Courses
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Responsive Environments
The course introduces students to the tools and design methods for creating responsive environments and technologically driven experiences in the built environment. By putting the…
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Images as Instruments
In the last three decades, architectural praxis has undergone a paradigmatic shift, precipitated by what Jonathan Crary delineates as a seismic transformation in visuality—a metamorphosis…
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Drawing for Designers 2: Human Presence and Appearance in Natural and Built Environment
The course is intended as a creative drawing laboratory for designers, an expressive and playful supplement to computer-based labor. The aim of the class is…
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Material Practice and its Agency
This seminar introduces an understanding of material discourse in design and architecture that affects cultural, social, economic, and political issues. In addition to their pragmatic…
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Towards a Newer Brutalism
In the early 1950s, British architects Alison and Peter Smithson announced their arrival with a call for a “new brutalism”—a polemic sketched out over several…
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Digital Material Systems: Ceramics
Digital design and fabrication technologies have become integral to the discourse surrounding contemporary design and architectural practice. The translation from design to realization is mediated…
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Informal Robotics
This course teaches how to create original robotic devices made of light, compliant – informal – materials. New fabrication techniques are transforming the field of…
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Data Science for Environmentally Responsive Buildings
Objective: With extensive high-fidelity measured data collected from modern buildings, data science has become a promising tool for optimizing building performance and design, enhancing the…
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BioFabrication
Rapid global climate change has lent new urgency to our longstanding interest of growing materials to break the unstainable reality of material extraction, use and…
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Machine Aesthetics: The Surrogate of Taste
The use of generative AI models increasingly involves the reliance on a few black box pretrained and centralized models where design intent is conveyed through…
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EMBODIED CARBON- Material Cycles, Circularity, and Advances in Reverse Engineering
At a time when urgent action is needed to avert the climate crisis, it is very difficult to take an idealistic approach when considering key…
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Is the Grass Any Greener? Architectural Practice & Project Delivery Around the World
Conversations about how architectural practice is regulated, how architects do their work, and how construction projects are delivered are typically constrained by regional and national…