The following courses are recommended to students designing a program of study in architecture.
Courses in bold are required of all majors. Additional courses may be applicable and some are not offered yearly, so each student should develop her program of study in active consultation with her advisor.
HISTORY OF ART
- ARTH 100 The Power of Images: An Introduction to Art and its Histories
- ARTH 200 Architecture and Urban Form
- ARTH 203 Iraq's Antiquities, Then and Now
- ARTH 206 American Art, Architecture, and Design: 1600-1950
- ARTH 228 Modern Architecture
- ARTH 231 Architecture and Urbanism in North America
- ARTH 238 Chinese Art and Architecture
- ARTH 239 Art and Architecture of South Asia
- ARTH 240 Asian Art and Architecture
- ARTH 241 Egyptian Art and Archaeology
- ARTH 242 Home Life: Roman Interior Design
- ARTH 243 Building an Empire: Roman Architecture as Cultural Heritage
- ARTH 245 House and Home: Domestic Architecture, Interiors, and Material Life in North America, 1600-1900
- ARTH 247 Islamic Art and Architecture
- ARTH 249 Japanese Art & Architecture
- ARTH 259 The Art and Architecture of the European Enlightenment
- ARTH 266 New Perspectives on the Global City
- ARTH 289 Nineteenth-Century European Art
- ARTH 290 Pompeii
- ARTH 303 Calderwood Seminar: Art in Public Spaces
- ARTH 304 Seminar: The Villa
- ARTH 309 Seminar: Spiritual Space: Modern Houses of Worship
- ARTH 310 Seminar: The Extraordinary Interior
- ARTH 317 Historic Preservation: Theory and Practice
- ARTH 318 Seminar: New England Arts and Architecture
- ARTH 320 Seminar: Frank Lloyd Wright: Modern Architecture and New Ways of Living
- ARTH 321 Seminar: Making Space: Gender, Sexuality and the Design of Houses
- ARTH 322 Seminar: The Bauhaus
- ARTH 343 Seminar: Roman Monuments: Memory and Metamorphosis
- ARTH 345 Seminar. House and Home: Domestic Architecture, Interiors, and Material Life in North America, 1600-1900
- ARTH 373 Seminar: Antiquities Today: The Politics of Replication
STUDIO ART
- ARTS 105 Drawing I
- ARTS 109 Two-Dimensional Design
- ARTS 113 Three-Dimensional Design
- ARTS 207 Sculpture I
- ARTS 216 Spatial Investigations
- ARTS 217 Life Drawing
- ARTS 219 Print Methods: Lithography/Screenprint
- ARTS 220 Print Methods: Intaglio/Relief
- ARTS 221/CAMS 239 Digital Imaging
- ARTS 222 Print Methods: Typography/Book Arts
- ARTS 223 Alternative Print Methods: Hand and Machine
- ARTS 255/CAMS 255 Dynamic Interface Design
- ARTS 307 Advanced Sculptural Practices
- ARTS 313/CAMS 313 Virtual Form
- ARTS 314 Advanced Drawing
- ARTS 317 Advanced Senior Seminar I (half credit course)
- ARTS 318 Advanced Senior Seminar II (half credit course)
- ARTS 321/CAMS 321 Advanced New Media
- ARTS 322 Advanced Print Concepts
- ARTS 336/MUS 336 Music, Drawing, & Architecture
- ARTS 366/CAMS 366 Advanced Digital Projects
MIT
- 4.021* Introduction to Architecture and Environmental Design or 4.02A* (IAP intensive)
- 4.022* Architecture Design Foundations
- 4.023 Architecture Design Studio I
- 4.024 Architecture Design Studio II
- 4.025 Architecture Design Studio III
- 4.401 Environmental Technologies in Buildings
- 4.411 [J] D-Lab Schools: Building Technology Lab
- 4.400 [J] Building Structural Systems I
- 4.444 Analysis of Historic Structures
- 4.500 Introduction to Geometric Modeling
*Note: MIT courses marked with * are counted as “within the Department of Art”; all others are counted as courses outside the department.
MATHEMATICS
- MATH 115 Calculus I
- MATH 116 Calculus II
- MATH 120 Calculus IIA
- MATH 205 Multivariable Calculus
Note: More advanced courses may also be counted toward the major.
PHYSICS
- PHYS 104 Fundamentals of Mechanics with Laboratory
- PHYS 107 Principles and Applications of Mechanics with Laboratory
THEATRE STUDIES
- THST 209 Introduction to the Art of Scenic Design
OLIN COLLEGE
- AHSE2141 Engineering for Humanity
