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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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Style and Time
Farshid Moussavi, Ricardo Solar
This course explores a non-representational approach to style, its consequence on the process of design, as well as on the built environment…
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Practical Wisdom, or the nature of architectural intelligence
Since the advent of architecture in universities, and particularly since World War II, architects have raided the other disciplines for insights and…
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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.”— Rem Koolhaas, JunkspaceWhen…
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Tokyo Study Abroad Seminar: Tokyo on a Crossroads
Factors driving Tokyo’s urban mutation are beginning to change and becoming complex after the long period of economic growth. While it’s busy trying to fulfill…
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Hybrid Formations: Interdisciplinary Design
“How much does your building weigh?” This question was posed to Lord Norman Foster by Buckminster Fuller after he visited the Sainsbury…
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Visualization (at SEAS)
SEAS Computer Science 171 Catalog Number: 8877 Tu., Th., 2:30-4, and a weekly section to be arranged. Please check the…
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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: 1. Examine architecture through the optics of the Discipline, Profession and Practice — the issues of knowledge domains,…
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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…