Courses
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Fourth Semester Core: Architectural Design
Florian Idenburg, Anna Pla Catala, John Hong, Cameron Wu
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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Advancing the Strategostructure
Massive development projects increasingly involve complex program mixes and/or public-private ventures, where design by a single architect is arguably not advantageous or even possible. Furthermore,…
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Puntacana, Dominican Republic: The Modern, The Vernacular, The Sustainable
Since its founding in the late 1960\’s by Ted Kheel, Frank Rainieri, Oscar de la Renta and Julio Iglesias, PUNTACANA Resort & Club, on the…
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The Language of Sustainability
This course has an irregular schedule. Please see below.The language of sustainabilityWe will continue our practical research within the new paradigm of sustainable architecture.
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Verticalism
This studio is an exploration of the possibilities that the T line, the MTA new subway line under construction beneath 2nd avenue, opens for implementing…
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MONOCOQUE // A HIGH-ALTITUDE ECO-LODGE
This course has an irregular schedule. Please see below.MONOCOQUE: INTRODUCTIONTechnology develops cumulatively, rather than in isolated heroic acts, and it finds most of its uses…
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The Al Qattara Oasis in Al Ain
The Al Qattara Oasis in Al Ain Instructors: Jorge Silvetti; Professor of ArchitectureFelipe Correa; Assistant Professor of Urban DesignFRAMEWORK:The oasis, as the primordial origin for…
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The Anxiety of Difference
\”In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.\”— Emerson The studio…
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Stubborn Urbanism
With the intention to develop alternative strategies for densification within diverse urban districts, this studio will investigate various design techniques for the production of urban…
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Beyond Paris: A New University Campus at Aubervilliers
The physical, political, and social boundary of Paris, unchanged for nearly 150 years and delineated today by the ring road- the \”Peripherique\” – has insured…
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Stimulus Package: Post-Crisis Urbanism and Architecture
STIMULUS PACKAGEPost-Crisis Urbanism and ArchitectureRecent events – the widespread collapse of the world\’s financial systems, the continued rise in unemployment, the extensive federal bailout program…
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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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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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Cinematic Architecture
This course focuses on the idea that architecture can be conceived, understood, and presented as a narrative (i.e. a story about a building). Similar to…
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Building Books
Please note, this course has an irregular schedule. See below.The course will introduce students to the potentials of the book as amedium for the…
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iTimeLightSpace: Architecture/Landscape Animation/Invention
T. Kelly Wilson, Stephen Ervin
iTimeLightSpace: Architecture/Landscape Animation/InventionCritics: Adjunct Associate Prof. T. Kelly Wilson Director of Digital Resources, Stephen ErvinThis cross disciplinary seminar, which will meet once a week, will…
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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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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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Digitalization Takes Command
This course will critically survey the claims made since the introduction of digital technology to the discipline and practice of architecture and evaluate them in…
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Digital Culture: Architecture and Cities
The rise of digital culture has coincided with a profound change in architecture that goes beyond the spectacular forms produced with the help of the…
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Tracing Mobilities – Designing Ubiquities
Tracing Mobilities — Designing UbiquitiesHuman activities are increasingly conducted while people are \”on the move.\” Mobility is the coordination in time and space, with impact…
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A Science of the Environment
The science of ecology purports to study life as the sum of interactions between organisms and their natural environment. The term \’natural\’ has in recent…
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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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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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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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Paris: The Growth of a Modern Metropolis
This seminar examines the role Paris has played in the birth and development of the idea of the modern city as seen through the multiple…
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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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The Piranesi Effect
The Piranesi EffectThis seminar will focus on the work and legacy of the architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). A selective approach to relevant aspects of…
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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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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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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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Building Information Models
This seminar course explores Building Information Models (BIM), business processes, applications and environments (e.g., Revit). These environments are quickly being adopted throughout the building industry…
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Green R+D: Case Studies in Sustainability
This class provides a forum for the investigation of advances in the design of green buildings, components, and assemblies. Design pull, the push of technology,…
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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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Construction Automation
Construction AutomationPrerequisites: CAD/CAM 1 or permission of instructorOffered only for the second time this year, this advanced seminar introduces students to emerging technologies under the…
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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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The Bilbao Guggenhein Museum: Topics in Project Management
The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao has had an unprecedented impact not only on the city of Bilbao but also on the value of design and…
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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,…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Paula Meijerink, Brent Ryan, Christoph Reinhart, Susan Fainstein, Christian Werthmann, Kostas Terzidis, Sanford Kwinter, Antoine Picon, Felipe Correa, Martin Zogran, Bing Wang, Martin Bechthold, Joan Busquets, Niall Kirkwood, Peter Del Tredici, Rodolfo Machado, Stephen Ervin, Anne McGhee, T. Kelly Wilson, John Beardsley, Gary R. Hilderbrand, Judith Grant Long, Andreas Georgoulias
Students may take a maximum of 8 credit units with different instructors in this course series.Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Candidates may arrange individual work focusing on…
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Prep of Design Thesis Proposal for MArch
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and permission of the thesis program director.This entails preparatory work for all students intending subsequently to enroll in GSD 9301. Students research…
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Exhibiting the Virtual Space
Judith Grant Long, Niall Kirkwood, Spiro Pollalis, Wooyoung Kimm
The Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ) is organizing an international fair for the summer of 2009, expecting to attract many visitors from all over the…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree MArch
Maryann Thompson, Mariana Ibanez, Eric Howeler, Ingeborg Rocker, Mark Mulligan, Andrea Leers, T. Kelly Wilson, Jorge Silvetti, Jonathan Levi, Peter Rowe, K. Michael Hays, Preston Scott Cohen, Joan Busquets, Martin Bechthold, John Hong, Thomas Schroepfer, Martin Zogran, Eve Blau, Felipe Correa, Antoine Picon, Kostas Terzidis, Timothy Hyde
Following preparation in GSD 9203, each student conducts a design exploration that tests and expands the thesis.Prerequisites: GSD 9203…
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Independent Thesis for the Degree Master in Design Studies
K. Michael Hays, Martin Bechthold, Allen Sayegh, Eve Blau, Kostas Terzidis, Christoph Reinhart
A student who selects this independent thesis for the degree Master in Design Studies pursues independent research of relevance to the selected course of study…
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