School of Architecture

Architecture Building 202
Telephone: 788-2855
Fax: 788-2849

The School

Director of the School: Benjamin Gianni

The School of Architecture does not offer a program at the graduate level. However, it does offer graduate-level courses which can be used towards a degree program in the Faculty of Engineering, the School of Canadian Studies, and the Faculty of Social Sciences at Carleton. There is also an understanding with the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, the Centre for Building Studies at Concordia University, and the Faculté de l'Aménagement at the Université de Montréal, that a student registered in their program can apply for permission to do a certain part of the graduate work through course offerings made at the Carleton School of Architecture. Members of the School also supervise graduate research.

The interests and capabilities of the faculty members lie in the following areas:

History and Theory of Architecture
Scholarly studies in architectural thought from renaissance to modern movement, current debate and contemporary issues; Canadian architecture; Mayan architecture; Islamic architecture.

Architecture and Society
Ethnicity, multiculturalism and architectural expression; international development and indigenous architecture; heritage and preservation; evolution of the architecture profession.

Architecture and Technology
Building envelope and construction detail; design economics; structures; energy; lighting; acoustics; integration of systems.

Architecture and the City
Urban morphologies, architectural content of urban planning and design; social, cultural, economic and political matrix in the urban society and the contemporary architectural reality.

Computer-Aided Design and Management
Design and modelling, visual communication, computer graphics; computers and architectural practice.

Architecture and Morphology
Studies in form, space, structure and order; geometric and symbolic orders in architecture.

Graduate Courses*

• Architecture 76.500F1, W1
  Directed Studies in History and Theory of Architecture
  Reading and research tutorials.
• Architecture 76.501F1, W1
  Directed Studies in Architecture and Society
  Reading and research tutorials.
• Architecture 77.500F1, W1
  Directed Studies in Architecture and Technology
  Reading and research tutorials.
• Architecture 77.541F1, W1, S1
  Workshop: Technical Studies in Heritage Conservation.
  (Also offered as Canadian Studies 12.541)
• Architecture 78.500F1, W1
  Directed Studies in Architecture and the City
  Reading and research tutorials.
• Architecture 78.542F1, W1, S1
  Workshop: Urban Studies in Heritage Conservation
  (Also offered as Canadian Studies 12.542)
• Architecture 79.500F1, W1
  Directed Studies in Computer-Aided Design
  Reading and research tutorials.
• Architecture 79.501F1, W1
  Directed Studies in Architecture and Morphology
  Reading and research tutorials.

An honours degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant field, as well as permission of the School, is a requirement for admission to these courses.