGN PROJECTS Credits Spring 00
No description
001 TBA El-Dahdah, Fares Enr: 0 Max: NA
ARCH 800 GRADUATE RESEARCH Credits Spring 00
No description
001 TBA El-Dahdah, Fares Enr: 0 Max: NA
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