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ARCH 5030 Masonry Design
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The history, materials and methods of construction of masonry structures are examined. Structural behavior of key building elements such as lintels, walls, columns and pilasters are reviewed as well as building code requirements for their design. Examination of testing and construction techniques are included through field trips, also possible hands on construction processes, and guest lecturers. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5050 Building Codes
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
An overview of building codes and how they affect the design of buildings. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5100 Masters Studio I
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Prerequisites:
Corequisites: ARCH 5110
The student poses the "question" that the Master's project will address. The question leads to the development of the architectural program and the selection of the site for the project. Design analysis and conceptualization phases are begun for the development of a comprehensive, thoughtful and creative proposal. | 5 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5110 Masters Studio Supplement I
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A companion course to the Master's Studio, this course focuses on the integration of building systems into the design of the Master Studio Project. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5170 Temporory Environments
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The last 20 years has witnessed a rise of temporary work by architects currently referred to as "installations". This graduate seminar examines how installations have offered opportunities for technical, aesthetic, cultural and theoretical experimentation. Stage sets, Festival Architecture and Expositions are examined in relation to installation work. Topical discussions are focused by readings and specific case studies. A research project/ presentation leading to a final paper is required. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5180 Urban Design Issues
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This course challenges architecture students to critically analyze the urban environment by exposing them to a cross-disciplinary discussion of architecture, urban design and urban planning theory. Detroit is used as a common point of discussion. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5190 Profession of Architecture
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This course examines professional practice issues including internship, construction documents, firm organization, compensation, financial management, marketing and the architect's responsibilities in the project delivery process. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5200 Masters Studio II
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Prerequisites:
ARCH 5100 (Minimum Grade of C, May not be taken concurrently)
Studies begun in Master's Studio I are continued. Articulation of the design concept, presentation of design conclusions and reflection on the total learning experience, its process and products of the Master's Studio are the foci of this course. Documentation of the entire effort, incorporating research through design proposal in written and graphical forms, is required. | 5 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5210 Studio Supplement II
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A companion course to the Master's Studio, this course focuses on the integration of building systems into the design of the Master's Studio Project. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5220 Dichotomy Student Journal I
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This seminar will explore architectural theory and criticism as well as graphic design by engaging students in the process of editing and constructing a critical publication. Professors will provide content for the seminar and will provide oversight for the production of the student edited journal. The theme of the journal will vary from year to year, and students will be expected to continue their participation with the project as necessary to complete the publication process following the conclusion of the course. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5221 Dichotomy Student Journal II
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This seminar will explore architectural theory and criticism as well as graphic design by engaging students in the process of editing and constructing a critical publication. Professors will provide content for the seminar and will provide oversight for the production of the student edited journal. The theme of the journal will vary from year to year, and students will be expected to continue their participation with the project as necessary to complete the publication process following the conclusion of the course. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5240 Sustainability and Architecture
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This course explores, investigates and analyzes the concepts associated with the issue of "sustainability" as it relates to Architecture and Urbanization. It examines what is presently being designed within the concept of sustainable "Green" buildings as well as what is forecast for the future . | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5270 Architectural Analysis
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Seminar and lecture activities related to evaluation of specific architectonic elements of building relating these to psychological responses, the visual language of building, and syntactic process. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5280 Detroit Urban Issues
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
The course explores, with the help of visiting experts, the history of how metropolitan Detroit got to be the way it is today, the dynamics linking metropolitan core disinvestment with metropolitan edge unsustainable investment, and remedies for Detroit's problems. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5290 Development Practicum
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Students, under the direction of the instructor, undertake the analysis of an actual land development project including market analysis, financial feasibility and process of implementation. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5340 Sustainability Laboratory
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Prerequisites:
ARCH 5240 (Minimum Grade of C, May not be taken concurrently)
This lab applies Sustainable Design strategies to the study of architectural and environmental problems. Passive heating, cooling and daylighting computer software is used to analyze and evaluate building design options and decisions. Project topics vary according to student interest. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5350 Technology Craft and Invention
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This seminar/workshop focuses on questions surrounding craft, the presence of the hand, and making. The collective spirit of this course finds its footing in work driven by the desire for experimentation but also aware of the history of innovation that makes the current step possible. The speculations in this seminar examine the gap between thinking and making as an opportunity for the unpredictable to be made visible. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5370 Public Policy
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This seminar examines the interplay between urban public policy in the U.S., Michigan, and the Metropolitan Detroit Area and politics. Topics include forms of political participation, governmental structures, community power and influence, case studies on urban-suburban interdependency, metropolitan job sprawl, regional agendas, smart growth, mega-project trends in public investment, and history of projects that encourage urban sprawl. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5470 Interior Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This course explores the qualities of interior space, materiality, design sources and human factors as they relate to architecture as a whole. The student will draw upon and expand the fundamental methods of interior design and the intersection between the human body, architecture and environment through concept, composition and theory. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5510 Advanced Visual Communications: Drawing
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This course is conducted in a studio environment arranged to provide graduate level exposure to traditional architectural drawing for purpose of graphic expression with an emphasis on visual rather than technical modes of representation. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5520 Computers and The Practice of Architecture
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This seminar explores the theoretical aspects of computer communications technology (the World Wide Web or Internet and 3D computer modeling of buildings) as it impacts architectural design and how we learn design. This is not a design studio; students analyze and critique the design process, not the results of any architectural project designed together in class. Students learn the implications of "designing together apart" working with a widely-dispersed, electronically-connected collaborative team. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5570 Health Care Environments
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This course provides an historical presentation of the thought behind the design of a variety of prototypical health care facilities with a focus on present day and future trends in health care design. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5590 Architecture and Construction Law
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This course stresses the importance of selecting the proper structure for business ventures such as corporations and partnerships. It explores the liability of architects as a result of client relationships and construction difficulties. Also covered are problems facing the private practitioner, including bonding requirements and architectural malpractice. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5610 Advanced 3 Dimensional Design
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The course is a "hands on" design build exploration. The term 'urban furniture' is shorthand for a construction project that in some way responds to the needs of the human body relative to a particular activity; in this case in the context of some type of public rather than private circumstance. Each student develops a scenario and a specific site within a given neighborhood in Detroit. Designs are developed using drawings, models and mock-ups prior to construction of the full scale objects. Students are given the option to work individually or in pairs. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5670 Methodologies in Healthcare Design
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The course will provide graduate students with an introduction and methodologies associated with the design and planning of health care facilities. The general objectives of the course will be to familiarize and apply tools used by health care professionals in the service of client needs and current/future expectations. This will provide the student with exposure to a full range of services that a health care professional may offer. Specifically this may be strategic planning, master site and facility planning, programmatic benchmarking, research and innovation consultation, evidence and experience based design methodology, graphic design methodology, process improvement methodology, and regulatory understanding at a national level. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5710 Graphic Design
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This course explores the architectural application of graphic design, visual communication, signage (wayfinding), business identity, type logo development as transmitted through words and symbols using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. The student will draw upon and expand the fundamental methods of visual and graphic communication to design and understand the intersection of graphic design, architecture and the environment. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5720 Historic Preservation
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Ongoing research in the history and preservation of the Scripps Mansion in Lake Orion, MI. Students learn research techniques for architecture, landscape, art and craft subjects and techniques of historic preservation. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5810 Graphic Design II
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This advanced course in graphic design explores a multi-disciplinary theoretical approach towards architecture, graphic and product design. Projects explore these relationships by creating a conceptual framework of existing architectural questions posed by the student and then explored by the means of graphic representation. The products produced in the course consist of publications, interface design and identity packages and posters. Although this course is intended to be a continuation of Graphic Design I, it may be taken out of sequence if the student has some knowledge of Adobe Photoshop. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5890 Vernacular Architecture
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This course surveys world vernacular architecture, including the folk traditions of the Americas, Africa, Oceania, Europe and Asia. Emphasis in the course is placed on the vernacular architecture of the United States. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5900 Graduate Compettition Studio
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Courses under this sequence may be applied to the graduate concentration or elective requirements. These courses are basically directed studies with the permission of a faculty member selected by the student. Students electing this path may select any topic that is related to the problems of the environment. | 6 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5910 Special Problems in Architecture
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Courses under this sequence may be applied to the graduate concentration or elective requirements. These courses are basically directed studies with the permission of a faculty member selected by the student. Students electing this path may select any topic that is related to the problems of visual communications. | 1 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5920 Special Problems in Architecture
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Courses under this sequence may be applied to the graduate concentration or elective requirements. These courses are basically directed studies with the permission of a faculty member selected by the student. Students electing this path may select any topic that is related to the problems of history and theory of architecture. | 1 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5930 Special Problems in Architecture
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Courses under this sequence may be applied to the graduate concentration or elective requirements. These courses are basically directed studies with the permission of a faculty member selected by the student. Students electing this path may select any topic that is related to the problems of structural systems and their design and construction. | 1 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5940 Special Problems in Architecture
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Courses under this sequence may be applied to the graduate concentration or elective requirements. These courses are basically directed studies with the permission of a faculty member selected by the student. Students electing this path may select any topic that is related to the problems of environmental systems, passive and active. | 1 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5950 Special Problems in Architecture
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Courses under this sequence may be applied to the graduate concentration or elective requirements. These courses are basically directed studies with the permission of a faculty member selected by the student. Students electing this path may select any topic that is related to the problems of materiality and construction. | 1 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5960 Special Problems in Architecture
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Courses under this sequence may be applied to the graduate concentration or elective requirements. These courses are basically directed studies with the permission of a faculty member selected by the student. Students electing this path may select any topic that is related to the problems and use of digital media in architectural design and/or representation. | 1 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5970 Special Problems in Architecture
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Courses under this sequence may be applied to the graduate concentration or elective requirements. These courses are basically directed studies with the permission of a faculty member selected by the student. Students electing this path may select any topic that is related to issues not covered in other course offerings. | 1 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5980 Special Problems in Architecture
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Courses under this sequence may be applied to the graduate concentration or elective requirements. These courses are basically directed studies with the permission of a faculty member selected by the student. Students electing this path may select any topic that is related to the problems of urban design and the study of urban environments. | 1 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5990 Special Problems in Architecture
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Courses under this sequence may be applied to the graduate concentration or elective requirements. These courses are basically directed studies with the permission of a faculty member selected by the student. Students electing this path may select any topic that is related to the problems of architectural practice. | 1 | 0 | 0 | | |
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ARCH 5991 Special Problems: Directed Research in Manufactured Building Systems
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Research into the precedent for pre-manufactured building systems for affordable housing. Development of criteria to judge the most optimum systems. Development of a hybrid concept to be utilized in creating a prototype system. Future courses will develop, design and construct a prototype. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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