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The Department of Architecture, established in 1865, is the oldest architecture department in the United States and is consistently ranked as one of the top programs in the U.S. Read more about Architecture at MIT.

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Undergraduate Courses

Course #	Course Title	Term
4.001J	CityScope: New Orleans	Spring 2007
4.101	Experiencing Architecture Studio	Spring 2003
4.104	Architectural Design: Intentions	Spring 2004
4.104	Architecture Studio: Intentions	Spring 2005
4.125	Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes	Fall 2002
4.125A	Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes	Fall 2005
4.125B	Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes	Fall 2005
4.170	Ecuador Workshop	Fall 2006
4.171	Ecuador Workshop	Fall 2006
4.183	Sustainable Design and Technology Research Workshop	Spring 2004
4.191	Introduction to Integrated Design	Fall 2006
4.211J	The Once and Future City	Spring 2006
4.243J	Media Technology and City Design and Development	Spring 2002
4.250J	Introduction to Urban Design and Development	Spring 2006
4.296	Furniture Making	Spring 2005
4.301	Introduction to the Visual Arts	Spring 2007
4.302	BSAD Foundations in the Visual Arts	Fall 2003
4.322	Introduction to Sculpture	Fall 2003
4.341	Introduction to Photography	Fall 2002
4.341	Introduction to Photography and Related Media	Fall 2007
4.351	Introduction to Video	Spring 2004
4.366	Advanced Projects in the Visual Arts: Personal Narrative	Spring 2004
4.401	Introduction to Building Technology	Spring 2006
4.411	Building Technology Laboratory	Spring 2004
4.42J	Fundamentals of Energy in Buildings	Fall 2003
4.440	Basic Structural Theory	Spring 2003
4.493	Emergent Materials II	Spring 2005
4.500	Introduction to Design Computing	Fall 2008
4.501	Architectural Construction and Computation	Fall 2005
4.520	Computational Design I: Theory and Applications	Fall 2005
4.521	Computational Design I: Theory and Applications	Fall 2005
4.602	Modern Art and Mass Culture	Spring 2004
4.608J	Topics in the Avant-Garde in Literature and Cinema	Spring 2003
4.614	Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures	Fall 2002
4.615	The Architecture of Cairo	Spring 2002
4.651	20th Century Art	Fall 2002
4.A21	Stories Without Words: Photographing the First Year	Fall 2006

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Graduate Courses

Course #	Course Title	Term
4.107	MArch Portfolio Seminar	Fall 2003
4.123	Architectural Design, Level I: Perceptions and Processes	Fall 2003
4.131	Architectural Design, Level II: Material Essence: The Glass House	Fall 2003
4.131B	Architectural Design, Level II: Material and Tectonic Transformations: The Herreshoff Museum	Fall 2003
4.132	Architecture Design, Level II: Cuba Studio	Spring 2004
4.143	Immaterial Limits: Process and Duration	Fall 2002
4.144	Architectural Design, Level II: New Orleans Studio	Spring 2006
4.155B	Architectural Design, Level III: A Student Center for MIT	Fall 2004
4.163J	Urban Design	Fall 2003
4.163J	Urban Design Studio: Providence	Spring 2005
4.166	Beijing Urban Design Studio	Summer 2006
4.166	Beijing Urban Design Studio	Summer 2008
4.170	Ecuador Workshop	Fall 2006
4.171	The Space Between Workshop	Fall 2004
4.171	Ecuador Workshop	Fall 2006
4.175	Case Studies in City Form	Fall 2005
4.181	Architecture Design Workshop: Researching User Demand for Innovative Offices	Fall 2002
4.181	Architectural Design Workshop - Rethinking Office Development	Spring 2003
4.183	Sustainable Design and Technology Research Workshop	Spring 2004
4.184	Architectural Design Workshops: Computational Design for Housing	Spring 2002
4.184	Architectural Design Workshop: Collage - Method and Form	Spring 2004
4.185J	Beijing Urban Design Studio	Summer 2004
4.195	Special Problems in Architectural Design	Spring 2005
4.196	Architecture Design, Level II: Cuba Studio	Spring 2004
4.213J	Advanced Seminar: Urban Nature and City Design	Fall 2005
4.215J	Sites in Sight: Photography as Inquiry	Fall 2003
4.215J	Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry	Spring 2006
4.220	Urban Housing: Paris, London, New York	Fall 2004
4.235J	Urban Design Politics	Spring 2003
4.240J	Urban Design Skills: Observing, Interpreting, and Representing the City	Fall 2004
4.241J	Theory of City Form	Spring 2004
4.247J	Urban Design Policy and Action	Spring 2007
4.247J	Urban Design Policy and Action	Spring 2009
4.252J	Introduction to Urban Design and Development	Fall 2006
4.255J	Site and Urban Systems Planning	Spring 2006
4.257J	Property Rights in Transition	Spring 2005
4.273	Introduction to Design Inquiry	Fall 2001
4.273	Introduction to Design Inquiry	Fall 2004
4.285	Power of Place: Media Technology, Youth, and City Design and Development	Spring 2001
4.285	Research Topics in Architecture: Citizen-Centered Design of Open Governance Systems	Fall 2002
4.296	Furniture Making	Spring 2005
4.297	Special Problems in Architecture Studies	Fall 2000
4.303	Dialogue in Art, Architecture, and Urbanism	Fall 2003
4.303	The Production of Space: Art, Architecture and Urbanism in Dialogue	Fall 2006
4.343	Photography and Related Media	Fall 2002
4.367	Studio Seminar in Public Art	Spring 2006
4.370	Interrogative Design Workshop	Fall 2005
4.406	Ecologies of Construction	Spring 2007
4.430	Daylighting	Fall 2006
4.441	Building Technologies II: Building Structural Systems I	Spring 2003
4.442	Building Technologies III: Building Structural Systems II	Fall 2002
4.448	Analysis of Historic Structures	Fall 2004
4.461	Building Technology I: Materials and Construction	Fall 2004
4.462	Building Technologies II: Building Structural Systems I	Spring 2003
4.463	Building Technologies III: Building Structural Systems II	Fall 2002
4.463	Building Technology III: Building Structural Systems	Fall 2004
4.491	Form-Finding and Structural Optimization: Gaudi Workshop	Fall 2004
4.493	Emergent Materials II	Spring 2005
4.493	Natural Light in Design	January (IAP) 2006
4.510	Digital Design Fabrication	Fall 2008
4.511	Digital Mock-Up Workshop	Spring 2006
4.520	Computational Design I: Theory and Applications	Fall 2005
4.521	Computational Design I: Theory and Applications	Fall 2005
4.580	Inquiry into Computation and Design	Fall 2006
4.607	Thinking About Architecture: In History and At Present	Fall 2002
4.608J	Topics in the Avant-Garde in Literature and Cinema	Spring 2003
4.638	Drawings & Numbers: Five Centuries of Digital Design	Fall 2002
4.645	Selected Topics in Architecture: Architecture from 1750 to the Present	Fall 2004
4.661	Theory and Method in the Study of Architecture and Art	Fall 2002
4.665	Contemporary Architecture and Critical Debate	Spring 2002
4.696	A Global History of Architecture Writing Seminar	Spring 2008

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