Courses
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Digital Design: Algorithms and Scripts
Digital Design: Algorithms and Scripts Course Objectives and OutcomesThe course aims at investigating and exploring the systems, processes, and techniques of computational design in the…
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Theories and Practices of Contemporary Landscape Architecture 1950-2008
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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Behind Today’s Architectural Trends
Please note, this course has an irregular schedule. See below.This lecture course will follow the latest episodes in contemporary architecture. The development of a…
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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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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.Focuses on modernisms -its codification, representation, and dissemination -and…
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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 Modern Gardens and Public Landscapes: 1700 to the present
GSD 4317 covers the formal/cultural history and theoretical underpinnings of modern gardens and public landscapes. Beginning in early modern Europe, the course moves from English…
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Rome and St. Peter’s
The art and architecture of Rome from Antiquity to Modernity with particular attention to the Vatican, where the layering of material artifacts from successive historical…
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Hub of the Universe: Boston in the Gilded Age
In 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes described Boston\’s State House as the \”hub of the solar system\” : the exact center of the universe was marked…
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Versailles to the Visionaries
A course on architectural theory and achievement in France in the 17th and 18th centuries. While we will proceed chronologically from the reign of Louis…
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HistoHistory and Theory of Urban Planning and Designries and Theories of Urban Interventions
Beginning with the mid 19th century city, this course surveys a broad range of urban interventions. These include transportation and infrastructural engineering, settlement houses, landscape…
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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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Urban Politics, Planning, and Development
The course views cities and urban regions as political constructs. Its purpose is to help students think strategically about major urban problems and controversies, particularly…
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Analytic Methods: Quantitative
The first module of this course introduces students to selected quantitative methods for thinking about urban planning problems. The module is divided into two sections.
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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…
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Advanced Real Estate Development and Finance
Instructors: – Glenn R. Mueller, Ph.D. 303-550-1781, & Frank Apeseche 617- 556-8120Guest instructors:, Wynne MunClass Time: Friday 8:30 – 11:30, January 30 – May 1,…
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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 of GSD…
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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
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
The primary focus of this course will be the study of the thermal, luminous and acoustic behavior of buildings in an architectural context. The course…
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Plants and Technology II
Peter Del Tredici, Gary R. Hilderbrand
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 Construction in 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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In Search of the Engineer
Hanif Kara, Andreas Georgoulias
Course DescriptionGSD:6328 aims to redefine the conventional boundaries between architecture and structural engineering through the paradigm of Design Engineering. Students will be exposed to a…
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Water, Aquatic Ecology, and Land-Water Linkages
This course looks at water across the globe in relation to (1) aquatic ecology, (2) land-water interactions, emphasizing hydrology and water quality, and (3) human…
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Sustainability
Please note, this course has an irregular schedule. See below.Sustainability – an integrated design approach in combination with your studio or research projectMatthias Schuler…
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Issues in the Practice of Architecture
Jay Wickersham, Maryann Thompson, Carl Sapers
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…
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Strategy, Sustainability, and Finance
The primary topics covered in this course are business strategy, sustainability in the built environment, and economic analysis of choices in sustainability and strategy. The…
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Managing the Design Project
The pedagogical objectives of this lecture course, which covers the management of design projects, include: introduction to design project management and leadership, design services delivery,…