Technology
Area Coordinator: Kostas Terzidis, Associate Professor of Architecture
This study area positions technology as an enabler of design and as a tool to broaden design inquiry, and highlights emerging fields and innovations impacting design research and the practice of design. Three specific areas of design technology and innovation are covered in these courses.
- Advanced Materials and Systems courses study smart materials and environments, high performance materials and advanced structural materials and systems.
- Design Computation covers programming, algorithm design and scripting techniques, kinetic design, database design, parametric modeling and other dimensionally-driven modeling, interactive environments and other computational approaches to design.
- Digital Design and Manufacturing—a historic strength of the GSD—leverages technology transfer in the investigation of digital design of architectural components and products. The GSD offers students exceptionally well-equipped workshop space for this area of study. A recent interest in this concentration area is construction automation and robotic fabrication.
Required Courses:
2311 Algorithmic Architecture
6317 CAD/CAM
6331 Building Information Models
9304 Independent Thesis
Typical electives are listed under the specific areas of technology.
Related Faculty
Martin Bechthold, Professor of Architectural Technology
Paul Cote, Lecturer in Landscape Architecture
Ken Kao, Lecturer in Architecture
Stephen Ervin, Lecturer in Landscape Architecture
Mark Mulligan, Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture
Allen Sayegh, Lecturer in Architecture
Daniel L. Schodek, Kumagai Research Professor of Architectural Technology
Michael Schroeder, Lecturer in Architecture
Thomas Schroepfer, Assistant Professor of Architecture
Matthias Schuler, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Technology
Kostas Terzidis, Associate Professor of Architecture
Student Profiles
Alumnus: Alex Hirsig
Alumnus: August de los Reyes