ARCHÂ 553. Architectural Design III. 6 hours.
Comprehensive building design studio using building codes, structural and mechanical systems, and material lifecycles as generative design parameters to attain the scale of detail development and level of construction documents of schematic design. Course Information: Previously listed as ARCH 453. Prerequisite(s): Advanced standing in the second year of the three-year Master of Architecture program, or completion of both ARCH 551 and ARCH 552 with a grade point average of B or better in the ARCH 551 and 552 course sequence. This course, offered in the Fall semester, must be taken in continuous sequence (same academic year) with ARCH 555, offered in the Spring.