Courses
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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, playful supplement to computer-based labor. This course will master techniques in hand…
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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…