Courses
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Visual Studies
Schedule: The course will meet once as a group on the first class, 8:30 am on Tuesday, September 3rd, in room 111. The course…
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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
Urban planners engage in many complex processes that defy easy representation. This course provides first-semester urban planning students with the graphic and technical skills needed…
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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
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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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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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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Studies of the Built North American Environment: 1580 to the Present
North America as an evolving visual environment is analyzed as a systems concatenation involving such constituent elements as farms, small towns, shopping malls, highways, suburbs,…
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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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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts I
Erika Naginski, K. Michael Hays
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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Histories of Landscape Architecture I: Textuality and the Practice of Landscape Architecture
This course introduces students to a number of significant topoi or loci (see week one) in the histories of landscape architecture. In general terms, it…
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Urbanization in the East Asian Region
The purpose of this lecture course is to provide an overall account of the urbanization in selected cities within the rapidly developing East Asian…
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Imagining the City: Literature, Film, and the Arts
How do visual representation and narrative figuration contribute to construct urban identity? Explores the urban imagination in different artforms: architecture, cinema, literature, photography, and painting.
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Structuring Urban Experience: From the Athenian Acropolis to the Boston Common
This lecture course examines selected cities between the fifth century B.C. and the seventeenth century A.D., beginning with ancient Athens and ending with proposals…
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Istanbul: From Imperial Capital to Global City
In the summer of 2013, popular discontent with the authoritarian neo-liberal urban policies of the Turkish government exploded in Istanbul, revealing the political nature…
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Modernity and Crisis
Is it even possible to offer a description of our contemporary moment that is not fundamentally defined by the experience of crisis? Financial crisis,…
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Urban Politics and Planning (at KSG)
Course focuses on how public governance and planning shape cities and urban regions in the United States and Europe. Topics include U.S. and European urban…
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Real Estate Finance and Development
This course teaches the fundamentals of real estate finance and development. Lectures and case studies introduce students to the full range of financial analysis…
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Land Use and Environmental Law
As a scarce and necessary resource for earthly activity, land triggers competition and conflict over its possession, use, development, and preservation. For privately owned land,…
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Cities by Design I
Rahul Mehrotra, A. Hashim Sarkis, Farès el-Dahdah, Alex Krieger, Peter Rowe, Sibel Bozdo??an, Joan Busquets, Erkin Ozay
\’Cities by Design\’ is a year-long course that studies urban form. In the fall semester, \’Cities by Design\’ will explore six urban case studies…
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Markets and Market Failures with Cases (at KSG)
Markets and Market Failures with Cases at KSG – HKS API-105A . Professor Jose Gomez-Ibanez offers the other version of Markets and Market Failures, GSD…
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Transportation Planning and Development
This is an introductory course that examines the complex relationship between transportation, land use and urban form, and the varied instruments available to planners…
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Housing and Urbanization in the United States
This course examines housing as an object of policy and planning as it relates to urban form and issues of social concern. It is…
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Healthy Places
Can the way places are planned and designed improve health? It seems obvious that there is such a link between environments and health but…
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Maps and Mapping (at FAS)
Charles Waldheim, Matthew Wilson
Maps are often the most effective way to stimulate spatial reasoning and provoke new understandings about our world\’s phenomena. This course introduces contemporary map…
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Design for Urban Disaster
With unprecedented rates of urban growth, especially in Africa and Asia, people in towns and cities are more vulnerable to natural disasters than ever…
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Introduction to Local Economic Development
This course introduces students to local economic development from the perspective of urban planning. Students learn about the theories, analytic frameworks and indicators used…
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Real Estate Finance for Public and Private Participants (at KSG)
Classroom is at HKS, Rubenstein G-20 (Neustadt Classroom) Class meeting time is Mon, Wed from 4:40 to 6:00 PM. However the first…
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Market Analysis and Urban Economics
This course builds upon the academic literature and the practical experiences which constitutes the accumulated knowledge of urban and real estate economics and finance…
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Urban Governance and the Politics of Planning in the Developing World
This course starts from the premise that politics and governance arrangements will both enable and constrain effective urban planning action. Using a focus on…
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Construction Lab
Mark Mulligan, Danielle Etzler
This course will meet for the first time on Friday, August 30th, at 9 am in Room 111. This module introduces students to…
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Energy in Architecture
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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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies I
Matthew Urbanski, Christopher Matthews
Recognizing that plants are one of the essential mediums of landscape architecture, this class seeks to introduce the student to two basic relationships; the relationship…
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Structural Design 1
The course introduces the discipline of structural engineering as a means of unlocking hidden architectural design potential. Students develop the skills necessary to make informed…
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Cases in Contemporary Construction
As the final component in the required sequence of technology courses, this professionally-oriented course develops an integral understanding of the design and construction of buildings…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies III: Introduction to Ecology
Fall term, four units, open to MLA students taking the third LA core-studio. Mondays: 10:00 AM to 11:30 PM. Lectures Wednesdays: 2:30-5:30…
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Water Engineering (at SEAS)
SEAS Engineering Sciences 165. Catalog Number: 4274 EXAM GROUP: 13, 14 Please check the FAS schedule for room information. Introduces the fundamentals…
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Computer Vision (at SEAS)
SEAS Computer Science 283. Catalog Number: 4475 Please check the FAS schedule for room information. Vision as an ill-posed inverse problem: image formation, two-dimensional…
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Introduction to Computational Design
This is an introductory course to computational design and the prerequisite for a spring course that deals with more advanced topics in the field.
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Energy Simulation in Design
The best intent does not always lead to the best performing design, as intuition and rules of thumb sometimes fail to adequately inform decision…
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Daylighting
Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. -Le Corbusier Course Description Picture a space, one that…
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Practices of Landscape Architecture
This course examines the profession of landscape architecture by looking at the historical and contemporary frameworks for practice, the documentation and delivery of projects, and…
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The Architect in History: The Evolution of Practice from the Renaissance to the 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…
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Library Test Kitchen III: Library Machines
Jeffrey Schnapp, Jeff Goldenson, Ann Whiteside
The Library, up there with the US Postal Service, represents one of the most exciting institutional design opportunities out there. Library Test Kitchen is…
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MArch II Proseminar
This course provides a forum for critical discussion of contemporary design practices that is exploratory and speculative in nature. The course emphasizes collaborative thinking and…
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Urban Design Proseminar
The proseminar is a forum for conversation on contemporary urban design. It is structured around three overlapping discussions: the formation of the discipline, critiques of…