Week long orientation to the School community, the City and the study of design one week prior to the start of Winter Session Term 1. Credit will be granted for only one of ENDS 101 or DES 101. Pass/Fail. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 110 (3) Measured Architectural Drawing
Techniques applicable to analytic and technical drawing used in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design with focus primarily on analog drawing techniques. Open to all UBC students regardless of prior experience. Credit will be granted for only one of ENDS 110 or DES 110.
DES_V 130 (3) Design, Culture and Ecology
Survey of the visual, cultural, ecological and spatial literacies in architectural and urban design.
DES_V 200 (3) Design Thinking
Design thinking through the analysis of architecture, landscape architecture and urban design and through hands-on design projects. This course is open to all UBC students, regardless of prior experience. Credit will granted for only one of ENDS 231 or DES 200. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 201 (6) Design Studio I - Context and Site
Design within the context of various analytical lenses including ecological, climatic, social, political, cultural and historical influences. Prerequisite: One of DES 110, VISA 180. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 202 (6) Design Studio II - Form
Essential processes and methods for thinking in three-dimensional spatial terms. Prerequisite: A grade of 60% or better in DES_V 201. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 211 (3) Design Media I
Techniques in architectural drawing, two-dimensional representation, three-dimensional representation and general visual literacy. Credit will be granted for only one of ENDS 320, ARCH 515 or DES 211. Prerequisite: One of DES 110, VISA 180. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 212 (3) Design Media II
Advanced techniques in architectural representation and discourse in digital representation and digital making. Credit will be granted for only one of ARCH 437, ARCH 517 or DES 212. Prerequisite: DES 211. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 220 (3) Architecture and Urbanism in Context: Vancouver and its Region
The unfolding architecture and urbanism of Metro Vancouver. Using Vancouver as a laboratory to examine the historical transformation of the built environment, and how this has affected particular activities, land uses, and social groups within the region. Open enrolment course. Credit will be granted for only one of ENDS 220 or DES 220.
DES_V 230 (3) Sustainability by Design
Interactions between human and natural urban systems using local and international examples of successful sustainable community designs. This course is open to all UBC students, regardless of prior experience. Credit will be granted for only one of ENDS 221 or DES 230. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 231 (3) Site Analysis and Planning
Analysis and planning of relatively complex sites, emphasizing storm water management design. Credit will be given for only one of DES 231, LARC 440, or LARC 540. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 232 (3) Material Culture
An investigation of building materials and associated design objectives, environmental conditions, historical context, regulatory controls, and economic constraints. Credit will be granted for only one of DES 232 or ARCH 411. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 301 (9) Design Studio III - Building Scale Synthesis
Design at the architectural scale through the medium of program and site. Prerequisite: A grade of 60% or better in DES_V 202. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 302 (9) Design Studio IV - Vancouver
Vancouver as a laboratory for design at the architectural and urban scale with a focused view into how design is implicated in the social, political, and environmental transformation of the city. Prerequisite: A grade of 60% or better in DES_V 301. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 320 (3) History of the Design of the Built Environment
A broad historical introduction to architectural and landscape architectural design within the context of politics, economics and culture. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 321 (3-9) Topics in Architectural History I (Pre-1900)
History of architecture in the pre-1900 time period. Technological, political, social, and economic changes that have influenced architecture and related fields. Credit will be granted for only one of DES_V 321, ARCH_V 404 or ARCH_V 504. Prerequisite: DES_V 320. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 322 (3-9) Topics in Architectural History II (1900-Present)
History of architecture in the post-1900 time period. Technological, political, social, and economic changes which have influenced architecture and related fields. Credit will be granted for only one of DES 322, ARCH 405 or ARCH 505. Prerequisite: DES 320. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 323 (3) Histories in Landscape Architecture
Landscapes from medieval times to the present studied synchronically across design elements as well as chronologically with the development of several key historical concepts. Prerequisite: DES 320. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 330 (3) Structural Systems and Supports
Basic structural systems in the built world including wood, steel, concrete, composite systems and essential structural logics of soil retention systems and drainage. Prerequisite: All of DES 231, DES 232. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 341 (3) Co-operative Education Work Term I
Supervised, technical work- integrated learning experience in a public or private organization for a minimum of three months. Formal co-op assignments required. Restricted to undergraduate students meeting the requirements of the Bachelor of Design and the Co-operative Education Program. Prerequisite: APSC 107. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 350 (3) Design Build
Direct hands-on confrontation with the realities of design and construction, engaging in both conventional and unconventional building processes. Prerequisite: DES 302.
DES_V 401 (9) Design Studio V - Urban Systems Scale Synthesis
Relationships between communities and environment, urban infrastructure and ecological systems. Prerequisite: A grade of 60% or better in DES_V 302. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 402 (9) Design Studio VI - Away
A design project engaged with an international context and site. Emphasis placed on mapping, interpretation of the international context as well as methods of construction, notions of program, and policies, regulations and codes that relate to the site. Prerequisite: A grade of 60% or better in DES_V 401. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 403 (9) Senior Design Project
Final design project in the Honours Option with an independently conceived methodology allowing a student the opportunity to pursue his/her own set of interests and concerns. Prerequisite: A sessional average of 80% or better in each of years 2 and 3 and a grade of 80% or better in each of DES 201, 202, 301, 302 and DES 401. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 421 (3) Design Theory
Introduction to a broad range of theories in architecture and design as they relate to the built environment. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 422 (3) Urbanism by Design
A history of the planning, landscape architecture and urban design of cities, and of how ideas have influenced the design of the city. Prerequisite: One of DES 321, DES 322, DES 323. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 430 (3) Environment, Urban Form, and Infrastructure
Relationships between, and integration of, the natural environment and the physical form, spatial structure, and infrastructure of livability of cities. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 442 (3) Co-operative Education Work Term II
Supervised, technical work- integrated learning experience in a public or private organization for a minimum of three months. Formal co-op assignments required. Restricted to undergraduate students meeting the requirements of the Bachelor of Design and the Co-operative Education Program. Prerequisite: DES 341. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 443 (3) Co-operative Education Work Term III
Supervised, technical work- integrated learning experience in a public or private organization for a minimum of three months. Formal co-op assignments required. Restricted to undergraduate students meeting the requirements of the Bachelor of Design and the Co-operative Education Program. Prerequisite: DES 442. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 444 (3) Co-operative Education Work Term IV
Supervised, technical work- integrated learning experience in a public or private organization for a minimum of three months. Formal co-op assignments required. Restricted to undergraduate students meeting the requirements of the Bachelor of Design and the Co-operative Education Program. Prerequisite: DES 443. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 445 (3) Entrepreneurship and Ethics in Design
Core business skills, building on students' design capabilities to pursue ethical and sustainable design-based business goals. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 450 (1-9) Special Topics
This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 562 (3) Research Seminar
Processes, procedures, ethics and quality expectations of advanced research. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 565 (3-6) Research Colloquium
Pass/fail. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 567 (3-6) Directed Reading in Design, Technology and Society
This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
DES_V 699 (0) Doctoral Dissertation
Pass/fail. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.