Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism Graduate Prospectus 2012-2014

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Azrieli Pavilion, site of M.Arch studios, workshops, and exhibitions

Welcome to the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism at Carleton University. The 2012-2014 Graduate Prospectus invites you to explore the activities and programs that make ours a diverse and engaging school of architecture. Located in Ottawa, Canada, a national and G7 capital, the Azrieli School is committed to advancing architecture in its civic, regional, and global complexities. Across a range of graduate studies, from professional Master of Architecture degrees to the PhD, and with a growing schedule of lectures, symposia, workshops, and design charettes, we are bringing together academic and public audiences

determined to testing the limits of architecture culture today.

In these pages you will find a guide to how our students are thinking about and designing for the built environment of tomorrow. Exciting studios, cutting-edge technical courses and workshops, and advanced seminars on the history and theory of architecture offer unique spaces to develop your talent and expertise. Together, the graduate students and faculty at the Azrieli School are shaping a provocative and socially-minded space for design and debate. We hope that you will join this ever-changing experiment.

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Director’s MessageAssociate Director’s MessageGraduate ProgramsMaster of Architecture ProgramMaster of Architecture-1 ProgramPhD and Master of Architectural Studies Diploma in Architectural ConservationDesign StudiosHistory/TheoryBuilding Technologies, Visualization and Digital Design, Professional PracticeEventsResourcesAwardsStudent ServicesFaculty

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Director’s Message

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Welcome to the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism at Carleton University. The 2012-2014 Prospectus presents our professional degree (Master of Architecture) as well as our research-based degrees and diplomas (Graduate Diploma in Architectural Conservation, Master of Architectural Studies, and PhD in Architecture) and outlines the academic paths that each of these unique programs follow. Housed in two distinctly opposite buildings, the evolving pedagogy of our graduate courses and programs find traction in the environments that these buildings offer. The raw industrial power of our central building, designed by Carmen and Elin Corneil with Jeff Stinson and opened in 1974, is defined by an intersection of internal streets, bridges, and studios and provides an open framework for imaginations, discussions, exhibitions as well as formal and informal teaching. The penthouse of the contemporary Azrieli Pavilion, designed by Moriyama Teshima Architects and Barry J. Hobin & Associates Architects and inaugurated in 2002, provides an alternate forum for discussion, graduate studios, multi-media presentations, and exhibitions while overlooking the Rideau Canal and the central university quad and library.

While the buildings provide the framework for exchange and critical thinking, our faculty, programs, events, research clusters, and facilities enable the Azrieli School’s graduate students from across Canada and the world to set unique research trajectories for their evolving project of architecture while situated in Canada’s capital city.

Our graduate programs include a Directed Studies Abroad option for students wishing to study internationally, as well as design courses here at Carleton with our international Azrieli Visiting Critic in Residence and forthcoming Canadian Architect in Residence.

Our graduate faculty are second to none, each bringing unique research backgrounds, teaching styles, and pedagogy to their seminars, studio courses, and thesis students. Faculty research cuts across disciplines such as architectural design, conservation and sustainability, urbanism, history and critical theory, digital fabrication, structural deformation, materiality, digital recording and traditional construction techniques, and others. Clusters of faculty gather both within the school or join with other disciplines on projects that provide students

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the opportunity to work in various research positions. I invite you to explore faculty research interests in this document and on our website.

Our facilities and staff provide excellent support and services to bring critical thinking and making into the realm of the built, including laser cutting, digital fabrication facilities, substantial wood and metal shops, and generous assembly areas.

While this document outlines many of the opportunities and experiences we have to offer, I invite you to visit us to experience Carleton firsthand. The School stages unique events that enhance the graduate curricula during the academic year including the celebrated Forum Lecture Series held at the National Gallery of Canada, which headlines both internationally renowned and emerging architects and design professionals. We also host two major graduate events and exhibitions in the school including the annual Symposium that gathers students and professionals to discuss emerging and evolving ideas in the field.

The Graduate Exhibition and Open House, to be held on January 25, 2013, is an exciting opportunity to meet faculty and students, see our facilities and an exhibition of student work, and review selections of past M.Arch projects. On February 8, 2013, we are proud to host the Frascari Symposium on Towards a Critical Phenomenology, followed by a Forum Lecture at the National Gallery by renowned critic and scholar Kenneth Frampton.

Please join us for these and the many events defining the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism today.

Sheryl BoyleInterim Director, Associate Professor

The Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism (photo: Helmut Schade)

Associate Director’s Message

A graduate program must be inspiring and vibrant even for Elvira from Tromsø, Norway, who is here helping me clean the board during a seminar. A graduate program must also continually reinvent itself before architecture gets ahead of us. It must know how to encounter and navigate the very real change that has occurred in the architectural profession over the last 20 years. China is as close as London; Toronto is densifying faster than Shanghai. Sub-prime has become Real-prime now No-prime; we need intelligent action, nowhere better than in Architecture. And a graduate program must of course attend to issues and promote a development that ensure emerging graduate-practitioners will function at all levels, whether in small or big offices, in architectural and urban practices, or serving the many NGOs now focusing on architecture. Architecture without frontiers is all around us. It is both an exciting and challenging time, leaving no room for nostalgia or for mourning lost pedagogies. At the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, here in Ottawa, the graduate program has expanded significantly over the last three years – in pedagogy, content, and the number of incoming students from Canada and abroad. Our Graduate Prospectus introduces the many changes and routes a student can take through to the final year with a Master Thesis Research and Project.

We are retooling and refining our program by the year. New venues for DSA (full semester Directed Studios Abroad for first-year M.Arch students) have emerged: Helsinki and Paris. Future venues are being explored: Stockholm, Beirut, Murcia, Riga, and Valparaiso. We have had ten international Azrieli Visiting Critics in the last three years: from Sydney, Barcelona, Vienna, Murcia, Madrid, Jerusalem, Tromsø, and Berlin. We are extending this invitation to others from Genoa, Helsinki, London, and Venice, whilst establishing a new initiative for Distinguished and Emerging Canadian Practitioners in a new semester-long residency at the School. Our architectural networks are expanding every day; new publications are appearing whilst competitions offer intense responses as students explore their own ways to take responsibility for architecture’s agenda and weight. A social conscience implies alertness to both the local and the global; we interchange daily and ask students to do the same. Pedagogy and programs must answer to hard times; looking around, whether from Shanghai to Dubai, or Karachi to Caracas, architecture has already entered the future. We can no longer wait for this future to meet us. At Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, whether you will embark on a dream to work for a local office or

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a large firm in Toronto or Vancouver; whether you wish to encounter Europe or Asia where issues are burning right now; or whether you wish to start on your own, enter competitions, get a license in order to practice in the profession itself, or become an agent for Architecture for Humanity or an architectural activist, the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism will surely have something for you.

Remember: There has never been a life after architecture. Isn’t architecture far too important for that? Do come and see us, do get in touch with us; we will move if you move; the contract is clear. Architecture changes if you too embrace change.

Roger ConnahAssociate Professor, Associate Director (Graduate)

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GraduatePrograms

M.Arch

Master of Architecture Program

The Master of Architecture (M.Arch) is a professional program aimed at students holding a four-year undergraduate degree, or its equivalent, in architecture. The M.Arch centres on a rigorous studio curriculum that asks students to develop critical positions on design, culture, technology, and the city. In the first year, students may study under the changing Azrieli Visiting Critics, who annually bring a range of cutting-edge international design and research expertise to bear on the School, or take a Directed Studio Abroad (DSA). The sites of current and recent DSAs include Berlin, Bologna, Helsinki, and Paris. Along with courses in the history and theory of architecture, advanced building systems, and professional practice, students follow a two-part Graduate Seminar that introduces a range of research methodologies as well as focused studies on contemporary design culture.

During the final year, students undertake a detailed M.Arch thesis project that aims at making significant and original contributions to architectural and humanistic research. The thesis, which results in both a design project and a written document, encourages university-wide collaboration and allows engagement with the many governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations based in Ottawa. The thesis is supported by graduate-level coursework in architecture and related fields. In the transition from studios to a two-term thesis, the M.Arch offers a rigorous framework for students to advance cutting-edge design research. Students are increasingly adopting new digital technologies as means to address a range of concerns from small houses to urban design, cities to landscapes, and regions to global contexts. The two-year programme is a site of experimentation, a place to project the future built environment and to define the changing role of the

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architectural profession.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to visit the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism. A Graduate Exhibition and Open House is typically held in January.

Admissions information:http://www5.carleton.ca/fgpa/graduate-calendar

M.Arch program information and publications are found at:http://issuu.com/azrielischoolofarchitecture

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Master of Architecture (M.Arch) Course of Study

first year, fall termARCS 5105ARCH 5200ARCC 5100

Graduate StudioGraduate SeminarAdvanced Building Systems

first year, winter termARCS 5106ARCH 5201

Graduate StudioGraduate SeminarFree Elective

second year, fall termARCS 5909orARCN 5909

ARCC 5200

Design Thesis

Independent Research ThesisProfessional Practice

second year, winter termARCS 5909orARCN 5909

Design Thesis

Independent Research ThesisFree Elective

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M.Arch-1

Master of Architecture-1 Program

The Master of Architecture-1 (M.Arch-1) is a professional program aimed at preparing students from diverse backgrounds for careers in architecture. The seven-term sequence centres on design studios as unique spaces of creative and intellectual inquiry. Students additionally take a range of courses in architectural history and theory, buildings technologies, visual representation, computer-aided design, and professional practice. The M.Arch-1 builds on Carleton’s important “4+2” combined undergraduate and graduate program, but is crafted specifically to engage the strengths of a graduate student. The intensive course of study provides a disciplined approach to the fundamentals of architectural design while offering the latitude for developing individual talents and research interests.

The M.Arch-1 is based on two fundamental premises. First, it recognizes that students come from a wide range of academic and life experiences. Second, it aims to prepare architects for engaging a culturally rich, technologically dynamic, and globalized world. The program makes full use of excellent resources across Carleton University, draws on the important context of Ottawa as a G7 capital, and extends its reach through design studios abroad.

The design studio is the core of the curriculum. Students begin by developing basic skills and craft essential to their individual sense of creative inquiry. Increasingly complex issues appear at upper levels with the design of public buildings, participation in design-build workshops, and exploration at an urban scale. Above all, the M.Arch-1 is committed to fostering the thoughtful and critical reflection on dwelling, building, and the city in the twenty-first century.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to visit the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism. A Graduate Exhibition and Open House is typically held in

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January.

Admissions information is found at:http://www5.carleton.ca/fgpa/graduate-calendar

M.Arch program information and publications are found at:http://issuu.com/azrielischoolofarchitecture

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Master of Architecture-1 (M.Arch-1) Course of Study

first year, fall termARCS 5102ARCC 5096 ARCN 5005ARCH 5010

M.Arch-1 Core Studio 1Building Technologies 1Architectural DrawingIntroduction to Modern Architecture

first year, winter termARCS 5103ARCC 5097ARCN 5000

M.Arch-1 Core Studio 2Building Technologies 2Computer Modeling of Form

second year, fall termARCS 5104ARCC 5098 ARCC 4500

M.Arch-1 Core Studio 3Building Technologies 3Design Economics

second year, winter termARCS 5106ARCC 5200ARCH 5201

Graduate StudioProfessional PracticeGraduate Seminar

third year, fall termARCS 5105ARCC 5099ARCH 5201

Graduate StudioBuilding Technologies 4Graduate Seminar

third year, winter termARCN 5909

ARCC 5100

Thesis/Directed Research Studio Advanced Building Systems

third year, summer termARCN 5909Thesis/Directed

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PhD and Master of Architectural Studies

PhD and Master of Architectural Studies (MAS)

The PhD in Architecture and Master in Architectural Studies (MAS) are innovative and comprehensive programs that ask students to engage critical forms of historical research and architectural practice. The programs emphasize creativity and innovation within theoretical and practical parameters. The Master in Architectural Studies (MAS) focuses on in-depth architectural research and provides a strong foundation for later pursuing a PhD. The PhD prepares graduates for practice in global academic and professional fields.

The PhD and MAS are distinguished by fostering the development of multidisciplinary approaches to individual research questions. Students are encouraged to create links to the School for Studies in Art and Culture, the School of Industrial Design, and the departments of geography, literature, and Canadian Studies, among many others. The Carleton Immersive Media Studio (CIMS), a centre dedicated to state-of-the-art and hybrid forms of representation, provides an important base for doctoral projects. Carleton’s “Capital Advantage” offers a host of local resources including libraries and laboratories at the National Gallery of Canada, Library and Archives Canada, National Research Council, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, and the National Research Council, National Arts Centre, and the Canadian Museums of Civilization, Nature, Contemporary Photography, Aviation and Science and Technology.

PhD and MAS projects may draw on a range of faculty research interests including. Key themes and expertise at the Azrieli School include: theories and histories of architectural representation; ethno-cultural methods of construction; phenomenology and architecture; the conservation of modern architecture; Canadian architectural modernism; informal housing and urbanization; comparative methods on architectural historiography. Broadly, the

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school supports detailed research on the history and historiography of modern architecture and architectural practice from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, including the ways in which these aesthetic, cultural, and professional forces have engaged the so-called “non-West”.

PhD and MAS students share a first year of core courses. Vitruvian Exercises introduces distinct ways of exploring practices of architectural representation. Daedalic Exercises encourages experimental forms of materiality and making. The two-part Colloquium is a forum for shaping critical ideas on research: during the first term, invited scholars present a range of research approaches and frameworks; in the second term, students learn formal research methods by, first, responding to the intellectual positions of the previous speakers and, second, undertaking grant writing.

MAS students focus their second and final year on an original thesis project while completing complementary elective courses. PhD students meanwhile pursue additional Colloquia while undertaking the PhD Comprehensive Exam and the PhD Proposal Exam. Following the successful completion of the PhD Proposal Exam, doctoral candidates initiate their respective dissertations beginning in the third year. PhD candidates must have reading proficiency in a second language of their area of study. PhD and MAS students may also pursue a Graduate Diploma in Architectural Conservation.

PhD students are supported by generous scholarships based on academic excellence. PhD and MAS students have opportunities to serve as Teaching Assistants and Research Assistants. All students are given office space.

Prospective applicants are highly encouraged to visit the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism and to discuss their proposed research, as well as

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precise admissions requirements, with the PhD/MAS program Chair, Dr. Stephen Fai, and the Associate Director (Graduate), Roger Connah.

Applications must include:

Two copies of completed and signed application forms

Two copies of a statement of intent (1,500 words), which explains a detailed research topic to be developed at the Azrieli School. The statement should frame the historical period of research, the critical issues to be addressed in terms of architectural practice, and the key resources, such as archives, to be consulted

A portfolio of design projects and creative works, which should be understood as distinct from a professional or academic portfolio

Two samples of academic writing

Three letters of recommendation completed on official Referee Forms. The letters may be sent either by the referee or included in the applicant’s admission package but signed by the referee across the seal

Documentation of practice and professional experience (where applicable)

Two copies of original transcripts of all previous university studies (to be sent directly by the institution)

Proof of English language proficiency (as per program requirements)

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Application materials are to be sent to:Graduate AdministratorAzrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, Carleton University202 Architecture Building1125 Colonel By DriveOttawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6

Admissions information is found at:http://calendar.carleton.ca/grad/gradprograms/architecture

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PhD Course of Study

first year, fall termARCH 6001ARCN 6001ARCH 6101

Vitruvian Exercises IDaedalic Exerercises 1Colloquium I

first year, winter termARCH 6002ARCN 6002ARCH 6101

Vitruvian Exercises 2Daedalic Exerercises 2Colloquium 1

Colloquium 2PhD Comprehensive Exam

second year, winter termARCH 6102ARCH 6908

Colloquium 2PhD Proposal Exam

third year, fall termARCH 6909 PhD Dissertation

third year, winter termARCH 6909 PhD Dissertation

second year, fall termARCH 6102ARCH 6907

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Master of Architectural Studies Course of Study

Vitruvian Exercises IDaedalic Exerercises 1Colloquium I

Vitruvian Exercises 2Daedalic Exerercises 2Colloquium 1

first year, fall termARCH 5301ARCN 5301ARCH 5101

first year, winter termARCH 5302ARCN 5302ARCH 5101

second year, winter term

ARCT 5909

second year, fall termARCH 5003

ARCT 5909

Design and Culture WorkshopMAS Thesis

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Diploma in Architectural Conservation

Diploma in Architectural Conservation

Canada has close to 25,000 properties designated as architectural heritage sites. In addition, over 200,000 sites are listed on heritage inventories with an average of 2,000 properties being added each year. There is a growing demand for qualified specialists to shepherd these valuable cultural resources. Building on Carleton’s already established international reputation for excellence in this field, the Diploma augments the existing professional Master of Architecture (M.Arch) with a focus on architectural conservation. PhD and MAS students may also pursue a Graduate Diploma in Architectural Conservation

To achieve the Type-II Diploma, students enter the M.Arch. In the second year, they focus exclusively on Diploma with coursework addressing the theory and practice of architectural conservation. Returning to the M.Arch in the third year, students pursue a year-long thesis project related to architectural conservation. They graduate with the M.Arch and a Diploma in Architectural Conservation.

Students already holding a professional degree in architecture or a related discipline may register for the Type-III Diploma. All Diploma courses are completed within three years and students do not enrol in the M.Arch program.

Diploma students engage important resources at the Carleton Immersive Media Studio (CIMS), a centre dedicated to state-of-the-art and hybrid forms of representation. Among other efforts, CIMS is currently involved the creating a dynamic web-based exhibition on the Rideau Canal in Ottawa, developing the Cultural Diversity and Material Imagination in Canadian Architecture (CDMICA) project, assisting the Parliamentary Precinct Rehabilitation effort, and preparing architectural drawings for the earthen Kasbah de Taourirt in Ouarzazate, Morocco. Along with professional and research links to key government

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agencies, including Parks Canada and Heritage Canada, Carleton’s program in Architectural Conservation and Sustainability Engineering and the Master in Heritage Conservation in the Department of Canadian Studies provide important sites for scholarly exchange and material support.

Diploma enrollment is limited. Admissions information is found at:http://calendar.carleton.ca/grad/gradprograms/architecture

Diploma in Architectural Conservation Course of Study

fall termCDNS 5401

ARCH 4002ARCH 4200

ARCU 5402

Heritage Conservation I: History, Principles, and ConceptsCanadian ArchitectureArchitectural Conservation Philosophy and Ethics Workshop: Urban Studies in Heritage Conservation

winter termCDNS 5402

ARCN 5100

ARCH 5402

ARCC 5401

Heritage Conservation II: Theory in PracticeRepresentation and Documentation in Architectural ConservationEvaluation of Heritage PropertiesWorkshop: Technical Studies in Heritage Conservation

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DesignStudios

The M.Arch and M.Arch-1 centre on a rigorous studio sequence. Graduate students may take Directed Studios Abroad, which offer exposure to global cities and distinct architecture cultures, as well as study with changing Azrieli Visiting Critics, who annually bring engaged international design discourse to bear on the School curriculum. A sustained investigation of critical issues on architecture, society, and technology prepares students for the culminating demands of either an M.Arch Thesis or a Directed Research Studio.

ARCS 5102 M.Arch-1 Core Studio 1, Fall TermThe studio introduces to the sensory components and symbolic potential of architectural design. Social considerations, light, lighting, sound, sensations of heat and cold and related phenomena are studied in modest building proposals. Emphasis is placed on the conventions of architectural drawing.

ARCS 5103 M.Arch-1 Core Studio 2, Winter TermThe studio develops building materials and practices within the context of increasingly complex building programs. Emphasis is placed on the social context of architecture in relation to material expression. Model-making is stressed.

ARCS 5104 M.Arch-1 Core Studio 3, Fall TermThis comprehensive studio explores issues of program and site as culturally defining aspects of architectural practice. Emphasis is placed on complex urban and social situations, using difficult sites, and advancing hybrid programs. Projects are brought to a high degree of technical, formal, and graphic resolution.

ARCS 5105 Graduate Studio 1, Fall TermArchitectural investigations are advanced by complex programs within contemporary urban settings. Projects address questions of urban life from both practical and theoretical perspectives. Relevant building technology and systems

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are introduced and designed as required. Selected studios are listed below.

ARCS 5106 Graduate Studio 2, Winter TermPrerequisite: ARCS 5105The design of a large-scale and culturally significant building set within a prominent urban or natural landscape. Integrated resolution of the combined issue of site, program, and expression is expected. Relevant building technology and systems are introduced and designed as required. Emphasis is placed on research as a studio preoccupation. Selected studios are listed below.

ARCS 5909 M.Arch ThesisThe M.Arch Thesis is a student-initiated design investigation developed with a faculty supervisor. Undertaken over two consecutive terms, the thesis advances original design and cultural research in a written document and by appropriate methods architectural representation. Proposals must be approved by the Graduate Committee of the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism.

ARCN 5909 M.Arch Directed Research Studio (DRS)Intensive research-based design work is undertaken by a unit of students. The unit is initiated and guided by a faculty member engaged in a research project that forms the studio theme. Proposals must be approved by the Graduate Committee of the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism.

Note: Certain courses listed may be offered during the Summer Term. Scheduling and hours of summer courses will differ significantly from the fall and winter terms. Scheduling and hours of summer courses are found on the Carleton University Class Schedule: http://www.central.carleton.ca.

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Azrieli Visiting Critics

2010 Arturo Frediani, f[a] frediani [arquitectura], Barcelona2010 Ferran Grau, XNF Arquitectes, Barcelona2011 Teresa Sapey, Teresa Sapey Estudio de Arquitectura, Madrid2011 Hannes Stiefel, Stiefel Kramer, Vienna2011 Nilly Harag, Arctic Architects and Urban Designers, Jerusalem2011 Alessandra Cianchetta, AWP Agence de reconfiguration territoriale, Paris2012 Michael Tawa, University of Sydney2012 Gisle Løkken and Magdalena Haggärde, 70°N arkitektur, Tromsø, Norway2012 Javier Sanchez and Halldóra Arnardóttir, Sarq Office, Murcia, Spain2013 Jonathan Hale, University of Nottingham2013 Jaime Salazar Rückauer, Architect, Bochum, Germany2013 Paco Mejias Villatoro, Architect, Alicante, Spain2013 Diogo Seixas Lopes, Basbas Lopes Arquitectos, Lisbon2014 Jon Goodbun, architect, London2014 Maurizio Varratta, Studio Maurizio Varratta Architect, Genoa2014 Adriana Cuellar and Marcel Sanchez, CRO Studio, San Diego and Tijuana2015 Marco Casagrande, Casagrande Laboratory, Helsinki

Directed Studios Abroad

2011 Berlin, Annette Homann, Adjunct Research Professor, Azrieli School2012 Bologna, Claudio Scarbi, architect2012 Paris, Alessandra Cianchetta, L’agence de reconfiguration territoriale AWP2013 Helsinki, Tuomas Toivonen, NOW Office2014 Paris, Alessandra Cianchetta, L’agence de reconfiguration territoriale AWP

Workshops

2013 Architectural Association Ottawa Visiting School and the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism summer workshop

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ARCS 5105/5106 Graduate Studios

Advanced graduate studios aim to engage critically the aesthetic, cultural, technical, and urban dimensions of contemporary architecture. Directed Studios Abroad (DSA) offer students extended exposure to a changing venue of global cities, with attendant courses and lectures at local institutions. The Azrieli Visiting Critics, drawn from distinguished international scholars and practitioners, annually bring a wealth of design research and teaching to the School. Recent and upcoming studios, which are shared by M.Arch and M.Arch-1 students, are outlined here.

Plagiat!Hannes Stiefel, Azrieli Visiting Critic, Winter 2011The 2010 news cycle was affected by several particular debates on plagiarism. In the German-speaking world it was the – at first highly celebrated – debut Axolotl Roadkill by the 17-year-old Helene Hegemann that soon infuriated the guild of often elderly, mostly male, distinguished literary critics. Simultaneously David Shields and Nick Simmons aroused suspicion with their new releases Reality Hunger and Incarnate in the United States. In the meantime the specific discussions merged and led to a global polarised debate on copyright, authorship, artistic integrity, and the possible potential of a more informal handling of such terms and values. Where are the borderlines between, on the one hand, collage, sampling, intertextuality, pastiche, remix, and, on the other hand, plagiarism? The debate has not yet reached architecture, while in other creative/artistic disciplines such procedural methods are common practices. Like David Shields, who strategically engages the methods of plagiarism in order to create a new, authentic literary work, the studio will create an architectural plagiarism. The characteristics to be plagiarized lie well beyond the object qualities of the architectural reference. Consequently plagiarism can become a highly transformative act; it is then potentially an achievement in de- and re-contextualization, and thus a translatory motion towards a new or a next, in any case towards another creation.

Univers-cityInderbir Singh Riar, Winter 2011This studio will re-imagine the modern university. The total reconsideration of academic disciplines, the future of “knowledge”, and the needs and desires

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Kristen Tuttle and Felipe Gonzalez, Mat-scraper, Univers-City studio, 201137

of student life will inform the design of new social, cultural, and educational institutions at Carleton. We will thus propose a series of large-scale (very large-scale) buildings capable of re-situating space relations on campus. The resulting structures – libraries, laboratories, gymnasia, dormitories, student centres – will constitute the sum programmatic parts of a city of miniature. Two assumptions guide the studio: first, that the university is an almost utopian construction; second, that buildings must operate at the critical mass of the city itself. Consequently, the role of the institution (as knowledge-making; as political entity; and, of course, as building) is to be re-examined. Received ideas of university life (“town and gown”, “multidisciplinarity”, Animal House) will be interrogated as means to determine how (and why) the methods of intellectual work can (and should) be represented (and tested) in architectural form. Our aim is to sketch out simultaneously, through architecture, philosophies of knowledge and philosophies of the contemporary city.

The Subtle Substance of ArchitectureAlessandra Cianchetta, Azrieli Visiting Critic, Fall 2011This studio deals with the ways in which soft systems – art, landscape, movement, night – redefine the scope of thought and action in territorial planning and the practice of architecture. We will achieve innovative forms of design based on perceptive experiences for prospective urbanism. The aim is to reveal new possible territories and to re-activate a sensual notion of desire in them, thereby bringing a state of enchantment back to the cities. The un¬stable, intangible, subtle elements and dimensions of architecture are given particular relevance along with architecture’s ability and flexibility to divert, multiply, and make things sensible and tangible. The site is La Défense, the Paris business district established by the French state in July 1951 and under a Plan de renouveau since 2005. The goal is to take pleasure in being at La Défense as one would in the centre of the city. By focusing on the in-between, the hybridations between hard and soft – times, flows, recycling urban functions, the night – are to maintain a dynamism after they are built – that is, to evolve through time and changes of use as if they had their own memory and sensations.

Mind/BodyFederica Goffi, Fall 2011The Mind/Body studio seeks to contribute to a broader discussion on how architecture can affect our emotional state and especially the wellbeing of patients being treated for dementia. The medical field has acknowledged in recent years the importance of the effects of stress on healing processes, linking this with the surrounding environment. This field has been defined by medical scientists as “mind-body” medicine. Bringing this concept into the field of architecture, the student design work will uncover possibilities for architectural materials and elements, details and space, to define a sense of place that may provide comfort and care for the residents. The design explorations are speculative in nature yet

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PEDESTRIAN FLOW

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The Inflate Light Hair Night Garden.

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PLAN Lower Level (+54.0) SECTION

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Highway Emergency Exit

Stephanie Uy, Sophie Lamothe, and Vance Fok, Inverted Night Myopia, The Subtle Substance of Architecture studio, 2011

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meant to challenge current standards and the implementation of ordinary details into unique places with specific needs, suggesting the possibility and the need for well-constructed details suitable for the specific design issues being further adaptable and exportable to other situations in an elegant and sustainable way enhancing the quality of life. M.Arch students will enter into an active dialogue with the scientific community and the medical and social work specialists at Cummer Lodge, a long-term care facility in Toronto, and work in collaboration with the School of Social Work at Carleton University.

BorderlandsInderbir Singh Riar, Winter 2012This studio re-imagines the modern border. Its site is the frontier between Canada and the United States. Its context is the current unprecedented effort by Canadian and American governments “to enhance our security and accelerate the legitimate flow of people, goods, and services between our two countries” – a sentiment enshrined in “Beyond the Border: A Shared Vision for Perimeter Security and Economic Competitiveness”, the joint declaration made by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Barack Obama on February 4, 2011. Borderlands seeks to substitute, though not to ignore, these current political and economic arrangements (namely, security and trade) by new kinds of cultural ones. The ambition is to project a series of very, very big buildings capable of re-situating space relations among nations and peoples. These structures must, operate at the critical extents of the border itself. The terrain vague of the world’s longest border will be seen in its properly utopian vocation as an ideal site for architectural and social experiment.

Cinemathèque Michael Tawa, Azrieli Visiting Critic, Winter 2012Architecture and cinema have enduring and foundational associations in

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modernity. Beyond literal and metaphorical registers, the two radically different disciplines and practices share thematic and tectonic or compositional dimensions around motifs such as space and time, narrative, framing and assemblage, materiality and light. This project will work between the cinematic and the architectonic through a series of drawing and modeling exercises in order to develop a conceptual design framework for a speculative Cinemathèque. In it, the memory of Ottawa could be archived, investigated, and played out by scholars, artists, cinematographers, architects, and the general public. A set of stills or a passage from a prescribed list of films (Antonioni, L’Eclisse; Dreyer, The Passion of Joan of Arc; Herzog, Lessons of Darkness; Paradjanov, Sayat Nova; Resnais, Last Year in Marienbad; Tarkovski, Mirror; Tati, Playtime; Visconti, The Leopard) will be used to develop a sequence of diagrams and models exploring the spatiality, temporality, narrative structure, light and materiality of the film – first in two dimensions, then in relief, and finally in three dimensions. From this initial pragmatic and then metaphorical work sequence, an adaptable thematic framework is to be devised and played out through architectural propositions for the Cinemathèque. Along the way are to be found – in the grain and materiality of the cinematic image-sequence, and through the materialised and embodied practices of making – diverse potential and opportunities to elaborate and enrich design skills.

Slices through SpaceGisle Løkken and Magdalena Haggärde, Azrieli Visiting Critics, Winter 2012www.slicesthroughspace.blogspot.comThe studio will introduce alternative methods for planning and architecture that open for discussion planning language, hierarchies, participation, and relevance. Through literature studies and exploratory research and rethinking we will gain new knowledge that enables us to approach a concrete situation in the city for a profound understanding of the context. A blog is to be used as an innovative

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tool to communicate the learning, to collect the findings from the process, and continuously to present design work. The studio does not demand fixed scenarios or fancy images, but it expects curiosity and an open-minded effort to learn, to experience, and to express knowledge that is not obvious – and that has to be carefully investigated to be operative for the planning process. Five critical themes will organize the work: New Hierarchies (rhizome/lines of flight), Reorientations-Mapping, Vulnerability, Flexibility, and Points of Departure.

The Debris of Urban ImaginationClaudio Sgarbi, Directed Studio Abroad, Bologna, Winter 2012“Il Guasto”: An urban context, a place in the heart of the historical city that is a mound of debris – resulting from the demolition of an important building, the Bentivoglio Family palace, during a popular revolt in 1506 – on top of which a public garden was created 40 years ago. The garden is well known in Bologna as Giardino del Gusto. Underneath, in-between the debris, an underground space – a bunker – was built to protect the citizen from bombing during the Second World War. This will become a place to explore and rethink, through designs, the city starting from the idea of “guasto” – ruin, waste, debris, mound of garbage, inflicted wound, leftover trash, broken things, rotten remains… that kind of disembodiment which follows a demolition of an existing building, a demolition which in this case is a tearing down of a building with a symbolic public meaning but gaining in time a new significance and use.

Why Profanations?Federica Goffi, Fall 2012This studio will use two fast-pace architectural competitions to mediate the often unbounded “imaginary” world of studio and the “real” world of practice. It takes as its basis Giorgio Agamben’s 2005 statement, “The Museification of the world is today an accomplished fact”. The competitions – Ceci N’est Pas

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Khoi Nguyen, Ark City (for an Apocalypse), Why Profanations? studio, 201243

Un Pont (www.clevelandcompetition.com) and Unbuilt Visions (www.d3space.org/unbuiltvisions) – are thus approached by either consciously appropriating existing infrastructure as a “found object” or intervening in existing architectural projects, even unrealized historical ones. This is to challenge both the notion of designing from scratch and the practice of architectural conservation as an act of full restoration by instead advancing architectural drawings as fictional scenarios of other possible futures (where a known beginning has other possible endings). How to start “from scratch” by redesigning unbuilt works like Mies van der Rohe’s Friederichstrasse Skyscraper or Le Corbusier’s Ville Radieuse? Is it appropriate, and under what circumstances, to alter canonical buildings like Moshe Safdie’s Habitat 67? Should we radically intervene in historical spaces like Le Nôtre’s royal gardens at Versailles? The studio will break away from present habits of “museification” when dealing with culturally loaded buildings, thereby making visible – by profanation – the potential for an exquisite city corpse as a hybrid of multiple authors and beginnings.

Re-reading Stories of HousesHalldóra Arnardóttir, Azrieli Visiting Critic, Fall 2012Collaborative studio between Carleton University and the University of Alicantehttp://re-readingstoriesofhouses.blogspot.com.esReality: ordinary life can make extraordinary architecture. The studio is built around the series of articles, “Stories of Houses” (http://storiesofhouses.blogspot.ca). We will deconstruct these single-family houses that are classified in architectural books as works by specific authors, and give value to the origins that belonged to cultural realities. Since these dwellings were built during the twentieth century, the meaning of the cultural concept that generated them has changed in our contemporary society. This will allow us to rethink their architecture and update through transformations, extensions, demolitions, etc. Working virtually between Ottawa and Alicante, students will return the original

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story and reflect in a critical manner – understanding the passing of time, from the day the house was conceived and today, and how the understanding of these cultural concepts has evolved during the past 20-30 years – what their proposals offer/add to the original house. Then, the aim will be to add a new End to the Story (based on facts acquired through research). Drawings of the action/activity, according to the requirements of this cultural evolution, will produce the architecture. The conclusion is to create a manifesto documenting methods that allow us to go beyond a formalistic approach and offering confidence when the moment comes to “improve” the architecture example.

Building EmotionsJavier Sánchez Merina, Azrieli Visiting Critic, Fall 2012Collaborative studio between Carleton University and University of Alicantehttp://buildingemotionsinarchitecture.blogspot.caIf the first part of the studio, Re-reading Stories of Houses, is understood as “theoretical”, then this second part is pure “production”. We will focus on executing the previously studied concepts into built spaces under the heading “Building Emotions”. In its annual report, the Spanish College of Architects announced the following reality: “Since 2007, the profession has reduced its volume of work more than 95%”. Such a brutal assessment obliges the profession

Brea Mann-Lewis and Kasey Camire, Space for Dreaming, Building Emotions studio, 2012

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to question its role. The College concludes its report by claiming: “We must recover our professional, social and personal dignity.” The question that comes to mind is: “How do you define the dignity of the professional?” Undoubtedly, architects, builders, manufacturers of building materials, and even requirements imposed by building regulations, have more techniques than ever. Thus, what is missing is not knowledge of technology. The “lost dignity” lies in the origin of our profession: throughout history we have been able to differentiate architecture from any other construction for its added value – that is, emotions. The studio will, therefore, every week build an installation generated from the emotional qualities of our homes. By means of recreating different possible activities of social character taken place in the dwellings, we will produce 5 architectures: Area to Relax, Area to Dine, Area to Converse, Area to Welcome, Area of Dreams. Each group will not only design the event itself but, importantly, they will go beyond it to generate architecture. The aim is not to look at the installations as finished objects, but as a way of thinking by producing them.

Underground/Undercover/UnveiledAlessandra Cianchetta, Directed Studio Abroad, Paris, Fall 2012The Studio addresses the multiple layers composing the urban complex of contemporary cities: urban structures, public spaces, mobility, urban nature, landmarks, times and uses. The Paris CBD-La Défense is to be considered in relation to the immediate surrounding context (Central Paris, Neuilly, Nanterre, Courbevoie, Puteaux), other metropolitan-scale strategies (the historical axis, de la Seine à la Seine, Grand Paris, corridor La Défense-Charles De Gaulle-Orly), and broader meta-territorial scales related to transnational territories (CBDs in New York, London, Frankfurt, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Beijing, and Hong Kong). Students will formulate bold, interdisciplinary proposals for a large-scale urban, architectural, and public space project located at a pivotal site in La Défense. The focus is on the multi-layered nature of the site. Attention is to be paid to the re-

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use of the underground spaces located underneath the dalle. The aim is to engage with the site but to deliver a radical and visionary urban proposal through detailed design. The starting points will be a series of emblematic layers, of which the first one, INVISIBLE/UNDERGOUND, will be the key theme.

Architecture, Agency, and Activism: Engaging Material Thinking in ArchitectureRoger Connah, Directed Research Studio, Fall-Winter 2012-2013Using graduate students’ current diverse interests in demonstrating an architectural “responsibility” and situating themselves in what appears, at present, a weak and even confused contemporary moment, the 2012-2013 Directed Research Studio (DRS) is organized on the theme Architecture, Agency, and Activism. The key themes are offered to structure individual M.Arch Thesis projects: Business is not a dirty word in architecture – the agent and the activist; The (quasi) political conditioning of architecture – the architect and the interface; The geography of performance – the architect as liquidizer. These collective themes will allow for a wide range of connected and systematic studies and encourage students to understand the often incomplete but well-argued and no less valid critical positions they take in relation to potential professional issues. At all times the DRS will ask student to understand critically what is, first, an emerging – and re-awakened – role for an ethical architecture of duration and, second, the impact of current notions like activism and agency. In other words it is not “business as usual”! Working in groups and individually each student will participate in the debate – collectively – and proceed in a systematic way to locate their own thesis research, scripts and projects of architecture within the range of issues and contexts discussed. Architectural projects will be located critically, culturally, politically and geographically, according to the performed and imagined action – or, in “liquid times” as Zygmunt Bauman calls our current conditions.

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The Museum as Discursive SpaceJonathan Hale, Azrieli Visiting Critic, Winter 2013The problem of how cultural institutions can reconnect with the public and demonstrate their value and relevance in contemporary life has been at the forefront of discussions between scholars, designers, and professionals in museum studies. In recent years museums have attempted to reinvent and reinvigorate themselves in order to attract visitors and survive economic turmoil. Alongside an emphasis on the creation of large-scale spectacles, there has also been a need to reconnect with the visitor on a more intimate level and to design more personally meaningful exhibitions. The rise of social media has also altered people’s expectations of what makes experiences meaningful and memorable. People expect to be allowed the privilege of actively identifying and redistributing cultural content for themselves, not just passively consuming it within the framework set out by the institution. Museum visitors increasingly seek opportunities for creative expression and engagement: they want their own unique identities and interests to be acknowledged, while they recognize and connect to likeminded communities around the world. This refocusing – partly achieved by the production of exhibitions addressing key social, cultural and historical themes – allows for the elaboration of the museum as a social instrument, as a participant in a dialogue with the visitor and hence as a discursive space. The studio aims to identify a museum or gallery in the Ottawa area that offers the potential to become a “discursive museum space” and to redesign it to address some of the key issues highlighted above. The design proposal could potentially consist of either or both an interior and exterior space; a combination of spatial, graphic or multimedia elements; or an entirely virtual reconfiguration of an existing space using mobile digital or analogue technologies. The goal is to create a space of cultural discourse where multiple dialogues can begin to take place – between the institution, the spaces, and the people within.

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Let us Introduce a Lifetime of Things in DesignJaime Salazar Rückauer, Azrieli Visiting Critic, Winter 2013Look at any architectural drawing, look at any building detail. Do you miss something in them? Drawings can be beautifully rendered; they can explain a lot of things their authors want to express. Drawings may be exquisitely rendered and details made technically superb – beautiful conceived in their measurements and materials. Still, there is something lacking: time. Time advancing converts architectural drawings and architects’ arguments into true, partially true, or untrue statements. Time – “lifetime” – is a real magnitude, just like space dimensions, but it is still almost unconsidered as a fact influencing architectural design. Yet time is measurable – so, could it be made a factor of creative design? How? This will not the “time” of Sigfried Giedion’s masterful Space, Time and Architecture. The “time” to be considered is the real lifetime of objects, of buildings. The studio will follow two lines of action. First, a conceptual representation of the lifetime of buildings: a century ago, in the era of mechanics, a few brilliant artists represented perceptual time in two- and three-dimensional objects; today, we will attempt to represent conceptually the real time of the life of things by our information-processing technologies. Second, to ask: What would “living” buildings look like? Let us foresee a “second nature”, a manufactured one. Its initial stage already surrounds us. What would it mean if things could “live”? If they would live, then they would pulse. To behave, things would perceive time. How could manufactured things “behave” more “nature-like”? What does this mean for sustaining human life? We are not looking for science fiction – utopic-positive or dystopic-negative – predictions. We are looking to step beyond these images.

A MapTuomas ToivonenDirected Studio Abroad, Helsinki, Winter 2013

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The studio will undertake three parallel activities. First, to create a new map of Helsinki and its relevant architectural sites: in the spirit of Nolli and Piranesi, we will investigate, identify and visualise a new architectural representation of Helsinki as an archipelago of mirabilia and monuments – an urban form that contains relevant buildings, narratives, intentions, projects and historical traces. This fantastic new map, with descriptions of Helsinki’s (alternative) monuments and mirabilia, will be done in collaboration with the Museum of Finnish Architecture and the Helsinki Bureau of Urban Planning, and printed, published, and exhibited. Second, students will undertake a series of workshops arranged with the Aalto University Theory of Architecture course. Third, the studio will produce FIN(N)ISH SAUNA on-site at Kulttuurisauna by building the Stage and Pyramid Room.

Expressway Urbanism Inderbir Singh Riar, Winter 2013The Ville-Marie Expressway in Montreal remains an utterly remarkable – if outmoded – instance of post-war urban renewal made not by architecture but by means of infrastructure. Inaugurated in 1967, the year of Expo 67 and a key moment in the self-conscious expression of both Canadian and Quebeçois modernity, the Ville-Marie – a massive sunken north-south arterial link – finds

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affinity with contemporaneous efforts to resituate the city by the ascendant cultural and technical force of the automobile. Today, the Ville-Marie is facing imminent change with the total demolition of its southern links. Moreover, it remains a “scar” in the popular imagination, commonly seen as jammed, crumbling, and splitting the western and central areas of the city. The studio will use the Ville-Marie as a space to project new – and entirely heroic – ways to densify and to unify “splintered” space relations in Montreal. A preliminary stage of detailed archival study will lead to building – as large-scale models – the Ville-Marie itself. Students will use these models as bases for exhibition installations on the role the car – and its attendant effect of speed – in twentieth-century architecture. This research will inform actual projects to transform the Ville-Marie in toto, yielding – without once resorting to the grab bag of “landscape urbanism” – absolutely large-scale programs capable of reimaging the decaying infrastructure of the 1960s.

Post-Industrial LandscapesTobias Klein, Architectural Association School of Architecture; Johan Voordouw, Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, Summer 2013Where has architecture positioned itself in a digital revolution that has pervaded our entire culture and transformed it into a post-industrial digital society? Today physicality seemingly plays a secondary role in a world of a billion active Facebook users and up to a million tweets an hour – we are but points in an expanding cloud. Using state of the art 3D scanning equipment from the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism and the Carleton Immersive Media Lab, the Architectural Association Visiting School in Ottawa opens with a premise to record the soft, latent movements that describe the character(s) of a site, to gain new sight. If process and product are inherently linked, then a new way of seeing should result in a new architecture. Our objective will be to project, inject, and reject the conventions of the architecture in order to point, (under)line, and form new “clouds” of discovery.

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Between Neurological and Ecological: Architecture, Spatial Aesthetics, and Extended MindJon Goodbun, Azrieli Visiting Critic, Winter 2014This studio will explore new ways of considering environmental and ecological questions in architecture and in relation to developments in thinking on cognition and space. We will touch on contemporary research concerning the workings of mind and matter at the smallest scales as well as research that theorises the metropolis as a metabolic ecosystem operating at a global scale. Using a variety of techniques, we will explore concepts and methods that move between neurological and ecological modes of thinking about architecture and the city. The aim is to situate critical architectural research practice within contradictions of and boundaries between the natural, social, and political sciences. There are radical opportunities for an ecological re-imagining of the project of architectural theory and possibilities of architectural practice, developing, for example, very different conceptions of temporality and embodiment, and ideas on social, architectural, and urban space as a metabolic system while drawing on urban political ecology and contemporary theorisations of design activism. The studio will, therefore, be political in scope, seeing ecological, technological, material, and social questions as necessarily interconnected.

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History/Theory

History/Theory

The history and theory of architecture, urbanism, and conservation forms a crucial part of graduate studies at the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism. Entering M.Arch-1 students enroll in a required survey course on eighteenth-, nineteenth, and early-twentieth-century modern architecture. M.Arch and M.Arch-1 take two consecutive Graduate Seminars, with topics changing annually, taught by faculty and distinguished visiting instructors. Upper-level seminars and workshops demand rigorous research in which students are expected to advance critical positions on architecture culture and practice; participation in such courses is considered essential training toward a final-year M.Arch Thesis or Directed Research Studio.

Not all courses are given every year; a comprehensive list is found in the Carleton University Calendar. Selected courses are outlined here in detail.

ARCH 4004 Architectural TheoryPrerequisite: ARCH 2300/5010 or permission of the SchoolThe exploration of architectural intentions in Western history is addressed by an emphasis on Renaissance treatises and ideas. Architectural intentions in relation to shifting world-views form a basis of historical interpretation.

ARCH 4006 Origins of ModernismPrerequisite: ARCH 2300/5010 or permission of the SchoolAn exploration of architectural theories with special emphasis on the European context from the seventeenth century to the late-nineteenth century.

ARCH 4009 Theory of the Avant-GardePrerequisite: ARCH 2300/5010 or permission of the SchoolAn exploration of architectural theories with special emphasis on the development of the avant-garde in the early-twentieth century and within the larger framework

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ARCH 4200 Architectural Conservation Philosophy and EthicsMariana Esponda, Fall 2012This seminar is an introduction to historic preservation from the Renaissance to the present moment of contemporary world heritage. The aim is to analyze preservation theories and related approaches to the material transformation of the historical buildings, especially on how philosophical theories and experimental practices make possible to redefine and to advance new conceptions of architecture. Historic buildings are seen not as isolated symbols but understood as forming part of a larger network of areas, places, towns, and landscapes. Design skills are creatively applied when fitting a new use efficiently and sensitively into an existing building and in the careful execution of details where new materials join with existing ones. The conservation of a historical building ranges from preventive maintenance and carrying out minimal repairs to significant modifications, whether partial demolition or opening up to allow a new function to thrive in an existing building. The seminar will undertake research on the changing notion of built heritage and the implications of this evolution on heritage theories and processes and practice at local, national, and international levels.

ARCH 4201 History of Modern HousingBenjamin Gianni, Winter 2013 Prerequisite: ARCH 2300/5010 or permission of the SchoolOur primary experience with architecture is with the “house” – in the form of the domestic environments with which we interacted as children. These environments exert a profound influence on us, frequently forming the basis of our decision to pursue architecture. Ironically, however, architects play a relatively minor role in the housing marketplace. This seminar will begin by looking broadly at housing as a function of social organization, demographics, and market demand.

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It will then explore the evolution of house form over time, tracing influences and identifying types. Next will be an examination of the evolving role of the state in provision of housing – both through direct participation (i.e. social housing projects) and by means of incentives to the private sector. Finally we will review key attempts by architects to influence the housing marketplace – promoting design as a form of social reform.

ARCH 4206 Recycling Architecture in Canada and AbroadSheryl Boyle, Fall 2012Why should we keep elements of the city that no longer function as originally intended, indeed, whose function no longer exists? This question asks us to explore why we keep anything at all? For centuries, architects have recycled buildings and their ideas. These ideologies and practices are well documented, though the language that describes them may sit outside our current understanding of “recycling”. This course explores key concepts of recycling architecture at the scale of the city, the individual building, and the material detail. The aims are: to become familiar with key architectural recycling strategies and projects in both traditional and contemporary realms; to establish a critical framework for understanding these projects with respect to their implications in theory and practice; to bring these projects to bear on an understanding of the issues, such as sustainability and growth of cities, facing contemporary architectural production and the built environment; and to demonstrate the above through research in drawn and in written forms.

ARCH 4300 Neo-Classical ArchitecturePrerequisite: ARCH 2300/5010 or permission of the SchoolThe study of eighteenth and nineteenth century architecture and urban form in Western Europe. Emphasis is placed on the cultural and philosophical framework of emerging modernity to illuminate architectural production and theory as well

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as the development of urban form.

ARCH 4301 Post-War ArchitectureJanine Debanné, Winter 2012Prerequisite: ARCH 2300/5010, ARTH 3609, or permission of the SchoolThis course examines theoretical issues in architecture from the Second World War to the present. Is “the modern project” still viable? What of this immensely influential project is to be remembered or perhaps continued in architecture today? Which aspects, conversely, demand reconsideration? How are we to understand and assess present-day architectures? How are we to recognize and assess the assumptions that permeate them and decipher between “empty promises” and projects comprising substantial proposals for our times? Rooted in an examination of the founding motivations and values of pre-war modernism, the class thematically explores reactions to and reflections upon the modern movement in architecture, primarily in Europe and America. The study of the main chapters of postmodern critique – technicism, historicism, regionalism, structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, and phenomenology – is offered as a means to develop both the understanding and the ability to assess critically contemporary architecture. The course draws on international, national, and local examples although it does not claim to be exhaustive, and admits the inevitability of overlap and intersection of various paradigms in current architectural theory.

ARCH 4306 Renaissance TheoryPrerequisite: ARCH 2300/5010 or permission of the SchoolThe rise of architectural theory within the context of the Italian Renaissance. Canonical texts are explored and compared in the context of the architectural developments of the period.

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ARCH 4308 Asian ArchitecturePrerequisite: ARCH 2300/5010 or permission of the SchoolThe anthropological history of the architecture and urban form of the Near and Far East, including Ancient Egypt, Anatolia, Sumer, Persia, ancient China, and India.

ARCH 4502 Research and CriticismPolarization and Radicalization of Architectural Positions (and New Imperceptible Tactics)Éric Le Coguiec, Winter 2013Prerequisite: ARCH 2300/5010 or permission of the SchoolThe neo-liberal global economy associated with the rapid acceleration of technological change intensifies the transformation of traditional urban forms, architectural design methods, and modes of sociability. The speeds of information flow and movement of peoples accelerates the fragmentation of space. This heterogenization produces both polarization and radicalization of architectural postures. On one hand, New Urbanism remedies this territorial dislocation by discovering cultural signifiers; on the other hand, Rem Koolhaas’s “junkspace” proposes an almost pragmatic acceptance of this ongoing spatial transformation. Though conceptually and formally opposed, these two architectural currents meet in the art of manipulating images and concepts by implementing, each in their own way, strategies of emotional control complicit with the general spectacularization of the real. Alongside these two opposing currents (otherwise both heirs to typical Western cultural references), a multitude of theoretical and/or practical initiatives are currently abandoning assumed regimes of visibility. These non-hegemonic and critical approaches trouble the founding principles of architectural design. This seminar addresses the concepts that drive these new architectural tactics, which may be named as relational/situational architecture, diffuse creativity, interstitial actions, collective subjectivity, rhizomatic, alterotopia,

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ARCH 4502 Research and CriticismPostmodernism (and its Discontents)Inderbir Singh Riar, Winter 2012Prerequisite: ARCH 2300/5010 or permission of the SchoolHas modernism as an aesthetic, cultural, and social force run its course? Have we ever been truly modern? What new space relations, technological transformations, and, indeed, worlds are imagined in the postmodern? What is the eclipse of the modern implied here? This seminar situates key instances of postmodernism in architecture within broader cultural contexts, and vice versa. Theories on postmodernism are to be historicised – that is, made to explain contemporaneous influences and resulting effects of artistic, political, and technological transformation in post-war architecture. Key architectural case studies, as written and designed polemics, are explored to see how the postmodern crystallises both inherited and entirely new cultural effects. Architecture is thus positioned as a register of ideology, as a vehicle by which social change is felt and measured.

ARCH 4505 Seminar in Theory and HistoryTopics on the history and theory of architecture, which vary from year to year.

ARCH 4801B Theory of ArchitectureKnowledge and Information Technologies Greg Andonian, Fall 2012 Prerequisite: ARCH 2300/5010 or permission of the SchoolThis seminar is an introduction to the broad field of information technologies as it relates to architecture and the general field of design. The course will promote debate on issues of virtual environments in designing digital space. Students

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will voice their independent judgment and articulate plausible positions on the challenges posed by technology in the postmodern age. The course has four aims: to gain critical insights on the issue of technology as it affects the profession of architecture and society as a whole; to promote awareness on how information transforms as it moves from the page to the screen; to advance understanding on how three-dimensionality, interactivity, and time-based media work together to change the way we engage information; and to expose students to relevant and important texts on the issue.

ARCH 5010 Introduction to Modern ArchitectureJanine Debanné and/or Inderbir Singh Riar, Fall 2012-2014The emergence of modern architecture from the late-eighteenth century to the early-twentieth century is explored through key buildings, texts, and historical assessments. Typical oppositions of modernity – nature versus the city, the handmade versus the machine, or the individual versus the collective – are situated in terms of their architectural consequence. The relationship between utopian ideals and the formal language of modernism provides a key theme throughout the course.

ARCC 4300 Building Materials WorkshopMariana Esponda, Winter 2013Students will examine how treatises of construction have influenced systems of construction. The methodology includes an analysis of several traditional treatises of construction including those by Alberti, Palladio, Serlio, Perrault, Blondel, Viollet-le Duc, and Ruskin. Emphasis is placed on consideration of the relationship between architecture and the constructive knowledge, the evolution of techniques and building materials, the illustrations and constructive details that encapsulate the treatise’s presentation of an approach to a constructive manual of the time, and the origin and the influences of the way to build with

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traditional materials and systems (lime, brick, stone, iron and wood). We will compare how the knowledge of traditional treatises of construction was transferred to the construction system of Canada, using buildings in the village of Ashton, Ontario, as an example. Students will learn to understand the structural behaviour of traditional building materials and to represent the geometry, joints, tools and essential details of how they were built. The research will culminate in an examination of the main damages, conditional assessment and pathologies of traditional building materials, and the various alterations made to the constructive envelope of the original building at junctions between new and old materials and techniques. The primary objective is to develop an understanding of the quantitative and qualitative values of these traditional methods of construction as the essence for an inclusive cultural memory.

ARCU 4300 Histories and Theories of UrbanismShelagh McCartney, Fall 2012The traditionally marked division between design disciplines is slowly dissolving and new forms of overlap and cross-pollination have strongly emerged in the twenty-first century. This century could be characterized by the development and transformation of new urban and territorial modes of settlement. Such mergers of scales, professional fields, managerial agents, and cultural issues have further enriched the project in the city. We will examine how these new alignments have triggered innovative ways of engaging the current built environment. Individual readings of this extremely rich field of study allow for an evaluation and simulation of the distinct lines of work that are currently active in the city, and through them, help to understand the space of the “project” in relation to new urban and territorial phenomena. Understanding a complex reality by mapping and representing the city will allow the development of important skills as introduction into the field. Also embedded in these studies should be a clear understanding of the ethical compromise that we as designers have to face in order to improve the spatial

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conditions of a growing society in the most progressive manner.

ARCU 4600 Post-WWII UrbanismBenjamin Gianni, Winter 2012The form of the City, as we now know it, emerged in the last five decades. Despite industrialization and significant demographic pressures on the city in the nineteenth century, the medieval underpinnings of most European and North American cities remained unchanged. Only after WWII was the city pulled apart, rezoned, and reconstructed to conform to emerging and competing models of urbanity. Beginning with a review of the pre-war city, the course will examine efforts to address housing shortages and rebuild the city in the 1940s and 1950s, explore urban renewal and the consequences of automobile-based suburbanization, examine gentrification and the revitalization of the “core” beginning in the 1980s, and finally adress the form of the post-industrial city as it has emerged in the last two decades. This includes the “edge-city” phenomenon, New Urbanism, and concepts like sustainable urban design. Case studies will include key projects in Canada, Europe, and the United States.

ARCU 4700 Urban UtopiasInderbir Singh Riar, Winter 2013Prerequisite: ARCH 2300/5010 or permission of the School The rise of modern architecture and urbanism is inseparable from the desire to found utopia. The planning of ideal cities has been bound to the shaping of perfect societies and their citizenry. Yet u-topia is, in theory and quite literally, “no-place” or “nowhere”. It was and remains in its strictest sense a foil to the perceived uncertainties of modernity and modern life. As such, this seminar addresses how architects and planners concretised nowhere by imagining visionary architectures and cities as responses to the social, spatial, and spiritual shocks of their times. Not limited to architectural designs, the course argues that, for architects, utopia

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has also been “found” in quotidian or ordinary spaces. These acts of reading the city will be historicised as essential features of architectural utopianism. A concluding enquiry will ask whether the no-place of utopia remains a referent in the so-called “global city”.

ARCU 4801 Selected Topics in UrbanismUrban Morphologies of Vulnerable (Slum) Settlements Shelagh McCartney, Fall 2012The world is now urbanised. One third of that urban population lives in slums. Slum urbanisation is the single most pervasive element in the development of rapidly growing cities. Many of these areas are considered “unplanned”, which has led to inquiring whether design or planning could in any way anticipate or guide their formation or structure. Yet slums are a physical phenomenon created through spatial strategies consisting of responsive morphological forms that endure and shape urban areas. This research seminar will focus on the form of “vulnerable morphologies” at different stages of growth within the pervasive expansion of fast-growing cities. In order to improve the quality of life of the urban poor, the physical spaces they inhabit must be analysed in terms of their vulnerability and urban fabric; the relevance of space and physical planning should be central in any discussion on the phenomenal settlements of the urban poor. This research lab on the morphologic offers opportunities to test a new research tool and to be involved in the critical debate on how to conceptualise vulnerable morphologies at the limit of our twenty-first-century cities and how intervention strategies may proactively be applied to shape cities with expected rapid growth.

ARCU 4808 Debates on Suburbanism and Sprawl: The North American FrontierDongsei Kim, Fall 2012More than a hundred years ago, Ebenezer Howard’s “three magnets” diagram,

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in his Garden Cities of To-morrow, illustrated the tension between “town” and “country”. It sparked a discourse on how and where we should live, work, and find leisure. This tension still exists but in different forms and context. Building on a conversation on “urbanisms in the core and periphery”, the seminar surveys contemporary discourses on suburbia with a focus on North America. With an understanding that suburbia is always contingent on the notion of the urban, the seminar explores authors such as Edward Glaeser, Kenneth T. Jackson, Robert Fisherman, Joel Garreau, Andreas Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, as well as Witold Rybczynski, Dolores Hayden, Alex McLean, Robert Bruegmann, and others, on issues related to suburbia and the contentious debates surrounding them. Why are suburbs so often pejoratively termed “sprawl”? Why has so-called sprawl continued to proliferate in many parts of the world, especially in North America? What are the forces that produce these suburbs? What is the historical genesis? What is at stake and what other alternative models are there? Students will engage these topics from multiple perspectives and develop a critical understanding of the changing debates on suburbia over time. This process will contribute to students formulating their own critical views on contemporary urbanism.

ARCU 5402F Workshop: Urban Studies and Heritage ConservationJim Mountain, Fall 2012The course will review and discuss approaches to community-based visioning and planning (urban and small towns), urban design with the community’s perspectives and input at the forefront of design considerations, and conservation of the physical elements of a place, with both natural and cultural heritage components of a place being priorities for future planning. The workshop takes the approach that the historic and physical qualities of “heritage resources” are cared for within the context of community interests, economic considerations, and long-term preservation goals. Students will work as a multi-disciplinary team and

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examine principles and practices that shape the sustainability and conservation of our built environment by focusing on interaction with case study areas – the “clients” are communities in the City of Ottawa and Ottawa Valley region. Our work is to be informed by practices and knowledge from other North American and international examples.

IDES 5500 Interdisciplinary Design StudiesLorenzo Imbesi, Winter 2013Note: Offered by the School of Industrial DesignThe course aims at developing new scenarios and professions of design through their interdisciplinary theoretical foundations and methodological practices. Every student will critically study the connections between design and other fields of enquiry and how these may develop new areas of research, new approaches, and even new products. The course is open to students in different disciplines who are interested in design thinking. The final outcome will be an issue of FIELDS: An Interdisciplinary Design Journal to which each student will contribute. See: www.id.carleton.ca/graduate/fields-report.

ARCH 5200 Graduate Seminar 1: Introduction to Critical Thought in ArchitectureBetween Utopia and Aporia: Theory, Practice, and the Making of a Common WorldPaul Holmquist, Fall 2012This course is an introduction to critical thought in architecture by way of thinking critically about architecture in posing a central question: what is the relationship of architectural theory and practice in post-modernity to the political task of a making and sharing a world in common? Consequently, what modes of agency, thinking, and making are available outside of the utopian model and the instrumentality of technology and representation? In effect, how can architecture engage a politics of making without itself “making politics”?

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Following from Hannah Arendt’s theory of action and Martin Heidegger’s critique of technology, the course examines a range of theories and modes of practice that begin to recognize this possibility particularly in relation to aesthetics and language, historical consciousness, everyday action and imagination, as well as ephemerality, play, and festival. Also considered are the specific challenges posed to architectural thought and practice, and the possibility of any politics, by the theories of spectacle, the technical image, and the apparatus. These topics are explored within a broadly phenomenological and hermeneutic philosophical perspective, and anchored by specific architectural writing, works, and practices, through discussions centered on lectures and student presentations of course readings.

ARCH 5201 Graduate Seminar 2: Contemporary Theoretical Perspectives in ArchitectureAdventures in Multimodal DesignGraham Larkin, Winter 2012This seminar is designed to deepen knowledge of design history and expand a communications toolkit. Students will analyze and emulate classic examples of data graphics, cartography, cinema, signage, comics, advertising and propaganda with a particular emphasis on the integration of visual, auditory, and tactile/kinesthetic modes. In addition to critical analysis, assignments will include exercises in perceptual/conceptual mapping and storytelling. We will draw inspiration from classic practitioners and theorists of verbo-visual exposition (Galileo Galilei, Charles Joseph Minard, Edward Tufte), relevant strategies of the twentieth-century avant-garde (the Bauhaus integration of design arts, Marcel Duchamp’s boîte-en-valise, the Situationist dérive, the Fluxus event score/Fluxbox), and comics masters from Winsor McCay to Chris Ware. The amazing variety of past practices will shed light on current forms of exposition including interactive visualizations and pecha kucha.

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ARCN 5301/6001 Daedalic Exercises IStephen Fai, Fall 2012 Readings in contemporary philosophy and theory as well as experimental mediation, materiality, and making. The course is required of all first-year PhD and Master of Architectural Studies students.

ARCN 5302/6002 Daedalic Exercises IILouis Brillant, Winter 2013Readings in contemporary philosophy and theory as well as experimental mediation, materiality, and making. The course is required of all first-year PhD and Master of Architectural Studies students.

ARCH 5301/6001 Vitruvian Exercises IStephen Fai, Fall 2012 Investigations on the graphic intelligence of architects, i.e. architectural modes of research, via a survey of first- to sixteenth-century architectural treatises. The course is mandatory in the first year of the PhD and Master of Architectural Studies, and is open to upper-level Master of Architecture students.

ARCH 5302/6002 Vitruvian Exercises IILouis Brillant, Winter 2013 A focused study on the fabrica of architectural theory situated within the theory and practice of construction. Attention is paid to architectural treatises of the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. The course is mandatory in the first year of the PhD and Master of Architectural Studies, and is open to upper-level Master of Architecture students.

ARCT 5909 Master of Architectural Studies ThesisA scholarly written thesis supported by methods of two and three-dimensional

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representation. Research undertaken by the student is expected to engage a topic in the culture of architectural practice. Proposals must be approved by the Graduate Committee of the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism.

ARCH 6907 PhD Comprehensive ExaminationStudents must demonstrate to their thesis advisory committee a sufficiently broad background in the theoretical and topical area literatures and constructions relevant to their individual projects.

ARCH 6908 PhD Proposal ExaminationStudents must demonstrate to the thesis advisory committee their ability to link theory to a work or practice of architecture. The examination requires a comprehensive bibliography, review of the subject literature, dissertation outline, and, as appropriate, drawings and models situated within a theoretical framework.

ARCH 6909 PhD DissertationThe dissertation will be comprised of two critical modes of investigation of equal importance: a speculative project and a research text. The speculative project is realized using specific traditional and non-traditional media as deemed appropriate.

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The theories and methods of building technologies and their relationship to the built and the natural environments are fundamental to the study and practice of architecture at the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism. M.Arch-1 students follow a sequence of four consecutive courses that examine materials, construction methods, and structural systems as well as the role of building technologies in producing healthy and sustainable environments. M.Arch and M.Arch-1 students take Advanced Building Systems, which investigates cutting-edge structural design by means of case study and detailed design.

The study of architectural representation and digital technologies situates design discourse in an expanded field of applied and speculative techniques. Hand drawn, digital, two-dimensional, and three-dimensional methods are explored alongside theories and techniques of digital design and fabrication, which are supported by significant computer facilities and machines technologies.

Mandatory courses in professional practice link methods of design and construction to project management and ethics.

Building Technologies

ARCC 4100 Lighting for ArchitectureA workshop to study daylighting and/or lighting design techniques, with a focus on project-based learning.

ARCC 4102 Acoustics in ArchitectureSound in enclosures, including interior design of auditoria and special applications. Sound reproduction and reinforcement systems. Acoustic privacy and protection, sound control in buildings, materials for noise control, community noise, industrial noise. Acoustic measurements and instrumentation.

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ARCC 5096 Building Technology IManuel Baez, Fall 2012Case studies of vernacular buildings from different climatic regions: issues of human comfort, construction, and materials. Site orientation, foundations, structure and envelope in terms of their response to local climate: sun (light and heat), wind, moisture. Final projects developed in conjunction with design studio.

ARCC 5097 Building Technology IIJack Vandenberg, Winter 2013Technical issues involved in architectural design of buildings from ancient times to the present. Technological innovation and materials related to structural developments, and the organization and design of structures. Basic concepts of equilibrium, and mechanics of materials. Final projects developed in conjunction with design studio.

ARCC 5098 Building Technology IIIJay Lim, Fall 2012Wood frame, post and beam, steel and concrete systems and construction techniques. Structural systems and building envelope principles and practice are explored in conjunction with mechanical and electrical systems in small buildings. Final projects developed in conjunction with design studio.

ARCC 5099 Building Technology IVMedium-scale steel and concrete structured buildings as case studies to explore approaches to site resources, building envelope, daylighting design, water supply, HVAC, electric lighting, room and environmental acoustics, fire protection, with focus on sustainable design strategies. Final projects developed in conjunction with design studio.

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ARCC 5100 Advanced Building SystemsMorgan Carter, Fall 2012The introduction to advanced design in building technology and systems integration. Leading edge building materials, technologies, and philosophies are explored through intensive case study research and analysis, and by comparing and critically evaluating traditional methods with current computer modeling and analysis techniques. The course investigates the progression from architectural intent to built form. Emphasis is placed on building systems and building performance in innovative and contemporary approaches to integration structured in four components: the establishment of a building systems inventory, the development of a conceptual framework for contemporary integrated design, the development of a comprehensive understanding of advanced building, and the design, testing, and presentation of an integrated architectural system.

Architectural Representation and Digital Design

ARCN 4102 Problems in ComputingJohan Voordouw, Fall 2012Digital technology has become embedded in architecture both at the scale of representation and production. However, as architects attempt to deal with the implications of such new modes, the evolution of its affects is continually morphing – theory is struggling to keep up with technologies’ continuous development. This course attempts to develop critical positions on digital technology, its development, and use in architectural discourse. The question of the “digital” as a physical expression will ultimately determine its larger spatial and tectonic implications. Is the digital a pixelated seduction or is it the new “real” – one that can stretch our knowledge of the physical beyond current boundaries? The use of use the digital and its resultant fabrication techniques in addressed in terms of how we use these methods to reinvigorate architectural discourse in both two- and three-dimensions.

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ARCN 5000 Directed Studies in Computer Aided DesignComputer Modeling of FormJohan Voordouw, Winter 2013The digital is becoming increasingly pervasive both in practice and in education, leading to an increased need for computational skills as part of the educational environment. However, like all new modes of production, each new development in technology demands a corresponding change in methodology. If process and production are linked, then a change in the means by which we create, think, and explore architecture should lead to a new architectural “product”. This change is only experienced if we extend to the very limit of our tools and our own abilities. Therefore, this course is a continual, open dialogue that asks students to question critically the direction of architecture and to understand the role/connection of technology to both architectural process and production.

ARCN 5005 Theory and Practice of Architectural RepresentationYvan Cazabon, Fall 2012 and 2014The course addresses the relationship between architectural intentions and their appropriate representation. This focus will demonstrate the relationship between the “reading” of architectural propositions and the projected spaces they propose. The exercises will rely on the evolution of ideas and techniques and, at times, challenge the visually biased reading of architectural drawings by engaging other senses. The weekly exercises are meant to build on skill and technique while considering their effectiveness and appropriateness. Students are introduced to increasingly complex architectural projections from conventional 2D drawings (plans, sections, elevation) to 3D renderings (perspective, axonometric, collage). The term is structured around weekly exercises using various techniques and

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ARCN 5100 Representation and Documentation in Architectural ConservationAn in-depth study of the conventions and history of heritage recording including traditional field survey, photogrammetry, laser scanning technologies, and hybrid representations.

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ARCC 5200 Professional PracticeLucie Fontein, Fall 2012 and 2013This course introduces the practice of architecture. It provides an understanding of the broader social framework within which buildings are built. We will discuss the issues involved in becoming an architect and setting up a practice, including the architect’s responsibilities through the stages of design and construction. The course is broadly organized on three themes: the structure of the profession, laws and conventions which govern business and construction; factors affecting the development of design in an office, and different contractual approaches to construction; the requirements of professional registration, the challenges facing the profession, and some alternative forms of architectural careers.

ARCC 5200 Design EconomicsTopics include: principles of building economics; determinants and prediction of building costs; uncertainty and investment economics; creative cost control for buildings during schematic design, design development, construction document preparation and construction; economic evaluation during all phases of design process; emphasis on sustainable strategies.

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Events

Events

The Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism maintains that architecture is a matter of public concern. In a growing series of in-house seminars and workshops, students explore matters of architectural concern with cutting-edge architects, artists, and researchers. The Pit Lectures invite visiting practitioners and professors to present their work and research to the School. The Forum Lectures, established in 1968, bring renowned local, national, and international architects and thinkers to educate students, faculty, and the public on the artistic expression and social impact of architecture and design. The popular series is held at the National Gallery of Canada.

2012-2013 Forum Lectures

Alex Rankin (Griffiths Rankin Cook, Ottawa) and Raymond Moriyama (Moriyama & Teshima, Toronto)Emmanuel Combarel (ECDM Architects, Paris) and Tania Concko (Tania Concko Architects Urbanists, Amsterdam)Paul Goldberger, The New Yorker; Pulitzer Prize 1984Eva Jiricna, Eva Jiricna Architects, London and PragueKenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture, Columbia UniversityRussell Acton, Acton Ostry Architects, Vancouver

2011-2012 Forum Lectures

Vesa Honkonen, VHARC, HelsinkiGisle Løkken, 70°N arkitektur, Tromsø, NorwayGregory Burgess, Gregory Burgess Architects, MelbourneJohanna Hurme, 5468796 Architecture, WinnipegBernard Cache, Archilab, ParisDidier Faustino, Paris and Lisbon

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2011-2013 Pit Lectures

Jaime Salazar Rückauer, architect, BochumJonathan Hale, University of NottinghamJavier Sanchez, Sarq Architecture Office, Murcia, SpainHalldóra Arnardóttir, Sarq Architecture Office, Murcia, SpainGisle Løkken and Magdalena Haggärde, 70°N arkitektur, Tromsø, NorwayMichael Tawa, University of SydneyAlex de Rijke, dRMM de Rijke Marsh Morgan Architects; Royal College of Art, LondonAlessandra Cianchetta, L’agence de reconfiguration territoriale AWP, ParisNilly Harag, Arctic Architects and Urban Designers, JerusalemTeresa Sapey, Teresa Sapey Estudio de Arquitectura, MadridHannes Stiefel, Stiefel Kramer, Vienna

Symposia, Seminars, Workshops

Graduate Exhibition and Open HouseJanuary 25, 2012The annual Graduate Exhibition showcases the finest M.Arch and upper-level undergraduate work. The Open House invites prospective M.Arch applicants to the Azrieli School for daylong events including The Big Crit, a review of cutting-edge student projects presented publicly to distinguished visiting critics.

Towards a Critical Phenomenology – A SymposiumFebruary 8, 2013From the tragically hip to the tragically uncool, phenomenology in architecture

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has struggled to maintain the critical significance it attained from the 1960s to the 1980s. Did it collide with Post-Modernism as recent new scholarship maintains? Does this indicate a historical takeover for a (critical) minority of theoreticians, academics, and practitioners, or is this critical hindsight useful for scholars but – as usual - not practitioners? Do practitioners still find the concept of the phenomenological “spooky” but useful, if the language and codes can be used to support intuition and the invisible? We are thus left to ask whether the poetic act – the invisible and unknown, that moment just a little beyond our reach and comprehension – is still considered essential to a resistant process in architecture.

Roger Connah, Associate Professor, Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, IntroductionJonathan Hale, Associate Professor, University of Nottingham, “Critical Phenomenology: From the Pre-human to the Post-human”Paul Emmons, Associate Professor, Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center, Virginia Tech, “Material Drawing and Phenomenology”Sam Ridgway, Senior Lecturer, University of Adelaide, “Demonstrations: 3 Frascari Projects”Donald Kunze, Emeritus Professor, Pennsylvania State University, “Anarchic Thinking: The Fear and Loathing of Phenomenology”Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture, Columbia University, “What Role for Architects in Destitute Times?”

Space, Time, and Architecture – and Time: A Conversation on the “Life” of ThingsMarch 15, 2013Jaime Salazar Rückauer, architect, Bochum; Azrieli Visiting Critic, 2013Graham Larkin, art historian; Instructor, Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism

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Spaces Speak – Are You Listening?October 12, 2012In collaboration with Artengine, Ottawa, and the 2012 Electric Fields festival, this multidisciplinary symposium explores key ideas on the built environment and the sonic experience.Barry Blesser, independent scholar and consultant, pioneer of digital audioLinda-Ruth Salter, New England Institute of TechnologyPaul Theberge, Canada Research Chair in Music and Interdisciplinary Studies, Carleton UniversityDavid Lieberman, John H. Daniels School of Architecture, University of TorontoHalldóra Arnardóttir, Sarq Architecture Office, Murcia, SpainMohammed Al Riffai, Moriyama & Teshima Architects, Ottawa

On Practice: M.Arch SeminarMarch 26, 2012Gregory Burgess, Gregory Burgess Architects, Melbourne

On Practice: M.Arch SeminarFebruary 13, 2012Vesa Honkonen, VHARC, Helsinki

Migrating LandscapesJanuary 23, 2012Johanna Hurme and Sasa Radulovic, 5468796 Architecture, Winnipeg

Colour/Composition WorkshopMarch 21, 2011Annie Descoteaux, artist, Montreal

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Resources

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The Azrieli School offers a range of fabrication tools, machines, and labs as well as multiple audiovisual and printing facilities. Digital design is a growing part of the curriculum and the School maintains a laser cutter and CNC router to further their exploration in these fields. Dedicated technical staff members manage the shops and labs and provide group tutorials as well as one-on-one assistance.

Wood and Metal ShopsThe large wood and metal shops offer equipment and assistance to construct architectural models and 1:1 objects. Separate areas are equipped for woodworking (with a full range of machine and hand tools), sheet metal work, machining (complete with lathes and milling machines), and welding (including MIG, oxyacetylene torches, cutting and brazing, and metal cutting). The shop hosts a 75-watt Universal laser cutter.

CNC LabThe CNC Lab hosts an AXYS 4008 Router for large-scale models and 1:1 objects.

Model Assembly RoomA large 24-hour workspace dedicated to building models and 1:1 prototypes.

Industrial Design Workshop and Mass Production LabThe School of Industrial Design maintains two shops (214AA and Room 2493 MacKenzie) accessible to architecture students by prior arrangement.

Audiovisual LabThe School is equipped with excellent photographic and audiovisual facilities. A 12-station darkroom provides a full range of black-and-white photographic practices. A separate photographic studio is equipped with backdrops, lights, copy stand, and a vacuum easel for drawing and model reproduction. A

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12-station IMac digital photo/video editing lab is supported by the following equipment: an Inkjet printer, two Epson flatbed scanners, three Microtex flatbed scanners, three Nikon slide scanners, four Analog/digital video converter, four Data projectors, an Apple A/V connector kit, two Fostex mobile speakers, two Panasonic video mixing decks, four Videonic Digital video mixers, a Photovix slide-to video transfer, two VHS/DVD/CD players with 26” monitor mobile units. An equipment loan pool provides students with a wide selection of 35mm and digital photographic equipment, video cameras, and tripods as well as four 8mm, two Hi8, two digiatl8, two VHS-C, and two VHS camcorders. The facilities also offer computer, video, and photographic instruction.

Computer LabsFour computer labs (open 24 hours a day except holidays) are maintained with a total of 56 i7/Windows 7 and 12 Quad-core/Windows 7 desktop computers. All labs are equipped with 11x17 black-and-white printers and 12x17 scanners. Computers run the following software: Revit, AutoCAD, 3ds Max, Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, V-Ray, ArchiCAD 16, SketchUp Pro 8/Podium Renderer, ArcGIS, Map3D, Google Earth Pro, Adobe Master Collection CS6 (Photoshop, Premiere, InDesign), and Microsoft Office Suite.

PrintshopHours: Monday-Friday, 9:00am-3:30pm; closed 12:00-1:00pmThe Printshop provides printing and graphics services to all students. Among its services are: colour laser printing on a variety of papers; dye-sublimation printing, 8x12 gloss paper; large-format printing; large-format scanning.

Carleton Immersive Media Studio (CIMS)www.cims.carleton.caCIMS is a research centre dedicated to the advanced study of innovative,

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hybrid forms of representation that can both reveal the invisible measures of architecture and animate the visible world of construction. As part of the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, CIMS explores and develops innovative symbiotic relationships between the digital and fabricated 2D and 3D modes of representation. The mandate includes the advancement and development of the tools, processes and techniques involved in the transformation of data into tangible and meaningful artifacts. Key areas of work and technology include High Performance Visualization, 3D Imaging and Modelling Protocol, and New Media Tool Development. Graduate students have opportunities to pursue research in CIMS. Additionally, CIMS maintains a 3D printer for student use.

Technical Data Room (TDR)The TDR maintain a significant library for student use and research. Collections include the history and theory of modern architecture, architectural monographs, technical manuals, and subscriptions to current magazines. The TDR recently acquired the Gil Sutton collection, which includes important holdings on post-war architecture and the history of landscape architecture. Books in the TDR are catalogued on computer available to visitors.

Building 22www.building22.ca

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Building 22 is an annual student-run publication showcasing design work at the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism. Graduate and undergraduate projects are published with a view to critical and captivating explorations. Building 22 is distributed internationally to architectural schools, offices, bookstores, and galleries.

Azrieli Architecture Students’ Associationhttp://archiblog22.wordpress.comhttp://azrieliarchitectureinteractive.tumblr.comThe AASA is registered with the Carleton University Students’ Association as the student society of the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism. The AASA represents Azrieli architecture students to other architecture schools across Canada.

MacOdrum Librarywww.library.carleton.caMacOdrum Library is the main research library at Carleton University and contains a collection of more than two million items – books, microfilms, tapes, CDs, government documents, maps, periodicals, and archival materials – as well as study space, reading rooms and café. The Library maintains a significant collection of books and periodicals on architecture, art, and urbanism.

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Awards

The Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism offers competitive funding packages to graduate students. Packages may include Teaching Assistantships, Research Assistantships, or Merit Scholarships based on academic history. Students eligible to receive funding will be informed on the letter of Offer of Admission and Funding. (For additional information, see: http://www5.carleton.ca/fgpa/awards-and-funding.) Graduate Students are eligible for several prizes decided by either the School Awards Committee or independent juries. Additional awards may be opened during the school year. A partial list appears here.

Royal Architectural Institute of Canada MedalThe RAIC Medal is awarded annually at each Canadian school of architecture to a graduating student (in a professional program) who, in the judgement of the faculty of the respective institution, has achieved the highest level of academic excellence and/or completed the finest final design project/thesis for that academic year.

Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Honour Roll CertificatesA maximum of four individual students, from the top ten percent of the graduating class in the professional degree program, shall receive RAIC honour roll certificates, in addition to the top student who shall also receive the RIAC medal.

American Institute of Architects Henry Adams MedalThe American Institute of Architects awards an engraved medal and certificate of merit to the top-ranking graduating student in each architecture program accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board. It is awarded annually to a student for outstanding academic achievement and professional promise.

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American Institute of Architects Certificate of MeritThe American Institute of Architects awards a certificate of merit to the second-ranking graduating student. It is awarded annually to a student for outstanding academic achievement and professional promise.

Azrieli Scholar AwardsThe Azrieli Scholar Awards are given annually to in-progress and highly developed M.Arch Thesis projects. Competition is based on originality of research and design. Awards may also be given to excellent first-year M.Arch studio projects.

Jacques and Helene Sabourin Memorial ScholarshipJacques and Helene Sabourin Memorial Scholarship awarded annually, on the recommendation of the Director of the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, to the student showing the greatest proficiency in a course devoted to lighting for architecture. Donated by the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) and its members in memory of Jacques and Helene Sabourin who were active in the field of illumination and who tragically lost their lives in an automobile accident in 1984.

Architecture Directed Studies Abroad AwardArchitecture Directed Studies Abroad Award is awarded annually, when merited, by the Director of the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, to an undergraduate or graduate student participating in the Directed Studies Abroad (DSA) program. Preference is given to a student with high academic standing and who requires financial assistance to participate in the DSA (as determined by the School Director). Should the recipient be a graduate student, the bursary will be awarded by the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research on the recommendation of the School Director. Endowed in 2006 by Architecture ’86 in honour of their 20th reunion.

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Steel Structures Education Foundation ScholarshipSteel Structures Education Foundation Scholarship is awarded annually, to an undergraduate student in the fourth year of the Bachelor of Architectural Studies or a graduate student in the Master of Architecture studying the use and design of steel products. Eligible students must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada (landed immigrants or protected persons). Should the recipient be a graduate student, the scholarship will be awarded by the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, on the recommendation of the Director of the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism. Established in 2007 by the Steel Structures Education Foundation (SSEF); value: $3,000.

Allan Buchanan ScholarshipsThe Allan Buchanan Scholarships are awarded annually, on the recommendation of the Dean of Engineering and Design, to outstanding students proceeding from one year to another in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, and the School of Industrial Design. The Scholarships were endowed in 2005 by the family of Allan Raymond Buchanan in loving memory of his strengths as husband, father, and grandfather, as well as in recognition of his contributions to the Ottawa community as a professional engineer, entrepreneur (co-founder of Lumonics Inc.), innovator, life-long learner, informal “educator”, and concerned Canadian citizen.

Canada Council for the Arts Prix de Rome in Architecture for Emerging PractitionersThe Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism nominates one exceptional graduating Master of Architecture student as candidate to the prestigious Prix de Rome in Architecture for Emerging Practitioners, awarded annually by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Canadian Architect Student Award of ExcellenceThe Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism nominates two graduating Master of Architecture students as candidates to the Student Award of Excellence given annually by Canadian Architect magazine. Nominees are selected based on demonstrated excellence in their respective M.Arch Thesis projects.

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Greg Andonian, M.Arch (Yerevan Polytechnic), M.A.Sc., PhD (Waterloo), MRAIC, ProfessorManuel Báez, B.Arch (Cooper Union), M.Arch. (Cranbrook), Associate ProfessorSheryl Boyle, B.Arch (Carleton), M.Arch. (McGill), Associate ProfessorYvan Cazabon, Dipl.A.T. (Algonquin), B.Arch. (Carleton), M.Arch. (McGill), MRAIC, Associate ProfessorRoger Connah, B.A. Arch, Hons. (Bristol), Dip. Ed. (Cantab), Associate ProfessorKelly Crossman, B.A. (Winnipeg), M.A. (Toronto), PhD (Edinburgh), Associate ProfessorJanine Debanné, B.Arch (Carleton), M.Arch. (McGill), Associate ProfessorMariana Esponda, B. Arch (UNAM, México), PhD (UPC, Spain), Assistant ProfessorStephen Fai, B.Arch (Carleton), B.A., M.A., PhD (Ottawa), MRAIC, Associate ProfessorLucie Fontein, B.Arch (Toronto), M.Arch. (McGill), OAQ, Associate ProfessorMarco Frascari, Dott. Arch (Venice), M.Sc. (Cincinnati), PhD (Pennsylvania), ProfessorBenjamin Gianni, B.A. (Pennsylvania), M.Arch. (Yale), Associate ProfessorFederica Goffi, Dott. Arch. (Genoa), PhD (Virginia Tech), Associate ProfessorPaul Kariouk, B.Sc.Arch (Univ. Virginia), M.Arch. (Columbia), Associate ProfessorShelagh McCartney, B.Arch (Waterloo), M.Des.S. (Harvard), D.Des. (Harvard), Assistant ProfessorInderbir Singh Riar, B.A., Hons. (McGill), M.Arch (Columbia), LecturerJohan Voordouw, B.Env.D. (Manitoba), M.Arch (Bartlett UCL), Assistant Professor

2012-2014 Instructors

Halldóra Arnardóttir, B.A. (Essex), M.Sc., PhD (Bartlett UCL)Louis Brillant, B.Arch (Carleton), M.Arch (McGill)Morgan Carter, BEDS, M.Arch (Dalhousie), M.Arch II (Harvard)Alessandra Cianchetta, Dott. Arch. (La Sapienza, Rome), M.A. (UPC Barcelona), EHESS ParisJon Goodbun, B.A., Hons. (PCL/Westminster), Dip. Arch., M.Sc. (East London), M.Sc. (Bartlett UCL), PhD (Westminster)

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Jonathan Hale, B.Sc. Hons, B.Arch Hons (Bath), M.Sc. (Penn), PhD (Nottingham)Paul Holmquist, B.A. (UCLA), M.Arch (Sci-Arc), M.Arch (McGill), PhD Candidate (McGill)Dongsei Kim, B.Arch, Hons. (Victoria University of Wellington), MSAUD (Columbia), MDesS (Harvard)Graham Larkin, B.A., M.A. (Queens), Graduate Diploma (Courtauld), PhD (Harvard)Jay Lim, B.Tech (Ryerson), M.Arch (Syracuse), MSAUD (Columbia)Éric Le Coguiec, D.P.L.G. (ENSA Bretagne), PhD Candidate (UQAM)Jim Mountain, B.A., Hons. (York)Jaime Salazar Rückauer, B.Arch (ETSA UPC Barcelona)Javier Sánchez Merina, B.Arch (Valencia), M.Sc. (Bartlett UCL), PhD (ETSA UPC Barcelona)Michael Tawa, B.Sc., B.Arch, PhD (New South Wales)Tuomas Toivonen, M.Arch, M.Sc. (Helsinki University of Technology)Jack Vandenberg, B.Eng., M.Eng. (Carleton)Maurizio Varratta, Dott. Arch. (Genoa)

Technical Staff

Mike Getz, Information Technology AdministratorDave LePage, Technology and Photography AdminstratorMark MacGuigan, Woodshop AdministratorStephen MacLaurin, Information TechnologySteve MacLeod, CNC TechnicianRob Wood, Woodshop Technician

Administrative Staff

Wendy Black, School AdministratorKim Heuff, Undergraduate AdministratorAleksandra Minic, Accreditation AssistantEwa Mroz, Graduate AdminstratorYvonne Sicard, Financial Accounts Administrator

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