Graduate Course Descriptions

To request enrolment in electives offered by other departments students must obtain the instructor's signature and the host department coordinator/administrator's signature before submitting the Add/Drop form to the Office of the Registrar and Student Services or registrar@daniels.utoronto.ca for final approval. It is important that the form be completed correctly. To ensure your form can be processed, please provide us with contact information for the host department administrator so we may to confirm your approval. Please note that other department enrolment dates will differ from that of the Daniels Faculty and it is your responsibility to be aware of these dates and contact the departments as appropriate.

Fall 2021 Research/Option Studios

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

Fall 2021 Electives

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 Electives

For enrolment dates, please refer to the graduate Fall/Winter 2020-21 Sessional Dates.

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.