Courses
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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[1]. Primarily related…
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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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Urban Form: Transition as Condition
The fixed categories by which we have traditionally understood the urban no longer hold. They have been undermined by the multiplicity of…
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The Fifth Plan
In this seminar we will consider the evolution of the floor plan across five iterations: proto-modern, modern, post-modern, sequel-modern, and, most importantly,…
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Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Landscape, Energy, Matter
The structures and forms we perceive on the surface of the land are produced by forces that make order and those that…
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THICKER
For the last half century, the image of an office building has been synonymous with the curtain wall. Pioneered as early as Mies’ proposal for…
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Interpreting an Archive
Jorge Silvetti, Mark Lee, Ines Zalduendo
A seminar/workshop addressing current issues on the practices of architectural archiving and the curation of architectural exhibitions. A series of lectures from the instructors and…
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The Project and the Territory: Japan Story
What is the future of urbanization?What role can design play in shaping that future? What will happen to the conflicting tensions…
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Rules for the Electronic Zoo: A Mediatechnics of Architecture’s 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 baffled.” …
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Inscriptions: Recent Experimental Architecture
Andrew Holder, K. Michael Hays
This course is appropriate for students who can devote time to reading advanced theoretical material and do close formal and material studies of experimental projects.
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Urban Ethnographies
Planners’ understanding of social process and cultural values is often woefully inadequate, and their thinking is dominated by a “one-size-fits-all” approach and…
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Mapping the Political Economy of Space
There is no such thing as neutral space. Topography and soil history, land use and tenure chronicle, housing demands and construction costs,…
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Health and Buildings
Former course title: “Building [/] Human Interaction”. This course investigates the interactions between humans and buildings with a focus on health. Students…
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Proseminar in Landscape Architecture
How do we understand a landscape? This proseminar explores epistemologies that constitute the field of landscape architecture. The proseminar will introduce MLA II students to…
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Proseminar in PUBLICS: Of the Public. In the Public. By the Public
Public, as a noun or adjective, is not confined to a single discipline, practice, narrative or theory. It is instead, a complicated construct that can…
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Proseminar in MEDIUMS: On Making Culture, Technology, and Art
In this proseminar, we will take a critical look at the current and emerging landscape of design technologies and technologically driven design. We will examine…
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Proseminar in NARRATIVES: Word and Image as Narrative Structure
In our Proseminar, we will grapple with a selection of critical discussions on word and image as these have been formulated in aesthetic philosophy, literary…
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Proseminar in ECOLOGIES: Interrelated, In-between, Dynamic
Our aim in the proseminar is to explore the inherent inventedness of ecology as a field of inquiry, its distinctly relational nature, and the potential…