Elective Courses

Architecture Elective Courses

History and Theory

• (ARC3319H) Specific description and Course title to be announced soon. Instructor: TBD, July 3- August 7, 2025, Tuesdays/Thursdays 10am-1pm, Aug 7 will be from 10am-5pm 

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

• (L0101) Instructor: Sam Dufaux (Coordinator)
• (L0102) Instructor: Brigitte Shim
• (L0103) Instructor: Jon Cummings
• (L0104) Instructor: Daniel Chung
• (L0105) Instructor: James Macgillivray
• (L0106) Instructor: Maria Denegri
• (L0107) Instructor: Chris Cornecelli

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) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Other Cultures of Density. Instructor: Michael Piper
• (ARC3303HS) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Landscapes of Migration. Instructor: Erica Allen Kim
• (ARC3311HS) Selected Topics in the Architectural History and Theory: Land Practices/Prácticas de la tierra. Instructor: Rafico Ruiz
• (ARC3324HS) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Designing Nature. Instructor: Aleksandr Bierig

*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

• (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? Instructors: Alstan Jakubiec and Kelly Doran
• (ARC3404HS) Selected Topics in Architecture and Technology: Mass Timber Building Technology. Instructor: Ted Kesik
• (ARC3405HS) Selected Topics in Architecture and Technology: When Structure is Architecture. Instructor: Shannon Hilchie

Professional Practice

• (ARC4502HS) Selected Topics in Professional Practice: How the Climate Crisis is Changing Architectural Practice. Instructor: Alex Lukachko

Other

• (ARC3700HS) Selected Topics in Architecture: Laneway Architecture and Urbanism in Toronto. Instructor: Brigitte Shim
• (ARC3712HS) Selected Topics in Architecture: Of Transition and Duality. Instructor: R. Shane Williamson
• (ARC3714HS) Selected Topics in Architecture: Taking Stock. Instructor: Ang Li
• (ARC3716HS) Selected Topics in Architecture: Land, subjects, space. CANCELLED 12/13/2024
• (ARC3718HS) Selected Topics in Architecture: Wood in Architecture: A Hands-on Approach. Instructors: Christine Ho Ping Kong and Peter Tan
• (ARC3720HS) Selected Topics in Architecture: Design activism in the Global South: alternative modes of architecture practice. CANCELLED 12/13/2024
• (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

• (LAN3201HS): Landscape Architecture Topics: Design: Mapping our Urban Commons: Alternative Models of Land Ownership in Canadian Cities. Instructor: Joshua Kirk

Society

• (LAN3702HS): Landscape Architecture Topics: Society: Vocabulary and Agency: Investigating Water. Instructor: Jane Wolff

Technology

• (LAN3801HS): Landscape Architecture Topics: Technology: Carbon Accounting for Environmental and Landscape Design. Instructor: Robert Wright

Urban Design Elective Courses

• (URD1505HS) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Urban Design & Public Engagement. Instructor: Lorne Cappe
• (URD1506HS) Selected Topics in History and Theory of Urban Design: Arctic Design. Instructor: Bert de Jonghe
• (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.

PhD Elective Courses

• (ALD4104HS) Advanced Topics in Architecture, Landscape, and Design:  Elemental Matters: Architecture as Environmental Media. Instructor: Jason Nguyen

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.

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.

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