Building Technology III: Building Structural Systems
MIT's graduate architecture course covers advanced structural systems for buildings, moving from determinate structures into complex indeterminate, long-span, and high-rise designs. Lectures cover reinforced concrete, steel, and engineered wood design, with an introduction to tensile structural systems. The course also examines contemporary exterior envelope design, focusing on performance attributes and advanced manufacturing and production technologies used in building skins. Required for MIT's Master of Architecture students, the course materials include lecture notes and problem sets available through MIT OpenCourseWare, free to access with no certificate offered. The course builds on earlier structural technology coursework and assumes familiarity with basic structural analysis, positioning it as an advanced technical course for students heading toward professional architectural practice.