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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“Other Modernities”: Architecture and National Identity in Global Context
Focusing on the specific experience of Ottoman Empire/ Modern Turkey from the 18th century into the present, yet discussing this experience within a broader trans-national…
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Space and Subjectivity in the Modern Period
Antoine Picon, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
The seminar will examine the relation between architectural space, real and imagined, and the constructions of the self from the 18th century to the present.
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Proseminar in History, Theory and Urban Studies
Prerequisites: Four graduate-level courses in this area or enrollment in doctoral program.This research seminar addresses subjects of history, theory and human sciences related to architecture…
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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
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
Prerequisites: GSD 6202, GSD 6203, and GSD 6205; or equivalent.As the final component in the required sequence of technology courses, this professionally oriented course develops…
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CAD/CAM: Introduction to Applications in Architecture
Seminar, limited enrollmentComputer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) techniques have widely pervaded fabrication environments for the production of architecture. Knowledge of this technology now has become…
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Acoustics
The schedule for this course is variable. Please select this studio carefully. To be able to do the project the students must have some…
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Innovative Materials in Design
Prerequisites include completion of introductory technology courses in materials and structures (GSD 6111, 6112, 6203, and 6201) or their equivalents.This course will systematically explore innovative…
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International Design Practice: Business, Law, and Culture
The practice of architecture is becoming more and more global. American architectural firms pursue foreign markets; foreign architects compete successfully for prestigious commissions within the…
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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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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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A New Framework for Practice
During the past several years, top-tier architects, landscape architects and urban planners practicing in the major economies of the world have enjoyed an unprecedented abundance…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Alex Krieger, Susan Fainstein, Jeffrey Kipnis, Christian Werthmann, Antoine Picon, Bing Wang, Marco Steinberg, Michael Meredith, Martin Bechthold, Preston Scott Cohen, Toshiko Mori, K. Michael Hays, Kenneth Kao, Spiro Pollalis, John Beardsley, Stephen Ervin, Scheri Fultineer, Niall Kirkwood, Mark Mulligan, Anne McGhee, T. Kelly Wilson
Prerequisites: Graduate standing.Students may take a maximum of 8 credit units with different instructors in this course series. Candidates may arrange individual work focusing on…
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Prep of Design Thesis Proposal for MArch
Toshiko Mori, Timothy Hyde, Pierre de Meuron, Jacques Herzog
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and permission of the thesis program director. This entails preparatory work for all students intending subsequently to enroll in GSD 9301. Students…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree MArch
Maryann Thompson, Lluis Ortega, Ingeborg Rocker, Thomas Schroepfer, Michael Meredith, Martin Bechthold, Preston Scott Cohen, Jonathan Levi, Jorge Silvetti, T. Kelly Wilson, Andrea Leers, Niall Kirkwood, Laura Miller, Remment Koolhaas, 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
A. Hashim Sarkis, Margaret Crawford, Antoine Picon
Preparation of Doctoral Thesis Proposal…
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Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Doctor of Design
Richard Peiser, Daniel Schodek, Carl Steinitz, A. Hashim Sarkis, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, Robert France, Thomas Schroepfer, Kostas Terzidis
Under guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.