Courses
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Immersive Environments
This course seeks to posit the role of digital media within the broader context of digital practice and to examine the generative capacities of the…
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Communication for Designers
\”The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings. In the end the communicator will be confronted…
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Superficial Spaces
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 surfaces.
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Communicating Architecture, The Architect as Author and Editor
The Course will introduce students to the potentials of the book as a medium for the communication of architecture. Editorial conditions and design rules have…
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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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Advanced Landscape as Digital Media: Fabricating Grounds
The course is aimed at fostering a conceptual as well as technical approach to the introduction of digital design and fabrication techniques within landscape design…
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Landscape as Animation
This elective seminar studies the work of artist Joshua Mosley, in particular his methods of representing landscape through sequential photographic animation. In conjunction with four…
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Interrogative Design: Projection/Instillation/InterventionInterrogative Design: Projection/Instillation/Intervention
Interrogative Design Workshop:Projection / Installation / InterventionInterrogative Design Workshop will be offered as a part of new program in Art Design and the Public Domain.
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Art, Design and the Public Domain
With the beginning of this academic year GSD is introducing a program in Art Design and the Public Domain. This seminar is intended to become…
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Media Archaeology of Place
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Jesse Shapins, Ernst Karel
Combining media art practice with critical inquiry and ethnographic research, Boston and other sites serve as laboratories for exploring different modes of representing place. Films,…
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Global Redesign Project
Architects as agents of change in a globally interconnected world is the theme of inquiry for this seminar. It is not a coincidence that we…
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Critical Preservation Practices
This seminar combines theoretical readings from the history of preservation and conservation in architecture with presentations of contemporary cases of architectural, landscape, and urban conservation…
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Recalibrating Infrastructure
This advanced research seminar will probe the contemporary networked metropolis, using Los Angeles and its surrounding region as a springboard. Current modes of production and…
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The Moment of the Monument
Built around two practica–involving the \”excavation\” of an existing monument and the design of a future monument–the course examines the rise and fall of the…
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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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Visionary Architecture
This seminar will take a selective approach to French Visionary Architecture in the late 18th century. We will focus on some of the significant motifs,…
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Proseminar in History, Theory and Urban Design
This research seminar addresses subjects of history, theory and human sciences related to architecture and the city for students preparing for or enrolled in doctoral…
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Sustainable New Cities
Spiro Pollalis, Andreas Georgoulias, Wooyoung Kimm
This course will examine the new city project from the lens of design, business, and sustainability. Based on examples of the recent past and drawing…
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Urban Climate Adaptation
This course focuses on the municipal planning process for climate change, especially adaptive strategies aimed at reducing the public health burden of extreme events. In…
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Participation in Planning and Development: Theory and Practice
Examines the theory and practice of participatory planning and governance, drawing on developing and developed country experience. The seminar begins by briefly looking at the…
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Housing Delivery Systems in the United States
This is a practical course that will examine how, why and where housing is produced in the United States. We will begin by looking at…
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Changing Natural and Built Coastal Environments
Katharine Parsons, Steven Apfelbaum
This course will examine natural and anthropogenic processes affecting the coastal zone and nearshore environment. Ecological principles and their application to design and planning will…
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Environmentally Responsive Building Skins
The intent of the course is to comprehensively encompass building envelope design issues as pertaining to both its internal and external environments. The building skin…
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Net Zero Energy Development: Sustainable Communities & Technology
This seminar combines research with design workshop format to examine advances in the design and technology of Net Zero Energy buildings, neighborhoods, and infrastructures. The…
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Indoor Environmental Quality and Health
John Spengler, Philip Demokritou
This course is cross-listed at the School of Public Health (EH-522). Texts and Reading Materials1. Heinsohn, R. and J. Cimbala. 2003. Indoor Air Quality Engineering:…
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(Re)fabricating Tectonic Prototypes
(Re)fabricating tectonic prototypesThe course is framed by a general ambition to develop explorations in digital design, fabrication and parametric tools that is equally informed and…
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Design Research Methods
Judith Grant Long, Gareth Doherty
The purpose of this proseminar is to (a) guide doctoral students in the development and preparation of their research proposals, (b) to provide them with…
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A New Framework for Practice
The purpose of this course is: 1. to enable students to better understand the landscape of contemporary practice within a larger social, economic and political…
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On The Bri(n)ck: Architecture of the Envelope
On the Bri(n)ck: Architectural Envelope traces the historical development of a debate concerning the architectural envelope beginning at the end of the 19th century. It…
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Advanced Research Seminar: London Urban Development
Four students will participate in the London Studio (GSD 1505) taught by Simon Allford focusing on the intersections between design and real estate. The class…
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Advanced Research Seminar: Istanbul Field Study: Finance Center
The Turkish government is relocating numerous national financial institutions from Ankara to a site in the Umraniye district of Istanbul. This national policy action will…
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Preparation of Design Thesis Proposal for Master in Landscape Architecture
A weekly seminar required for MLA candidates electing to pursue a design thesis. The course intent is to define the design thesis and to frame…