Courses
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Second Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Ron Witte, Michael Meredith, Thomas Schroepfer, Maia Small, Laura Miller, T. Kelly Wilson
10,000 & 100 The second semester Core studio focuses on the synthesis of program and form. There will be two projects: one four-week urban project…
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Second Semester Core: Landscape Architecture Design
Paula Meijerink, Martha Schwartz, George Hargreaves, Dorothee Imbert
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
Monica Ponce de Leon, Richard Sommer, Yoshiko Sato, Joseph MacDonald, Ana Miljacki, Kimberly Ackert
Housing Architecture What interests the architect about housing is the way in which it peculiarly straddles the categorical distinctions between architecture and urban design. Housing…
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Fourth Semester Core: Planning and Design of Landscapes
Alan Berger, Holly Clarke, Chris Reed, Christian Werthmann
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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UK/NL A Building in Amsterdam Harbour
UK/NLA building in Amsterdam harbourTony Fretton- www.tonyfretton.co.ukThe site for the project is a small island in the, an area of water between the railway line…
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Notes from the Underground: Boston Disconnect
NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND: SUBWAY SUPERSTATIONThe studio will be based on the premise that the Boston subway system is dysfunctional and inadequate, but also critical…
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Touristic Development in the Istrian Peninsula, Puntizela, Croatia
Instructors: Prof. Jorge Silvetti Teaching Associate Ivan RupnikThis studio will explore the impact of contemporary large-scale tourism in Puntizela, a prime virgin location in the…
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The Bone Studio 2: Experimental Concrete Architecture
The Bone Studio 2: Experimental Concrete Architecture The Bone Studio will continue the exploration started last spring semester into the concept of cellular solids and…
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Structured Ornament, Contextualizing Blank Typologies
The studio will explore ornament as an operative device to organize buildings and to integrate them within the urban realm. We will explore ornamentation as…
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“Two” Investigations in Residential Design
This studio explores design at the residential scale through sites located in Manhattan, New York and Sonoma, California. The class will address the form-making capabilities…
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The Regeneration of Harlow
Martha Schwartz, Jonathan Fitch
The Regeneration of HarlowWith Jon Fitch guest Studio CriticGenerously Funded by CABE: Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, UKCOURSE DESCRIPTIONINTRODUCTIONThe Schwartz Spring 2005 Option…
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Monterrey, a Mexican City and Landscape in Transformation: Three Rivers, One Region
Monterrey, a Mexican City and Landscape in Transformation: Three Rivers, One Region. OUTLOOKMonterrey is located in the north east region of the country and is…
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A New Neighborhood for Charleston, SC
INSTRUCTOR:Alex Krieger, assisted by Klaus Mayer, Loeb FellowParticipation:The Charleston Studio is open to, indeed welcomes the participation of, students from each of the disciplines at…
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Re-imagining Dudley
The Dudley Square business district was once the commercial and entertainment center of the Roxbury community. In the 1940\’s this area was the largest retailing…
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Monterrey, a Mexican City and Landscape in Transformation: Three Rivers, One Region.
Studio Title:Monterrey, a Mexican City and Landscape in Transformation: Three Rivers, One Region.Sponsor:Agencia Para La Planeacion Del Dessarrollo Urbano de Neuvo LeonMonterey, Nuevo Leon, MexicoMs.
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Provoking a New Form of Urbanity: The Corvin Promenade, Budapest
Rodolfo Machado, Felipe Correa
Throughout the last decade and a half, after the fall of the Soviet Union, Hungary has pursued aggressively its participation in a free-market system, shifting…
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Intermodal Istanbul
Intermodal Istanbul:Exploring possible forms of intersection at Sirkeci Meydan(Square) between a public square, a ferry terminal, an archaeological site, and a tram and train stationSummary:…
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New Orleans: Redesigning a Fragile Edge
ABSTRACT1. City Emerging from the WaterThe City of New Orleans is located at 90 degrees West longitude, and 30 degrees North latitude, 30 miles north…
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Newry, Northern Ireland – Revealing History in Urban Reconstruction
BackgroundOn April 10, 1998, a historic peace deal was signed between the Nationalists and the Unionists in Northern Ireland, UK. As part of the deal,…
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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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Digital Media I
The course will help to develop basic skills in visual literacy and communication through the use of digital media. Considering that one of the primary…
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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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Advanced 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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Interactive Spaces
GSD 2314 Interactive Spaces explores the potentials of media as an integral part of architectural spaces. The seminar examines series of case studies and looks…
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Advanced Studies in Architectural Computing
DescriptionThe course is an in-depth study into the theories, processes, and structures of computing in architecture. It will seek to develop design projects that will…
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Drawing from Masters
FIELD PAINTINGThis seminar/workshop will introduce the practice of plein air painting to the architect. The issues of color and spatial invention through the medium of…
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M[ont]agic Operations in Landscape Spatiality
M[ont]agic Operations in Landscape SpatialityContemporary philosophical, design and cultural criticism recognize the phenomenon of \”montage\” as a visual discourse particularly analogous to the disjunctive and…
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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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On Contemporary Architecture
What remains in contemporary architecture of the \”avant garde\” modern architecture principles?Until very recently, it was widely accepted that contemporary architecture arose directly from the…
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Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form
Literature and Arts B Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form. This course takes an interpretive look at the American city in terms…
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Advanced Topics in Theory
The module examines selected architecture practices and projects in the period between 1966 and 1983. The hypothesis of the class is this: The historical avantgardes…
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Safety and Security in Design
The seminar will begin on February 9. Starting on February 3rd, pleasefeel free to email me at [email protected] and I will send youthe syllabus and…
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Landscape Urbanization
This lecture course explores the theories, tactics and workings of Landscape Urbanism. It positions Landscape Urbanism as an intellectual re-alignment of landscape\’s role in urbanization…
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Configurations of Public Space – debate and design
All struggles against oppression in the modern world begin by redefining what had previously been considered \”private\”, non-public, and non-political issues as matters of public…
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The City of Leisure and Tourism
Since the 1960s, tourism has had a profound impact on cities. Many great cities, such as Paris or Rome, are discovering that their historic centers…
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Frames of Mind: Approaches to Film Theory
Introduction to the language of film theory, aimed at developing analytic skills to interpret films. A historical survey that spans turn-of-the-century scientific motion studies to…
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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 from…
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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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Digital Culture, Space and Society
GENERAL ARGUMENTComputer and networks like the Internet have transformed our perception of space. They are also synonymous with the development of a new type of…
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Art and Architecture in Italy; 1250-1520
This is an introduction to Italian painting, sculpture, and architecture from ca. 1250 to 1520 emphasizing style and technique. The course is structured in three…
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Modernism / Modernity
This reading-intensive seminar explores four dominant strains in the theorizing of modernism – Marxism and Critical Theory (Manfredo Tafuri, Hilde Heynen), Formalism (Colin Rowe, Robin…
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Transition/Zagreb: Urban Condition and Spatial Practice
The seminar is concerned with conceptualizing and examining transition as both a condition and spatial practice of the European post-communist city. A sequel to last…
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The History of Horticulture in Landscape Architecture
Recent changes in the historiography of the European garden opened up a new field of study — the history of landscape architecture from a horticultural/cultural…
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The Culture and Politics of the Built Environment in the US: Seminar
Yearlong research seminar in conjunction with the Charles Warren Center workshop of scholars working in the field. Scholars will be working on research projects that…
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