The following list shows currently offered courses for spring 2020. For more information, see the UC Berkeley Online Schedule of Classes.
Please note: this list will be amended as the schedule develops.
ARCH 11B [Pakravan]
Introduction to Design
Format: 3 hours of lecture, 2 hours of lab, and 6 hours of studio per week
Description: Introduction to design concepts and conventions of graphic representation and model building as related to the study of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and city planning. Students draw in plan, section, elevation, axonometric, and perspective and are introduced to digital media. Design projects address concepts of order, site analysis, scale, structure, rhythm, detail, culture, and landscape.
ARCH 98BC/198BC [Crawford]
Berkeley Connect
Format: 1 hour of seminar per week
Description: Berkeley Connect links undergraduate students with experienced mentors in Architecture. These mentors lead small groups of 10-20 students in regular meetings; they also meet with students one-on-one to provide guidance and advice. The core of the Berkeley Connect program is a one-credit, pass-fail course that is designed to create a community of students with similar intellectual interests. There is no homework associated with Berkeley Connect: no exams, no papers, no quizzes. Instead, small group meetings focus on sharing ideas and learning new skills within the Architecture major as a way to foster friendships and provide a supportive intellectual community for Berkeley undergraduates.The only requirement for joining Berkeley Connect in Architecture is that you have an interest in the field of study. You do not have to be a major in order to participate. Undeclared freshmen and sophomores are welcome, along with entering junior transfers and juniors and seniors who have declared the major.
ARCH 100B [Staff]
Fundamentals of Architectural Design
Format: 2 hours of lecture, 2 hours of lab, and 6 hours of studio per week
Description: Introductory course in the design of buildings. Problems emphasize conceptual strategies of form and space, site relationships and social, technological and environmental determinants. 100B stresses tectonics, materials, and energy considerations. Studio work is supplemented by lectures, discussions, readings and field trips.
ARCH 100D [Staff]
Architectural Design IV
Format: 8 hours of studio per week
Description: Students work on individual and/or group design projects that build on topics from previous studios with additional integration of conditions pertinent to architectural production that may include architectural precedents, context, landscape and urban issues, envelope, structure, and tectonics in the design of buildings. It may also include relevant and pertinent social, cultural, and technological issues facing architecture and design.
ARCH 102B SEC 001 [Fields]
Capstone Project Preparation Seminar: Architecture Design Research Track
Format: 4 hours of seminar and 4 hours of studio per week
Description: This class provides students an opportunity to reassess and recalibrate their design interests and potential. A substantive portion of the class is devoted to analytical reading, representation, and methodology. These investigations assist in initiating projects normally viewed outside architectural design. Within this framework, students construct and execute a design thesis. The design thesis is not predetermined. Based on a student’s individual research, it may appear in a form other than architecture. The class’s analytical method, however, remains true to creative rituals associated with drawing and modeling. A broad design topic range is encouraged, including drawing/representation, identity/social constructions, visual arts, product design, and architecture (symbolic).
ARCH 102B SEC 002 [Covey]
Capstone Project Preparation Seminar: History, Theory, and Society: Intersections of Past, Present, and Future
Format: 4 hours of seminar and 4 hours of studio per week
Description: As one of the design research options, this capstone experience is intended for students who are interested in exploring architecture and urbanism in time and place through broad intellectual frameworks. This is a research and writing-based seminar, emphasizing contemporary social theory, historical and cultural analyses, and a variety of methods that range from ethnography to archival research. Students are encouraged to enroll in electives that support the historical and cultural background or socio-political context of their research interests.
Each student selects an object of inquiry and engages with materials from across the social sciences and humanities to formulate, investigate, and write about their topic. Through this process, students will produce a prospectus, an annotated bibliography, and a comprehensive research outline. In the spring semester, students will employ these tools to develop their research and findings as a senior thesis. In addition to the written material, students may have the option (with instructor approval) to include and/or present relevant creative work as part of their thesis project.
Intersections of Past, Present, and Future is the research theme for the 2019-2020 academic year. Applying this lens, student research projects will consider relationships between built
environments, ideological projects, and shifting conceptions of time.
ARCH 102B SEC 003 [Staff]
Capstone Project Preparation Seminar: Building Science, Technology, and Sustainability: Environmental Performance and Architecture
Format: 4 hours of seminar and 4 hours of studio per week
Description: This capstone project targets students interested in studying the relationship between architecture, energy, and the environment. The class will discuss the relevance that environmental performance has in current architectural design practice. It will introduce different research methods to assess the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) of buildings and other built spaces, including on-site measurements and surveys, analog simulations based on physical experiments, and computer-based simulations. It will also contextualize such methods either in terms of their application or their use in current building standards or building rating systems (e.g. LEED).
From the analysis of a case study, students will learn to use different investigative approaches to build a well-structured narrative that conveys the relationship between the spatial/architectural quality of a building and its thermal, daylight, and acoustic performance. Class methods focus on the visualization of data related with climate, energy building performance, daylight in buildings, and occupant satisfaction, and on sensitivity/parametric analysis as an approach that supports decision-making processes in the design of sustainable and comfortable spaces.
ARCH 139/239 [Crysler]
Queer Theory
Format: 3 hours of seminar per week
A description is forthcoming
ARCH 140 [Brager]
Energy and Environment
Format: 3 hours of lecture and 3 hours of discussion per week
Description: This course provides students with an introduction to issues of physical building performance including building thermodynamics, daylighting, and solar control. The course presents the fundamentals of building science while recognizing the evolving nature of building technologies, energy efficiency, ecology, and responsible design. The course begins with a detailed explication of the thermal properties of materials, heat transfer through building assemblies, balance point temperature, solar geometry, and shading analysis. Students apply these principles later in the course to a design project. The course also provides a survey of broader building science topics including mechanical system design, microclimate, and current developments in energy-efficient design.
ARCH 159/259 SEC 001 [Black]
A title and description are forthcoming
ARCH 159/259 SEC 002 [Black]
A title and description are forthcoming
ARCH 160 [Buntrock]
Introduction to Construction
Format: 3 hours of lecture and 3 hours of lab per week
Description: This introduction to the materials and processes of construction takes architecture from design to realization. The course will cover four material groups commonly used in two areas of the building assembly (structure and envelope): wood, concrete, steel, and glass. You will understand choices available and how materials are conventionally used. By observing construction, you'll see how our decisions affect the size of materials, connections, and where they are assembled. Architects must understand not only conventions, but also the potential in materials, so we will also study unusual and new developments.
ARCH 169 SEC 001 / 269 SEC 002 [Gutierrez]
A title and description are forthcoming
ARCH 170B [Crawford]
An Historical Survey of Architecture and Urbanism
Format: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Description: The first part of this sequence studies the ancient and medieval periods; the second part studies the period since 1400; the aim is to look at architecture and urbanism in their social and historical context.
ARCH 179/279 SEC 001 [Uyttenhove]
Views and Visions: Representing Flanders’ Landscape and Built Environment
Format: 3 hours of seminar per week
Description: Contemporary architecture and urban design in Flanders are internationally acknowledged as refined, reflective and authentic. Diverse and omnipresent, its built environment is a showcase of European history. Today, its nebulous city is part of urban sprawl. This class offers a comprehensive presentation of Flanders’ architecture and urbanism, its urbanized landscapes, and how they were imagined by architects, planners, designers, geographers, photographers, and painters. Questions will be discussed about how this built environment has developed in history and what its challenges are for tomorrow. In particular, the class will look at how it has been represented and planned in views and visions and how these images are composed and utilized.
ARCH 179/279 SEC 002 [Castillo]
Design Radicals
Format: 3 hours of seminar per week
A description is forthcoming
ARCH 200B [Atwood/Zinni/Spiegel]
Introduction to Architecture Studio 2
Format: 8 hours of studio per week
Description: Introductory course in architectural design and theories for graduate students. Problems emphasize the major format, spatial, material, tectonic, social, technological, and environmental determinants of building form. Studio work is supplemented by lectures, discussions, readings, and field trips.
ARCH 202 [Staff]
Graduate Option Studio
Format: 8 hours of studio per week
Description: Focused design and research for graduate students.
ARCH 204B [Buresh, Iwamoto, Turan, Orkand, Ray]
Thesis Studio
Format: 8 hours of studio per week
Description: Focused design research as the capstone project for graduate students.
ARCH 205B [Rael]
Studio One, Spring
Format: 8 hours of studio per week
Description: This course is the second semester of a one-year, post-professional studio intended for those students who have a professional architecture degree and wish to explore current design issues in a stimulating, rigorous, and highly experimental studio setting.
ARCH 207C [Iwamoto]
Professional Practice Colloquium
Format: 1 hour of lecture per week
Description: This course accompanies the required comprehensive design studio in the three-year option of the Master of Architecture program. It is the third in a series of three one-unit colloquia, scheduled consecutively for the first three semesters of the program.
ARCH 207D [Staff]
The Cultures of Practice
Format: 3 hours of seminar per week
Description: The nature of architectural practice, how it has evolved and how it is changing in today's world is the theme of the class. The course considers how diverse cultures--both anthropological and professional--contribute to practice, and how the culture of practice evolves. The class has three five-week modules devoted to the following themes: traditions of practice, research in the culture of the profession, and innovations in practice.
ARCH 230 [Turan]
Advanced Architectural Design Theory and Criticism
Format: 3 hours of lecture per week
Description: Seminar in the analysis and discussion of contemporary and historical issues in architectural design theory and criticism.
ARCH 240 [Caldas]
Advanced Study of Energy and Environment
Format: 1.5 hours of lecture and 3 hours of lab per week
Description: Minimizing energy use is a cornerstone of designing and operating sustainable buildings, and attention to energy issues can often lead to greatly improved indoor environmental quality. For designers, using computer-based energy analysis tools are important not only to qualify for sustainability ratings and meet energy codes, but also to develop intuition about what makes buildings perform well. This course will present quantitative and qualitative methods for assessing energy performance during design of both residential and commercial buildings. Students will get hands-on experience with state-of-the-art software to assess the performance of building components and whole-building designs.
ARCH 264 [Buntrock]
Off-Site Fabrication: Opportunities and Evils
Format: 3 hours of seminar per week
Description: This seminar looks at the implications of off-site fabrication in architecture: consistent, protected environments; worker efficiency and safety; coordination of trades; cheaper, semi-skilled labor; construction periods shortened; and completion dates more predictable. Off-site fabrication can allow for increased refinement and trial assemblies. However, it may also create monotonous sameness when the processes and results are not considered with care.
ARCH 269 [Buntrock]
Introduction to Construction for MRED+D
Format: 3 hours of lecture per week; no lab; 2 units
A description is forthcoming