School of Architecture

2013-2014 Undergraduate Student Handbook introduction 2 soarch mission 3 1 cmu & soarch history 4 school history, chronology of school heads bachelor of architecture degree 6 naab criteria, residency, minors, double majors, dual degree curriculum 8 course sequence, curriculum chart course guidelines 10 sequence, requirements, auditing, pass/fail, adding/dropping classes, electives, independent study academic rules & procedures 12 advising, academic actions, academic integrity, documentation, grades registration 18 online registration, online academic audit, cross-registration transfers 19 transfer within the university, transfer credit, studio transfer credit masters degrees 20 accelerated master program, soarch graduate degree programs study away 22 categories, programs, qualifications, application, language, term of study, returning after study academic recognition 25 academic recognition, commencement recognitnion, fourth-year design awards student opportunities 28 prizes, internship funds, schoarships, competitions, undergraduate fellowship & research office student programs 31 student advisory council, aias, apm, ice cream, special topic sessions, organizations soarch employment 32 architecture explorations, monitors, teaching assistantships, work-study finding an internship 33becoming an architect, idp, career center, tartantrak, recruiting website, alumni networking, references facilities 35 studios, furniture, keys, projectors, copier/fax equipment, display screens fabrication facilities 36 paint spray booth, architecture shop, dfab lab computing 37 usage, equipment, rules, server, software, scanning, printing, media centers, cfa cluster, flat screen monitors communications 39 e-mail policy, soarch website, what’s good, newsletters, facebook, calendar, display cases, message boards studio culture policy 41 studio culture definition, core values, the studio culture policy, implementation/ arbitration resources 48 soarch resources, university resources, useful websites, design competition websites, job search websites school administration 50 administration and staff job descriptions directory 51 soarch staff, faculty, and researchers academic calendar 54 breaks, add/drop deadlines, semester reviews, studio documentation, final exams Introduction

The School of Architecture (SoArch) Please refer to the back of this handbook for “In the United States, most state registration Undergraduate Student Handbook is a guide useful information such as architect resource boards require a degree from an accredited to SoArch rules, policies, and procedures. websites, the academic calendar, facilities professional degree program as a prerequisite It is designed to give answers to common hours, and a directory of faculty and staff. for licensure. The National Architectural questions about the school, its curriculum, the We ask that all students familiarize themselves Accrediting Board (NAAB), which is the sole university, and your role as a student in the with the contents of this handbook. A new agency authorized to accredit U.S. professional five-year Bachelor of Architecture professional edition is issued every year to ensure accuracy. degree programs in architecture, recognizes three degree program. For additional information or We welcome comments, questions, and types of degrees: the Bachelor of Architecture, clarification, you may consult with SoArch staff, suggestions; our goal is to make this document the Master of Architecture, and the Doctor of faculty, and other university personnel. an essential resource for our undergraduates Architecture. A program may be granted a 6-year, and encourage feedback to make each edition 3-year, or 2-year term of accreditation, depending The material in this handbook is based on more effective. on the extent of its conformance with established current policies, procedures, and requirements. educational standards. Changes to any policies will be communicated To understand the unique requirements of to all students as they occur. For this reason, an architecture education, we have included Doctor of Architecture and Master of Architecture it is strongly recommended that students the following summary from the National degree programs may consist of a pre- regularly check the SoArch website and Architectural Accrediting Board’s 2009 edition professional undergraduate degree and a calendar at www.cmu.edu/architecture and of Conditions for Accreditation for Professional professional graduate degree that, when earned their CMU email accounts. Students should Degree Programs in Architecture: sequentially, constitute an accredited professional also be familiar with the policies laid out in the education. However, the preprofessional degree CMU Student Handbook, The Word, which is not, by itself, recognized as an accredited can be found online: www.cmu.edu/student- degree.” affairs/theword. Carnegie Mellon University, School of Architecture offers the following NAAB-accredited degree programs: B. Arch. (450 undergraduate units)

Next accreditation visit for BArch program: 2018 SoArch Mission 3

Graduates of the Carnegie Mellon School of The School of Architecture cultivates an individuals are nurtured to act as agents of Architecture are design-thinkers who use the intellectual climate embracing the concept change, improving both social and environmental act of making to explore, analyze, formulate, of “learning by making” to achieve design conditions nationally and abroad. fabricate, and represent new ideas about excellence. Experiential learning opportunities the built environment. Our programs and are supported by our state-of-the-art facilities. Existing at the intersection of art, design and facilities are widely recognized for providing The integrated analog/ digital studios, shop, technology, the curriculum serves as the unique learning [and research] experiences digital fabrication lab (dFab), and research foundation for the professional Bachelor of at the intersection of art, humanities, science, centers enable our students to be facile with Architecture degree. The School of Architecture and technology. We enable our students to the design tools of the future. views architecture design studios as the core of become creative and knowledgeable global the undergraduate curriculum in collaboration collaborators who improve the quality of life and At a time when the planet faces significant with six streams: Design Tools, Building the sustainability of the built environment we challenges, the expertise in our School in the Technology, Environmental Science, Architectural inhabit. areas of sustainable design, urban design, History, Critical Practice, and General Studies. computational design and critical practice, The School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon creates a learning environment that prepares Studios serve as laboratories for analytical University takes pride in being a community our graduates to provide leadership in and creative reasoning, critical inquiry, and of students and faculty interested in positively interdisciplinary problem solving. Through most importantly, the integration of multiple changing the built environment. Graduates of strategic academic, government, industry, knowledge streams. The first three years of our the School of Architecture enter the profession and practice partnerships, we have defined studio sequence consist of required studios with design creativity, historical perspective, an innovative and collaborative pedagogy that embrace fundamentals, elaboration and social responsibility, technical excellence, and enabling our students to succeed in a variety of integration followed by two years of advanced global environmental leadership. Consistently careers. The School of Architecture’s pedagogy topic studios, enabling students to pursue one ranked in the top tier of undergraduate develops ones critical thinking skills to educate area to develop depth or multiple areas to develop professional architecture degree programs, the next generation of designers of the built breadth. The School is committed to architectural the School of Architecture offers a NAAB environment. design excellence linked to environmental, urban accredited, five-year professional Bachelor of and technological innovation that is further Architecture (BArch) degree with a studio-based The School of Architecture holds a deep informed by our renowned graduate programs. pedagogy. appreciation of its diverse community by cultivating an intellectual climate where CMU and SoArch History

Carnegie Mellon University had its beginnings Carnegie Mellon offers educational programs and In the 1960s, under the direction of Paul in the Carnegie Technical Schools, founded promotes research in seven major areas: arts, Schweikher, the undergraduate program by Andrew Carnegie on November 15, 1900. sciences, humanities, engineering, public policy, was a five-year, fixed-length program. Under its initial charter, the institution intended business and computer science. Its goal is to Common during this period, it consisted of an to serve the City of Pittsburgh as a technical educate professionals, create new technologies, introductory year of basic design followed by school, offering secondary technical education foster knowledge, and promote the economic four years of architectural design. and specialized training in science and the arts. development of Pittsburgh and its region. During the 1970s and 1980s, Heads Delbert The School of Science and Technology Located on a 136-acre campus adjacent to Highlands, Robert Taylor, Louis Sauer, and coupled intellectual and technical skills to Pittsburgh’s Schenley Park, Carnegie Mellon is a Omer Akin developed the program into a produce engineers’ assistants, foremen, and ten-minute drive from downtown Pittsburgh. The four-level, variable-length program. Distinctive draftsmen. The School of Apprentices and campus population consists of approximately characteristics of the program during these Journeymen concentrated on the mechanics of 6,000 undergraduates, 5,500 graduate and years were: the introductory course in manufacturing and building. The School of Fine doctoral students, and 4,000 faculty and staff architecture, which was developed as an and Applied Arts offered a program that would members. alternative to courses in basic design; the produce skilled designers, art workers, and four-level design sequence which defined printers. Margaret Morrison Carnegie College Carnegie Mellon has offered an undergraduate skills necessary for advancement through trained women in homemaking, nursing, and professional Architecture degree program since the program; the technology sequence secretarial skills. the founding of the Department of Architecture in which structured architectural technology in 1905 in the School of Applied Design, renamed a manner parallel to architecture design; and In 1912, the Carnegie Technical Schools the College of Fine Arts in 1921. The primary goal the possibility of completing the program in a became Carnegie Institute of Technology of the undergraduate program has always been period of four years (accomplished by 15% of (CIT) with a mission to promote excellence one of educating students to be practitioners. students). in technology and engineering, and gave Under its first Dean and Department Head, Henry emphasis to the humanities and arts. In 1968, Hornbostel, and under succeeding department CIT merged with the Mellon Institute, a center heads, the undergraduate program approached for scientific research in Pittsburgh, to become the task of educating students in the traditional Carnegie Mellon University. manner established by the Ecoles de Beaux-Arts. 5

Under Omer Akin, the four-level program was In the summer of 2004, Laura Lee was transformed into a three-level design sequence: appointed Head of the School. With a CHRONOLOGY OF SCHOOL HEADS a freshmen level introduction to architecture; background in teaching design studio, 1905-1907 Henry Hornbostel, Founder a variable-length middle level developing both interdisciplinary arts, and professional practice, 1907-1918 Henry McGoodwin, First Head comprehensive and specialized skills; and a Lee’s vision was to develop a center of 1918-1921 Walter Kerr Rainsford, Acting Head fixed-length final level requiring demonstration excellence for integrated design. 1921-1923 Harry Sternfeld, Head of comprehensive architectural and design 1923-1925 Henry McGoodwin, Head skills. In 1986-87 under Akin’s leadership, the Following a year as Interim Head, Stephen 1925-1948 William Frank Hitchens, program was revised to a five year sequence R. Lee was appointed as the Head of the Acting Head and Head in which each year had its own identity and school in the summer of 2009. As a member 1948-1955 John Knox Shear, purpose. Subsequently, under the leadership of the faculty for over 25 years, Lee brought Acting Head and Head of Irving Oppenheim and Ulrich Flemming, an intimate knowledge of the School and a 1955-1956 Raymond A. Fisher, Acting Head and then John Eberhard, the program evolved background in tectonics, sustainable design, 1956-1968 Paul Schweikher, Head to build stronger course work in the areas and systems integration to the position. Lee’s 1968-1969 Robert H. Burdett, Head of history, technology, and design sciences, vision is to emphasize the importance of learning 1969-1975 Delbert Highlands, Head requiring course work within other departments by making and the need to create flexibility 1975-1979 Robert Taylor, Acting Head of Carnegie Mellon. and interdisciplinary opportunities. He led a 1979-1981 Louis Sauer, Head school-wide process to re-imagine the strong, 1981-1988 Omer Akin, Head In the fall of 1994, Vivian Loftness was existing curriculum to refine a solid, three-year 1988-1989 Ulrich Flemming & Irving Oppenheim, appointed Head, with Bruce Lindsey appointed architecture foundation and to enable upper- Acting Heads Associate Head in 1995. Building on the efforts level students to choose advanced topic studios 1989-1994 John Eberhard, Head led by Doug Cooper, a revised curriculum was in breadth or in depth based upon their personal 1994-2004 Vivian Loftness, Head adopted that called for creative, technical, interests and career goals. He explicitly made 2004-2008 Laura Lee, Head environmental, and historical competence. At linkages between the undergraduate program 2008- Stephen R. Lee, the heart of the curriculum is a studio sequence and the post-professional graduate programs Interim Head and Head organized by the following topics: Foundations, and created the Accelerated Masters Program. Composition, Materials, Site, Advanced Construction, Occupancy, Systems Integration, and Urban Laboratory. Bachelor of Architecture Degree

“The accredited degree program must NAAB Student Performance Criteria: Leadership and Practice demonstrate that each graduate possesses C.01 Collaboration (A) the knowledge and skills defined by the criteria Critical Thinking and Representation C.02 Human Behavior (U) set out below. The knowledge and skills are A.01 Communication Skills (A) C.03 Client Role in Architecture (U) the minimum for meeting the demands of an A.02 Design Thinking Skills (A) C.04 Project Management (U) internship leading to registration for practice. A.03 Visual Communication Skills (A) C.05 Practice Management (U) A.04 Technical Documentation (A) C.06 Leadership (U) The school must provide evidence that its A.05 Investigative Skills (A) C.07 Legal Responsibilities (U) graduates have satisfied each criterion through A.06 Fundamental Design Skills (A) C.08 Ethics and Professional Judgment (U) required coursework. If credits are granted for A.07 Use of Precedents (A) C.09 Community and Social Responsibility (U) courses taken at other institutions or online, A.08 Ordering Systems Skills (U) evidence must be provided that the courses are A.09 Historical Traditions and Global Culture (U) comparable to those offered in the accredited A.10 Cultural Diversity (U) A minimum of 450 units are required to graduate. degree program. A.11 Applied Research (U) This includes a minimum 315 units of architectural studies and 135 units of general studies. Passing The criteria encompass two levels of Integrated Building Practices, grades (D and above) in all courses and a minimum accomplishment: Technical Skills, and Knowledge Quality Point Average (QPA) of 1.75 for 1st Years • Understanding—The capacity to classify, B.01 Pre-Design (A) and 2.00 for all other students must be maintained. compare, summarize, explain and/or B.02 Accessibility (A) A student must have a minimum 2.00 QPA to interpret information. B.03 Sustainability (A) graduate. • Ability—Proficiency in using specific B.04 Site Design (A) information to accomplish a task, correctly B.05 Life Safety (A) selecting the appropriate information, and B.06 Comprehensive Design (A) accurately applying it to the solution of a B.07 Financial Considerations (U) specific problem, while also distinguishing B.08 Environmental Systems (U) the effects of its implementation.” B.09 Structural Systems (U) B.10 Building Envelope Systems (U) -The National Architectural Accrediting Board B.11 Building Service Systems (U) (NAAB) 2009 Conditions for Accreditation B.12 Building Materials and Assemblies (U) 7

RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT DOUBLE MAJORS A candidate for a bachelor’s degree must Students who have received credit for required complete at Carnegie Mellon University a courses can supplement their schedule with minimum of four semesters of full-time study, additional electives. By taking approximately or the equivalent of part-time study, comprising ten classes in an academic discipline, a student at least 180 units of coursework. Furthermore, can receive an additional major. Students there is a six-semester residency requirement must contact the individual department for the award of the Bachelor of Architecture for an outline of required courses and to degree. apply/register as a double major candidate in order to be officially recognized by that MINORS department. Students may receive a minor by taking approximately six or seven classes in an DUAL DEGREE academic discipline; each college specifies the Building upon their courses in the School requirements for their minors, so students must of Architecture, students can pursue a dual contact the individual department for an outline degree program. of required courses. The Undergraduate Catalog lists all available minors as well as a contact Students who have earned dual degrees person within each department. Students will receive two diplomas: a Bachelor of must meet with the department of interest Architecture as well as a B.A. or a B.S. in the and apply/register as a minor to be officially additional area of study. Students must contact recognized by that department. the individual department for an outline of required courses and units. Students must register with the individual department’s academic advisor to be officially recognized as a dual degree candidate in that department. Curriculum

DESIGN STUDIO DESIGN TOOLS CRITICAL PRACTICE 48-100 Architecture Design Studio: 48-120 Digital Media I 48-250 Context Foundation I 48-125 Digital Media II 48-351 Human Factors in Architecture 48-105 Architecture Design Studio: 48-130 Analog Media I 48-550 Issues of Practice Foundation 2 48-135 Analog Media II 48-200 Architecture Design Studio: 48-220 Digital Fabrication GENERAL STUDIES & ELECTIVES Elaboration 1 48-230 Analog Fabrication 99-103 Computing at Carnegie Mellon 48-205 Architecture Design Studio: 62-175 Descriptive Geometry Elaboration 2 BUILDING TECHNOLOGY 76-101 Interpretation and Argument 48-300 Architecture Design Studio: 48-215 Materials and Assemblies xx-xxx Humanities Selective (9 units) Integration 1 48-216 Statics/ Structures xx-xxx Electives (108 units) 48-305 Architecture Design Studio: Integration 2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE *A free elective is any Carnegie Mellon Course. 48-4xx 4th Year Advanced Topic Studios 48-116 Building Physics However, a maximum of nine units of physical 48-5xx 5th Year Advanced Topic Studios 48-315 Environment I: Climate and Energy education, military science (ROTC), and/or 48-509 Thesis I 48-412 Environment II: Mechanical Systems student-taught (StuCo), courses may be used 48-519 Thesis II toward fulfilling graduation requirements. HISTORY 48-240 Historical Survey of World Architecture SEMINAR and Urbanism I 48-025 First-Year Seminar: Architecture 48-241 Historical Survey of World Architecture Edition I and Urbanism II 48-026 First-Year Seminar: Architecture 48-xxx Architectural History III Edition II Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture Bachelor of Architecture | 1st Professional Degree Curriculum Chart | PrClassoposal of 2018v4.03 S = Studio (162), T = Design Tools (30), E = Environmental Science (27), B = Building Technology (18), H = History (27), P = Critical Practice (42), A = Architecture Elective (9), G = General Studies (135)

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Fall 2013 [45] Spring 2014 [45] Fall 2014 [45] Spring 2015 [45] Fall 2015 [45] Spring 2016 [45] Fall 2016 [45] Spring 2017 [45] Fall 2017[45] Spring 2018 [45] 1 – Foundation 2 – Elaboration 3 – Integration 4/ 5 – Advanced Topics Course Guidelines

COURSE SEQUENCE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY REQUIREMENTS To choose the audit option, you must obtain Courses in the curriculum build upon one All Bachelor of Architecture students must take a Course Audit Approval Form at the HUB, another, making the sequence very important. three approved architectural history courses. online at www.cmu.edu/hub/registration/ Unless unusual circumstances warrant, cours- • Two of the three courses must be 48-240: docs/course-audit.pdf; obtain the required es must be taken in sequence. The following Historical Survey of World Architecture signatures; and return to enrollment services rules apply to the course sequence: and Urbanism I and 48-241: Survey at the HUB. Audit classes cannot fulfill degree of Architectural History II. The other requirements; you may only audit a course if the • Each studio is the prerequisite to the next architectural history course must be taken course is not part of the required curriculum, studio in the first three years. within the School of Architecture. including electives. • All required first- and second-year courses • Students are not permitted to enroll in more must be passed to enter into the third-year. than one architectural history course in the PASS/ FAIL • Entrance into any course depends on same semester. Undergraduate students may elect to take a fulfilling all course prerequisites. See the • Students may not substitute architectural free-elective as a pass/fail course. Pass/ Fail Undergraduate Catalog and course syllabi history courses from off campus (for classes cannot fulfill degree requirements; you for prerequisites. example, Pitt, or a non-CMU abroad may only pass/ fail a course if the course is • Any courses taken at other institutions program). not part of the required curriculum, including for use as transfer credit must have prior electives. You must register for the course first, School approval. You must submit a AUDITING A CLASS then obtain a form from the HUB at www.cmu. transfer credit petition form, syllabus, Auditing classes is defined as being present edu/hub/registration/docs/pass-fail.pdf. and course description of the course in the classroom without receiving academic to the Senior Academic Advisor prior to credit. You may take part in class discussion and Students must submit the form to Enrollment taking the course. Approval will be based take examinations, subject to the agreement of Services indicating the course they are electing on the equivalency of the proposed course the instructor. You may audit courses without as pass/ fail before the end of the university’s being replaced. additional charge if you already pay full tuition drop period. This decision is irreversible (36 units) and fees. Part-time and special thereafter. No information regarding the student’s students who are permitted to audit will be decision will be passed on to the instructor. charged tuition for the audited course at the Instructors will submit letter grades, which will regular rate. automatically be converted to pass/fail. 11

A through D work will receive credit for units ELECTIVES passed and be recorded as P on the student’s An elective is any Carnegie Mellon course. academic record; below D work will receive no However, a maximum of nine units of physical credit and will be recorded as N on the student’s education (69-xxx) and/or student-taught StuCo academic record. No quality points will be (98-xxx) courses may be used toward fulfilling assigned to P or N units; P or N units will not be graduation requirements. factored into the student’s QPA. A “N” grade in any course will place you on an academic INDEPENDENT STUDY warning for the School of Architecture. Independent Study allows opportunities for students to pursue self-directed study with a faculty advisor. ADDING OR DROPPING CLASSES Students who are not on an academic action are You may add or drop a class up to the Add permitted to take one independent study course or Drop Deadline as published in the official (or 9 units total) with an architecture faculty member university Academic Calendar. The official or with faculty outside of the School. deadlines for this year are also included on the last page of this handbook and in the online Students must submit the independent study School of Architecture Calendar, which can template, which includes course deadlines, be found at www.cmu.edu/architecture/ requirements, objectives, schedule, and calendar. Classes can be dropped prior to the deliverables. The template requires the approval university Drop Deadline without a W grade on and signature of a participating faculty member (i.e. your transcript. You may drop a class up until the faculty member must approve the outline and the last day of classes with a grade of W being agree to act as the instructor). Once completed, recorded on your transcript. It is the student’s the template must be submitted by the advertised responsibility to drop a course by the assigned deadlines to the Senior Academic Advisor and deadline. Classes may not be dropped after the Head for final approval and registration. the last day of class. Receiving a “W” grade in Independent studies of 3 units must include 45 a required course for the School of Architecture hours of academic work, 6 units must include 90 will place you an academic warning. hours of academic work and 9 units must include 135 hours of academic work. Academic Rules and Procedures

ACADEMIC ADVISING ABSENCES A Warning indicates failure to maintain Architecture students can receive advice from many Students must notify faculty in advance of professional standards in any course (a sources, including the faculty, staff, and the Head planned absence for religious holiday or school- D/N in any course); W in a required course; of the School. In addition, we encourage all of our related event (i.e. varsity sports trip). If you have insufficient evidence of serious application to students to become involved with organizations an unplanned absence for medical or personal the professional standards of the School; or (such as AIAS) and committees (such as the reasons, let the Senior Academic Advisor know an overall quality point average below 2.00. A Student Advisory Council) so that you can also learn of your situation as soon as possible. In case of Warning notifies the student of unsatisfactory from each other. an extended absence for medical or personal performance and suggests that the student take reasons, contact the Senior Academic Advisor steps to determine and correct the cause of the Your main point of contact for academic advice by mail, e-mail or phone, who will notify the difficulty. A student must receive C’s or better in will be the Senior Academic Advisor, Heather appropriate faculty. Faculty reserve the right to all courses and have a minimum of a 2.00 QPA to Workinger Midgley [[email protected]]. She can request a formal document verifying a medical be removed from the action of warning. answer questions about registration, course excuse. options, study away, and academic actions. She A student will be placed on Probation after can help you plan your courses to ensure that you ACADEMIC ACTIONS failure to pass any professional course as meet graduation requirements. The following list of academic actions do outlined by the faculty of the School; failure to not follow a particular sequence; any of the meet the professional standards of the School, Faculty and administration provide additional actions may be appropriately imposed at any although (earning a D/R in Studio or an R in any advising to students. Faculty serve as mentors to time upon recommendation of the School course, D in two or more elective courses); or shape students’ defining interests in architecture of Architecture faculty concerned and failure to earn the minimum quality point average and to provide professional direction. Steve Lee, confirmed at the School Grades Meeting by required to continue in the School, which is Head of the School, is available to meet with the College Council. Students on Probation 1.75 for first year students, and 2.00 for all other students by appointment. or a stronger academic action are not eligible to students. A student must receive C’s or better in work for the school (except under extraordinary all courses and have a minimum of a 2.00 QPA to You should seek advise about IDP and circumstances) until they return to good standing. be removed from the action of probation. architectural licensing through the IDP Educator Students on Warning must gain the approval of Coordinator, Alexis McCune [amccune@andrew. the Senior Academic Advisor and the Head to be A student will be placed on Final Probation for cmu.edu]. eligible to work for the school. significantly poor performance, or for continued failure to meet the professional standards of the 13

School (a D/R in two or more required courses). is deemed in the best interest of the student to the College of Fine Arts for one semester. The student must improve scholastic standing allow continuation of study outside the School (A student must make an appointment with to an acceptable level in order to be removed during the period of suspension. The student is the Senior Academic Advisor in Architecture from Final Probation. Students not doing so may not permitted to take courses in the School for to discuss this option.) be dropped from the School of Architecture, a period to be determined by this action, but will • Withdraw from Carnegie Mellon University. suspended from architecture design studio, or be readmitted at the end of the period of School be suspended from the School of Architecture or Suspension specified by the faculty after the University Suspension is imposed for exceptionally University at the end of the semester. You may condition of the School Suspension is satisfied. poor performance (a low QPA), or for problems be placed on final probation without being on any that create an impediment to any academic prior action. A student must receive C’s or better A Drop from Architecture will be imposed at the achievement. The student is required to withdraw in all courses and have a minimum of a 2.00 QPA discretion of the grades committees in the case from the university for a period to be determined by to be removed from the action of final probation. of any student whose progress in professional faculty action. Re-admission is subject to conditions training is considered insufficient to continue. specified in each case by the School faculty A student can be placed on School of This action is taken when a student is lacking concerned. Architecture Studio Suspension for continued an essential requirement for the profession, poor performance in the architectural design but whose general scholastic ability, habits, ACADEMIC INTEGRITY studio sequence. A student suspended from and character justify an opportunity in some The School of Architecture follows the Carnegie studio must complete any failed requirements other field of education. This action terminates University Policy on Academic Integrity, which is during the time of suspension and can continue the student’s enrollment in the School of outlined below and can also be found at www. to enroll in courses within the School of Architecture, but is not intended to prejudice cmu.edu/policies/documents/Academic%20 Architecture during the time of the suspension, admission to another department or college of Integrity.htm. In addition, the School of Architecture excluding design studio. the university or to another institution. considers signing into a class for another student A Drop from Architecture academic action allows and submitting identical homework assignments A student is placed on School Suspension for the student three choices: as forms of cheating and will result in disciplinary poor performance (a low QPA), or for problems • Transfer to another department within action. that create an impediment to professional the university. (A student must contact achievement in the School at the discretion of their department of choice to discuss Students at Carnegie Mellon are engaged in the grades committees. A student is suspended possible transfer.) preparation for professional activity of the highest from the School, but not the university, when it • Request for Transitional Student status in standards. Each profession constrains its members Academic Rules and Procedures continued with both ethical responsibilities and disciplinary Plagiarism is defined as the use of work or • Collaboration on any assignment beyond limits. To assure the validity of the learning concepts contributed by other individuals without the standards authorized by this policy experience, the university establishes clear proper attribution or citation. Unique ideas or statement and the course instructor(s). standards for student work. materials taken from another source for either • Submission of work completed or edited in written or oral use must be fully acknowledged in whole or in part by another person. In any presentation, creative, artistic, or research, academic work to be graded. • Supplying or communicating unauthorized it is the ethical responsibility of each student Examples of sources expected to be referenced information or materials, including graded to identify the conceptual sources of the work include but are not limited to: work and answer keys from previous course submitted. Failure to do so is dishonest and is • Text, either written or spoken, quoted directly offerings, in any way to another student. the basis for a charge of cheating or plagiarism, or paraphrased. • Use of unauthorized information or which is subject to disciplinary action. According • Graphic elements. materials, including graded work and to the Carnegie Mellon University Policy • Passages of music, existing either as sound answer keys from previous course offerings. on Academic Integrity, the following Policy or as notation. • Use of unauthorized devices. violations are subject to disciplinary action: • Mathematical proofs. • Submission for credit of previously • Scientific data. completed graded work in a second course Cheating occurs when a student avails her/ • Concepts or material derived from the work, without first obtaining permission from the himself of an unfair or disallowed advantage published or unpublished, of another person. instructor(s) of the second course. In the which includes but is not limited to: case of concurrent courses, permission • Theft of or unauthorized access to an exam, Unauthorized assistance refers to the use of to submit the same work for credit in answer key or other graded work from sources of support that have not been specifically two courses must be obtained from the previous course offerings. authorized in this policy statement or by the course instructors of both courses. • Use of an alternate, stand-in or proxy during instructor(s) in the completion of academic work to an examination. be graded. Such sources of support may include The School of Architecture follows the University • Copying from the examination or work of but are not limited to advice or help provided policy on Digital Theft . It is illegal to download another person or source. by another individual, published or unpublished copyrighted material, including but not limited to, • Submission or use of falsified data. written sources, and electronic sources. Examples software, movies, and music. • Using false statements to obtain additional of unauthorized assistance include but are not time or other accommodation. limited to: Carnegie Mellon University policies also prohibit • Falsification of academic credentials. the distribution of materials owned by anyone 15 other than the person engaged in such distribution advisors and faculty, and making arrangements to from completing the work for the course. You (whether officially copyrighted or not) without utilize university resources in support of expressed must have written documentation (e.g. a letter) the permission of the owner. The distribution of needs, but will take no action until contacted by the verifying your extenuating circumstance. Student copyright protected files without the permission of student. The Senior Academic Advisor will work work already completed in the course must be the copyright holder is illegal. with the student to coordinate assistance. at a passing level and provisions to make up the missed work cannot unreasonably burden the COURSE POLICIES FINAL GRADES instructor. University Policy states that work must SoArch faculty will articulate policies and Final grades are awarded in each subject be completed no later than the end of the following expectations for the students in their class approximately five working days after the last day academic semester, or sooner if required by prior syllabus. The syllabus will define policies regarding of finals. There are no standard criteria for grading; agreement. If it is not made up, the grade will attendance, participation, tardiness, academic each instructor establishes the grading criteria for become the default grade set by the instructor. integrity, missing homework, missed deadlines, his or her course. Mid- semester grades are given food in class, laptop use, etc. The syllabus will at the middle of each semester; while they indicate A grade of Conditional Failure (X) may be given define expectations for both student and faculty performance for the first part of the course, they to a student when it is deemed that by doing behavior. In no case can a student expect are not part of your permanent record. The final further work (not amounting to retaking the to receive a passing grade without regular grade may not be raised by taking a second course), the student can achieve a passing level of attendance and participation in class. Simply examination or by submitting additional work once performance. The highest grade that can replace submitting projects, regardless of quality, at mid- final grades have been submitted. To repeat a an X is a D. If the requirements as set forth by the semester or at the end of the semester will not course already passed, you must obtain approval faculty for the completion of the work are not met, allow a student to receive a passing grade. from the Senior Academic Advisor. Both grades the grade of X becomes an R. Work must be will appear on the official transcript and both will completed within one semester of the issu- DISABILITIES be calculated in the University QPA. When you ance of the initial grade. Students with a learning disability or a physical are absent from a final examination, and are not disability are encouraged to contact the Manager entitled to an I (incomplete) grade, you will be given A grade of Withdraw (W) indicates a student has of Disability Services for Equal Opportunity a grade of R. withdrawn from a course after the course drop Services, Lawrence Powell [[email protected]. deadline but before (or on) the final day of classes. edu]. The circumstances will remain confidential A grade of Incomplete (I) is only given in Receiving a W for a required course results in an to the extent desired. The university has a formal situations where unpredictable and extenuating academic action. procedure for documenting disabilities, notifying circumstances (e.g. illness) prevent a student Academic Rules and Procedures continued

FINAL REVIEWS Withdrawal is for students who do not intend • The opportunity, through a hearing, for a At the end of every semester students will have final to return to the university. To be recognized as student to challenge the contents of the reviews of their studio projects. As a capstone to withdrawing from the university, you must submit records, the semester, these reviews are used to determine a Withdrawal form. Once you withdraw, you • The permission of the student for the a student’s overall comprehension of the studio’s cannot return to the university without reapplying. release of records, focus. Final reviews are mandatory. Failure to • The maintenance of a record of all persons, present at a final review may result in failure of the OVERLOADING including the student, who inspects the file. studio course. Only under specific circumstances Students may register for an overload of As a result of this law, the HUB sends grade can a student’s final review be scheduled for an courses above the threshold of 45 units if they reports to students only. The School of earlier or later date. A student must submit such a have earned a 3.0 cumulative QPA through the Architecture sends all correspondence to request at least two weeks prior to final reviews. preceding semester. Students should consult students. The full privacy act, as amended, is with the Senior Academic Advisor if considering available at the HUB or via the HUB website at LEAVE OF ABSENCE OR WITHDRAWAL an overload. First-year students and transfer www.cmu.edu/hub/docs/ferpa-brochure.pdf Students must sometimes interrupt their studies students are limited to a prescribed course load for a variety of reasons (i.e. financial, academic, or in the first semester of their attendance. PROFESSIONAL ATTIRE personal). For this reason, students may choose For juries and other activities where students to take a leave of absence or to withdraw from the PRIVACY ACT are representing the School of Architecture, it is university. In accordance with the Buckley Amendment to expected that students dress in a professional the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act manner and conduct themselves accordingly. A Leave of Absence is for students who intend (FERPA), the School adheres to the following: to return to the university. Students who take STUDIO CLEAN-UP this option must complete a Leave of Absence “Whenever a student has attained eighteen years The School will establish the studio clean-up form, and have up to two years to return to the of age, or is attending an institution of post- deadline for each semester. Students are university. After two years, students returning are secondary education, the rights accorded to and responsible for not only their personal work subject to space constraints and an academic the consent required of the parent of the student spaces, but also all common areas. Any cleaning performance review. Students on leave who wish shall thereafter only be accorded to and required required after the deadline will be done by hired to return must obtain a Return from Leave form of the eligible student.” workers, and the cost will be equally divided and complete the required information before they In effect, the law provides for: between all students in the space affected. may be considered for a return from leave. • The inspection of records by a student, 17

STUDIO DOCUMENTATION REQUIREMENTS each student’s academic progress. A student who is not making satisfactory At the conclusion of every studio, each student Faculty pay specific attention to students with progress toward graduation may be asked to in the School of Architecture is required to submit a grade lower than a C, students with a QPA of leave the program even though the student has electronic documentation of their studio work. less than 1.75 for freshmen and 2.00 for others, received passing (D or above) grades. A template will be provided for this purpose. and students on a previous academic action. At Students should refer to the specific studio this time, the recommendations of the Semester UNIVERSITY GRADING POLICY deadlines and submission requirements. Failure to Review are again discussed. The faculty present Your grade point average is calculated according submit this work by the deadline will result in the at the Grades Meeting approve all actions. to qualitative points. There are two Quality student being placed on academic action. The Associate Dean and the College Council Point Averages (QPA); one for the most recent then take these actions to the College of Fine semester and one for the cumulative account Arts Grades Meeting where they are reviewed of all courses. The cumulative QPA includes all STUDIO GRADES MEETING and issued. The student is sent a letter explaining Carnegie Mellon courses and courses for which At the end of each semester, the Head, the the action, the reason for the action, and any you are cross-registered (see Cross-Registration) studio Coordinator, and the studio faculty conditions that may be associated with this but does not include any grades transferred from meet to review the work across the studio to action, and conditions under which a student will other institutions. ensure that all students are performing up to be removed from the action. the expectations of the School. Studio grades are finalized at this meeting per the criteria in The decision to impose an academic action each studio syllabus. Studio Commends are is first initiated by the faculty most closely determined at this meeting. involved in the student’s primary area of study, and then presented at both the School Grades SCHOOL GRADES MEETING Meeting and at the College Grades Meeting. Once final grades have been submitted and Academic Actions are the result of outstanding compiled, the Grades Meetings begin. A faculty performance that lead to design commendations representative from each sequence (Design, and School honors or poor performance as Design Tools, History, Building Technology, represented by grades typically below a C and/ Environmental Science, Critical Practice) and the or for a low QPA (see University Grading Policy coordinator of each design studio year meet with on this page of the handbook). the Head and Senior Academic Advisor to review Registration

ONLINE REGISTRATION enrollment, and keep a wait list. Participants include Carlow University, Chatham Registration for classes occurs twice a year; University, Community College of Allegheny in November for the Spring and in April for the The Senior Academic Advisor, Heather County, Duquesne University, LaRoche College, Fall. Registration for all classes is done online. Workinger Midgley, holds individual year Point Park University, Pittsburgh Theological Fifth and Fourth years register on Monday, Third meetings and individual appointments before Seminary, Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh years on Tuesday, Second years on Wednesday, registration to meet with students and discuss Glass Center, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, and the and First years on Thursday. Because the course options and program requirements. At University of Pittsburgh. architecture program is five years, both the fourth the meeting, you may discuss any problems you and fifth year students register on the first day of might have and receive assistance in choosing Full-time students (registered for 36 units) are Registration. classes. permitted to cross-register for one class per Check your class standing and confirm semester with no additional tuition charges. your enrollment status through the Student ONLINE ACADEMIC AUDIT For more information, please reference the Information On-Line (SIO) before the date of your You can check the status of your progress Undergraduate Catalog. registration. Registration and SIO can be found towards your degree by going into your SIO and on the Enrollment Services (HUB) website. To logging into the academic audit system. This access SIO, go to: https://acis.as.cmu.edu/sio. audit lists all classes that you have taken as well as the ones in which you are registered, so you can clearly see which classes you must take. Please ensure all account balances are paid All students are responsible for meeting before registration week. Any holds on your academic unit requirements to progress through student account/ student record will impact your the program and to be eligible to graduate. ability to register at your assigned time. CROSS-REGISTRATION Registration occurs through your SIO. You will Carnegie Mellon is a member of the Pittsburgh register at an assigned time based on your Council on Higher Education (PCHE), a student ID number. After registering, be sure consortium which allows students from any one to log out of SIO to ensure that no one else can of its member institutions to cross-register for any access your schedule. The system will check other. prerequisites, department priority, maximum Transfers 19

TRANSFER WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY TRANSFER CREDIT STUDIO TRANSFER CREDIT Students who wish to transfer to another Architecture students may take classes at other Transfer credit for required studios is limited to department should meet with the appropriate Universities either in the summer or as part of 18 units, unless the student is enrolled in an advisor in that department. The student should a study abroad program. A transfer credit form approved, year-long study abroad program. All notify the SoArch Senior Academic Advisor. and course descriptions must be submitted transfer credit for studio replacement is subject If a transfer cannot take place within one and approved prior to enrolling in a course to review (except work from the School of semester, the student may choose to become at another institution. Transfer units applied Architecture study abroad). The Head and the a Transitional Student. A representative from toward graduation are limited to a maximum Studio Coordinator review work. the Advising Resource Center (CMARC) will of 45. Transfer credit is granted through the then serve as the student’s advisor. This status School of Architecture, unless you are counting Studio work must be displayed for review is temporary, lasting only for one semester, the course for a minor or second major. at the beginning of the semester upon the at which time the student will have to be student’s return. It is important for the work to admitted to a department. It is the student’s Official translated transcripts must be be complete, either in original form or through responsibility, with the help of the CMARC submitted to the Senior Academic Advisor clear reproductions. Documentation and course Advisor, to request and obtain admission to prior to the beginning of the academic year material should be included as well as models another department. to receive transfer credit. According to when possible. Additional work may be transfer credit guidelines published in the required to receive credit. Undergraduate Catalog, transfer credit is considered on an individual basis. Grades are not transferred - only credits. Transfer credit is awarded upon receipt of an official transcript and only for courses in which a grade of C (not C-) or better has been received. Official transcripts should be sent to the SoArch Office, CFA 201. Masters Degrees

ACCELERATED MASTER PROGRAM (AMP) ARCHITECTURE (MSA) BUILDING PERFORMANCE AND The School of Architecture offers a unique The Master of Science (MS) in Architecture DIAGNOSTICS (MSBPD) opportunity to undergraduate students who wish degree program is intended primarily for The Master of Science (MS) in Building to pursue a post-professional Masters degree in an practitioners in the building industry who are Performance and Diagnostics program is architecture-related field. The SoArch Accelerated interested in gaining knowledge and skills intended for practitioners, researchers, and Master Program (AMP) provides an avenue in computation and building performance. educators in architecture and the building through which B.Arch students may speed up Applicants to the program are expected to industry who wish to be leaders in advanced their completion of a Master’s degree, saving both first earn an undergraduate degree related building technologies and their performance. time and money, and allowing them to hit the job to the building sector, including architecture, The program covers state-of-the-art approaches market with specialized knowledge. engineering, planning, or management. to building systems integration and total building performance. The program culminates B.Arch students can pursue a graduate degree ARCHITECTURE-ENGINEERING- with a project in which students must apply in the following seven subjects: Architecture, CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT the knowledge they have acquired to realistic Architecture-Engineering-Construction (MSAECM) problems, using the appropriate analytic and Management, Building Performance and The Master of Science (MS) in Architecture- modeling skills. Diagnostics, Computational Design, Sustainable Engineering-Construction Management Design, Tangible Interaction Design and Urban program is offered jointly with the Department COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN (MSCD) Design. of Civil Engineering and aims to prepare The Master of Science (MS) in Computational building delivery professionals - civil engineers, Design program is designed primarily for B.Arch students may begin pursuit of a post- construction planners, facility managers, practitioners in the building industry who wish professional Master’s degree through AMP as developers, architects, planners, landscape to broaden their knowledge about state-of- early as their 3rd year. Students who wish to architects, interior designers, and other building the-art computer approaches and applications pursue a Masters degree through AMP must meet consultants - for careers in the management of to the architectural and building sciences and with both the SoArch Senior Academic Advisor, design, construction, maintenance, and use of for individuals who wish to pursue research Heather Workinger Midgley [[email protected]] and facilities. By focusing on the decision making careers in these areas. The program covers, in the SoArch Graduate Admissions Coordinator, process, the program educates professionals depth, a range of computational design issues Samantha Carter [[email protected]] on ways to positively impact economic, and culminates with a project in which students to discuss program information, admission environmental, and ethical concerns inherent in are asked to apply the knowledge they have requirements, and academic planning. the delivery of construction projects. acquired to realistic problems. 21

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN (MSSD) MASTER OF URBAN DESIGN (MUD) The Master of Science in Sustainable Design The Master in Urban Design (MUD) program (MSSD) program is a post-professional degree prepares graduates for careers using design to intended for recent graduates and practicing critically address environmental, economic, social professionals. This intensive 12-month and cultural issues affecting the contemporary curriculum stresses the importance and value metropolis. Studios explore strategies for of total-building performance, human-centered sustainable development in a variety of settings design and the integration of Design, Technology including the shrinking postindustrial city, the and Construction knowledge and experience. suburban periphery and the rapidly urbanizing Classes provide both depth and breadth, while region. Pittsburgh-based studios emphasize the culminating Synthesis Project allows each citizen engagement and participatory design, individual student the opportunity to narrow exploring problems of urban neighborhood his or her research focus to a topic of personal revitalization, infrastructure development and interest. suburban transformation, in partnership with the Remaking Cities Institute. The capstone studio, TANGIBLE INTERACTION DESIGN (MTID) which includes a research trip, explores issues The Master of Tangible Interaction Design (MTID) of sustainability in the context of an international program is designed primarily for those with a city undergoing growth. The studio sequence design background to acquire the technical skills is supported by core courses in urban history to realize embedded computing designs, and and theory, geographic analysis, sustainable those with computer science and engineering community development and real estate. backgrounds to apply their knowledge in design. The program includes coursework in software, electronics, and fabrication techniques for building working prototypes of tangible embedded interactive systems. Study Away

The School of Architecture strongly encourages 2. University or Departmental Exchange 4. Departmental Summer Programs allow students to Study Away. The perspective Programs allow students to use their students to study away with SoArch faculty gained through immersion in another culture Carnegie Mellon funding while attending for varying lengths of time and varying and language is invaluable. A student is a university abroad. Carnegie Mellon number units. exposed to architectural subjects not readily students participating in these programs available at CMU and will study architecture continue to pay tuition directly to Carnegie Future Departmental Summer Programs directly in an indigenous context. The Office Mellon and receive the same financial aid include travel in the semester to the following of International Education (OIE) is an excellent package. Students are responsible for locations during the respective semesters: resource for getting started for study abroad paying all other fees, such as room and Spring 2014 Yucatan Peninsula planning. Visit OIE’s website at www. board, directly to the exchange institution. Summer 2014 Italy studentaffairs.cmu.edu/oie/sab/. Study Summer 2015 Japan abroad can fall into four categories: The School of Architecture currently offers two active Departmental Exchange 1. University Sponsored Programs offer program with TU - Braunschweig in QUALIFICATIONS FOR STUDY ABROAD study abroad opportunities to students Germany and Bilkent University in Turkey. Students should make the decision to Study from a variety of economic backgrounds Away by the fall of their second year, so they and are ideal for students with significant 3. External Programs offer virtually can plan their courses accordingly. Students Carnegie Mellon funding. Sponsored unlimited possibilities for students in all are allowed one semester abroad for which they Programs allow students to pay regular majors for summer, semester, and full-year receive studio credit except for those students at Carnegie Mellon tuition, room and board study abroad. Another university or study approved direct, year long, exchange programs. while receiving the same financial aid abroad program provider administers package (minus work study) while abroad. these programs. External Programs allow To qualify for studio in a Study Abroad program, a Carnegie Mellon will pay tuition, room*, students to pay the study abroad program student must have completed their second year of board* and approved fees to the study directly, while still maintaining full-time the program, have a minimum overall QPA of 3.00, abroad institution or program and may enrollment status at Carnegie Mellon. (or 2.75 for SoArch summer studio away) and distribute funds to the student for other be in good academic standing (no outstanding fees as appropriate. academic actions). Students that are considering *In cases where room and/or board is not included in the a non-studio Study Away experience must program’s package, funds will be distributed to the student. have completed their first year of the program, 23 have a minimum QPA of 2.50 (2.25 for SoArch • Applications are due in early October exchange and sponsored programs, by the programs), and be in good academic standing. for Study Away in the following Spring School of Architecture for Departmental Students must maintain QPA standards and be semester. Summer Programs, and by the host institution free of any academic actions for the semester • Applications are due in late January for for external programs. Notification dates vary. prior to studying away, or permission may be Study Away in the following Summer denied. semester. Note: All study abroad internal forms are • Applications are due in early April for available on our website or in CFA 201. APPLICATION AND ACCEPTANCE PROCEDURES Study Away in the following Fall semester. Students planning to Study Away must apply LANGUAGE OF STUDY through both the School office with the School Applications will include an application form, an There are many Study Away programs in of Architecture Application for Study Abroad essay indicating the reason for study abroad, English speaking countries, and English is and the Office of International Education for and translated course descriptions for all widely spoken and taught around the world. non-CMU programs. Students may download proposed courses abroad. Applications from Many non-English speaking countries have the School application form from the SoArch all other Study Away programs vary according universities that teach courses in English, website. to the host institution guidelines. All students and there are many Study Away program must obtain and submit a completed Study providers that offer coursework exclusively in If the program is hosted through another Abroad Transfer Credit Permission form (SATC) English. Other program providers offer intensive institution and is not CMU affiliated, the from the Office of International Education. All language study with the option to take other student will apply to the program’s host students who have completed an application courses in English or the foreign language. school and complete the appropriate school will receive a written response from the School office forms. In this situation, the student is of Architecture about their status of admission TERM OF STUDY entirely responsible for all the correspondence, into the Study Abroad program. A standing Students may study away in the fall, spring, application and financial arrangements, and for committee (including a member of the faculty, or summer semesters. Please see the the transfer of credit. They are also responsible the Senior Academic Advisor and Head of the Senior Academic Advisor prior to making for integrating the courses taken into their School) will conduct a review and determine the any decisions on what term to schedule your curricular requirements. Applications for SoArch admission of students to a program. study away experience. Careful planning and Departmental Summer Programs are handled scheduling of your courses are necessary when through the School of Architecture only. Students will be notified of acceptance by incorporating a study away experience into your the Office of International Education for direct curriculum. Study Away continued

RETURNING AFTER STUDY Example locations from our SoArch students over Students who participate in the study away the past ten years: program for one semester will transfer non- studio course credit by submitting course Africa University of Cape Town descriptions of each course taken as well as an Australia University of Adelaide official transcript from the host Institution. University of Melbourne University of New South Wales Official translated transcripts must be submitted University of Sydney to the Senior Academic Advisor before the Belgium Henry van de Velde Institute beginning of the academic year to receive Denmark Denmark International Study Program transfer credit. Grades are not transferred, only England Architectural Association of London credits. Transfer credit is awarded upon receipt University College of London of an official translated transcript and only for Germany Lexia Berlin courses with the grade of a C or better (not C-). Technical University - Braunschweig When students return from study away, they Italy Cornell University Rome must pin up original work during the study away Parthenon Institute exhibit, which will be subject for review by the Roma Tre School Head and Studio Coordinator. Syracuse University Florence Temple University Rome Please note that most scholarships and awards Japan Temple University Japan paid to students who are US Citizens are Korea Yonsei University considered to be non-qualified scholarships Mexico ITESM Monterrey Tec which are taxable but not reported to the New Zealand IES Auckland IRS. Most scholarships and awards paid to University of Victoria international students are taxable and require Singapore National University of Singapore withholding based upon the tax treaty in Spain CIEE Barcelona place with the student’s home country. The Switzerland Ecole Polytechnique Federale University’s policy for tax withholding will be de Lausanne followed in all cases. Turkey Bilkent University Academic Recognition 25

UNDERGRADUATE ACADEMIC RECOGNITION graduation. Students with University Honors for leadership, performed willing service for the The School of Architecture recognizes will receive an honors medal to wear at School and shows promise of real, professional students for outstanding design and academic commencement. merit through his/her attitude and personality. The performance both on a semester basis and at award encourages and promotes professional commencement. College Honors are awarded to students qualities in the student that do not necessarily who have participated in the fourth-year pertain to scholarship. High ideals and professional Studio Commendations are given to students design awards. Students with College aspirations, public service, and leadership are for excellence in design work and/or leadership Honors will receive an honors cord to wear at worthy of reward. Alpha Rho Chi, the National during a particular semester. Recipients are commencement. Professional Architectural Fraternity, tenders its chosen by the studio professors teaching in that bronze medal only to schools with accredited and/ year and are determined at the semester grades ARCHITECTURE COMMENCEMENT or approved architectural programs. meeting. RECOGNITION The following awards are given to students either The Stewart L. Brown Memorial Scholarship School Honors are given each semester to at the College of Fine Arts Honors Ceremony or is presented on the basis of professional students earning a grade point average of 3.50 the Architecture Diploma Ceremony. promise. The emphasis on professional promise, or above. To be eligible, students must be as it may be measured in both attitudes and enrolled with a minimum of 45 units with no W or AIA Medal and Certificates are given each year scholastic achievement, serves as a balance to incomplete grades. as a part of the AIA/AIAS Foundation Scholarship the AIA Medal Award, which is given only on the Program. The AIA awards the Henry Adams basis of scholarship. Dean’s List placement is awarded to students AIA medal to the top-ranking graduate in each receiving a GPA that is within the top 15 percent architecture program accredited by the National This award is based on overall design work and of their class. To qualify for Dean’s List, a student Architectural Accrediting Board. The Henry talent as demonstrated by portfolio presentation. must maintain a full load of course units, cannot Adams AIA Certificate is awarded to the second- The recipient is selected based on a review of receive a letter grade lower than a C for any one ranking graduate. The School selects candidates their work by a jury appointed by AIA Pittsburgh. class, and must not receive an Incomplete or W based on the guidelines provided by the AIA Application is required of all Bachelor of in any one class. national organization. Architecture candidates graduating in December 2013, May 2014, or August 2014. This award will University Honors are awarded to students The Alpha Rho Chi Medal is awarded to the be reported as income and taxes will be withheld with a QPA of 3.5 or higher by their date of graduating student who has shown the ability from this award payment. Academic Recognition continued

FOURTH-YEAR DESIGN AWARDS All students receiving awards will be asked to The Luther S. Lashmit Award is given annually The Head and faculty, on the basis of their write thank-you notes to any scholarship sponsors to a fourth-year student for the purpose of academic and design work, nominate students or representatives. All Students who have been travel. Luther Lashmit graduated from the for fourth-year design awards. To be eligible, a granted awards must prepare a short presentation Carnegie Institute of Technology Graduate student must: in the form of a small exhibit and public lecture. All Program in Architecture in 1921. He returned • Be a fourth-year student in the School. students will present together, as one event, where to the University community from 1923-27 • Return for at least one full semester scholarship sponsors, alumni, and students will be as an Assistant Professor. He spent the following the semester, during which the invited to attend. remainder of his career in Winston-Salem, winner is chosen. North Carolina. Lashmit had the opportunity • Have outstanding academic performance The Fourth-Year Design Awards include: the Burdett to study in France early in his career when he in design and other courses taken towards Assistantship; the Luther S. Lashmit Award; the won a traveling scholarship. This experience the professional degree. Louis F. Valentour Traveling Scholarship Fund; dramatically changed his perception and vision • Have a minimum 3.00 design QPA and a and the John Knox Shear Memorial Traveling of architecture. Through his generous gift to minimum 3.00 overall QPA. Scholarship. Carnegie Mellon and the School of Architecture, • Have no current academic actions on record. he gives a student with exceptional design skills • Have not previously competed for a fourth- The Burdett Assistantship was established in the same opportunity. year design award. 1982 in recognition of Bob Burdett’s long and outstanding service to the University and profession. The Louis F. Valentour Traveling Scholarship During the spring semester, all students eligible The fund provides support to students pursuing Fund was established by Louis F. Valentour for School awards will be notified of their status their first professional degrees in Architecture. The (A’49) as a generous traveling scholarship for and given explicit instructions. Candidates are support will be offered yearly at the discretion of undergraduate students in Architecture who required to adhere to all competition guidelines the Head who should seek the advice of the faculty have completed their fourth year of study. and to display their work in designated areas to review candidates and criteria. The award is to The award is intended for travel outside the according to the exhibition procedure. Faculty support projects and activities that will enhance continental U.S. The amount of the award will review the displayed work and examine one’s work. The student shall possess love of their and the selection of the recipient shall be student statements prior to the faculty meeting subject, integrity, patience, fairness, and respect for determined by the faculty and Head. called to determine the winners of merit awards. others since these qualities exemplified Bob Burdett The results will be announced during the annual throughout his career. Henry Hornbostel Lecture. 27

The John Knox Shear Memorial Traveling Scholarship is given in memory of John Knox Shear, who graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology and was Professor of Architecture and Head of the Department from 1949 until he resigned in 1955 to accept another position. Following his untimely death in January 1958, members of the department, graduates, and friends set out to establish a memorial to commemorate Professor Shear’s distinguished contributions to architecture and to architectural education and to benefit future architectural students at Carnegie Institute of Technology. The recipient is selected from eligible students based on a review of their work by the faculty. The recipient is required to use the funds for travel. Student Opportunities

Student prizes, internship opportunities, It recognizes the life-changing potential of between the Schools of Art and Architecture. scholarships, and design competitions are becoming immersed in a culture, language, and Up to $4500 will be awarded to one collaborative available annually to undergraduates in the environment that is different from one’s own. project (or divided between two or more School of Architecture. The School will provide Emphasis will be placed on developing the craft projects) that demonstrate innovative ways of announcements, instructions, and applications as well as intellectual content of architecture interpreting and interweaving aspects of art and during the semester in which the opportunities and music. Application for this award occurs in architecture, celebrating and/ or challenging are presented; applications are available on the the fall semester. definitions of both. Application for this award SoArch website. occurs in the spring semester. The Ferguson Jacobs Prize in Architecture Many of these opportunities are awarded promotes the continuity of tradition in The Richard M. Gensert Memorial primarily on academic merit, though financial contemporary architectural practice. It Scholarship was established in 2005 and is need is a factor for scholarships where indicated. encourages design excellence based on sponsored by Payette Associates of Boston long-standing design principles that promote and Mr. George Marsh. It is named for Carnegie PRIZES beauty and harmony in the built environment. Mellon University Associate Professor Richard During the fall semester of the academic year Endowed by Mark Ferguson (A’78) and M. Gensert. Mr. Gensert was a prolific structural following the award of these prizes, recipients Natalie Jacobs (A’79) the fund is available to engineer as well as a professor of the School are required to present a lecture, exhibition, Architecture faculty and second-, third- and of Architecture in the late 1970s, teaching performance, or other appropriate presentation fourth-year students on alternating years in advanced structures on complex long span, of documents that exhibit their experience. the School of Architecture. The prize supports post-tension and shell structures. In honor of his projects that explore the classical tradition as expertise and contributions to both the School The Gindroz Prize, established by the Marilyn vital knowledge to an architect’s education, of Architecture and the professional community, and Ray Gindroz Foundation, was created to practice and scholarship, as well as individual this award will be given to a third-year student enrich lives and enhance student education apprenticeships and internships with a classical whose design work expresses sensitive through the travel and study of architecture, focus. Application for this award occurs in the consideration of structural issues and their urbanism and music in Europe. The annual spring semester. relationship to architecture. The recipient shall prize will provide $7500 to support to a third or be selected by the Head and the 48-305 studio fourth-year student or first-year Masters student The AvroKo Interdisciplinary Award for faculty. in the Schools of Architecture or Music pursuing Art & Architecture is intended to encourage independent study in European towns and cities. and support interdisciplinary student projects 29

The Pittsburgh History and Landmarks The Measuring & Monitoring Services, amount of such scholarships and the selection of Foundation(PHLF) Book Prize in honor Inc. Internship Fund provides $3000 of the recipients shall be determined by the Office of Walter C. Kidney is an award which financial support to a SoArch undergraduate of Financial Aid and the Head of the School of recognizes excellence in the research and student who wishes to undertake a summer Architecture and will be applied directly to the writing of architectural history by a CMU student. internship or related program under the student’s account. Professors nominate student papers, and a guidance of established professionals. The committee composed of Architecture faculty internship fund recognizes the importance The Jan P. Junge Memorial Scholarship, and PHLF staff select the winner. The review and advantage of being immersed for an established in 1988, is a gift of the Carnegie process does not stipulate any particular region extended period in the creative processes and Mellon Architecture class of 1971 in memory or era, but it does look for overall excellence in organizational dynamics of an architecture of Jan Junge who died suddenly in 1988. research, writing, argumentation, and use of firm, non-governmental organization, non-profit Graduating from the Department of Architecture textual and visual evidence. organization, or CMU faculty member. in 1971, he went on to practice with Louis Kahn in Philadelphia. This memorial scholarship is INTERNSHIP FUNDS Funds may be used to supplement paid offered for an outstanding design student with The SOM Internship is a discretionary fund internships, to volunteer for non-profit or non- financial need. The amount of such scholarships established at the CMU SoArch by one of the governmental organizations, or to participate in and the selection of the recipients shall be most prestigious, innovative and venerable a research project with a CMU faculty member. determined by the Office of Financial Aid and the international architecture practices. The Funds are not to be used to compensate for Head of the School of Architecture and will be internship provides two paid summer positions unpaid internships. Application for this award applied directly to the student’s account. in the firm’s New York office for exceptionally occurs in the spring semester. talented and dedicated fourth year students in The Lewis J. Altenhof Memorial Scholarship the B.Arch. program. Candidates are selected FINANCIAL AID SCHOLARSHIPS is awarded to a student(s) with financial by a faculty committee and then interviewed and The Cornerstones Scholarship Award was need studying in the School of Architecture approved by SOM. Approved students receive established by Cornerstones, The Center for who exhibit(s) extraordinary academic and a salary directly from SOM and are responsible Architecture, Development and Building, to extracurricular achievement. The amount of such for their own living expenses in New York. Upon provide financial assistance to undergraduate scholarships and the selection of the recipients completion of the internship, the students are students in the School of Architecture at shall be determined by the Office of Financial Aid to give a joint presentation of their work and Carnegie Mellon University. The award can be and the Head of the School of Architecture and experience to the School in the fall semester of used for either tuition fees or materials. The will be applied directly to the student’s account. their fifth year. Student Opportunities continued

SoARCH DESIGN COMPETITIONS FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS an on-going seminar series to help build a sense Please reference the School website postings OFFICE (FSO) of community among students on campus who for information regarding design competitions. The Fellowships and Scholarships Office (FSO) are engaged in research. The following are Carnegie Mellon-specific works with current CMU undergraduate students competitions that are held in conjunction with the in fulfilling their intellectual and professional goals The Small Undergraduate Research design studios: by pursuing nationally competitive scholarships Grants (SURG) program awards grants to and fellowships. They promote awareness of undergraduates at Carnegie Mellon for research The National Concrete Masonry Association external scholarship and fellowship opportunities, in all fields of study. Each semester, students sponsors an annual design competition for and provide advice and support to students who are invited to submit proposals to the URO for Carnegie Mellon second year Architecture apply for these awards. For a comprehensive list participation in SURG. SURG grants provide up students to design an innovative structure utilizing of awards, application information and deadlines, to $500 for one-person projects and up to $1000 concrete masonry units. Students teams compete visit www.cmu.edu/fso. for group projects. To qualify, a university faculty in the spring semester for up to three financial member must sponsor the project, and the prizes. UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH OFFICE project must be undertaken in addition to regularly (URO) scheduled classes. For application information The Epic Metals Corporation sponsors a The Undergraduate Research Office (URO) and deadlines, visit: www.cmu.edu/uro/SURG. competition for Carnegie Mellon third-year supports a variety of programs that support Architecture students to design an innovative students in the University’s six undergraduate The Summer Research Fellowship structure utilizing metal deck systems. Students colleges who want to pursue research and (SURF) program awards grants of $3500 to compete for up to three prizes - first, second, and creative projects sponsored by university faculty. undergraduates at Carnegie Mellon conducting third places - that will share $2,400 in prize money. research full-time, on-campus for 8-10 full-time The first place team may be invited to tour Epic The URO provides seed funds for undergraduate weeks of the summer with a Carnegie Mellon Metals’ manufacturing plant in Rankin, PA. Prizes research projects, recognizes students faculty mentor. Students participate in a variety are considered taxable income. conducting research, funds undergraduates of professional development and social activities presenting their findings at academic conferences, and become part of a unique community of and presents an annual undergraduate research researchers. For application information and symposium. It also offers support services to deadlines, visit: www.cmu.edu/uro/SURF. help students write proposals, find appropriate mentors, and apply to professional conferences or Student Programs 31

STUDENT ADVISORY COUNCIL [SAC] students’ efforts for the advancement of the art and cream is provided, and the social is open to the The Student Advisory Council (SAC) meets once science of architecture. The CMU chapter solicits entire School. each month to provide a more formal means membership at the beginning of the fall semester. of interaction between students, faculty, and Members benefit from a variety of academic, social, SPECIAL TOPICS administration. The student representatives are and professional opportunities. Various discounts Special Topic sessions are coordinated by responsible for communicating the efforts of and subscriptions are available for members. school administration to provide information the council to their colleagues, bringing to the that is of particular interest to specific groups of council issues forwarded by fellow students, and ARCHITECTURE PEER MENTORS [APM] undergraduate students within the school. Certain contributing time, energy and ideas to improve The Architecture Peer Mentors program (APM) is topic sessions may be required of students to attend; both the School and the University. a means to foster interaction and growth between this information will be conveyed to students by first-year students and students of all years in the e-mail invitation and on the “What’s Good” section The SAC consists of three representatives from School of Architecture. As peers, mentors will of the SoArch website. Topics include, but are not each year that are elected by the members of that work with incoming first-year students to answer limited to: study away, professional development, year. They serve a one-year academic term. In questions, provide support, give critiques and IDP, awards, and undergraduate advising. the event that a student cannot fulfil their duties, advice, and expose them to the college experience. nominations will be solicited and students within This mentoring program gives underclassman STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS that class will vote for a new representative. and upperclassmen the opportunity to socialize, Carnegie Mellon offers a variety of student Elections are organized at the beginning of the fall discuss, educate, and learn from each other organizations to explore personal interests and meet semester. through organized events and more informal fellow students from other colleges and schools interaction inside and outside of the studio setting. across campus. Each fall, an activities fair is held to AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE Student participation in APM will be solicited during introduce students to the various student groups as STUDENTS [AIAS] the first week of the fall semester by the Coordinator well as garner interest and participation. The School The AIAS is the largest professional architectural of Student Programs. encourages participation in student organizations, student-run organization in the United States. and students from the School have been AIAS promotes excellence in architecture ICE CREAM instrumental to the success of these organizations. education, training, and practice. They foster an Ice Cream socials are scheduled throughout the For a full list of student organizations and information, appreciation of architecture and related disciplines. semester to provide a social venue for the exhibition please visit the Student Activities website at The organization seeks to enrich communities of student work and the exchange of information www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/ with a spirit of collaboration, and organizes between students, faculty, and administration. Ice StudentActivities. SoArch Employment

The School of Architecture hires a limited COMPUTING SUPPORT TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS number of students for work/study positions, The computing team employs computing Each semester a number of qualified students teaching assistantships, and various monitor support. Bob Armitage, Computing Administrator are awarded teaching assistantships with positions throughout the school year. Students [[email protected]], hires all student stipends. Teaching Assistants are chosen must be in good standing with the School and computing support. based on their qualifications in the subject of the University to be considered for a work/study course, high academic standing, and interest position. Interested students should contact DIGITAL FABRICATION LAB MONITORS in the subject. Eligible students must not be Dave Koltas, Assistant Head [[email protected]]. The Digital Fabrication Lab employs student on an academic action, be registered full-time, monitors to assist users in the operation of and must have the approval of the professor. ARCHITECTURE EXPLORATIONS equipment as well as help to maintain the facilities Preference is given to fourth- and fifth-year The SoArch is committed to educating the and address day-to-day tasks. Jeremy Ficca students. community about architecture. To achieve this [[email protected]] and/ or P. Zach Ali [pzali@ goal, SoArch offers Architecture Explorations, andrew.cmu.edu] hire 3rd to 5th year student Generally, professors contact qualified students a collection of programs for K-12 students. monitors at the beginning of the Fall and Spring prior to the start of the semester. Otherwise, Current students have the opportunity to work semesters. Students must be well versed on students interested in positions must submit or volunteer with the Saturday Program and all equipment and software; additional training a letter of interest to David Koltas, Assistant Summer Camps. Saturday Program classes regarding Operating and Emergency Procedures Head, stating the course of interest and a are held for 8 weeks in the fall semester and 8 are provided by the Lab Manager during the first resume, including qualifications for the position. weeks in the spring semester and are taught by two weeks of Monitor Employment. Assistants will be announced prior to the a select number of architecture students under beginning of the semester. the supervision of Samantha Carter, Outreach SHOP MONITORS Coordinator. Student teachers are paid to The shop employs student monitors to maintain WORK-STUDY STUDENTS plan and instruct the programs, with volunteer the school facilities and address day-to-day The school employs students to assist with assistants. Involvement in these programs can tasks. Scott Smith, Shop Director [ssbg@andrew. general day-to-day office duties and maintain be used towards IDP community service hours. cmu.edu] hires students at the beginning of the school facilities during regular office hours. Those interested in teaching or volunteering semester. Students are hired at the beginning of the should contact Samantha Carter [scarter@ semester by Kristen Frambes, Facilities & andrew.cmu.edu]. Special Projects Manager [[email protected]]. Finding a Internship 33

The School of Architecture recommends that IDP EDUCATOR COORDINATOR The Center hosts workshops throughout the students seek summer internships once they In the School of Architecture, the IDP Educator Fall and Spring semesters to give students an have built a knowledge-base that enables them Coordinator is responsible for providing guidance opportunity to meet career professionals in to contribute to relevant work in an architecture and disseminating information to students about their field, and the Creative Arts Opportunities firm - most typically after their third year. It is IDP and the path to licensure. Office hours will be Conference (CAOC) in the Spring semester recommended that students meet with both the posted each semester for student appointments to assist students in CFA with employment school’s IDP Educator and their career consultant in and walk-in consultation. opportunities. Visit their website for information: the Career and Professional Development Center to www.cmu.edu/career/. prepare for job applications. Students should have a IDP Eligibility Date forms are to be submitted by resume, cover letter, and portfolio prepared prior to the IDP Educator Coordinator for processing to TARTANTRAK contacting architecture firms, attending career fairs, NCARB. Upon graduation, you must provide Information on all available employment and interviewing for jobs. a copy of your transcript to NCARB; transcript opportunities for CMU students and alumni can requests are made via the HUB. You may contact be accessed online through TartanTrak, the central BECOMING AN ARCHITECT the IDP Educator Coordinator, Alexis McCune recruiting tool for the Carnegie Mellon Career and If you are seeking the path to professional [[email protected]], for more information Professional Development Center: www.cmu. architecture licensure in the United States, you are and to complete Eligibility Date Forms. edu/career/tartantrak/. required by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) to complete the CARNEGIE MELLON CAREER AND TartanTrak will remain the primary source for following three steps: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER dissemination of employment opportunities; • Education - Earn an NAAB-accredited degree Students are encouraged to seek the services therefore, all students should register to access • Experience - Complete Intern Development of the Carnegie Mellon Career and Professional all resources including employment opportunities Program (IDP) Development Center when pursuing employment and job fairs. The school will post any immediate • Exam - Pass the Architect Registration opportunities. 1st- and 2nd- year SoArch students positions on the What’s Good section of the Exam (ARE) may schedule appointments to meet with their SoArch website directing students to the posting To assist you with continuation toward the path to Career Consultant, Elaine Stolick [estolick@andrew. on TartanTrak. licensure, students should first visit the NCARB cmu.edu]. 3rd, 4th, 5th-Year and Graduate SoArch website at http://www.ncarb.org for information students may schedule appointments to meet with about participating in IDP, completing the ARE, and their Career Consultant, Sonjala Williams [sonjala@ establishing their NCARB Record. andrew.cmu.edu]. Finding an Internship continued

SOARCH WEBSITE RECRUITING ALUMNI NETWORKING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND JOB The School of Architecture provides students There are several ways to connect with alumni. SEARCH WEBSITES the opportunity to post their personal portfolio To meet alumni in person, students should take www.aia.org websites to a Recruiting section of the SoArch advantage of networking opportunities at various www.aias.org website for employers to browse their digital school and university events. Alumni contact www.american-architects.com portfolio websites. This space is available to all information is also available through the Carnegie www.archinect.com current undergraduate architecture students, and Mellon University Alumni Association directory at www.archi-students.org six months after their date of graduation. http://alumni.cmu.edu/s/1410/alumni/. When www.architectjobs.com contacting alumni, please be professional. Keep www.california-architects.com Students must submit via the SoArch Server all messages clear, concise, and personalized; do www.cons4arch.com their online digital portfolio website materials to not send generic, carbon-copied e-mails. www.construction.com be included on our website. The websites will www.jobs.aiapgh.org* be added to the SoArch website weekly, and REFERENCES www.ncarb.org students must ensure that their information is Before you list a professor - or anyone else at www.newyork-architects.com added to the SoArch Server by Thursdays at this university - as a reference, you must first ask www.world-architects.com midnight for publishing on the SoArch website the their permission. In asking for a letter of recom- following Friday. Instructions are provided on the mendation, always include your resume, summary *Local AIA chapter websites in cities and regions Recruiting section of the SoArch website: of the letter’s intended purpose, the deadline for throughout the United States serve as excellent www.cmu.edu/architecture/recruiting/. submission, a stamped/addressed envelope, and resources to facilitate your job search in specific a completed Consent to Release Student Informa- locations. “OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS” NEWSLETTER tion form. You can download the consent form at Communication about internships and www.cmu.edu/hub/docs/consent.pdf. professional development opportunities for undergraduate students will be published in the Faculty/staff members have the right to refuse any weekly newsletter SoArch Happenings in a section request. If a faculty or staff member writes you a titled “Opportunity Knocks” and archived on the letter of recommendation, you should send him or What’s Good section of the SoArch website: her a personalized thank you note. www.cmu.edu/architecture/whats-good/ SoArch Facilities 35

STUDIOS STUDIO FURNITURE COPIERS The studio spaces are the heart of the physical Students are responsible for the condition of Copiers are located throughout the campus. environment of the School. The maintenance of all studio furniture including, but not limited to, The School of Architecture copiers in CFA the studio is the responsibility of the students. desks, chairs, file cabinets, and tool storage and MMCH are for the use of the faculty and The studio is home to both your colleagues chests. Students must use a cutting mat when staff only. Public printers and copy machines, and your faculty. Its arrangement is a design cutting on any surface, especially tables or the including a color copier in Hunt Library, use problem that must serve many needs from floor. Students will be charged for damages, so Campus Xpress, Plaid Ca$h cards, or cash. individual expression to group meetings and please be careful. communication. FAX MACHINE KEYS Students may send and receive faxes via the Students are expected to leave the studio at Tool storage chests and their respective keys are office fax machine. Incoming faxes must be the end of the semester in the same condition distributed at the beginning of each semester. At labeled with your full name and year. The fax they found it at the beginning. The costs to the the end of the semester, keys are to be returned number for the School is 412.268.7819. School of cleaning the studios at the end of to Kristen Frambes in CFA 201. You will be the semester, or the costs of repair of damage charged for the cost of replacement if you DISPLAY SCREENS to the studio beyond regular wear and tear will fail to return your key. Large LCD display screens are located in be evenly divided between the students in the the display cases outside CFA 201 (opposite studio. The cost will be directly charged to each PROJECTORS the elevator) and on the third and fourth student account. Portable projectors are available for school- floors of MMCH. Screens display the current related activities. The projectors are kept with calendar, posters for upcoming events, and The School is not responsible for personal the computing team in CFA 201, the main office other useful information. Contact Samantha belongings brought into the studios. of the School of Architecture. To borrow a Carter [[email protected]] if you projector, students must work with a member of have information to be shared on the display Individuals found destroying studio facilities can the faculty to assist in submitting their request. screens. be suspended from the university. Students All requests must include a purpose, date, and are not permitted on roofs, parapets or other time for pick-up and return. Students should non-public areas of campus. Anyone found send this information to a faculty member and throwing objects off the roof or out any window ask that they submit the request to [soarch- could be suspended from the university. [email protected]]. SoArch Fabrication Facilities

PAINT SPRAY BOOTH Safety is a prime concern in the use of the shop. probe. Dedicated computer workstations with The paint spray booth is located in Margaret The Shop Director expressly forbids students CAD/CAM software compliment the fabrication Morrison Carnegie Hall 322. Training on the use to use tools unless they have received proper equipment. of the spray booth is required of all persons prior instruction in their use. All tools are to be signed to usage. Studio coordinators are responsible out according to shop policy. No tools are to be Associate Professor of Architecture, Jeremy for training their studio faculty at the beginning of removed from the shop without proper sign-out Ficca is Director of dFAB and Zach Ali serves each semester. and the on-duty supervisor’s approval. Loose as the dFAB Manager. The lab manager and clothing, headphones, and loose hair are not Student Monitors staff the lab weekly for roughly Spray adhesive, spray paint, and other aerosol allowed in the shop. Hearing and eye protection 75-80 hours per week. Student Monitors, who media are forbidden in all indoor spaces and must be used at all times and covered shoes have training in the operation and safety of lab around campus buildings. should be worn at all times. Goggles, face shields, use, staff the lab when the Manager is not on and earplugs are provided in the shop. Hours of duty. Use of the lab facilities outside of staffed Students are only permitted to use the booth for operation are posted on the shop door. The shop hours is strictly forbidden. Lab hours are posted studio related work or projects. Students are has a limited amount of various materials that can in the lab and on the lab website at www.cmu- not permitted to use the booth to spray large be purchased by students. dfab.org. items not related to studio work (i.e., buggies). Improper use of the spray booth will result in a DIGITAL FABRICATION LAB (dFAB) Access is limited to SoArch faculty, staff, loss of privileges of the unit and/or suspension The Digital Fabrication Lab (dFAB) is located currently enrolled students, and other students from the university. on the C-level of Margaret Morrison Carnegie enrolled in authorized courses that specifically Hall. This facility includes a range of digitally require the use of the lab as part of the syllabus. ARCHITECTURE SHOP driven additive and subtractive tools including 3d Priority access is given to students enrolled The School maintains a shop on the ground level printers, laser cutters, a four-axis CNC router and in dFAB electives and projects required by a of the College of Fine Arts. It is specifically for the vacuum former. The lab also includes a dedicated studio assignment. Other access is given on a use of architecture students and faculty for class robotic fabrication space that includes two large first-come; first-served basis by signing up and and school-related projects. The shop director industrial robotic arms. These two robotic arms reserving equipment time through the online is Scott Smith. There are a number of student are configured as a seven-axis robot with a reservation system found through the dFAB monitors who have authority in the operation and dedicated rotary table as well as a six-axis robot website at www.cmu-dfab.org. safety of shop use. Shop hours are posted each mounted on a 23’ linear track. Tooling includes semester. a milling spindle, gripper, wire saw and digital Computing 37

COMPUTER USAGE STUDIO COMPUTING EQUIPMENT UNAUTHORIZED SOFTWARE The computer facilities of the School are for PCs are available throughout SoArch studio, or All use, copying, distribution, or solicitation of SoArch students, faculty, and staff only. Use by in adjacent spaces. Four plotters are available unauthorized or pirated software is expressly other students is by permission or by enrollment in or near the undergraduate studios. Food or forbidden and punishable by law. Fines can exceed in courses offered by the School. If you observe drink are expressly forbidden near any SoArch $100,000 and jail time per incident. unauthorized use, please inform computing equipment. [email protected]. All students PROBLEM REPORTING enrolled in the School are provided accounts on the SERVER SPACE Any and all issues with computers, printers, plotters School’s file server. These accounts are available The SoArch provides file storage space for each and scanners should be immediately conveyed to current students until the first day of August student as well as space for studio work. While in detail to [email protected]. The following their graduation. every effort is made to make the server stable, description of the problem should be as specific secure, and available, SoArch is in no way as possible, including the machine in question, the GENERAL COMPUTING RULES responsible for data or the guarantee of access. It is software being used, the task being performed, Violations of any computing rules or policies may safe computing practice to have multiple backups etc. All School of Architecture computers and result in disabling access to the SoArch computing of important data. Server space is limited to 4GB equipment have a Carnegie Mellon property tag on equipment. of private space for each student, and 40GB of them, please include the tag number. • Game playing is forbidden on SoArch shared space per studio. When either space has workstations, unless it is specifically related to reached its size limitation, no further files are able SCANNING coursework. to be uploaded until the required space has been The SoArch scanner is a 42” wide-format scanner • Headphones must be used for all music. cleared. For personal space, files will be maintained is available in the SoArch Media Center. An acetate • No personal software may be installed on through August 1 or graduating students, after sleeve is available for scanning drawings that might SoArch workstations. which all data will be erased. The SoArch servers harm the machine. Flat-bed scanners are also • All data must be stored on an external are exclusively reserved for the storage of data; available; one in CFA and two in MMCH. device or on the server. Do not save to the software installers, movies, etc... will be forcefully desktops; the SoArch is not responsible erased if located. for any data left on studio workstations. A transfer folder is available on the server to facilitate short term file sharing. All files in this folder are deleted every Tuesday at noon. Computing continued

PRINTING paper trimmer, and the RenderFarm computers. Direct any questions about these clusters • Printing multiple copies is forbidden. SoArch The media center will be staffed and these to Computing Services Multimedia Studio printers are not copiers and should not be services are available on a fee-basis and charged Administrator [[email protected]]. used as such. If you require multiple copies to the students university account. Hours and The multimedia cluster also has equipment for of a document please print one copy and turnaround time will be posted on the SoArch loan, such as video and still cameras and many take the output to a copy station on campus. website and on the door of the media center. other devices. For more information, see www. Fedex Kinko’s is located in the University cmu.edu/computing/clusters/lending.html Center: www.cmu.edu/kinkos/ STUDIO-BASED MEDIA CENTER • Large printing jobs (greater than 50 pages) One large-fomat plotter, black and white laser FLAT SCREEN MONITORS are not permitted. Printing larger jobs or printer, and flatbed scanner will be located in Upon request the SoArch will provide students with multiple copies will result in suspension from 2nd floor CFA and on the 3rd floor MMCH. The one 22” flat screen monitor and articulated computer use. SoArch will provide ink jet cartridges, laser printer arm for use at his/her studio desk. • Use double-sided prints and Century Gothic toner cartridges, and paper for the laser printer. • Monitors must NOT leave the studio and font whenever possible for paper and ink Students are responsible for providing large format must remain locked at the studio desk the conservation. plotter paper. entire semester. • Transparencies, sticky back, and all other • Distribution times will be set at the beginning personally supplied media are expressly CFA MULTIMEDIA CLUSTER of each semester. forbidden in the studio laser printers. Use of The CFA Multimedia Cluster is located in CFA • Monitors are to be returned at the end of each these types of materials may damage the 317, 318, 321, and 323. Computing Services semester in the condition in which they were equipment. and the five schools in the College of Fine Arts received. Failure to do so will result in a fine • Please recycle print paper. jointly maintain the cluster. It is not managed or equal to that of the replacement value. • Please inform [email protected]. maintained by the SoArch Computing Team. The • Studio Coordinator’s have final discretion as to edu if ink or toner is low in any SoArch clusters have PCs and Macs and are available to whether monitors are allowed in studios. printer. SoArch students. The cluster is open 24 hours a day, but only staffed between 8 am and 12 am. Students should contact Kristen Frambes SOARCH MEDIA CENTER More information about hardware and software [[email protected]] to request a monitor. A new media center has been created in MM 308. available in this cluster is available at www.cmu. It will contain 3 large format plotters, the drum edu/computing/clusters. scanner, the tabloid ink jet printer, a large-format Communications 39

SOARCH POLICY REGARDING EMAIL A student’s failure to receive and read University SOARCH WEBSITE Carnegie Mellon University has established email communications delivered to his/her official email The SoArch website, www.cmu.edu/ as a primary vehicle for official communication address in a timely manner does not absolve that architecture, is a hub for up-to-date information with students. Emergency notifications, student from knowing and complying with the concerning classes and events. We encourage educational dialogue, research and general content of such communications. students to use this website to find postings business correspondence are all consistently about internships, upcoming school events, and enhanced in institutions of higher learning While students are allowed to redirect email from major community announcements. Updates to where email policies exist and are supported by their official University email address to another the school website can be made by contacting procedures, practice, and culture. address (e.g. @gmail.com, @hotmail.com, etc…), Steve Lee [[email protected]]. they do so at their own risk. The University An official email address is established and is not responsible for the handling of email by WHAT’S GOOD? assigned by Computing Services for each other service providers. Having email redirected Each week, What’s Good? will be updated on the registered student, and current faculty and does not absolve students from knowing and SoArch website. This section contains valuable staff members. All University communications complying with the content of the communication information about SoArch deadlines, events and sent via email will be sent to this address. sent to their official University email address. news. It also includes jobs, internships, design Faculty members will use the official University competitions, scholarships job postings, or other email address to communicate with a student In addition to maintaining standard email opportunities. Updates to What’s Good? should registered in their classes and administrative units etiquette, students are not allowed to use be sent to Kristen Frambes [[email protected]]. will correspond with students via this address. school distribution lists without first requesting permission. Students who wish to use these lists “SoARCH HAPPENINGS” EMAIL The SoArch expects that students will receive should contact Kristen Frambes. NEWSLETTER and read email in a timely manner. Students The School of Architecture will share news, are expected to maintain their accounts and You may check your email at any University or upcoming events, reminders, and job check their email daily so that new mail will School computer. Individual classes and studios opportunities in a weekly email to students titled be properly received and read. may have separate bulletin boards or Blackboard SoArch Happenings. If you know of an event, job sites on the campus network. To access the opportunity, or news worthy story that you would Blackboard system, go to: like to see featured in the SoArch Happenings www.cmu.edu/blackboard email, please contact Michelle Bard [mbard@ andrew.cmu.edu]. Communications continued

FACEBOOK DISPLAY CASES “Like” our Facebook page, Carengie Mellon Display cases are located on the second floor School of Architecture, to receive updates and of CFA by both stairwells and on the third news. This is the only official Facebook page floor of Margaret Morrison. A schedule of maintained by the SoArch. Any other associated displays is coordinated with faculty from the Facebook pages are not maintained by the School. Students who wish to create displays SoArch; therefore, content posted on other may schedule time by contacting Steve Lee pages is not the responsibility of the SoArch. [[email protected]].

SOARCH CALENDAR MESSAGE BOARDS The SoArch calendar is where all School There are two message board locations events are listed. Students are responsible for maintained by the School of Architecture. One checking the calendar to remain informed about message board is located outside the main happenings within the School. studio of CFA 200, and the other is located on the third floor of Margaret Morrison between the The SoArch calendar is available in two staircases. locations. Events are listed in their entirety on the SoArch website (http://www.cmu.edu/ These message boards are for SoArch architecture/calendar/index.html). Also, communication only. They will include a printed poster format is posted each week school announcements, important deadlines, throughout the school. Events are subject to community activities, conferences, lectures at change; any changes will be communicated other universities, employment opportunities, through email. Calendar changes or additions scholarship information, and competition should be sent to Kristen Frambes announcements. Students should check these [[email protected]]. message boards regularly for announcements and information. Posters will be checked weekly, and those with expired dates will be removed from the studios and message board areas on Monday mornings. Studio Culture Policy 41

The Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture’s The School of Architecture also cites the PEDAGOGICAL PHILOSOPHY Policy on Studio Culture was co-written by National Architectural Accreditation Board’s Carnegie Mellon University is one of the premier faculty and the school’s chapter of the AIAS (NAAB) Condition 5 on Studio Culture in technical and liberal arts institutions in the as a set of guidelines to foster an attitude of introduction to its studio culture policy which world. As such, the School of Architecture has professionalism in the studio. parallels NAAB’s specific interest in: always attempted to connect both technical and conceptual/theoretical elements of WHAT IS STUDIO CULTURE? “...demonstrat[ing] a positive and respectful architectural design within in its curriculum. As defined by the AIAS, studio culture is“the learning environment through the Specifically, students combine technical experiences, habits and patterns found within encouragement of the fundamental values of processes of both analog and digital fabrication the architecture design studio”. The organiza- optimism, respect, sharing, engagement, and - or “making” - with theoretical and conceptual tion elaborates: innovation between and among the members positions tied to a more diverse range of of its faculty, student body, administration, and studies within the studio. “Those who have studied architecture undoubt- staff. The school should encourage students edly have vivid memories that characterize their and faculty to appreciate these values as This philosophy is maintained by the overall design studio experience. Late nights, exciting guiding principles of professional conduct attitude of professionalism that ties together projects, extreme dedication, lasting friend- throughout their careers.” the interactions between faculty, staff and ships, long hours, punishing critiques, unpre- students. The School realizes that the studio dictable events, a sense of community, and It is under these terms that the students, staff is a ‘melting pot’ of sorts that contains these personal sacrifice all come to mind. Those as- and faculty of the Carnegie Mellon School of interactions and their outcomes. Therefore, as pects are not usually written into the curriculum Architecture proudly present to you the 2012 a premise for deriving the guidelines for studio or even the design assignments, but they are update of our Policy on Studio Culture, a culture, we embrace the idea of professionalism likely the most memorable and influential. The testament to our communal mission to foster an as means to instill positive and productive experiences,habits, and patterns found within attitude of professionalism within the studio. relations hips between all parties present in the architecture design studio make up what we architectural education. have termed ‘studio culture’.”

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CORE VALUES well developed based on the conceptual Under the header of professionalism, the objectives assigned. School of Architecture supports core values • Critical Practice: Innovate, question, that further emphasize the importance of critical reevaluate and redefine in order to push interaction and decision-making within the studio for forward thinking in the study and environment: profession of architecture. • Critique: Promote constant interaction • Self-respect: Maintain respect for between students and faculty in the our bodies and minds. Proper time- critical discussion of both student work management, personal cleanliness and and precedents, and engage in public hygiene, and continuous responsibility for discourse about architecture whether it all personal commitments must be upheld be at a personal final critique, a gallery always. showing or a town hall meeting. • Character: Display proper attitudes in • Communication: Voice suggestions, representation of the School and the concerns and opinions frequently. Have University as a whole. the judgement to understand on what • Engagement: Understand and be level to communicate with peers and committed to studio content and take colleagues in all areas of architectural advantage of resources. Work to achieve learning. personal and architectural goals in order to • Respect: Outwardly be respectful learn more from your work and that of your of others - their ideas, work and peers. Be present at every studio session, philosophies. Embrace diversity in ideas, as attendance and attentiveness are race, gender, age, ethnicity, sexual essential to success orientation, and experience. • Process/Product: Demonstrate the ability to actively participate in studio by creating work that challenges one’s self in his/her specific skill-set level. Contribute - to the best of one’s abilities - a product that is 43

THE STUDIO CULTURE POLICY changes. If they so choose, students receive this feedback, even if they are not Keeping the over arching idea of professionalism reserve the right to request to take in agreement with the faculty response. in mind, the following are defined guidelines supplementary courses or to make If the student so chooses, he or she can for studio culture. With these, the School of independent study opportunities for request hard-copy criteria (e.g. a rubric, Architecture aims to keep its core values in the themselves with the guidance and approval or another format that is agreed upon by minds of all who participate in the creation and of an appointed faculty and/or administrative both student and faculty parties) for the development of studio culture at Carnegie Mellon. advisor. grading of studio work that is not otherwise They are as follows: provided by the original syllabus or the • Grading Policy: Grading is a University specific studio assignment sheet. However, Design Process and Curriculum mandated standard that is one type of the student cannot expect every faculty • Curriculum: The ten design studios at evaluation of a student’s overall performance member to have similar criteria and must CMU SoArch are considered to be, in based on studio regulations, syllabus be aware of their external resources - other series, developmental courses that teach requirements, etc. More important to the professors, administrators, peers, public, students to make informed architectural design studio is the review or critique, which texts - and must have the judgement to use design decisions on increasingly advanced can be a formal qualitative evaluation of them wisely. In turn the faculty must provide levels as they progress in their education. students’ architectural work. Though the sufficient means for students to be able to The studio curriculum is ultimately defined faculty Studio Culture Policy has the final self-evaluate at all times, whether in the form by a faculty and administrative team via judgement call on the quantitative evaluation of a rubric or with continuous feedback. both NAAB requirements and with the of a student’s overall work, students School’s pedagogical philosophy in mind. should be actively involved in the process • Reviews/Critiques: As aforementioned, Students and faculty give feedback on of critically evaluating their work and the the idea of the “review” or “critique” is these curriculum decisions via their Student work of their peers. However, in doing so, a quintessential and crucial aspect of Advisory Council (SAC) representatives or students must adhere to the core values of architectural development for students. personally, as needed. self-respect and respect in all discourse. Students and faculty must always be active in the critical discourse of architecture in and This feedback is, received openly by the Students have the ability to ask for direct outside of the studio. administrative team in primary command feedback from any faculty member at Traditional critiques are formatted between of the curriculum. They then evaluate any point during the design process, but one or more students and a series of faculty responses and make the necessary they must be open-minded when they members and/or guest reviewers. Studio Culture Policy continued

However, at times the traditional method of It should be noted that reviews should always • Responsibility of the Design Process: student presentation/faculty response and be discussion-oriented and never critical of The design studio is a place for open evaluation may be dubbed as inadequate the person, but always the work as it stands. exploration of architectural methods of means for academic growth. In an effort to If at any time a student or faculty feels that teaching and learning. Both students and give students and faculty new opportunities they have been personally offended within faculty are responsible for maintaining a and methods by which to evaluate studio the setting of a review, he or she has full right consistent level of inquiry within the studio. work, a series of review formats are to take appropriate action via the arbitration Faculty must provide background material suggested below and should be used with form at the end of this document or by other pertinent to both the requirements of consideration of specific student needs: appropriate means. Students and faculty that specific studio as well as for specific • Student/ faculty one-on-one review reserve the right to request the facilities for explorations pursued within individual session any of the above review types as needed, and projects. In return, students should keep up • Students/ faculty review session - one administration - with discretion - must give with their work and make a constant effort or more faculty and multiple students in their best effort to accommodate the needs of to contribute to the studio environment. discussion the students and or faculty who request these • “Round robin” full studio critiques - facilities. Student/Faculty Interaction studios rotate to different faculty each Faculty are integral to the architectural week and get new perspectives Final reviews are a privilege and not a right, education process. Students feed off the • Student/ student review sessions - highly however, as guest critics frequently give of faculty’s knowledge and advice - therefore, encouraged within studio and especially their time to give us a broader perspective faculty are expected to bring their passion into after hours on our studies. Students must demonstrate the studio during every session. Like students, • Guest reviewer seminars - discussion or continuous effort and aptitude to be able to faculty must promote the School’s core values pin up with guest critic present in a final critique scenario. The faculty to the best of their abilities. • Full jury - one or more students with a has the final say regarding students’ ability to board of reviewers present present during final reviews, and may deny the As the practitioners of professionalism within • Composite - students discuss their work privilege if the student’s work is incomplete the studio, we ask our educators to adhere to alone, then faculty contribute, break-up by their judgment and that of any immediate the following: into student/ faculty groups, etc. coordinators and or supervisors. Review • Respect all students and fellow faculty of the attendance is a requirement. Students must be CMU SoArch community in attendance and be attentive for reviews. • Come to studio with a concise game-plan 45

and openly communicate this agenda processes pertinent issues regarding studio and its • Push students to exceed expectations, while • Communicate with your faculty: the culture always considering their pace and skill-set positives, the negatives - be curious! • Understand your personal boundaries and • Provide students with the ability to evaluate • Participate in studio discussions, and respect the space of others their work based on feedback and written embrace your faculty’s knowledge-base • Support one another, learn from each other criteria and be open-minded when collaborating • Facilitate a discourse within your specific If any student or faculty feels that another party • Participate in the discourse of studio, feed off studio. Plan discussions ahead of time has neglected the above standards and has of the ideas of classmates • Treat students equally, encourage diversity in been personally affected, he or she should not • Practice high standards of personal hygiene ideas, interests, and philosophies hesitate to fill out the arbitration request at the and cleanliness end of this document, and should submit it to In return, the student body is expected to the appropriate recipient. If any student(s) feels that another student or respect all faculty members and consider group of students is in err of the above standards them a part of the studio community. Without Student Interaction and has been personally affected, he or she these educators, advancement in architectural Of course, students must always make an effort should not hesitate to fill out the arbitration education would be impossible. Students must to have positive interactions with one another request at the end of this document, and should be diligent in their studies, and are expected to within the studio. The School of Architecture submit it to the appropriate recipient. maintain a positive relationship with their studio accepts students into its accredited program adjunct professors and associated faculty. as young-professionals and expects them Facilities and Conduct Specifically, the student body must uphold to uphold this attitude of professionalism Facilities at the School of Architecture are a these standards when working with faculty: throughout their five years at the school. privilege, and the contents of these spaces are • Respect all faculty of the CMU SoArch the property of Carnegie Mellon University. As community Students are expected to maintain these such, they should be treated with respect, as the • Come to studio with an open mind and a standards when involved with their peers in a users would want their personal spaces to be positive attitude studio setting: treated. Below is a list of facilities and criteria for • Push to exceed expectations in all areas, • Respect one another with respect to race, their usage. Students and faculty are required to impress and wow faculty ethnicity, sexual orientation, and differences adhere to these when using any of the facilities • Understand and consider all feedback in experiences and ideas. within the school: given, think and react within individual • Be communicative with peers about all Studio Culture Policy continued

• Studio Desks and Cabinets: Desks • Computer/Model Workstations: dFab faculty and staff should be obeyed and cabinets are administered by the Computers and modelling stations are at all times. Students should be mindful school staff - one of each per student - on reserved for the use of SoArch students of others when using these facilities and a yearly basis. Students should think of and faculty. They are to be shared and clean up their excess materials and work these tools as their personal belongings used efficiently as needed. areas. For detailed information regarding and should treat them well. Guidelines for • No eating or drinking around material sales, hours, and regulations for use are as follows: computers or model stations; do not use of these and other facilities, please • Keep desks to an adequate level of leave trash in the area visit these websites: cleanliness. If a student requests for • Clean up modelling stations after www.cmu.edu/architecture/facilities/ you to clean your space because your you are finished working, otherwise index.html; and http://cmu-dfab.org level of cleanliness is not up to par, anything left may be disposed of please be respectful and do so. • Log off your computer when you are • Spray Booth: Similar rules apply to • Food should be disposed of after not working on it for a long period the use of the spray booth as they do you eat it - don’t leave half-empty of time (more than an hour of time the wood shop, the dFab lab, and the containers open on your desk for days away from the machine). If you do not above listed tools and facilities. For at a time. comply, any other user in need of your more information, visit www.cmu.edu/ • Make sure you consistently lock down machine has the full right to log you off architecture/facilities/index.html your studio cabinet and your laptop without question. or reference the rest of the 2013-2014 as you come to and from the studio. • Use the render farm instead of Student Handbook. Lost and or stolen items are your using multiple computers to render. responsibility. Computing Administrator, Bob • Do not use other people’s belongings Armitage, for more information on this. - this includes using their desks as modeling space without permission. In • Wood Shop and Digital Fabrication the case that you use another student’s Lab: Both the wood shop and the digital desk for work, clean up the area fabrication lab at CMU are integral tools completely when you are finished. in the SoArch curriculum and the design and fabrication process. All rules and regulations set out by wood shop and 47

PROCESS FOR IMPLEMENTATION AND Arbitration 4. The arbitrator will file the original request ARBITRATION If any party within the school feels that any as the issue is resolved and will follow up other person(s) has disregarded the policies with the parties involved within a week of Implementation within this document and is acting against the final meeting. To continuously uphold the specific guidelines the pedagogical interests of the School, its set forth in this Studio Culture Policy, every year students and faculty, then that entity may On a yearly basis, students will need to sign a team of individuals will evaluate and update submit the Arbitration Request Form found on an agreement, confirming their knowledge the Studio Culture Policy document. This the SoArch website, and in the Main Office in and adherence to all of the Policy’s guidelines. team will consist of Student Advisory Council CFA 201. When students have received and read the Representatives, a faculty/administrative group Studio Culture Policy, the Studio Culture Policy including the Head of School as well as the Students should note that an arbitration request Agreement will be distributed to each student AIAS President and the AIAS Executive Board. is a serious case, and should be reserved for for his/ her signed consent. The Agreements Reactions and reflections from the previous situations that cannot be solved without official will be collected by Student Advisory Council year’s semester will be voiced and heard. We counsel. The receiving party will evaluate representatives, and filed according to will use this process to constantly test and each request and take necessary action in the studio class year in a binder retained by your improve educational methods within the school, spirit of the Studio Culture Policy. Though the respective SAC representatives. while maintaining an attitude of professionalism, processing and outcome of each request will always. Of course, as necessary, the Policy be specific to the individual case, here are the This full Policy will be posted to the School of may be questioned or evaluated throughout steps that would potentially be taken to resolve Architecture’s official website. the academic year; all students, staff and the issue: faculty are free to submit their proposals for the 1. The selected arbitrator will contact the editing, reevaluation and/or amendment of this party submitting the request and will document. However, the Studio Culture Policy discuss the issue at hand will only be officially edited at the start the 2. The arbitrator would initiate a counseled consecutive Fall semester. meeting between parties 3. The parties will then meet in any other necessary setting, whether it be one- on-one or with the Head of School, as decided by the arbitrator Resources

ARCHITECTURE RESOURCES USEFUL WEBSITES JOB SEARCH WEBSITES Main Office 268-2354 www.acsa-arch.org www.aia.org CFA 201 www.aia.org www.aias.org Main Office Fax 268-7819 www.aias.org www.american-architects.com CFA 201 www.archcareers.org www.archinect.com Graduate Admissions 268-5551 www.di.net www.archi-students.org MMCH 410 www.naab.org www.architectjobs.com Graduate Program 268-2363 www.ncarb.org www.california-architects.com MMCH 410 www.cons4arch.com Intelligent Workplace 268-2350 DESIGN COMPETITION WEBSITES www.construction.com MMCH 415 Please visit the following websites to learn more www.jobs.aiapgh.org Architecture Shop 268-2361 about other design competitions: www.ncarb.org CFA A19 www.acsa-arch.org www.newyork-architects.com Digital Fabrication Lab 268-8518 www.aias.org/competitions www.world-architects.com MMCH C4 www.architecturalrecord.com www.bustler.net UNIVERSITY RESOURCES www.di.net Campus Police/Emergencies 268-2323 www.deathbyarch.com UC Information Desk 268-2107 www.thearchitectureroom.com HUB (Enrollment Services) 268-8186 Career Center 268-2064 University Art Store 268-2968 Bookstore and Computer Store 268-2968 Student Life 268-2142 University Health Services 268-2157 Counseling & Psychological Services 268-2922 49 School Administration

Stephen R. Lee, AIA, Professor and Head is Heather Workinger Midgley, PhD, Senior Samantha Carter, Graduate Admissions & responsible for all of the activities of the School. Academic Advisor, assists students in SoArch Outreach Coordinator, assists with He hires faculty and staff and oversees all the establishing their class schedules and gives the graduate admissions process and organizes financial aspects of the School. He is available to guidance about general university regulations. outreach programs to bring architectural education students by appointment. She is responsible for registration and to the Pittsburgh community. transcripts. She can answer scheduling, Mary Lou Arscott, AADip, RIBA, Associate academic audit, and general academic Bob Armitage, Computing Administrator, along Head, is responsible for the evolution of the progress questions. She coordinates with student assistants, comprise the computing undergraduate curriculum and internal and study abroad activities including inquiries, team. They are responsible for the school’s external communications of the School. applications, and transfer credits. computing infrastructure, including hardware, software, servers, workstations, printers, plotters, David Koltas, Assistant Head, is responsible for Alexis McCune, Coordinator of Student and scanners. The computing team is responsible all financial and personnel matters of the School. Programs, organizes undergraduate for projector reservations and managing plot student programs and assists students with monitors who staff the plot office. Diana Martin, Financial Assistant, is responsible professional development and the Intern for day-to-day financial transactions, including Development Program (IDP) as the school’s P. Zach Ali, Digital Fabrication Lab Manager, reimbursable expenses. Teaching assistants, shop Educator Coordinator. She is also responsible is responsible for the operations of the dFab Lab. monitors, office assistants, or work study students for working with prospective students Responsibilities include: Hiring and Management submit their time cards to Diana on a biweekly by managing recruitment efforts and the of dFab Student Monitors; Website Management; basis. admission committee. Materials Stock and Re-Sale; Equipment Management and Training; Billing; Tutorials; Safety Kristen Frambes, Facilities and Special Darlene Covington-Davis, Graduate and Emergency Protocol; Interdepartmental Projects; Projects Manager directs and manages CFA 201 Programs Coordinator, assists in the daily and General Lab Operation and Procedures. work study students and the school facilities. She administration of the graduate programs and coordinates student, faculty and alumni awards, advising current students on administrative faculty promotion & tenure cases, as well as policies and procedures for the school and the special alumni events for the school. university. Directory 51

SoARCH STAFF P. Zachary Ali 268-8520 MMC4 [email protected] dFab Lab Manager & Adjunct Instructor Bob Armitage 268-1542 CFA201 [email protected] Computing Administrator Michelle Bard [email protected] Communications Consultant Samantha Carter 268-5551 MM412G [email protected] Graduate Admissions and SoArch Outreach Coord. Darlene Covington-Davis 268-2363 MM410 [email protected] Coordinator, Graduate Program Liz Fox 268-8178 CFA 104 [email protected] Assistant Dean for Research Kristen Frambes 268-1538 CFA201 [email protected] Facilities & Special Projects Manager Michael Jeffers 268-8520 MMC4 [email protected] Robotics Fellow David Koltas 268-1561 CFA201 [email protected] Assistant Head Alise Kuwahara 268-3726 MM306 [email protected] UDBS Administrative Coordinator Ming Ming Lin 268-3726 MM306 [email protected] UDBS Fellow Diana Martin 268-2356 CFA201 [email protected] Financial Assistant Alexis McCune 268-6390 CFA201 [email protected] Coordinator of Student Programs Heather Workinger Midgley 268-1540 CFA201 [email protected] Senior Academic Advisor

SoARCH FACULTY Omer Akin 268-3594 MM412 [email protected] Professor Mary Lou Arscott MM307 [email protected] Studio Professor & Associate Head Martin Aurand 268-8165 HUNT [email protected] Principal Architcture Librarian/Archivist Nina Baird 268-2350 MM415 [email protected] Adjunct Assistant Professor Nina Barbuto [email protected] Adjunct Instructor Joshua Bard MM310B [email protected] Assistant Professor Eric Brockmeyer [email protected] Adjunct Instructor Kelle Brooks [email protected] Adjunct Assistant Professor Lee Calisti [email protected] Adjunct Associate Professor Don Carter 268-6255 MM412A [email protected] Director: Remaking Cities Institute Dale Clifford 268-7626 MM410E [email protected] Assistant Professor Erica Cochran 268-2350 MM415 [email protected] Assistant Professor, Research Directory continued Doug Cooper 268-2367 MM204B [email protected] Andrew Mellon Professor Freddie Croce [email protected] Adjunct Assistant Professor Dana Cupkova 268-6043 MM310A [email protected] Caste Assistant Professor Gerard Damiani 268-3861 MM301B [email protected] Associate Professor Stefani Danes [email protected] Adjunct Professor Jeff Davis [email protected] Adjunct Professor Rami el Samahy MM307 [email protected] Assistant Teaching Professor Jeremy Ficca 268-6667 MM310C [email protected] Associate Professor Donna Ficca [email protected] Adjunct Assistant Professor John Folan 268-6260 MM306 [email protected] T. David Fitz-Gibbon Associate Professor Madeline Gannon [email protected] Adjunct Instructor Jonathan Golli [email protected] Adjunct Assistant Professor Mark Gross [on leave] [email protected] Professor Kai Gutschow 268-7999 MM302A [email protected] Associate Professor & Thesis Coordinator Volker Hartkopf 268-2351 MM415 [email protected] Professor and Director of CBPD Hal Hayes [email protected] Studio Professor Kelly Hutzell [on leave F13] MM307 [email protected] Associate Teaching Professor Zach Jacobson-Weaver CFA212 [email protected] Adjunct Instructor Julie Kachniasz [email protected] Adjunct Assistant Professor Jeff King [email protected] Adjunct Associate Professor Jonathan Kline 268-6509 MM307 [email protected] Adjunct Associate Professor Ramesh Krishnamurti 268-2360 MM412C [email protected] Professor Kristen Kurland 268-6254 CFA206B [email protected] Teaching Professor Khee Poh Lam 268-8503 MM415 [email protected] Professor Steve Lee 268-3528 CFA 201 [email protected] Professor and Head Nick Liadis [email protected] Adjunct Assistant Professor Cindy Limauro 268-1573 PCA219 [email protected] Professor, School of Drama Vivian Loftness 268-1539 MM415 [email protected] University Professor Jennifer Lucchino [email protected] Adjunct Associate Professor 53

Art Lubetz [email protected] Adjunct Professor Tonya Markiewicz [email protected] Adjunct Assistant Professor Gerry Mattern [email protected] Adjunct Professor Mick McNutt [email protected] Adjunct Assistant Professor Frank P. Melendez 268-6425 MM309 [email protected] George N. Pauly Jr. Assistant Professor Becky Mingo [email protected] Adjunct Assistant Professor Christine Mondor MM307 [email protected] Adjunct Professor James O’Toole [email protected] Adjunct Associate Professor Irving Oppeheim 268-2950 PH107A [email protected] Professor Matt Plecity [email protected] Adjunct Assistant Professor Stephen Quick 268-6509 MM307 [email protected] Adjunct Professor Charles Rosenblum 268-9163 MM301A [email protected] Adjunct Assistant Professor Diane Shaw 268-1525 MM302B [email protected] Associate Professor Scott Smith 268-2291 CFA A19 [email protected] Shop Director Kent Suhrbier [email protected] Adjunct Professor Francesca Torello MM307 [email protected] Adjunct Assistant Professor Varvara Toulkeridou MM402 [email protected] Adjunct Instructor Spike Wolff MM301A [email protected] Adjunct Assistant Professor

SoARCH RESEARCHERS Azizan Aziz 268-6882 MM410F [email protected] AdjunctAssistant Professor & Senior Reasercher of CBPD Fall 2013 Academic Calendar

AUGUST 26 NOVEMBER 4 DECEMBER 3, 4, 6-7, 8 Fall 2011 Semester and Mini-1 Classes Begin Semester Course Drop and Pass/Fail Deadline; SoArch Studio Final Reviews W assigned to courses dropped after this date. SEPTEMBER 2 DECEMBER 9 Labor Day – No Classes NOVEMBER 19 Submission of Studio Documentation Mini-2 Course Drop and Pass/Fail Deadline; SEPTEMBER 25 W assigned to courses dropped after this date. DECEMBER 11 Mini-1 Course Drop and Pass/Fail Deadline; Reading Day W assigned to courses dropped after this date. NOVEMBER 18-22 Spring 2013 Registration Week DECEMBER 9-10, 12-13, 16-17 OCTOBER 7-18 Final Examinations Mini-1 Faculty Course Evaluations NOVEMBER 27-29 SoArch Studio Clean-up Thanksgiving Holiday (no classes) OCTOBER 14 DECEMBER 19 Mini-1 Last Day of Classes DECEMBER 2 - DECEMBER 18 4:00pm All Final Grades Due Mini-1 Last day to drop a class and receive a W Semester & Mini-2 Faculty Course Evaluations

OCTOBER 18 DECEMBER 6 Mini-1 Exam Day (undergraduate) Semester & Mini-2 Last Day of Classes Mid Semester Break (no classes) Semester & Mini 2 Last day to drop a class and receive a W OCTOBER 21 9:00pm Mid-semester Grades Due Mini-2 Classes Begin

OCTOBER 23 6:00pm Mini-1 Final Grades Due Spring 2014 Academic Calendar 55

JANUARY 14 MARCH 17 MAY TBD Spring 2012 Semester and Mini-3 Classes Begin Mini-4 Classes Begin SoArch Studio Final Reviews

JANUARY 20 APRIL 1 MAY TBD Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – No Classes after 12:30pm Semester Course Drop and Pass/Fail Deadline; Submission of Studio Documentation W assigned to courses dropped after this date. FEBRUARY 10 MAY 7 Mini-3 Course Drop and Pass/Fail Deadline; APRIL 14 Reading Day W assigned to courses dropped after this date. Summer 2014 Registration Begins MAY 5-6, 8-9, 12-13 FEBRUARY 24-28 APRIL 14 Final Examinations Mini-3 Faculty Course Evaluations Mini-2 Course Drop and Pass/Fail Deadline; SoArch Studio Clean-up W assigned to courses dropped after this date. MARCH 3 MAY 15 Mini-3 Last Day of Classes APRIL 10-12 6:00pm Final Grades for Graduating Students Mini-3 Last day to drop a class and receive a W Spring Carnival - No Classes MAY 17-18 MARCH 7 APRIL 21-25 Commencement Weekend Mini-3 Exam Day (undergraduate) Fall 2014 Registration Mid-Semester Break - No Classes MAY 20 APRIL 21 - MAY 13 4:00pm Final Grades for Non-Graduating Students MARCH 7-14 Semester & Mini-4 Faculty Course Evaluations Spring Break - No Classes MAY 2 MARCH 11 Semester & Mini-2 Last Day of Classes 9:00pm Mid-semester Grades Due Semester & Mini 2 Last day to drop a class and receive a W MARCH 13 6:00pm Mini-3 Final Grades Due