Courses
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Second Semester Architecture Core: SITUATE
Jeffry Burchard, Tomás dePaor, Elizabeth Christoforetti, Jenny French, Zeina Koreitem, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Patrick McCafferty
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, Silvia Benedito, Danielle Choi, Jill Desimini, Martha Schwartz, Eric de Broche des Combes, Nadir Abdessemed
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
Daniel D’Oca, Stephen Gray, Kathy Spiegelman
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 Architecture Core: RELATE
Jeannette Kuo, Jennifer Bonner, Andrew Holder, Mariana Ibanez, Max Kuo, Carles Muro
The fourth and final semester of the architecture core sequence, this studio tackles the complexity of the urban condition through the design of housing. From…
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Landscape Architecture IV
Pierre Bélanger, Fionn Byrne, Rosetta S. Elkin, Robert Pietrusko, Belinda Tato
Addressing the inertia of urban planning and the overexertion of civil engineering in the 20th century, this course focuses on the design of large, complex,…
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Collaborative Design Engineering Studio II
Chuck Hoberman, Peter Stark, Jock Herron
The aim of the inaugural, two-semester Collaborative Design Engineering studio is to apply multi-disciplinary design thinking to a complex system that matters. Opaque, omnipresent, reflexive,…
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Kandor Architecture
Composition, collage, and montage of precedents, abstract patterns or forms that are not usually associated with architecture – ever since historicism and modernism liberated architects…
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?huh?
“A fundamental tenet of linguistic science is that the sound of a word* has a purely arbitrary connection to the word's* meaning. Thus, the sound…
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Counter-Monumentality: A Big, Vast Interior
Efren Garcia Grinda, Cristina Diaz Moreno
As a continuation of the previous work on Pleasure Gardens, this year the studio will carry out an investigation on the contemporary productive activities, forms…
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Moving Things Around, Exploring Rossi’s Small Scientific Theatre
Aldo Rossi’s project the Small Scientific Theatre from 1978 is taken as a starting point to reflect upon the relation between architecture and image, and…
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Work Environments 3: Space Work
This studio is the third of three sponsored by Knoll that examines, through research and design, the disruptive transformations that occur globally in work environments.
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Urban Villa (Contemporary Triple Decker)
Triple Decker is a housing typology built mostly in the New England region during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by local developers. The…
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Zero Energy Residential High-Rise
As urbanization and internal migration to existing cities has been on the increase, residential high-rise typology became the norm in many countries. Although this typology…
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Material that Connects: A Campus Center in Chicago
The divide in the field of architecture between the socially focused and the formally explorative grows wider. Why are these two vital aspects of design…
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Forms of Energy: Appearance
Late in his career, architectural historian James Ackerman’s attention shifted to the role of magnificence in the work of Michelangelo and Palladio. Ackerman reflected on…
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Building Industries in African Water Cities
This studio will explore the city of Durban to examine the challenges and opportunities presented by the impacts of urbanization in the social, physical, and…
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Countryside: Rotterdam Study Abroad Option Studio
For almost a decade now, more than half of mankind lives in cities – a statistic that has triggered an exclusive focus on the urban,…
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Sea Rise and Sun Set: Modeling Urban Morphologies for Resilience in Miami Beach
"New infrastructure projects are being developed for a landscape that no longer exists.” — Betsy Kolbert, New Yorker This studio will develop strategies for urban…
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SEQUESTROPOLIS: The City as a Machine for Combating Global Warming
Global warming is the biggest challenge that the human race faces today. Our studio will focus on what a city can do to lower global…
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Frontier City
The early 21st century is defined by the information age, and characterized by a shift from traditional industries into a knowledge based economy. This phenomenon…
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Ulsan Remade: Manufacturing the Modern Industrial Landscape
Niall Kirkwood, Francesca Benedetto
This studio will reconsider the City of Ulsan, Republic of Korea’s prime industrial and manufacturing center as part of a more livable and sustainable metropolitan…
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In the Middle of the Streams: Beyond Landscape Architecture Design & Flows
In 2015 Qatar Museums launched an international competition for the rehabilitation of the city’s flour mill complex—a monumental facility located in the Doha harbor— into…
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The Park System as a Catalyst for Urban Regeneration
Two venerable American cities – Baltimore and Boston – are independently considering how their park systems, both products of the late 19th century urban park…
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Type, City, Ecology: Hydro-types and Knowledge Environments for a New Township in India
The Harvard GSD project on Palava City is a two-year sponsored research and design project focused on the challenges posed by the construction of a…
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Savannah: Rethinking the Multi-Scalar Capacity of the City Project
James Oglethorpe’s 1733 plan for the city of Savannah is well known for its strong capacity for creating a city in the countryside, but also…
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Sao Paulo: the Rescaling of Rail Infrastructure and New Models of Domestic Life
This advanced option studio will examine how the rescaling and decking of inner city rail infrastructure can serve as a driver for new sites of…
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Kuala Lumpur / Discovering Traces
Spela Videcnik, Rok Oman, David Rubin
The city is a landscape. The connective tissue that binds us all together is the space between buildings, and sometimes on top of them. It…
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The High Line as Urban Spine
The vast majority of urban development is created without an appropriate conceptual urban framework. In dense urban centers, we find an emerging mixed use typology…
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Landscape Representation II
Building on the foundations of Landscape Representation I, this course investigates further the generative potential of representation as part of a productive feedback loop in…
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Digital Media I: Unseen Harvard: Elements of Ambience
Allen Sayegh, Melissa Franklin
What is an ambiance of a place? Why do you get different feelings from each environment? Are there consistent elements that define ambience? Can we…
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Responsive Environments: CITY eMOTION
This course looks into the future of the built environment from a technologically augmented point of view, with a strong focus on…
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Constructing Visual Narratives of Place
This seminar explores the representation of identity and memory in the city and its territory. The case study is Boston, in its…
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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…
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Painting for Designers: Techniques, Methods and Concepts
The course objective is to advance, through painting, students' visual skills in artistic representation and creative imagination. Assigned and generated by students,…
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The Nature of Difference: Theories and Practices of Landscape Architecture
Anita Berrizbeitia, Delia Wendel
This course explores how notions of cultural difference are embedded in the design of landscape. Social landscapes—as understood through race, class, nationality, indigeneity, disability, gender,…
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Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form
The course is an interpretative look at the characteristic patterns of settlement and attitudes towards cities and urban life that are identified…
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Narratives of Design Science
From Aldo Rossi’s Scientific Autobiography to Buckminster Fuller’s “Design Science”, the intellectual framework and heuristic tools of the exact sciences such as…
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Type and the Idea of the City
Open to all students, the seminars in this course will compliment Option Studio 1504: Type, City, Ecology. It will equip students with…
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Experiments in Public Freedom
As places that accept and encourage multiple representations, cities need spaces to enable unregulated, temporary, and spontaneous events. Due to their role…
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What should or could (scholarly) knowledge look like in the 21st century? A Knowledge Design Seminar
This Humanities Studio course will be run by the metaLAB (at) Harvard team. It will explore the shapes and forms that experimental…
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Material, Atmosphere and Ambience
The seminar introduces understanding of atmosphere and ambience in the discourse of material practice in architecture. The materials are contextual and cultural…
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Today’s architects’ ambitions: in search of a new narrative canon
Since the establishment of the canonical narrative of mid-20th century architecture, we have become accustomed to view current architecture as a result…
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Philosophy of Technology
One hundred story buildings. Parametric design. Zero net energy. 3-D printing of exotic structures. What marvels technology brings us! We acknowledge that…
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Urban Grids: Open form for City Design-2
Framework:Within a larger research scope on “Revisiting the urban grids in the XXI century”, this seminar will focus on the investigation…
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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…
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The Aperture Analyzed: The Form and Space of Openings
This seminar will focus on an essential component of architecture, the aperture, which has broad implications for our understanding of space. An…
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Countryside Futurism: Rotterdam Study Abroad Seminar
The crisis of the city and the return of rural Utopias: Metropolitan centers have become ruralized. It is the militant spirit of the inner city…
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Architecture after neo-liberalism: Rotterdam Study Abroad
Rem Koolhaas’s text, Junkspace, describes architecture as a by-product of modernity, as its waste. Junkspace demontrates that the core value upon which architecture had been…
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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…
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Film Theory, Visual Thinking
How do moving images transform the way we think? Introduction to film theory aimed at interpreting the visual world, and developing skills to analyze films…
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