Courses
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First Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Preston Scott Cohen, Marco Steinberg, Jeannie Kim, Timothy Hyde, Samuel Lasky, Michael Meredith, Thomas Schroepfer
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
Michael Blier, Michael Van Valkenburgh, Holly Clarke
Prerequisites: Enrollment in MLA I program or permission of the program director.The first of a four-term sequence of landscape design and planning studios, this course…
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Third Semester Core: Architectural Design
Toshiko Mori, Nader Tehrani, Yoshiko Sato, Ashley Schafer, Joseph MacDonald, Brian Healy
Prerequisites: GSD 1101 and GSD 1102, or advanced standing in the MArch I program.The third of a four-semester sequence of design studios emphasizes the development…
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Third Semester Core: Planning and Design of Landscapes
Scheri Fultineer, Carl Steinitz, Niall Kirkwood, Nicholas Pouder, Christian Werthmann
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, Martin Zogran, Felipe Correa, Mark Dwyer, Virginie Lefebvre, Georgia Sarkin
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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Light/Materiality/Threshold: A Community Boathouse for Martha’s Vineyard
Site:Located on the west shore of Vineyard Haven Harbor, the community boathouse site negotiates the edge condition between land and water, including a rocky beach…
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The Chilean Pavilion for the Venice Biennale. The rigorous construction of a pleasant place
The most clarifying description about what architecture is supposed to do, was given by the Chilean architect Fernando Perez, in an essay entitled the Mirror…
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City of Knowledge
Approaching the \’City of Knowledge\’ along the Charles river you sense that you are passing into a place apart. The surreal spires, boldly shaped and…
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden Educational Center
Stephen Cassell, Adam Yarinsky
This studio will explore architecture\’s role in support of a public institution. An institution\’s goals and ideals are manifest in a program that underlies how…
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A Bridge and a Pavilion in Bilbao
The studio will focus on the design of a pedestrian bridge and a pavilion in Bilbao, Spain. The pedestrian bridge crosses the Ria del Bilbao…
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Baseball in the City
Project: Yankee StadiumThere has been little academic attention given to the design of stadiums. The lack of critical thinking is evidenced in the default formula…
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Automotive Design as a Laboratory for Disciplinary Dynamics
It may be a clichi to notice that the disciplinary boundaries of architecture have been loosened by advances in information technology, but it is not…
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Berlin: The Museum Island and Beyond
Berlin: The Museum Island and BeyondAn architectural vision for the extension of the Museum IslandA new gallery for the Old MastersBerlin\’s Museum Island is the…
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Dublin Studio
Dublin Studio Karen McEvoy & Merritt BucholzIn collaboration with Matthias SchullerDublin StudioA CITY is a living organism, continually mutating, continually seeking equilibrium, continually challenged to…
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Alternative Futures for Tepotzotlan, Mexico
Alternative Futures for Tepotzotlan, MexicoPlease note that the lottery for this option studio has already occurred. The studio focus on the municipality of Tepotzotlan, which…
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Parks and Cities: Climate, Experience, and Frugality as Design Engines
The site of the studio is one of the last building sites in New York City\’s Battery Park City, a small city block between the…
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Nansha: Rethinking Urbanism and Landscape in the Pearl River Delta
Alan Berger, Margaret Crawford
Nansha: Rethinking Urbanism and Landscape in the Pearl River DeltaThe Pearl River Delta in southern China is a notorious demonstration of the urban effects of…
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Designing Parks
The schedule for this course is variable. Please select this studio carefully. Course motives:The studio aims to develop the student\’s ability to design urban parks…
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Expanding Boston’s Core: Somerville and Its Competitive Context
1. Context of the problemThe inner part of the Boston region started to assume it contemporary pattern after the Civil War when economically independent and…
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Planning in Paradise II: Urban Redevelopment Honolulu, Hawaii
The city of Honolulu, which encompasses the island of Oahu, is both the county seat and the capital city of Hawaii. Seventy-two percent of the…
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Revealing Houston’s Midtown Disposition
Like other sprawling cities, Houston is witnessing a reinvestment in its central areas. Companies and businesses looking for a key location, as well as young…
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Nansha: Rethinking Urbanism and Landscape in the Pearl River Delta
Margaret Crawford, Alan Berger
The Pearl River Delta in southern China is a notorious demonstration of the urban effects of rapid economic development. On the east bank, the Special…
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Alternative Futures for Tepotzotlan, Mexico
Alternative Futures for Tepotzotlan, MexicoPlease note that the lottery for this option studio has already occurred. The studio focus on the municipality of Tepotzotlan, which…
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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
Christian Werthmann, Michael Blier
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…
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Site Systems Representations I
A great deal of information regarding sites and their contexts is available for use in Geographic Information Systems (GIS.) Students create and critique GIS maps…
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The Visual Landscape: Analysis and Management
The seminar will occur on two Wednesdays each month during the spring semester.Seminar reading and discussion, and demonstrations and experiments will include: The visual landscape:…
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Kinetic Architecture
In architecture, the notion of motion is often represented as an abstract formal configuration that implies relationships of cause and effect. Deformation, juxtaposition, superimposition, absence,…
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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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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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Re-visions: Recording Architecture
This course introduces advanced digital techniques and motion graphics as primary emerging modes of architectural representation. Surprisingly little use of these approaches has been made…
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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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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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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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Special Offerings in Design Theory
Provocation\”There is hardly any real architectural theory to be found, despite the diversity of practices at work today, anddespite a hugely expanded volume of architectural…
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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 a forum to discuss and explore contemporary questions and issues in landscape architectural design. In addition it prepares students to develop research…
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MLA II Proseminar
This course provides a forum to discuss and explore contemporary questions and issues in landscape architectural design. In addition it prepares students to develop research…
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Urban Design Proseminar
The design practices that deal with Urbanism and Urban Architecture have always lent themselves to a constant evaluation and re-evaluation process. Such a re-examination seems…
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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
Introduces foundational concepts of historical thinking as well as theoretical notions that have been relevant throughout architecture\’s history, such as form, technology, program, patronage, and…
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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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