Courses
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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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Basel Study Abroad Seminar: Communicating Architecture: The Planner and Architect as Active Participant in Democratic Processes
Basel Studio Fall 2014 Seminar: Communicating Architecture/Lars Müller Basel Study Abroad Seminar: Communicating Architecture: The Planner and Architect as Active Participant in Democratic…
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Conservation of Older Buildings: Techniques and Technics
This course will teach the understanding of existing building form and fabric and how to conserve them. Where does one even start the evaluation process?…
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Culture, Conservation and Design
This proseminar addresses theoretical foundations of Critical Conservation as an evolving discipline that bridges between Cultural Meaning, Identity and Context. Its goal is to enable…
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Light Structure I
Lightness is an attribute that spans: structure, performance, materiality, assembly, and transportation; as well as, experiences and perceptions of a built environment. Based on its…
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Design for Learning
When Walter Gropius discussed the “training of an architect” he identified the very first years of formal education, Nurseries and Kindergartens. In truth, the early…
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The Aperture Analyzed: The Form and Space of Openings
This seminar will focus on an essential component of architecture, the aperture, which has broad implications for our understanding of space. An aperture is commonly…
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Study Abroad Seminar: Islands
Either consciously deployed or a product of difference, the island was a recurring theme and metaphor. It can be identified either as the expression of…
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Hyperreality
Contemporary postmodern culture is dominated, according to French cultural theorist, Jean Baudrillard, by simulation and hyperreality. In postmodern culture the image has become the new…
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Istanbul: Urban History Research Seminar
Istanbul’s aggressive neo-liberal urban transformations since the mid 1990s has lent urgency to studies of urban history and collective memory. Supported by the Mellon Initiative…
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“In the Manner of a Picture”: The Lure of the Picturesque
“Instead of trying to wrest order from chaos, the picturesque now is wrested from the homogenized, the singular liberated from the standardized.” —…
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Advanced Introduction to Robotics (at SEAS)
Also offered as Engineering Sciences 259 : Advanced Introduction to Robotics Exam group: 8 Please check the FAS schedule for room information.
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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 that…
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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 where…
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Informal Robotics / New Paradigms for Design & Construction
Today new materials and fabrication techniques are transforming the field of robotics. Rather than rigid metal parts connected by mechanical components, robots may now be…
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Frameworks of Contemporary Practice
Purpose of the course is to: 1. Examine architecture through the lenses of the Discipline, Profession and Practice — the issues of knowledge domains, development…
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Doctoral Program Proseminar
This pro-seminar is one way of fulfilling a requirement for successful completion of the Doctor of Design program. Primarily, it will focus on various thematic…