Undergraduate course outlines archive

• ARCH 113: Visual and Digital Media II
  Instructor: Isabel Ochoa
• ARCH 126: Environmental Building Design
  Instructors: Anna Beznogova and Andrew Judge
• ARCH 143: Cultural History II, The Ancient World and the Foundations of Europe
  Instructor: Rober Jan van Pelt
• ARCH 173: Building Construction 2
  Instructor: Terri Meyer Boake
• ARCH 193: Design Studio
  Instructors: Rick Andrighetti, David Correa, Jaliya Fonseka, Sifei (Faye) Mo, Isabel Ochoa
• ARCH 327: Architecture of the Urban Environment
  Instructor: Val Rynnimeri
• ARCH 342/642: Modern Architecture
  Instructor: Tara Bissett
• ARCH 362/662: Steel and Concrete:Design, Structure,and Construction
  Instructor: Zoё Hanneman
• ARCH 364: Building Science
  Instructor: John Straube
• ARCH 392: "Human beings are more important than real estate”: Environmental Justice through Affordable Housing
  Instructors: Adrian Blackwell, Cheryll Case, Michael Bootsma, Anwar Jaber, Marie-Paule Macdonald, Di Tang, Tura Cousins Wilson.
• ARCH 684 001: Material Syntax
  Instructor: David Correa
• ARCH 684 002: Critical Engagments with Urban Technology (Or - better smart cities)
  Instructor: Maya Przybylski
• ARCH 684 003: Philosophy in Architecture
  Instructor: Marie-Paule Macdonald
• ARCH 690: Degrowth: Architecture After Capitalism
  Instructor: Lola Sheppard
• ARCH 693: Thesis Research and Design II
  Instructor: Maya Przybylski
• PDARCH 3: Electronic Communication and Web Design
  Instructor: Michael Fohring

• ARCH 110: Visual and Digital Media 1
  Instructor: Fiona Lim Tung
• ARCH 120: An Introduction to Architectural Ideas and Communication
  Instructors: Elsa Lam, Anne Bordeleau
• ARCH 142: Introduction to Cultural History
  Instructor: Anne Bordeleau
• ARCH 172: Building Construction 1
  Instructor: Terri Meyer Boake
• ARCH 192: Design Studio 1
  Instructors: Fiona Lim Tung, Rick Andrighetti, Saarinen Balagengatharadilak, Jessica Hanzelkova, Brenda Reid
• ARCH 212: Digital Fabrication - Advanced Digital Models
  Instructor: Cam Parkin
• ARCH 246: Cultural Encounters: 1000-1650 (Pre-Renaissance to Reformation)
  Instructor: Tara Bissett
• ARCH 260: Principles of Structures
  Instructor: Richard Mui
• ARCH 292: Design Studio
  Instructor: Rick Haldenby, Kate Brownlie, Chris Cornecelli, Elizabeth Lenny, Faye (Sifei) Mo, Sheida Shahi, David Warne
• ARCH 393: Biometric Design Lab
  Instructor: David Correa
• ARCH 393: KLANG(Sound) - City Sound, Architecture, Music - Design Studio ​​​​​​
  Instructor: Marie-Paule Macdonald
• ARCH 393:
  Instructor: Adrian Blackwell, John McMinn
• ARCH 393: Open Architecture Studio: Re:New
  Instructor: Jonathan Enns
• ARCH 493: Design Studio: Comprehensive Building Design
  Instructor: Mohammed Araji, Christie Pearson, Jaliya Fonseka, Angie Michail, Melissa Ng
• ARCH 510: Introduction to Interactive Systems: Reactor Cells
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Philip Beesley, Matt Gorbet, Rob Gorbet, Michael Lancaster
• ARCH 510: Coding Design
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Maya Przybylski
• ARCH 510: Writing and the Written
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Claire Lubell, Ushma Thakrar
• ARCH 520: Power and Architecture: On Politics in the Urban Space
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Anwar Jaber
• ARCH 520: 
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: John McMinn
• ​​​​​​​ARCH 540: Approaches to Architecture and Urbanism 
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Marie-Paule MacDonald
• ARCH 540: Twelve Architectures: The Culture and Architecture of the Haudenausaunee
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: William Woodworth
• ARCH 570: Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel Design
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Terri Meyer Boake
• ARCH 610: Architectural Analysis and Research
  ​​​​​​​Instructors: Anne Bordeleau, Anwar Jaber
• ARCH 640: Contemporary Architectural Theory
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Adrian Blackwell, Ella den Elzen
• ARCH 671: 
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Mohamad Araji
• ARCH 673: The Science of the Building Enclosure
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: John Straube
• ARCH 691: 
  ​​​​​​​Instructors: Val Rynnimeri, Mohamad Araji
• ARCH 692: 
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Philip Beesley
• ARCH 692: Cultures of Waste and Repair: (re)telling, (retro)fitting, (re)generating for a Just Transition
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Jane Hutton
• ARCH 692: 
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Tracey Winton

• ARCH 225: Theory and Design of the Contemporary Landscape
  ​​​​​​​Instructors: Jane Mah Hutton, Shima Mohammed
• ARCH 248: Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Global Creation of Modernity ​​​​​​
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Val Rynnimeri
• ARCH 276: Timber: Design, Structure, and Construction
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Jordan Schneider
• ARCH 285: Pre-contact Land Sustainability in the Carolinian Zone: Practical Knowledge for a Changing Climate
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Andrew Judge
• ARCH 285: The Inner Studio
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Andrew Levitt
• ARCH 285:
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Tracey Winton
• ARCH 293: SITE: Environmental Arts, Landscape Dynamics ​​​​​​​
  Instructors: Christie Pearson, Rick Andrighetti, Tracey Winton, Karen May, Dani Kastelein, Amina Lalor

• ARCH 113: Visual and Digital Media 2
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Cam Parkin
• ARCH 126: Environmental Building Design
  Instructors: Anna Beznogova, Andrew Judge
• ARCH 143: Iconography II: Survey of the Symbolic Nature of the Environment
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Rick Haldenby
• ARCH 193: Design Studio
  Instructors: Rick Andrighetti, Jennifer Esposito, Jaliya Fonseka, Jessica Hanzelkova, Fiona Lim Tung, Cam Parkin, Val Rynnimeri
• ARCH 362: Steel and Concrete: Design, Structure, and Construction
  Instructor: Zoe Hanneman
• ARCH 342: Modern Architecture
  Instructor: Tara Bissett
• ARCH 364: Building Science
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: John Straube
• ARCH 392: Affordable Housing is Environmental Justice: Confronting Systemic Biases that Contributes to the Housing and Climate Crisis
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Adrian Blackwell, Naama Blonder, Michael Bootsma, Cheryll Case, Mona Dai, Marie-Paule Macdonald, Di Tang
• ARCH 684: Material Syntax
  Instructor: David Correa
• ARCH 684: Philosophy in Architecture
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Marie-Paul Macdonald
• ARCH 684: Divided Cities: The Politics of Mapping and Design
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Anwar Jaber
• ARCH 690 Material Narratives ​​​​​​​
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: David Correa

• ARCH 110: Visual and Digital Medial 1
  Instructor: Fiona Lim Tung
• ARCH 120: An Introduction to Architectural Ideas and Communication
  Instructors: Anne Bordeleau, Elizabeth Ann Lenny
• ARCH 142: Introduction to Cultural History
  Instructor: Robert Jan van Pelt
• ARCH 172: Building Construction 1
  Instructor: Terri Meyer Boake
• ARCH 192: Design Studio
  ​​​​​​​Instructors: Fiona Lim Tung, Rick Andrighetti, Saarinen Balagengatharadilak, Kat Kovalcik, Julia Nakanishi, Jonathan Tyrrell
• ARCH 212: Digital Fabrication: Advanced Digital Models
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Cam Parkin
• ARCH 246: Pre-Renaissance to Reformation
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Tara Bissett
• ARCH 260: Principles of Structures
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Richard Mui
• ARCH 292: Design Studio: Reflections on Communality
  ​​​​​​​Instructors: John McMinn, Lola Sheppard, Amina Lalor, Michelle Fenton, Jake Chakasim
• ARCH 393: Biomimetic Design Lab
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Davd Correa
• ARCH 393: Architecture for People by People
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Jonathan Enns
• ARCH 393: KLANG(sound) - City, Sound, Architecture, Music
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Marie-Paule Macdonald
• ARCH 393: POOL: Towards a Tactile Tactical Urbanism
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Christie Pearson
• ARCH 510: Critical Algorithms for Architectural Data
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Matthew Allen
• ARCH 510: Coding Design
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Maya Przybylski
• ARCH 540: What is Solidarity? Reading Workshop
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Jane Hutton
• ARCH 540: Modern Italian Architecture
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Lorenzo Pignatti
• ARCH 540: Twelve Architectures: Aboriginal Culture and Architecture out of the Grand River Watershed
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: William Woodworth
• ARCH 570: Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel Design
  ​​​​​​​Instructor: Terri Meyer Boake

• ARCH 225: THEORY AND DESIGN OF CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
  Instructor: Jane Hutton
• ARCH 248: Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Creation of Modernity
  Instructors: Val Rynnimeri
• ARCH 285: DISCOURSE MODERN AND POSTMODERN
  Instructor: Tracey Eve Winton
• ARCH 285/ARCH 520: Pre-contact land sustainability in the Carolinian Zone: Practical 
  knowledge for a changing climate.
  Instructor: Andrew Judge 
• ARCH 570: THE CHAIR PROJECT DESIGN-BUILD
  Instructor: Elizabeth C English
• ARCH493/ARCH 473: Design Studio
   

• ARCH 113: Visual & Digital Media
  Instructor: Cameron Parkin
• ARCH 392: "Our House is on Fire”: Confronting Toronto’s housing and climate emergencies
  Instructors: Adrian Blackwell, Sandrina Kramar, Marie-Paule Macdonald, Dereck Revington, Jonthan Tyrrell
• ARCH 193: Design Studio
  Instructor: Rick Andrighetti, Suzan Ibrahim, Cameron Parkin, Maya Przybylski, Di Tang
• ARCH 362/ARCH 662: Structures for Large Buildings
  Instructor: Andrea Atkins
• ARCH 364: Building Science
  Instructor: John Straube
• Arch 173: Building Construction II
  Instructor: Justin Forrest Breg
• ARCH 143: Cultural History II
  Instructor: Robert Jan van Pelt
• ARCH 342: Modern Architecture
  Instructor: Tara Bissett
• ARCH 693 Thesis Research and Design II
  Instructor: Lola Sheppard

• ARCH 442/ARCH 640: Contemporary Architectural Theory
  Instructor: Adrian Blackwell
• ARCH 520: Approaches to Architecture & Urbanism
  Instructor: Marie-Paul Macdonald
• ARCH 393: Parametric Space and Material Systems
  Instructor: Maya Przybylski
• ARCH 393: STUDIO X
  Instructor: Jonathan Tyrrell 
• ARCH 327: Histories of Global Urbanism
  Instructor: Roberto Damiani
• ARCH570: Human Experience Design Methods for Architecture
  Instructor: Jonathan Enns 
• ARCH 110: VISUAL AND DIGITAL MEDIA 1
  Instructor: Fiona Lim Tung
• ARCH 192: DESIGN STUDIO 1
  Instructor: Rick Andrighetti, Saarinen Balagengatharadilak, Fiona Lim Tung, Haji Nakamura, Kristin Schreiner, Genevieve Simms
• Arch 292: Durational Space In Architecture And Cinema
  Instructor: David Correa, Michael Fohring, Christie Pearson, Dereck Revington, Tracey Winton
• ARCH 691: Comprehensive Building Design
  Instructor: Colin Murray Cathcart
• ARCH 120: An Introduction to Architectural Ideas and Communication
  Instructor: Anne Bordeleau
• ARCH 260: Principles of Structures
  Instructor: Andrea Atkins
• ARCH 393: ENVISIONING NORTHERN EDUCATION 
  Instructor: Lola Sheppard
• ARCH 142: Cultural History
  Instructor: Robert Jan van Pelt
• ARCH 212: Digital Fabrication
  Instructor: Cam Parkin
• ARCH 570: Design Build Graduate Elective
  Instructor: John McMinn
• Arch 692: FRAMEWORKS 
  Instructor: Marie-Paule Macdonald
• ARCH 540: Russian Avant-Garde Architectural Theory
  Instructor: Elizabeth C. English
• Arch 671: Comprehensive Building Design
  Instructor: John McMinn
• ARCH 693: Thesis Research and Design II
  Instructor: Anne Bordeleau, David Correa

• ARCH 293: Think Like a River: Designing from the Riparian Zone
  Instructor: Rick Andrighetti, Jane Hutton, John McMinn, Christie Pearson, Scott Sorli
• ARCH 225: THEORY AND DESIGN OF CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
  Instructor: Jane Hutton
• ARCH 248: Creating Modernity
  Instructor: Tracey Eve Winton
• ARCH 331: WORKING WITH WOOD
  Instructor: Heinz Koller, Michael Syms
• ARCH 510: New Geometric Systems
  Instructor: Val Rynnimeri
• ARCH 570: THE CHAIR PROJECT DESIGN BUILD 
  Instructor: Elizabeth C English
• ARCH 276: Timber Design
  Instructor: Andrea Atkins
• ARCH 520: Urban Forms and Ecologies
  Instructor: Roberto Damiani
• ARCH 493: Comprehensive Building Design Studio
  Instructor: Andrew Levitt, Walter Bettio, Craig England, Jennifer Esposito, Jaliya Fonseka, Anya Moryoussef, Janna Levitt, Tim Scott
• ARCH 285: Design Build Elective Course
  Instructor: John McMinn, Bradley Paddock
• ARCH 285: Design Build Elective Course
  Instructor: John McMinn, Bradley Paddock

• ARCH 113: Visual & Digital Media
  Instructor: Cam Parkin
• ARCH 193: Design Studio
  Instructor: Rick Andrighetti, Jaliya Fonseka, Cameron Parkin, Maya Przybylski, Chloe Town
• ARCH 313: ADVANCED VISUALIZATION & ANALYSIS
  Instructor: David Correa
• ARCH 264: Building Science
  Instructor: John Straube
• ARCH 392: NEW FORMS OF COLLECTIVITY: CITY AND CAMPUS
  Instructor: Paul Dolick, Jonathan Enns, Dereck Revington, Lola Sheppard, Jonathan Tyrrell
• ARCH 655: Professional Practice
  Instructor: John McMinn, Matt Bolen
• ARCH 690: Architectural Imagination and Imperfection
  Instructor: Andrew Levitt
• ARCH 362/ ARCH 662: Structures for Large Buildings
  Instructor: Andrea Atkins
• ARCH 143: Cultural History II
  Instructor: Robert Jan van Pelt
• ARCH 684: Design Build Graduate Elective
  Instructor: John McMinn, Paul Dowling
• ARCH 342/ARCH 642: Modernism
  Instructor: Marie-Paul Macdonald

• ARCH 192: Design Studio
  Instructor: Rick Andrighetti, Fiona Lim Tung, Kristin Schreiner, Lola Sheppard, Genevieve Simms
• ARCH 292: Durational Space In Architecture And Cinema
  Instructor: David Correa, Michael Fohring, Christie Pearson, Dereck Revington, Jonathan Tyrrell
• ARCH 393: Entropic Growth and Form
  Instructor: Philip Beesley
• ARCH 393: CREATIVE INSTINCTS AND ARCHITECTURAL IMAGINATION
  Instructor: Andrew Levitt
• ARCH 393: City, Sound, Architecture, Music
  Instructor: Marie-Paul Macdonald
• ARCH 393: OTHER TECTONICS
  Instructor: Yekranigan
• ARCH 110: VISUAL AND DIGITAL MEDIA 1
  Instructor: Fiona Lim Tung
• ARCH 212: Digital Fabrication
  Instructor: Cam Parkin
• ARCH 100: An Introduction to Architecture
  Instructor: Anne Bordeleau
• ARCH 142: Cultural History
  Instructor: Robert Jan van Pelt
• ARCH 246: Pre-Renaissance to Reformation
  Instructor: Tara Bissett
• ARCH 446: ITALIAN URBAN HISTORY
  Instructor: Rick Haldenby
• Arch 172: Building Construction 1
  Instructor: Terri Meyer Boake
• ARCH 260: Principles of Structures
  Instructor: Andrea Atkins
• ARCH 263: Integrated Environmental Systems
  Instructor: Aaron Grin
• ARCH 465: Advanced Structures
  Instructor: Justin Forrest Breg
• ARCH 125: Principles of Environmental Design
  Instructor: Val Rynnimeri
• ARCH 327: Architecture of the Urban Environment
  Instructor: Val Rynnimeri
• ARCH 520: Approaches to architecture and urbanism
  Instructor: Marie-Paul Macdonald
• ARCH 540: Twelve Architectures
  Instructor: William Woodworth
• ARCH 610: Research and Analysis
  Instructor: Tracey Eve Winton
• ARCH 472/ARCH 671: 
  Instructor: Terri Meyer Boake
• ARCH 673: THE SCIENCE OF THE BUILDING ENCLOSURE
  Instructor: John Straube
• ARCH 684: RESPONSIVE ARCHITECTURAL SYSTEMS: ABIOGENESIS
  Instructor: Philip Beesley

• ARCH 684: Material Syntax
  Instructor: David Correa
• ARCH 684: Design Build Graduate Elective
  Instructor: John McMinn, Paul Dowling
• ARCH 691: The Masters Comprehensive Design and Building Studio
  Instructor: Val Rynnimeri, Terri Boake
• ARCH 684: Thesis Research and Design
  Instructor: Jane Hutton
• ARCH 692: TRD1 Design Studio
  Instructor: John McMinn
• ARCH 692: Computers Are Like Telescopes
  Instructor: Maya Przybylski
• ARCH 692: 
  Instructor: Tracey Eve Winton

• ARCH 293: Think Like a River: Designing from the Riparian Zone
  Instructor: Rick Andrighetti, Jane Hutton, Ali Fard, Scott Sorli, Lola Sheppard
• ARCH 493/ARCH 473: Comprehensive Building Design Studio
  Instructor: Walter Bettio, Craig England, Jennifer Esposito, Jaliya Fonseka, Janna Levitt, Tim Scott, James Swain, Andrew Levitt
• ARCH 248: Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Creation of Modernity
  Instructor: Val Rynnimeri
• ARCH 442: Contemporary Architectural Theory
  Instructor: Tara Bissett
• ARCH 276: Timber Design
  Instructor: Andrea Atkins 
• ARCH 225: THEORY AND DESIGN OF CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
  Instructor: Jane Hutton
• ARCH 425 THEORY AND DESIGN OF THE CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE
  Instructor: Sonja Vangjeli, Virginia Fernandez
• ARCH 285/ARCH 684: Design Build Elective Course
  Instructor: John McMinn and Paul Dowling
• ARCH 285: Landscape and Photography — Representation, Figuration, Abstraction
  Instructor: Tracey Eve Winton
• ARCH 331: WORKING WITH WOOD
  Instructor: Heinz Koller, Dan Jessel
• ARCH 684: Modern Vernacular
  Instructor: Tracey Eve Winton

• ARCH 684/ARCH 347: Philosophy in Architecture
  Instructor: 
• ARCH 193: Design Studio
  Instructor: Michal Bartosik, Rick Haldenby, Carol Kaifosh, Michaela MacLeod, Donald McKay
• ARCH 392: Design Studio
  Instructor: Adrian Blackwell
• ARCH 113: VISUAL AND DIGITAL MEDIA 2
  Instructor: Michal Bartosik
• ARCH 126: Environmental Building Design
  Instructor: Terri Meyer Boake
• ARCH 313: 
  Instructor: David Correa
• ARCH 143: Cultural History II
  Instructor: Robert Jan van Pelt
• ARCH 342:
  Instructor: Marie-Paul Macdonald
• ARCH 173: Building Construction 2
  Instructor: Terri Meyer Boake
• ARCH 264:
  Instructor: John Straube 
• ARCH 362/ARCH 662:
  Instructor: Andrea Atkins
• ARCH 690:
  Instructor: John McMinn
• ARCH 693:
  Instructor: Anne Bordeleau
• ARCH 693:
  Instructor: David Correa
• ARCH 693:
  Instructor: Val Rynnimeri
• ARCH 693:
  Instructor: Revington
• ARCH 655: Introduction to Professional Practice
  Instructors: John McMinn, Matt Bolen
• ARCH 684: 
  Instructor: Terri Meyer Boake
• ARCH 684: 
  Instructor: Marie-Paul Macdonald
• ARCH 684: 
  Instructor: John McMinn
• ARCH 684: 
  Instructor: Revington
• ARCH 684: 
  Instructor: Val Rynnimeri

The professional Master of Architecture in conjunction with the pre-professional Bachelor of Architectural Studies degree from the University of Waterloo compromises an accredited professional education.

In Canada, all provincial/territorial associations/institutes/orders recommend a degree from an accredited professional degree program as a prerequisite for licensure. In Canada, the Canadian Architectural Certification Board (CACB) is the sole agency authorized by the Regulatory Organization of Architecture in Canada (ROAC) to accredit Canadian professional degree programs in architecture for the purposes of architectural licensure. The CACB recognizes two types of accredited degrees offered at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture: the Master of Architecture (professional) and the Bachelor of Architecture (pre-professional). A program may be granted a six-year, three-year, or two-year term of accreditation, depending on its degree of conformance with established educational standards.

Master’s degree programs may consist of a pre-professional undergraduate degree and a professional graduate degree, which, when earned sequentially, comprise an accredited professional education. However, the pre-professional degree is not, by itself, recognized as an accredited degree.

The program in Architecture at the University of Waterloo received accreditation for a 6-year term by the Canadian Architectural Certification Board (CACB) in 2024. The program is scheduled for its next review to continue maintaining its accredited status in 2030.

View the 2024 Visiting Team Report.

Guide to Program and Student Performance Criteria.