Courses
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First Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Preston Scott Cohen, Daniel Lopez-Perez, Ingeborg Rocker, Eric Howeler, Lluis Ortega, Mariana Ibanez, Paul Andersen
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, Martha Schwartz, 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, Kathryn Madden, Kathy Spiegelman
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
Jonathan Levi, Laura Miller, Peter Rose, John Hong, Timothy Hyde, Florian Idenburg
Prerequisites: GSD 1101 and GSD 1102, or advanced standing in the MArch I program. The third of a four-semester sequence of design studios brings together…
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Third Semester Core: Planning and Design of Landscapes
Scheri Fultineer, Paul Cote, Kaki Martin, Laura Gornowski, Robyn Reed
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
Richard Sommer, Martin Zogran, 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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Back to Maddalena
Please note the course schedule below.Stefano Boeri + conrad-bercahBACK TO MADDALENAa tourist epicenter for the young at the ex US Navy base after the 2009…
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Crossing: Border Station Studio
Crossing: Border Station Studio The US General Services Administration has a mandate to accelerate the delivery of new border stations along the US borders with…
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The GINA Studio
Frank Barkow, Christopher Bangle
The GINA Studio.Harvard University 2008.Body WorkGINA – is an acronym for a formal and functional design philosophy based on an emerging technology developed by engineers…
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Cleverage: finding and exploiting loopholes for architectural advantage
Cleverage: finding and exploiting loopholes for architectural advantage The term \”cleverage\” comes from the idea of \”leveraging\” \”cleverness\” to achieve uncommon effects and open…
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Desert Islands
First, it is true that from the deserted island it is not creation but re-creation, not the beginning, but a re-beginning that takes place. The…
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Rising Mass: Tall Cultivars For a Fast-Sprouting Type
Rising Mass: Tall Cultivars For a Fast-Sprouting TypeAs a Matter of Pure FormHalfway between today\’s dominant discourse of programmatic freedom and the alleged over-determination of…
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Reticulated Form: United States Air Force Academy
RETICULATED FORM:UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY Today an architect must operate as a force of organization, a fulcrum from which new questions are asked and…
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UNAM de CENTRAL LIBRARY
Mimi Hatram Hoang, Mahadev Raman, Eric Bunge, Paul Kassabian
UNAM deCENTRAL LIBRARY _Integrated StudioSynopsis: This architecture design studio will use The National Autonomous University of Mexico\’s (UNAM\’s) campus in Mexico City as a site…
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The Overskyscraper
high speciesTHE OVERSKYSCRAPERUBIQUITOUS TOWER COLLECTIVESSkyscraper cities, tower agglomerations and tower clusters, airport hub cities, waterfront developments, mixed-use developments, high-rise housing developments, high-rise condominiums, luxury residential…
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CONNECTED ISOLATION: Designing Architecture and Territory in the Galapagos Islands
The Galapagos Archipelago is renown for having the unique ecology that led Charles Darwin to describe the mechanisms of natural selection. Its islands are interconnected…
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MUMBAI METROPOLITAN: Adapting the Airport Lands, Mumbai, India
Niall Kirkwood, Nazneen Cooper
AbstractThe sponsored studio MUMBAI METROPOLITAN will reconsider the Greater Mumbai (formerly Bombay) and India\’s densest and most grossly inhospitable urban fabric as part of a…
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Mat Ecologies
studio site: Massachusetts Military Reservation, Cape Cod, Massachusetts\”…mats are…everywhere. We call them fields, grounds, carpets, matrices.\” The mat answers to the recurring calls for efficiency…
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Redesigning Infrastructure – Baldwin Hills Park/Oil FieldA new life for a 1400-acre urban oil field in the Los Angeles basin
Mia Lehrer, Matthew Gordy, Byron Stigge
The precipitous upward curve of oil prices signals the end of an era– the petroleum epoch. Ironically, this price fluctuation causes long dormant oil wells…
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The Contested City: Newark and the Struggle for Sustainable Urban Regeneration-Ports and the City
The Contested City: Newark and the Struggle for Sustainable Urban RegenerationNewark City Lab OverviewMiddle-class attraction strategies are frequently explored when trying to revive an urban…
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An Urbanism for Las Vegas, Nevada
\”Let me confess at the outset to my preference for the real fakery of Las Vegas over the fake reality of Santa Fe – for…
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The Jewelry District, Providence, RI: Imagining the Newly – Contested Edge
COURSE DESCRIPTIONBackgroundWithin the last decade Providence, Rhode Island has branded itself as a city with a lively downtown reshaped by its canals and a new…
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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
Preston Scott Cohen, Cameron Wu
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
Elizabeth Randall, Jane Choi, Michael Blier
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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The Visual Landscape: Analysis and Management
The seminar meetings will occur on Monday afternoons in module 1 of the fall semester, with a paper due before Thanksgiving.Seminar reading and discussion, 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
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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Immersive Environments
Over the past 15 years several areas of research within digital practice have evolved into their own disciplinary areas of knowledge – from prototyping and…
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Superficial Spaces
At a time when architectural discourse and practice are still brimming with references to new geometries, this course investigates the architectural potential of three-dimensional surfaces.
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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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Theories and Methods of Landscape Planning
Juan Carlos Vargas-Moreno, Carl Steinitz
Schedule:Module 1: 10 – 11:30 on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, and 11:30-1 on Wednesday. Module 2: 10 – 11:30 on Monday, and 11:30-1 on WednesdayCourse…
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Architecture and Art: From Robert Smithson to the emerging `New Synthesis¿
Since the first announcements of the \’demise\’ of painting in the post-Abstract Expressionist era, art has consistently sought to radicalize its practice by upending the…
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Part Animal: Forms of Architecture, Forms of Life
A point of stability, a circle of property, and an opening to the outside –these are the three aspects of the refrain. — DeleuzeDifferentiation in…
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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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The Architecture of Mobility: Desiging for the Mobile Subject
The Architecture of Mobility: Designing for the Mobile SubjectMax HirshThis course interrogates the relationship between architecture practice and mobility and examines architectural strategies that address…
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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
ABSTRACTUrban Design as a new discipline emerged from an International Conference held at Harvard in 1956 under the support and initiative of Dean Jose Luis…
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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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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
K. Michael Hays, Erika Naginski
The two-module sequence 4201-4202 will be taught as a single semester- long course for Fall 2008. This course is structured as a dialogue between historical…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
K. Michael Hays, Erika Naginski
The two-module sequence 4201-4202 will be taught as a single semester- long course for Fall 2008. This course is structured as a dialogue between historical…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
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
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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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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Urbanization in the East Asian Region
The purpose of this course is to provide an overall account of the urbanization in selected cities within the rapidly developing Pacific Asian region; to…
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Race, Inequality, and Cities
This course explores the ways that understandings of race have shaped the modern American built environment, with attention to the impact of race on the…
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