Courses
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Second Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Laura Miller, T. Kelly Wilson, Michael Meredith, Ingeborg Rocker, Mariana Ibanez
The second of a four-semester sequence of design studios continues examination of the issues raised in the first semester and begins investigation of more complex…
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Second Semester Core: Landscape Architecture Design
Christian Werthmann, Virginia Johnson, Holly Clarke
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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Second Semester Core Urban Planning Studio
Armando Carbonell, Edith Hsu-Chen, Toni L. Griffin, Andrew Altman
Urban Planning Studio…
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Fourth Semester Core: Architectural Design
Monica Ponce de Leon, Sandro Marpillero, John Hong, Thomas Schroepfer, Kimberly Ackert, Robert Marino, Lluis Ortega
The first class, on Thursday, February 1st, will start at 2pm in Piper.The last of a four-semester sequence of design studios concludes the introduction to…
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Fourth Semester Core: Planning and Design of Landscapes
Alan Berger, Paula Meijerink, Cheri Ruane
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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Pier 26
Studio IntentionThis studio will focus on the creation of \”public space\” by non-profit, mission-driven organizations as a means of advancing their societal role. Social institutions,…
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Cultural Porosity
PorosityThe increasing autonomy and self-reference of architectural systems has led to the construction of a paradigm of control that defines the condition of the contemporary…
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Studies on Ecolomy: Iceland/Dubai
Ecology – from Greek oikos: house + logi: study = the study of livingEconomy – from Greek oikos: house + nemein: to manage = the…
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Nanjing
This GSD studio will run in tandem with a studio to be conducted at Hong Kong University in cooperation with Atelier Zhanglei and Nanjing University.
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Studio Option
Almere; a city built from nothing, now stands as a victim of its own success; success based largely on unsustainable desire for low-density living in…
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Experiments in Tessellation: London High Rise
Farshid Moussavi, Michael Kubo
Cities that once hosted nations now host a rich array of \’cosmopolitans\’ through processes of globalization. Continually redefined by the people who occupy them and…
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Urban Desert: Pampas de San Bartolo
The aim of this studio is to present students with a situation of urban growth in an arid and impoverished area of Lima, Peru. Several…
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Museum of Copan Archaeology Part II
MUSEUM OF COPAN ARCHAEOLOGY. PART II.This studio will be concerned with the design of a new facility for the Museum of Copan Archaeology, located in…
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Reframing of Open Public Space in Tokyo
Currently many new developments are underway in Tokyo. They are encouraged by the government\’s decision to abolish certain regulations restricting construction and to de-regulate land,…
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Leichtbau Studio
Pedagogic ObjectivesThe \’Leichtbau Studio\’ introduces students into a combination of architectural approach and engineering strategy. The aim not only is to develop conceptual methods, but…
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MAKINAMEDINA: Reconfiguring the Relationship Between Geography and Event in the City of Fez
A. Hashim Sarkis, Aziza Chaouni
Harvard University – Graduate School of Design – Spring 2007 – GSD 1511 Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00-6:00 pmInstructors:Hashim Sarkis: hsarkis@gsd.harvard.edu office hours: wed. 2:00-4:00 PMAziza…
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Hunters Point Parklands: A Marriage of Environmental Justice and Design
Standing proud along the San Francisco Bay, the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood of southeastern San Francisco is home to a diverse and deserving community, and…
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The Promise of Paradise Studio
Aim: How can a park emphasize theultime illusion of the Eden Garden of peace and heaven?Subject: This studio researches the promise of paradise. The focus…
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Design Stategies for He Sapa Leadership Academy
The Project:In a historic move, the allied Sioux tribes, the Oceti Sakowin, has chartered the He Sapa Leadership Academy, a college preparatory school to be…
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Lissome Urbanism: Rail Infrastructure as a Backbone for the Rethinking of Continental Catalunya
Lissome Urbanism: Rail Infrastructure as a Backbone for the Rethinking of Continental CatalunyaInstructors:Joan Busquets, Martin Bucksbaum Professor of Urban Planning and DesignFelipe Correa, Design Critic…
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101 Urban Salvations
As an urban setting, Cambridge, Massachusetts, appears to have a lot going for it: two of the world\’s greatest universities, an extremely high density of…
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MAKINAMEDINA: Reconfiguring the Relationship Between Geography and Event in the City of Fez
A. Hashim Sarkis, Aziza Chaouni
Harvard University – Graduate School of Design – Spring 2007 – GSD 1511 Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00-6:00 pmInstructors:Hashim Sarkis: hsarkis@gsd.harvard.edu office hours: wed. 2:00-4:00 PMAziza…
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Belfast, Recast
Belfast, RecastTuesday 2:00 – 6:00Thursday2:00 – 6:00ARCHITECTURE & URBANISM: A POLITICS OF RECIPROCATIONThe primary function of urbanism is to characterize a given territory in ways…
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Arequipa by the Sea: A New Town Project
Spring 07Prof. Rodolfo MachadoT.A. Sharif Kahatt Arequipa by the sea: a new town projectIntroduction:To situate the studio\’s pedagogic agenda (or to place in a wider…
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Studies in Landscape Representation II
A companion to the course, Studies in Landscape Representation I, this course focuses on digital computation in design inquiry. A series of exercises is intended…
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Digital Media I
Digital Media I and II provide students with the conceptual framework for employing digital media in the design process, and deliver the practical skills for…
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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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Site Representation and Analysis
This course introduces Geographic Information Systems and three-dimensional modeling from a Landscape Architecture perspective. It is particularly recommended for students concurrently participating in the Fourth…
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Interactive Spaces
This course provides the framework for the design of advanced spatial interactivity on the Internet. By rethinking the relation between information and space, the course…
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Advanced Studies in Architectural Computing
The 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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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 representation and color.
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Theories and Practices of Contemporary Landscape Architecture 1950-2006
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
Please note first class takes place on Tuesday, January 30.This lecture course will follow the latest episodes in contemporary architecture. The development of a critical…
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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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Carefully Reading Koolhaas
Introduction to Course:This course is a reading seminar, focusing on a selection of texts written by Rem Koolhaas, and a parallel selection of projects designed…
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The Architectural Imaginary: Experimental Architecture of the 1970s
Prerequisites: GSD 4201-4206 or equivalent or post-professional-degree status (MArch 2, MDesS, etc). This course examines selected architecture practices and projects in the expanded decade of…
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Deleuze and Landscapes
This seminar will closely read French philosopher Gilles Deleuze\’s (1925-1995) writings for their potential to provoke new thinking of landscape design and description. Deleuze develops…
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Tessellation in Architecture
Farshid Moussavi, Michael Kubo
The seminar will seek to produce a graphic manual for the use of tessellation in architecture. We will examine architectural projects, with the aim to…
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Urban Design for Planners
course objectivesThis seminar course will introduce physical planners to the approaches, techniques, and tools of urban design necessary to structure the spatial and dimensional relationships…
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Architecture and the Market
\”Between these two worlds – that of production, where everything is made, and that of consumption, where everything is used up – the market economy…
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Buildings from Within
Please note first class takes place on Tuesday, January 30.As a complement to the lecture course, this seminar will examine 4 projects of my own.
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Re-Thinking Citites
Jerold S. Kayden, Edward Glaeser
This seminar explores the topic of how individual academic disciplines and professional fields think about cities. Anthropologists, sociologists, planners, economists, lawyers, political scientists, and other…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
The first class will be held on Tuesday, January 30th, in Piper from 10:00am – 11:30am.Charts the emergence of rationalism and neo-classicism, as well as…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
Focuses on modernisms -its codification, representation, and dissemination -and emphasizes its multiple political, social, and cultural dimensions.
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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
The history of the modern landscape begins with the paradigmatic shifts in gardening that were set in motion during the course of the 18th century…
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Of Rocks, Trails and Televisions: The Democratic Monument in America
The technological transformations of modernity, from electricity to digital communication, have valorized progress over tradition as a determining social force, challenging the classical monument as…
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Rome and St. Peter’s
A course on St. Peter\’s Basilica and its surrounding architectural complex from Antiquity to the Baroque, tracing the development of the Vatican area from an…
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Digital Culture, Space and Society
The first class will be held on Tuesday, January 30th, in Room 111 from 2:00pm – 5:00pm. Computer and networks like the Internet have transformed…
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