Bachelor of Science in Design (BSD)

The Herberger Institute School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Bachelor of Science in Design with a major in Architectural Studies program offers an integrated curriculum of professional courses and focuses on the design laboratory. The program reflects an awareness of the complex factors affecting the quality of the built environment. The program seeks through scholarship, teaching, research, design, and community service to develop the discipline and the knowledge necessary to address the important environmental and design issues faced by society.

The undergraduate program is designed to create a deep awareness and knowledge of the discipline of architecture and the ideas and values that affect the creative practice of architecture. The program of study emphasizes the base of knowledge that is specialized and particular to architecture. This is the special understanding of the history, theories, and the technologies essential to architecture. The program seeks to enhance the depth of our understanding, the qualities of our experience, and the intimacy of our awareness of architecture.

In addition to developing knowledge and skills in architectural design, building technology, and professional practice, students are encouraged to select electives from a broad range of approved courses both within the institute and across the university. These electives may be selected to devise a minor, to further professional study, or in some other fashion to enrich the student's academic experience.

In the United States, most state registration boards require a degree from an accredited professional degree program as a prerequisite for licensure. The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), which is the sole agency authorized to accredit U.S. professional degree programs in architecture, recognizes three types of degrees: the Bachelor of Architecture, the Master of Architecture, and the Doctor of Architecture. A program may be granted a 6-year, 3-year, or 2-year term of accreditation, depending on the extent of its conformance with established educational standards.

Master's degree programs may consist of a preprofessional undergraduate degree and a professional graduate degree that, when earned sequentially, constitute an accredited professional education. However, the preprofessional degree is not, by itself, recognized as an accredited degree.

Admission to the professional program in architecture is competitive and begins after completion of lower-division requirements. The professional program includes two years of upper-division study leading to the Bachelor of Science in Design (BSD) and two years of graduate study leading to the Master of Architecture (MArch).

The Bachelor of Science in Design degree in Architectural Studies requires a minimum of 120 hours of course work.

Undergraduate students who intend eventually to seek an advanced degree in either engineering or building science are encouraged to see an advisor in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts Office of Student Success and the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering advising office for additional requirements.

The BSD—Architectural Studies may be taken for honors credit through the Barrett Honors College. Please contact them for more information.

Bachelor of Science in Design Fall Year 1

In the Fall of Year 1, the SALA required courses introduce design to the entering students and the declared architecture and landscape architecture majors are integrated in the studio. The design lab introduces the three design fundamentals of the School: imperatives, scale, and skills. Students are introduced to the School’s six design imperatives: History, Context, Program, Technology, Construction, Representation through problems that engage the scale of the region, city, block, site, building, and body. There is an emphasis on hand drawing and concept models. Semester courses fulfill the University’s requirements for Freshman English, Math, and Science.

Expected Outcomes: An awareness and understanding of the School’s design fundamentals and imperatives. An ability to think and work at multiple scales through drawings and models is emphasized.

Bachelor of Science in Design Spring Year 1

In the Spring of Year 1, required courses continue to introduce design and integrate the architecture and landscape architecture majors. The design lab reinforces the three design fundamentals of the School through drawing and model building. Students begin to understand techniques of abstraction and systems layering. Semester courses fulfill the University’s requirements for Freshman English, Math, and Science. The Milestone Application to the Upper Division is due at the end of this semester.

Expected Outcomes: An awareness and understanding of the School’s design imperatives. An ability to think and work at multiple scales through drawings and models is emphasized.

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Bachelor of Science in Design Fall Year 2

In the Fall of Year 2, design studios are coordinated with an emphasis on the integration of architecture and landscape architecture. Students are also introduced to computer modeling, energy analysis, and digital graphic techniques.

Expected Outcomes: An awareness and understanding of the relationships between the design disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture. An ability to think and work across and between disciplines, though digital drawings, diagrams, and models.

Bachelor of Science in Design Spring Year 2

In the Spring of Year 2, design studios are coordinated and continue the disciplinary integration of architecture and landscape architecture. Emphasis is given to materials, construction methods, and techniques. Building Information Modeling (BIM) software is employed as a tool for understanding both construction systems and representation.

Expected Outcomes: An awareness and understanding of relationships between the design disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture, specifically related to systems of construction. An ability to think and work across and between disciplines though digital models, drawings, and diagrams.

Bachelor of Science in Design Fall Year 3

In the Fall of Year 3, the architecture design studios are coordinated and focus on housing and construction. Emphasis is focused on the Imperatives of: Technology, Construction, and Representation. Students employ both BIM and energy modeling tools toward development of a 33% complete set of construction documents for a single-family dwelling unit. Students are introduced to critical thinking and writing in their History of Architecture course and to the basics of structural systems in Structures.

Expected Outcomes: An awareness and understanding of the discipline of architecture, specifically related to housing and modes of production. An ability to synthesize simple programmatic conditions with environmental and cultural analysis, and document these situations both quantitatively and qualitatively.

Course Subject and Title	Hrs
ADE 321 Architectural Studio I	5
APH 313 History of Architecture I 2,4 (L/HU, G, H)	3
ATE 361 Building Structure I	3
Elective	3

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Bachelor of Science in Design Spring Year 3

In the Spring of Year 3, architecture design studios are topical and focus on a variety of architectural issues. Emphasis is on the imperatives: History, Context, Program, and Construction. Students choose their studio by lottery from a variety of the topics offered. Students are engaged in critical thinking and writing in History and in Structures in the basics of structural steel systems.

Expected Outcomes: An awareness and understanding of the discipline of architecture--specifically related to culture and construction. An ability to develop building systems, details, and components is emphasized.

Course Subject and Title	Hrs
ADE 322 Architectural Studio II	5
APH 314 History of Architecture II (L/HU, G, H)	3
ATE 362 Building Structures II	3
Elective	3

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Bachelor of Science in Design Fall Year 4

In the Fall of Year 4, architecture design studios are coordinated and focus on a small public building. Emphasis is on the imperatives: History, Context, Program, and Technology. Students take an introduction to Architectural Theory and Philosophy course. Theory is coordinated with studio. Students are engaged in critical thinking, making, and writing relative to architectural theory and criticism. Building systems are introduced.

Expected Outcomes: An awareness and understanding of the discipline of architecture specifically related to case studies and site conditions. An ability to critically synthesize a simple program and urban site conditions toward the development of innovative spatial, structural, and environmental systems is stressed.

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Bachelor of Science in Design Spring Year 4

In the Spring of Year 4, architecture and landscape architecture are re-united in integral design studios that are topical and focus on a variety of architectural and landscape architectural issues. Each studio is faculty led employing a professional office experience. Architecture and landscape architecture students work collaboratively in teams under the guidance of the faculty. Students choose their studio by lottery from a variety of topics offered.

Expected Outcomes: An ability to critically synthesize complex programs and urban site conditions toward the development of innovative structural and environmental systems.

Course Subject and Title	Hrs
ADE 422 Architectural Studio IV	5
ATE 452 Building Systems II	3
Design Professional Elective (Upper Division)	3
Elective	3
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