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.
Summer 2021 Electives
For enrolment dates, please refer to the graduate Fall/Winter 2020-21 Sessional Dates.
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 Electives
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
Fall 2020 Electives
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 Electives
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
Summer 2020 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
Past Course Descriptions
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