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 2023
MARC students
MARC Research Studio Q&A session will be held on August 18th from 2:00pm EST.
Ballots will be open on August 18th and the deadline to submit is Thursday, August 24 at 11:59pm EST. Students may only submit one ballot.
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The following studios are open to MARC students:
(ARC3020Y F) Design Studio Research 1
- (L0101) Swarm / Counterarchive. Instructor : Jeannie Kim
- (L0102) Counterhegemonic Architecture. Instructor : Lukas Pauer
- (L0103) SUPERNATURAL. Instructor : Laura Miller
- (L0104) ARCHIPELAGO, 4.0: Docu-Drawing, Activism, Re-Building. Instructor: Petros Babasikas
- (L0105) Rehearsing the Parade: Ephemeral Assemblies and Persuasion on the Move. Instructor: Miles Gertler
- (L0106) HOUSE FOR PIRANESI at Hadrian’s villa: 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) The Certainty of Uncertain Forms, or in search of anexact typologies. Instructor : Carol Moukheiber
- (L0109) Using Trees. Instructor : Zachary Mollica
- (L0110) If robots are the answer, what was the question? Instructor : Brady Peters
- (L0111) Architecture and Health Equity in an Imperiled World. Instructor : Stephen Verderber
MLA students
MLA Option Studio Q&A session will be held on August 21st from 2:30pm EST.
Ballots will be open on August 21st and the deadline to submit is Thursday, August 24 at 11:59pm EST. Students may only submit one ballot.
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The following studios are open to MLA students:
(LAN3016Y F) Landscape Architecture Design Studio Options
- (L0101) The Hart House Farm. Instructor: Liat Margolis
- (L0102) Generative Design in Landscape Architecture: Explorations and Applications. Instructor: Robert Wright & Matthew Spremulli
Elective Courses
Fall elective course enrollment begins on July 24th, 2023. Please refer to Graduate Sessional Dates for more details.
Architecture Elective Courses
History and Theory
- (ARC3316HF) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Modern Architecture: Planetary Warming Histories. Instructor: Hans (Johannes) Ibelings
- (ARC3323HS) Advanced Design Theories: Corporate Architecture. Instructor: John Harwood
- (ARC3600HF) Selected Topics in the History and Theory of Architecture and Health: Health and the Built Environment. Instructor: Stephen Verderber
Professional Practice
- (ARC4500HF)Selected Topics in Professional Practice: Architecture as an Entrepreneurial Practice. Instructor: Steven Fong & Lorne Gertner
Technics and Planning
- (ARC3403HF) Selected Topics in Architecture and Technology: Acoustic Architecture. Instructor: Brady Peters
- (ARC3404HF) Selected Topics in Architecture and Technology: Mass Timber Building Technology. Instructor: Ted Kesik
- (ARC3405HF) Selected Topics in Architecture and Technology: When Structure is Architecture. Instructor: Dave Bowick
- (ARC3501HF) Selected Topics in Sustainable Design: Climate Change Adaptation - Sea Level Rise. Instructor: Alex Lukachko
Other
- (ARC3708HF) Selected Topics in Architecture: Sci-Fi Cinema and Architecture. Instructor: Brian Boigon
- CANCELLED (ARC3712HF) Selected Topics in Architecture: The New New Urbanism and its Architectural Rhetoric. Instructor: Robert Levit
- (ARC3713HF) Selected Topics in Architecture: Brand and storytelling: the climate movement. Instructor: Laura Stein
- (ARC3718HF) Selected Topics in Architecture: WOOD in ARCHITECTURE : A Hands-on Approach. Instructor: Christine Ho Ping Kong & Peter Tan
- (ARC3723HF) Selected Topics in Architecture: Natural Materials. Instructor: Sam Dufaux
Urban Design Elective Courses
History, Theory, Criticism*
- (URD1511HF) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Urban Housing. Instructor: Mark Guslits
- (URD1515HF) 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.
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Winter 2024
Elective Courses
Winter elective course enrollment begins in November 2023. Please refer to Graduate Sessional Dates for more details.
Architecture Elective Courses
- (ALD4100HS) Advanced Topics in Architecture, Landscape, and Design: Life Cycle Design of Buildings. Instructor: Ted Kesik
History and Theory
- (ARC3307HS) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Sites of Exchange: Architecture and Capital Flows. Instructor: Jason Nguyen
- (ARC3315HS) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Dreamhouse. Instructor: Laura Miller
- (ARC3325HS) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Architecture/ Media/ Environment/ Infrastructures. Instructor: Mary Lou Lobsinger
Technics and Planning
- (ARC3400HS) Selected Topics in Architecture and Technology: Life Cycle Design of Buildings. Instructor: Ted Kesik
- (ARC3402HS) Selected Topics in Architecture and Technology: 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 Doran
- (ARC3407HS) Selected Topics in Architecture and Technology: Designing with Robots (in Architecture and Otherwise). Instructor: Maria Yablonina
- (ARC3408HS) Selected Topics in Architecture and Technology: Working with Wood. Instructor: Ted Kesik & Sally Krigstin
- (ARC3410HS) Selected Topics in Architecture: Past and Future Building Envelopes. Instructor: Daniel Chung
- (ARC3502HS) 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
- (ARC3702HS) Selected Topics in Architecture: Voices We Seldom Hear: Leaning from Post-Colonial Architecture in the Global South. Instructor: Aziza Chaouni
- (ARC3706HS) Selected Topics in Architecture: 'Modular Prefab Assemblies 3.0. Instructor: Jason Halter
- (ARC3714HS) Selected Topics in Architecture: Land, subjects, space. Instructor: Ella den Elzen
- (ARC3721HS) Selected Topics in Architecture: Housing and Social Justice in North America. Instructor: Karen Kubey
- (ARC3722HS) Selected Topics in Architecture: In the Margins: Annotating the Everyday & Overlooked in our Built Environment. Instructor: Anne-Marie Armstrong
Landscape Architecture Elective Courses
Design
- (LAN3200HS) Landscape Architecture Topics: Design
Landscape Architecture Competitions. Instructor: Alissa North
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. Instructor: Peter North
Urban Design Elective Courses
History, Theory, Criticism*
- (URD1202HS) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Planning and Designing for Community Power. Instructors: Keisha St. Louis-McBurnie & Chiyi Tam
- (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
*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.
Past Course Descriptions
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