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…
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Constructing Visual Narratives of Place
The seminar explores the representation of identity and memory in the city and its territory. The case study is Boston, in…
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Representation First (!!!), Then Architecture
Current tendencies in the discipline suggest a split between two opposing architectural projects: the easy project versus the difficult project. Primarily…
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MAKE/BELIEVE
How does the action of making reflect, produce, enhance, aggregate, and/or suspend the beliefs of authors and audiences? This hybrid production-theory course…
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Graphic / Volume Conflations
“The myth of the Neutral Tool under complete human control and the myth of the Autonomous Destiny that no human can…
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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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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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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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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…
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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…
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Cyclical City: Landscape and the Longview
Cyclical City is a seminar about the evolution of cities. Cities are enticingly rich and complex. They are entropic and unpredictable places…
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Werewolf: Architectures of Change
While the figure of Vitruvian man has long served as a metaphorical reference for an architecture evolved through design, but fixed in…
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Selected Current (and Recurrent) Topics in Architecture Theory and Design Practice
A research seminar consisting on assigned readings, presentations, discussions, and design experiments on current (and some ever re-current) topics in architectural theory and design practice.
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Style Worry or #FOMO
Reyner Banham once described the proliferation of styles after a waning epoch as “style worry,” an anxiety where the architect must decide how to…
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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…
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Signal, Image, Architecture III: The Automatic Present
“I know well enough what time is, provided that nobody asks me; but if am asked what it is, and try to explain, I am…
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Building Conservation and Renewal: Assessment, Analysis, Design
What are the spatial, material, and broad cultural values inherent in a building or site that must be understood to craft interventions…
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Mountains and the Rise of Landscape
Though mountains are generally understood to be “natural” and “grand,” the way we consider, experience, describe (and design) them has radically…
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Topology and Imagination: Between Chinese Landscapes and Architecture
This course deals with landscape architecture and architecture in contemporary China. Its purpose is twofold: to articulate new perspectives on the…
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Architecture in Early Modern England: Themes and Methods
This seminar takes a selective approach to architectural culture in 16th– and 17th-century England (that is, roughly speaking, from the Tudor period…
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Rotterdam Study Abroad Seminar: Exhibiting Architecture – The Agency of Display
“What does it mean to exhibit architecture?” Exhibitions are an integral part of the history of architecture. While architecture entered the gallery during the…
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Rotterdam Study Abroad Seminar: Architecture, Urbanism, and Agriculture
This course is for students in the Rotterdam Study Abroad Program. In order to stimulate the research on the Countryside, the course will investigate…
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Experimental Infrastructures
Infrastructure is an encompassing term that can refer to anything from railroad ties to social media to ecosystems, and one which has…
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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,…
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Public Space
In a digital age, does physical public space matter? Tahrir Square, Zuccotti Park, Madrid Rio, and the High Line argue yes, with ambitions ranging from…
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Applied Urban Analytics
The course will investigate a number of qualitative and quantitative methods to measure and analyze urban spatial problems relevant to contemporary urban…
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Digital Fabrication and Robotics
The materials and procedures of constructing architecture have changed surprisingly little since the late 1800’s / early 1900’s when the introduction…
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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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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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Elements of the Urban Stack
As our physical and virtual worlds become more and more intertwined, the “Urban Stack” presents itself as an organizational system for…
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Thing Power in the Arles Region: Assemblages, Depositions and Displacements
Anita Berrizbeitia, Katarzyna Balug
Jane Bennett borrows Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s concept of assemblages to argue that humans are not the sole actors in and on the world.
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Real Estate and City Making in China
Real estate has increasingly become a compelling force in the process of city making, one uniquely capable of leading and guiding multiple steps in the…
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Multiple Miamis Project-based Course: Infrastructure, Affordability, Identity + the Public
The Miami project-based course will explore how urban planning and design can promote affordable housing, retail, and services, public mobility and access,…
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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 MLA Design Thesis
A thesis is a thematic proposition offered for discussion and debate. A thesis is typically developed through a piece of original research specific to an…
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Proseminar in Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology
This proseminar is intended for Master in Design Studies (MDES) candidates entering the Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology (ULE) stream as well as Master in Landscape Architecture…