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Architecture

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Departmental Information

Chair
Prof. Karen Fairbanks
314 Barnard
854-8431

Academic Advisers

Prof. Karen Fairbanks
314 Barnard Hall
854-8431

Prof. Kadambari Baxi
318M (third floor mezzanine) Barnard Hall
854-7238

Prof. David Smiley
320M (third floor mezzanine) Barnard Hall
854-8001

Departmental Assistant
Raleigh-Elizabeth Smith
310 Barnard
854-8430

Departmental Office
310 Barnard
854-8430

Departmental Web Site
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/archprogram/

Professor of Professional Practice
Karen Fairbanks (chair)

Associate Professor of Professional Practice
Kadambari Baxi

Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies
David Smiley

Adjunct Faculty
Luke Bulman
Maria Gray
Guido Hartray
Janette Kim
Joeb Moore
Todd Rouhe
Madeline Schwartzman
Suzanne Stephens
Michael Webb
Kim Yao

The major in architecture provides students with the opportunity to explore the discipline of architecture within the context of the College’s commitment to liberal arts. The major is introduced through a series of studio and academic courses that explore the multiple relationships between architectural design, history, theory, and criticism. Students are expected to develop technical skills, design excellence, and a critical understanding of architecture as part of our visual, social, and political history and culture. The major is designed to prepare students to work in architecture and related disciplines or pursue graduate study. Most students take advantage of the resources of New York City and the teaching faculty by working in internships in the city while majoring in the field.

The required sequence of courses begins with two introductory design studios, Architectural representation: abstraction and perception, and the introductory lecture courses, Perceptions of architecture. The introductory studios investigate space, form, scale, and traditional and experimental systems of representation, and Perceptions of architecture develops fluency with architectural concepts. Together, these courses provide a foundation of material the major continues to build upon. Architectural design, I and II are taken in the junior or senior year. The two-semester design studio introduces students to more rigorous conceptual, social, and theoretical study through comprehensive design projects. Students begin taking elective lecture courses after they have finished Art Humanities, a Core requirement. The distribution of the elective lecture courses is designed to provide students with an exposure to a broad range of architectural history traditions. Senior course work includes a two-course sequence with options for those courses to be senior seminars, advanced elective design studios, or independent research. The curriculum requires that students complement their work in the major with related course work that serves to provide a link between architecture and other social and cultural issues.

Courses in the major, as well as field trips and events for students, take full advantage of our location in New York City. The major has an active student club, Architecture Society, that supports workshops and fieldtrips for students and links students to the larger community. Students produce a journal of their work, OnSite, through enrollment in the course Critical analysis of architectural representation. The major is designed to accommodate students who wish to study abroad in their junior year.

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