Architecture & Sustainable Design

Bachelor of Science Degree (B.S.)

About this program

When you define your future at Penn College, you’re investing in yourself. With a degree in Architecture and Sustainable Design, you’re taking that impact to a whole new level. Explore alternative building methods and technologies that promote energy efficiency, preserve natural resources, and reduce negative environmental impacts.

Graduate School Pathways

24/7

Access to Design Studios

Sustainability Careers are Rapidly Growing

Careers

Sustainable designer
Sustainability contractor
Detailer
Architectural project team member
Graduate school

Courses

At Penn College, we believe your educational experience should go beyond specialized skills. Real-world ready means taking a broader approach that builds communication skills, inspires collaboration, and encourages exploration of arts, history, and science.

Specialization requires in-depth knowledge and high-level proficiency. Students learn and apply major-specific concepts, skills, and methods.

Introduction to Architecture (ACH101)
Architectural Graphics (ACH111)
Building Materials I (ACH119)
Architectural Computer Aided Drafting (ACH135)
Architectural History (ACH112)
Building Codes & Accessibility (ACH141)
Construction Documents - Residential (ACH139)
Building Materials II (ACH129)
Architectural Graphics II (ACH211)
Architectural Design Studio I (ACH181)
Construction Documents - Commercial (ACH239)
Structural Principles (ACH243)
Architectural Design Studio II (ACH261)
Sustainability: Building and Living Green (ACH262)
Computers and Estimating (ACH264)
Environmental Systems (ACH240)
Architectural Design Studio III (ACH281)
Specified Architecture and Sustainable Design Elective (ASD)
Renewable Energy Technologies (BSD420)
Architectural Design Studio IV (BSD332)
Detailing and Applications (BSD340)
Architectural Design Studio V (BSD352)
Sustainable Community Planning and Design (BSD322)
History of Modern Architecture (ACH272)
Historic Preservation (BSD410)
Architectural Design Studio VI (BSD432)
Sustainable Rating Systems (BSD450)
Capstone Studio (BSD497)
Professional Practice of Architecture (BSD460)

Perspectives are points of view, offering a variety of ways of understanding, interacting, and influencing the world. Students identify, explain, and utilize the approaches used by academics and professionals to study, analyze, or understand problems, and offer solutions.

Physics Survey (PHS103) or
Physics with Technological Applications (PHS114)
Science Elective (SCI) or
Science Elective with lab (SCL)
Core Global and Cultural Diversity Perspective (CDP)
Core Social Science Perspective (SSP)

Foundations are the practical, intellectual, and social skills: communication, collaboration, critical and ethical thinking, quantitative thinking, and technological literacy that are crucial to every student at every stage of education and at every stage of life.

College Algebra and Trigonometry I (MTH180)
English Composition I (ENL111)
Speech Elective (SPC)
English Composition II (ENL121) or
Technical and Professional Communication (ENL201)
Introduction to Geometry (MTH172) or
College Algebra and Trigonometry II (MTH182)

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Facilities

Architecture & Sustainable Design Lab Tour

Think you have what it takes to design the future? Meet Professor Dorothy Gerring who will give you a tour of the hands-on studio spaces.

Facilities

Collaborative Studio Space

Mixed use studios carve out space for design presentation, computer work, and layout table with designated model-building areas.

Student Experience

Brent designs spaces for retail clients. He also leads a group that has implemented technologies such as 3D scanning and virtual reality.

“3D scanning captures everything on-site, well beyond the tape and laser, which was the old way of doing things,” Brent says. “We bring that data home, and from there we develop construction drawings.”

Brent Dressler, Larson Design Group

Building Science & Sustainable Design: Architecture Technology Concentration

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