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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.