Courses
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Second Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Laura Miller, Jeannette Kuo, Eric Howeler, Lluis Ortega, 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, Dorothee Imbert, Shauna Gillies-Smith
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
Prerequisites: Enrollment in the Urban Planning program.The second semester core urban planning studio is designed to strengthen and expand the topics and methodogies studied in…
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Fourth Semester Core: Architectural Design
Monica Ponce de Leon, John Hong, Thomas Schroepfer, Kimberly Ackert, Robert Marino, Florian Idenburg, Ana Maria Duran Calisto
The last of a four-semester sequence of design studios concludes the introduction to architectural design by emphasizing students\’ elaboration and substantiation of personal ideas through…
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Fourth Semester Core: Planning and Design of Landscapes
Holly Clarke, Cheri Ruane, Sylvia Winter, Wilson Martin
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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Monocoques, Component Design
This course has an irregular schedule. Please see below.MONOCOQUES: INTRODUCTIONTechnology develops cumulatively, rather than in isolated heroic acts, and it finds most of its uses…
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Sao Paulo, 4 Operations
This course has an irregular schedule. Please see below.Two current questions for architecture:1. lots of resources2. lack of meaningSao Paulo: 4 operationsSITEThe site is Sao…
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Housing in Nicaragua – Radicalizing the Local: The Neighborhood as Political Unit
This course has an irregular schedule. Please see below.Studio Overview1. Zones of ConflictThe changing of geo-political boundaries across continents and the unprecedented shifting of…
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Near Future
NEAR FUTUREStudio Option 1315GSD — Spring 2008Lise Anne Couture with Christopher Johnson and Volkan AlkanogluSyllabusOver the last fifty years the city of Brasilia has been…
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Experiments in Tessellation: Airport Terminal
Experiments in Tessellation: The Airport TerminalAirport terminals are essentially \’sheds\’- large volumes of space, with long spans and no major subdivisions, to cater for the…
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Mexico City Studio Option
Louisa Hutton, Matthias Sauerbruch
This course will have an irregular schedule. To be determined.The MX ProjectWe are proposing a project for a site in the historical Centre of Mexico…
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Urban Sports Culture: A New Football Statium for Boca Juniors in Buenos Aires
Introduction — Background and Contextual parameters1) The Physical Context. The UBA-FAU\’s \”Area Sur\” Study: A study is currently being carried out by a research team…
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Paradise Extension: True Confessions of a 21st Century Objectivist
The aim of this studio is to investigate what each student participating believes to be their objects of desire. What values, function, form, language of…
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Landscaping Urbanisms / Urbanizing Landscapes
Manhattan is experiencing an unbridled period of urban redevelopment. Across the island, neighborhoods are being subjected to radical reinvention. The city\’s post-war collective housing projects…
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Asphalt: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
The goal of the Asphalt Studio is to inspire change in the way we think about asphalt spaces. The asphalt landscape is the most public…
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CAMOUFLAGE METROPOLE: Mourne and Cooley Ranges, Ireland
OVERVIEWSet within the dramatic environs of the Mourne and Cooley Mountains that inspired the mystical landscapes and folkloric creatures of the Chronicles of Narnia by…
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Urban Surplus. Maastricht
FRAMEWORKThe studio, uses the city of Maastricht (Netherlands) as a potentially rich site to explore the transformation processes of a paradigmatic mid size European capital…
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Burlington, Vermont: New Urban Design Possibilities for the Downtown Core
Burlington is Vermont\’s largest city. That said it is also the smallest U. S. city that is the largest in its state. It is routinely…
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CAMOUFLAGE METROPOLE: Mourne and Cooley Ranges, Ireland
OVERVIEWSet within the dramatic environs of the Mourne and Cooley Mountains that inspired the mystical landscapes and folkloric creatures of the Chronicles of Narnia by…
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The Urban Roles of a Semi-Dry River: Chihuahua & Its Chuvuscar River
Humanity delights in and finds inspiration at waterfront settings, and often chooses to celebrate or express civic ambitions at water\’s edge. Imagine the Sydney Opera…
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Lisbon: European Atlantic Capital
LISBON: EUROPEAN ATLANTIC CAPITALIntroductionThis Urban Design studio is sponsored by the Fundacao Luso-Americana (Luso-American Foundation) of Lisbon, and it has been kindly procured by Mr.
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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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Drawing from Masters
It takes two artists to make a drawing, even if one of them is dead. — Anonymous\”The artist accustomed to copying the best from the…
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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 this course has an irregular schedule. This lecture course will follow the latest episodes in contemporary architecture. The development of a critical perspective…
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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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The Domestic Scene
Few spaces are as consciously contrived in their form and appearance as those of the private dwelling. Coincident with the advent of the \”cult of…
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The Function of Systems
Farshid Moussavi, Daniel Lopez-Perez
The Function of Systems Cities that once hosted nations now host a rich array of \’cosmopolitans\’ as a result of processes of globalization. Cities are…
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New Geographies: Shaping Context by Design
The participants in the seminar will be presented with the following proposal: The Geographic is a dominant but latent paradigm in design today which we…
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Urban Design for Planners
This seminar course will introduce physical planners to the approaches, techniques, and tools of urban design necessary to structure the spatial and dimensional relationships of…
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The (New) Languages of Architecture
The (New) Languages of ArchitectureInstructor: Sanford KwinterThe last decade and a half has seen a remarkable profusion of architectural styles, an entirely new level of…
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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. Historical survey of classical and contemporary theory beginning with turn-of-the-century…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
Charts the emergence of rationalism and neo-classicism, as well as the impact of the industrialization, professionalization, and institutionalization of architecture and urbanism.
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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 Landscape Architecture II
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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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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Modern Architecture and Urbanism in China
Modernizing influences, largely from the hands of foreign powers, first forcefully entered into China and began to take root in the aftermath of the Opium…
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Visual Fabrics: Film, Fashion and Material Culture
Explores the common language of film and fashion, both powerful image makers and objects of material culture. Film and fashion share a role with architecture…
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Transparency
The concept of transparency is critical – not only to understanding early and mid-20th century modernism – but also to engaging current architectural concerns with…
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Artifice: (An Archeology of Postmodernism)
The styles of Philip Johnson, Charles Moore\’s historicism, the linguistics of Peter Eisenman, and the theatrics of Hans Hollein; the technophilia of Cedric Price and…
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Technology, Cities and Urban Form
This seminar will explore the impacts of a variety of technological innovations on the shape of cities and the character of urban life in America.
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