Courses
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First Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Preston Scott Cohen, Anna Pla Catala, Elizabeth Whittaker, Cameron Wu, Michael Wang, Ingeborg Rocker
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, Maryann Thompson, Eric Howeler, Mariana Ibanez, Florian Idenburg, Danielle Etzler
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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RioStudio
The Graduate School of Design vs. Business School Studio aims to combine the creative experimentation of the designers with the rigorous number crunching of the…
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Global Redesign Project 2. Resonance: Virtual and Real: Design of a Performing Arts Center
GLOBAL REDESIGN PROJECT 2: RESONANCE: VIRTUAL AND REAL: DESIGN OF A PERFORMANCE ART CENTER SYLLABUS GLOBAL REDESIGN PROJECT 2: RESONANCE: VIRTUAL AND REAL: DESIGN OF…
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Dense + Green
In the context of today\’s debates on sustainable approaches for high density cities, contemporary architectural practice increasingly seeks new possibilities for integrating green spaces in…
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Rising Mass 2
Halfway between today\’s dominant discourse of programmatic freedom and the alleged over-determination of pure form-making, this studio celebrate architecture\’s ongoing critical return to form. Our…
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FORMAGRAPHICS
For centuries used as a fundamental form of geometric rationality, and perhaps now used as a reaction to the various types of topological / fluid…
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Performative Wood: Integral Design Computation and Materialization
Today, thanks in part to the new theories of self-organization that have revealed the potential complexity of behaviour of even the humbler forms of matter-energy,…
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Geography of a Bridge: Reconfiguring Istanbul¿s Ataturk Kopru across the Golden Horn
The studio aims to unlock the architectural potential of an infrastructural element by reconfiguring its status between system and object. The site is the foot…
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London: A Particular Proposition
The Studio will look at London, a city where design ingenuity has been nurtured by the unpromising parameters of layered historic regulation, international trade and…
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Dense Structure- Stressed Structures: Institute for Innovation in Infrastructure, Madrid, Spain
The city of Madrid is undergoing today one of its most important urban and infrastructural challenges; the burying of the M-30 ring highway has recovered…
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Poseidon’s Temple: Vessels, Membranes, and Urban Archipelagos
This studio will investigate a Mid-American city as it transitions from post-industrial decline, towards a new, water-based urbanism. Can its architecture and remnant infrastructure be…
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Architecture, In Extremes: A Spa in Wadi Rum, Jordan
The project is a Spa Resort located in Wadi Rum, which is one of the most important natural history sites in Jordan. Wadi Rum is…
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Visual Studies
This course cultivates the ability to draw by hand and encourages you to incorporate hand drawing into your design process. Each session includes a lecture…
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Projective Representation in Architecture
This course examines the history, theory and practice of parallel (orthographic) and central (perspective) projection. The objective is to provide the tools to imagine and…
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Digital Media I
Christopher Hoxie, Andrew Witt
Topics in Parametric and Generative Geometry and ModelingThis class explores the design and science of logical form making, examined through geometry, parametric control, algorithms, and…
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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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Augmented Architecture
Note: This course will meet in the Project Room on the days listed below. This course focuses on the idea that spatial experience can be…
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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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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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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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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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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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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 2010. 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
This module is concerned with the pluralism of modernity in the first half of the 20th century; with the many different conceptions of both the…
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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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Authority and Invention: Medieval Art and Architecture
Masterworks of art and architecture in Western Europe from the decline of Rome to the dawn of the Italian Renaissance (300 to 1300 A.D.). The…
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Istanbul: From Imperial Capital to Global City
This lecture/seminar offers an overview of Istanbul\’s urban/architectural transformations in the last two centuries, situating these developments within both the historical dynamics of modern Turkey…
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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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Materials and Construction: An Introduction to Techniques, Composition and Strategies
Mark Mulligan, Danielle Etzler
This module introduces students to fundamental properties and behaviors of buildings and other structures. Principles of design and construction are discussed in a comprehensive manner…
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Energy, Technology and Building
6112M2 will meet for the first class on Thursday, October 28th from 2:30-5:30 PM in room 109, and will also meet the following day, Friday,…
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Analysis and Design of Building Structures I
The course rigorously navigates future architects to the discipline of structural engineering, as an integral component of conceiving and designing buildings. Decisions on geometry and…
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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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Sustainability for Planning and Design
This survey course will give a critical overview over the most pressing issues and tendencies surrounding the term Sustainability focusing on the specific role of…
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CAD/CAM: Introduction to applications in Architecture
Computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) techniques, often referred to as digital fabrication techniques, are being widely adopted for the production of architecture. As technology evolves…
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Computational Design [Numerical Descriptions as Design Tools]
This is a series of lectures and workshops on computational design covering fundamental and advanced topics in the field. The lectures will introduce mathematical and…
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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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Thermal Performance and Comfort in Buildings
PURPOSE and OBJECTIVES:The course emphasizes understanding the impact that various environmental systems have on the building design and operation process:Environmental Technologies – A review of…
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