Courses

This course introduces architectural design responses for energy conservation and natural conditioning, human comfort and the site-specific dynamics of climate.

This course focuses on active systems in commercial buildings and strategies for their successful integration with passive components.

This summer course for incoming Carnegie Mellon Architecture graduate students helps to establish a baseline of technical skills appropriate to the expectations of the design culture at the school. All graduate students are expected to be familiar with the protocols and workflows covered in this course.

In this first urban design studio, we focus on timely issues that drive contemporary cities, grounded in the fundamentals of urban theory and practice.

This course introduces students to the practice of urban design and explores the roles urban designers play in the design of cities and their leadership responsibilities.

With the notion of “critical technical practice” as a touchstone, this graduate-level seminar draws from across design, media, and science and technology studies to cultivate an awareness of the discursive and political dimensions of technology in design, and to guide participants in the formulation of a graduate thesis in computational design.

Commoning the City is a yearlong research‐based design studio on social justice and community‐led urban transformations. Here, students explore design as an agent of change and how to support citizens in claiming their Right to the City.

This course teaches the fundamentals of real estate development. Students learn about the real estate development process and the social, economic and regulatory context in which development takes place. 

This graduate-level course examines the emergence of computation as a pivotal concept in contemporary architecture and design through a selection of design theories and practices responding to the so-called “computer revolution.”

This course explores the relationship of quality buildings, building systems, infrastructures and land-use to productivity, health, well-being and a sustainable environment.

This intensive course is designed to help students refine their research plan and prepare for their synthesis project.

This course introduces fundamental knowledge in building physics in relation to a variety of environmentally responsive building design principles and incorporates computational approaches to increase resiliency for human habitability while minimizing reliance on mechanical systems.