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: The visual landscape:…
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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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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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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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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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Cities, Territories and Infrastructures
Contemporary urban and territorial space is largely produced by infrastructures. Some of them, like railways, freeways, giant bridges, or power plants, are overwhelmingly present in…
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Professional Design Practice in Baroque Rome; Francesco Borromimi, A Case Study
The \”Professional Practice\” seminar takes the great 17th century Roman architect and outstanding draughtsman, Francesco Borromini – the subject of several huge exhibitions in 1999-2000…
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The History of Landscape Architecture Through Plants
Recent developments in the historiography of the European garden have opened up a new field of study – the history of landscape architecture through the…
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Proseminar in History and Theory
This seminar is for students in the Ph.D. program. Participants will present work toward their dissertation or toward a major research paper, emphasizing issues of…
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Culture of Cities
During the nineteenth century, as dramatic urban transformations rendered many European and American cities nearly unrecognizable, a new urban discourse emerged. Urban critics struggled to…
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Advanced Topics in Design, Law, Policy
This workshop provides students with an opportunity to examine in depth a legal technique or issue having a significant effect on the design and planning…
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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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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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Listening to the City
This workshop course will address one of the central contradictions currently facing architects, planners, landscape architects and urban designers who want to practice in the…
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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
This seminar offers students an opportunity to pursue advanced work in urban planning that addresses the challenge of social inclusion in local development at the…
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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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Field Studies in Real Estate: The Rebuilding of Ground Zero
Many architects and urban designers see the rebuilding of Ground Zero as an exciting opportunity to redefine modern urbanism in the twenty-first century. But the…
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New Materials and Technologies
OVERVIEW…In normative design approaches, a single design state is usually created. The surface, the wall, and the envelope typically serve as the material bounds that…
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Databases in 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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Brownfields Practicum – Sustainable Redevelopment of Brownfield Sites in Dorchester and East Boston, MA
Brownfields remain of the highest priority in the regeneration of the inner city. Defined by the US. Environmental Protection Agency as an \”abandoned, idled or…
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surfaces. kinetics
The seminar explores the use of surfaces and kinetic systems in architecture, with reference to furniture and product design. \’Surfaces\’ are explored first by an…
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Concept to Construct: Building Components and Assemblies
This research seminar will explore how various architects applied computer assisted tools and strategies in the development of design concept, building component fabrication and construction…
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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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The Bilbao Guggenhein Museum: Topics in Project Management
The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao has had an unprecedented impact not only on the city of Bilbao but also on the value of design and…
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Technology in Design
This research seminar explores the use of information technology in the design process and in project delivery. The focus is on the designer and specifically…
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3x3x3: THREE months, THREE projects, THREE-thousand clients
Good design starts way before architects start sketching. Top architects are often distinguished from the rest partly because they insist on direct contact and close…
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Advanced Independent Seminar/Workshop: Weaving, Materials and Habitation
Mark Mulligan, Toshiko Mori, Remment Koolhaas, Peter Rowe, Roberto Pasini, Alex Krieger, Martin Zogran
The Workshop explores fabrication and material potential of weaving methods to consider possibilities for habitation structures. Weaving exists in every culture. It is one of…