Courses
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Responsive Environments: Bergamo eMotion
This course looks into the future of the built environment from a technologically augmented point of view, with a strong focus on sustainability and…
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Fieldwork in Conservation Design
Architects practicing in the 21st century can no longer assume that most of their design projects will begin with an empty site. Several factors –…
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Socio-Environmental Responsive Design
Jose Luis Vallejo, Belinda Tato
This seminar considers the complexity of the human ecosystem and the interpenetration of natural and artificial elements that are embedded within it. People, nature,…
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The Architecture of Health: Power, Technology, and the Hospital
This seminar traces the form of the hospital from the beginning of modern medicine through to the present, across Europe, the United States, 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…
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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…
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Political Landscapes
This course is offered for students enrolled in the Rotterdam Study Abroad Program. This seminar invites students to analyze the political iconography of the countryside,…
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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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The Ruin Aesthetic: Episodes in the History of an Architectural Idea
One of the arresting images in Michel Serres’s Rome: The Book of Foundations is the idea that history is “a knot of different times”…
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Le Corbusier: Themes/Discourse/Figures
Antoine Picon, K. Michael Hays
Half a century after his death, Le Corbusier remains the most emblematic architect of the twentieth century and a major reference for the architectural discipline.
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Countryside versus Cityside: A Seminar in Environmental History
This Course is for students in the Rotterdam Study Abroad Program. Investigating the countryside, as architects, requires a zooming out of the city and the…
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Environment, Economics, and Enterprise
Holly Samuelson, Frank Apeseche
How can one optimize the benefits of environmental or social sustainability while generating a higher return on investment in buildings? Where are the opportunities…
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The Thermal Allometry of Massive, Breathing Buildings
By form and ‘massing’ alone, termite mounds balance the baritone beat of thermal mass with the soprano shrill of surface convection and the tenor pulse…
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Structural Surfaces
This course is about maximum effect with minimum means. Complex surfaces present a wide variety of construction and structural challenges, as well as a…
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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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Life-Cycle Design
The design of sustainable buildings has long focused on reducing energy needs during the operational phase, largely disregarding energy and material consumption as well…
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Genome of the Built Environment: Measuring the Unseen
The built environment is one of the most fascinating yet enigmatic artifact of the human being. We perceive it as a complex entity resulting…
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What is a Thesis? Conversations on Means and Methods of the Thesis Project
Mohsen Mostafavi, John May, Jon Lott
The course is organized around a series of in-depth discussions with leading figures in the design fields. Weekly meetings provide a forum for exploring…
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Art, Design and the Public Domain Pre-Final Project Workshop
Frida Escobedo, James Voorhies
The seminar 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…