Courses
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Visual Studies
This course will help you develop your sketching ability. The emphasis is heuristic-on specific ways that hand drawing can inspire, guide, and speed your design…
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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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Landscape Representation I
This course introduces students to the history, techniques, and conventions of representation used in the field of landscape architecture. Rather than a static description of…
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Digital Media I
Iterative design workflows will be used for generating, analyzing and representing variations in form, light, materials, and temporal simulations in the design development process. The…
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Digital Media II
Topics in Parametric and Generative Geometry and Modeling This class explores the design and science of logical form making, examined through geometry, parametric control, algorithms,…
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Landscape Representation III: Landform and Ecological Process
Andrea Hansen, Julia Watson, Shauna Gillies-Smith, Wilson Martin, Michael Flynn
This course seeks to examine the fundamental relationship between landform and the dynamic landscape processes it supports and engenders through in-depth study of the methods…
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Intermediate Drawing
The purpose of this course is to draw. To be able to draw one must learn to see, or read, the world around us. Disegno…
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Theories of Landscape as Urbanism, Landscape as Infrastructure: Paradigms, Practices, Prospects
Responding to contemporary urban patterns, ecological pressures and decaying infrastructures, this course brings together a series of influential thinkers and researchers from the design commons…
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GIS and Representation for Planning
While urban planners use a variety of modes to communicate ideas, visual expression is one of the most compelling methods to describe the physical environment.
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What Are We Up To?
Course is offered as part of the Paris study abroad.Enrollment in this course is no longer open as it is part of the Paris Study…
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A Science of the Environment
The science of ecology purports to study life as the sum of interactions between organisms and their natural environment. The term \’natural\’ has in recent…
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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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Urban Design Proseminar
Rahul Mehrotra, Eve Blau, Gareth Doherty
The proseminar is a forum for conversation on contemporary urban design. It is structured around three overlapping discussions: the formation of the discipline, critiques of…
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Proseminar in Landscape Architecture
Gareth Doherty, Charles Waldheim
This course surveys multiple definitions of landscape architecture. Rather than seeking a singular understanding, the seminar postulates that landscape might be understood in relation to…
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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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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts I: Classical and Baroque (folds of history and theory)
K. Michael Hays, Erika Naginski
This course is structured as a dialogue between the historical and theoretical frameworks that have shaped the formulation of architectural principles – what the architectural…
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Film, Modernity and Visual Culture
Cinema has changed the way we see and think. Modern visual culture develops with the art of film. Course considers this major 20th century shift…
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Histories of Landscape Architecture I: Textuality and the Practice of Landscape Architecture
This course addresses a series of topics in contemporary landscape architecture, and invokes a selection of texts in their support; the topics and some of…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts III: Architecture in the 20th Century
This course will examine the discourse and practices of modern architecture in the context of the political, economic, aesthetic, and cultural changes that occurred across…
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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. Explores the creative tension between…
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Situating the Modern: Modern Architecture and Vernacular Traditions
The first meeting of this course will take place on September 1st at 6 PM in room 318. Interested students should plan to attend. This…
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The Ruin Aesthetic: Episodes in the History of an Architectural Idea
One of the arresting images in Michel Serres\’s Rome: The Book of Foundations is the idea that history is \”a knot of different times\” —…
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Paris: The Design of a Metropolis
Enrollment in this course is closed. It is offered as part of the Paris study abroad program. The class will offer an in-depth reading of…
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Urban Politics and Planning
CLASS MEETINGS: T,TH 8:40-10:00am, Littauer 230. Also, four optional review sessions, on the following Fridays in the same time slot: September 10 and 24, October…
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Markets and Market Failures
This course provides an introduction to how markets operate, the criteria for assessing their performance, and the circumstances under which they perform well or poorly.
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Real Estate Finance and Development
This course teaches the fundamentals of real estate finance and development. Lectures and case studies introduce students to the full range of financial analysis skills…
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Planning and Environmental Law
This course examines the law, embodied in local ordinances, state and federal statutes, constitutions, judicial opinions, administrative regulations, and private agreements, governing the use, development,…
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Cities by Design I
Rahul Mehrotra, A. Hashim Sarkis, Alex Krieger, Joan Busquets, Jose Castillo, Felipe Correa, Farès el-Dahdah
THE FIRST CLASS FOR CITIES BY DESIGN WILL BE TUESDAY 6 SEP. No Prerequisites; Course is required of all entering MAUD students.\’Cities by Design\’…
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Policy Making in Urban Settings
An introduction to policymaking in American cities, focusing on economic, demographic, institutional, and political settings. It examines economic development and job growth in the context…
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Transportation Planning and Development
Transportation is a cornerstone of city building and directly influences the development of our built environment and social capital. Transportation strategies directly impact and interact…
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Creating Resilient Cities: Climate Adaptive and Anticipatory Practices
This lecture course examines the concept of community resiliency in the age of climate change. How do planners and designers measure, foster, organize, evaluate and…
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Humanitarian Studies: Theory & Practice
Stephanie Kayden, Michael VanRooyen, Peter Walker
Stephanie Kayden, Michael VanRooyen, Peter Walker\’s course 05432: Humanitarian Studies: Theory & Practice will meet in FAS, Emerson Hall, room 101 on Wednesdays from 5:30-7:30…
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Redevelopment Policy
Urban redevelopment is the process by which government, private investors, and households transform the uses and financial returns of the urban built environment. As an…
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Real Estate Finance and Development Fundamentals
Provides an analytical framework for understanding the real estate finance and development process from both quantitative and nonquantitative perspectives. Topics addressed include: establishing investment/development objectives;…
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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
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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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies I
Matthew Urbanski, Christopher Matthews
Recognizing that plants are one of the essential mediums of landscape architecture, this class seeks to introduce the student to two basic relationships; the relationship…
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Analysis and Design of Building Structures I
The course introduces the discipline of structural engineering as a means of unlocking hidden architectural design potential. Students develop the skills necessary to make…
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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…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies III: Introduction to Ecology
Richard T.T. Forman, Peter Del Tredici
Mondays, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM. LecturesWednesdays, 2:00-5:00 PM. Lectures or field-study tripsOne required two-day field-study trip (In 2011, Sept. 30-Oct. 1, or Oct. 1-2)Course…
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Landscape Ecology
This course examines the ecological structure, functioning, and change of a mosaic of natural systems and land uses, such as woods, wetlands, fields, streams, roads,…
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Brownfields Practicum: Regeneration and Reuse of Brownfield Lands
Abstract: This course concerns the reclamation of sites altered by prior industrial or commercial uses and in particular those that are derelict,…
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Computational Design [Numerical Descriptions as Design Tools]
The first meeting of Panagiotis Michalatos\’ 06338: Computational Design [Numerical Descriptions as Design Tools] will take place in room 124 at 10 AM this Thursday,…
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Modeling Urban Energy Flows
The primary focus of this course is the study of energy flows in and around groups of buildings. The investigated scales will range from individual…
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Structural Engineering and Architecture
The first meeting of this course will take place on September 6th at 6 PM in room 318. Interested students should plan to attend. This…
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Sustainable Plants for a Changing World
Summary: This lecture course will focus on the nature of the interaction between plants and the environments in which they grow. It will cover both…
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The Architect in History: The Evolution of Practice from Renaissance to Present
This course examines the history of architectural practice, focusing on the changing role and definition of the architect, with the goal of providing new perspectives…
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Design and Development: from Concept to Implementation
This course examines the real estate development process, from the first design idea and original conceptual sketch to the creation of building and infrastructure assets.