Courses
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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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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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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 2315-M1, 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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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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Gender and Space
What role does gender play in the theoretical understanding and concrete experience of architecture and urban space? This course investigates the significance of gender in…
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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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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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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
This course surveys the history of landscape from antiquity to 1800 by focusing on particular gardens, cities, and landscapes, primarily in the Western world, which…
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The Muslim Mediterranean City
Cities have defined Mediterranean culture for thousands of years. Using sources from medieval times to the present, the interaction between urban form and social practice…
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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 course presents a selected range of concepts developed by philosophers, historians, and theorists to explain the production and experience of architecture, and the historical…
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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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Urbanization in the East Asian Region
The purpose of this seminar is to provide an overall account of the urbanization in selected cities within the East Asian region; to characterize relevant…
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Imagining the City: Literature, Film, and the Arts
How do visual representation and narrative figuration contribute to construct urban identity? Explores the urban imagination in different artforms: architecture, cinema, literature, photography, and painting.
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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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Empire, Nation and Modern Architecture: Ottoman/Turkish Case in Global Context
Few other modern nations exhibit the geographical, historical and cultural complexity of Turkey and even fewer have such tangled and difficult dilemmas of identity largely…
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Histories and Theories of Urban Planning and Design
Beginning with the mid 19th century city, this course surveys a broad range of urban interventions. These include transportation and infrastructural engineering, settlement houses, landscape…
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Markets and Market Failures
This course introduces economics to students who have had little previous exposure to the subject. Basic tools are covered, including supply, demand, and market equilibrium;…
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Real Estate Finance and Development
This course is intended to give students the training they need to engage in real estate investment and development, both private and public. No prior…
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Planning and Environmental Law
This course examines the range of land use and environmental laws that affect the use, preservation, and development of land in the United States. The…
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Policy-Making in Urban Settings
An introduction to policymaking in American cities, focusing on economic, demographic, institutional, and political settings. Examines economic development and job growth in the context of…
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Transportation Planning and Development
Access and mobility are essential elements of an urban plan. Transportation strategies directly impact and interact with land use planning, zoning, economic development, and urban…
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Rebuilding New Orleans: The Role of Urban Planning and Design
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the City of New Orleans, breaching several levees and flooding 80 percent of the city. In the process,…
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Site Ecology and Environment
This course is required for all incoming MLA1 AP students (fall 2005 and beyond), and MLA1 students returning for their second year (fall 2006 and…
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Fundamentals of Landscape Technology
The first in the core sequence of Landscape Technology courses, this class introduces the concept of landforms and grading in design. The course will focus…
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Materials and Construction: An Introduction to Techniques, Composition and Strategies
Toshiko Mori, Thomas Schroepfer
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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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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Techniques of Planning
Paul Cote, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, Martin Zogran, Judith Grant Long
Prerequisites: Enrollment in urban planning program or by special permission of program directorOperating in conjunction with the core studio GSD 1221: Elements of Urban Design…
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Analysis and Design of Building Structures I
Prerequisites: GSD 6101-MThe course introduces students to the analysis and design of structural elements and systems. The fundamental principles of statics and equilibrium are considered…
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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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Advanced Materials and Technologies
This course will systematically explore materials and their properties. The initial part of the course will briefly review basic classes of materials (metals, ceramics, polymers…
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Plants, Vegetation and Microclimate
This course emphasizes the identification of prominent plants in the natural communities of New England. It also highlights major characteristics of the vegetation, and introduces…
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Landscape Ecology
This course examines the structure, functioning, and change of a mosaic of ecological systems, such as forests, wetlands, fields, corridors, and villages. Focus is on…
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Site Planning
This course provides an introduction to the theories, principles, and methods of site planning and land design practices. Through case studies based upon landscape archetypes,…
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CAD/CAM 1: Introduction to applications in Architecture
This course teaches the fundamentals of computer-aided design and manufacturing (cad/cam), with a focus on applications in architecture. Our core question will be how component…
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Watershed and Waterside Development Planning and Design
This course concentrates on how different land processes (natura) and activities (anthropogenic) effect aquatic systems.Part 1 is based on empirical cross-system comparisons to examine patterns…
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Internet and Architecture
The Internet is fundamentally changing how we practice some of our most basic everyday activities, and challenging how we perceive and use architectural space. Yet…
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Entrepreneurship
Talent, ingenuity, determination, and skill are all characteristics required of an architect to maintain a successful contemporary practice given the realities of a competitive global…
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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,…