Graduate Course Descriptions

Fall 2025

Important notes:

  • MARC, MLA and MUD students can enroll in any of the ARC, LAN, or URD electives listed below.
  • ARC, LAN, and URD electives are also open to PhD and Post-professional students.
  • ALD electives are only open to PhD, Post-professional, and MARC students.
  • Courses marked as (History/Theory) can be used to satisfy the History/Theory elective requirement of the MARC program.
  • MVS students must obtain permission from their program director prior to enrolling in electives.

Instructor

Tentative Schedule

Course Code and Title

Ted Kesik

Tue 12-3

ALD4101: “Life Cycle Design of Buildings”

Jason Nguyen

Fri 3-6

ALD4105: “Trade Spaces: Architecture, Logistics, and Commerce in the Global Age” (History/Theory)

Claire Zimmerman

Tue 9-12

ARC3305: “Animal-Vegetable-Mineral: Architecture Beyond Human Construction” (History/Theory)

John Harwood

Fri 12-3

ARC3309: “The Architecture of Money” (History/Theory)

Stephen Verderber

Tue 6-9

ARC3600: “Health and the Built Environment”

Shane Williamson

Fri 3-6

ARC3712: “Of Transition and Duality”

Steven Fong and Lorne Gertner

Tue 3-6

ARC4500: “Architecture as an Entrepreneurial Practice”

Ramy Bakir

Tue 9-12

URD1500: "A.I. and Urban Futures"

Mark Guslits

Fri 9-12

URD1511: “Socially Relevant Approaches to Housing”

Other courses Daniels students may be interested in:

  • JPF2430H F: “Conceptualizing Cities in a Global Context” (jointly offered with the Department of Political Science)
  • PLA1516H F: “Planning and Designing for Community Power” (offered by the Department of Geography and Planning)

Daniels students who wish to take courses in other departments must do so by filling out the SGS Add/Drop course form. This involves getting the signature of the course instructor and your program director. Once you have obtained these two signatures, email your form to records@daniels.utoronto.ca as well as the graduate administrator of the department offering the course so that your enrolment may be processed.

Non-Daniels students who wish to enrol in the above courses should also fill out the SGS Add/Drop course form by obtaining signatures from the course instructor and your department graduate coordinator before forwarding the form to records@daniels.utoronto.ca.

 

Summer 2025

Elective Courses

Architecture Elective Courses

History and Theory

  • (ARC3319H S) Advanced Design Theories: Interrogating Space and Place in the Built Environment. Instructor: Eric Nay, July 3- August 7, 2025, Tuesdays/Thursdays 10am-1pm, Aug 7 will be from 10am-5pm 

Winter 2025

ARC2014YS: Design Studio 4

In preparation for the Winter 2025 ARC2014YS: Design Studio 4 - Comprehensive Building Project, we've provided information below on the various studio topics offered by our instructors this term. 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 29, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. EST. Only one (1) submission per group is required.

(ARC2014YS) Design Studio 4: Comprehensive Building Project

Elective Courses

Winter 2025 elective course enrolment will be announced in the fall. Please refer to the School of Graduate Studies calendar for sessional dates.

Architecture Elective Courses

History and Theory*

*ARC3105HS 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 other electives from the ARC History and Theory stream section.

Technics and Planning

Professional Practice

Other

Landscape Architecture Elective Courses

Design

Society

Technology

Urban Design Elective Courses

*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.

PhD Elective Courses

The PhD elective courses are open to MARC students. This course (ALD4104) can be used to fulfill the History and Theory requirement of the MARC program.

External Electives

Department of Geography and Planning
PLA1516H: Developing Affordable Housing From Start to Finish
Wednesdays, 3:00-5:00 p.m.

‘Developing Affordable Housing From Start to Finish’ is a unique multi-disciplinary course open to students from graduate programs in planning, architecture, real estate, urban design and other related disciplines. In this interactive, hands-on studio course, students will work collaboratively in multi-disciplinary groups to prepare affordable housing development proposals for real potential redevelopment sites in Toronto. Through preparing building concept designs, site plans, development proformas, operating budgets, financing strategies and business plans, students will experience ‘what it’s like to be a developer’ in addressing the challenges and complexities of planning and developing an affordable housing site from start to finish. Classes will include a mix of lectures, industry guest speakers and group work sessions, so in-class participation is mandatory. Interested students should also possess a basic knowledge of housing, finance or design’.

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.

Past Course Descriptions

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