Courses
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Philosophy of Technology
\”In addition to man’s ageless obligation to meet the threat of things, he bears for the first time the responsibility of prime agent…
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Study Abroad Seminar: Contested Territories: Geopolitics, Media and Design in Southern California
As a landscape of tenuous contradictions – cultural complexity and social isolation, exploitative settlement and fulfillment of the American Dream, ecological diversity and environmental degradation…
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Study Abroad Seminar: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Hyperreality
Contemporary postmodern culture is dominated, according to French cultural theorist, Jean Baudrillard, by simulation and hyperreality. In postmodern culture the image has become the new…
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Screens: Media Archaeology and the Visual Arts Seminar
How do screens function as interface between us and the world? What is the role of the screen in contemporary visual arts and media culture?…
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Critical Memory and the Experience of History
This seminar presents selected texts treating architecture as a foundational phenomena of being in the world (Hegel and Heidegger), as well as the…
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Environment, Economics, and Enterprise
Holly Samuelson, Frank Apeseche
How can one optimize the benefits of environmental sustainability while generating a higher return on investment in buildings? Where are the opportunities for real…
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On The Bri[n]ck: Architecture of the Envelope (Canceled)
This course will not be offered in Spring 2014. On the Bri(n)ck: Architectural Envelope traces the historical development of a debate concerning the architectural…
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(Re)fabricating Tectonic Prototypes
Leire Asensio-Villoria, instructor, with Hanif Kara, structural consultant The course is framed by a general ambition to develop explorations in digital design, fabrication and…
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Quantitative Aesthetics: Attention
This course is looking at computational approaches to digital media that allow us to analyze and reinterpret our environment as a signal, creating interactive…
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Designed Porous Media
This seminar is about designing porous surfaces and materials to orchestrate the flow of heat through buildings in novel ways. The primary aim…
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Visualization (at SEAS)
SEAS Computer Science 171 Catalog Number: 8877 Tu., Th., 2:30-4, and a weekly section to be arranged. Please check the…
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The Practice as Project
The role of the architect today is constantly shifting. While society will continue to require numbers of well rounded, licensed and affiliated architects to…
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Proseminar in Art, Design and the Public Domain
Krzysztof Wodiczko, Yanni Loukissas
The proseminar will serve as a space for artistic and design experimentation, and discussion intended to foreground students\’ emergent interests, concepts, and methodologies toward their…
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Discourse and Methods II
This is one of two seminars fulfilling a requirement for successful completion of the PHD curriculum. The seminar is designed as an introduction to canonical…