University of Notre Dame

Course Description

• First-year Architecture students develop fundamental hand drawing and drafting skills alongside courses taken for the University Core Curriculum

• The sophomore year forms the foundation for the principles of construction and their relationship to architectural form and the built environment

• The third year, which the students spend entirely in Rome, explores traditional urbanism and how classical architecture facilitates a humane and sustainable way of life

• By the fourth year, issues of regionalism and cross-cultural values are explored through the typological understanding of the city and its architecture developed during the previous three years

• By the fifth year, the students have forged individual viewpoints about architecture and engaged in a diversity of issues that culminate in their spring thesis studio