Courses
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First Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Preston Scott Cohen, David Goodman, Michael Meredith, Thomas Schroepfer, Lluis Ortega, Mariana Ibanez
Prerequisites:Enrollment in the MArch I program or permission of the program director. The first of a four-semester sequence of design studios introduces students to the…
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Third Semester Core: Architectural Design
Toshiko Mori, Peter Rose, Alex Anmahian, Jonathan Levi, John Hong, Timothy Hyde, Robert Marino, Amale Andraos
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…
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Center for the Arts, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Site:Located on a rolling landscape within the White Oak tree canopy of Martha\’s Vineyard\’s Menemsha Hills, the site offers a sense of spatial complexity and…
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Before Motown – After Techno: Designing for the Detroit Musical Continuum
Detroit has attitude, energy and grit – all qualities that allowed it to create sounds that revolutionized the world of music. Its musical legacy and…
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Paffard Keatings-Clay: Mastery Through Innovation, Innovation Through Mastery
Issues/themesModernism: there is more meat on that bone.Working within the disciplineThe canon, challenging it, contributing to itExcellence requires StandardsExcellence vs. novelty as a core valueArchitecture…
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BOMBAY STUDIO: Urban Adjustments Negotiating the Kinetic and Static City
Location: The city of Bombay (now Mumbai) with over 12 million residents. India\’s financial center, with perhaps the world\’s most prolific film industry. 5 million…
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privately owned, publicly accessible: negotiating with the academic prestige
_FACTSColumbia University is both a leading academic institution of the world and one of the most constrained for space. At 326 square feet per student,…
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Dance Space
This studio will be concerned with the design of a mobile and experimental dance theater for a site in Boston and another site in Stuttgart,…
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Migrating Coastlines: Emergent TranFORMations for Dubai, U.A.E.
Emergent TransFORMationsToday\’s emergent digital techniques allow us to deal with the full complexity of material systems, by offering the tools to create effects that exceed…
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Individual/Serial: A New Architecture for NYC Parks
How does one create a new architecture for New York City\’s public parks? There are over 1,700 parks located on over 27,000 acres of parkland…
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LUNIT
MISSIONAs a solution to current economic and social concerns existing in the housing industry, (i.e. affordability, sustainability and individual customization), the LUNIT Project has been…
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The Search for a Modern Monumentality: Master Plan and Design for the New Paris Courthouse
The subject of this studio will be the master plan and design of the new Paris Courthouse at the center of the city. In this…
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Steer a million people per day. Beyoglu, Istanbul
Steer a million people per day. Beyoglu, IstanbulThe studio will explore global scenarios for Istanbul and offer a concrete intervention to the specifities of a…
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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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Elegance in Architecture
This seminar will explore systemic thinking and digital design techniquesthat yield elegant architectural forms. The last thirteen years in digital design and fabrication have given…
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Current Architecture as Cultural Discourse
\”In fact it is only the ideal soul of society, that which has authority to command and prohibit, that is expressed in architectural compositions properly…
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The Ideology of the Map
Mapping reveals the complex relationship between representation and thinking, technology, culture and aesthetic practices. Embedded in the procedure are the general terms of cartography and…
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Out of the Box
Research for an upcoming exhibition, we will be looking at the work by a handful of architects who graduated from the GSD in the 40s…
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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
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
Explores the aims and methods of Architectural History through the paradigm of Classicism. Considers the relation of theory to the history of theory, of theory…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
The atomic bomb, spring break, jet travel, existentialism, the polio vaccine, India and Pakistan, abstract expressionism, ISO containers, the transistor radio, LSD, the United Nations,…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
Introduces the primarily textual material that has constituted architectural discourse from the 1960s to the present, including such topics as representation, realism, and event-structure in…
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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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Situating the Modern
From National Romanticism to Critical Regionalism, architecture\’s ability to evoke a sense of place, locality or identity has been valued as a form of resistance…
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Paris and the Idea of the Modern City
This seminar examines the role Paris has played in the birth and development of the idea of the modern city as seen through the multiple…
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Outside the Canon: Revisionist Readings of Aalto
OUTSIDE THE CANONRevisionist readings of Alvar AaltoProclaiming that \”God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is an abuse of…
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Proseminar in History, Theory and Urban Studies
This research seminar addresses subjects of history, theory and human sciences related to architecture and the city for students preparing for or enrolled in doctoral…
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Materials and Construction: An Introduction to Techniques, Composition and Strategies
Thomas Schroepfer, Toshiko Mori
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
The course introduces students to the analysis and design of structural elements and systems. The fundamental principles of statics and equilibrium are considered first, followed…
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Building Technology
As the final component in the required sequence of technology courses, this professionally oriented course develops an integral understanding of the design and construction of…
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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. The core question will be how component…
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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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Leading the Design Firm
This course is co-taught by Prof. Spiro Pollalis and Brian Kenet.This course introduces GSD students to the business side of the industry from the perspective…
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Architectural Specifications
Architectural specifications are essential to the realization of the project design. While drawings communicate form and quantity, specifications communicate materials and quality. The primary goals…
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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
James Kostaras, Scheri Fultineer, Daniel Schodek, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, A. Hashim Sarkis, Richard Sommer, Mark Mulligan, Stephen Ervin, Anne McGhee, Jorge Silvetti, John Beardsley, Leland Cott, Sibel Bozdo??an, Holly Clarke, Preston Scott Cohen, Joan Busquets, Michael Meredith, Allen Sayegh, Eve Blau, Kostas Terzidis, Susan Fainstein
Candidates may arrange individual work focusing on subjects or issues that are of interest to them but are not available through regularly offered course work.
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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.Prerequisites: Graduate…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree MArch
Monica Ponce de Leon, Laura Miller, Maryann Thompson, Ingeborg Rocker, Marco Steinberg, Martin Bechthold, Preston Scott Cohen, T. Kelly Wilson, Peter Rose, Jonathan Levi, Spiro Pollalis, Toshiko Mori
Following preparation in GSD 9203, each student conducts a design exploration that tests and expands the thesis.Prerequisites: GSD 9203.
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Preparation of Doctoral Thesis Proposal
A. Hashim Sarkis, Jeffrey Huang, Margaret Crawford
Preparation of Doctoral Thesis Proposal…
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Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Doctor of Design
Richard Peiser, Daniel Schodek, Carl Steinitz, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, A. Hashim Sarkis, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, Robert France, Martin Bechthold
Under guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.