Courses
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Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Ron Witte, T. Kelly Wilson, Tim Love, Ashley Schafer
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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Architectural Design
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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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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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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Advanced Digital Media
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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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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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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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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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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Cross-Cultural Encounters: Architecture, Modernity and Identity beyond the West
This course offers a theoretical framework to study the spatial, architectural and urban expressions of successive encounters between \”the west\” and the rest of the…
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Practices in Democracy (3): Design and the Challenges for Development from the Marshall Plan to Micro Credit
Summary:The course examines the impact of different models of social and economic development on architectural and urban design. It focuses on Latin America and the…
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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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Building Construction
Contemporary building materials and components are introduced through an investigation of construction assemblies and details. Design concepts and their translation into construction will be examined…
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Environmental Technologies in Buildings
***NOTE***Schedule meets alternate weeks:February 12 & 13February 26 & 27March 12 & 13April 2 &3April 16 & 17April 30 & May 1FINAL EXAM TBA–do not…
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Database Systems for Design
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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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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Legal Aspects of Design Practice
This course focuses on the special obligations and privileges of a design professional. We study governmental regulation, taxation, accounting, and legal organization for a design…
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Introduction to the Practice of Architecture
This is a discussion developed by Scogin, Sapers, and Beach to introduce the student to basic issues in architectural practice, including: how an architect obtains…
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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
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
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…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree MArch
George L. Legendre, Ron Witte, Remment Koolhaas, Toshiko Mori
This entails preparatory work for all students intending subsequently to enroll in GSD 9301. Students research thesis proposals for review and acceptance by faculty.
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