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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Conservation of Older Buildings: Techniques and Technics
This course will teach how to understand existing building form and fabric and how to conserve these. Where does one even start…
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Culture, Conservation and Design
This proseminar addresses issues of Critical Conservation, an evolving discipline that illuminates the bridge between Cultural Meaning, Identity and Context as part…
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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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Material, Atmosphere and Ambience
The seminar introduces understanding of atmosphere and ambience in the discourse of material practice in architecture. The materials are contextual and cultural manifestation tool of…
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Rotterdam Study Abroad Seminar: The Invention of the Countryside – A Critical Iconography
This Course is for students in the Rotterdam Study Abroad Program. This seminar invites students to analyze the political iconography of the countryside. Whereas in…
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Tokyo Study Abroad Seminar: Tokyo – Catalysts for Change
This Course is for students in the Toyko Study Abroad Program. "Tokyo – Catalysts for change" is an invitation to having an insight into the…
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Signal, Image, Architecture II: Automation, or the Politics of Very Large Numbers
If the first version of this seminar sought to understand computational images through an anthropology of the disappearance of “orthographic life”—and, in doing so,…
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Practical Wisdom 2
“…the Moderns find themselves face to face with raw materiality, or they have to turn towards representations that reside only in their…
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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…
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Rotterdam Study Abroad Seminar: Designing and Managing Worlds in the Countryside
This Course is for students in the Rotterdam Study Abroad Program. One of the best medieval copies of Vitruvius’s De Architectura is in the codex…
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Hybrid Formations: In Pursuit of Novel Form
“I do not oppose form, but only form as a goal.”– Ludwig Mies van der Rohe “Before computers, you'd start designing…
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Visualization (at SEAS)
An introduction to key design principles and techniques for visualizing data. Covers design practices, data and image models, visual perception, interaction principles, visualization tools, and…
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Tokyo Study Abroad Seminar: Tectonic Tradition: Structure and Material in Japan
In Japan, design, both traditional and contemporary, is inseparable from materials and how they are constructed together. In this seminar, guest speakers are invited to…
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Frameworks of Practice
Since the dawn of the technological society that emerged after World War II, the normative practice of architecture, particularly in the United…
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MDes Open Projects 1
“Open Projects” is a two-semester course sequence for second year MDes students. As the graduating requirement for students enrolled in the 4-Semester Track of the…
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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…