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.

MArc, MLA, MUD, and MVS students may freely choose any of the following electives.

The Daniels Faculty offers only the Global Architecture experiences for graduate students in the Summer sessions. Graduate students may choose to enrol in courses outside of our department with an Add/Drop form.

• (ARC3038H/ARC2015H) Global Architecture 2020: Costa Rica. Instructor: Mauricio Quiros Pacheco
• (ARC3038H/ARC2015H) Global Architecture 2020: Marrakech. Instructor: Aziza Chaouni

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 9:00am on Monday, December 16.

Research Studio Balloting

(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

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 12:00pm on Thursday, September 5.

Option Studio Balloting

(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

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