Courses
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First Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Preston Scott Cohen, Thomas Schroepfer, Ingeborg Rocker, Eric Howeler
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
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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Options: New York Docklands Museum and Cultural Center
Located on the East River adjacent to the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, the site is a threshold site which negotiates the edge condition…
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Shadow Cities: Nomads + Nanomaterials
Interdisciplinary and collaborative, the SHADOW CITIES studio at the GSD explores the intersection of architecture, technology development and social action. More than 2 billion people…
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Museum of Contemporary Art in Portugal
Site:Guincho – the region between earth and sea – consists of a rough topography of cliffs, heavy stones and persistent wild vegetation. It is the…
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Repetition and Culture
Contemporary architecture is preoccupied with being interesting. What is interesting today can soon become tiresome. The character of cities has little to do with their…
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Cities in Crisis: Memory and Community in Architecture and Planning
There will be massive needs for restoration, redesign, and community planning. This will impact everything from affordable housing to reestablishment of basic infrastructure and transportation;…
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The Marfa Project
The brief for the Marfa Project will ask for the design of a guest house to the Chinati Foundation, at Marfa, Texas. In order to…
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To and From Asia with Love
An Invitation to an Exotic Voyage To and From Asia with LoveArchitecture for a CityA vibrant global city called homeA home, a place where one…
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SELF-SIMILAR: Treasure Island Performing Arts Center
This studio will explore ideas of self-similarity and transitive relationships among seam, surface and volume as a means to generate architectural systems that span across…
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Harvard in Cyprus
The Harvard School of Public Health has established the Cyprus International Institute (CII) to conduct research, and offer instruction both to full time students and…
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Extending Modernism in the Monumental City: Washington’s Southwest Waterfront Development
The subject of this studio will be the design of a mixed- use urban waterfront development in an exceptional sector of the city of Washington…
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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
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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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 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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Universal Design and other Design Dilemmas
Ohms, Environments: Architecture, Environment, ResistanceIn 1959 UC Berkeley placed its school of architecture under the authority of \”environment.\” Berkeley\’s new College of Environmental Design signaled…
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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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Modulating Monocoques
The necessity to produce continuity, structure and articulation within complex topologic surfaces has given rise to a new refinement in contemporary architecture practice. While modularity…
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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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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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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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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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Smart Materials: Design Issues and Applications
Smart Materials, long the mainstay of advanced engineering applications, have begun to join the palette of fashionable materials for architecture. High visibility projects, elaborate installation…
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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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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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Design Research Methods
The purpose of this seminar is to guide doctoral students in the development and preparation of their research proposals. First, it will expose students to…
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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,…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Joan Busquets, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, Niall Kirkwood, Christine Smith, Anne McGhee, Jorge Silvetti, John Beardsley, Jonathan Levi, K. Michael Hays, Jerold S. Kayden
Students may take a maximum of 8 credit units with different instructors in this course series.Prerequisites: Graduate standing.Candidates may arrange individual work focusing on subjects…
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Prep of Design Thesis Proposal for MArch
Toshiko Mori, Pierre de Meuron, Jacques Herzog
This entails preparatory work for all students intending subsequently to enroll in GSD 9301. Students research thesis proposals for review and acceptance by faculty.
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree MArch
Martin Bechthold, Preston Scott Cohen, A. Hashim Sarkis, Rodolfo Machado, T. Kelly Wilson, Jonathan Levi, Toshiko Mori
Prerequisites: GSD 9203.Following preparation in GSD 9203, each student conducts a design exploration that tests and expands the thesis.
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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, Carl Steinitz, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, Joan Busquets
Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Doctor of Design…