Courses
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Second Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Monica Ponce de Leon, Nader Tehrani, Ron Witte, Tim Love, Catherine Seavitt
Ground Leftovers / Program Functions During the second half of the semester students will be asked to develop a building around programs whose specific functional…
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Second Semester Core: Landscape Architecture Design
Dorothee Imbert, Paula Meijerink, Michael Van Valkenburgh, Mark Klopfer
This course is the second of a four-semester core sequence of landscape design and planning studios. In this semester, students will expand their previous investigations…
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Fourth Semester Core: Architectural Design
Preston Scott Cohen, Joseph MacDonald, Laura Miller, Sarah M. Whiting, Ashley Schafer
Housing ArchitectureWhat interests the architect about housing is the way in which it peculiarly straddles the categorical distinctions between architecture and urban design. Housing is…
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Fourth Semester Core: Planning and Design of Landscapes
Alan Berger, George Hargreaves, Holly Clarke, Chris Reed
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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Weatherize
weather…Beyond media-perfect weather catastrophes, this studio researches issues of weather in our everyday culture and its effect on architecture.…newsBy now, every year has its millenium…
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“My Way” – A Trip to Gee’s Bend
America Irby, \”Ma Willie\” Abrams, Indiana Bendolph, Della Mae Bridges, Seebell Kennedy, Pearlie Pettway Hall, Jeesie T. \”Bootnie\” Pettway, Sue Willie Seltzer, Fannie T. Westbrook,…
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New Central Library for Shantou University
Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron
Shantou University has ambitious plans to grow in quality (not in quantity) to become one of the foremost educational hubs in China.The tropical vegetation offers…
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Unanticipated Urbanity: Revisiting Las Vegas
George Baird, Richard Marshall
Las Vegas isn\’t phony anything: it has its own resounding, relentless identity. And Vegas is arguably the most interesting American city of the moment, the…
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Studio Option
Post Blast Lower Manhattan21st C. Civic Humanist InstitutionsTHE CITY AS A LITERARY TEXTTEXT INTERTEXT, CONTEXTPROVOCATION TO PROGRAMPOST BLAST LOWER MANHATTANA DEFINITIVE CITY ARCHITECTURE \”DAS UNBEHAGEN…
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Eyes in the Heat: Optics and Violence: A New Museum at Queens West
Project Description: Long Island City, New York CityTwo major initiatives have created significant new pressure on the redevelopment of Long Island City in New York.
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The Temporal Field – A Sports and Recreation Center
This project for a student recreation center will involve a range of explorations of temporal phenomena that influence architectural space, form and structure. Students will…
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Japan Transfer
In an era characterized by instant global communication and transfer ofinformation, architecture remains a powerful and tangible instrument of cultural exchange. To explore this proposition…
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Studio Option
My pedagogy is mainly based in fostering observation and the fact that architecture relays in the comprehension of our surrounding world. Indeed, from that comprehension…
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The Lakes Project, Mexico City
Guest Critic or Studio Consultant: Jose Manual Castillo OleaMr. Castillo is a principal in the firm Futura Deasrollo Urbano (FDU) in Mexico City. While a…
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Miasteczko Wilanow; Landscape Matrix
Martha Schwartz, Elizabeth Mossop
Studio:The studio will focus on the design of the public landscape and design solutions for key elements of public space infrastructure for Miasteczko Wilanow in…
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SUPERNATURAL URBANISM: Locating the Next American City in the Los Angeles River Basin
Mary Margaret Jones, Richard Sommer, George Hargreaves
Richard Sommer and Mary Margaret Jones with George Hargreaves as Senior AdvisorSUPERNATURAL URBANISMIn the 1960\’s Rayner Banham suggested a new mode of urbanism in the…
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SUPERNATURAL URBANISM: Locating the Next American City in the Los Angeles River Basin
Richard Sommer, George Hargreaves, Mary Margaret Jones
Richard Sommer and Mary Margaret Jones with George Hargreaves as Senior AdvisorSUPERNATURAL URBANISMIn the 1960\’s Rayner Banham suggested a new mode of urbanism in the…
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Drawn to the Center . . . Living on the Edge
Like many American cities faced with declining populations and economic disinvestment in the post World War II years as the American suburbs began to grow,…
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The Hague, Binckhorst: “Revising the dump”
Marcel Smets, Alexander D’Hooghe
Course Description:The sizeable Binckhorst area in The Hague stretches out between the exit of the motorway and the city center. It is only connected to…
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Re-inventing Apkujung, Seoul, South Korea
Introduction:The neighborhood of Apkujung displays a complex urban fabric interwoven with large residential buildings and commercial spaces. Situated in the affluent Kangnam District of Seoul,…
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The Delhi Metro Rail
The city of Delhi has grown from a population of less than one million in 1947 to over 12 million today. Despite a master plan…
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New metropolitan entrance
Course descriptionIn the metropolitan city of Barcelona, the Gran Via is the great horizontal avenue running parallel to the coast, around which growth has been…
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Unanticipated Urbanity: Revisiting Las Vegas
Richard Marshall, George Baird
Las Vegas isn\’t phony anything: it has its own resounding, relentless identity. And Vegas is arguably the most interesting American city of the moment, the…
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Studies in Landscape Representation II
A sequel to the course, Studies in Landscape Representation I, this course focuses on drawing and digital computation as modes of design inquiry. A series…
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Fundamentals of CAD
Jeffrey Huang, Pau De Sola-Morales Serra
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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Site Systems Representation II
A sequel to the course Site Systems Representation I, this course focuses specifically on intermediate concepts of geometric modeling specific to the discipline of landscape…
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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: The visual landscape:…
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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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Advanced Landscape 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 of…
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Dynamic and Phenomenal Modeling, Rendering and Animation
This course enables students to master the techniques of digital representation particular to the practice of landscape architecture. Participants will employ varying methods of internal…
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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…
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Painting and Paint – Studio Practice; with oil
The premise of this workshop is to establish a relationship, in oil painting, between individual experience by perception and the language(s) of abstraction and representation.
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Critical Perspectives: Perspectival Representation in the Process of Landscape Architecture Design
This seminar/workshop aims critically to explore the role perspective projection may play in the generation of landscape space. Despite the manifold criticisms levied against the…
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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 since…
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Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form
Literature and Arts BDesigning 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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The State of Design
This course will provide an overview of the role of design in recent history and today. The state of design is strong. Design can greatly…
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L’Esquisse
Making up the architect\’s first response to the elemental conditions of a project is a combination of pure mental speculation and the first physical signs…
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On the artifact
The ways in which we read and construe the value of artifacts within the material realm ultimately circumscribes what we are capable of conceptualizing and…
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Landscape Infrastructure and Urbanism
This seminar deals with the proposition that landscape is the appropriate model and medium through which to understand contemporary urbanism. This seminar aims to construct…
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Configurations of Public Space – debate and design
To promote a politics of inclusion, then, participatory democrats must promote the ideal of a heterogeneous public, in which persons stand forth with their differences…
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Rebuilding the European City
After the Second World War, many cities, roads, and bridges were left destroyed in Europe and needed to be rebuilt. Some countries, like Poland, chose…
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Scale and Modernity: City, Object, Subject
Modernity, since the late 19th century, has been experienced, perceived, and imagined in terms of radical and transformative changes in the scale of the city,…
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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 from…
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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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Modernization in the Visual United States Environment, 1890-2035
Modernization of the United States visual environment as directed by a nobility creating new images and perceptions of such themes as wilderness, flight, privacy, clothing,…
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Adventure and Fantasy Simulation, 1871-2036: Seminar
Visual constituents of high adventure since the late Victorian era, emphasizing wandering woods, rogues, tomboys, women adventurers, faerie antecedents, halflings, crypto-cartography, Third-Path turning, martial arts,…
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History of Modern Gardens and Public Landscapes: 1800 to the present
This survey lecture course presents the history of landscape design in Europe and North America from early modern times to the emergence of modern landscape…
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Constructing Vision
The course considers the application of means of representation, primarily perspective, in architectural design. It examines how architects have used these means of representation not…
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The Shaping and Preservation of Urban Spaces
Prerequisite:2 graduate level courses in architectural history or related topics or equivalent preparation, and permission of the instructor. Prior to the lottery fill out the…
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