Focus Area
Climate Action

At Taubman College, we promote climate-centered research, creative practice and education connected to other departments at the University of Michigan and beyond. Our faculty are leading experts in the area of low-carbon building assemblies and materials, computational design and fabrication processes, high-performance buildings and renewable energy, extreme heat and water management in urban contexts, equitable transportation, energy, and food systems, urban transformation, adaptive reuse and degrowth.

Courses offered allow students to build expertise in the following subareas:

Required Courses

• ARCH 515, Sustainable Systems

Elective Courses

Resilience

• ARCH 409, Health By Design II
• ARCH 423, Introduction to Urban and Environmental Planning
• ARCH 425, Environmental Systems
• ARCH 505, Building Enclosure Systems
• ARCH 505, High Performance Building Design
• ARCH 505, Sustainability and Affordability
• ARCH 506, Radical Vernacular
• ARCH 509, High Density
• ARCH 517, Architect/Planner as Developer
• ARCH 535, Case Studies of Environmental Technology
• ARCH 555 / 825, Building Systems & Energy Conservation
• ARCH 575, Building Ecology
• ARCH 585, Advanced Building Technology
• ARCH 672 / UD 732, Urban Design Studio III
• ARCH 672, In Praise of Shadows

Non-ARCH Courses

• URP 423, Introduction to Urban and Environmental Planning
• URP 445 / 545, Climate Change in Cities

Circular Economy

• ARCH 507, Bio-materials for Designers

Non-ARCH Courses

• URP 427 / 527, Foundations of Sustainable Food Systems

Climate Justice

• ARCH 509-06, Climates: Actions for Good Living
• ARCH 509-24, Inclusive Neighborhood Development
• ARCH 603 / 409, Your Life in Ruins: Architecture in the Trans-Apocalypse
• ARCH 603 / 409, Under the Campus, the Land

Non-ARCH Courses

• URP 523, Comparative Participatory Planning and Community Development
• URP 552, Healthy Cities

Research Clusters and Initiatives