Courses
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Responsive Environments
The course introduces students to the tools and design methods for creating responsive environments and technologically driven experiences in the built environment. By putting the…
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Images as Instruments
In the last three decades, architectural praxis has undergone a paradigmatic shift, precipitated by what Jonathan Crary delineates as a seismic transformation in visuality—a metamorphosis…
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Drawing for Designers 2: Human Presence and Appearance in Natural and Built Environment
The course is intended as a creative drawing laboratory for designers, an expressive and playful supplement to computer-based labor. The aim of the class is…
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Material Practice and its Agency
This seminar introduces an understanding of material discourse in design and architecture that affects cultural, social, economic, and political issues. In addition to their pragmatic…
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Towards a Newer Brutalism
In the early 1950s, British architects Alison and Peter Smithson announced their arrival with a call for a “new brutalism”—a polemic sketched out over several…
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Digital Material Systems: Ceramics
Digital design and fabrication technologies have become integral to the discourse surrounding contemporary design and architectural practice. The translation from design to realization is mediated…
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Informal Robotics
This course teaches how to create original robotic devices made of light, compliant – informal – materials. New fabrication techniques are transforming the field of…
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Data Science for Environmentally Responsive Buildings
Objective: With extensive high-fidelity measured data collected from modern buildings, data science has become a promising tool for optimizing building performance and design, enhancing the…
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BioFabrication
Rapid global climate change has lent new urgency to our longstanding interest of growing materials to break the unstainable reality of material extraction, use and…
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Machine Aesthetics: The Surrogate of Taste
The use of generative AI models increasingly involves the reliance on a few black box pretrained and centralized models where design intent is conveyed through…
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EMBODIED CARBON- Material Cycles, Circularity, and Advances in Reverse Engineering
At a time when urgent action is needed to avert the climate crisis, it is very difficult to take an idealistic approach when considering key…
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Is the Grass Any Greener? Architectural Practice & Project Delivery Around the World
Conversations about how architectural practice is regulated, how architects do their work, and how construction projects are delivered are typically constrained by regional and national…
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Interior Residential Planning, Furnishings, and Materials
Buildings are inseparable from Interior Planning. The objective of this course is to design interior space in existing freestanding residential buildings and urban apartments. Projects…
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Exhibiting Architecture
In this seminar students will engage with curatorial studies and the specific domain of “exhibiting architecture.” Not only the “art of display,” from exhibition design…
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Paper or Plastic: Reinventing Shelf Life in the Supermarket Landscape
We tend to assume that supermarkets are static, neutral spaces where little of significance ever happens. The supermarket shelf is actually a highly volatile, hyper-competitive…
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Drawing for Designers: Techniques of Expression, Articulation, and Representation
The course is intended as a creative drawing laboratory for designers, an expressive and playful supplement to computer-based labor. The aim of the class is…
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Faux: Design, Performance, and Perception of Fake Materials
Martin Bechthold, Marina Sartori
Materials are everywhere. They remain central to our lives and to contemporary design, despite the omnipresence of digital information. Yet, the fact that many materials…
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Architecture on Screen
From the dystopian visions of Fritz Lang to the midcentury world of Jacques Tati and the stylized universe of Wes Anderson, this courseexamines the…
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Proximities / or Readings and Methods within Reflexive Formalism
“Making comparisons is the only good method in a world in which things take on consistency in relation to others. A comparison may be implicit…
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Rational Form Making
Optimization precedes superfluous forms. In search for freedom in aesthetics, the disciplines of architecture and structural design have always worked hand in hand in expanding…
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Enactive Design: Creative Applications through Concurrent Human-Machine Interaction
Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez
Enactive Design is an advanced research seminar on human-computer interaction. We will explore the role of real-time, bidirectional communication between human and digital agents in…
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Circuits, Circles, and Loops: Towards a Regenerative Architecture
Present assumptions indicate that the management of our material world accounts for more than half of all global greenhouse gas emissions. Nearly fifty percent of…
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Transformable Design Methods
The aim of Transformable Design is to is to introduce new ways of thinking about design through real-time morphological changes. The course provides a theoretical…
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Nano Micro Macro: Adaptive Material Laboratory (with SEAS)
Joanna Aizenberg, Jonathan Grinham
This course is an interdisciplinary platform for designers, engineers, and scientists to interact and develop innovative new products. The course introduces ideas-to-innovation processes in a…
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Introduction to Generative Artificial Intelligence
This course provides an introduction to the rapidly advancing area of research in unsupervised machine learning with a focus on generative models. Recent advances such…
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Buildings and Urban Intelligence
Rapidly increasing urban sprawl is evolving into a scenario where about 70% of the world’s population would be living in urban areas by the year…
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Quantitative Aesthetics: Introduction to Coding for Creative AI and Digital Media Arts
This course introduces concepts and techniques from signal analysis, computer vision and machine learning that are related to the retrieval, processing, analysis and generation of…
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Entrepreneurship and the Built Environment
How do you transition from a concept and idea into a built reality? How to initiate a new venture and ensure its success in today’s…
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Responsive Environments
The course introduces students to the tools and design methods for creating responsive environments and technologically driven experiences in the built environment. By putting the…
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Offsite/Onsite: Curating Contemporary Art
Today, everybody is a curator—we supposedly curate our meals, our social media feeds, and our outfits. But what does it mean to curate exhibitions of…
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Off: On a Tangent
The tangential inherently implicates the expression of how two things touch. In a moment where touching has become complicated, a formal exploration…
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Word(s) Count : Writing, Publishing, Design
The dual purposes of this course are 1) to teach students how to write clearly, concisely, and critically and 2) to teach the fundamentals of…
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Image as Instruments
Image as Instruments is an introduction to fundamental concepts, techniques, and methods in digital design, with a focus on the processes of…
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Drawing for Designers 2: Human Presence and Appearance in Natural and Built Environment
The course is intended as a creative drawing laboratory for designers, an expressive and playful supplement to computer-based labor. The aim of…
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Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices
The Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices Seminar investigates art and design work in the interdisciplinary modalities of contemporary culture, the city, and the world. As…
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Proximities / or Readings and Methods within Reflexive Formalism
“Making comparisons is the only good method in a world in which things take on consistency in relation to others. A comparison may be implicit…
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Towards a Newer Brutalism
In the early 1950s, Alison and Peter Smithson, along with their friend and colleague Reyner Banham, announced their arrival with a call for “a new…
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Making Sacred Space
This course addresses the current crisis in church design by an in depth consideration of the ideas, images, concepts, and legislation that inform the creation…
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Advanced Applications in Sustainable Architecture
This elective seminar will provide a deeper dive into issues of evidence-based, high-performance, ecological building design. The course is intended for MArch students, MDes students,…
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Towards a new Science of Design?
This project- and discussion-based seminar offers a deep, critical inspection of contemporary design practices, research methods and discourses informed by Neuroscience, Behavioral Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction…
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Automation in Practice: Building the future of Architecture(s), Engineering, and Construction
Population is estimated to exceed 10 billion people by the year 2050 requiring an immediate doubling of productivity in the AEC industry which includes Architecture…
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Informal Robotics
This course teaches how to create original robotic devices made of light, compliant – informal – materials. New fabrication techniques are transforming…
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Data Science for Performance-Driven Design
The modeling of energy-efficient buildings and sustainable urban development is an increasing concern in both the building design and sustainability consulting industries. Early adoption of…
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Unsupervised Machine Learning for Designers
This course provides an introduction to the rapidly advancing area of research in unsupervised machine learning with a focus on generative models. Recent advances such…
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Nano, Micro, Macro: BioFabrication
Rapid global climate change has lent new urgency to our longstanding interest of growing materials to break the unstainable reality of material extraction, use and…
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Machine Aesthetics: The Binary and the Spectrum
The increasing encroaching of ML into the creative fields has been spearheaded by generative models that couple an artificial perceptual system to a generative parametric…
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Home-Active: Furniture Design Beyond Social Media Complacency
In today’s algorithmically determined digital environments, interiors have become pinterested images of themselves, standardized compositions in predictable declinations. Whether luxurious or affordable,…
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Paper or Plastic: Reinventing Shelf Life in the Supermarket Landscape
We tend to assume that supermarkets are static, neutral spaces where little of significance ever happens. The supermarket shelf is actually a highly volatile, hyper-competitive…
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Drawing for Designers: Techniques of Expression, Articulation, and Representation
The course is intended as a creative drawing laboratory for designers and an expressive, playful supplement to computer-based labor. This course will…
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Extracanonical Buildings
analysis, "a breaking-up" or "an untying;" from ana– "up, throughout" and lysis "a loosening" [1] This project-based seminar is concerned with the formal analysis of…
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