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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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,…