Courses
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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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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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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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A Cultural Study of Film: Mapping and Fashioning Space: Seminar
This course will meet in Carpenter Center 402.The impulse to map (ourselves) is a major drive of contemporary visual culture. Since Fredric Jameson\'s call for…
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Leon Batista Alberti: 1404-1472
This course explores selected aspects of the writings and works of Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), seeking to place these in their historical and cultural contexts.During…
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History of Landscape Architecture Through Plants
This seminar provides an innovative framework for analyzing the history of planting design as typological precedents for contemporary landscape architecture. Recent developments in the historiography…
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Field Studies in Real Estate
Field studies sponsored by property owners, non-profit organizations and public agencies in the United States will be undertaken by students working in teams of three…
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Housing Policy in the United States: The Intersection of the Public and Private Sectors
In the twentieth century, housing policy in the United States has crafted a complex finance and delivery system. This course will examine the origins of…
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Home vs. Housing:Culture and History of Dwellings in the United States
The dialectic of home and housing provides the framework for an investigation into the cultural values, design, and planning of residences in the United States.
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The Design of Housing in the United States
This course will investigate architectural, urban design, and planning related components of the design of multi-family housing. Drawing largely from the completed work of the…
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Housing Delivery Mechanisms in the United States
This module will examine the process by which housing is produced in the United States. The course considers the primary actors in the delivery system,…
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Havana – challenges and opportunities
Against all odds, the Cuban Revolution has managed to survive the end of the Soviet Union, forty-plus years of U.S. direct or indirect hostility, and…
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Industrial Restructuring and Economic Development
This course is organized in three parts. First, it focuses on the economic changes that, over the last twenty years, have taken place in most…
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Strategies for Social Inclusion in Development
Mona Serageldin, François Vigier
This seminar offers students an opportunity to pursue advanced work in urban planning, while addressing the challenge of local development with inclusion at the city…
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Negotiation and Conflict Resolution in Urban Planning and Development
This course introduces students to the practice of negotiation and mediation in the context of urban planning and development. Learning from general theories of negotiation…
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Planning/Regions/Growth
This semester-long course builds on two modules previously offered separately – Regional Planning: Theory and Practice (Carbonell) and From Growth Management to Smart Growth (Yaro).
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Local Government Law
Cross-listed with the Harvard Law School (43500), this course examines the possibility and desirability of decentralization of power in America. In the process of doing…
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Database Systems for Design
Ugo Gagliardi, Urs Hirschberg, Pau Sola-Morales Serra
The growing embodiment of architectural design in digital media requires the proper choice of data structure, formats, and protocols (system architecture) to insure that the…
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Innovative Constructions: cases in modern Japan
Modern Japanese architecture has been much admired in the West for its attention to materials, its refined construction details, and its ability to integrate traditional…
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Brownfields
Brownfields remain of the highest priority in the regeneration of the inner city. Defined as an \”abandoned, idled or underused industrial or commercial facility where…
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House: Innovation in Design & Technology
TCourse Description: This seminar explores select architects\' innovative construction of the single-family house. This course will focus on the design, technology, and management of these…
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Architectural Component Prototyping
The format for the course Architectural Component Prototyping has changed each time that it has been offered in a continuing effort to cover the broad…
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Building Simulation
During the past decade, advancements in computer technology made it possible for building simulation to be part of the design process. This seminar will provide…
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Advanced Topics: Earthworks
This seminar will examine two themes in earthworks: the techniques by which the land is altered through technology and design; and the way in which…
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Collaborative Design
This professionally oriented course builds on GSD 7320 \”Information Technology in the Design Professions\” and focuses in detail on issues of collaborative design, including global…
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The Bilbao Guggenhein Museum: Topics in Project Management
Spiro Pollalis, Luis Rodriguez
To see a previous course website, please go to: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/courses/7400-02s99/The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao has had an unprecedented impact not only on the city of…
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Superficial Spaces
George L. Legendre, June-Hao Hou
We cherish immaterial surfaces, as painters cherish some material pigment for its unique expressive qualities. Like tempera or oil paint, the pigment-surface is a raw…