Courses
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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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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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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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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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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…