Courses
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Second Semester Architecture Core: SITUATE
Grace La, Jeffry Burchard, Max Kuo, Tomás dePaor, Jennifer Bonner, 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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Fourth Semester Architecture Core: RELATE
Carles Muro, Jeannette Kuo, Andrew Holder, Mariana Ibanez, Belinda Tato, Luis Callejas
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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Territorio Guarani III
This is the third consecutive studio investigating architectural strategies and modes of intervention in the culturally and environmentally rich Territorio Guarani, the South American region…
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Misapplied Mies Applied (Final): The Performance Shed (Cancelled)
“The Bauhaus has a certain idea, but this idea has nothing to do with politics. Look at your writing table, this shabby writing table. Do…
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(Re) planned Obsolescence… Rethinking the Architecture of Waste
Hanif Kara, Leire Asensio Villoria
Despite the recent emergence of a number of novel industrial buildings, the role of the designer, and specifically the Architect, has been largely absent from…
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Work Environments 2: Glass Works
This studio is the second of three sponsored by the furniture company Knoll that examines, through research and design, the disruptive transformations that occur globally…
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Center for the Performing Arts at the Cranbrook Educational Community
The studio problem will be the design of a performing arts center on the historic Cranbrook campus in Bloomfield Hills, MI. Eliel Saarinen lived on…
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Third Natures. London’s Typological Imagination
Cristina Diaz Moreno, Efren Garcia Grinda
The second reincarnation of Third Natures at the GSD is based on three premises that will determine the content and scope of the projects that…
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etceteras
Something like that, You know what I mean So on and so on Ad infinitum Such as So forth…
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Redesigning the Actor Network in Rural Areas around Tokyo
Momoyo Kaijima, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
This studio aims to propose instrumental space in the rural areas around Tokyo, intervening into an alternative actor network (Bruno Latour) that governs the area’s…
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Readymade Architecture
Readymade, defined by André Breton and Paul Éluard in 1938 is “an ordinary object elevated to the dignity of a work of art by the…
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Rotterdam Studio Abroad: Smart Countrysides
The 2016 Spring Rotterdam Study Abroad Studio will be a collaborative effort with Niklas Maak and Sebastien Marot exploring new forms of research and engagement…
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Wood, Urbanism: From the Molecular to the Territorial
Jane Hutton, Kiel Moe, Daniel Ibanez
Ironically, architects and landscape architects are their most vague in the act of specification. Designers have little idea of what specifying something as seemingly prosaic…
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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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Superficial Spaces (Cancelled)
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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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 projects will…
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Today’s Architecture as Seen Through Enduring Concerns
This lecture course focuses on the critical reflection of long-standing issues in the architectural practice still providing a valuable frame for considering recent…
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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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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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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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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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Property in Common: The Nexus Between Architecture and Real Estate
Property both in law and in logic means enforceable rights, not things. It is a political relation between persons that includes private (right to…
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Interiors, Environments, Atmosphere
Confronted with the new importance given to energy and sustainability requirements, the architectural discipline is not only in need of new technological knowledge and…
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Selected Topics on Contemporary Chinese Architecture and Urban Planning
For more than three decades and still today, China has embraced rapid social, economic, and cultural transformation. Discussion of contemporary Chinese…
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Making Sacred Space
Many recently-built churches are ugly as sin. Others are wonderful as form but don’t work well functionally or symbolically. Most are just boring. How…
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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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Discourses and Methods: Conservation, Destruction, and Curating Impermanence
Natalia Escobar Castrillon, K. Michael Hays
This seminar on critical conservation aims to develop concepts and strategies able to describe and curate the transitory and dynamic nature of architecture, landscapes…
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Power & Place: Culture and Conflict in the Built Environment
This lecture/workshop course studies and analyzes processes and expressions of power in urban form and design in the built North American environment. Focusing on…
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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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Construction Systems
This course introduces a framework to know the instantiation of architecture through construction systems. Construction systems will be discovered through the methods of dissection, drawing,…
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Environmental Systems in Architecture
The primary focus of GSD 6125 is the study of ecological considerations in architectural design. These considerations include the thermal, luminous, and acoustic behavior of…
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Structural Design 2
This course is a continuation of GSD 6227 and, after an overview/reminder introduction, furthers understanding of more developed structural systems and materials in architectural design.
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Design Survivor: Experiential Lessons in Designing for Desirability (at SEAS)
SEAS Engineering Sciences 22. Catalog Number: 87699 EXAM GROUP: 2, 3 Please check the FAS schedule for room information. Multi-disciplinary…
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Survey of Energy Technology (at SEAS)
EAS Engineering Sciences 229. Survey of Energy Technology Catalog Number: 94822 EXAM GROUP: 7, 8 Please check the FAS schedule for…
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Innovative Construction in Japan
Modern Japanese architecture has been much admired in the West for its attention to materials, its refined construction details, and its ability to integrate…
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Interdisciplinary Design Practice
Hanif Kara, Andreas Georgoulias
This course aims to teach, stimulate and demonstrate “design led” opportunities that exist in the practice of Architecture. Positioned within the space of interdisciplinary…
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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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Digital Structures and Material Distribution
This course explores the role of computational structural analysis and form finding methods in design and fabrication problems. Such techniques can offer hints on…
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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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Issues in Architectural Practice and Ethics
This course, for students in the fourth semester of the MArch I program, examines basic issues arising in contemporary architectural practice. The course challenges the students to examine critically…
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