Courses
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Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Monica Ponce de Leon, Nader Tehrani, Ron Witte, T. Kelly Wilson, Tim Love, Ashley Schafer, Joseph MacDonald
The second of a four-semester sequence of design studios continues examination of the issues raised in the first semester and begins investigation of more complex…
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Landscape Architecture Design
Dorothee Imbert, Gina Crandell, Gary R. Hilderbrand
This course is the second semester of a four-semester core sequence of landscape design and planning studios. In this semester, the intention is to continue…
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Architectural Design
Darell Fields, Laura Miller, Gary Rohrbacher, Sarah M. Whiting, Vincent James, John Bass
Premise for the Studio: The Design of Housing Among contemporary architectural scenarios, housing supports the consideration of issues including: the subjectivity of intimate values and…
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Planning and Design of Landscapes
Hope Hasbrouck, George Hargreaves, Elizabeth Mossop, Victoria Marshall
The fourth of the four-term sequence of landscape design and planning studios develops the design concepts introduced in the first year and applies them to…
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Exploring Methodologies
During the sixties, methodology was a fundamental aspect of architectural education. Everything gravitated around method, which meant that architects were explicit about how their buildings…
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Symmetrical Performance
The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
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Meuble – Immeuble: Furniture – Architecture
Introduction:The studio\’s task is to design and build an item of transformable furniture to suit an itinerant user and to fit into a variety of…
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Architecture for Politics? A New Swiss Embassy in Washington DC
Switzerland plans to establish a new embassy in Washington D.C. Essentially, the project continues the tradition of a diplomatic mission of a sovereign state within…
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Architecture and Public Spaces over the Boston Artery
Elias Torres, Josep Acebillo Marin
The Boston Central Artery, which was opened in 1959, and is being currently demolished and substituted by a tunnel, provides an outstanding opportunity not only…
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Holdout Architecture (Case Study : Upper Manhattan)
Holdout ArchitectureCase Study: Upper ManhattanThis studio will investigate the architectural consequences of obstacles to the complete redevelopment of urban sites. Holdouts are buildings or parcels…
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A High-Speed Station for the Ticino Canton (Switzerland)
The European Union is not only generating a space of free commerce and progressive political integration, but also new infrastructures, which help to give continuity…
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jorge Silvetti, Gerardo Caballero
The National Archives of Argentina (NAA Studio # 1)General considerations in preparation for the Lottery.1.) This studio (NAA Studio # 1) will produce alternative design…
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Theatre at the Pudding
The subject of this studio is the design of a new student theatre for Harvard Undergraduates on the site of the existing Hasty Pudding Club…
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who knows?
If the starting point for the design of multi-unit housing was personal and the art of architecture to create a quality experience was valued, what…
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Interstitial Space
The site study area for the studio will be the interstitial spaces of New York City\’s financial district. There are many problems and opportunities in…
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Campus/City: Expanding the University of Pennsylvania
Julia Czerniak, Victoria Beach
Campus/City: Expanding the University of PennsylvaniaOption StudioInstructors: Julia Czerniak, Victoria BeachProject:The University of Pennsylvania, located in west Philadelphia, is planning to expand its campus onto…
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The Mississippi Studio: Appropriating the Terrain of the Basin Model
The Mississippi Basin Model (MBM) was the world\’s most ambitious working model. Located in the township of Clinton on the outskirts of Jackson, MS, it…
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An Academic Environment in Three Communities – Cambridge, Allston and Watertown
Alex Krieger, Margaret Crawford
Prerequisites: GSD 1221 or equivalentCourse Description: With its recent purchases of land in Allston andWatertown, Harvard University has more than doubled its land ownership. Itsoptions…
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Revitalizing New Orleans’ Bienville Corridor
Prerequisites:GSD 1221 or equivalentThe Bienville Corridor is a part of New Orleans\’ historic Mid-City neighborhood. Located just north of the famed French Quarter (Vieux Carri),…
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The National Archives Area of Buenos Aires, Argentina
An important site southwest of downtown Buenos Aires will be open for development. It consists of 236.000 square meters in the neighborhood of Barracas, called…
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Ostend, Belgium
Alexander D’Hooghe, Marcel Smets
This urban design studio concentrates on the redevelopment of the port area of Ostend which is situated on the last bank of the inland canal,…
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Havana, Cuba III: El Malecon
Leland Cott, Mario Coyula-Cowley
Prerequisites:Students will be expected to possess a high degree of design interest and capability. It is anticipated that the studio will call upon the following…
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who knows?
If the starting point for the design of multi-unit housing was personal and the art of architecture to create a quality experience was valued, what…
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Fueling the Vienna Prater
Gustav Peichl, Christoph Lechner
This studio – sponsored by the municipal government of Vienna – will develop programmatic and design ideas on the urban design and architectural scale for…
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Studies in Landscape Representation II
A sequel to the course, Studies in Landscape Representation I, this course focuses on drawing as a mode of design inquiry. A series of exercises…
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Fundamentals of CAD
This course has a dual objective: it provides the conceptual framework for employing computing in or making immediate and effective use of the emerging digital…
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Fundamentals of Computer-Aided Design
A sequel to the course Fundamentals of Computer Aided Design I, this course focuses specifically on intermediate concepts of geometric modeling specific to the discipline…
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The Visual Landscape: Analysis and Management
The seminar will occur on two Wednesdays each month during the spring semester.Seminar reading and discussion, and demonstrations and experiments will include: 1.) The visual…
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Advanced Digital Media
George L. Legendre, June-Hao Hou
With modeling applications becoming more diverse, intuitive, and commonplace, there is a renewed questioning of the position of geometric modeling within the design process. Animation,…
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Advanced Drawing
DISEGNO=DISEGNO DESSEIN=DESSINIn Italian and French, drawing and design are the same word. This course concentrates on drawing as a design tool, from the initial stages…
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Interactive Spaces
This course provides the framework for the design of spatial interactivity.By rethinking the relationships between narration, information and space,the course investigates the potential of interactive…
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Oil Painting: Perception to Abstraction
The premise of this workshop is to establish a relationship, in oil painting, between individual experience by perception and the language(s) of abstraction. The workshop…
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Projected Thinking: Representation in 2 and 3D
This workshop will be in three phases, each combining lecture presentations with hands-on studio work. The first phase will explore the effective use of cinematic…
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Introduction to Graphic Design
Introduction to Graphic Design is an intensive twelve week course that formats lectures and studio classes to engage students in the practical applications of graphic…
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Critical Perspectives
This is an intermediate course in drawing, open to landscape, urban design, and architecture students (also MDes). The initial intent of the class is to…
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Theories and Practices of Contemporary Landscape Architecture 1950-2000
Practice, according to Garrett Eckbo, is \”knowing how to do something; theory is knowing why.\” This course will explore the \”know why\” of landscape architecture…
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Design Theories in Architecture
***PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR EXACT SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS***Throughout our investigation of twelve contemporary buildings this lecture course will examine the development of architecture during the…
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Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form
Literature and Arts B:Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form.This course takes an interpretive look at the American city in terms of changing…
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Modern Architecture – Architectural Criticism
***NOTE***This class will follow the schedule:Wednesday & Thursday, 9:00-11:00 a.m.Room 318Feb. 27/28March 13/14April 3/4April 17/18May 1/2Four aspects of architectural criticism will be addressed in this…
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Dilbert’s cubicle and other workplace delights
This course will study very specific industrial design objects whose history has affected the evolution of the work place.Students will be required to design furniture,…
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Shifting Landscapes II
This workshop will explore the representation of landscapes as open, dynamic phenomena. As a follow up to the workshop last semester students will be encouraged…
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Emerging Urbanity Case Studies of Pacific Rim Megaprojects
Emerging Urbanity is an inquiry that seeks to answer a series of interrelated questions on the character of urban space in the contemporary city. It…
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Configurations of Public Space – debate and design
Description:As the object of desire for a vast array of urban constituents involved in the making of the city, public space is the subject of…
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Media and Modernity: Architecture and the City 1920-1970
This course explores ways in which architectural knowledge was shaped, transmitted, consumed, and instrumentalized through modes of representational discourse other than architecture itself – photography,…
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Frames of Mind: Introduction to Film Theory and Film Analysis
This course will meet in Carpenter Center 402.A basic introduction to the language of film theory, aimed at developing analytic skills to interpret films. We…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
This six module sequence, offered over three semesters, presents an introduction to the complex, interwoven web of conceptual issues and historical narratives in western architecture…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
This six module sequence, offered over three semesters, presents an introduction to the complex, interwoven web of conceptual issues and historical narratives in western architecture…
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