Past Course Descriptions

Fall 2024

Option Studios

The Fall 2024 Option Studio Q&A session was held on Monday, August 12 from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. EST. Ballots are now open and can be filled out here. Ballots will close on Friday, August 16 at 11:59 p.m. EST. Students who do not ballot on time will be assigned to any available section.

All Fall 2024 Option Studios are open to MARC, MLA and MUD students.

(ARC3015YF) (L0101) The Blurst of Times: Exploring AI’s Creative Potential in Architectural Design. Instructor: Vivian Lee
(ARC3015YF) (L0102) Entanglement: Human, AI, and Digital Fabrication. Instructor: Humbi Song
(ARC3015YF) (L0103) Expanding Heritage: Imagining Climate Resilient and Inclusive Futures for Stone Town/Ng’ambo. Instructor: Aziza Chaouni
(ARC3015YF) (L0104) Big Little Village. Instructors: Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu
(ARC3015YF) (L0105) (Ex) Base Scape: The Architecture of (Ex) Extra Territories. Instructor: Nahyun Hwang
(ARC3015YF) (L0106) Impersonation: Being a Child. Instructor: Eiri Ota
(ARC3015YF) (L0107) platform:MIDDLE. Instructor: Johanna Hurme
(ARC3015YF) (L0108) Architecture, Community, and Cultural Memory. Instructors: Shane Laptiste and Tura Cousins Wilson.
(LAN3016YF) (L0101) Plant Diaspora. Instructor: Behnaz Assadi
(LAN3016YF) (L0102) SEEDS + WEEDS: The Knotty Natures of Botanic Gardens. Instructor: Karen M'Closkey
(URD2013) (L0101) New (High-Density) Neighbourhoods with “Old City Charm.” Instructor: Misha Bereznyak

MARC Thesis

The Fall 2024 MARC Thesis Seminar Q&A session was held on Thursday, July 25, 12:00-2:00 p.m. EST.

Ballots will open on July 25 and close on Monday, July 29, 11:59 p.m. EST. Students may only submit one ballot.

Click here for the MARC Thesis Ballot (ARC3018)

The following thesis seminars are open to MARC students:

(ARC3018HF)

(L0101) String Figures. Instructor: Jeannie Kim
(L0102) Architecture and the Right to Housing: The Practical Case for Radicalism. Instructor: Karen Kubey
(L0103) Making with Machines. Instructor: Maria Yablonina
(L0104) LOBSTER TALES and Other Architectures Between Land and Sea. Instructor: Richard Sommer
(L0105) Rehearsing the Parade: Ephemeral Architectures and Persuasion on the Move. Instructor: Miles Gertler
(L0106) Architecture and Health Equity in an Imperiled World. Instructor: Stephen Verderber
(L0107) Politics Policy and Architecture. Instructor: Michael Piper
(L0108) The Certainty of Uncertain Forms, or in search of anexact typologies / The Stone Edition. Instructor: Carol Moukheiber
(L0109) LUNAR HABITAT: Design for Extreme Environments as a Driver of Architectural Innovation. Instructor: Brady Peters

Elective Courses

Fall elective course enrolment begins in August 2024. Please refer to the School of Graduate Studies calendar for sessional dates.

Architecture Elective Courses

History and Theory

(ARC3300HF) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Architecture and Infrastructure in North America Landscapes, 1800-2020. Instructor: Claire Zimmerman
(ARC3600HF) Selected Topics in the History and Theory of Architecture and Health: Health and the Built Environment. Instructor: Stephen Verderber

Computer Modelling

(ARC3201HF) Selected Topics in Advanced Computer Applications: Computational Design. Instructor: Brady Peters

Other

(ARC3723HF) Selected Topics in Architecture: Natural Materials. Instructor: Sam Dufaux

Urban Design Elective Courses

(URD1511HF) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Urban/Affordable Housing. Instructor: Mark Guslits
(URD1515HF) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Designing the Peripheral City. Instructors: Daniel Rotsztain and Thevishka Kanishkan

*URD12## and URD15## code courses may not be used towards satisfying the 0.5 FCE full course equivalents (FCE) in the History and Theory Stream requirement for MARC students. MARC students are advised to choose electives from the ARC History and Theory stream section or PhD History and Theory courses.

PhD Elective Courses

The following PhD elective courses are open to MARC students.

(ALD4101HF) Advanced Topics in Architecture, Landscape, and Design: Life Cycle Design of Buildings. Instructor: Ted Kesik
(ALD4100HF) Advanced Topics in Architecture, Landscape, and Design (History/Theory). Instructor: John Harwood

Summer 2024

Please note that the Studies Abroad & Design Build courses are not available for ACORN enrolment, and can only be requested through the application process detailed below.

Application Form

All eligible students should complete and submit the online application form before Thursday, April 4, 11:59 p.m.

Please note the form is limited to one submission. Further editing and amendments are NOT allowed after the form has been submitted.

ARC2016H, ARC2095H

Studio Abroad

The Daniels Faculty will be offering three global studios to our undergraduate and graduate students in the Summer 2024.

Travel dates in course descriptions will be fully confirmed upon fixing all individual course lists, by mid-April.

(ARC2016HF L0101) X-Athenas: Architecture & Public Space Stories in Contemporary Athens. Instructor: Petros Babasikas
(ARC2016HS L0101) Berlin, a City in Film. Instructor: Peter Sealy
(ARC2016HS L0102) Costa Rica: No Artificial Ingredients. Instructor: Mauricio Quirós Pacheco

Information sessions for this course was held on Wednesday, February 7, 2024, from 12:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.

Design Build

The following are descriptions for the three ARC395H1 design/build sections offered in the Summer 2024 session. These courses are available by application to current Year 3 and Year 4 undergraduate students in any of our Architectural Studies programs.

Travel dates in course descriptions will be fully confirmed upon fixing all individual course lists, by mid-April.

(ARC2095HF P0101) Design Build: Robot Made. Instructors: AnnaLisa Meyboom (UBC SALA), Nicholas Steven Hoban, Aryan Rezaei Rad
(ARC2095HS P0101) Design Build: Circularity (of People and Place). Instructor: TBD

Information sessions for this course was held on Thursday, February 8, 2024, from 12:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.

Elective Courses

Architecture Elective Courses

History and Theory

(ARC3303HF L0101) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Renovation. Instructor: Eric Beck Rubin

Forestry Elective Courses

(FOR3016HF L0101) Vegetation & Ecosystem Health Monitoring in Southern Ontario. Instructor: Danijela Puric-Mladenovic

Winter 2024

ARC2014YS: Design Studio 4

In preparation of your Winter 2024 ARC2014YS: Design Studio 4, we've provided information pertaining to the various studio topics offered by our instructors this term below. While the whole studio will work on the same site, program and deliverables throughout the semester, each instructor will stake a starting point and frame a specific approach for their group.

Students will work in pairs for the entire semester. We ask that your team submit your ranked studio preference through the Comprehensive Studio Ballot no later than November 29th, 2024 at 6:00pm EST. Only one (1) submission per group is required.

(ARC2014YS) Design Studio 4: Comprehensive Building Project

Elective Courses

Architecture Elective Courses

(ALD4100HS) Advanced Topics in Architecture, Landscape, and Design: The Architecture of Horror. Instructor: John Harwood

Computer Modelling

(ARC3205HS) Selected Topics in Architecture: Generative Design Thinking & Workflows. Instructor: Matthew Spremulli

History and Theory

(ARC3304HS) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Decentering Modernism. Instructor: Amin Alsaden
(ARC3310HS) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: The Monument, and other Architectures of Time. Instructor: Richard Sommer
(ARC3315HS) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Dreamhouse. Instructor: Laura Miller
(ARC3317HS) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Reading Seminar. Instructor: George Baird
(ARC3318HS) Selected Topic in Architectural History and Theory: Leisure, Health, Capital, and Climate: An Architectural History. Instructor: Elliot Sturtevant
(ARC3320HS) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Architecture as Environmental Media. Instructor: Jason Nguyen

Professional Practice

(ARC4501HS) Selected Topics in Professional Practice: Building Stories. Instructor: Vivian Lee

Technics and Planning

(ARC3408HS) Selected Topics in Architecture and Technology: Working with Wood. Instructor: Ted Kesik & Sally Krigstin
(ARC3407HS) Selected Topics in Architecture and Technology: Designing with Robots (in Architecture and Otherwise). Instructor: Maria Yablonina
(ARC3410) Selected Topics in Architecture: Past and Future Building Envelopes. Instructor: Daniel Chung
(ARC3502HS) Selected Topics in Architecture and Technology: Selected Topics in Sustainable Design: Perspectives on HVAC & Architecture. Instructor: Bomani Khemet

Other

(ARC3700HS) Selected Topics in Architecture: Laneway Architecture and Urbanism in Toronto. Instructor: Brigitte Shim
(ARC3711HS) Selected Topics in Architecture: Repetition. Instructor: Adrian Phiffer
(ARC3713HS) Selected Topics in Architecture: Brand and storytelling: the climate movement. Instructor: Laura Stein
(ARC3718HS) Selected Topics in Architecture: WOOD in ARCHITECTURE : A Hands-on Approach. Instructor: Christine Ho Ping Kong & Peter Tan
(ARC3721HS) Selected Topics in Architecture: Housing and Social Justice in North America. Instructor: Karen Kubey

Landscape Architecture Elective Courses

Design

(LAN3200HS) Landscape Architecture Topics: Design
Public Art as Landscape Scholarship. Instructor: Jane Wolff

History, Theory, Criticism*

(LAN3701HS) Landscape Architecture Topics: Society
Mapping our Urban Commons: Alternative Models of Land Ownership in Canadian Cities. Instructor: Joshua Kirk

*LAN3701H may not be used towards satisfying the "0.5 FCE full course equivalents (FCE) of elective courses must be in the History and Theory Stream." requirement for MARC students. MARC students are advised to choose electives from the ARC History and Theory stream section.

Technology

(LAN3800HS) Landscape Architecture Topics: Technology
Regenerative Landscape Technologies and Design. Instructor: Peter North

Urban Design Elective Courses

History, Theory, Criticism*

(URD1502HS) Selected Topics in Urban Design: ReHousing Collectives: Strategies for Retrofitting Single-Family Neighborhoods into Multi-Family Co-Housing. Instructor: Michael Piper
(URD1505HS) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Public Engagement in Urban Design. Instructor: Lorne Cappe
(URD1514HS) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Designing for Cultures - An Inquiry for a Multicultural City. Instructor: Sneha Mandhan
(URD1515HS) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Designing the Peripheral City. Instructor: Daniel Rotsztain

*URD12## and URD15## code courses may not be used towards satisfying the "0.5 FCE full course equivalents (FCE) of elective courses must be in the History and Theory Stream." requirement for MARC students. MARC students are advised to choose electives from the ARC History and Theory stream section.

Fall 2023

MARC students

MARC Research Studio Q&A session will be held on August 18th from 2:00pm EST.

Ballots will be open on August 18th and the deadline to submit is Thursday, August 24 at 11:59pm EST. Students may only submit one ballot.

Click here for MARC Studio Ballot

The following studios are open to MARC students:

(ARC3020Y F) Design Studio Research 1

(L0101) Swarm / Counterarchive. Instructor : Jeannie Kim
(L0102) Counterhegemonic Architecture. Instructor : Lukas Pauer
(L0103) SUPERNATURAL. Instructor : Laura Miller
(L0104) ARCHIPELAGO, 4.0: Docu-Drawing, Activism, Re-Building. Instructor: Petros Babasikas
(L0105) Rehearsing the Parade: Ephemeral Assemblies and Persuasion on the Move. Instructor: Miles Gertler
(L0106) HOUSE FOR PIRANESI at Hadrian’s villa: TRIUMPH OF THE FRAGMENT DRAWING AS THESIS An allegory for illustrated ARCHITECTURAL Narrative. Instructor : John Shnier
(L0107) Bridging the Divide: An Architecture of Demographic Transition. Instructor : Shane Williamson
(L0108) The Certainty of Uncertain Forms, or in search of anexact typologies. Instructor : Carol Moukheiber
(L0109) Using Trees. Instructor : Zachary Mollica
(L0110) If robots are the answer, what was the question? Instructor : Brady Peters
(L0111) Architecture and Health Equity in an Imperiled World. Instructor : Stephen Verderber

MLA students

MLA Option Studio Q&A session will be held on August 21st from 2:30pm EST.

Ballots will be open on August 21st and the deadline to submit is Thursday, August 24 at 11:59pm EST. Students may only submit one ballot.

Click here for MLA Studio Ballot

The following studios are open to MLA students:

(LAN3016Y F) Landscape Architecture Design Studio Options

(L0101) The Hart House Farm. Instructor: Liat Margolis
(L0102) Generative Design in Landscape Architecture: Explorations and Applications. Instructor: Robert Wright & Matthew Spremulli

Elective Courses

Fall elective course enrollment begins on July 24th, 2023. Please refer to Graduate Sessional Dates for more details.

Architecture Elective Courses

History and Theory

(ARC3316HF) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Modern Architecture: Planetary Warming Histories. Instructor: Hans (Johannes) Ibelings
(ARC3323HS) Advanced Design Theories: Corporate Architecture. Instructor: John Harwood
(ARC3600HF) Selected Topics in the History and Theory of Architecture and Health: Health and the Built Environment. Instructor: Stephen Verderber

Professional Practice

(ARC4500HF)Selected Topics in Professional Practice: Architecture as an Entrepreneurial Practice. Instructor: Steven Fong & Lorne Gertner

Technics and Planning

(ARC3403HF) Selected Topics in Architecture and Technology: Acoustic Architecture. Instructor: Brady Peters
(ARC3404HF) Selected Topics in Architecture and Technology: Mass Timber Building Technology. Instructor: Ted Kesik
(ARC3405HF) Selected Topics in Architecture and Technology: When Structure is Architecture. Instructor: Dave Bowick
(ARC3501HF) Selected Topics in Sustainable Design: Climate Change Adaptation - Sea Level Rise. Instructor: Alex Lukachko

Other

(ARC3708HF) Selected Topics in Architecture: Sci-Fi Cinema and Architecture. Instructor: Brian Boigon
CANCELLED (ARC3712HF) Selected Topics in Architecture: The New New Urbanism and its Architectural Rhetoric. Instructor: Robert Levit
(ARC3713HF) Selected Topics in Architecture: Brand and storytelling: the climate movement. Instructor: Laura Stein
(ARC3718HF) Selected Topics in Architecture: WOOD in ARCHITECTURE : A Hands-on Approach. Instructor: Christine Ho Ping Kong & Peter Tan
(ARC3723HF) Selected Topics in Architecture: Natural Materials. Instructor: Sam Dufaux

Urban Design Elective Courses

History, Theory, Criticism*

(URD1511HF) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Urban Housing. Instructor: Mark Guslits
(URD1515HF) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Designing the Peripheral City. Instructor: Daniel Rotsztain

*URD12## and URD15## code courses may not be used towards satisfying the "0.5 FCE full course equivalents (FCE) of elective courses must be in the History and Theory Stream." requirement for MARC students. MARC students are advised to choose electives from the ARC History and Theory stream section.

Click here for the School of Graduate Studies (SGS) Calendar

Summer 2023

Please note that the Studies Abroad & Design Build courses are not available for ACORN enrolment, and can only be requested through the application process detailed below.

Information Sessions

Application for Studies Abroad & Design Build

Application form:
(Please note the form is limited to 1 submission).

ARC2016H, ARC2095HS

Application deadline: Monday, March 20, 11:59 p.m.

Studies Abroad

The Daniels Faculty will be offering two global studios to our graduate students in the Summer 2023. The first one, "X-Athenas" will travel to Athens Greece and work on public spaces across the city in collaboration with students from the Department of Architecture, University of Patras. The second one, “Developing Micro-Public Spaces” will focus on the design of new typologies of public spaces in the Medina of Fez, Morocco in collaboration with the School of Architecture and Industrial Design at the University of EuroMed in Fez, Morocco and the Municipality of Fez.

More information on these offerings can be found below.

Information sessions for this course will be held on Wednesday, March 8, 2023 from 12:30pm – 2:00pm.

Travel dates in course descriptions will be fully confirmed upon fixing all individual course lists, by mid-April.

(ARC2016HF L0101) X-Athenas - Public Space Stories in Contemporary Athens. Instructor: Petros Babasikas
(ARC2016HF L0102) Developing Micro-Public Spaces in the Walled Medieval City of Fez. Instructor: Aziza Chaouni
(ARC2016HS L0101) Berlin, a City in Film. Instructor: Peter Sealy

Design Build

Information sessions for this course will be held on Wednesday, March 8, 2023 from 12:30pm – 2:00pm.

Travel dates in course descriptions will be fully confirmed upon fixing all individual course lists, by mid-April.

(ARC2095HS P0101) Design Build: Toronto (Observing and Using a Tree in the City). Instructors: Zachary Mollica

Independent Study Opportunity - Workshop

Please note that ARC3039HF is not available for ACORN enrolment, and can only be requested through the application process detailed below.

Application deadline for ARC3039HF is Monday, April 17, 2023.

Travel dates in course descriptions will be fully confirmed upon fixing all individual course lists, by mid-April.

(ARC3039HF L0101) Independent Study Opportunity - Workshop: NEW CIRCADIA at the InSomnolence Exhibition. Instructor: Richard Sommer (June 13 - 23)

Elective Courses

Architecture Elective Courses

History and Theory

(ARC3313HF L0101) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Work, Technology, Access: From Taylor to Twitch. Instructor: Elliot Sturtevant

Forestry Elective Courses

(FOR1412HF L0101) Vegetation & Ecosystem Health Monitoring in Southern Ontario. Instructor: Danijela Puric-Mladenovic

Winter 2023

Summer 2022

Fall 2022

MLA students

MLA Option Studio Q&A session will be held on August 11th from 2:00pm EST.

Ballots will be open on August 11th and the deadline to submit is Friday, August 12 at 11:59pm EST. Students may only submit one ballot.

Click here for MLA Studio Ballot

The following studios are open to MLA students:

(LAN3016Y F) Landscape Architecture Design Studio Options

(L0101) Ho Chi Minh City Futures: Finding Landscape Strategies in the Urbanized Tropics. Instructor: Ivan Valin & Natalia Echeverri
(L0102) Down North. Instructor: Liz Wreford

MARC students

MARC Research Studio Q&A with Gehry Chair session will be held on August 15th from 1:00pm EST.*

*All other sessions will be held on August 18th.

MARC Research Studio Q&A session will be held on August 18th from 2:00pm - 3:30pm EST.

Ballots will be open on August 18th and the deadline to submit is Wednesday, August 24 at 11:59pm EST. Students may only submit one ballot.

Click here for MARC Studio Ballot

The following studios are open to MARC students:

(ARC3020Y F) Design Studio Research 1

(L0101) Architecture of Risk. Instructor : Jeannie Kim
(L0102) Design Studio Research 1: Counterhegemonic Architecture. Instructor : Lukas Pauer
(L0103) SUPERNATURAL. Instructor : Laura Miller
(L0104) ARCHIPELAGO, 3.3: Storytelling, Activism, Re-Building. Instructor : Petros Babasikas
(L0105) [THE FLP] Framing, Looping & Projecting Quantum Membrane Architecture: Slammed through a variety of tripartverses, stamped through a looking-glass at The Interopera, a Mothership, and it’s, Magical Membranes. Instructor: Brian Boigon
(L0106) HOUSE FOR PIRANESI: TRIUMPH OF THE FRAGMENT DRAWING AS THESIS AN ALLEGORY FOR ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL NARRATIVE. Instructor : John Shnier
(L0107) Bridging the Divide: An Architecture of Demographic Transition. Instructor : Shane Williamson
(L0108) Very Put Together. Instructor : Marc McQuade
(L0109) Using Trees in the City. Instructor : Zachary Mollica
(L0110) ARCHITECTURE OF TRANSITION. Instructor : Marina Tabassum

Elective Courses

Architecture Elective Courses

Computer Modelling

(ARC3200HF) Building Information Modeling. Instructor: Salman Khalili-Araghi
(ARC3206HF) Phy/gital Ornament. Instructor: Andrew Bako

History and Theory

(ARC3316HF) Modern architecture: A Planetary Warming History. Instructor: Hans (Johannes) Ibelings
(ARC3319HF) Advanced Design Theories: Interrogating Space and Place in the Built Environment. Instructor: Eric Nay
(ARC3600HF) Health and the Built Environment. Instructor: Stephen Verderber

Professional Practice

(ARC4500H F) Architecture as an Entrepreneurial Practice. Instructor: Steven Fong

Technics and Planning

(ARC3402HF) The Ha/f Research Seminar: How do we halve the greenhouse gas emissions of the University of Toronto's own buildings? Instructor: Alstan Jakubiec & Kelly Alvarez Doran
(ARC3405HF) When Structure is Architecture. Instructor: Shannon Hilchie
(ARC3501HF) Climate Change Adaptation - Sea Level Rise. Instructor: Alex Lukachko

Other

(ARC3706HF) Prefab, Modular, Resilient, Systems. Instructor: Jason Halter
(ARC3715HF) Discard Culture - How Waste Shapes The World. Instructor: J.P. King

(ARC3104HF) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Simulation and Subjectivity. Instructor: Paul Howard Harrison

Urban Design Elective Courses

History, Theory, Criticism*

(URD1031HF) A History of Toronto Urban Form. Instructor: George Baird

(URD1202HF) Planning and Designing for Community Power. Instructors: Keisha St. Louis-McBurnie & Chiyi Tam
(URD1501HF) Implementing the Missing Middle 1. Instructors: Michael Piper & Sneha Mandhan
(URD1508HF) The Sense of Place. Instructor: Kanwal Aftab
(URD1511HF) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Urban Housing. Instructor: Mark Guslits

*URD12## and URD15## code courses may not be used towards satisfying the "0.5 FCE full course equivalents (FCE) of elective courses must be in the History and Theory Stream." requirement for MARC students. MARC students are advised to choose electives from the ARC History and Theory stream section.

Visual Studies Electives

(VIS1010HF). Contemporary Art Since 1960 - Art and Theory Today. Instructor: Zachary Blas
(VIS1101HF). Paradigmatic Exhibitions: Theory, History, Practice. Instructor: TBD

Click here for the School of Graduate Studies (SGS) Calendar

Architecture Elective Courses

History and Theory

(ARC3302H F) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Critical Practice. Instructor: Amin Alsaden

Forestry Elective Courses

(FOR1412H F) Natural Resource Management I: Vegetation Inventory, Monitoring, and Application. Instructor: Danijela Puric-Mladenovic

Winter 2022

ARC2014YS: Design Studio 4

In preparation of your Winter 2022 ARC2014YS: Design Studio 4, we've provided information pertaining to the various studio topics offered by our instructors this term below. While the whole studio will work on the same site, program and deliverables throughout the semester, each instructor will stake a starting point and frame a specific approach for their group.

Students will work in pairs for the entire semester. We ask that your team submit your ranked studio preference through the Comprehensive Studio Ballot no later than December 3rd, 2021 at 9:00am EST. Only one (1) submission per group is required.

(ARC2014YS) Design Studio 4: Comprehensive Building Project

Architecture Elective Courses

Computer Modeling

(ARC3202H S) Selected Topics in Advanced Computer Applications: Daylight and Electric Lighting Design. Instructor: Alstan Jakubiec
(ARC3205H S) Selected Topics in Advanced Computer Applications: Generative Design Thinking & Workflows. Instructors: Matthew Spremulli, Hali Larson

History & Theory

(ARC3304H S) Selected Topics in Architectural History & Theory: Decentering Modernism. Instructor: Amin Alsaden
(ARC3313H S) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Work, Technology, Access: From Taylor to Twitch. Instructor: Elliott Sturtevent
(ARC3314H S) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Rethinking the Art of Building: Architecture, Labour, and Technology Instructor: Jason Nguyen
(ARC3315H S) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Dreamhouse. Instructor: Laura Miller

Technics and Planning

(ARC3406H S) Selected Topics in Architecture and Technology: Parametric Acoustics: Computational Approaches to Designing Sound and Space. Instructor: Brady Peters
(ARC3407H S) Selected Topics in Architecture and Technology: Designing with Robots (in Architecture and Otherwise). Instructor: Maria Yablonina
(ARC3408H S) Selected Topics in Architecture and Technology: Working with Wood. Instructors: Ted Kesik, Sally Krigstin
(ARC3502H S) Selected Topics in Sustainable Design: Perspectives on HVAC & Architecture. Instructor: Bomani Khemet

Other

(ARC3700H S) Selected Topics in Architecture: Laneway Architecture and Urbanism in Toronto. Instructor: Brigitte Shim
(ARC3706H S) Selected Topics in Architecture: Prefab, Modular, Resilient, Systems. Instructor: Jason Halter
(ARC3707H S) Selected Topics in Architecture: Building Typologies of the Missing Middle. Instructor: Michael Piper
(ARC3710H S) Selected Topics in Architecture: Recognizing Facts on the Ground. Instructor: Lukas Pauer
(ARC3715H S) Selected Topics in Architecture: Discard Culture - How Waste Shapes The World. Instructor: J.P. King

Landscape Architecture Elective Courses

Environment

(LAN3500H S) Landscape Architecture Topics: Contemporary Approaches in Planting Design. Instructor: Alissa North

History, Theory, Criticism

(LAN3700H S) Landscape Architecture Topics: Indigenous Perspectives on Landscapes. Instructor: Doug Anderson

Technology

(LAN3800H S) Landscape Architecture Topics: Regenerative Landscape Technologies and Design. Instructor: Peter North

Urban Design Elective Courses

History, Theory, Criticism*

(URD1505H S) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Public Engagement in Urban Design. Instructor: Lorne Cappe
(URD1513H S) Selected Topics in Urban Design: One Mean City - Heritage and Adaptation in Toronto. Instructor: Nicolas Barrette
(URD1514H S) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Designing for Cultures - An Inquiry for a Multicultural City. Instructor: Sneha Mandhan

*For the Winter 2022 session, URD15** code courses cannot be used to satisfy the History & Theory elective requirements for MARC students.

Other

(JPF2431H S) Cities. Instructors: Patricia McCarney, George Baird, Richard Stren

Visual Studies Elective Courses

(VIS1020H S) Contemporary Art: Theory & Criticism (Breathe - Concerning Art & Architecture). Instructor: Charles Stankievech

Fall 2021

MARC need to review all descriptions and videos for ARC3020Y. There are a total of 12 ARC studios offered this Fall 2021. MLA students need to review all LAN3016Y descriptions and videos and will ballot to rank these two options.

Ballots will be open on August 30th and the deadline to submit is Tuesday, Sept. 7 at 8:00am EST for MARC students, and Thursday, Sept. 2 at noon, 12:00pm EST for MLA students. Students may only submit one ballot.

A Q&A session will be held for MLA students on August 30th from 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST, and for MARC students on August 30th from 12:00pm - 1:30pm EST. Students will be emailed the zoom link for these events.

**In order to view the Ballot videos you must click on each studio description to find the embedded YouTube video links **

The following studios are open to MARC students:

(ARC3020Y F) Design Studio Research 1

(L0101) Reappraising the Design of Long-Term Care Residential Environments in the Context of COVID-19. Instructor: Stephen Verderber
(L0102) Interstellar Architecture: Designing and prototyping a home beyond Earth. Instructor: Brady Peters
(L0103) STUFF. Instructor: Laura Miller
(L0104) ARCHIPELAGO, 3.0: Storytelling, Activism, Re-Building. Instructor: Petros Babasikas
(L0105) BROWSE, the Gathering. Instructors: Lara Lesmes, Fredrik Hellberg
(L0106) Meuble Immeuble. Instructor: An Te Liu
(L0107) Bridging the Divide: An Architecture of Demographic Transition. Instructor: Shane Williamson
(L0108) Framing, Looping & Projecting Quantum Architecture. Instructor: Brian Boigon
(L0109) Half Studio. Instructor: Kelly Alvarez Doran
(L0110) House for Piranesi: Allegory Narratives; Drawing as Thesis. Instructor: John Shnier
(L0111) Potent Voids. Instructor: Lina Ghotmeh
(L0112) Reconceptualizing a 1960’s urban renewal project in downtown Hamilton, Ontario: The Jackson Square Shopping Mall. Instructor: George Baird

The following studios are open to MLA students:

(LAN3016Y F) Landscape Architecture Design Studio Options

(L0101) Mediated Alps: Reconstructing mountain archives and futures. Instructor: Aisling O'Carroll
(L0102) Slow Landscape: to a new expression of place. Instructor: Victoria Taylor

Architecture Elective Courses

History and Theory

(ARC3103H F) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Managing the Unpredictable - Crisis Management in Cities of the Global South. Instructor: Hind Ottami
(ARC3104H F) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Simulation and Subjectivity. Instructor: Paul Howard Harrison
(ARC3310H F) Selected Topics in Architectural History & Theory: Architectures of Time: Remaking the Monument. Instructor: Richard Sommer
(ARC3312H F) Selected Topics in Architectural History & Theory: Toward an Architecture of Care. Instructor: Tara Bissett
(ARC3325H F) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Architecture and the Infrastructures of Global Imaginaries. Instructor: Mary Louise Lobsinger
(ARC3600H F) Selected Topics in the History and Theory of Architecture and Health: Health and the Built Environment. Instructor: Stephen Verderber

Computer Modelling

(ARC3200H F) Selected Topics in Advanced Computer Applications: Building Information Modeling. Instructor: Salman Khalili-Araghi

Technics and Planning

(ARC3404H F) Selected Topics in Architecture and Technology: Mass Timber Building Technology. Instructor: Ted Kesik
(ARC3405H F) Selected Topics in Architecture and Technology: When Structure is Architecture. Instructor: Shannon Hilchie
(ARC3501H F) Selected Topics in Sustainable Design: Climate Change Adaptation - Sea Level Rise. Instructor: Alex Lukachko

Other

(ARC3703H F) Selected Topics in Architecture: Casting. Instructor: An Te Liu
(ARC3717H F) Selected Topics in Architecture: Normal Architecture. Instructor: Hans Ibelings

Professional Practice

(ARC4500H F) Selected Topics in Professional Practice: Architecture as an Entrepreneurial Practice. Instructor: Steven Fong, Lorne Gertner

Urban Design Elective Courses

History, Theory, Criticism

(URD1031H F) History of Toronto Urban Form. Instructor: George Baird
(URD1509H F) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Cities, Commerce, Entertainment. Instructor: Alfredo Landaeta
(URD1511H F) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Urban Housing. Instructor: Mark Guslits
(URD1512H F) Selected Topics in Urban Design: The Sense of a Place. Instructor: Kanwal Aftab

Summer 2021

Revit Skills Summer Workshop

Wed, Aug 4th - Tues, Aug 17th, 2021.
This optional two-week intensive workshop will introduce graduate MARC students with a well-rounded knowledge of Autodesk Revit tools and techniques. The practical skills will be established around content creation, data management and representation. These techniques will be provided by using careful studies of a residential building precedent. Interested students should RSVP no later than July 26th, 2021.

RSVP: Revit Skills Workship 2021

Architecture Elective Courses

Computer Modeling

(ARC3200HF) Selected Topics in Advanced Computer Applications: Building Information Modeling. Instructor: Salman Khalili-Araghi

History and Theory

(ARC3302HS) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Critical Practice - Architecture of Resistance. Instructor: Amin Alsaden
(ARC3306HS) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Alchemy, Craft, Matter. Instructor: Christy Anderson
(ARC3308HS) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: The Future Repeats Itself - Architectural Scenarios. Instructor: Hans Ibelings
(ARC3321HS) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Berlin - A City in Film. Instructor: Peter Sealy

Winter 2021

Architecture Elective Courses

History and Theory

(ARC3105H S) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Other Cultures of Density. Instructor: Michael Piper
(ARC3301H S) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Architecture and the Sea. Instructor: Christy Anderson
(ARC3304H S) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Decentering Modernism. Instructor: Amin Alsaden
(ARC3307H S) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Sites of Exchange - Architecture and Capital Flows. Instructor: Jason Nguyen
(ARC3311H S) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: The Villa and its Landscapes. Instructor: Katie Jakobiec

Computer Modelling

(ARC3201H S) Selected Topics in Advanced Computer Applications: Computational Design. Instructor: Brady Peters
(ARC3203H S) Selected Topics in Advanced Computer Applications: Designing with Robots - Advanced Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication. Instructor: Maria Yablonina
(ARC3204H S) Selected Topics in Advanced Computer Applications: Architectural Thermal and Fluid Dynamics. Instructor: Alstan Jakubiec

Technics and Planning

(ARC3404H S) Selected Topics in Architecture and Technology: Mass Timber Building Technology. Instructor: Ted Kesik

Other

(ARC3703H S) Selected Topics in Architecture: Casting. Instructor: An Te Liu
(ARC3704H S) Selected Topics in Architecture: Architecture Exhibitions - Everything, Except Architecture Itself. Instructor: Mauricio Quirós Pacheco
(ARC3709H S) Selected Topics in Architecture: On the Artifact. Instructor: Laura Miller
(ARC3723H S) Selected Topics in Architecture: Architecture in Dialogue / The Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Instructor: Brigitte Shim
(ARC3724H S) Selected Topics in Architecture: On Ghost Images. Instructor: Petros Babasikas
(ARC3725H S) Selected Topics in Architecture: Generative Design - Thinking and Workflows. Instructors: Matthew Spremulli, Hali Larson

Professional Practice

(ARC4501H S) Selected Topics in Professional Practice: Building Stories. Instructor: Wei-Han Vivian Lee

Landscape Architecture Elective Courses

History and Theory

(LAN3700H S) Landscape Architecture Topics: Indigenous Perspectives on Landscapes. Instructor: Doug Anderson
(LAN3901H S) Landscape Architecture Topics: Modern to Postmodern in Landscape. Instructor: Alissa North

Technology

(LAN3800H S) Landscape Architecture Topics: Regenerative Landscape Technologies and Design. Instructor: Peter North

Urban Design Elective Courses

History, Theory, Criticism

(URD1503H S) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Tabula Non-Rasa - On Architecture, Heritage and Adaptation. Instructor: Nicholas Barrette
(URD1505H S) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Community Consultation & Urban Design. Instructor: Lorne Cappe
(URD1508H S) Selected Topics in Urban Design: The Public Street. Instructor: Kanwal Aftab
(URD1510H S) Borders & Boundaries - Territoriality, Urban Settings, and Art as a Mediator. Instructors: David Gouvernour, Ruth Mora, Alfred Landaeta

Visual Studies Electives

(VIS1020H S) Contemporary Art: Theory and Criticism. Instructor: Lauren Fournier

Fall 2020

Research Studios

All MARC and MUD students need to review all descriptions and videos for ARC3020Y and URD2013Y. There are a total of 11 studios. MLA students need to review all LAN3016Y descriptions and videos and will ballot for one of these three.

Ballots will be open on Sept. 1 and the deadline to submit is Sept. 3 11:59 pm EST. Students may only submit one ballot.

A Q&A session will be held for MLA students on Sept. 1 at 9am and for MARC & MUD students on Sept. 1 at 12:00pm EST. Students will be emailed the zoom link for these events.

**In order to view the video content for each Research Studio, please sign into MyMedia **

The following studios (ARC3020Y and URD2013Y) are open to MARC and MUD students:

(ARC3020Y F) Design Studio Research 1

(L9101) Redeployable Architecture for Health—Pop-up Hospitals for Covid-19. Instructor: Stephen Verderber
(L9102) Tuning Spaces. Instructor: Brady Peters
(L9103) STUFF. Instructor: Laura Miller
(L9104) A r c h i p e l a g o. Instructor: Petros Babasikas
(L9105) ARCHITECTURE ♥ MEDIA. Instructors: Lara Lesmes, Fredrik Hellberg
(L9106) Designing Buildings with Complex Programs on Constrained Urban Sites that include Heritage Structures. Instructor: George Baird
(L9107) What is Inclusive Architecture (Landscape Architecture, Urban Design)? Instructor: Elisa Silva
(L9108) The Usual Suspects. Instructors: Filipe Magalhaes, Ahmed Belkhodja, Ana Luisa Soares
(L9109) Towards Half: Climate Positive Design in the GTHA. Instructor: Kelly Doran
(L9110) Anthropocene and Herd. Instructor: Gilles Saucier, Christian Joakim, Gregory Neudorf

(URD2013Y F) Urban Design Studio Options

(L9101) Polemical Landscapes Instructor: Angus Laurie and Mariana Leguia

The following Option Studios (LAN3016Y) are open to MLA students:

(LAN3016Y F) Landscape Architecture Design Studio Options

(L9101) Toronto Ravines - CREATURE. Instructor: Alissa North
(L9102) Our Plant Relations. Instructor: Sheila Boudreau
(L9103) Mediated Reconstructions: Developing a historiographic design method in landscape. Instructor: Aisling O'Carroll

Architecture Elective Courses

History and Theory

(ARC3103H F) Selected Topics in Urban Design. Instructor: Hind Ottmani
(ARC3104H F) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Simulation and Subjectivity. Instructor: Paul Howard Harrison
(ARC3303H F) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Crafting, a Future. Instructor: Tara Bisset
(ARC3305H F) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Destructive Creativity: Modern Architecture Since the Beginning of the Great Acceleration, 1945-present. Instructor: Hans Ibelings
(ARC3309H F) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Form and Meaning, Classicism and Slavery. Instructor: Peter Sealy
(ARC3324H F) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Parallel Modernities. Instructor: Elisa Silva
(ARC3325H F) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Architecture, Infrastructure, and the Global Imaginary. Instructor: Mary Louise Lobsinger
(ARC3600H F) Selected Topics in the History and Theory of Architecture and Health: Health and the Built Environment. Instructor: Stephen Verderber

Computer Modelling

(ARC3200H F) Selected Topics in Advanced Computer Applications: Building Information Modeling. Instructor: Salman Khalili-Araghi

Technics and Planning

(ARC3400H F) Selected Topics in Architecture and Technology: Wood-Frame Construction Technology. Instructor: Ted Kesik
(ARC3403H F) Selected Topics in Architecture and Technology: Acoustic Architecture. Instructor: Brady Peters
(ARC3405H F) Selected Topics in Architecture and Technology: When Structure is Architecture. Instructors: Shannon Hilchie, David Bowick

Other

(ARC3701H F) Selected Topics in Architecture: Icons and Iconoclasts. Instructor: John Shnier
(ARC3702H F) Selected Topics in Architecture: Voices We Seldom Hear. Instructor: Aziza Chaouni
(ARC3711H F) Selected Topics in Architecture: Repetition. Instructor: Adiran Phiffer
(ARC3715H F) Selected Topics in Architecture: Discard Culture - How Waste Shapes The World. Instructor: J.P. King

Professional Practice

(ARC4500H F) Selected Topics in Professional Practice: Architecture as an Entrepreneurial Practice. Instructors: Steven Fong, Lorne Gertner
(ARC4503H F) Selected Topics in Professional Practice: By Other Means: Alternative Models of Architectural Production. Instructor: Tei Carpenter

Urban Design Elective Courses

History, Theory, Criticism

(URD1506H F) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Cultivating Public Art. Instructor: Noel Troxell
(URD1507H F) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Urban Housing. Instructor: Mark Guslits

Political Science

(JPF2430Y Y) Cities. Instructors: Patricia McCarney, George Baird

Visual Studies

(VIS1010H F) Contemporary Art Since 1960 - Narrating Place in Toronto. Instructor: Luis Jacob
(VIS1101H F) Paradigmatic Exhibitions: Theory, History, Practice. Instructor: Barbara Fischer

Summer 2020

Architecture Elective Courses

History and Theory

(ARC3300H S) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: 12 Postcards from the History of Housing. Instructor: Petros Babasikas
(ARC3301H S) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Architecture and the Sea. Instructor: Christy Anderson
(ARC3321H S) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Berlin - A City in Film. Instructor: Peter Sealy

Global Architecture

Please note that due to the COVID-19 situation, the following Daniels Global Architecture Studio courses have been cancelled for the Summer 2020 session.