Courses
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First Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Preston Scott Cohen, Cameron Wu, Kiel Moe, Ingeborg Rocker, Jeffry Burchard, Katy Barkan, Mariana Ibanez
Prerequisites: Enrollment in MArch I program.The first of a four-semester sequence of design studios introduces students to the practice of architectural design, discussing the theoretical…
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Landscape Architecture I: First Semester Core Studio
Gary R. Hilderbrand, Jane Hutton, Silvia Benedito, Zaneta Hong, John Beard
This studio course introduces students to elements of landscape architectural design at the scale of the public garden in an urban context. As the first…
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First Semester Core Urban Planning Studio
Judith Grant Long, Kathy Spiegelman, Peter Park
The first semester core studio of the Master of Urban Planning program introduces students to the fundamental knowledge and technical skills used by urban planners…
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Third Semester Core: Architectural Design
Eric Howeler, Maryann Thompson, Jonathan Levi, Vincent Bandy, Danielle Etzler, Iñaki Abalos
The third of a four-semester sequence of design studios brings together the exploration of ‘type’ with the technique of architectural form-making. The studio vehicle will…
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Landscape Architecture III: Third Semester Core Studio
Pierre Bélanger, Niall Kirkwood, Juan Rois, Kelly Doran, Luis Callejas, Rosetta S. Elkin, Robert Pietrusko, Philippe Coignet
Addressing the inertia of urban planning and the overexertion of civil engineering in the 20th century, this course focuses on the design of large, complex,…
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Elements of Urban Design
Felipe Correa, Linda Pollak, Gines Garrido, Robert Lane, Robert Pietrusko, Renata Sentkiewicz
Elements of Urban Design is an advanced core studio for the post professional programs in urban design. The studio introduces a wide host of ideas,…
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Kyoto Studio
Kyoto Studio proposes research at two different scales. The first is at the scale of object-creation. The second is observing how these micro-economies of traditional…
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Transforming Melnea Cass Boulevard: Architecture, Transport and Regeneration in Central Boston
People have growing awareness about how they want to organise the environments in which they live, work and trade. Users and owners of houses and…
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Fun Palace II
Cedric Price spent most of his career designing, promoting and building his most famous work known as The Fun Palace. Even though the project was…
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Re-use, Re-public, Re-presentation
Within the New Normal – defined as an era of deglobalisation, austerity and sobriety, this studio examines how architecture can be instrumental in defining a…
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Pursuing Figuration: Questions of Process, Structure, Scale and Enclosure
In a story, the narrative is captured in the telling; it is the selective details and descriptive moments that evoke a tone or mood. The…
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The Ornamental Space
“There are three kinds of space that must be regarded as primary: functional, ornamental, and symbolic. The basic architectural formal values do not extend beyond…
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Unfinished Work
Last studio, students addressed the question of knowledge space, and how such spaces facilitate the generation and dissemination of information. The interest of the studio…
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Shapeshifter
Zoe Prillinger, Luke Ogrydziak
Contemporary architecture is in the middle of an extended shift from drawing to computation as the foundation of design practice. As such, issues of automatism…
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Reconsidering Architecture: Rotterdam Study Abroad Studio Option
In spite of 100 years of globalization, the range of architectural typologies and the common understanding of the elements of the discipline may have diminished.
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The Catalytic Landscape: Body, Culture, and the Visual Environment
Martha Schwartz, Andrea Hansen, Andrew Zientek
CATALYST, or its original Greek word CATALYSIS contains an ambiguity essential to the position of this studio. In chemistry, the word catalyst alludes to an…
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A Parallel Walden: A Landscape of Civil Disobedience
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
“… Air, water, wood: all are enhanced to produce hyperecology, a parallel Walden, a new rainforest. Landscape has become Junkspace, foliage as spoilage: trees are…
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London: From the Olympics to the Thames
Vogt Studio London will take as its site a strip of land, approximately .8 by 2.4 kilometers, located in the Lower Lea Valley. The Lea…
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Energy Landscapes 3.0
Philipp Oswalt, Theodor Deutinger
The civilization of mankind can be described on the basis of the development of energy systems. With the shift from hunters and gatherers to settlers,…
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Territorialism: Inside a New Form of Dispersed Megalopolis
Abstract Starting from a reflection on the infrastructural system (water and iron) in the Boston region, the approach of the studio is to…
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Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City
This studio works typologically. It approaches the problem of the city through the investigation and redefinition of its persistent architectures – its dominant types. Any…
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The Good Old Days: Design for the Age-Friendly Environment
Thanks to longer lifespans, lower fertility rates, and the aging of the baby boomer population, the United States is getting older. Already, there are more…
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Networked Urbanism
Belinda Tato, Jose Luis Vallejo
The boundary between public and private is shifting. The one between personal and professional is becoming increasingly blurred. This rapid evolution has led us to…
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Urban Development and Housing for Low Income Groups in the Rapidly Growing City of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
The first meeting for this studio will take place on Tuesday, September 4th. With over one million inhabitants, Ouagadougou is the largest…
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The Jaffa Road Studio, Jerusalem
The studio will focus on a key site—or two or three—along a historic street that terminates at one of the gates to the walled city…
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Territorialism: Inside a New Form of Dispersed Megalopolis
Starting from a reflection on the infrastructural system (water and iron) in the Boston region, the approach of the studio is to use design as…
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Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City
This studio works typologically. It approaches the problem of the city through the investigation and redefinition of its persistent architectures—its dominant types. Any attempt to…
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Visual Studies
The course objective is to develop and improve students’ skills in freehand drawing based on direct observation, and to encourage them to incorporate drawing into…
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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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Spatial Analysis and Representation
David Gamble, Robert Pietrusko
This course provides first-semester planning students with the graphic and technical skills needed to reason, design and communicate with geospatial data. This knowledge will be…
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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
This course 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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Digital Media II
This class explores the design and science of logical form making, examined through geometry, parametric control, algorithms, and digital tools. The point of departure is…
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Landscape Representation III: Landform and Ecological Process
Andrea Hansen, Bradley Cantrell
Landscape Representation III seeks to examine the fundamental relationship between landform and the dynamic landscape processes it supports and engenders. Through in-depth study of the…
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Drawing in the City of Rome
The Rome Drawing Seminar is a three-week freehand drawing and architecture/urban design analysis course conducted entirely out-of-doors in the city of Rome during the summer.
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Communication for Designers
“The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings. In the end the communicator will…
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Paper or Plastic: Reinventing Shelf-life in the Supermarket Landscape
The supermarket shelf is a highly volatile, hyper-competitive space. On this shelf products struggle to maximize every possible advantage, all in a ruthless effort to…
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Landscape as Drawing
The course objective is to advance students\’ visual skills in artistic representation and creative imagination through drawing. Assigned projects will focus on both the natural…
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Art, Design and the Public Domain
This seminar is intended to serve as an important research, discussion and presentation forum, information resource and a critical laboratory for further development of…
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Interrogative Design: Animating Monuments
The course will focus on the ways in which designers and artists can help the \”entrenched in the past\” monuments to become enlivened for…
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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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Infrastructural Ecologies: A Projective Urbanism
This research seminar will explore cultural ideas of ecology specifically as they relate to life in the contemporary metropolis. We will begin by defining ecology…
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The Subject and the City
This seminar takes as its premise that a history and theory of the city cannot be known without an accompanying history and theory of…
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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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Mass Individualism: The Form of the Multitude
What do three contemporary tropes ubiquitous in recent architecture have in common: 1) complex and varied aggregations, 2) the migration of informal domestic atmospheres into…
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Conservation History, Its Canons and Institutions
This course analyzes the canons and institutions that have traditionally guided the parameters of conservation and preservation practice. As such, the course situates conservation…
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Elements: Rotterdam Study Abroad Seminar
The seminar will reconstruct the role of elemental thinking in the history and theory of architecture. With a particular focus on the writings of Henry…
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History and Theory of Urban Interventions
This class provides a high-intensity introduction the history and theory of urban planning practice under modern capitalism. Building upon an interdisciplinary literature drawn from…
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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? Fourth Factory: The Material Imagination and the Materialism of Architecture
Tatlin’s Tower “is made of iron, glass, and revolution,” wrote the Russian Formalist critic Viktor Shklovsky. At once a real and symbolic mode of production,…
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