Past Course Descriptions
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).
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
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 November 29th, 2022 at 6:00pm EST. Only one (1) submission per group is required.
(ARC2014YS) Design Studio 4: Comprehensive Building Project
- (L0101) Instructor: Samuel Dufaux
- (L0102) Instructor: Brigitte Shim
- (L0103) Instructor: Steven Fong
- (L0104) Instructor: Chris Cornecelli
- (L0105) Instructor: James Macgillivray
- (L0106) Instructor: Carol Moukheiber
- (L0107) Instructor: Carol Phillips
- (L0108) Instructor: Francesco Martire
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 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
Summer 2022
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
- (L0101) Instructor: Samuel Dufaux
- (L0102) Instructor: Brigitte Shim
- (L0103) Instructor: Steven Fong
- (L0104) Instructor: Chris Cornecelli
- (L0105) Instructor: Aleris Rodgers
- (L0106) Instructor: Maria Denegri
- (L0107) Instructor: Carol Phillips
- (L0108) Instructor: Eira Ota
- (L0109) Instructor: Greg Neudorf
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.
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.
- (ARC3038H/ARC2015H) Global Architecture 2020: Costa Rica. Instructor: Mauricio Quiros Pacheco
- (ARC3038H/ARC2015H) Global Architecture 2020: Marrakech. Instructor: Aziza Chaouni
Winter 2020
Research Studios
(ARC3016Y S) Architectural Design Studio 6: Research Studios
- (L0101) New Generics - The Age of Compromise. Instructor: Adrian Phiffer
- (L0102) Archipelago. Instructor: Petros Babasikas
- (L0103) STUFF. Instructor: Laura Miller
- (L0105) Framing, Looping & Projecting Quantum Architecture: Through the Looking-Glass of the Interopera. Instructor: Brian Boigon
- (L0106) The Pleasure of Ruins: The Allure of the Incomplete - Drawing as Thesis. Instructor: John Shnier
- (L0107) The International Trade Fair of Dakar: Adaptive Reuse of a West-African Modernist Icon. Instructor: Aziza Chaouni
- (L0108) Platform Collectives. Instructor: Michael Piper
- (L0111) Topic. Instructor: Mauricio Quirós Pacheco
- (L0113) Little Monsters, Ugly Ducklings, and Mutants; or Durable Structures for a Provisional Present. Instructor: Carol Moukheiber.
Architecture Elective Courses
History and Theory
- (ARC3102H S) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Living Together - On the Public and the Common in Architecture and Urbanism. Instructor: Roberto Damiani
- (ARC3300H S) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: The Architecture of Markets. Instructor: John Harwood
- (ARC3301H S) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Towards a Global, Decentered, and Heterogeneous Modernism. Instructor: Amin Alsaden
Computer Modelling
- (ARC3202H S) Selected Topics in Advanced Computer Applications: Daylight and Electric Lighting Design. Instructor: Alstan Jakubiec
Technics and Planning
- (ARC3404H S) Selected Topics in Architecture and Technology: Mass Timber Construction Technology. Instructor: Ted Kesik
Other
- (ARC3705H S) Selected Topics in Architecture: The Near Future - Scenarios for Building Tomorrow. Instructor: Hans Ibelings
- (ARC3708H S) Selected Topics in Architecture: Science Fiction Architecture and the Cinema. Instructor: Brian Boigon
- (ARC3712H S) Selected Topics in Architecture: Housing - Multi-Unit Housing in Urban Cities: From 1800 to Present Day. Instructor: Katy Chey
- (ARC3716H S) Selected Topics in Architecture: Drawing on the City. Instructor: Tei Carpenter
- (ARC3720H S) Selected Topics in Architecture: Designing for the 99% - Models of Design Practice. Instructor: Aziza Chaouni
- (ARC3725H S) Selected Topics in Architecture: Generative Design Thinking & Workflows. Instructor: Matthew Spremulli
Landscape Architecture Electives
Environment
- (LAN3300H S) Landscape Architecture Topics: Climate Climacteric. Instructor: Fadi Masoud
History and Theory
- (LAN3700H S) Landscape Architecture Topics: IndIgenous Perspectives on Landscapes. Instructor: Doug Anderson
- (LAN3900H S) Landscape Architecture Topics: History, Theory, Criticism - Worldviews = Nature(s), Environment(s), and Landscape(s). Instructor: Georges Farhat
Urban Design Electives
History, Theory, Criticism
- (URD1503H S) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Tabula Non-Rasa - On Architecture, Heritage and Adaptation. Instructor: Nicolas 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
- (URD1509H S) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Cities, Commerce, Entertainment. Instructor: Alfredo Landaeta
Fall 2019
Option Studios
(ARC3015Y F) Architectural Design Option Studios:
- (L0101) Experimental Collectivity. Instructors: Aljosa Dekleva, Tina Gregoric
- (L0102) Adobe Bricks, Mezcal and the Arid Landscape of Oaxaca´s Central Valley. Instructor: Elise Silva
- (L0103) Places of Production: Forest and Factory. Instructors: Brigitte Shim, Robert Wright
- (L0104) NY, Sensate and Augmented. Instructors: Mariana Ibanez, Simon Kim
- (L0105) Mile - Ex. Instructor: Gilles Saucier
- (L0106) Project Horizon: A New Patient Car Centre for Sick Kids Hospital. Instructor: George Baird
(LAN3016Y F) Landscape Architecture Design Studio Options
- (L0101) Longitudinal Landscapes: Memory, Medium, and Mobilization. Instructor: Justine Holzman
- (L0102) On the Edge. Instructors: Matthew Brown, Sandra Cook
- (L0103) Places of Production: Forest and Factory. Instructors: Brigitte Shim, Robert Wright
(URD2013YF) Urban Design Studio Options
- (L0101) There Grows The Neighbourhood.... Instructors: Shonda Wang, Drew Sinclair
Architecture Elective Courses
Design
- (ARC1100H F) Selected Topics in Design: Acts of Design - Building Narratives and Moving Images. Instructor: Adrian Phiffer
Computer Modelling
- (ARC3200H F) Selected Topics in Advanced Computer Applications: Building Information Modeling. Instructor: Salman Khalili-Araghi
History and Theory
- (ARC3322H F) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: The Practice of Truth in Architecture. Instructor: Peter Sealy
- (ARC3323H F) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Architecture and the Looming Heaps of Data - Navigating Recent Obsessions. Instructor: Matthew Allen
- (ARC3324H F) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Parallel Modernities in Latin America - Heroic Modern Architecture and the Emergence of Informal Settlements from 1950 to the Present. Instructor: Elisa Silva
- (ARC3325H F) Selected Topics in Architetcural History and Theory: Architecture, Medium, Infrastructure and the Global. Instructor: Mary Louise Lobsinger
Architecture and Health
- (ARC3600H F) Selected Topics in the History and Theory of Architecture and Health: Health and the Built Environment. Instructor: Stephen Verderber
Other
- (ARC3709H F) Selected Topics in Architecture: On the Artifact. Instructor: Laura Miller
- (ARC3715H F) Selected Topics in Architecture: Discard Culture - How Waste Shapes the World. Instructor: J. P. King
- (ARC3721H F) Selected Topics in Architecture: Erosion Machines. Instructors: Zoe Coombes, David Boira
- (ARC3722H F) Selected Topics in Architecture: Architecture Imprints - Pamphlets, Zines, and Broadsheets. Instructors: Mason White
- (ARC3723H F) Selected Topics in Architecture: Architecture and Quality of Life - The Aga Khan Architecture Awards. Instructor: Brigitte Shim
- (ARC3724H F) Selected Topics in Architecture: Ghost Images. Instructor: Petros Babasikas
Professional Practice
- (ARC4500H F) Selected Topics in Professional Practice: Architecture as an Entrepreneurial Practice. Instructor: Steven Fong
- (ARC4501H F) Selected Topics in Professional Practice: Building Stories. Instructor: Wei-Han Vivian Lee
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
Visual Studies Elective Courses
- (VIS1010H F) Contemporary Art Since 1960 - Narrating Place in Toronto. Instructor: Luis Jacob
- (VIS1100H F) Paradigmatic Exhibitions: Theory, History, Practice. Instructor: Barbara Fischer
Other Elective Courses
- (JPF2430 Y) Cities. Instructors: Patricia McCarney, George Baird, Richard Stren
Summer 2019
Global Architecture Seminar & Studio
- (ARC3038H/ARC2015H) The Ten Athenas: 10 Narratives of Design & Change in Contemporary Athens. Instructor: Petros Babasikas
Winter 2019
Architecture Elective Courses
History & Theory
- (ARC3101H S) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Landscapes of Fulfillment. Instructor: Jesse LeCavalier
- (ARC3317H S) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: In What Style Shall We Build? Architectural Form and Political Imagination Today. Instructor: Robert Levit
- CANCELLED (ARC3319H S) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Architecture, Avant-Garde, Market. Instructor: Mary-Louise Lobsinger
- (ARC3320H S) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: The Architect, the Public, and the Common. Instructor: Roberto Damiani
- (ARC3321H S) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Berlin, A City in Film. Instructor: Peter Sealy
Computer Modelling
- (ARC3202H S) Selected Topics in Advanced Computer Applications: Daylight and Electric Lighting Design. Instructor: John Alstan Jakuebic
Technics and Planning
- (ARC3404H S) Selected Topics in Architecture and Technology: Mass Timber Construction Technology. Instructor: Ted Kesik
Other
- (ARC3708H S) Selected Topics in Architecture: Science Fiction Architecture and the Cinema. Instructor: Brian Boigon
- (ARC3712H S) Selected Topics in Architecture: Multi-Unit Housing in Urban Cities: From 1800. Instructor: Katy Chey
- (ARC3714H S) Selected Topics in Architecture: Collective Living Redux, Indexing Promiscuous Space. Instructor: Carol Moukheiber
- (ARC3715H S) Selected Topics in Architecture: Contemporary Material Culture. Instructor: J.P. King
- CANCELLED (ARC3716H S) Selected Topics in Architecture: Redesigning Toronto. Instructor: Alex Bozikovic
- (ARC3717H S) Selected Topics in Architecture: Normal Architecture. Instructor: Hans Ibelings
- (ARC3719H S) Selected Topics in Architecture: Memory and Making. Instructor: Jay Pooley
Professional Practice
- (ARC4500H S) Selected Topics in Professional Practice: Architecture as an Entrepreneurial Practice. Instructor: Steven Fong
Landscape Architecture Elective Courses
Design
- (LAN2203H S) Landscape Architecture Topics: Prototyping for Placemaking. Instructor: Victoria Taylor
History & Theory
- (LAN2701H S) Landscape Architecture Topics: Indigenous Perspectives on Landscapes. Instructor: Doug Anderson
- CANCELLED (LAN2902H S) Landscape Architecture Topics: Modernism in Landscape Architecture. Instructor: Alissa North
- (LAN2903H S) Landscape Architecture Topics: Worldviews = Nature(s), Environment(s), and Landscape(s). Instructor: Georges Farhat
Urban Design Elective Courses
History, Theory, Criticism
- (URD1200H S) Selected Topics in History and Theory of Urban Design: Global Urbanisms. Instructor: David Lieberman
- (URD1503H S) Selected Topics in Urban Design: History and Urban Morphology in Toronto. Instructor: Michael McClelland
- (URD1505H S) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Community Consultation and Urban Design. Instructor: Lorne Cappe
Visual Studies Elective Courses
Studio Courses
- (VIS1020H S) Contemporary Art: Theory and Criticism. Instructors: Elle Flanders, Tamira Swatasky
Architectural Design Studio 6: Research Studio | ARC3016Y S
- (L0101) OBJECT> <EDIFICE. Instructor: An Te Liu
- (L0102) Ghost Acres: The New Ruralism. Instructor: Mason White
- (L0103) Multi-Layered Urbanism: Toronto's PATH System. Instructor: Laura Miller
- (L0104) Six Stories. Instructor: Vivian Lee
- (L0105) Towards a New Reality Architecture: Through the Looking-Glass of The Interopera. Instructor: Brian Boigon
- (L0106) House for Piranesi: Drawing as Thesis. Instructor: John Shnier
- (L0107) Cancelled
- (L0108) Politics, Policy and Architecture: Building Design and the Rules of Dispersed Urbanization in North America. Instructor: Michael Piper
- (L0109) Architecture + Health. Instructor: Stephen Verderber
- (L0110) Amplification. Instructor: Jeannie Kim
- (L0111) Homegrown: Domestic Arrangements. Instructors: Mauricio Quiros Pacheco
- (L0112) If Robots Are The Answer, What Is The Question? Instructor: Brady Peters
- (L0113) HABITUS. BERYTUS. DETRITUS. Instructor: Carol Moukheiber
Fall 2018
Architecture Elective Courses
Architecture and Health:
- (ARC3600H F) Selected Topics in the History and Theory of Architecture and Health: Health and the Built Environment. Instructor: Stephen Verderber
Computer Modeling:
- (ARC3200H F) Selected Topics in Advanced Computer Applications: Building information Modeling. Instructor: Salman Khalil-Araghi
History and Theory:
- (ARC3316H F) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Valuing Architecture. Instructor: Erica Allen-Kim
- (ARC3318H F) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: The Persistent Index. Instructor: Peter Sealy
- (ARC3319H F) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Corporate Architecture. Instructor: John Harwood
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
- (ARC3500H F) Selected Topics in Sustainable Design: Environments of Control. Instructor: Mason White
Other:
- (ARC3709H F) Selected Topics in Architecture: On the ARTIFACT. Instructor: Laura Miller
- (ARC3711H F ) Selected Topics in Architecture: Repetition. Instructor: Adrian Phiffer
- (ARC3713H F) Selected Topics in Architecture: The Culture of Glass - Technology versus Technique. Instructor: Pina Petricone
- (ARC3718H F) Selected Topics in Architecture: Designing for the 99% - Models of Architectural Practice for Social Engagement. Instructor: Aziza Chaouni
- (ARC3720H F) Selected Topics in Architecture: Concrete Designs in Global History. Instructor: Vanessa Grossman
- (ARC3721H F) Selected Topics in Architecture: Erosion Machines. Instructors: Zoe Coombes, David Boira
Professional Practice:
- (ARC4501H F) Selected Topics in Professional Practice: Building Stories. Instructor: Wei-Han Vivian Lee
Urban Design Elective Courses
History, Theory, Criticism:
- (URD1031H F) A History of Toronto Urban Form. Instructor: George Baird
- (URD1041H F) Urbanisms: An Introduction to Urban Design and Practice. Instructor: Mark Sterling
- (URD1506H F) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Cultivating Public Art. Instructor: Noel Troxell
Other:
- (JPF2430Y) Cities. Instructors: Patricia McCarney, George Baird, Richard Stren (Available for enrolment September 5th)
Visual Studies Elective Courses
- (VIS1010H F) Contemporary Art Since 1960 - Narrating Place in Toronto. Instructor: Luis Jacob
- (VIS1101H F) Paradigmatic Exhibitions: Theory, History, Practice. Instructor: Barbara Fischer
Option Studios
Students must submit their ballot following the instructions below. REMEMBER: Once your ballot is submitted, you will be unable to change your choices. Take your time to make the right decision. All ballots must be submitted by 8am on Thursday, September 6.
(ARC3015Y F) Architectural Design Option Studios:
- (L0101) Urban Loculi and the Logistics of the Dead. Instructors: Mary Louise Lobsinger, Pat Hanson
- (L0102) Other Learning Environments. Instructor: Tei Carpenter
- (L0103) Medium Rare. Instructor: Kelly Bair
- (L0104) Prairie Studio. Instructors: Liz Wreford, Peter Sampson
- (L0105) The Art of the Skyscraper - Between Exaltation and Economy. Instructor: Manon Asselin
- (L0106) Zoological Cities. Instructor: Joyce Hwang
- (L0107) Architecturalized Nature. Instructor: Eiri Ota
- (L0108) A "Smart" Urban Neighbourhood at the Mouth of the Don River. Instructors: Chris Glaisek, George Baird
(LAN3016Y F) Landscape Architecture Design Studio Options
- (L0101) Longitudinal Landscapes - Mud, Monitoring, and Mobilization. Instructor: Justine Holzman
- (L0102) On The Edge. Instructor: Matthew Brown
- (L0103) Nippaysage Studio - Reimagine Montreal's Parc Jean-Drapeau. Instructor: Melanie Mignault
(URD2013Y F) Urban Design Studio Options
- (L0101) Density. Instructor: Alfredo Landaeta
Winter 2018
Architectural Design Studio 6: Research Studio | ARC3016Y S
- Redemption through Activism—Transportable Architecture for Health. Instructor: Stephen Verderber
- Architecture of Risk. Instructor: Jeannie Kim
- Politics, Policy, and Architecture: Tower Renewal in Suburban Toronto. Instructor: Michael Piper
- Meta Studio 3.0: "It's only a model." Instructor: An Te Liu
- Velocities: Dromoligical Spaces. Instructor: Mason White
- Into the Upside Down: Toronto’s PATH System. Instructor: Laura Miller
- The Missing (Multi-Plex/ Mide-Rise) Middle. Instructor: Ted Kesik
- Towards a New Reality Architecture: Through the looking-glass of The Interopera. Instructor: Brian Boigon
- House for Piranesi Hadrian's Villa: Drawing as Thesis. Instructor: John Shnier
- Rethinking the Australian Outback: Imagining Leigh Creek Post-Industrial Future. Instructor: Aziza Chaouni
Elective Courses
Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory:
- Architectures of Infinite Knowledge. (ARC3312H S) Instructor: Zeynep Celik Alexander
- Media Theory for Architects. (ARC3313H S) Instructor: John Harwood
- Infrastructure, System and Concept. (ARC3314H S) Instructor: Mary Lou Lobsinger
- Architecture and Theory: A Projective Retrospective. (ARC3315H S )Instructor: Roberto Damiani
Selected Topics in Architecture:
- Architecture in India Since 1947: Eight Perspectives. (ARC3707H S) Instructor: Hans Ibelings
- Fiction Architecture and the Cinema. (ARC3708H S) Instructor: Brian Boigon
- Contemporary Art of the Every Other Day. (ARC3710HS) Instructor: An Te Liu
Selected Topics in Architecture and Technology: Acoustic Architecture. (ARC3403H S) Instructor: Brady Peters
Landscape Architecture Topics - Design: Regenerative Landscape Design. (LAN2202H S) Instructor: Peter North
Landscape Architecture Topics - Environment: Green Infrastructure. (LAN2300H S) Instructor: Sheila Boudreau
Landscape Architecture Topics - Practice: Tactical Urbanism and Disruptive Modes of Practice. (LAN2600H S) Instructors: Paula Gallo & Heidi Campbell
Landscape Architecture Topics - Theory: Ecology, Infrastructure, Habitat, Citizen: Vocabulary for the Metropolitan Landscape. (LAN2901H S) Instructor: Jane Wolf
Selected Topics in History and Theory of Urban Design: Global Urbanisms. (URD1200H S) Instructor: David Lieberman
Selected Topics in Urban Design: Community Consultation and Urban Design. (URD1505H S) Instructor: Lorne Cappe
Topics in Computer-Aided Urban Design (URD1022H S) Instructor: Ultan Byrne
Special Studies in Civil Engineering: Treatment Wetlands. (CIV1398H S) Instructor: Jennifer Drake
Visual Studies Electives
- Advanced Readings in Visual Studies. (VIS3001H S) Instructor: MVS Faculty
- Advanced Readings in Curatorial Studies. (VIS3002H S) Instructor: MVS Faculty
Fall 2017
See the Fall 2017 Graduate Timetable to view course offerings.
Option Studios (ARC 3015, LAN 3016, URD2013)
- Cultural tourism. Architecture and the sublime. Instructors: Monica Adair & Stephen Kopp
- Self-Driving Architecture. Instructors: Brady Peters & Ultan Byrne
- New Generics. Instructor: Adrian Phiffer
- Plain Vertical, a studio in the urban prairie. Instructors: Peter Sampson & Liz Wreford
- NEWtown. Instructors: Amale Andraos & Dan Wood
- Pulp. Instructors: Stephanie Davidson & Georg Rafailidis
- Coding Flux: In pursuit of resilient urbanism in South Florida. Instructor: Fadi Masoud
- Density. Instructor: Alfredo Landaeta
All 2017-2018 Elective, Option Studio, and Research Studio Course Descriptions [PDF]