Courses
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Immersive Environments
This seminar 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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Intermediate Landscape as Digital Media
The course will focus on digital modeling and representational tools for designers. Through the course, students will gain knowledge of digital design media and tools…
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Communicating Architecture, The Architect as Author and Editor
Over the past two years the Course has evolved and become a discussion forum as much as a hands-on lab – to debate…
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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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Cartographies of Hydrology
Cartographies of Hydrology is an advanced representation course. The course begins from the premise that mapping is a \’tactical enterprise\’ and builds upon James Corner\’s…
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Art, Design and the Public Domain
The first meeting of this course will take place on September 1st at 6 PM in room 510. Interested students should plan to attend. This…
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Interrogative Design: Animating Monuments
This course is cross listed with VES as VES137X. The course will focus on the ways in which designers and artists can…
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Culture, Conservation and Design – Creating the Conversation
This seminar will situate the conversation about Strategic & Critical Conservation in the cultural realm with the goal of expanding and developing an understanding of…
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Shrinking Landscapes
03343 will meet for the first meeting in portico 123 on Friday, September 2nd. This advanced research seminar will explore landscape issues and potentials…
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Recalibrating Infrastructure
The first meeting of this course will take place on September 6th at 6 PM in room 510. Interested students should plan to attend. This…
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Third Coast Project
This seminar applies research to analyze and speculate on regional territories, specifically the Great Lakes Basin. With over 20% of the world\’s total surface fresh…
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Urban Grids: Exploring its Design Potentials
The first meeting will take place on Wednessday, August 31st, 6 PM in room 510. Framework:Within a larger research scope on \”Revisiting the urban grids…
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Concepts of Nature
Architects design buildings, and the majority of buildings are in cities. It is not surprising, therefore, that most architects see in the city, in its…
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Conservation Canons and Institutions
Rahul Mehrotra, K. Michael Hays
This module will study and analyze the canons and institutions that have traditional guided the parameters of conservation and preservation practice. The seminar will critically…
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BIBLIOTHECA: The Library Past/Present/Future
\”Wisdom builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down\” reads the lead verse of Proverbs 14. The verse may serve…
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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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Undoing Absolutes: Postmodern Archiitectural Theory
The seminar series investigates the theoretical underpinnings of diverse strands of postmodernism in architecture in the 1970s and 80s. Emphasis is given to the different…
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Critical Memory and the Experience of History
This course will meet for the first time in ROOM 111 on Thursday, September 1st. This seminar presents selected texts from the history…
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Participation in Planning and Development: Theory and Practice
This course will meet for the first time in Portico 123 on Friday, September 2nd. This seminar examines the theory and practice of participatory…
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Canceled – New Spaces of Housing
The Rise of an Anti – Policy in Housing and its effects on Design and Cost of HousingThis seminar will explore the decreased role direct…
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Housing Delivery Systems in the United States
This is a basic course to introduce students to the American system for producing housing. We look at seven \”actors\” — consumers, developers, lenders, infrastructure…
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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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Changing Natural and Built Coastal Environments
Steven Apfelbaum, Katharine Parsons
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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Disaster Design and Development
The class begins on Monday Sept 12th. Please email instructor at [email protected] if you are interested in taking this class. This seminar…
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Material Processes and Systems: Ceramic LAB
The first meeting of 6429 will take place on September 6th at 6 PM in room 508. This class explores how innovative building components…
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The Environmental Performance of Tall Buildings
This course embraces the overarching theme of the environmental performance of tall buildings proposing a critical review that covers issues related to the environmental performance…
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Real-Time Cities: an Introduction to Urban Cybernetics
In real-time cities, urbanity merges with digital information so that the built environment is dynamically sensed and synchronously actuated to perform more efficiently, intelligently, and…
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Landscape of Contemporary and Anticipatory Practice
The purpose of this course is: 1. to enable students to better understand the landscape of established and emergent practices within a larger social, economic…
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Lifecycle Design
The construction, maintenance and operation of the built environment consume significant resources in a world of rapidly depleting natural reserves. As our ability to design…
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Al-Turaif, Saudi Arabia: Cultural Tourism & A Living Community
Al-Turaif is part of the historic oasis of Al Diriya located on the banks of Wadi Hanifa next to Riyahd. It is the original home…
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Preparation for Independent Thesis Proposal for MUP, MAUD, or MLAUD
This seminar is intended to provide the theoretical and methodological foundation for completing a graduate thesis in the department of Urban Planning and Design. By…
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Preparation of Design Thesis Proposal for Master in Landscape Architecture
John Beardsley, Gareth Doherty
A weekly seminar required for MLA candidates electing to pursue a design thesis. The intent of the course is to define the parameters of the…