Courses
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Second Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Michael Meredith, Thomas Schroepfer, Cameron Wu, Eric Howeler, Mariana Ibanez, Danielle Etzler
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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Landscape Architecture II
Anita Berrizbeitia, Michael Van Valkenburgh, Holly Clarke, Jill Desimini
Second semester core studio explores the research and design methods associated with interventions in complex urban conditions: sites layered with multiple interventions across a long…
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Second Semester Core Urban Planning Studio
Alex Krieger, Rafael Segal, Steven Cecil
The second semester core planning studio expands the topics and methodologies studied in the first semester core studio, GSD 1121, aiming to prepare students for…
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Fourth Semester Core: Architectural Design
John Hong, Maryann Thompson, Felipe Correa, Ingeborg Rocker, Florian Idenburg, Cynthia Ottchen
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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Landscape Architecture IV
Susannah Drake, Ken Smith, Shauna Gillies-Smith, Emily Waugh
This studio focuses on the development of urban form as driven by ecology and environmental dynamics. The studio will introduce students to methods and representational…
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The Function of Roofs: The Urban Mall
Farshid Moussavi, James Khamsi
Please note: Farshid Moussavi will not be present at all course meetings. James Khamsi, Teaching Associate, will run the course when Professor Moussavi is not…
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Convergence: The Museum Artistically Reconsidered
Please note, this option studio will meet on an irregular schedule.Objective:This option studio will explore/ investigate the dialogue between physical and digital models in the…
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Where’s Alice?
Where\’s Alice?\”Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you…if you\’re young at heart.\” – Carolyn LeighThe iPhone and Swiss Army knife are commercial…
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The Language of Sustainability – Munich Studio
Louisa Hutton, Matthias Sauerbruch
Please note, this option studio will meet on an irregular schedule.We will continue our practical research within the paradigm of sustainable architecture. Using scenarios in…
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Foggy Architecture
The studio will explore the intersection of form and formlessness as an urban and architectural phenomenon. On the one hand, the authorless composite reality of…
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Beyond Paris [suite]: a New Campus for the University of Paris South XI at Saclay
The future development of the Paris metropolitan region beyond the present political and physical boundary of the city continues to be a national priority, with…
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VERTICAL SCAPES. (Verticalism and the integration of disciplines)
Please note, this option studio will meet on an irregular schedule. (see below)The course will focus on solving the problems generated by the absence of…
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Building the Temporary Concert Hall in L’Aquila
Please note, this option studio will meet on an irregular schedule.In general, architects work for the privileged. Historically, architects have worked for religious groups and…
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TRACES
Martin Bechthold, Allen Sayegh
Creating a museum without artifacts is an opportunity for researching new design strategies for immersive projection environments. In \’TRACES\’ we investigate the relationship between projected…
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Continuity, Integration, Integrity
Yvonne Farrell, Shelley McNamara
Please note, this option studio will meet on an irregular schedule. Instructors plan to meet on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Official schedule to be confirmed.It…
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Landscape Disurbanism: Depolderization & Decentralization in the Dutch Delta Region
Pierre Bélanger, Nina-Marie Lister
Over seventy percent of the GDP in the Netherlands is produced below sea level. To uphold this submergent economy, the Netherlands must spend 2 billion…
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Recalibrating Infrastructure: Network Urbanism in the Los Angeles Basin
Current modes of production and frameworks for exchange have a global reach, yet they have physical, social, and environmental impact when they meet the ground.
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Water City Hamburg-The Missing Link
Hamburg is a booming European metropolis and the Wilhelmsburg Island, which lies between two major branches of the River Elbe, represents the city\’s key development…
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Neonatures
NeonaturesSkyscraper collectives, agglomerations, alignments, bundles, clusters, and twins; mixed-use developments, high-rise housing developments, waterfront and marina developments, luxury condominiums; airport hubs, corporate office enclaves, industrial…
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Landscape and Ecological Urbanism: Alternatives for Beijing City Northwest
Kongjian Yu, Stephen Ervin, Jane Hutton
The Beijing Alternatives Studio Series OverviewBeijing, China is one of the fastest developing regions in the world and among the most challenging places for the…
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Landscape Disurbanism: Depolderization & Decentralization in the Dutch Delta Region
Pierre Bélanger, Nina-Marie Lister
Over seventy percent of the GDP in the Netherlands is produced below sea level. To uphold this submergent economy, the Netherlands must spend 2 billion…
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Designing Non-Stop Transformation: Shenzhen Studio
FRAMEWORKThe Shenzhen Studio is addressing the question of how designers may cope with fast transforming urbanistic conditions happening in the Pearl River Delta (PRD), and…
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Neonatures
NeonaturesSkyscraper collectives, agglomerations, alignments, bundles, clusters, and twins; mixed-use developments, high-rise housing developments, waterfront and marina developments, luxury condominiums; airport hubs, corporate office enclaves, industrial…
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VERTICAL SCAPES. (Verticalism and the integration of disciplines)
Please note, this option studio will meet on an irregular schedule. (see below)The course will focus on solving the problems generated by the absence of…
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Landscape and Ecological Urbanism: Alternatives for Beijing City Northwest
Kongjian Yu, Stephen Ervin, Jane Hutton
The Beijing Alternatives Studio Series OverviewBeijing, China is one of the fastest developing regions in the world and among the most challenging places for the…
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Beyond Paris [suite]: a New Campus for the University of Paris South XI at Saclay
The future development of the Paris metropolitan region beyond the present political and physical boundary of the city continues to be a national priority, with…
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Retooling: Thinkbelt Chicago
Once based on manufacturing and transportation, Chicago has shifted to become a contemporary city of services. In this transformation, much of the older manufacturing city\’s…
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Studies in Landscape Representation II
A companion to the course, Studies in Landscape Representation I, this course focuses on drawing and design inquiry and aims to enhance graphic literacy, clarity…
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Advanced Drawing
DISEGNO = DISEGNO DESSEIN =DESSEINIn Italian and French, drawing and design are the same word.This course concentrates on drawing as a design tool, from the…
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Responsive Environments
Interactivity and interactive content has become an extension of our bodies and surroundings. In recent years architects have had a growing interest in integrating dynamic…
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Landscape as Digital Media
The course will be an introduction to digital modeling and representational tools for designers. Through the course, students will gain knowledge of digital media and…
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Spacial Ideas, Architectural Imagery: The Role of Drawing Towards Invention
This intensive drawing course proposes to introduce the student of design to the theory and technique of spatial invention in drawing as it informs and…
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Immersive Environments II
This seminar is part two of GSD 2319 / Immersive Environments – an advanced digital media seminar focusing on the design and representation of integrated…
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InOrganic Assemblies
Computing allows to generate complexity extremely fast. Scripted protocols can now produce with a very limited number of lines of code complex systems such as…
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Visualizing Landscape Dynamics / Dynamic Landscapes
Landscape modeling requires techniques for representing and manipulating essential landscape elements – landform, vegetation, water, infrastructure, animals, and atmosphere – and also landscape processes: movement,…
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Theories and Practices of Contemporary Landscape Architecture 1950-2008
John Beardsley, Anita Berrizbeitia
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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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 Beginnings of Design: Living Together with Other Buildings
Please note, this course has an irregular schedule. See below.It is a rare building that isn\’t affected by the presence of other buildings. During…
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The Function of Style
Farshid Moussavi, James Khamsi
This seminar is a continuation of the research on function initiated in past years.The function of ornament challenged the understanding of ornament as superficial and…
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New Geographies: Imagining a City-World Beyond Cosmopolis
The course invites the students to imagine better urban and architectural forms that overcome the limitations of the global city, or cosmopolis. Much of the…
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Light and Space: Experiments in Transforming the Photosphere
This course will have two primary focuses. The first will be on the experimental manipulation of materials and the environment with a view to understanding…
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Ecology as Urbanism; Urbanism as Ecology
In light of recent interest in the concept of ecological urbanism, this course will read projects and texts on the relation of landscape ecology to…
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Topographies: Cities, Landscape, and Architecture in the Formation of Cultural Ecology
A few basic premises make up the conceptual foundation for this course. One is that when topography is seen as both terrain and the trace…
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PhD Methodology Seminar
The seminar is designed as an introduction to the methodologies and disciplines that have shaped the field of architectural history and theory. We will probe…
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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
Introduces the formulation of architectural principles – what Rudolf Wittkower called the \”apparatus of forms\” – by means of selected case studies from Brunelleschi to…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
Nineteenth-century architecture is a difficult subject in a design school. Its aesthetics is in sharp contrast to the contemporary quest for authenticity. Although today\’s architectural…
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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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