WINTER 2017 CORE CLASSES - 2 YEAR MArch STUDENTS
ARCH
690
- Design
Studio
ARCH
662
- Steel
&
Concrete:
Design,
Structure
and
Construction
WINTER 2017 - CORE CLASSES - THESIS STUDENTS
ARCH
693
-
Thesis
Research
and
Design
Studio
II
ARCH
655
- Architectural
Professional
Practice:
Ethics,
Business,
Legal
Issues
and
Contract
Administration
WINTER 2017 GRADUATE ELECTIVES
ARCH
570_001
- Architectural
Steel
Design
ARCH
623
–
Ecosystems
Design
–
Urban
Landscape
ARCH
684_001
-
CONCATENATIONS:
Deleuze
and
Contemporary
Architecture
ARCH
684_002
- Coding
Design
ARCH
684_003
- Information,
Communication,
and
the
Evolving
Conceptions
of
Urban
Space
ARCH
684_004
- Philosophy
in
Architecture
ARCH
684_006
- Gardiner
Museum
Installation:
Toronto
Design
Build
Elective
ARCH
685
- Readings
in
Architecture
ARCH
686
- Competitions
in
Architecture
WINTER
2017
CORE
CLASSES
- 2
YEAR
MArch
STUDENTS
Course
Topic: Design
Studio
Course
Code: ARCH
690
Instructor(s): Andrew
Levitt
Day/Time: Monday
9:30-12:30
&
1:30-5:30
/
Thursday
9:30-12:30
&
1:30-5:30
Course
Topic: Steel
&
Concrete:
Design,
Structure
and
Construction
Course
Code: ARCH
662
Instructor(s): Andrea
Atkins
Day/Time: Friday
2:00-6:00
PM
ARC
1101
- Lecture
Wednesday
6:30-8:30
PM
ARC
1101
-
Tutorial
WINTER 2017 - CORE CLASSES - THESIS STUDENTS
Course
Topic: Thesis
Research
and
Design
Studio
II
Course
Code: ARCH
693
-
Instructor(s): Ali
Fard,
Maya
Przybylski,
Dereck
Revington,
Val
Rynnimeri
Day/Time: Tuesday
9:30-12:30
&
1:30-5:30
/
Thursday
9:30-1:30
Studio presentations and selection - TBA. Permission numbers required and will be distributed after the selection.
Course
Topic: Architectural
Professional
Practice:
Ethics,
Business,
Legal
Issues
and
Contract
Administration
Course
Code: ARCH
655
Day/Time: Block
course
04/10/2017-
04/14/2017
&
04/24/2017
-
04/28/2017
each
day
from
approximately
9:00
AM
- 5:00
PM
WINTER 2017 GRADUATE ELECTIVES
Course
Topic: Architectural
Steel
Design
Course
Code: ARCH
570_001
Instructor(s): Terri
Boake
Day/Time: Wednesday
2:00-5:00
ARC
1101
Enrolment
Cap:
10
*This course requires a course add form in order to be added to your schedule. Please email Emily if you are interested in enrolling and the spots will be filled on a first come first serve basis*
Using an international database of case studies this course examines in detail the architectural design, specification, fabrication and construction process for Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel (AESS). It references the standards that were developed by the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction. Lectures will address topics including, the AESS Category Approach, fabrication standards and practices, project communication, tensile structures, diagrid structures, curved steel, castings, pedestrian bridges, steel with glazing, steel with timber. The work of the term will use steel based competitions to explore detailed design application of the material. The term’s knowledge will focus on design projects that requires the students to design and detail architecturally exposed structural steel systems, connections and buildings. Students will keep a detailed sketchbook of examples and details addressed in class, in teams of 2 (masters) or 3 (undergrad) students, complete the CISC Design Competition in teams of 2 (masters) or 3 (undergrad) students, complete the AISC/ACSA Design Competition (topic yet to be announced) or the OPEN Category. The latter could be an extrapolation of your 3A studio project or thesis if desired.
The overall intention is to provide you with a high level appreciation of steel structural systems and an adeptness for detailing that is appropriate to the specific project and building type. The work of the term is intended to provide you with some significant pieces for your portfolio.
The majority of the project work has been designed as group projects to keep it manageable and within the suggested constraints of an elective. If there are compelling reasons for tackling the work individually, these can be discussed. The course reflects the research of my new book on Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel published by Birkhauser in January 2015.
Course
Topic: Ecosystems
Design
- Urban
Landscape
Course
Code: ARCH
623
Instructor(s):
Val
Rynnimeri
Day/Time: Friday
10:00
-
1:00
ARC
Main
Lecture
Hall
Enrolment
cap:
10
Landscape and urban design today are in the middle of being re-shaped by ecosystem thinking and new design and planning methodologies like “resilience management”. These new approaches, in turn, are being influenced by increasingly sophisticated theories of emergent complexity. This course outlines the concepts of complex ecosystem design useful for landscape and urban design, and more detailed project work. The course focus is on expanding conventional urban design’s theoretical and working methodologies, to place the larger surrounding urban ecosystems themselves into a more central position in urban analysis and design, and to re-frame the above in the terms of complex systems thinking. There will be a dual emphasis in the course on introducing theory and methodologies through selected readings and seminar discussion, and in case study project work based on the student’s anticipated studio design work.
Course
Topic: CONCATENATIONS:
Deleuze
and
Contemporary
Architecture
Course
Code: ARCH
684_001
Instructor(s):
Dereck
Revington
Day/Time: Thursday
2:00
-
5:00
ARC
2026
Enrolment
cap:
15
Gilles
Deleuze
asserts
that
great
artists
are
also
great
thinkers,
but
they
think
in
terms
of
the
logic
of
sensation
and through
percepts
and
affects.
Architects
think
in
sensible
aggregates
of
matter
in
space-
time,
musicians
think
in sounds,
writers
in
words,
filmmakers
in
“movement-images”
and
“time-images”,
and
painters
in
color
and
line.
But architecture,
as
Deleuze
says,
“is
the
first
of
the
arts’
from
which
all
the
others
draw
their
frames”.
This
experimental
seminar
will
focus
on
the
theories
and
generative
practices
that
a
Deleuzian
ontology
has
spawned over
the
last
two
decades
with
particular
emphasis
on
architecture,
cinema
and
the
visual
arts.
Students
will
explore productive
concatenations
between
these
practices
through
selected
readings,
through
seminar
presentations,
writing, and
the
creation
of
non-discursive
artifacts.
Course
Topic: Coding
Design
Course
Code: ARCH
684_002
Instructor(s): Maya
Przybylski
Day/Time: Wednesday
10:00
-
1:00
ARC
2026
Enrolment
cap:
15
Coding Design focuses on the investigation and exploration of the structures, processes and opportunities central to computational design. Such a practice requires that designers expand their notion of digital methodologies to include the fundamental paradigms of computer science. At the core of this practice is close attention to the organization of information and the use of algorithms.
Coding Design posits that through working in the process-oriented methods associated with programming, new ways of design thinking are exposed. The course positions computers and their associated technologies not only as machines used in the imitation and appropriation of what is already understood but also as vehicles for exploring and visualizing what is yet to be discovered.
The primary format for learning takes place in the form of hands-on lab sessions. During these working sessions the instructor will walk through specific topics and issues after which students will engage in the lesson directly through working on various in-class exercises. Students will have the opportunity to develop the fundamental skills necessary to engage with the computational design discourse. Some class time will be spent positioning these methods and tools within a broader critical context but this is not the focus of the course.
The course project will ask students to plan, design (in a computational sense), and develop a custom script to serve as a computational tool aiding thesis development. We will work in the Java-based Processing programming environment. Other environments (such as Grasshopper and RhinoScript) may be included if time permits and interest exists. Students are free to choose their preferred development environment for their project development.
Previous exposure to writing/reading code is not required. If you have some experience reading/writing code please contact instructor prior to registering to explore expanded learning options.
Course
Topic: Information,
Communication,
and
the
Evolving
Conceptions
of
Urban
Space
Course
Code: ARCH
684_003
Instructor(s): Ali
Fard
Day/Time: Thursday
2:00-5:00
PM
ARC
2008
Enrolment
Cap:
15
The rapid development of information and communication technologies after the Second World War has greatly influenced the conception of urban space within design. New modes of communication, together with the rise of personal computing and the expanding capacity of modern societies to generate, absorb, and analyze massive amounts of information, have generated a number of spatial ideologies that are in need of critical engagement. This seminar will investigate the spatial ideologies generated by the growth of information and communication technologies which have influenced architects, designers and urbanists to re-think and re-imagine the city and its future spatial trajectory. The seminar will trace the spatial ideas around information and communication technologies, starting with the development of a network culture in architecture after WWII and will chart its development through the works of the radical architecture of 1960s, followed by investigations into the urban transcendence ideologies of late 20th century and the emerging discourse around “smart” cities. The final part of the seminar will examine the future trajectory of these ideas within architecture and design. The course will be structured around a set of readings and analysis of the design experiments of each period of development.
Course
Topic: Philosophy
in
Architecture
Course
Code: ARCH
684_004
Instructor(s): Marie-Paule
Macdonald
Day/Time: Wednesday
2:00-5:00
PM
ARC
2026
Enrolment
cap:
6
Note - not open to students if course was taken as elective in the Bachelor of Architectural Studies.
This seminar uses the close reading approach to study selected texts by contemporary philosophers, including Judith Butler, Gilles Deleuze, Jaques Derrida, Friedrich Kittler, Jacques Rancière, Slavoj Žižek, selected based on their references to architectural and urban themes. What is meant by close reading? This approach will use small chapters and shorter texts to gain access to the approach. Rather than reading vast quantities of material, the class will look at fragments, listen to audio and video excerpts, and discuss the content. This will give students an opportunity to build bibliographies and references, to pursue reading in greater depth during thesis.
Course
Topic: Gardiner
Museum
Installation:
Toronto
Design
Build
Elective
Course
Code: ARCH
684_006
Instructor(s): Jonathan
Friedman
The Gardiner Museum Installation: Toronto Design Build Elective is a course that will activate the exterior entrance forecourt of the Gardiner Museum in Toronto with a student designed and built, site-specific installation.
Using the the Gardiner Museum as a backdrop, a class of 12 to 15 graduate students will envision, design and fabricate an outdoor installation for an opening in early July 2017. The installation is intended to animate and activate the public plaza in front of the Museum for 3 weeks, day and night in a meaningful and memorable way. It will also serve to mark the 50th anniversary of UW's School of Architecture.
The course - led by Jonathan Friedman a partner at PARTISANS Architects - will involve students in all aspects of developing a built project from start to finish. Over the duration of the course students will learn about bridging conceptual design with a real site, budget, schedule and construction techniques. A background or interest in ceramics and casting, along with parametric modeling and digital fabrication skills, is encouraged, but not required. Students will develop ideas that will be focused on 3 core areas: Materiality and Ceramics - the opportunity to investigate and link traditional methods with new technologies; The site - to consider the forecourt and the sidewalk/street in a meaningful way so as to engage the public; Poetics and Space - the opportunity to create a provocative and resonant piece of design in the heart of downtown Toronto.
Please note that the schedule for this course will span two terms, with approximately 6 meetings scheduled over the Winter Term, and the remaining weeks of teaching taking place in May and June. Formal classes / meetings will be scheduled approximately every 2 weeks. Funding for the build will be supported by the University of Waterloo, the Gardiner Museum and additional fundraising efforts.
Schedule*
Winter Term 2017
Mid January: Site visit to the Gardiner Museum, Toronto; introduction to ceramics making.
End of January: Kickoff design charette - students are to come prepared with their analysis of the site, consideration about materials and design ideas.
February: Selection of scheme; Design Development including layout, materials, budget review.
Reading Week
March: Detailed Design & prototyping.
April: No formal class
Spring Term 2017
May - June 2017: Fabrication
July 2017 - On Site Assembly; Opening and Activation (2 to 3 weeks) followed by Take down
*Subject to confirmation
Course
Topic: Readings
in
Architecture
Course
Code: ARCH
685
Issues to be negotiated on an individual basis with faculty members. An outline of this course, approved by the professor in charge, must be submitted to the Graduate Officer within three weeks of the Winter term.
Course
Topic: Competitions
in
Architecture
Course
Code: ARCH
686
Instructor(s): Terri
Meyer
Boake
This course provides an opportunity for the student to independently engage in the respected tradition of the Architectural Competition. The competition entry and accompanying research paper must focus on the use of architectural precedents as the basis for the creation of typologically based propositions. Submission to the external competition is mandatory, the timing and detailed requirements of which will determine the personalized academic requirements for this course.
Rick Haldenby has worked with Masonryworx to develop a competition specifically for Waterloo Architecture students. The details of the competition and registration information are available in the link below. If you are interested in registering, you can speak with Terri Boake to complete the competition along with some additional academic deliverables for an ARCH 686 Competitions in Architecture Elective credit.