Courses
-
First Semester Architecture Core: PROJECT
Megan Panzano, Jennifer Bonner, Jenny French, Andrew Holder, Max Kuo, Cameron Wu
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…
-
Landscape Architecture I: First Semester Core Studio
Silvia Benedito, Francesca Benedetto, Danielle Choi, Gareth Doherty, Zaneta Hong, Alistair McIntosh
This studio course problematizes issues of orientation and experience, scale and pattern, topographic form, climatic and vegetative influences, and varied ecological processes that help define…
-
First Semester Core Urban Planning Studio
Ana Gelabert-Sanchez, Sai Balakrishnan, Toni L. Griffin, David Gamble
The first semester core studio of the Master in Urban Planning program introduces students to the fundamental knowledge and technical skills used by urban planners…
-
Third Semester Architecture Core: INTEGRATE
Jon Lott, Vincent Bandy, Elizabeth Christoforetti, Eric Howeler, John May, Maryann Thompson
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…
-
Landscape Architecture III: Third Semester Core Studio
Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Fionn Byrne, Bradley Cantrell, Susannah Drake, David Mah, Pablo Pérez-Ramos, Jonathan Scelsa
This studio aims to conceptualize and articulate the adaptive city, the city in a state of flux as it responds to changing environmental, programmatic, market,…
-
Elements of Urban Design
Felipe Correa, Anita Berrizbeitia, Carlos Garciavelez, Carles Muro, Michael Manfredi, Robert Pietrusko
Elements of Urban Design is an advanced core studio for the post professional programs in urban design. This studio introduces critical concepts, strategies and technical…
-
Collaborative Design Engineering Studio I (with SEAS)
Chuck Hoberman, Peter Stark, Jock Herron
The aim of the inaugural, two-semester Collaborative Design Engineering studio is to apply multi-disciplinary design thinking to a complex system that matters. Opaque, omnipresent, reflexive,…
-
Subjects, Forms and Performances of the Contemporary Hybrid
The OPENstudio Fall Term 2016 explores new ways of facing collective dwelling – in principle producing innovative modalities of public housing – to produce new…
-
Lisbon Story – Architecture between Atmosphere and Tectonics
The Option Studio will develop a project for Lisbon. For over 500 years Portugal was recognized for discoveries due to their innovations in sailing techniques…
-
The Art Space
Emanuel Christ, Christoph Gantenbein
This semester’s studio will design a space for art by means of a reflection on the relation between architecture and art. Architecture doesn’t exist without…
-
The Unfolding Civic Surface: Auditoria as Terraform
This studio imagines a civic building as terraform, between object and landscape, a shaped container that owes as much to its terroir as to its…
-
Fukuoka Project: Strategies for Urban Extroverts
The studio will develop a contemporary vision for a new urban center following the relocation of the University of Kyushu. Plans for the consolidation and…
-
On Health, or: The Ecology of Living
Ben van Berkel, Christian Veddeler
Contemporary definitions of Health are complex and far-reaching. Health influences, informs and conditions an increasingly broad range of contemporary life. It has evolved as an…
-
Communes (another portrait of America)
Kersten Geers, David Van Severen
“Stomp the devil!” Sisters and Brothers began whirling in place. the group cried“Shake! Shake! Shake ! Christ is with you! ” (Dan Graham on…
-
The Function of Architecture in the 21st Century University
Farshid Moussavi, Ricardo Solar
The studio is one of a series at the GSD focused on the role of architecture in the of 21st century learning environment. This fall…
-
The Archipelago in the Archipelago. Medellin: A Tropical City
It’s been almost 40 years (1977) since Oswald Mathias Ungers and Rem Koolhaas wrote: The city in the City, Berlin: a green archipelago. Its waves…
-
Hutong Metabolism, Beijing
Hutongs in Beijing, the traditional courtyard-and-alley system of urban dwelling that is the most essential part of the city, have recently been captured at…
-
BRICK: THICK/THIN
Brick: Thick/Thin aims to challenge perceived notions of brick and its use in architecture and suggest viable proof-of-concept alternatives that raise questions about surface,…
-
Tokyo Study Abroad Studio: Transforming Omishima into a Beautiful Japanese Garden
Omishima is an island in Seto Inland Sea with the population of 6,000 people. Thirteen hamlets are scattered along the coast and the island is…
-
The Possibility of an Island
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
‘There exists in the midst of timethe possibility of an island’– Michel Houellebecq The Possibility of an Island forms the first installment of…
-
Inherent Vice
The studio will focus on the art of transforming and creating new landscapes within an urban site conditioned by existing infrastructure and complex contextual circumstances.
-
Le Havre : Transformation of the Reconstructed City
Michel Desvigne, Inessa Hansch
Le Havre is a large European port located in Normandy at the mouth of the Seine. The city of Le Havre was constructed at the…
-
Broadway Shuffle at Madison Square: The Surface is Alive!
Our city streets have become contested space. If you want proof, look no farther than urban mobility guru Jeanette Sadik-Kahn’s widely anticipated new book, Street…
-
Re-Tooling Metropolis: Provisional Landscapes, Emergent Urbanism in Houston’s Eastern Bayous
Re-tooling will cultivate conversations on the nature of contemporary urbanism, on the primacy of landscape in transforming the city, and on the opportunities and challenges…
-
Affirmatively Further: Fair Housing After Ferguson
When asked to name the most surprising finding of the Ferguson Commission, which was tasked with examining the underlying social and economic conditions of the…
-
Urban Strategies for the Retiro Area, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The studio will test the relevance of urbanism, landscape and urban design approaches to a particular area in Buenos Aires City. Specifically, the studio will…
-
INTERFACE: Constructing the Edge for Malaysia Vision Valley
Malaysia Vision Valley (MVV) is a new economic growth area announced by the Malaysian Government in 2015. Comprising of 108,000 hectares of land on the…
-
Visual Studies
The course objective is to develop and improve students’ skills in freehand drawing based on direct observation, and to encourage them to incorporate drawing into…
-
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…
-
Spatial Analysis and the Built Environment
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…
-
Landscape Representation I
This course introduces students to the history, techniques, and conventions of representation used in the field of landscape architecture. The primary objective of the course…
-
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…
-
Landscape Representation III: Landform and Ecological Process
Landscape Representation III examines the fundamental relationship between terrain and the landscapes it supports and engenders. This examination will be developed through methods of associative…
-
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…
-
Drawing for Designers: Technics of Expression, Articulation and Representation
The course objective is to advance students' visual skills in artistic representation and creative imagination through drawing. Drawing projects will focus on…
-
Graphic Narratives
This class focuses on the application of graphic design to architecture problems, specifically narrative forms such as books, films, animations, and slide…
-
Digital Media for Designers: Urban Environments
The course is aimed at fostering conceptual as well as technical approaches towards the integration of digital design within the process of…
-
Public Projection: Projection as a Tool for Expression and Communication in Public Space
The class will focus on development of original projection projects that can inspire and facilitate individual and group expression and cultural communication…
-
Art, Design and the Public Domain Proseminar
This seminar is intended to serve as an important research, discussion and presentation forum, information resource and a critical laboratory for further development of GSD’s…
-
Interdisciplinary Art and Design 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…
-
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…
-
Teaching Techniques
The course examines foundations for contemporary architectural design pedagogy according to several broad themes — spatial, programmatic, material, structural, technological – defined in dialectical terms…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Advanced Seminar in City Form: Designing for Multimodal Mobility
Advanced Seminar in City Form — Designing for Multimodal Mobility — invites a group of students to research and discuss themes about…
-
Field Methods and Living Collections
Confronting the reality of environmental degradation requires more than remote sensing, statistical analysis or institutional restructuring. As images of the changing planet…
-
An Unsentimental Look at Architecture and Social Craft
Designers of the built environment have had an on-again/off-again relationship with social agency. Progressive design and social outcomes were closely linked in early modernism. However,…
-
Abstraction in Design with Plants
This course explores the expressive potential of plants as a central medium of landscape design, recognizing the principal role of plants in…
-
Architecture of Peace
We live in an increasingly unstable world, where internal conflicts have become increasingly internationalized, sectarian violence ravages cities and communities, and terrorist…
Pagination Links
- Page 1
- Go to page 2
- Go to page 3