Courses
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First Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Preston Scott Cohen, Ashley Schafer
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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Third Semester Core: Architectural Design
Toshiko Mori, Sarah M. Whiting, Jonathan Levi
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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Building in and for Marfa TX: A Train Station Hotel and the Marfa Baths
The studio will design a project across the street from the Judd Foundation, on Main Street in Marfa, Texas. Programmatic requirements will include: a train…
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Chile MMX
In MMX Chile will complete 200 years of independent republican life. There are 2 major projects in Santiago to celebrate this occasion:A Hill and a…
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A Conservatory for the Botanical Garden at Cornell Plantations
The horticultural conservatory is one of the most fascinating building types in the whole history of modern architecture. From Joseph Paxton\’s and Decimus Burton\’s early…
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Border Station: San Ysidro, California
Just north of the line dividing the United States and Mexico, the US government is planning the construction of its newest border facility in San…
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Soft
Collaborative and interdisciplinary in spirit, this sponsored studio will explore the design potentials of an emerging set of soft, flexible polymer technologies that deliver and…
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Sculpturecenter: Lic, New York. addition-connection
The studio\’s focus is the SculptureCenter, a non-profit cultural insitution whose mission is to champion contemporary sculpture in all of its forms. It supports experimentation…
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Open Figures: The Contouring of Architecture
OPEN FIGURES: THE CONTOURING OF ARCHITECTUREIncreasingly, contemporary architecture is faced with demands to produce buildings that evince both an immanent flexibility (read: multiplicity) and a…
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Disassembly Required: Constructing the Unwanted Building
The aim of the studio will be to develop new methods of design and construction adapted to the specific needs of the Ecuadorian Rain Forest,…
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Micro Public Space by Flux Management
The purpose of this studio is to create a public space by modulating and treating matters characterized by \’small-ness\’, \’sprouting\’ and \’flow\’, and to generate…
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Visual Studies
This course emphasizes the construction of space on the two-dimensional surface by way of freehand drawing. In-class visual exercises identify key concepts in the construction…
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Projective Representation in Architecture
Historically, certain kinds of reciprocity between geometry and architecture have been used to bring about rational causes and practical means of formal innovation. Today, the…
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Sculpting in Motion
Computer Graphics have opened up unprecedented ways of form making and animation. This unfolding new universe of visual stimuli that is based on complex geometry…
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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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Visualizing Information
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.This seminar explores how information can be presented visually on the Internet and provides a broad understanding of the visualization of different…
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Product Design: Industrial Design
This first lecture module focuses on the historical aspect of product design. It seeks to evaluate the legacies of the practice by examining specific case…
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Product Design: Industrial Design
Following up on 2401M1, this second module focuses on contemporary issues of product design. We will examine emerging technologies, design opportunities, and the interrelation between…
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The State of Design
This course will provide an overview of the role of design in recent history and today. The state of design is strong. Design can greatly…
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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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The Moving Image: Film and Visual Representation
A survey aimed at developing visual literacy, this introduction to film history looks at major 20th century ideas on art and perception. We examine 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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Modernist Challenges After World War II
Modernism after World War II, a lecture class, answers the question of what happened to modernism after its initial synthesis and codification in the late…
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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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Architecture, Science and Technology, XVIIIth Century-Present
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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Alternative Constructions
An in-depth consideration of selected topics of enduring relevance for the theory and practice of architecture. The course examines concepts such as wonder, knowledge, authority,…
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Energy, Technology and Building
This lecture course introduces students to energy and environmental issues, particularly those that must be faced by the discipline of architecture. An overview of the…
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Materials and Construction: An Introduction to Techniques, Composition, and Strategies
This module introduces students to the role of materials and fabrication in architecture. Properties and principles of materials are discussed in a comprehensive manner, involving…
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Analysis and Design of Building Structures I
This course introduces students to the analysis and design of structural elements. Loads on structures are considered first; subsequent sessions cover the fundamental principles of…
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Building Technology
As the final component in the required sequence of technology courses in the MArch I program, this professionally-oriented course develops an integral understanding of the…
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Structural Systems in Buildings
This course covers the organization and design of building structures as components of total building systems. It addresses both traditional and industrialized structural systems, planning…
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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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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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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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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 Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Niall Kirkwood, T. Kelly Wilson, Anne McGhee, Stephen Ervin, Alex Krieger, Sarah M. Whiting, Martha Schwartz, A. Hashim Sarkis
Candidates may arrange individual work focusing on subjects or issues that are of interest to them but are not available through regularly offered course work.
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Prep of Design Thesis Proposal for MArch
This entails preparatory work for all students intending subsequently to enroll in GSD 9301. Students research thesis proposals for review and acceptance by faculty.Prerequisites: Graduate…
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Independent Research Study: Weaving Material and Habitation
Toshiko Mori, Joan Busquets, Remment Koolhaas, Alex Krieger, Peter Rowe, Matthew Kiefer
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…
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Preparation of Doctoral Thesis Proposal
Under faculty guidance, the student conducts a reading program and formulates a thesis proposal. The course is intended for doctoral students.
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Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Doctor of Design
Richard Peiser, Daniel Schodek, Carl Steinitz, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis
Under guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.
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