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4th Year

Design Studio Offerings

The fourth-year design faculty is looking forward to working with you and anticipates an exciting, creative, productive, and successful year. The table provides an overview of the faculty members who will be teaching during the coming academic year. This is followed by information on the faculty members and the studios that they will be teaching. The information will be updated each quarter.

Thank you,
Prof. Jonathan Reich, 4th year Coordinator
jreich@calpoly.edu

If you are planning to remain on campus for your fourth year and you have difficulty registering for any major or support course, contact the Architecture Department right away for advice and assistance. If all design studios are full, go to the Current Students page and fill out the Design Course Request Form.

The following teaching assignments are contingent on budget, quarterly budget adjustments, student enrollment, and space availability.

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Class & Section #

ARCH 451

Fall 2020: 

ARCH 452

Winter 2021: 

ARCH 453

Spring 2021: 
02 Jennifer Shields Jennifer Shields STAFF (TBD)
03 Jonathan Reich Jonathan Reich Jonathan Reich
04 Meredith Sattler STAFF (TBD) STAFF (TBD)

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Course Descriptions

ARCH 452-02

Integrated Design Studio [Prof. Jennifer Shields]
When: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 12:10 PM - 5:00 PM
This studio engages students from Architecture, Architectural Engineering, and Landscape Architecture in integrated design teams to propose a collaborative design for a building and adjacent landscape. The studio will be co-taught with Jill Nelson (ARCE) and Ellen Burke (LA). Our objectives are for students to: (1) Examine site and program through an interdisciplinary perspective. (2) Apply (practice) communication and interpersonal skills and techniques needed for integrated professional practice. (3) Apply (practice) graphic vocabularies that facilitate collaboration in the ID studio. (4) Create original and sustainable design proposals using a collaborative and integrated method. Fourth years interested in interdisciplinary practice are encouraged to enroll.

Elective Offerings

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Class # Fall 2020:  Winter 2021:  Spring 2021: 
ARCH 461   Umut Toker  
ARCH 462 Angela Bracco Angela Bracco  
ARCH 462   Karen Lange  
ARCH 472      
ARCH 473      
ARCH 479   Dale Clifford  

Course Descriptions

ARCH 479: Micro Projects [Prof. Dale Clifford]
When: Review Schedule Builder for Class Meeting
The course views designing and making as a form of action, as a way to make small adjustments to a larger system. Fuller gave the analogue of a small rudder being able to influence the course of a large ship, the same holds for small design insertions that increase quality of life and change the way we think. We will make a Micro Project that slips into and enlivens an existing context, hopefully a temporary gallery wall/space for Building 5. No prerequisite required, just commitment, and an interest in teamwork and making things at large scale.  Meets in the shop.

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General information

For assistance with using the Curriculum Flowchart, please contact the Architecture Department.

 

Updated 10.13.2020

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