Courses
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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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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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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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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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Approaching the History of Modern of Architecture from Out There
Capitalist expansion is a crucial factor in explaining modern art (e.g., \”Primitivism\” and Cubism). This factor, however, is ignored in explaining modern architecture, as can…
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Conflict + Modernity: Case Study ZAGREB
This course is concerned with understanding the modalities of modernization and urban transformation in the context of cities in a region of Central Europe that…
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Critical History: Space, Place, and Science
The seminar will examine various philosophical and historical approaches to the question of the relation between urban space, architecture, and science, from the founding reflections…
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The Culture and Politics of the Built Environment in the US: Seminar
Yearlong research seminar in conjunction with the Charles Warren Center workshop of scholars working in the field. Scholars will be working on research projects that…
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Cultural Continuity and the Built Environment: Historic Preservation in Theory and Practice
Historic preservation proceeds from the premise that the built environment – buildings, landscapes, and other places shaped by human hands – form a record of…
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The Design of Housing in the United States
This course will investigate architectural, urban design, and planning related components of the design of multifamily housing. Drawing largely from the completed work of the…
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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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Structural Surfaces
It is a common misbelief that curvature automatically lends structural capacities to any surface. While geometry and structural properties are indeed closely related, the precise…
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Rebuilding Devastated Landscapes: Sustainable Landscape Development in the 21st Century
This applied lecture and workshop course focuses on the repair and reconstruction of derelict urban and suburban land within the realities of current conditions, regulations,…
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Proseminar in Building Technology: Light Science
This proseminar is open to doctoral students and other advanced students who are focusing their research on the energy-based technologies in architecture or on advanced…
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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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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,…