Research and project activities, which cover the range represented by the various research interests and projects in the department. Students who wish a letter grade option for their work must register for 4.URG.

Research and project activities, which cover the range represented by the various research interests and projects in the Department.

Program of thesis research leading to the writing of an SB thesis. Intended for seniors. Twelve units recommended.

Program of research and writing of thesis; to be arranged by the student with supervising committee. 

Required for doctoral students in HTC as a prerequisite for work on the doctoral dissertation. Prior to candidacy, doctoral students are required to write and orally defend a proposal laying out the scope of their thesis, its significance, a survey of existing research and literature, the methods of research to be adopted, a bibliography and plan of work. Work is done in consultation with HTC Faculty, in accordance with the HTC PhD Degree Program guidelines.

Selection of thesis topic, definition of method of approach, and preparation of thesis proposal. Independent study supplemented by individual conference with faculty.

Selection of thesis topic, definition of method of approach, and preparation of thesis proposal. Independent study supplemented by individual conference with faculty.

Practical experience through summer and January IAP internships secured by the student in the field of architecture, urbanism, digital design, art, or building technology. Before registering for this subject, students must have an offer from the organization and complete the Department of Architecture application with their advisor's signature. Upon completion of the internship, students must submit an evaluation form available from the departmental academic office. Students are limited to a total of three approved experiences.

Practical experience through summer and January IAP internships secured by the student in the field of architecture, urbanism, digital design, art, or building technology. Before registering for this subject, students must have an offer from a company or organization and complete the Department of Architecture application signed by the advisor. Upon completion of the internship, students must submit an evaluation form available from the departmental academic office. Students are limited to a total of three approved experiences. 

As we come increasingly under the spell of AI, which raises questions as to whether it offers genuine creativity or legitimate artwork, we might gain insight in surveying some of the pioneering cultural figures in C19th + C20th whose methods offered incisive and influential new aptitude. I use the term autopoiesis to name the emerging man-machine symbiosis that conjured vivid textual, graphic, plastic, sonic, kinetic artworks, asking whether their creative and receptive cadence might nurture fertile new generative practices at this new threshold of technical capability.

The light-hearted course will introduce figures that have fascinated me in witnessing daring and often fanatical creative methods, and ask students to each explore the works' lucid delinquency, to both illuminate it for the class, but also to engage it using any contemporary methods that seem effective. My sense is that they have already rehearsed fertile generative methods, and offer psychological clarity as to their aspiration (which is not to say that they weren't a little mad)!

Mark Goulthorpe and Marc Downie have interest in these precedents as we are trying to devise an architectural design methodology that is AI-nascent.

Raymond Roussel, Alban Berg, Antoni Gaudi, Kurt Schwitters, James Joyce, Thom Mayne, Paul Steenhuisen, Marc Downie.

Undergraduates welcome.