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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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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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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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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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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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…