Courses
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Second Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
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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Fourth Semester Core: Architectural Design
Preston Scott Cohen, 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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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
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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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…
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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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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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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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Leon Batista Alberti and Italian Renaissance: Architecture, Painting, and Sculpture 1400-1520
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.
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Modernism After World War II
Modernism After World War II, a lecture class, addresses the question of what happened to modernism after its initial synthesis and codification in the late…
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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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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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Independent Study by Candidates for PhD Degrees
The student conducts a program of individual study under faculty guidance, including auditing of lectures, reading, and exercises as needed to develop skills in methods…
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Analysis and Design of Building Structures II
A continuation of GSD 6201, this course addresses the analysis and design of structural elements such as beams, columns, rigid and braced frames, shear walls,…
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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
This course examines the fundamental scientific principles underlying the thermal, luminous, and acoustic behaviors in buildings, and introduces students to the existing technologies for creating…
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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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Computer Aided Design & Manufacturing II
This course is the second of a two-part series that addresses the use of computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) techniques in architecture. The course will…
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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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Sustainability
Sustainability in building construction and use has to be a project issue from the beginning of the design and is a strong design advisor leading…
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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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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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Internet and Architecture
The Internet is fundamentally changing how we practice some of our most basic everyday activities, and challenging how we perceive and use architectural space. Yet…
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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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Preparation of Design Thesis Proposal for MArch
This entails preparatory work for all students intending subsequently to enroll in GSD 9301. Students research thesis proposals for review and acceptance by faculty.Prerequisites: Graduate…
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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…