Courses
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Landscape Representation II
The Landscape Representation II course will examine the relationship between terrain and the dynamic landscape it supports and engenders. The course explores and challenges the…
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Digital Media: Writing Form
This course offers an introduction to the field of design and computation through the essential pursuit of writing form. Setting aside the better-known paradigms of…
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Digital Media: Models
This course is an introduction to fundamental concepts, techniques, and methods related to digital media in architecture and design, with a focus on reciprocal processes…
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Digital Media: Not Magic
According to folklore, Michelangelo fell to his knees upon seeing the Florentine fresco Annunciation, went silent, and eventually concluded that the image of the Virgin…
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Theories and Practices of Landscape Architecture
Pablo Pérez-Ramos, Anita Berrizbeitia
What do you need to know in order to understand this landscape? How do design culture and design thinking transform over time? How are cultural…
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Design Teaching Lab (DTL)
This course teaches design teaching for those interested in pursuing parallel paths in design and education. Starting from an understanding of design as a culture…
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Redefining Urban Design
The field of urban design is undergoing a process of major transformation. Josep Lluís Sert’s initial definition as the space between planning and architecture, emphasizing…
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Histories of Landscape Architecture II
Designed gardens and landscapes are cultural artifacts that encompass three main expectations: pragmatic needs, cultural significance, and aesthetic order. Although some landscape narratives often ignore…
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Urban Planning Theory and Praxis: Comparative-Historical Origins and Applications
This course takes as its point of departure the historical and national origins of planning as a discipline, assesses its evolution over time and across…
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Modernization in the Visual United States Environment, 1890-2035
Here find an ecology of changes, a course on the ecosystem of change so rapid most thoughtful Americans know it as modernization. Design remembered and…
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Cities, Infrastructures, and Politics: From Renaissance to Smart Technologies
Infrastructure plays a decisive role in urban development and in the life of cities. This course will envisage this role from a historical perspective. History…
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Competing Visions of Modernity in Japan
The course will trace the parallel trajectories of two of modern Japan’s most influential schools of architectural thought, represented by Tange Kenzō (1913–2005) on the…
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Topology and Imagination: Between Chinese Landscapes and Architecture
This course deals with landscape architecture and architecture in contemporary China. Its purpose is twofold: to articulate new perspectives on the challenges facing designers, and…
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Displaced Becomings –The Many Faces of Modern Architecture in Sinophone Asia
The idea was that in [a] society, one that's incompletely modernized… the temporal dynamics of that society, and of the modernism that it produces, will…
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Architecture and Poststructuralism
We set the stage by means of a persistent dilemma shaping aesthetic practices as it was inaugurated by concepts from Kant and Hegel: Is architecture…
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Public and Private Development
Jerold S. Kayden, Kristen Hunter
Cities are developed by a complex blend of public and private actors and actions. Using lectures, discussions, guest case studies, individual and team exercises, and…
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Advanced Real Estate Finance, Development, and Management
5205 It is an essential course for anyone going into real estate development, acquisitions, asset management, or private equity. This year’s course is divided into…
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Cities by Design
Yun Fu, Eve Blau, Joan Busquets, Rahul Mehrotra, Peter Rowe, Dana McKinney White, Alexander von Hoffman, Dan Stubbergaard, Jerold S. Kayden
Cities by Design is concerned with the in-depth and longitudinal examination of urban conditions in and among select cities in the world. The broad aims…
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Equitable Development and Housing Policy in Urban Settings (at HKS)
An introduction to policymaking in American cities, focusing on economic, demographic, institutional, and political settings. It examines inclusive and equitable economic development and job growth…
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Real Estate Law
This course examines, through the lens of the legal documents involved, the real estate law concepts relevant to the development, acquisition and operations of real…
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Project Management, Construction Management, New Technologies
This course focuses on three crucial aspects of real estate practice: project management, construction management, and new technologies. The project management portion will cover the…
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Introduction to Real Estate Finance, Development, and Management
This course teaches the fundamentals of real estate finance, management, and development. Lectures and supplemental videos introduce students to the full range of financial analysis…
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U. S. Housing Markets, Problems, and Policies
This course examines the operation of U.S. housing markets, the principal housing problems facing the nation, and policy approaches to address them within the existing…
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Urban Design for Planners
This seminar course introduces planners and others interested in urban development to the history, principles, and processes of urban design and its indelible impact on…
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Native Americans in the 21st Century: Nation Building II (at HKS)
This community based research course focuses on some of the major issues Native American Indian tribes and nations face in the 21st century. It provides…
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Modern Housing and Urban Districts: Concepts, Cases, and Comparisons
This course deals with ‘modern housing’ covering a period primarily from the 1900s to the present. It engages with ‘urban districts’ in so far as…
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Public Finance for Planners: Creating Equitable & Sustainable Communities
Infrastructure challenges are significant and rising. To meet these challenges, urban planners will need to acquire foundational knowledge and skills in the public finance discipline…
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International Real Estate and Urban Development
Real estate, in the international realm, is anchored at the intersection of economic activities, capital flows, and the spatial transformation of the environment. While different…
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Climate Change, Real Estate, and Public Policy [Module 1]
Climate change is increasingly affecting people and cities worldwide. The impacts of sea level rise, storms, heat waves, droughts, and wildfires are growing. Yet, while…
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Real Estate Private Equity and Capital Markets [Module 2]
Daniel Dubrowski, Dan Cummings
Through lectures, case studies, and expert panel discussions, this module will explore the evolution of institutional real estate capital markets with a particular focus on…
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Urban Governance and the Politics of Planning in the Global South
This course starts from the premise that urban politics and governance arrangements shape the character, form, and function of cities as well as the planning…
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Building Simulation
Ali Malkawi, Carlos Cerezo Davila
This course is the third of four modules (6121, 6122, 6125, & 6126) and constitutes part of the core curriculum in architecture. Objective: The best…
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Materials
This course explores the science and design of materials. How do we classify materials? Why do we build with certain materials? What are the energy,…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies II
Karen Janosky, Catherine Miller, Kirt Rieder
This course is required for all first-year MLA I and MLA I AP students. Topography is one of the primary and most powerful elements of…
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Structural Design 1
This course introduces students to the analysis and design of structural systems. The fundamental principles of statics, structural loads, and rigid body equilibrium are considered…
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Cases in Contemporary Construction
As the final component in the required sequence of technology courses, this professionally-oriented course develops an integral understanding of the design and construction of buildings…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies IV
GSD 6242 is the final course in the Ecologies, Techniques and Technologies landscape core sequence. It is a required course for all MLA I, and…
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Structures in Landscape Architecture, Joint & Detail
This class will study the design from and constructional detail of the landscape pavilion and the pedestrian bridge. This work will be focused through the…
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Procedural Fields: Functional Design of Discrete Hyperdimensional Spaces
Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez
This course will introduce participants to computational methods for the generation of discrete multi-dimensional media, using functional definitions. Digital modeling techniques are at the core…
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Integrative Frameworks for Technology, Environment, and Society II
This graduate-level seminar course is part of the MDE program's first-year core curriculum, comprising a two-course sequence spanning one year. The course focuses on building…
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Designing Critical Practices
Today, landscape architecture is a field in active transformation. At a broad scale, the climate crisis is transforming the built and natural environment surrounding us—putting…
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History and Theory of Architectural Practice
Who is the architect? This course considers architectural practice from social and historical perspectives, and it charts changing definitions of the architect with respect to…
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From Inception to Realization: Three Museum Case Studies
The process of design is continuous. At the inception of a project, we sketch, analyze with scale overlays, and develop preliminary massing models. Months later,…
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Thesis project / Project Thesis
As the culminating effort for the Master of Architecture degree, a “Thesis” entails multiple expectations. It is a demonstration not only of competency and expertise,…