Courses
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First Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Preston Scott Cohen, Michael Meredith, Thomas Schroepfer, Ingeborg Rocker, Lluis Ortega, Mariana Ibanez
Prerequisites: Enrollment in MArch I program or permission of the program director.The first of a four-semester sequence of design studios introduces students to the practice…
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First Semester Core: Landscape Architecture Design
Michael Blier, Paula Meijerink, Michael Van Valkenburgh, Jane Choi
The first of a four-term sequence of landscape design and planning studios, this course introduces the vocabulary for describing, analyzing, and designing landscapes. A series…
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Core Urban Planning Studio I
Judith Grant Long, Armando Carbonell, Kathryn Madden
The first semester core studio of the Master of Urban Planning program introduces students to the fundamental knowledge and technical skills used by urban planners…
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Third Semester Core: Architectural Design
Toshiko Mori, Jonathan Levi, John Hong, Kimberly Ackert, Timothy Hyde, Robert Marino, Ana Maria Duran Calisto
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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Third Semester Core: Planning and Design of Landscapes
Scheri Fultineer, Emma Kelly, Paul Cote, Dorothee Imbert, Kaki Martin
This course reinforces and builds upon the range of conventions of landscape architectural production introduced in previous core studios and academic courses. Emphasis is placed…
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Elements of Urban Design
Martin Zogran, Richard Sommer, Felipe Correa
Advanced core studio exploring ideas, conventions, and technical skills essential to a critical understanding of how design operates at the various scales of urbanity and…
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Constructed Landscapes: An Aquarium for Puerto Rico / A Collaborative Studio with the University of Puerto Rico
An Aquarium for Puerto Ricosite:Located between a private airport and the new Convention Center for the city of San Juan, the site is a contested…
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SOFT SPACE: AGILE INVOLUTION Sustainable Strategies for Textile Architecture
This interdisciplinary option studio will explore the integration of flexible solar nano-materials with lightweight textile construction as a new medium for soft space and distributed…
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Super Tall: Performance and Atmosphere
The schedule for this course is variable. Please select this studio carefully.Today we are embarking on a new phase in building design and manifestation that…
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The Geometry of Emotion
Dominique Jakob, Brendan MacFarlane
Given where we are at this moment in history with the building type of a concert hall, are there new ways in which we can…
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Kanchogai Street
Ryue Nishizawa, Florian Idenburg
The schedule for this course is variable. Please select this studio carefully.Kancyogai Street, Towada-shi, AomoriThemeThe studio will focus on a town in the south east…
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Encapsulated Vision: Relocating the Barnes Foundation Collection
With the design of a new building for the Barnes Foundation, this studio will explore the relations between the virtual and actual architectures of collecting…
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El Rejoneo Bull Fighting On Horseback
The schedule for this course is variable. Please select this studio carefully.El Rejoneo (The bull fight): Taking a Stance on Local CulturesShould local traditions maintain…
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Tokyo’s Book City
The district of Jimbo-cho in downtown Tokyo has been the center of book culture from the Edo period when the first government school, later to…
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Visiting History: Bauhaus in America
The Frank House in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is one of the most important examples of work by the Bauhaus figures Walter Gropius and Marcell Breuer in…
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Contested Waters: The Tajo River in Spain
Christian Werthmann, Carl Steinitz
SituationIt is now commonly heard, that \”water is the oil of the 21st century.\” Spain seems to exemplify this issue. For decades fierce debates have…
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Mumbai Margins: Rethinking the Island City
Niall Kirkwood, Nazneen Cooper
Pavements, slums, chawls, colonies, estates as landscapes of renewal\”…many of Bombay\’s (Mumbai) problems are the result not of poverty as such but of the reverse-…
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Half a Million Trees: Prototyping Sites and Systems for Sustainable Cities
Gary R. Hilderbrand, Kristin Frederickson
IntroductionThis studio addresses design and planning practices of sustainable urban forestry. The decline of our urban forest cover can be addressed as a series of…
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A Lo Que Vinimos: Revitalization of Central San Jose, Costa Rica
Paradoxically, perhaps, as the economic fortunes of Costa Rica have rebounded from the downturn and regional political crises of the late 1970s and 80s, the…
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The New Boston Waterfront: Channels & Edges
Prerequisites:Students will be expected to possess a high degree of design interest and capability. It is anticipated that the studio will call upon the following…
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Recovering New Orleans
Two years after Hurricane Katrina, recovery in many parts of New Orleans remains a pressing issue. The Recovering New Orleans studio will develop planning and…
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The Architecture of Geography: Istanbul, Mixed-Use Development, and the Panoramic Condition
The Architecture of GeographyIstanbul, Mixed-Use Development, and the Panoramic ConditionThe aim of the studio is to explore the urban and architectural potentials of mixed use…
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Tokyo’s Book City
The district of Jimbo-cho in downtown Tokyo has been the center of book culture from the Edo period when the first government school, later to…
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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
Historically, certain kinds of reciprocity between geometry and architecture have been used to bring about rational causes and practical means of formal innovation. Today, the…
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Studies in Landscape Representation 1
This introductory course surveys the history, conventions, and techniques of drawing landscapes and their elements. Topics include:1. Mechanical drawing; graphic techniques and technical conventions for…
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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
Prerequisites: GSD 2107 or equivalent.Computer Graphics have opened up unprecedented ways of form making and animation. This unfolding universe of visual inputs that is based…
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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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From Industrial to Strategic Design: The Changing Value of Design
What is Design? What is the value of Design? The course seeks to address these fundamental questions by examining the evolution of design from the…
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From Disruption to Projection: Digital Landscape Modeling
\”Our official culture is striving to force the new media to do the work of the old.\”Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, 1967Digital tools, now fully…
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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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Dioramic Modes in Landscape Architecture
This seminar/workshop explores the practical and theoretical potential of the diorama as a robust set of representational operations in the design and description of landscape…
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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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Theories and Methods of Landscape Planning
Carl Steinitz, Juan Carlos Vargas-Moreno
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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Decorating Diversions: Industrial Design, Consumerism and the Production of Spaces
The history and practice of Decorative Arts, Industrial Design and the Design of Interiors are intrinsically intertwined and at times indistinguishable. The more recent rubric…
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Methods of Urban Planning
This companion course to the first-term Core Urban Planning Studio introduces students to selected methods used by urban planners in understanding, analyzing, and influencing the…
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Designing the Underneath: Architecture and/as Infrastructure
As both a collection of built objects – bridges, highways, tunnels, cables – and as a set of ideas about modernity, architecture has long sought…
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MArch II Proseminar
Prerequisites: Enrollment in the MArch II program.This course provides a forum for critical discussion of contemporary design practices that is exploratory and speculative in nature.
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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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Proseminar – Defining Urban Design
A seminar required for first year students in the MAUD and MLAUD programs, and open to others only by special permission of the instructor. The…
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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 I
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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Film, Modernity and Visual Culture
Cinema has changed the way we see and think. Modern visual culture develops with the art of film. Course considers this major 20th century shift…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
The schedule for this course is variable. See below.An in-depth consideration of selected topics of enduring relevance for the theory and practice of architecture. The…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
Explores the aims and methods of Architectural History through the paradigm of Classicism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Considers the relation of theory to…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts Postwar Architecture
The atomic bomb, spring break, existentialism, jet travel, the polio vaccine, India and Pakistan, the transistor radio, abstract expressionism, LSD, the United Nations, ISO containers,…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
The schedule for this course is variable. See below.Introduces the primarily textual material that has constituted architectural discourse from the 1960s to the present,…
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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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