Undergraduate Course Descriptions

Fall 2023 – Undergrad architecture COURSES

Course information can also be found in the UNC Charlotte Undergraduate Catalog and the Bachelor of Arts in Architecture Academic Plan of Study.

ARCH 4102 – Topical Studios

register for T01 temporary seciton, a google form to rank your preferences will be sent out in April

• Forget – TBD
• Kesavan – The Self and Society
• Lee – TBD
• Reddrick & Ault – The Sudio @ Little (meets at Little, 615 S. College St., Suite 1600 – uptown Charlotte)
• Ryan – Introduction to Urban Design (meets at Dubois Center, uptown Charlotte)

ARCH 4204 – History/Theory Topics

• ​Klein – Architectural History and Criticism Methodologies
• Makas – Critical Approaches to Heritage
• Murtha – Anthropology of Landscapes
• Nanny – Contemporary Art History
• West – Humanitarian Architecture: Small-Scale Design in a Big-Scale World

ARCH 4050 – Architecture Topics

• Burch – Puppetry
• Elmore – Entrepreneurship and the Arts
• Fillmore – Lighting for the Performing Arts
• Forget – Post-Film Architecture
• Gordon – Technical Communication
• Jarrett – Japanese Conceptions of Space
• Manack – Good Fast Cheap
• Ranis – Sculpture Projects
• Ryan – Equity in Design
• Sachs – Introduction to Physical Crafting
• Thaddeus – The Structure of the Everyday
• Zhang – Atmospheric Animations: Collaborative-Vision in Motion

Core Courses

• 1st Year (Fall Semester)
  • ARCH 1101 – Studio 1 (Studio)
  • CoAA 1101 – College Success Skills (Studio)
  • LBST 2213 – Environmental Ethics (Building Technology)
• 1st Year (Spring Semester)
  • ARCH 1102 – Studio II (Studio)
  • ARCH 1602 – Writing Reading Thinking Architecture (Skills)
  • LBST 2213 – Environmental Ethics (Building Technology)
• 2nd Year (Fall Semester)
  • ARCH 2101 – Studio III (Studio)
  • ARCH 4201 – History I (History & Theory)
  • ARCH 4301 – Materials (Building Technology)
• 2nd Year (Spring Semester)
  • ARCH 2102 – Studio IV (Studio)
  • ARCH 4202 – History II (History & Theory)
  • ARCH 4302 – Environmental Systems (Building Technology)
• 3rd Year (Fall Semester)
  • ARCH 3101 – Studio V (Studio)
  • ARCH 4604 – Computational Methods (Skills)
  • ARCH 4303 – Structures I (Building Technology)
• 3rd Year (Spring Semester)
  • ARCH 3102 – Studio VI (Studio)
  • ARCH 4605 – Computational Practice (Skills)
  • ARCH 4304 – Structures II (Building Technology)
• 4th Year (Fall Semester)
  • ARCH 4101 – Studio VII (Studio)
  • ARCH 4203 – History III (History & Theory)
• 4th Year (Spring Semester)
  • ARCH 4102 – Studio VIII (Studio)
  • ARCH 4203 – History III (History & Theory)

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