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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Visions of the Japanese House
This course has an irregular schedule. See below.Visions of the Japanese HouseLimited enrollment Lecture, Non-WesternFall 2008Ken Tadashi Oshima, Ph.D.This seminar explores the origins, derivations,…
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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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Art and Architecture in Western Europe, 950-1250
Medieval Studies 107. Authority and Invention: Art and Architecture in Western Europe, 950-1250. Catalog Number: 9420 (FAS); GSD Catalogue Number 4358 Christine Smith (Design School)…
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The Ruin Aesthetic: Episodes in the History of an Architectural Idea
The Ruin Aesthetic: Episodes in the History of an Architectural Idea One of the most arresting images in Michel Serres\’s Rome: The Book of Foundations…
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Materials and Construction: An Introduction to Techniques, Composition and Strategies
Eric Howeler, 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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Innovation in Structure
Werner Sobek, Timothy Macfarlane
Please note the course schedule below.In our recent examples of architecture, visions of architects are enhanced by innovative approaches in structures by leading engineers and…
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CAD/CAM: Introduction to Applications in Architecture
Martin Bechthold, Stephen Hickey
Computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) techniques have widely pervaded fabrication environments for the production of architecture. Knowledge of this technology now has become part of…
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Day-Lighting Buildings
Day-Lighting Buildings The primary focus of this course will be the study of lighting in an architectural context. The course will stress the integration of…
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Advanced Fabrications: Fast, Cheap, and Brilliant
Advanced Fabrication: Fast, Cheap, and BrilliantThe field\’s longstanding emphasis on stability and timelessness as hallmarks of serious work has unnecessarily limited the scope of projects…
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Building Performance Simulation – Energy
Building Performance Simulation – EnergyThis seminar will introduce students to technical and non-technical aspects of using whole building energy simulation during building design, retrofitting and…
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Smart Materials
This course introduces students to smart materials, a term used to describe materials and products that have changeable properties and that are able to reversibly…
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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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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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Design and Development: from Concept to Implementation
Spiro Pollalis, Andreas Georgoulias
This course examines the design and development process, from the first idea and the original conceptual sketch to the creation of real assets. The focus…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Peter Rowe, T. Kelly Wilson, Anne McGhee, Stephen Ervin, Richard T.T. Forman, John R. Stilgoe, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, Richard Peiser, Matthew Urbanski, Brian W. Blaesser, Susan Fainstein, Christian Werthmann, Farshid Moussavi, Kostas Terzidis, Gareth Doherty, Sanford Kwinter, Felipe Correa, Marco Cenzatti, Bing Wang, Allen Sayegh, Michael Meredith, Preston Scott Cohen, Spiro Pollalis, Laura Solano, K. Michael Hays, Gary R. Hilderbrand
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…
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Prep of Design Thesis Proposal for MArch
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, Mariana Ibanez, Lluis Ortega, Joseph MacDonald, Michael Meredith, Preston Scott Cohen, Jonathan Levi, Jorge Silvetti, Remment Koolhaas, Timothy Hyde
Prerequisites: GSD 9203.Following preparation in GSD 9203, each student conducts a design exploration that tests and expands the thesis.
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