Courses
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Introduction to Design and Visual Studies
Preston Scott Cohen, Gary Rohrbacher, Tim Love, Victoria Beach, John Bass, Julio Salcedo, Marco Steinberg
The first of a four-semester sequence of design studios introduces students to the practice of architectural design, discussing the theoretical principles on which such practice…
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Landscape Architecture Design
The first of a four-term sequence of landscape design and planning studios, this course introduces the vocabulary for describing, analyzing, and designing landscapes. A series…
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Architectural Design
Toshiko Mori, Darell Fields, Ron Witte, Jonathan Levi, Ashley Schafer, Joseph MacDonald
The third of a four-semester sequence of design studios emphasizes the development of a building as a material construct. The focus is on investigation of…
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Planning and Design of Landscapes
Scheri Fultineer, Joseph Brown, Elizabeth Mossop, Robert France, Nicholas Pouder
The fourth-term studio focuses on landscape planning for community development, emphasizing resource management, physical and social structure of community services, spatial organization, and resultant landscape…
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Elements of Urban Design and Planning
Richard Sommer, James Kostaras, Alexander D’Hooghe, Richard Marshall, Martin Zogran, Barbara Bestor
The \”Elements\” course is the foundation design studio administered by the Department of Urban Planning and Design and is required of all first year students…
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Re-Entering Boston Symphony Hall, by Way of Marfa, Texas
The studio will be in two parallel parts. The first will focus on exploration of strategies of minimalism mostly in art, but to some degree…
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Inside and Outside the Box/ A Chelsea Addition
The studio will focus on additions and connections to a loft building in Chelsea. The building is the home of The Kitchen, a not-for-profit institution…
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$3200. Exercises on Elementary Architecture Throughout the Chilean Territory
PLASTIC A low-income house in Chile costs US $7000, land and infrastructure included. Each family, having saved at least US$ 300, is eligible to get…
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A Field of Schools: Rethinking the Relationship Between School and City in San Diego
SummaryThe studio revises the predominant models of school design in the United States by addressing more effectively the relationship between the school and its surrounding…
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Miami’s Little Haiti: A Neighborhood in Transition
Our design proposal for the fall 2001 semester focuses on Little Haiti, an urban neighborhood located in Miami. Little Haiti is situated on the east-west…
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Defining/Unraveling an Edge: An Exhibition Space and Cultural Center for the Arnold Arboretum
site:The edge condition between the Forest Hills T-stop and Harvard University\’s Arnold Arboretum.The Forest Hills T-stop shares an undeveloped boundary with the Arnold Arboretum. The…
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Superficial Chaos and Subterranean Transparency: An Olympic Commuter in LA Castellana
Among cities, the scale of Madrid traffic problems is suffocating. In the opinion of experts, in order to confront, or at least to ameliorate them,…
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Expansion and Renovation of the Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art has recently announced plans for a major architectural initiative of renovation and expansion. A Facilities Master Plan, developed in 1999…
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Under the Influence: Negotiating the Complex Logic of Urban Property
Under the Influence: Negotiating the Complex Logic of Urban Property the excitement of city life cannot be preserved if all conflict is eliminated (it is…
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Los Angeles River Studio
The Los Angeles River Studio will study up to four miles of the river\’s corridor in downtown Los Angeles. The east/west boundaries will be determined…
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Alternative Futures for the West Lake, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China
Last fall, we taught a studio which focused on the area of the West Lake in Hangzhou, China. The protection and use of this world-famous…
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Milan’s South Park
The purpose of this studio is to work with each student to explore his or her own aesthetic in the conceptualization and design of Milan\’s…
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Cybernetic Urbanism in the Future London
Michael McNamara, Martha LaGess
CYBERNETIC URBANISM IN THE FUTURE LONDON Images and MapsCOURSE DESCRIPTION: The studio is intended for Urban Design, Planning, and Architecture students working at appropriate…
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Tokyo- Inner-City Revitalization
Among the prominent cities in the world, international status is no longer a matter of economic power per se, especially when it is purchased at…
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Urbanizations: the Blank Building, the U.S. Postal Service at South Station
Rodolfo Machado, Alan Mountjoy
TThis is the first studio in what is intended to be a series of urban design and architecture studios focusing on the production of urbanity…
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Alternative Futures for the West Lake, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China
Last fall, we taught a studio which focused on the area of the West Lake in Hangzhou, China. The protection and use of this world-famous…
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Visual Studies
This course will emphasize the construction of space on the two-dimensional surface by way of freehand drawing. In-class visual exercises will identify key concepts in…
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Projective Representation in Architecture
This course examines the history, theory and practice of parallel (orthographic) and central (perspective) projection. The objective is to provide the tools to imagine and…
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Studies in Landscape Representation 1
This introductory course surveys the history, conventions, and techniques of drawing landscapes and their elements.Topics include:1. Mechanical drawing; graphic techniques and technical conventions for plan,…
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Fundamentals of Computer-Aided Design
This course has a dual objective: it provides the conceptual framework for employing computing in the design process and it delivers the practical skills for…
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Advanced 3-D Modeling and Animation
This courses provides a theoretical foundation for advanced geometric modeling and focuses on the architecture of movement and the conception and creation of animated form.
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Visualizing Information
Urs Hirschberg, Jeffrey Huang, David Rose
This seminar explores how information can be presented visually on the Internet and provides a broad understanding of the visualization of different types of information.
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Intermediate Drawing
This is an intermediate course in drawing, open to landscape, urban design, and architecture students (also MDes). The initial intent of the class is to…
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Introduction to Architectural Theory
George Baird, Sarah M. Whiting
This course presents the range of material factors (physical, cultural, social, and historical) that condition the production of architecture and their interaction with the ideologies…
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Shifting Landscapes
The significance of landscapes is not that they change with seasons, cycles or any other measure of time, but that they change outside of our…
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Contemporary Urban Dynamics
Today in the United States, urbanization processes are multiple and contradictory. This course will describe and analyze a broad spectrum of emerging urban phenomena, ranging…
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Theories and Methods of Landscape Planning
Carl Steinitz, Michael Flaxman
Theories, methods, concepts and techniques are introduced for use in environmental planning and design. Included are computer-oriented procedures and graphic methods of organizing, analyzing, synthesizing,…
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Contemporary Landscape Design in Asia
This course is intended as an exploration of the broad phenomenon of contemporary landscape design in Asia, concentrating especially on China, Japan, and India. Given…
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Everyday Spaces
In geography, an \”entire spatial language has emerged for comprehending the contours of social reality.\” (Neil Smith) The seminar explores ways in which a more…
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Environmental Contentions
What do designers of the built environment see as environment? This is a particularly difficult question at the turn of a century that has witnessed…
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European Modernism
This seminar studies the development of modernism in Europe between 1900 and 1945, with a particular emphasis on England, Sweden and France. It examines the…
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The Culture of Cities
During the 19th century, as dramatic urban transformations rendered many European and American cities nearly unrecognizable, a new urban discourse emerged. Urban critics struggled to…
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MArch II Proseminar
This course provides a forum for critical discussion of contemporary design practices that is exploratory and speculative in nature. The course emphasizes collaborative thinking and…
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MLA I AP Proseminar
Prerequisites: Enrollment in the MLA I AP program. This course provides an introduction to critical discourse in contemporary design practice concerning landscape systems and the…
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MLA II Proseminar
Prerequisites: Enrollment in the MLA II program. This course provides an exploratory and collaborative forum that prepares the student to develop research interests and to…
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History of Landscape Architecture: Antiquity to 1800
This course surveys the history of gardens and landscape design primarily in the Western world, from antiquity to Humphry Repton and the beginning of the…
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The Moving Image: Film and Visual Representation
NOTE: The first meeting for this course is on Thursday, Sept.13th, 10:00-11:30 a.m., in Carpenter Center Room B-04.A survey aimed at developing visual literacy, this…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
This six-module sequence, offered over three semesters, presents an introduction to the complex, interwoven web of conceptual issues and historical narratives in western architecture from…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
This six-module sequence, offered over three semesters, presents an introduction to the complex, interwoven web of conceptual issues and historical narratives in western architecture from…
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Theorizing Modernism in Architecture
Modernism in architecture has been characterized variously by architects and social theorists as a set of approaches to the design process based on Enlightenment ideals…
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Constructing Vision
The course considers the application of means of representation, primarily perspective, in architectural design. It examines how architects have used these means of representation not…
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Film Architectures: Seminar Course
NOTE: The first meeting for this course is Wednesday, Sept. 12,2-4 p.m., in Carpenter Center Room 402.What is our experience of architecture in cinema? Considering…
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The Sixties: Architecture, Media, and the City in the Time of the Vietnam War
This seminar examines a critical moment in American architectural culture, during which disillusionment with postwar corporate modernism and the failure of urban renewal and public…
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Introduction to Urban Planning and Design
Alex Krieger, François Vigier, Ann Forsyth
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