Courses
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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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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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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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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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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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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…