Courses
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First Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Preston Scott Cohen, Elizabeth Whittaker, Cameron Wu, Ingeborg Rocker, Eric Howeler, Danielle Etzler, Yael Erel
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, Martha Schwartz, Emily Waugh
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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First Semester Core Urban Planning Studio
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, John Hong, Timothy Hyde, Mariana Ibanez, Florian Idenburg, Nathaniel Belcher
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
Christian Werthmann, Paul Cote, Pierre Bélanger, Jane Hutton
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
Felipe Correa, Anita Berrizbeitia, Rafael Segal
Elements of Urban Design is an advanced core studio for the post professional programs in urban design. The studio introduces a wide host of ideas,…
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Computational Design and Material GestaltPerformative Wood: Reciprocities of Form, Material, Structure and Environment
\”The manifest form – that which appears – is the result of a computational interaction between internal rules and external (morphogenetic) pressures that, themselves, originate…
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Toward an Industrial Ecology for New Caofeidian
AN INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY FOR NEW CAOFEIDIAN Professor: Nanako Umemoto nanako@reiser-umemoto.com Teaching Associate: Neil Cook neil@reiser-umemoto.comIntroduction: A Chinese model of development? \”China can no…
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Global Redesign Project I: Le Kinkeliba
OVERVIEW Le Kinkeliba is a small but highly successful bottom-up medical and educational NGO aid organization founded in 1995 by Dr. Gilles Degois of Paris.
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TB Clinics and Research Laboratories in Ethiopia
Rose Option Studio, Fall 2009TB Clinics and Research Laboratories in EthiopiaPROJECTThe Studio Project will be in two parts: a central TB Clinic and Research Laboratory…
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Inventing Architecture
I n G e n e r a lOur goal is to work with an idea. What is a project about? What is the idea…
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Mies Immersion
Mies ImmersionThe Performance ShedMies\’s work had an essence of formlessness, amorphousness, nothingness, perversion and anxiety behind a stealth shield of serenityRem KoolhaasI am, in fact,…
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Reticulated Form II: Airport Terminus in Bucharest
Reticulated Form II: Airport Terminus in BucharestThis research and design studio is the second in a series that focuses on parametric explorations of reticulation: division,…
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Detournement
D\’tournement1. PresentationThe colonization of the Chilean desert, located between the 20th and 30th southern parallels, is historically connected with mining, shepherding communities and exchange dynamics…
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The Urban Theater
The Urban Theater Gordon Kipping with Maria Stefanidis Urban public space is idealized in the public square. Typically bounded by buildings that possess some civic…
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The New Gate: Public Space, Infrastructure, and the Re-Orientation of Historic Istanbul
Istanbul Re-Oriented: Over the past four decades, the city of Istanbul has grown away from the congestion of its historic center towards its vast metropolitan…
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Mediums
Are you tired of ____?If you answered yes to this question, keep reading.It could be said that avant-garde production works according to this formula: Medium…
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The Greek City of Edessa: Search for a Sustainable Future
Martha Schwartz, Spiro Pollalis
Tuesdays and WednesdaysEdessa, a small historic town in northern Greece, faces an uncertain future. Its potential to regenerate diminishes as they lose their young population…
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Designing the Ecology of Democracy: Speculations on National Identity, Free Speech, the American Elm, and the Nation’s Front Yard
Gary R. Hilderbrand, Gareth Doherty
GSD 1402, Hilderbrand, Fall 2009DESIGNING THE ECOLOGY OF DEMOCRACY: SPECULATIONS ON NATIONAL IDENTITY, FREE SPEECH, THE AMERICAN ELM, AND THE NATION???S FRONT YARD\”The Mall, far…
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Boston Botany Bay: The Naked Garden as Spectacle of Plant Psycho-Geography
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
\”Gardeners are not only botanists, but also painters and philosophers\”William Chambers: A dissertation on oriental gardening (London, 1772)\”What seems to me the highest and the…
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Toward an Industrial Ecology for New Caofeidian
AN INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY FOR NEW CAOFEIDIAN Professor: Nanako Umemoto nanako@reiser-umemoto.com Teaching Associate: Neil Cook neil@reiser-umemoto.comIntroduction: A Chinese model of development? \”China can no…
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Havana In Our Time: Developing Urban Design and Planning Strategies for Change
Havana, Cuba, once known as the Pearl of the Antilles, is facing unprecedented pressure for change from increasing tourism, foreign economic interests and the likelihood…
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The New Gate: Public Space, Infrastructure, and the Re-Orientation of Historic Istanbul
Istanbul Re-Oriented: Over the past four decades, the city of Istanbul has grown away from the congestion of its historic center towards its vast metropolitan…
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Newark: The Contested City, Part II – Healing Waters: Reclaiming the Urban Waterfront
The Contested City, Part II Healing Waters: Connecting the Passaic Riverfront to Newark NeighborhoodsToni L. Griffin Adjunct Associate Professor Director of Planning & Community Development,…
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Urban Renewal Reconsidered: Envisioning a Sustainable Future for Boston’s Core
While Boston is known around the world for preserving and celebrating large parts of its historic fabric, the downtown core underwent major acts of Urban…
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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
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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Workflows for Digital Representation and Spatial Analysis Module 1
Spatial Planning and Design are activities that involve much organization and refinement of information. 2201M1 and M2 is a sequence of courses that introduce and…
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Drawing in the City of Rome
The Rome drawing workshop places students within the context of Rome to live in, observe, analyze and draw from its complex configuration the ideas insightful…
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Sculpting in Motion
Computer Graphics have opened up unprecedented ways of form making and animation. This unfolding universe of visual inputs that is based on complex geometries and…
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Immersive Environments
Immersive EnvironmentsThis course seeks to posit the role of digital media within the broader context of digital practice and to examine generative capacities of the…
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Superficial Spaces
Description At a time when architectural discourse and practice are brimming with references to new geometries, this offering investigates the architectural potential of abstract three-dimensional…
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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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Landscape Planning for the 21st Century: Paradigms, Practices & Projects
Responding to contemporary ecological pressures and decaying infrastructures, this course brings together a series of influential thinkers and researchers from the design commons across North…
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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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Advanced offering in Theory and Methods
The current global crisis , a perfect storm of finance, environment and politics, requires a need to rethink the role and practice of architects, planners,…
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Architecture and Art: From Minimalism to Neuro-phenomenology
Since the first pronouncements of the \’death\’ of painting in the post-Abstract Expressionist era, art consistently sought to radicalize its practice by overturning the traditional…
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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 surveys multiple definitions of landscape architecture. Rather than seeking a singular understanding of the field, the seminar postulates that landscape might be understood…
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Proseminar – Defining Urban Design
CLASS SCHEDULE:Monday 3:00 – 6:00 318 Gund Hall Wendsday 3:00 – 6:00 318 Gund HallFirst session meets on Monday September 2nd at 3.00pm ABSTRACTUrban Design…
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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 presents a history of landscape architecture between 1850 and 1950, with a particular emphasis on the Western world. By studying the projects and…
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Scale: City, Object, Field
*PLEASE NOTE*The first class meeting will take place this Thursday (September 3rd) from 1-2:00 pm in room 510. The seminar is concerned with how scale…
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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 2009. 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 2009. 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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