Courses
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First Semester Core: PROJECT
Iñaki Abalos, Cameron Wu, Kiel Moe, Ingeborg Rocker, Jeffry Burchard, Megan Panzano, Katy Barkan
Project is the first core studio of the four-semester sequence of the MArch I program. With a multiplicity of references, Project may refer to fundamental…
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Third Semester Core: INTEGRATE
Eric Howeler, Maryann Thompson, Vincent Bandy, Mariana Ibanez, Danielle Etzler, Iñaki Abalos
Integration is the agenda for the third semester architecture design studio. Architecture is fundamentally a part-to-whole problem, involving the complex integration of building components, systems…
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Kyoto Studio II: Seasons and Architecture
This studio will explore architecture as a responsive entity to seasons in climate, economy, politics and socio-cultural landscape. Through the analysis of building paradigms and…
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Unfinished Work III
This third installation of ‘Unfinished Work’ will broaden the research and design interests developed in the last two studio sessions. In the first studio,…
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workplan
workspheres The office is no more. We work anywhere, anytime. We don’t have professions any longer. We don’t even think we work, it’s just…
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Alimentary Design
Shohei Shigematsu, Christine Cheng
Alimentary is defined as of or relating nourishment or nutrition; furnishing sustenance or maintenance. Food is a fundamental requirement of human life and a universal…
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Parametric Semiology – High Performance Architecture for Apple, Google and Facebook
Patrik Schumacher, Marc Fornes
Marc Fornes will also be involved in this studio. All problems of society are problems of communication. Especially within post-Fordist network society, total social productivity…
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Material Performance – Fibrous Tectonics
Advances in the conception of materiality and the technologies of materialization have always been a catalyst for design innovation in architecture. Today, technological advancements across…
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La Strada Novissima
CONTINUOUS CITY VS. DISCONTINUOUS CITY The Continuous City, characterized by clearly delineated urban spaces of streets, squares, and boulevards, was a dominant concept of…
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Green Card Conversations
Projects are born from conversation. In Latin, the verb ‘converse’, cumversare, has a double root: cum, with, and versare, spin. Spin with or spin together.
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Theatre and the City
The Abbey has been Ireland’s National Theatre since its foundation by WB Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory in 1904. Originally associated with poets and writers,…
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Rotterdam Study Abroad Studio Option: Elements of Architecture
Instructors: Rem Koolhaas / Stephan Trüby / AMO Ambition: Following two semesters of work by GSD students on architectural elements – the door, the…
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Meydan: Designing the Surfaces of Public Space around Beyazit Square, Istanbul
Summary: The studio explores the architectural means by which a public space could be configured to support a variety of specific urban functions while encouraging…
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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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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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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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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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Projection-Animation
This course will focus on the ways in which designers and artists can help to enliven both existing and future monuments and facades for…
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Critical Conservation: Understanding the Urban Cultural Ecology of Progressive Places
21st Critical Conservation seeks to disentangle the complex web of 19th c. elite values of historic preservation and 20th c. mass-culture strategies that together…
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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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The Mixed-Reality City
The contemporary city is constituted by multiple overlapping, intermixing realities articulated across built form and imagined space, individual experience and collective memory, embodied sensation…
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How to do Things with Words
This seminar will seek to explore the (actual and potential) roles and uses of writing within design and the design field. It will address…
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Critical Conservation as Social Activism: History, Theory, and Methods
Historic preservation strategies have been used by communities to achieve various social ends, ranging from staving off gentrification and restricting neighborhood development to developing…
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Study Abroad Seminar: Islands: The Career of a Metaphor
Either consciously deployed or a product of difference, the island was a recurring phenomenon in 20th-century urban environments. Based on its own organizational logic, it…
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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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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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Imagine Michelangelo
The use of digital models as instruments of historical research. Almost all of Michelangelo’s architectural projects are unbuilt, unfinished, or have been significantly altered…
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Architecture and its Texts (1650-1800)
This seminar focuses on a selection of important architectural writings from the late 17th and 18th centuries, with the aim of exploring the connections…
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Rotterdam Study Abroad Seminar: The Present Environmental Predicament: Design and the Limits to Growth
This Course is for students in the Rotterdam Study Abroad Program. The title of this seminar refers to two significant essays written in…
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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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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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The Innovative Practice: Finding, Building and Leading Good Ideas with Others (at SEAS)
SEAS Engineering Sciences 21. Catalog Number: 70925 Enrollment: Limited to 25. Permission of instructor required. EXAM GROUP: 12, 13 Please check the…
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Innovation in Science and Engineering: Conference Course (at SEAS)
David Weitz, Paul Bottino, David Ricketts
Engineering Sciences 139. Catalog Number: 0994 EXAM GROUP: 7, 8, 9 Please check the FAS schedule for room information. Explores…
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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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Material Systems: Digital Design, Fabrication, and Research Methods
Computer-aided design, manufacturing, and engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE) technologies are increasingly integrated into many aspects of design and construction. ‘Digital Fabrication’ has been deeply embedded in…
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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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Expanded Mechanisms / Empirical Materialisms
Machines and material are vitally connected and reciprocally constrained. Each responds dynamically to the other through a range of geometric, chemical, and physical events…
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High Performance Buildings and Systems Integration
The interrelationships of environmental control systems as they relate to high performance/well integrated buildings will be explored in details. The course will address the…
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Design By Committee. Digital Interfaces for Collaborative and Participatory Design
This Seminar/Workshop will look into the design and technical challenges involved in the development of web based interfaces for collaborative and participatory design scenarios.
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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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Transformable Design Methods
Architects have long imagined a built environment that is fundamentally dynamic. Portable buildings, retractable coverings, kinetic facades, and spaces that morph: these transformable structures…
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Nano Micro Macro: Adaptive Material Laboratory
This course explores design research methods and techniques through the microcosm of newly emerging biologically inspired material systems and their applications in buildings. Focused…
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