Courses
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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 be…
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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…
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Relational Urban Modeling
Eduardo Rico Carranza, Enriqueta Llabres Valls
IRREGULAR SCHEDULE: This course will meet for the first time on Tuesday, September 1st from 9 am – 12 pm in room 505.
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Interdisciplinary Art Practices
The Interdisciplinary Art Practices seminar investigates the exploratory character of art and design work in the interdisciplinary modalities of the contemporary culture. In the present…
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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…
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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…
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The Idea of Environment
The environment is the milieu in which designers and planners operate. It is a messy world of facts, meanings, relations and actions that calls them…
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Learning from The Function of Style
Farshid Moussavi, James Khamsi
This course will meet at 12 noon instead of 10 AM on Wednesday, September 2nd. The springboard for this course is The Function…
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States of Design: The Present and Future of the Field in Twelve Parts
In the past decades, design has branched out in many new directions that have galvanized emerging practitioners, sparked business models, and set the worldwide…
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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…
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North American Seacoasts and Landscapes: Discovery Period to the Present
Selected topics in the history of the North American coastal zone, including the seashore as wilderness, as industrial site, as area of recreation, and as…
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Reconceptualizing the Urban: Berlin as Laboratory
Berlin is the site of new regional and cultural interactions in a reconfigured post-industrial and post-socialist Europe. The research seminar is concerned with the…
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Walking: The Art of Walking and its Culture
This is a research seminar on the cultural history of walking, which in different times and places has prompted different modes of walking for…
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The History of Plants and Animals in Landscape Design: Antiquity to Present
Does horticulture have a role in landscape architecture? Do wild animals have a place in urbanization? This seminar offers answers by reviewing the history…
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Staging the City: Urban Form and Public Life in Istanbul
This course will explore the relationship between urban form and public life in early modern and modern Istanbul. Staging the city’s emerging spatial practices…
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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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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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Community Action Planning: Principles and Practices
This course is an introduction to the theories, principles, processes and practices of Community Action Planning (CAP), as well as its underlying tools and…
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Design, Development, and Democracy in the Future City
This course will meet for the first time on Tuesday, September 1st from 9 am – 12 pm in room 510. This…
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Deciding Interventions in Urban Development: A Practical Guide to Strategic Design
This course offers guidelines for deciding interventions in Urban Development, given conflicting and often competing needs and aspirations amongst stakeholders. Its objectives are threefold:…
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Modern Housing and Urban Districts: Concepts, Cases and Comparisons
This seminar course will deal with ‘modern housing’ covering a period primarily from 1990 to the present. It will engage with ‘urban districts’ in…
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The Spatial Politics of Land: A Comparative Perspective
This course focuses on the deeply contested and political processes of land-use planning, i.e. of allocating land amongst different, often competing uses, and the…
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Tokyo Study Abroad Seminar: The Japan Syndrome
The Japan syndrome – shrinking, aging, combined natural disasters – is forcing the whole population to think of how to survive post-modernization. Under Abe’s new…
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Changing Natural and Built Coastal Environments
Steven Apfelbaum, Katharine Parsons
This course will examine natural and anthropogenic processes affecting the coastal zone and nearshore environment. Ecological principles and their application to design and planning…
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Poetics of Landscape Construction
The GSD 6454 Poetics of Landscape Construction seminar promotes advanced understanding and executive skill in the design development of built works of landscape architecture.
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The Nature and Culture of Plants
This seminar / workshop course will focus on the nature of the interaction between plants and the environments in which they grow. The class…
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Mechatronic Optics
The drawing as a certain transcription of vision into operational, communicative, and instructional notation is at the very core of design. Deeply variegated and…
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Informal Robotics / New Paradigms for Design & Construction
This course will meet for the first time on Tuesday, September 1st from 9 am – 12 pm in room 318. Today…
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Tokyo Study Abroad Seminar on Structure and Material in Japan
This seminar consists of lectures, site visits, and hands on experience on materials of traditional Japanese crafts in relation to architecture and built environment. Lectures…
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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,…
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Urban Design Trajectories: Perspectives on Practice
Urban Design, as a professional discipline, has not existed for nearly as long as architecture, landscape architecture, or urban planning, though it has been…
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Ecology, Infrastructure, Power
Extraction redefines our understanding of urbanism in the 21st century. If everything we build comes from the ground, then extrac-tion is the process and practice…
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The Architecture of Waste
Andreas Georgoulias, Leire Asensio Villoria
This course will meet for the first time on Wednesday, September 2nd from 6 – 9 pm in room 510. See note…
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South Florida Rise and Sink: the Case of Miami Beach
The emergent topic of urban adaptation to the effects of climate change is among the most pressing areas of research for those engaged in the…
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Preparation for Independent Thesis Proposal for MUP, MAUD, or MLAUD
This seminar is intended to provide the theoretical and methodological foundation for completing a graduate thesis in the Department of Urban Planning and Design. By…
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Preparation of Design Thesis Proposal for Master in Landscape Architecture
Gareth Doherty, Rosetta S. Elkin
This weekly seminar is required for MLA candidates electing to pursue a design thesis. The intent is to define the parameters of the design thesis…
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Proseminar in Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology
This proseminar introduces MLA II and MDes Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology (ULE) students to a range of disciplinary theories and methods. As design becomes ever more…
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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…