Courses

The Department of Architecture is "Course 4". The method of assigning numbers to classes is to write the course number in Arabic numerals followed by a period and three digits, which are used to differentiate courses. Most classes retain the same number from year to year. Architecture groups its numbers by discipline group.

Download a PDF of the Spring schedule with class times and meeting locations (last updated 2/13/2012)

Download a PDF of the IAP schedule with class times and meeting locations (last updated 1/09/2012)

Institute Class Schedule

Pre-Thesis and Thesis Registration PDF

Department End-of-Term Policy

Architectural Design

0-10-11

H

4.154 Architecture Design Option Studio - CANCELED

Instructor: Mark Goulthorpe

0-10-11

H

4.163J / 11.332J Urban Design Studio - An Architecture of the Territory

Instructor: Alexander D'Hooghe

3-0-9

U

4.211J / 11.016J The Once and Future City

Instructor: Anne Spirn

3-3-6

H

4.216J / 11.316J Landscape and Urban Heritage Conservation - Delhi Nallah Project

Instructor: James Wescoat

3-0-3

U/H

4.230J / 11.468J / 4.231 SIGUS Workshop: Off - Grid Energy for the Bayou

Instructor: Reinhard Goethert

3-0-6

U/H

4.232J / 11.444J / 4.233 The New Global Planning Practitioner - Proactive Incremental Housing Strategy in the Third World

Instructor: Reinhard Goethert

3-0-6

H

3-0-9

H

4.241J / 11.330J Theory of City Form

Instructor: Julian Beinart

2-0-7

G

4.244J / 11.333J Urban Design Seminar: New Century Cities

Instructor: Dennis Frenchman

2-0-7

H

4.247J / 11.337J Urban Design Policy Ideals and Action

Instructor: Brent Ryan

3-0-9

H

4.253J / 11.302J Urban Design Politics

Instructor: Larry Vale

6-0-9

H

4.254J / 11.303J Real Estate Development Studio: Complex Urban Projects

Instructor: Dennis Frenchman, Peter Roth

H

4.589 Preparation for Design and Computation PhD Thesis

Instructor: Advisor

6-0-9

H

4.255J / 11.304J Site and Environmental Systems Planning - Israel

Instructor: Eran Ben-Joseph

3-0-9

H

4.264J / 11.334J Advanced Seminar in Landscape and Urbanism

Instructor: Alan Berger

4.274 Design Innovation for Distributed Energy - CANCELED

Instructor: Sheila Kennedy

TBA

H

4.THG Graduate Thesis

Instructor: Advisor

0-1-11

U

4.THU Undergraduate Thesis

Instructor: Advisor

4.220 Urban Housing: Paris, London, New York - CANCELED

Instructor: Michael Dennis

0-10-11

H

4.154 Architecture Design Option Studio - Affordable Housing in KSA

Instructor: Makram el Kadi, Ziad Jamaleddine

2-2-5

H

4.S12 Special Subject: Architecture Design - Furniture Making

Instructor: Christopher Dewart

TBA

U

4.UR Undergraduate Research in Architecture (UROP)

Instructor: Lawrence Sass

TBA

U

4.URG Undergraduate Research in Architecture (UROP)

Instructor: Lawrence Sass

0-10-11

H

4.154 Architecture Design Option Studio - Writing Venice

Instructor: Maria Alessandra Segantini

3-1-5

H

4.189 Preparation for MArch Thesis

Instructor: Ana Miljacki

0-9-0

H

4.183 Architectural Design Workshop - Fabrication for Building Innovation

Instructor: Skylar Tibbits, Paul Kassabian

3-0-6

H

3-0-3 comp

H

4.288 Preparation for SMArchS Thesis

Instructor: Advisor

2-0-1

U

4.108 BSA Portfolio Workshop

Instructor: Mark Goulthorpe

0-10-11

H

4.154 Architecture Design Option Studio - Barcelona Studio

Instructor: Andrew Scott

3-3-6

U

4.111 Introduction to Architecture and Environmental Design

Instructor: Filip Tejchman

0-10-11

H

4.154 Architecture Design Option Studio - LOT-EK O+O / Objects + Operations

Instructor: Ada Tolla, Giuseppe Lignano

3-6-6

U

4.113 Architectural Design Fundamentals II

Instructor: Skylar Tibbits, Pari Riahi

0-10-11

H

4.154 Architecture Design Option Studio - Beyond 3.11

Instructor: Shun Kanda

0-12-9

U

4.115 Architecture Design Studio II

Instructor: William O'Brien Jr.

0-9-0

H

4.181 Architectural Design Workshop - Jidao Miso Village, Gulzhou China

Instructor: Ann Pendleton-Jullian

0-12-9

G

4.152 Architecture Design Core Studio II

Instructor: Cristina Parreño Alonso, Joel Lamere, Ana Miljacki

3-0-6

H

4.184 Architectural Design Workshop - Completing the Fabrication

Instructor: Justin Lavallee

Art Culture and Technology

3-3-6

U

4.301 Introduction to Visual Arts

Instructor: Angel Nevarez, Gediminas Urbonas

3-3-6

U

4.302 Foundations in the Visual Arts and Design for Majors

Instructor: Azra Aksamija

3-3-6

U/H

4.314 / 4.315 Advanced Workshop in Artistic Practice and Transdisciplinary Research - Artistic Interventions - Creativ Responses to Conflict and Crisis: Japan 3/11 at a Distance

Instructor: Jegan Vincent de Paul

3-3-3

U/H

4.332 / 4.333 Advanced Seminar in Networked Cultures and Participatory Media - (In)dependent People

Instructor: Gediminas Urbonas

2-4-6

U/H

4.365 / 4.366 Advanced Projects in Visual Arts - Sound Doing and Thinking

Instructor: Florian Hecker

3-3-6

U/G

4.341 / 4.342 Introduction to Photography and Related Media

Instructor: Andrea Frank

3-3-6

H

4.343 Advanced Photography and Related Media

Instructor: Andrea Frank

3-3-6

U/G

4.350 / 4.351 Introduction to Video and Related Media

Instructor: Angel Nevarez

3-3-6

U/H

4.367 / 4.368 Studio Seminar in Public Art/ Public Sphere: Spacial Cultural Identity

Instructor: Antoni Muntadas

3-0-6

H

4.388 Preparation for SMACT Thesis

Instructor: Renée Green

3-0-6

H

4.389 Tutorial for SMACT Thesis

Instructor: Renée Green

3-3-6

H

4.390 Art, Culture, and Technology Studio

Instructor: Antoni Muntadas

3-3-6

H

4.S32 Special Subject: Art, Culture and Technology - Object Geographies: Dis-assembly/ Re-assembly Workshop in Art and Architecture

Instructor: Azra Aksamija, Joel Lamere

Building Technology

3-3-6

H

4.S42 Special Subject: Building Technology - Emergent Materials Workshop

Instructor: John Fernandez

TBA

H

4.489 Preparation for Building Technology PhD Thesis

Instructor: Advisor

TBA

H

4.488 Preparation for SMBT Thesis

Instructor: Advisor

3-0-9

H

4.427J / 2.67J Analysis and Design of Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning Systems

Instructor: Leon Glicksman, Les Norford

3-0-6

H

4.430 Daylighting

Instructor: Christoph Reinhart

3-0-6

H

4.431 Architectural Acoustics - Design and Computer Modeling for the Ears

Instructor: Benjamin Markham

3-3-6

U

3-2-4

G

4.440J / 1.056J / 4.462 Building Structural Systems I

Instructor: John Ochsendorf

3-2-4

G

4.464 Energy in Building Design

Instructor: Leon Glicksman, Les Norford

3-0-6

U/H

4.474 / 4.475 Design for Sustainable Urban Futures

Instructor: John Fernandez

Computation

3-3-6

U/H

4.501 / 4.510 Materializing Design - Design Fabrication & Design Integration

Instructor: Lawrence Sass

4.504 / 4.564 Design Scripting - CANCELED

Instructor: Takehiko Nagakura

3-0-9

U

3-0-6

G

4.522 / 4.523 Computational Design II: Theory and Applications

Instructor: Terry Knight

3-0-6

H

4.541 Introduction to Shape Grammars II

Instructor: George Stiny

3-0-6

H

4.542 / 4.582 Background in Shape Grammars

Instructor: George Stiny

3-0-9

G

4.556J / MAS.551J Design Without Boundaries - Smart Cities

Instructor: Federico Casselango

3-0-9

H

4.557J / MAS.552J New Urban Village: Mobility-on-Demand - MIT Living Labs: Designing New, Resillient Cities / Post-Tsunami Japan

Instructor: Kent Larson, Ryan Chin

2-3-4

G

4.561 Introduction to Computation in Architecture

Instructor: Takehiko Nagakura

2-2-5

H

2-2-8

H

4.566 Advanced Projects in Digital Media

Instructor: Takehiko Nagakura

3-0-3

H

4.587 SMArchS Computation Pre-Tesis Preparation

Instructor: Terry Knight, Takehiko Nagakura, Advisor

3-0-9

H

4.582 / 4.542 Research Seminar in Computation

Instructor: George Stiny

3-0-0

H

4.583 Forum in Computation

Instructor: Terry Knight

TBA

H

4.589 Preparation for Design and Computation PhD Thesis

Instructor: Advisor

2-2-8

H

4.S52 Special Subject: Computational Design Lab: Reinventing BIM

Instructor: Terry Knight, Takehiko Nagakura

3-0-6

H

4.553 Programming Conceptions

Instructor: Takehiko Nagakura, Juhong Park

0-3-0

H

4.S54 Special Subject: Architectural Computation - Reading Seminar

Instructor: Terry Knight

History Theory and Criticism

3-0-6

G

3-0-9

U/G

4.611 / 4.613 Civic Architecture in Islamic History - Istanbul: From Imperial Capital to Global City

Instructor: Sibel Bozdogan

3-0-6

H

3-0-9

H

4.616 Selected Topics on Culture and Architecture - Global Perspectives on Modern Architecture

Instructor: Sibel Bozdogan

3-0-6

H

4.625J / 11.378J Water Reading Group: Water-Conserving Design

Instructor: James Wescoat

4-0-8

U/G

4-0-5

G

4.641 / 4.644 19th Century Art

Instructor: Kristel Smentek

3-0-6

G

4.645 Selected Topics in Architecture - 1750 to the Present

Instructor: Jennifer Ferng

3-0-6

H

3-0-9

H

4.663 History of Urban Form

Instructor: David Friedman

3-1-5

G

3-1-8

U/G

4.670 / 4.671 Nationalism, Internationalism, and Globalism in Modern Art

Instructor: Caroline Jones

3-0-9

H

4.S66 Special Subject: History, Theory & Criticism of Art - Ornament: The Rococo and After

Instructor: Kristel Smentek

3-0-6

H

4.S68 Special Subject: Architecture Drawing Workshop

Instructor: Mark Jarzombek

4-0-8

U

4.602 Modern Art and Mass Culture

Instructor: Caroline Jones

0-1-2

H

4.687 SMArchS HTC Pre-Thesis Preparation

Instructor: Advisor

TBA

H

4.689 Preparation for History, Theory and Criticism PhD Thesis

Instructor: Advisor

3-0-9

H

4.S62 Special Subject: History, Theory & Criticism of Architecture & Art - From Pliny to the Blogosphere

Instructor: Marek Bartelik

4-0-8

U

4.605 Introduction to the History and Theory of Architecture

Instructor: Mark Jarzombek

3-0-9

U

4.609 Seminar in the History of Art and Architecture - Reading Buildings

Instructor: David Friedman