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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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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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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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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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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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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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…