Program Requirements
The M.Arch. (Professional); Non-Thesis degree program provides a structured opportunity to explore advanced architectural design, integrating building construction, landscape and urban design, professional practice, sustainable design, and the history and theory of architecture. A strategic focus on design methodology, innovative research, and self-directed inquiry, supported by the advanced media and modeling technologies and other resources required to carry out architectural research and creative practice.
Required Courses (42 credits)
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ARCH 672 Architectural Design Studio 1 (9 credits)
Overview
Architecture : Comprehensive design investigation of interrelated architectural-engineering-landscape concepts and systems; development and application of design methods fit for the changing climates and conditions of this century.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Davies, Howard; Branda, Ewan; Pariseau, Kim (Fall)
(0-9-18)
Corequisite: ARCH 678.
Restriction: Open only to students enrolled in M.Arch. (Professional) program.
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ARCH 673 Architectural Design Studio 2 (9 credits)
Overview
Architecture : A project-based graduate studio focused on the integration of skills and research to tackle contemporary global issues in architecture and urban design.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Davies, Howard; Laptiste, Shane; Taylor, Rebecca; T眉reli, Ipek (Winter)
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ARCH 674 Professional Practice 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : The Professional Code, the Architect's Act and the architect's responsibilities to clients, colleagues and society, including professional ethics, responsibility in design, contractual arrangements, business conduct, construction supervision, issuing of certificates, construction and project management, concepts of architectural specification writing, building costs and life cycle costing.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Plourde, Marc-Andr茅 (Winter)
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ARCH 676 Advanced Architectural Design (9 credits)
Overview
Architecture : Research and design-based graduate studio focused on investigation of architectural and urban issues.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Jemtrud, Michael; King, Andrew (Fall)
(12-0-15)
Prerquisite(s): ARCH 673
Restrictions: Open only to students enrolled in M.Arch. (Professional); Non-Thesis program.
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ARCH 678 Advanced Construction (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : An exploration of construction in relation to architectural design; research in advanced methods of construction and structure related to design problems and built projects; appropriate technologies and alternatives.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Davies, Howard; Davies, Trevor (Fall)
(2-0-7)
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ARCH 683 Directed Research Project (9 credits)
Overview
Architecture : Design-based research project focused on scholarly investigation and the presentation of results in appropriate graphic and written form.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Jemtrud, Michael; King, Andrew (Winter)
(12-0-15)
Prerequisite: ARCH 676
Complementary Courses (18 credits)
18 credits chosen from among the following:
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ARCH 514 Community Design Workshop (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : Context-focused community-based architectural projects undertaken in collaboration with external partners. Exploration of challenges, needs, and opportunities in architectural and urban-design interventions on real sites through interdisciplinary and cross-sectorial collaboration.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
(1-4-4)
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking URBP 514.
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ARCH 515 Sustainable Design (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : This course will address sustainable design theory and applications in the built environment with students from a variety of fields (architecture, urban planning, engineering, sociology, environmental studies, economics, international studies). Architecture will provide the focus for environmental, socio-cultural and economic issues.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
(3-0-6)
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ARCH 517 Sustainable Residential Development (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : Design strategies of sustainable residential environments at the community and the unit levels. Historic references, siting principles, high density, healthy developments, green homes, urban renewal, circulation and parking, open spaces and implementation approaches.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Friedman, Abraham (Fall)
(3-0-6)
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ARCH 525 Seminar on Analysis and Theory (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : Analysis and evaluation of significant architectural projects with reference to contemporary architectural theories.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
(2-0-7)
Prerequisite: ARCH 202 or permission of instructor
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ARCH 528 History of Housing (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : Indigenous housing both transient and permanent, from the standpoint of individual structure and pattern of settlements. The principal historic examples of houses including housing in the age of industrial revolution and contemporary housing.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Adams, Annmarie (Fall)
(2-0-7)
Prerequisite: ARCH 251 or permission of instructor
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ARCH 531 Architectural Intentions Vitruvius - Renaissance (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : Architectural intentions embodied in buildings and writings of architects from antiquity to the Renaissance. Special emphasis is placed on the cultural connections of architecture to science and philosophy.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Caicco, Gregory (Fall)
(2-0-7)
Prerequisite: ARCH 251
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ARCH 532 Origins of Modern Architecture (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : Examination of architectural intentions (theory and practice) in the European context (especially France, Italy and England), during the crucial period that marks the beginning of the modern era.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
(2-0-7)
Prerequisite: ARCH 251
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ARCH 535 History of Architecture in Canada (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : French, British and American influences in the history of Canadian architecture, with particular emphasis on the Eastern Provinces. Site visits and case studies.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Gersovitz, Julia (Fall)
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ARCH 536 Heritage Conservation (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : Historic attitudes and terminologies of conservation; historic research techniques. Restoration technology of building materials and principles of interior design in the 19th and 20th century; current preservation planning.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Gersovitz, Julia (Winter)
(3-3-3)
Site visits and case studies.
Prerequisite: ARCH 251 or permission of instructor.
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ARCH 540 Selected Topics in Architecture 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : A course to allow the introduction of new topics in Architecture as needs arise, by regular and visiting staff.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: King, Andrew (Fall)
(2-0-7)
Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fourth lecture day.
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ARCH 541 Selected Topics in Architecture 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : A course to allow the introduction of new topics in Architecture as needs arise, by regular and visiting staff.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Dunton, Nancy Hawley (Fall)
(2-0-7)
Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fourth lecture day.
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ARCH 542 Selected Topics in Architecture 3 (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : Special topics related to architecture will be presented by core faculty and visiting lecturers.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Covo, David (Winter)
(2-0-7)
Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fourth lecture day.
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ARCH 543 Selected Topics in Architecture 4 (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : Special topics related to architecture will be presented by core faculty and visiting lecturers.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Branda, Ewan (Winter)
(2-0-7)
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ARCH 562 Innovative Homes and Communities (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : Innovative design concepts for sustainable homes and communities to include adaptability; net-zero energy; micro units; recycling; plug and play; green roofs; aging in place and live-work.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Friedman, Abraham (Winter)
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ARCH 604 Urban Design Seminar (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : Advanced concepts and methods used in urban design, focusing on epistemological debates, practical techniques, and philosophical concerns that shape contemporary theory and practice in the field.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
(1-2-6)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken URBP 604.
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ARCH 627 Research Methods (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : Survey of research methods relevant to architecture. Introduction to research ethics; differentiating between primary and secondary methods; contrasting macro- and micro-social approaches; setting research questions; undertaking literature scans; reviewing empirical findings by others; designing instruments and tools for primary research; conducting field research; presenting findings.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
(2-1-6)
Restriction: Open only to students enrolled in the M.Arch. (Professional), M.Arch. (Post-professional) and Ph.D. in Architecture programs.
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ARCH 641 Energy and Environments 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : Examination of technical relationships among building materials, architectural proportions, thermoregulation strategies, and human capacity to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
(2-1-6)
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ARCH 642 Energy and Environments 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : Theories and methods for the energetic and environmental basis of architecture.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Rondinel, Daniel (Winter)
(3-0-6).
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ARCH 670 Advanced Landscape
Theory (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : Landscape as both process and medium linking human history and environmental change. Abiotic and biotic processes. Conceptualizations of nature, ecology, and landscape. Climate change and other anthropogenic impacts. Design as discipline-transcending work at multiple scales.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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ARCH 675 Architecture in Global
Perspective (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : Global history of architecture and urbanism, examining contemporary cities with an architectural lens. Case studies are presented to develop capacities for critical analysis of the built environment. Key ideas and ongoing debates on urbanism and architectural design.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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ARCH 680 Field Sketching (2 credits)
Overview
Architecture : Seven days of supervised field sketching in selected locations outside Montreal. The course reinforces traditional skills in observation, notebook recording and architectural sketching. Students are encouraged to approach the subject critically and thematically, and to treat sketching as a mechanism for documenting experience and expressing their knowledge of the environment.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Covo, David (Fall)
(15-40-6)
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ARCH 684 Contemporary Theory 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : Seminar exploring critical readings in architectural design and research.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
(3-0-6)
Restriction: Only open to students enrolled in a Master's program offered by the School.
Note: A variety of topics will be chosen for the seminar each year.
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ARCH 685 Contemporary Theory 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : Seminar exploring critical readings in architectural design and research.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Leblanc, Maxime (Winter)
(3-0-6)
Restriction: Only open to students enrolled in a Master's program offered by the School.
Note: A variety of topics will be chosen for the seminar each year.
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ARCH 688 Directed Research 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : Directed research in topics of specialized areas of architecture and design practice.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
(0-0-9)
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Restriction(s): Open only to students enrolled in M.Arch. (Professional) Non-Thesis; Design Studio - Directed Research.
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ARCH 689 Directed Research 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : Directed research in topics of specialized areas of architecture and design practice.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
(0-0-9)
Prerequisite(s): ARCH 688 and permission of instructor
Restriction: Open only to students enrolled in M.Arch. (Professional) Non-Thesis; Studio Design - Directed Research.
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OCC1 625 Functional Environments (3 credits)
Overview
Occupational Therapy : Problems and solutions of the environment that impact negatively on the physically or mentally disabled individual.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Restriction: M1 OT and Architecture students only
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URBP 555 Real Estate and Planning (3 credits)
Overview
Urban Planning : Basic concepts of real estate and property rights and how these are valued. The specificities of property markets and their segmentation. The paradox of realestate uniqueness. Actors and processes of realestate development and investment in practical terms (proforma analysis, investment analysis, leases and property management) and broader terms (institutional investors, financialization). Segmentation of development processes among local, supralocal and international actors, including consultants. Roles of the planner and planning regulations途 how these affect property values and property development with specific reference to Qu茅bec planning legislation and powers. Market evaluation and analysis of the development potential of specific sites.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Shearmur, Richard George (Winter)
(3-0-6)
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken URBP 617 in winter 2017.
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URBP 651 Redesigning Suburban Space (3 credits)
Overview
Urban Planning : Planning and urban design strategies for transforming suburban and exurban settings in North America to meet contemporary needs. Critical approaches to responsible practice in existing cultural landscapes. Adaptive reuse of public space, intensification, densification, transit-oriented retrofit of urban form, community-based design development.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
