Option Studios

The Fall 2024 Option Studio Q&A session was held on Monday, August 12 from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. EST. Ballots are now open and can be filled out here. Ballots will close on Friday, August 16 at 11:59 p.m. EST. Students who do not ballot on time will be assigned to any available section.

All Fall 2024 Option Studios are open to MARC, MLA and MUD students. 

• (ARC3015YF) (L0101) The Blurst of Times: Exploring AI’s Creative Potential in Architectural Design. Instructor: Vivian Lee
• (ARC3015YF) (L0102) Entanglement: Human, AI, and Digital Fabrication. Instructor: Humbi Song
• (ARC3015YF) (L0103) Expanding Heritage: Imagining Climate Resilient and Inclusive Futures for Stone Town/Ng’ambo. Instructor: Aziza Chaouni
• (ARC3015YF) (L0104) Big Little Village. Instructors: Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu
• (ARC3015YF) (L0105) (Ex) Base Scape: The Architecture of (Ex) Extra Territories. Instructor: Nahyun Hwang
• (ARC3015YF) (L0106) Impersonation: Being a Child. Instructor: Eiri Ota
• (ARC3015YF) (L0107) platform:MIDDLE. Instructor: Johanna Hurme
• (ARC3015YF) (L0108) Architecture, Community, and Cultural Memory. Instructors: Shane Laptiste and Tura Cousins Wilson.
• (LAN3016YF) (L0101) Plant Diaspora. Instructor: Behnaz Assadi
• (LAN3016YF) (L0102) SEEDS + WEEDS: The Knotty Natures of Botanic Gardens. Instructor: Karen M'Closkey
• (URD2013) (L0101) New (High-Density) Neighbourhoods with “Old City Charm.” Instructor: Misha Bereznyak

MARC Thesis 

The Fall 2024 MARC Thesis Seminar Q&A session was held on Thursday, July 25, 12:00-2:00 p.m. EST.

Ballots will open on July 25 and close on Monday, July 29, 11:59 p.m. EST. Students may only submit one ballot. 

Click here for the MARC Thesis Ballot (ARC3018)

The following thesis seminars are open to MARC students:

(ARC3018HF) 

• (L0101) String Figures. Instructor: Jeannie Kim
• (L0102) Architecture and the Right to Housing: The Practical Case for Radicalism. Instructor: Karen Kubey
• (L0103) Making with Machines. Instructor: Maria Yablonina
• (L0104) LOBSTER TALES and Other Architectures Between Land and Sea. Instructor: Richard Sommer
• (L0105) Rehearsing the Parade: Ephemeral Architectures and Persuasion on the Move. Instructor: Miles Gertler
• (L0106) Architecture and Health Equity in an Imperiled World. Instructor: Stephen Verderber
• (L0107) Politics Policy and Architecture. Instructor: Michael Piper
• (L0108) The Certainty of Uncertain Forms, or in search of anexact typologies / The Stone Edition. Instructor: Carol Moukheiber
• (L0109) LUNAR HABITAT: Design for Extreme Environments as a Driver of Architectural Innovation. Instructor: Brady Peters

Elective Courses

Fall elective course enrolment begins in August 2024. Please refer to the School of Graduate Studies calendar for sessional dates.

Architecture Elective Courses

History and Theory

• (ARC3300HF) Selected Topics in Architectural History and Theory: Architecture and Infrastructure in North America Landscapes, 1800-2020. Instructor: Claire Zimmerman
• (ARC3600HF) Selected Topics in the History and Theory of Architecture and Health: Health and the Built Environment. Instructor: Stephen Verderber

Computer Modelling

• (ARC3201HF) Selected Topics in Advanced Computer Applications: Computational Design. Instructor: Brady Peters

Other

• (ARC3723HF) Selected Topics in Architecture: Natural Materials. Instructor: Sam Dufaux

Urban Design Elective Courses

• (URD1511HF) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Urban/Affordable Housing. Instructor: Mark Guslits
• (URD1515HF) Selected Topics in Urban Design: Designing the Peripheral City. Instructors: Daniel Rotsztain and Thevishka Kanishkan

*URD12## and URD15## code courses may not be used towards satisfying the 0.5 FCE full course equivalents (FCE) 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 or PhD History and Theory courses.

PhD Elective Courses

The following PhD elective courses are open to MARC students. 

• (ALD4101HF) Advanced Topics in Architecture, Landscape, and Design: Life Cycle Design of Buildings. Instructor: Ted Kesik
• (ALD4103HF) Advanced Topics in Architecture, Landscape, and Design: Modes of Inquiry: media/ infrastructures/environments. Instructor: Mary Lou Lobsinger
• (ALD4100HF) Advanced Topics in Architecture, Landscape, and Design (History/Theory). Instructor: John Harwood

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
• (ARC9902HS) 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
• (ARC3716HS) Selected Topics in Architecture: Land, subjects, space. Instructor: Ella den Elzen
• (ARC3718HS) Selected Topics in Architecture: Wood in Architecture: A Hands-on Approach. Instructors: Christine Ho Ping Kong and Peter Tan
• (ARC3722HS) Selected Topics in Architecture: In the Margins: Annotating the Everyday & Overlooked in our Built Environment. Instructor: Anne-Marie Armstrong
• Selected Topics in Architecture. Instructor: Aziza Chaouni
• Selected Topics in Architecture. Instructor: Shane Williamson

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

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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