Master of Architecture Brochure

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY

M. ARCH

Masters of Architecture: Summary of Program

Funicular Fabrication Bart Phillips, Nathan Scott Faculty: Rob Whitehead, Patrick Rhodes, James Spiller

Iowa State University Department of Architecture

M.ARCH CURRICULUM 1 Fall

2 Spring

15 credits

15 credits

3 Summer 10 credits

Year One 100 credit requirement

4 Fall

5

15 credits

Spring 15 credits

Year Two

6 Fall

7

15 credits

Spring 15 credits

Year Three

Advanced Standing - 60 credit requirement

All-Grad

Design

ARCH_698 All-Grad Seminar (R)

ARCH_505 Architectural Design I

(5cr.)

Discourse

ARCH_595

ARCH_698

ARCH_506 Architectural Design II

ARCH_507 Architectural Design III

(5cr.)

ARCH_596

History Seminar Landscape & Society (5cr.)

(5cr.)

ARCH_698 ARCH_698

interdisciplinary

interdisciplinary

ARCH_601

ARCH_602

ARCH_603 ARCH_604

(6cr.)

(6cr.)

ARCH_597

ARCH_598

(3cr.)

(3cr.)

Architectural Design IV

Theory Seminar

All-Grad Seminar (R)

Urbanism Option Studio

Service Learning

Science & Technology for Architects I (5cr.)

ARCH_542

Science & Technology for Architects II (5cr.)

All-Grad Seminar (R)

Architectural Design VI

(6cr.)

All-Grad Seminar (R)

Option Studio

(6cr.)

Topical Study

ARCH_581

ARCH_541

Electives

ARCH_698

All-Grad Seminar (R)

(5cr.)

Practice

Sci-Tech

ARCH_698

All-Grad Seminar (R)

ARCH_582

Professional Practice (3cr.)

(5cr.)

ARCH_643

ARCH_644

ELECTIVE

ELECTIVE

Science & Technology for Architects III (3cr.)

(3cr.)

Science & Technology for Architects IV (3cr.)

(3cr.)

ELECTIVE

ELECTIVE

(3cr.)

(3cr.)

ELECTIVE

ELECTIVE

(3cr.)

(3cr.)

any graduate level course

ELECTIVE (3cr.)

YEAR 1: FS

505 541 595

ARCH 505 - Architectural Design & Media I: Mapping, Programming, Building An introduction to comprehensive architectural design projects that focuses on three interrelated design skills: mapping, programming and building. Projects establish a framework for designing buildings that considers multiple factors such as environmental forces, construction methods, building codes, urban regulations, social relationships, and cultural values.

ARCH 541: Science and Technology for Architects I introduction to Human Factors, Descriptive Geometry, Basic Building Materials, and Small-Scale Building Envelopes. Theory and case studies, stressing the connectivity of technical issues to broader formal, social, and cultural spheres.

ARCH 595 Seminar on the Built Environment I: History Introduction to historical canons and traditions of architecture and urbanism. Discussion of the relationship between historical inquiry and contemporary practice.

Students learn skills in critical thinking, visual analysis, and research methods. Course sessions develop thematically with interdisciplinary readings, group discussions, student presentations, and research projects.

YEAR 1: SS

506 542 596

ARCH 506 - Architectural Design & Media II: Materiality and Representation Small-scale architectural design projects that investigate design representation through analogue and digital means. The projects explore different representation strategies to help students develop an understanding of the particular modes of architectural representation that advance the designer’s knowledge of space as a complex interaction between materials with inherent physical characteristics, mobile socializing bodies, and changing environmental cycles.

ARCH 542: Science and Technology for Architects II Elementary Statics and Beam Theory, Basic Construction Materials, and Site and Building Circulation. Theory and case studies stressing the connectivity of technical issues to broader formal, social, and cultural spheres.

ARCH 596: Seminar on the Built Environment II: Landscape and Society Introduction to landscape as artifact and multidisciplinary knowledge-base for design thinking.

Literatures and methods of environmental psychology, cultural geography, landscape and architectural history and theory, site and circulation design as intersection of built infrastructural, natural, and social systems.

Emphasis on sensory perception, and human movement; investigations of climate, environmental conditions, and values toward consumption and sustainability in everyday experience of the built environment.

YEAR 1:

507 581

ARCH 507 - Architectural Design & Media III: Design in Detail Design projects that emphasize the multi-faceted role of the architectural detail in the design process through first, understanding the historical specificity of building construction and detailing; second, utilizing working drawing as a mode of communication; and third, designing with details. The term-long project will consider a set of working drawings of past buildings as a site for design intervention.

SUMMER ARCH 581 - Service Learning Planning and execution of a project serving a community need. Learning occurs through both theory and active involvement in on-site work. Projects connect previous coursework to practical applications and community involvement.

YEAR 2: FS

601 643 597

Arch 601 - Sustainable Building Design Design projects that are developed through integrative design strategies that explore the relationship between buildings and environmental forces to maximize nonwasteful, efficient use of resources such as energy, water and building materials. Projects will include investigations of the impact of solar energy, airflow, building materials, passive and active systems and wall sections on spatial quality and form making. Design decisions will be quantitatively validated through energy modeling and performance simulation.

Arch 643 - Science and Technology for Architects III Third in a four-course series in building science and technologies. Structural Elements and Systems, and Building Services. Theory and case studies stressing the connectivity of technical issues to broader formal, social and cultural spheres.

Arch 597 - Theory Seminar Multidisciplinary overview of contemporary theories concerned with the production of the built environment.

Particular attention to urbanism as a discourse that relates social interactions and power structures to material space.

YEAR 2: SS

602 644 598

Arch 602 - Community, Building and the Environment.

Design projects that explore the relationships between architectural, cultural, and environmental landscapes.

Emphasis on regional sites, socioeconomic conditions, and sustainable design and planning practices at multiple scales. Projects stress engagement with local circumstances and stakeholders; systemic interconnections and strategies; and the application of interdisciplinary research.

Arch 644 - Science and Technology for Architects IV Fourth of a four-course series in building science and technologies. Building Enclosures, Interior Construction and Sensory Qualities, Fabrication and Construction.

Theory and case studies stressing the connectivity of technical issues to broader formal, social and cultural spheres. Summative Student Project.

Arch 598 - Topical Study A research seminar which considers a topic within contemporary discourses on the built environment outside of Europe and North America. The topic will be studied from multiple perspectives highlighting the historical and theoretical relationships between architecture, global cultures, geography, landscape, and urban planning. Credit counts toward fulfillment of Studies in Architecture and Culture requirements.

YEAR 3: FS

603 582

Arch 603 - Architectural Design VI : Integrated Building Design Rigorous examination of architecture’s relationship with culture and technology. Studio projects stress the interpretation of contextual and historical considerations, as well as structural, environmental, mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems, in a comprehensive design proposal. This course fulfills the Graduate College Creative Component Requirement.

YEAR 3: SS

604 1

Arch 604 - Design Option Studios Design studio selected by the students, which may include but is not limited to: independent design study, interdisciplinary design studio, study abroad, and design build. WW S 546 for 6 cr. may be substituted for this course

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Porosity Individuality Dynamism Exterior skeleton

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Inspired by corals, a expressed X-bracing structure system interweaves, creating a unique appearance of the building. Each rooms is a unique individual and optimized for better views of the ocean.

Inspired by corals, a expressed X-bracing structure system interweaves, creating a unique appearance of the building. Each rooms is a unique individual and optimized for better views of the ocean.

Trapezoid Room

Trapezoid Room

Horizontal Placement

Horizontal Placement

Vertical Placement

Vertical Placement

Structure Frame Structure Frame

Form

Form