Courses
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First Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Preston Scott Cohen, Tim Love, Marco Steinberg, Ashley Schafer, Catherine Seavitt, Jonathan Marvel
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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First Semester Core: Landscape Architecture Design
Holly Clarke, Kirt Rieder, Martha Schwartz, Michael Blier
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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Third Semester Core: Architectural Design
Toshiko Mori, Sandro Marpillero, Darell Fields, Ron Witte, Jonathan Levi, Joseph MacDonald
Tectonics, Urbanism and Civic PresenceDistrict Court House in AllstonThe Court House as a building type embodies one of the most powerful potentials for architecture to…
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Third Semester Core: Planning and Design of Landscapes
Elizabeth Mossop, Nicholas Pouder, Alan Berger
This course reinforces and builds upon the range of conventions of landscape architectural production introduced in previous core studios and academic courses. Emphasis is placed…
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Elements of Urban Design and Planning
Richard Sommer, James Kostaras, Armando Carbonell, Richard Marshall, Martin Zogran, Patricia Zingsheim
The Elements course is the foundation design studio administered by the Department of Urban Planning and Design, and it is required of all first year…
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Sighting the Cirque du Soleil
Founded by a small group of former street performers from rural Quebec, the Cirque du Soleil mounted its first show under an 800 seat tent…
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Scarcity
This studio is about doing Social Housing in Chile. Why? Because the scarcity of time (urgency to solve the need for shelter) and money (lack…
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Exhibition and Introspection: New Building Complex for the Art Institute of Boston
site:The site is located between the busy chaos of Mass. Ave. and a quite residential neighborhood of Historic Avon Hill in Cambridge near the T-stop…
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Beijing: Urbanism
After Marco Polo finishes his stories about Venice, Kublai Khan, in return, offers his version of invisible cities:City of Walls, Introverted City, City of Horizon,…
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Weather Monitoring Station
WEATHER MONITORING STATION IN ICELAND The studio will look at current and future digital technologies / soft wares, which are applied in the study for…
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Architecture Museum
Site: Azenhas do Mar – a topographically rich reality, full of sounds and odors. A place that reveals the physical and metaphysical presence of \”materials\”.
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i+a
This studio will investigate the boundaries between physical architecture and information architecture. It will explore the possibilities designing physical and virtual spaces in conjunction with…
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Disassembly Required: Constructing the Unwanted Building
Public buildings are rarely without controversy. Their physical presence is bound to raise questions about their very nature, be it by the community they serve…
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Coffee, Cake, CAD/CAM: Re-inventing the Urban Diner
Diner:\”A small, usually inexpensive restaurant with a long counter and booths and housed in a building designed to resemble a dining car.\” The American Heritage.
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Gardens and Parks
Michael Van Valkenburgh, Matthew Urbanski
The studio will be cotaught by Michael Van Valkenburgh, the Charles EliotProfessor of Landscape Architecture, and Matthew Urbanski, who is a Lecturerin Landscape Architecture. The…
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Alternative Futures for Pueckler – Muskau Land
In the early nineteenth century, Prince Hermann von Pueckler-Muskau(1785-1871) laid out a huge landscape park on his estates at Muskau, nowdivided by the German-Polish border.
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Lost and Found: New York City’s Small Urban Spaces
The studio will study some of the many small urban spaces that can be found scattered throughout Manhattan, Boston, and other inner city areas throughout…
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Havana, Cuba IV: La Rampa – A 20th Century Modern Preservation District
Prerequisites:Students will be expected to possess a high degree of design capability and interest in the following areas: Urban design and planning at the master…
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Backward and Forward in Time: Urban Rehabilitation in the Xicheng District of Beijing
Today, unlike earlier periods when the proverbial \”urban bulldozer\” was encouraged to move through dilapidated innercity areas with a certain alacrity, making way for new…
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Reinterpreting 1960s Urbanism; Case 1: Tandy Center, Fort Worth, Texas
This studio, kindly sponsored by the PNL Companies of Dallas, Texas, will deal with a recurrent and endemic North American urban design problem: an important…
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Planning in Paradise: Urban Redevelopment – Honolulu, Hawaii
Prerequisites:A high degree of design interest and some degree of computer literacy is expected, as this studio will focus on urban planning and design issues…
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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 andtheir elements. Topics include:1. Mechanical drawing; graphic techniques andtechnical conventions for plan, section, elevation,…
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Advanced 3-D Modeling and Animation
This course 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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Product Design: Industrial Design
Intended as an in-depth overview of the history and practice of product design, the seminar will investigate questions central to its discipline.The course will follow…
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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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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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Topics in Architectural Theory
George Baird, Sarah M. Whiting, K. Michael Hays
This course is an advanced elective course for students who wish to pursue studies in the field of twentieth century architectural theory beyond the introduction…
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Theories and Methods of Landscape Planning
This course has three aspects. The first is a series of lectures by Carl Steinitz in which different elements of theories and methods applicable to…
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Earthwords: Writing About Landscape
Using the essay as form and the landscape as subject, this course will be an exercise in close reading and careful composition. We will try…
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Decorating Diversions: Industrial Design, Consumerism and the Production of Spaces
The history and practice of Decorative Arts, Industrial Design and the Design of Interiors are intrinsically intertwined and at times indistinguishable. The more recent rubric…
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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 City of Leisure and Tourism
Since the 1960s, tourism has had a profound impact on cities. Many great cities, such as Paris or Rome, are discovering that their historic centers…
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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
This course provides an exploratory and collaborative forum that prepares the student to develop research interests and to formulate positions upon entering postprofessional study in…
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MLA II Proseminar
This course provides an exploratory and collaborative forum that prepares the student to develop research interests and to formulate positions upon entering postprofessional study in…
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Proseminar – Defining Urban Design
Alex Krieger, Richard Marshall
A seminar required for (and limited to) first year students in the MAUD and MLAUD programs. The course establishes the foundations of contemporary urban design…
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Studies of the Built North American Environment: 1580 to the Present
North America as an evolving visual environment is analyzed as a systems concatenation involving such constituent elements as farms, small towns, shopping malls, highways, suburbs,…
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History of Landscape Architecture: Antiquity to 1800
The 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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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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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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North American Seacoasts and Landscapes: Discovery Period to the Present
Selected topics in the history of the North American coastal zone, including the seashore as wilderness, as industrial site, as area of recreation, and as…
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Architecture, Science and Technology 18th-20th Centuries
Since the first industrial revolution, science and technology have constantly challenged architecture. Technology in particular has represented a powerful source of change for architecture. New…
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