Fall 2020 Courses

ARCH 571 (E1), Erik Hemingway

The seventh annual AIA COTE Top Ten for Students Competition challenges students to submit projects that use a thoroughly integrated approach to architecture, natural systems, and technology to enhance the environment.

ARCH 571 (E2), Tom Loew

The I-House Design-Build studio explores the design process as it directly relates to the practice of custom design and to the fabrication of a residential scale project.

ARCH 571 (E3), Sotirios Kotoulas

This studio will reimagine the city of New York in the midst of the current global pandemic and social revolution.

ARCH 572 (E1), AnnaMarie Bliss and Trina Sandschafer

This studio asks designers to consider how the architecture and space around housing structures impact a resident’s ability maintain wellness and high quality of life.

ARCH 573 (E1), Ralph Hammann

ARCH 574 (E1), Paul Armstrong 

This studio explores the  relationship of the skyscraper to a complex physical, social, and environmental context, while engaging issues of detail and construction in expressing architectural ideas and concepts.

ARCH 574 (E2), Aneesha Dharwadker

This graduate studio, a collaboration between Architecture and Landscape Architecture, reimagines the Urbana-Champaign campus in an era of social distancing.

ARCH 574 (E3), David Chasco

The Center for the Study of Etruscan Culture and Artifacts project will seek to confront and analyze profound issues on expectations for new urban or historic-like civic environments.

ARCH 574 (E4), Marcos Barinas-Uribe 

We will target the risks of declining mangrove ecosystems in West-Central Africa, Its cultural, economic and political implications. We will study its relevance for architecture design, its social pertinence and its environmental responsibility.

ARCH 574 (E5), Rodrigo Vidal 

This studio addresses planning and designing health, social, and mobility infrastructural nodes as second growth models in underserved communities in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

ARCH 576 (AP), David Chasco 

Students will engage architectural programming as a method to explore design issues and their intellectual impact on built cultural art facility projects in an urban/non-urban or academic environment.

ARCH 576 (EXP), Scott Murray

This graduate seminar focuses on the theory, design, and analysis of building envelope systems.

ARCH 576 (GDP), Aneesha Dharwadker

This graduate seminar surveys contemporary design practice on six continents, introducing students to a wide variety of scales, methods, questions, and positions that are emerging in the 21st century.

ARCH 576 (PI), Yun Kyu Yi 

This course develops techniques for integrating environmental performance analysis and the design of buildings, with an emphasis on parametric methods.

ARCH 576 (SPP), Benjamin Bross 

Using case studies and a selection of compelling readings, students will explore beyond form and function and dive into the production of space through the lenses of phenomenology, history (including collective memory), and sociocultural practice.

ARCH 594 (BER), Rick Strand 

Learn about building energy simulation (EnergyPlus), parametric analysis of building characteristics, and current research on buildings and energy.