Courses
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Second Semester Core: SITUATE
Grace La, Cameron Wu, Elizabeth Whittaker, Jeffry Burchard, Luis Callejas, Victor Navarro Rios
The overarching pedagogical agenda for second semester is to expand upon the design methodologies developed in the first semester such that students acquire an understanding…
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Landscape Architecture II
Anita Berrizbeitia, Rosetta S. Elkin, Shauna Gillies-Smith, Jill Desimini, Kristin Frederickson, Martha Schwartz
Second semester core studio explores the research and design methods associated with interventions in complex urban conditions: sites layered with multiple interventions across a long…
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Second Semester Core Urban Planning Studio
Alex Krieger, Daniel D’Oca, Janne Corneil, Kathryn Madden, Baye Adofo-Wilson
The second semester core planning studio expands the topics and methodologies studied in the first semester core studio, GSD 1121, aiming to prepare students for…
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Fourth Semester Core: RELATE
Carles Muro, Vincent Bandy, Max Kuo, Eric Howeler, Mariana Ibanez, Renata Sentkiewicz
RELATE is the last of a four-semester sequence of studios that aim at introducing the students to architectural design through specific pedagogical lenses. This studio…
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Landscape Architecture IV
Chris Reed, David Mah, Bradley Cantrell, Silvia Benedito, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro
This studio focuses on the development of urban form as driven by ecology and environmental dynamics. The studio will introduce students to methods and representational…
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Portmanian Architecture
Carl Dworkin will be serving as Teaching Associate for this studio. Portmanian Architecture is architecture characterized by the tropes that constitute the famed atrium hotels…
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Chamamé: The intangible rhythms of the Guarani Region
This will be the second of three proposed Architecture Design Studios to study and develop architectural design proposals in an area of South America that…
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Blob Block Slab Mat Slat
Teased over the apparent lack of historical perspective in OMA’s proposal for the extension of the Dutch Parliament (1978), Rem Koolhaas quipped that the brief…
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Boxes for America
This studio is the 13th incarnation of Architecture Without Content. Architecture Without Content started as research on the Big Box in 2010. The idea being…
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Work Environments 1: Campus and Event
This studio is the first out of three studios that examines, through research and design, the disruptive transformations that take place globally in environments where…
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Re-Defining Urban Living
The studio will deal with contemporary urban conditions, exploring optimal ways to live in the city but also the meaning of overused terms such as…
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OBJECT STUDIO
Our objective will be to precisely define projects based on the simultaneous presence of three conditions: 1_ Place. Here, it is the city, at…
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Spartan Unwonted
I’ll have the “Spartan” Special rare, please with a side of straddle-ramp salad just a touch of Boudoir sauce and a…
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Third Natures: London Pleasure Gardens
Cristina Diaz Moreno, Efren Garcia Grinda
Cristina Díaz Moreno & Efrén Garcia Grinda (The Consortium of Fantastic Ideas) The notion of the building as a Third Nature explores the possibility of…
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Agora MML : Reimaging La Merced Market as a New Landscape of Agricultural and Cultural Endeavors
Teaching Associate: Adriana Chávez Emergent conditions demand new paradigms in all fields. In today´s new world, old categories will not suffice: local vs. global, modern…
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Montreal is Back: It’s time to say goodbye to Place des Nations
Renee Daoust, Aisling O’Carroll
Montreal Is Back: it’s time to say goodbye to Place des Nations Place des Nations 2017 – towards a new iconicity The heritage view…
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The Barracks of Pion: Developing the edge of the Park of Versailles
Michel Desvigne, Inessa Hansch
Versailles is often considered as the place of the invention of the classic city. Strikingly, the shapes of the city respond to those of the…
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America’s Boutique City
Adriaan Geuze, Claire Agre, Rachel Laszlo Tait
With the rise of new economies and the influx of Millennials and Empty Nesters, it seems there is a new urban biotope. Some American cities…
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Craft, Politics, and the Production of Housing in Oaxaca, Mexico
Studio Overview: This is the 2nd studio sponsored by INFONAVIT, the federal agency responsible for the origination of home mortgages for workers across the…
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Re-thinking “Urban Grids” in Hangzhou
The construction of modern Hangzhou can be seen as a laboratory of urban projects and planning strategies. Its recent development has occurred at unprecedented rates,…
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A Campus for the 21st Century: The Purisima Alameda District of Monterrey
Felipe Correa, Carlos Garciavelez
This option studio will examine the role of the academic institution as a driver of an intermediate scale urban project. The studio will focus on…
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Extreme Urbanism III
Jose Mayoral Mortilla will serve as Teaching Associate for this studio. The South Asian city exemplifies contemporary challenges in planning, designing, and constructing the built…
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The Calumet Collaborations: Daniel Burnham Meets Andre Breton on the South Side of Chicago
Chicago, lake-sided and magnificently flat, gridded to the horizon, studied and troubled, is ever ready for reimagining. What better moment than the impending 119th anniversary…
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Study Abroad Option Studio: “Poor but Sexy”: Berlin, The New Communal
Frank Barkow, Arno Brandlhuber
Former Berlin Mayor Klaus “Wowi” Wowereit’s claim in 2004 that Berlin is “Arm aber Sexy”, poor but sexy, set the tone for a post-reunification milieu…
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Landscape Representation II
Building on the foundation established in Landscape Representation I, this course seeks to expand on the essential tools and methods required to develop, test, produce,…
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Responsive Environments: Glitchy Food
Today, more than ever before, we feel the technological presence as part of our everyday life. The all-pervasive nature of digital information and technological interaction…
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Superficial Spaces
At a time when architectural discourse and practice are (still) brimming with references to new geometries, this offering investigates the architectural potential of abstract three-dimensional…
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Conic and Developable Surfaces
In terms of Differential Geometry, developable surfaces are defined as those with vanishing Gaussian curvature which can be unrolled to a plane without distortion.
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Landscape as Painting
The course objective is to advance through painting students visual skills in artistic representation and creative imagination. Assigned and generated by students projects will…
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Projection/Installation/Intervention
The course will focus on the ways in which designers and artists can help monuments \”entrenched in the past\” to become enlivened for the living…
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Theories of Landscape Architecture
This course will explore the \’know why\’ of landscape architecture since the Second World War, juxtaposing both the built works and the writings of landscape…
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Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form
Lecture meets T/Th 1-2 pm in Gund 111. The graduate section will meet the first week, Tuesday 1/27 at 11:30 in Gund 510.
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Critical Conservation: Urban Cultural Ecologies of Progressive Places
Critical Conservation seeks to disentangle the complex web of 19th c. elite values of historic preservation and 20th c. mass-culture strategies that together complicate 21st…
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Design Anthropology: Objects, Landscapes, Cities
In recent years, there has been a movement in anthropology toward a focus on objects, while design and planning have been moving toward the understanding…
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Canceled: Urbanism, Quantified: Modalities of mapping and modeling in contemporary design practice
Contemporary design practice has a habit of qualifying the word “urbanism” with any number of modifiers: Ecological Urbanism. Landscape Urbanism. Relational Urbanism. Tactical Urbanism. These…
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Film, Media, Space (at VES)
The possibility to access the media everywhere and every time gives us the illusion to be emancipated from any temporal or spatial constraint and yet,…
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Soft Thought: Towards a Theory of Computational Design
Digital design remains one of the few areas within the discipline of architecture that remains relatively under theorized. This situation is in part the result…
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The Subject and the City
This seminar takes as its premise that a history and theory of the city cannot be known without an accompanying history and theory of the…
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Digital Culture, Architecture and the City
Some twenty years ago, when Bernard Tschumi and young instructors like Greg Lynn or Ali Rahim launched the so-called \”Paperless Studio,\” based upon the intensive…
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The Mixed-Reality City: The urban fabric as landscape, network, and platform
The contemporary city is constituted by multiple overlapping, intermixing realities articulated across built form and imagined space, individual experience and collective memory, embodied sensation and…
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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 in the…
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Light Structures II
Light Structure The seminar is a one yearlong study of Light Structure spanning two semesters, fall 2014 and spring 2015. The students can…
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Urban Grids: Score for Designing the City: Seminal Projects
Framework: Within a larger research scope on “Revisiting the urban grids in the XXI century”, this seminar will focus on the investigation of…
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Potential Architecture
The work of the architect, the urban designer and designers at large is conditioned by a number of factors that delimit and demarcate the designer\’s…
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Berlin Study Abroad Seminar: Plattenbau vs. the New Communal. Mass Housing, Alternative Dwelling Models, and a theory of Shared Spaces in Germany
With equal emphasis on historical and theoretical analysis, this seminar investigates the potential offered by various forms of historic alternative dwelling, and new ways to…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts II
Any account of architecture’s history over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries is faced with the challenge of addressing the general rupture caused…
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Histories of Landscape Architecture II: Design, Representation, and Use
This course introduces students to relevant topics, themes, and sites that help us understand the conception, production, evolution, and reception of designed and found landscapes…
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Modernization in the Visual United States Environment, 1890-2035
Modernization of the United States visual environment as directed by a nobility creating new images and perceptions of such themes as wilderness, flight, privacy, clothing,…
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Adventure and Fantasy Simulation, 1871-2036
Visual constituents of high adventure since the late Victorian era, emphasizing wandering woods, rogues, tomboys, women adventurers, faerie antecedents, halflings, crypto-cartography, Third-Path turning, martial arts,…
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Translating Architecture: Walter Gropius and the Legacy of the Bauhaus
The inspiration behind this course is Walter Gropius (1883-1969), German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who subsequently moved to the United States, and…
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