Under the supervision of a faculty advisor, students are responsible for the preparation and completion of an independent thesis project.

Estimated Materials Cost: $50.00 - $200.00

Permission for this class is based on the student's overall academic record, as well as their performance in the Wintersession course ARCH 2197: Thesis Discursive Workshop. If the department recommends against a student undertaking ARCH-2198: Thesis Project, two advanced elective studios must be taken instead.

Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Architecture Students.

Major Requirement | BArch, MArch (3yr), MArch (2yr): Architecture

ARCH-2199 is the required summer internship. It may be completed in any summer prior to entering the final year. Total hours required are 280. This internship can count for NCARB Architectural Experience Program AX-P. The internship hours for ARCH-2199 can be used towards architecture licensure through the NCARB Internship. Student's intent upon becoming registered architects in the USA after graduation should enroll in the AXP as soon as possible. AXP is the internship program required by all registration jurisdictions. The work experience accomplished during ARCH-2199, the department's minimum Internship experience (280 hours) can be recorded as acceptable experience in the AXP (3740 hours) and thus accelerate one's pace towards architectural licensure. Visit the NCARB website for more information. Register through RISD Careers website (ArtWorks).

Registration is not available in Workday.

Major Requirement | BArch, MArch (3yr), MArch (2yr): Architecture

These studios, two of which are required for graduation, are offered by individual instructors to students who have successfully completed the core curriculum. They are assigned by lottery. Once assigned to an advanced studio, a student may not drop studio.

Note: Some advanced studio sections have a fee for course supplies or field trips. The fee is announced during the registration lottery held in the department.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $50.00 - $200.00

Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Preference is given to Architecture Students.

Major Requirement | BArch, MArch (3yr), MArch (2yr): Architecture

These studios, two of which are required for graduation, are offered by individual instructors to students who have successfully completed the core curriculum. They are assigned by lottery. Once assigned to an advanced studio, a student may not drop studio.

Note: Some advanced studio sections have a fee for course supplies or field trips. The fee is announced during the registration lottery held in the department.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $50.00 - $200.00

Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Preference is given to Architecture Students.

Major Requirement | BArch, MArch (3yr), MArch (2yr): Architecture

These studios, two of which are required for graduation, are offered by individual instructors to students who have successfully completed the core curriculum. They are assigned by lottery. Once assigned to an advanced studio, a student may not drop studio.

Note: Some advanced studio sections have a fee for course supplies or field trips. The fee is announced during the registration lottery held in the department.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $50.00 - $200.00

Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Preference is given to Architecture Students.

Major Requirement | BArch, MArch (3yr), MArch (2yr): Architecture

These studios, two of which are required for graduation, are offered by individual instructors to students who have successfully completed the core curriculum. They are assigned by lottery. Once assigned to an advanced studio, a student may not drop studio.

Note: Some advanced studio sections have a fee for course supplies or field trips. The fee is announced during the registration lottery held in the department.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $50.00 - $200.00

Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Preference is given to Architecture Students.

Major Requirement | BArch, MArch (3yr), MArch (2yr): Architecture

These studios, two of which are required for graduation, are offered by individual instructors to students who have successfully completed the core curriculum. They are assigned by lottery. Once assigned to an advanced studio, a student may not drop studio.

Note: Some advanced studio sections have a fee for course supplies or field trips. The fee is announced during the registration lottery held in the department.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $50.00 - $200.00

Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Preference is given to Architecture Students.

Major Requirement | BArch, MArch (3yr), MArch (2yr): Architecture

These studios, two of which are required for graduation, are offered by individual instructors to students who have successfully completed the core curriculum. They are assigned by lottery. Once assigned to an advanced studio, a student may not drop studio.

Note: Some advanced studio sections have a fee for course supplies or field trips. The fee is announced during the registration lottery held in the department.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $50.00 - $200.00

Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Preference is given to Architecture Students.

Major Requirement | BArch, MArch (3yr), MArch (2yr): Architecture

These studios, two of which are required for graduation, are offered by individual instructors to students who have successfully completed the core curriculum. They are assigned by lottery. Once assigned to an advanced studio, a student may not drop studio.

Note: Some advanced studio sections have a fee for course supplies or field trips. The fee is announced during the registration lottery held in the department.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $50.00 - $200.00

Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Preference is given to Architecture Students.

Major Requirement | BArch, MArch (3yr), MArch (2yr): Architecture

These studios, two of which are required for graduation, are offered by individual instructors to students who have successfully completed the core curriculum. They are assigned by lottery. Once assigned to an advanced studio, a student may not drop studio.

Note: Some advanced studio sections have a fee for course supplies or field trips. The fee is announced during the registration lottery held in the department.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $50.00 - $200.00

Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Preference is given to Architecture Students.

Major Requirement | BArch, MArch (3yr), MArch (2yr): Architecture

These studios, two of which are required for graduation, are offered by individual instructors to students who have successfully completed the core curriculum. They are assigned by lottery. Once assigned to an advanced studio, a student may not drop studio.

Note: Some advanced studio sections have a fee for course supplies or field trips. The fee is announced during the registration lottery held in the department.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $50.00 - $200.00

Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Preference is given to Architecture Students.

Major Requirement | BArch, MArch (3yr), MArch (2yr): Architecture

Introduction to technical building systems - Structure, Environmental and Enclosure - and their integration with an emphasis on quantifying performance and increasing sustainability. Content includes survey of these three system types - typical components, basis of performance, and analysis of performance - and introduction to related conventions of construction and architectural detailing to realize them.

Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Preference is given to Sophomore Architecture Students.

Major Requirement | BArch: Architecture

Comprehensive design of building enclosures - integrated consideration of structural design, tolerance, detailing, thermal transmission, air transmission, and moisture transmission. Introduce typical and atypical systems of enclosure with emphasis on relative advantages of different systems depending on location, intended performance, and design intent.

Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Preference is given to Junior Architecture Students.

Major Requirement | BArch: Architecture

Comprehensive design of building enclosures - integrated consideration of structural design, tolerance, detailing, thermal transmission, air transmission, and moisture transmission. Introduce typical and atypical systems of enclosure with emphasis on relative advantages of different systems depending on location, intended performance, and design intent.

Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Preference is given to Junior Architecture Students.

Major Requirement | BArch: Architecture

The course is, effectively, a studio congruent with a seminar, and its ambition is to provide rigorous methodological framing and provocative content scaffolding for the design research activities within the studio. While the studio component will focus on the advancing of the design research questions framed in the fall seminar, the seminar component will consider the best formats and vehicles for the dissemination of the design research. The deliverables for this course will be twofold: a thoroughly researched, documented, and delineated design project; and a textual 'exit document' in which students articulate their research methods, techniques, formats, and outcomes.

Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Architecture Students.

Major Requirement | BArch, MArch (3yr), MArch (2yr): Architecture

There is an inescapable pairing between architecture and textiles, yet in contemporary construction, textiles are often confined to the role of surface, applied at the building’s completion. This course repositions that relationship, proposing a reciprocal exchange between the two disciplines—one that operates not as application but as integration. Today’s building culture privileges rigid, hard-to-hard connections (nailed, screwed, poured, and glued), producing inflexibility, tolerance gaps, and irreversible assembly. Textile construction begins with the connection (entanglement of yarn), where structure and connection emerge simultaneously, yet the design stops at the scale of the swatch, leaving the larger final form to be determined by others. Interlacing Form challenges these conventions by asking: How might principles of textile construction (knitting, weaving, knotting, lashing) inform new logics of architectural assembly? And conversely, how can textile processes be rethought through the architectural lens. So much so, we begin to blur the lines between what is architecture and what is a textile.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $20.00 - $100.00

Elective

This class is a dedicated time and space for drawing from observation. Instead of writing and discussing ideas that are brought forth from reading, we will draw and discuss thoughts that come forth from observing. Therefore, the "reading"; and discussion of each other's work and experience of drawing is an important component of the class. Each class will be an exercise of observation with a provided subject from life. The given subject and prompt will provoke avenues of observation and material/process resistance. The outcome of the drawing and observation process will be discussed as well as the continued individual projects initiated outside of class.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $20.00 - $100.00

Elective

This 3-credit seminar will focus on the potential of sunlight and other forms of ambient energy to explore artistic forms of solar technology in our built environment. We will look at an array of emerging solid-state technologies and explore the positively and negatively charged layers of silicon and other semiconductor materials, which can be crystallized, cut, deposited, scored, into and onto multiple substrates. This accessible technology can easily be deployed. The very small compositions and patterns of these layers have the potential for radically different effects at different scales. The world of the microscope and the telescope, the minute and far away, will serve as guides and tools. We will also explore the spatial potential of electronic outputs like light and sound to produce a changed state.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $30.00 - $50.00

Elective

Introduction to technical building systems - Structure, Environmental and Enclosure - and their integration with an emphasis on quantifying performance and increasing sustainability. Content includes survey of these three system types - typical components, basis of performance, and analysis of performance - and introduction to related conventions of construction and architectural detailing to realize them.

Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to first-year MArch (3yr) Architecture Students.

Major Requirement | MArch: Architecture (3yr)

Comprehensive design of building enclosures - integrated consideration of structural design, tolerance, detailing, thermal transmission, air transmission, and moisture transmission. Introduce typical and atypical systems of enclosure with emphasis on relative advantages of different systems depending on location, intended performance, and design intent.

Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Graduate Architecture Students.

Major Requirement | MArch (2yr) and (3yr): Architecture