Courses
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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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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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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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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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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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Histories and Theories of Urban Planning and Design
This course surveys the evolution of city form and the history of urban design around the world. We will compare and analyze urban interventions and…
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Public and Private Development
This course explores the analytic frameworks, skills, and bodies of knowledge required to understand, evaluate, plan, and implement public and private development within cities and…
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FIELD STUDIES IN REAL ESTATE, PLANNING & URBAN DESIGN – An Alternative Downtown for Amsterdam; and A Cultural Renaissance for the City of Lee, MA
Course Description:This course is intended to provide students an understanding of the dynamics and complexities of reality that create contemporary urban physical environments. The course…
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Analytic Methods for Urban Planning
This course introduces students to selected quantitative and qualitative methods for thinking about urban planning problems. The course is divided into four sections. In the…
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Transportation Policy, Planning, and Mangagement
Prerequisites: GSD 5203, or equivalent introduction to microeconomics.This course provides an overview of the issues involved in transportation planning as well as an introduction to…
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Advanced Real Estate Development and Finance
This course builds on GSD 5204 and comparable introductory real estate courses offered by other schools at Harvard. Using case studies and lectures, the course…
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Strategic Planning and Local Development
This course examines strategies for urban and regional development within the context of a globalized economy where cities are the engines of growth. Fierce competition,…
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Public Approvals for Private Development Projects
The improvement of real property has social as well as physical and economic implications, and is therefore subject to increasingly rigorous public review. This course…
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Planning and Urban Theory
This course uses analytical readings and case studies to address several major questions in planning theory. The overall theme is the relationship between conscious public…
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Ecology, Plants and Technology II
Paula Meijerink, Michael Van Valkenburgh
As the continuation of GSD 6106, this is the second in the core sequence of Ecology, Plants and Technology courses. The first module investigates plants…
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Analysis and Design of Building Structures II
A continuation of GSD 6201, this course introduces more advanced topics such as funicular systems, statically indeterminate structures, pre-stressing as well as surface structures. Specifically,…
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Science and Technology
Jonathan Levi, Thomas Schroepfer
The course introduces a conceptual framework for the design of building assemblies, as informed by a clear understanding of construction technologies and of the properties…
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Environmental Technologies in Buildings
This course examines the fundamental scientific principles underlying the thermal, luminous and acoustic behavior of buildings and introduces students to a range of technologies for…
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Plants and Technology II
Niall Kirkwood, Peter Del Tredici
GSD 6219 Plants and Technology II will address the interdependence between plants, technology and design in landscape architecture. The purpose of this course is to…
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Innovative Constructions: cases in modern Japan
Modern Japanese architecture has been much admired in the West for its attention to materials, its refined construction details, and its ability to integrate traditional…
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Urban and Surburban Ecology
Wildlife, vegetation, soil, air, water, and aquatic ecosystems, together with their human uses, are related to the distinctive, especially spatial, attributes of suburban and urban…
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Brownfields Practicum – Sustainable Redevelopment of Brownfield Sites in Somerville, Massachusetts
Brownfields remain of the highest priority in the regeneration of the inner city. Defined by the US. Environmental Protection Agency as an \’abandoned, idled or…
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Watershed and Waterside Development Planning and Design
This course concentrates on how different land processes (natural) and activities (anthropogenic) affect aquatic systems. b(Part 1 is based on empirical cross-system comparisons to examine…
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In Search of the Engineer
Hanif Kara, Andreas Georgoulias
Please note, this courses first meeting will be on Monday, February 4thCourse DescriptionIn recent examples of architecture, visions of architects are enhanced by innovative interventions…
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Sustainability
Please note, this course has an irregular schedule. The full course schedule is listed below.Sustainability – an integrated design approach in combination with your studio…
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Ecological Strategies for Disturbed Sites
This applied lecture and workshop course focuses on the reuse and reconstruction of derelict and minimally managed urban landscapes. Emphasis will be placed on strategies…
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Issues in the Practice of Architecture
This course, for students in the fourth semester of the MArch I program, introduces basic issues in practice and the profession of architecture, challenging the…