Courses
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Algorithmic Architecture
As architecture enters the new era of digital representation, geometrical theories and processes are being implemented, tested, and pushed to their limits. Recent theories of…
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Universal Design and other Design Dilemmas
This course will trace a topic at the intersection between Architecture, Interior Design and Industrial Design: Universal Design. While today it encompasses very specific principles,…
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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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Urban Design Proseminar
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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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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Film Architectures: Seminar Course
What is our experience of architecture in cinema? Considering the relation of these two arts of space, we look at how film and architecture are…
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Temporary Urbanism
Freaknik in Atlanta, the Union Square Greenmarket in Manhattan, Critical Mass in San Francisco, Burning Man in Nevada, riots, demonstrations, parades, and festivals all over…
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The Housing Delivery System in the United States
This module will examine the process by which housing is produced in the United States. The course considers the primary actors in the delivery system,…
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Computer – Aided Design and Manufacturing & Manufacturing: Design Development
The course will focus on the use of CATIA in relation to the design development process. Students will complete a series of required introductory exercises,…
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Land Geometry
Land Geometry ?Earth Surface Systems This course enables students to pursue digital literacy particular to the discipline of landscape architecture through the exploration of topographic…
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Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing: Fundamentals
This seminar will introduce the fundamentals of CAD/CAM technologies through lectures and hands-on workshop activities using the facilities at the school. The technologies will be…
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Structures in Design
Why don\’t things fall down? Some of us believe that this is a question well worth considering in architecture, and not just a problem that…
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Rebuilding Devastated Landscapes: Sustainable Landscape Development in the 21st Century
Rebuilding Devastated Landscapes concerns the conception, production and management of sustainable landscapes from both an ecological and design perspective. The content of this applied lecture…
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Digital Cartography Workshop: Assembling a GIS Database
The mechanics of collecting, compiling and comprehending the latest information about sites and their context has transformed in the past few years from a bureucratic…
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Proseminar in Building Technology: Light Science
This proseminar is open to doctoral students and other advanced studentswho are focusing their research on the energy-based technologies inarchitecture, with a particular emphasis on…
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Founding Practices
The objective of this seminar/workshop is to equip individuals who aspire to found a design practice with the basic knowledge and tools required to conceptualize…
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Strategic Management in Design and Construction
Real estate, civil engineering, architecture, and construction together comprise the largest industry in the world. Major social systems such as governments and marketplaces, major natural…
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New Diagnostic Approaches for Practicing Architects
Most business leaders don\’t see space in a workplace environment; only the objects that occupy space. To see space or, more precisely, the shape of…
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Design Research Methods
The purpose of this seminar is to guide doctoral students in the development and preparation of their research proposals. The course is organized into two…
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From Concept to Implementation
This course focuses on the organizational and managerial issues to carry an architectural design from concept to implementation. Centering on the needs of the owner,…
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Independent Research Study: Weaving Material and Habitation
Toshiko Mori, Joan Busquets, Elizabeth Mossop, Remment Koolhaas, Yue Wu, Alex Krieger, Peter Rowe, Matthew Kiefer, Jeffrey Inaba
The Workshop explores fabrication and material potential of weaving methods to consider possibilities for habitation structures. Weaving exists in every culture. It is one of…