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…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…