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Academic Catalog 2021-2022 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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EDAD102 Architectural Technical Drawing 3 cr.
Development of a variety of design/technical drawing skills through exploration in various media using architectural design contexts. Attention is given to 3D material rendition, construction means, and form characteristics through measuring, documentation and transformation into 2D drawing. Freehand and hard line drawing including plan, section, elevation, axonometric, isometric, and perspective are covered through a diverse set of drawing projects.
Critique
Departmental Requirement
Fall/Spring
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EDAD200 Pattern Language & Morphology in Architecture 3 cr.
An introduction to the design processes used in all areas of architecture and basic design, students develop a foundation in the principles of design through concept development, perception, comprehension and visual communication through sketches, measured drawings and models.
Prerequisites: Concurrent or previous enrollment in EDAD102 Technical Drawing and EDAD 202 Methods and Materials or equivalent as approved by Instructor. (A preparatory course to studio design issues, required of all undergraduates in the program)
Studio
Departmental Requirement
Fall
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EDAD202 Methods and Materials 3 cr.
This course introduces students to the history, origins, properties, working methods, and assembly techniques of the major materials that comprise the built environment, with a focus on the development of woodshop skills and wood frame construction.
Students are immersed in the nuts and bolts of architectural craft and construction technology practice. Through design sketch problems, hands-on demonstrations, and readings, students focus on the most common methods of constructing building systems in wood, masonry, steel, and concrete. Constructing a full-scale model of a wood-framed structure brings the theory to life. Read chapters 1-5, 8-11, and 13-15 of Fundamentals of Building Construction: Materials and Methods (Edward Allen) prior to class.
Prerequisites: Concurrent or previous enrollment in EDAD200 Pattern Language
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Requirement
Fall
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EDAD203 3D Modeling for Freshman 3 cr.
An exploration of form.Z as an introduction to 3D modeling skills. Various design projects are used as the basis to explore the 2D and 3D tools to form a basic understanding of the software.
Hybrid Studio/Critique
All College Elective
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EDAD205 Technical Drawing as an Art Form 3 cr.
The goal of this course is to reestablish this classic form of drawing. Assignments will stress the technical aspects of pencil as well as pen and ink drawing. Students will be introduced to axonometric views, perspective construction and freehand object drawings of interior and exterior views. Lectures will include technical drawing and architectural renderings from the golden age.
Critique
All College Elective
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EDAD211 Digital Tools 3cr
Students are introduced to 2D/3D drawing and modeling software with an emphasis on architectural design in digital space. In-class demonstrations occur throughout the semester and address how to use digital tools at various stages of the design process at various scales. Students apply skills taught in class to small design projects as part of the course.
Lecture
Instructor’s Discretion
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EDAD216 History of Architecture and Urban Planning I 3 cr.
The course examines building cultures from different periods and places, beginning with pre-history and the ancient civilizations from more than 5000 years ago that kept the first written records, through the era of medievalism up to the dawn of modernity.
Emphasis is given to different aspects of the built domain: selected individual buildings, their symbolical significance, layouts, spatial organization, construction, building materials and technologies, along with buildings’ sites and city plans within the broader urban and cultural landscapes. Each lecture is based on a variety of case studies of buildings and settlements explored within their specific geographies and historical settings. Rather than asking for simple memorizing of particular data or dates, students develop skills of analyzing, comparing and getting oriented within distinct historical spaces and periods.
Lecture/Seminar
Departmental Requirement
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EDAD223 Architectural Design I 3 cr.
Introduction to architectural design as a social art. The course lays the foundation of basic skills in architecture through which students are introduced to design through observation of people and places, program schematics, access, siting and elementary building languages.
Through a series of projects of increasing complexity, students work on designs that include small scale private and public programs, and transform ideas into built form.
Prerequisites: Undergraduates: EDAD200 Pattern Language
Studio
Departmental Requirement
Spring
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EDAD227 Architectural Structures I 3 cr.
Introduces construction at a domestic scale through lectures, slides and field trips. Structural calculations include safe selection of building parts by stress analysis, beam equations and column computations. Students learn sufficient wood and masonry building techniques to design a small wood frame building. Assignments include structural models and calculations.
Lecture/Seminar
Departmental Requirement
Spring
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EDAD300 Design/Build/Artisanry 3 cr.
Development of technical drawing skills through exploration in various media using architectural or industrial design contexts. Introduces various drawing techniques. Attention is given to 3D material rendition, construction means, and form characteristics through measuring, documentation, and transformation into 2D drawing. Freehand and hard line drawing including plan, section, elevation, axonometric, isometric, and perspective.
Critique
Departmental Elective
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EDAD302 Sustainable Architecture 3 cr.
Providing a broad overview of ecology and landscape as a basis for understanding sustainable principles, the course follows research focusing on “deep retrofit” detailing for new and existing wood frame housing in various climates, with an emphasis on cold climates similar to New England. Lectures include siting, water and waste, trash and recycling, conservation and energy production, air, environment and health, materials and methods in construction, transportation, food production, native landscape design and the broader issues of building community. Sustainable construction principles centered in wood frame construction for both new and existing housing presented and researched including the current developments in details, environmental and energy systems alternatives. Individually and in groups, students are required to develop details for existing construction approaching zero-energy use in various climates, associated with an outline specification indicating materials, systems and energy sources. Each student will complete a drawn presentation, an individual outline specification, and a short presentation on a focused area of interest.
Prerequisites: EDAD223 Architectural Design I, or equivalent as approved by Instructor.
Lecture/Seminar
Departmental Requirement
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EDAD307 Furniture Design I 3 cr.
This studio is designed as an introduction to the basic principles of furniture design as it relates to history, methods of production and style. Through a series of projects, students design and construct projects focusing on material selection, joinery conventions of similar and different materials and craft in assemblage. Students are encouraged to develop consistent formal elements in their designs, with attention to ease of use, function, assemblage and workmanship.
Prerequisites: Take Methods and Materials or Projects in Wood or Joinery
Hybrid Studio/Critique
All College Elective
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EDAD310 Architectural Design II 3 cr.
The studio focuses on the development of tools and fundamental skills for primary competence in design leading to an emerging ability to integrate design explorations - the ability to think critically about and integrate research and precedents, climate and site, program, use and structural building propositions.
Prerequisites: EDAD223 or EDAD305 Architectural Design I or equivalent as approved by Instructor
Studio
Departmental Requirement
Fall
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EDAD316 History of Architecture and Urban Planning II 3cr
The course explores building cultures from around the world from 1400s until the mid-20th century. As the time-line covered in the course starts
with the Renaissance – defined by its radical shift from the previous, predominantly religious, ideological framework, to man-centered belief
systems – the entire period can be generally considered as the Age of Modernity. Therefore, special attention in the course is paid to the
various concepts, understanding, and architectural manifestations of the idea of Modern. Each lecture is based on a variety of
case studies - specific buildings, urban plans and theoretical statements of the leading architects, planners and visionary contributors
to the creation of the built domain, understood through the specificities of the ideological, cultural, and intellectual settings of different
periods and geographies.
Fall
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EDAD317 Architectural Structures II 3 cr.
Continues structural design of wooden buildings and computations for generic or special extra load applications requiring compound wood sections. Introduces steel construction and calculation for steel beams and columns. Environmental systems of plumbing, heating and insulation are covered and students design a domestic plumbing system.
Prerequisites: EDAD227 Architectural Structures I, or equivalent as approved by Instructor.
Lecture/Seminar
Departmental Requirement
Fall
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EDAD320 Architectural Design III 3 cr.
Students are exposed to a design project of increasing complexity and an investigation of mixed use programming at an urban site. Design work includes experimentation with the design and selection of structural systems and application of sustainable principles to site and building design concepts and details.
Development of architectural design skills that address the issues of housing both locally and globally viewed through a lens of cultural differences: as in typical minimum housing sizes and varied user profiles. The coursework includes investigation of elements of urban tissue such as plazas, squares, street edges and systems of city form understood through street patterns and greenways followed up in a site study focused on the primary design project for the studio. Students explore needs, values, norms and spatial patterns as a means to sensitize them to diverse physical and cultural environments that culminate in the design of a mixed-use housing project in a local urban contex
Prerequisites: EDAD310, EDAD327
Studio
Departmental Requirement
Spring
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EDAD327 Architectural Structures III 3 cr.
Introduces structure design of compound steel beams and columns and long span trusses of steel or wood. Environmental systems/building science topics include electricity, wiring, lighting and daylighting, long span roofing and foundation and site methods.
Prerequisites: EDAD317 Architectural Structures II, or equivalent as approved by Instructor
Lecture/Seminar
Departmental Requirement
Spring
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EDAD330 The Art of Furniture Design I: Fundamentals of Design and Construction 3 cr.
In this course, students initiate and are guided through a hands-on design/build project based on fundamental tenets of furniture design. Students will come to class with work from Design Processes for Furniture Design to use as the basis for their project. This studio shop course will begin with a review of design fundamentals and the concept design process. If necessary, concepts are refined through additional drawings and maquette model making as preparation for the concluding phase: completion of the final product. This class will also be open to students outside of the certificate program who have experience in basic hand tool use and maintenance as well as a comfort level for work in standing machine power tools.
Prerequisites: Design Processes for Furniture Design
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Elective
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EDAD333 MassMaker Studio 3 cr
MassMaker is an interdisciplinary, mixed media design studio program focused on an
entrepreneurial approach to the making of things. The course simulates the development cycle of
ideas from inspiration, through design and development, prototyping and fabrication, and
creation and marketing. Working in teams with other students from different disciplines,
students gain leadership, collaboration, and design skills in a problem based, hands on
environment of shared success.
Students form teams, create a problem statement, propose an idea to solve the stated problem,
design their solution, prototype and fabricate it using a mixture of means and methods including
digital design (3D Modeling, Parametric Design, Finite Analysis), digital prototyping and
fabrication (3D Printing, CNC Controlled, Laser Cutters) traditional crafts (Wood, Metal,
Composites shops), and the present their concept using digital design and graphics techniques
including printed material, digital media, animation, or interactive media. Fabrication and
prototyping takes place in shops and labs located throughout the Mass Art campus. Studio space for
design and assembly will be provided to each team.
Undergraduate Electove
Spring Only
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EDAD334 Architectural Communication 3cr
Amongst fields of creative production,
architecture is unique in its reliance on
representational images. Architects rely on these
representations to convey multiple layers of
information, from the conceptual to the
pragmatic. With the dizzying array of digital and
analog media at our disposal, how do we determine
how best to present our design ideas? And, with
limited time, how do we select the most effective
and efficient technique to present conceptual
content? In this course, students take a closer
look at strategies of architectural
representation, with a focus on communicating a
clear message through graphic means. Students
explore multiple historical examples, learn new
drawing and model making techniques, and produce
a range of 2d and 3d work that aims to fully
capture and enhance design intent.
Prerequisites: EDAD-102
Critique
Undergraduate Elective
Spring
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EDAD340 The Art of Furniture Design II: Fundamentals of Design and Construction 3 cr.
In this course, students initiate and are guided through a hands-on design/build project based on fundamental tenets of furniture design. Students will come to class with work from Design Processes for Furniture Design to use as the basis for their project. This studio shop course will begin with a review of design fundamentals and the concept design process. If necessary, concepts are refined through additional drawings and maquette model making as preparation for the concluding phase: completion of the final product. This class will also be open to students outside of the certificate program who have experience in basic hand tool use and maintenance as well as a comfort level for work in standing machine power tools.
Prerequisites: The Art of Furniture Design: Fundamentals of Design and Construction I
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Elective
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EDAD345 Animals, Architects & Attitude 3cr
This community service project begins with a one semester design course, followed by a spring building workshop in which students design and construct an object that has a real world client with a need. This semester includes research, lectures, demonstrations, zoo visits, drawings, operational model making, and presentations. During the term students produce drawings and test models. To demonstrate the constructability of the finalized form the class works collaboratively to create a scale operational model. In spring of 2019 students may have the
opportunity to continue and construct/install the final design at the Franklin Park Zoo.
The course is presented to students with an emphasis on developing skills in research, analysis, design development, and critique with juried selection.The final result is the creation
of a useful space and structure where humans and animals interface and learn from each other with a covered stage for presentations, educational programming, concerts, and performances located at the Franklin Park Zoo.
Hybrid Studio Critique
Fall
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EDAD346 Animals, Arch. & Attitude II 3cr
This continuation of a community service design
course, is intended to be a chance to construct
large scale ( 1:2 scale ) working prototypes and
models based on designs produced in the first
course that was offered in the Fall of 2018. In
this course students will construct mock ups of
operational stage props, a transformable stage
with backstage, and a dynamically shaped
lightweight roof structure. These large scale
furniture-like objects will then be displayed a
the Franklin Park Zoo, to demonstrate to design
intent and help the Zoo raise funds to build the
actual project in 2019.
This course is presented to students with an
emphasis on developing skills in material
research, analysis, and detail design and
fabrictaion.The final result is the creation of a
useful tranformable space and structure where
humans and animals interface and learn from each
other with a covered stage for presentations,
educational programming, concerts, and
performances located at the Franklin Park Zoo.
Hybrid Studio Critique
Spring
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EDAD350 Building Components and Details 3 cr.
This course investigates the nature of construction material and the inherent ways that materials behave, using these properties in small-scale design studies. Construction assemblies are studied for their logic and design opportunities. Students use industry conventions such as dimensioning and material constraints in designs to develop projects through drawing, models and building actual details. The work is developed in architectural, interior and industrial design contexts.
Prerequisites: Concurrent or previous enrollment in EDAD310.
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Requirement
Spring
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EDAD356 Exhibit Design 3 cr.
The intent of this class is to discover and explore the basic principles of designing exhibits, including structural frameworks, ergonomics, scale, graphics, and an exploration of materials, form and fabrication. Students are exposed to concepts of time and the multiple types of display for selling, celebrations, fairs, expositions and markets.
Prerequisites: Open to all majors; limited spaces will be reserved for freshman.
Critique
Departmental Elective
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EDAD360 Furniture Fabrication for a Sustainable Future 3 cr.
This course combines experience in the fine art of furniture making with an exploration of the procurement, preparation and use of sustainable
materials. Students develop their woodworking skills in both traditional joinery techniques as well modern production methods. Each student is
responsible for generating and building an original design that represents an understandingof efficiency and sustainability.
The focus is on functional pieces for living, learning and working spaces.
Prerequisites: prior woodshop experience
Hybrid Studio/Critique
All College Elective
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EDAD367 Building Operating Systems 3cr
Mechanical/electrical/plumbing/communication
systems for domestic to tall buildings are
introduced in the context of declining energy
supplies and increasing global pollution. Lower
energy systems for heating, ventilating, air
conditioning, plumbing, and lighting for new and
retro-fit applications are contrasted with
traditional systems, and selections of
architectural design and landscape elements which
support more sustainable systems are covered.
Students estimate heating, cooling, ventilating,
lighting, electrical, elevator, sewage and pure
water loads and gain some understanding of how
handling these loads affects the space and layout
of buildings and what sort of
collaboration with engineers is to be expected.
The principles of operation and code standards
for the various environmental control systems are
explained, together with relative costs and
expected maintenance requirements.
Issues of energy source availability, safety,
pollution, storage and delivery are discussed
from a local and global perspective. Field trips
to local “”green”” buildings demonstrate the use
of currently available lower energy systems.
Prerequisites: EDAD-317
Lecture
Spring
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EDAD392 AD Course Assistantship
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EDAD399 AD Independent Study
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EDAD402 Professional Practice 3 cr.
Students are introduced to architectural practice through social and community design issues, fiduciary responsibility, design and construction contracts and contract law, regulations and codes governing design and construction, ethics, sustainability and environmental issues and requirements for planning, site design and building design and construction.
Prerequisites: EDAD320 Architectural Design III (required of all graduates in the program) Permission of Instructor required of students in the undergraduate program.
Lecture/Seminar
Departmental Elective
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EDAD405 Making Cities Work 3 cr
What design decisions lead to a more sustainable future and how are those decisions made? In this course we examine how the architecture and design of cities is dependent on the underlying urban fabric by looking carefully at the forces that shape great urban spaces - the designers, the political players and the everyday urban dwellers.
Contemporary projects ranging from The High Line in Manhattan to Germany’s Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord are used as case-studies in conjunction with study of Boston’s historical and contemporary urban landscape. Students’ final projects for the course involve direct observation, analysis and documentation of selected sites in Boston. Through case studies and investigations in Boston we critically assess the social, cultural, environmental and economic factors that influence built and landscape fabric of cities and what the confluence of those underpinnings means for the future of the places where we live.
Hybrid Studio Critique
Elective
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EDAD409 The City: Interviews With Innovators In Design and City Process 3cr
This highly interactive lecture course seeks to
expose students to a group of experts who are
challenging the larger forces that affect
building design, including public participation in zoning
and city master-planning, economics, finance, and
development models, and resiliency and climate
change regulations. Guest lecturers such as Dr.
Barry Bluestone, Dr. Atyia Martin, Chief
Resiliency Officer for the City of Boston, and others will
present their work and engage in a lively
interview-style conversation around how designers
can shape projects in intelligent and innovative
ways to deal with today’s complex realities.
Prior to the ‘interviews’, students are expected to
familiarize themselves with the work of the
visitor and compile questions that they will ask the guest.
Prerequisites: Knowledge in architectural design and Interest in planning initiatives in the cities of Boston and Cambridge.
Seminar
Fall
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EDAD410 Architectural Design IV 3 cr.
Architectural design projects of increasing complexity, to include multi-storied construction proposed in the public realm on an urban site. The course provides a framework for making clear design decisions related to the development of solving complex programming skills in a community setting. Projects use a range of building systems requiring long spans and taller structures in steel and concrete. The studio begins with a short project exercise in manipulating an existing exposed column and beam grid system in order to investigate the structural frame, closure and edge conditions.
Prerequisites: EDAD320 Architectural Design III
Studio
Departmental Requirement
Fall
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EDAD427 Structures Overview 3cr
Designed for students who require a comprehensive overview of current structural methods in the United States. Covers structural examples and calculations for reinforced concrete, steel, wood
frame and cross laminated timber. Students accustomed to a masonry building tradition are introduced to the possibilities of wood and related calculation methods. Computations are
presented in typical applied context.
Prerequisites: EDAD-227 and EDAD-317
Lecture
Fall
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EDAD440 Intermediate Furniture Design: Pre-Capstone Studio 3 cr.
Working with greater autonomy in the shop environment, each student develops a more advanced design project in consultation with faculty. The project will be based on students’ ongoing practice of concept documentation and idea development in their sketchbooks, and focused on continued evolution of individual vision and practice. Practical issues such as rapid decision making and timely procurement of materials are incorporated into the design/build process. This course may be combined with the Art of Furniture class, depending upon enrolment.
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Elective
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EDAD441 Furniture Design Capstone 3 cr.
This is the culmination of a five semester concentration on the development of studio furniture. Students are required to produce a significant work of merit – a furniture suite, or a series of pieces – in order to successfully complete the capstone course. The expectation is for the student to produce work which is a cohesive representation of his or her individual aesthetic voice and vision. As such, the final work will be the defining element of the emerging artist’s portfolio as the student moves into professional practice.
Prerequisites: Intermediate Furniture Design: Pre-Capstone studio
Hybrid Studio/Critique
Departmental Elective
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EDAD450 Architecture Degree Project I (Research) 3 cr.
This course is the first of a two-semester senior architectural degree project. This project will be the vehicle for students to develop techniques to self sufficiently research, explore, develop and ultimately demonstrate the validity of an architectural thesis / proposition put forth by the student. In this semester students will identify a thesis / proposition of personal interest to them; they will develop a comprehensive preliminary architectural program that supports the thesis / proposition; and they will identify a locally available site which will provide an appropriate context for the proposed project. Through research, evaluation, analysis and testing, the student will confirm the feasibility of the chosen project to accomplish the architectural goals and support the thesis / proposition stated by the student.
Prerequisites: EDAD410 Concurrent or prior enrollment in Architectural Design IV (Required of all undergraduates in the program)
Lecture/Seminar
Departmental Requirement
Fall
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EDAD451 Architecture Degree Project II (Design) 3 cr.
This is the second semester course in a design study in architecture, lasting one year for each of the graduating seniors in architecture. Students come to this class armed with the products of EDAD450 - thesis concept, a comprehensive program, a feasibility study, and preliminary design drawings. In this semester students focus on their building design in plan, section, elevation, structural models of various scales, details, building envelope studies, environmental and service systems into a final design set, with details appropriate to their projects. Students shall be required to provide a bound book and associated CD organized to show process, outcomes, and the fully developed design documentation including photographs of the final project.
Prerequisites: EDAD450 Architecture Degree Project I
Studio
Departmental Requirement
Spring
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EDAD502 Methods and Materials 3cr
This course introduces students to the origins, properties, working methods, and assembly techniques of the major materials that comprise the built environment with a focus on the development of woodshop skills and wood frame construction.
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EDAD510 Architectural Design I 3cr
Introduction to architectural design as a social art. The course lays the foundation of basic skills in architecture through which students are introduced to design through observation of people and places, program schematics, access, siting and elementary building languages. Through a series of projects of increasing complexity, students work on designs that include
small scale private and public programs, and transform ideas into built form.
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EDAD511 Digital Tools 3cr
Students are introduced to 2D/3D drawing and modeling software with an emphasis on architectural design in digital space.
In-class demonstrations occur throughout the semester and address how to use digital tools at various stages of the design
process at various scales. Students apply skills taught in class to small design projects as part of the course.
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EDAD516 History of Architecture& Urban Planning I 3cr
The course examines building cultures from different periods and places, beginning with pre-history and ancient civilizations from more than 5000 years ago that kept the first written records, through the era of medievalism up to the dawn of modernity. Emphasis is given to different aspects of the built domain: selected individual buildings, their symbolical significance, layouts, spatial organization, construction, building materials and technologies, along with buildings’ sites and city plans within the broader urban and cultural landscapes. Each lecture is based on a variety of case studies of buildings and settlements explored within their specific geographies and historical settings. Rather than asking for simple memorizing of particular data or dates, students develop skills of analyzing, comparing, and getting oriented within distinct historical spaces and periods.
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EDAD520 Architectural Design II 3cr
The studio focuses on the development of tools and fundamental skills for primary competence in design leading to an emerging ability to integrate design explorations-the ability to think critically about and integrate research and precedents, climate and site, program, use and structural building propositions.
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EDAD526 History of Architecture and Urban Planning II 3cr
The course explores building cultures from around the world from 1400s until the mid-20th century. As the time-line covered in the course starts with the Renaissance – defined by its radical shift from the previous, predominantly religious,
ideological framework, to man-centered belief systems – the entire period can be generally considered as the Age of Modernity. Therefore, special attention in the course is paid to the various concepts, understanding, and architectural manifestations of the idea of Modern. Each lecture is based on a variety of case studies - specific buildings, urban plans
and theoretical statements of the leading architects, planners and visionary contributors to the creation of the built domain, understood through the specificities of the ideological, cultural, and intellectual settings of different periods and geographies.
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EDAD527 Architectural Structures II 3cr
This course continues structural design of wooden buildings and computations for generic or special extra load applications requiring compound wood sections. The course introduces steel construction and calculation for steel beams and columns and environmental systems of plumbing, heating, and insulation. Students will design a domestic plumbing system.
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EDAD530 Architectural Design III 3cr
Development of architectural design skills that address the issues of housing both locally and globally viewed through a lens of cultural differences in typical / minimum housing sizes and varied user profiles. The coursework includes investigation of elements of urban tissue such as plazas, squares, street edges and systems of city form understood through street patterns and greenways followed up in a site study focused on the primary design project for the studio. Students explore needs, values, norms and spatial patterns as a means to sensitize them to diverse physical and cultural environments that culminates in the design of a mixed-use housing project in a local urban context.
Prerequisites: EDAD-520
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EDAD532 Sustainable Architecture 3cr
The goal of this course is to define sustainable architecture in contemporary practice through two primary approaches:
Tool Kit Creation & Critical Analysis
Tool Kit. A collection of digital spreadsheets, indices, CAD details, drawing in plan and mostly section, details, and instruction on existing software, providing students with useable strategies for design.
Critical Analysis of a wide range of sustainable design principles leading to an understanding of detailing methodologies in many types and scales of construction and materials. Material will also address issues of site, building form, building
service systems and place-making, and provide comparison of details with constructed functioning cultural precedents. The course will also include field trips, workshops, and visiting lecturers.
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EDAD535 Professional Practice I 3cr
Students are introduced to the issues of architectural practice through social and community design issues, fiduciary responsibility, design and construction contracts and contract law, regulations and codes governing design and construction, ethics, sustainability and environmental issues and requirements for planning, site design and building design and construction.
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EDAD567 Building Operating Systems 3cr
Mechanical/electrical/plumbing/communication systems for domestic to tall buildings are introduced in the context of declining energy supplies and increasing global pollution. Lower energy systems for heating, ventilating, air conditioning, plumbing, and lighting for new and retro-fit applications are contrasted with traditional systems, and selections of architectural design and landscape elements which support more sustainable systems are covered. Students estimate heating, cooling, ventilating, lighting, electrical, elevator, sewage and pure water loads and gain some understanding of how handling these loads affects the space and layout of buildings and what sort of collaboration with engineers is to be expected. The principles of operation and code standards for the various environmental control systems are explained, together with relative costs and expected maintenance requirements. Issues of energy source availability, safety, pollution, storage and delivery are discussed from a local and global perspective. Field trips to local “”green”” buildings demonstrate the use of currently available lower energy systems.
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EDAD577 Structures Overview 3cr
Designed for students who require a comprehensive overview of current structural methods in the United States. Covers structural examples and calculations for reinforced concrete, steel, wood frame and cross laminated timber. Students
accustomed to a masonry building tradition are introduced to the possibilities of wood and related calculation methods. Computations are presented in typical applied context.
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EDAD605 Community Build Studio 12cr
This studio is a design/build intensive focusing on a design problem with a community partner to provide the opportunity for students to design and construct a project as a full time experience in a single summer. This includes developing empathy for and sensitivity to the requirements of a community client through interviews, site observation, and measuring, programming, and presentation, while being exposed to specifications, budgeting, cost-control strategies, scheduling of a project from design through construction, and developing construction documents. The studio is set up as a collaborative experience in which the students direct a design and construction process with engineers, landscape architects, and other professionals in the community. Students design systems of assembly in wood, metal, and concrete, in a context that encourages a thoughtful approach to sustainable materials selection and reuse. As the work progresses through construction, students develop design and artisanry skills and are exposed to community building and leadership, with the hands-on experience of engineering and building systems.
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EDAD702 Architectural Design VII 6cr
Design studio with a complex, multi-storied program in an urban site, in which students integrate a site analysis with an historical context, public space and select structural systems and enclosure, and the development of sustainable systems integration relevant for planning neighborhoods and communities in the Boston area. Students analyze urban and historical site and building precedents, select and design steel and concrete frame systems that support their project concept, site and proposed uses, develop typical wall sections illustrating an understanding of fire separation assemblies, sustainable building envelope systems, and hone graphic design skills in their presentations.
Prerequisites: EDAD-605
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EDAD708 Thesis I 6cr
Completing a successful independent thesis is the culmination of the Master of Architecture degree at MassArt.
In Thesis I students select an issue in the field of architectural design as the basis for their thesis project. The first half of the
course is focused on developing well-structured research broadly based on the student’s topics of interest and related areas that influence the program, approach to the site, technologies and other aspects relevant to the design. The goal is to
develop the thesis proposal with a finalized site and a research agenda.
In the second half of the course, the students zero in on their sharpened thesis topic, and work through the second round of more in-depth investigation and analysis of their earlier work, adding new components including interviewing experts, understanding current and historical precedents, and additional areas that may also support the social, cultural and philosophical issues for the design. By the end of the course, students have completed the research and analysis
and have begun to test their concepts through preliminary design studies.
Prerequisites: EDAD-702, EDAD-711, EDAD-720
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EDAD711 Making Cities Work 3cr
What design decisions lead to a more sustainable future and how are those decisions made? The space between buildings-a city’s parks, urban gardens and greenways, and infrastructures of water, transportation, and communication are integral to the making of the urban places we inhabit. In this course we examine how the architecture and design of cities is dependent on the underlying urban fabric by looking carefully at the forces that shape great urban spaces - the designers, the political players and the everyday urban dwellers. Contemporary projects ranging from The High Line in Manhattan to Germany’s
Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord are used as case-studies in conjunction with study of Boston’s historical and contemporary urban landscape. Students’ final projects for the course involve direct observation, analysis, and documentation of selected sites in Boston. Through the case studies and investigations in Boston, we critically assess the social, cultural, environmental, and economic factors that influence built and landscape fabric of cities and what the confluence of those underpinnings means for the future of the places where we live.
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EDAD720 Integrated Systems 3cr
Students explore strategies for enclosing buildings and examine how to integrate the building enclosure with its surrounding
environment including framing, climate modification, and building services systems.
Using their design from a prior studio as the basis for developing building enclosure systems, students will research and explore multiple building service/ environmental systems that compliment their design in a sustainable context. This exploration includes how evaluate, select and coordinate the structural framing and commonly used building service and environmental systems in association with the building envelope and it details. Students use their projects to gain knowledge of these systems as well as discover how to coordinate the interface between dissimilar enclosure systems
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EDAD752 Architectural Design VIII 6cr
Students investigate multiple aspects of various building systems and regulatory requirement integration in the design process including structure, enclosure, environmental systems, codes, and material choices.
Prerequisites: EDAD-720 and EDAD-702
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EDAD805 Professional Practice II 3cr
Professional Practice II is a continuation of Professional Practice I (EDAD-535) and covers topics essential to the business of architecture. Among the topics addressed are basic business concepts for the successful operation of an architectural firm and office, project finance including accounting fundamentals, forms of business organization, employer-employee relationships, business taxation, project management, and managing risk and professional liability. This material is then viewed through
the lens of the architect’s fiduciary responsibilities through design, on the jobsite, and in practice, and in relation to the issues of
professional ethics and social and environmental responsibility.
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EDAD808 Thesis II 6cr
Thesis II is the second semester of the studio design work leading to the completion and final presentation of the thesis project. Based upon research development in the prior semester, students complete the design project, and convincingly argue their architectural question at a final review to the Thesis Committee including peers and professionals in the field of architecture, using analytical and architectural design tools in order to make a meaningful contribution to the architectural discipline.
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