Courses
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Modern Architecture and Urbanism in China
Modernizing influences, largely from the hands of foreign powers, first forcefully entered China in the aftermath of the Opium War and signing of the Treaty…
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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 20th century modernism, but also to engaging current architectural concerns with mediation, density, surface, light,…
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Histories of the Future
Design (of buildings, cities, landscapes) is an anticipatory discipline, whose techniques, practices, and desires are directed toward the formulation of futures. Not future objects as…
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The Poetics of Materials (episodes in the cultural history of modern making)
The Spectacle Factory examines the modern history of immersive theater, entertainment, and media spaces from the standpoint of the history of architecture and design. It…
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Adolf Loos, Our Contemporary
This year we will be celebrating 100 years to the Loos House in Vienna. This seminar set about to trace the impact of Adolf Loos\’s…
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Architecture or Poverty: The Challenges of Social and Economic Development from 1945 to the present
Is poverty an architectural question? When does it emerge as an ethical concern for the architect? How have modern architects historically addressed the problem of…
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Land Tenure and Property Rights as a Development Strategy: International Theory & Practice
In international development practice, a central principle holds that weak and insecure land and property rights are obstacles to economic growth, poverty reduction and the…
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Housing Policy in the United States: The Intersection of the Public and Private Sectors
In the twentieth century, housing policy in the United States has crafted a complex finance and delivery system. This course will examine the origins of…
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The Design of Housing in the United States
Drawing partially from the work of the instructor, weekly lectures and discussions will consider those aspects of the design of housing that are critical for…
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There Goes the Neighborhood: Perceptions and Realities of Neighborhoods and Neighborhood Change
James Stockard, Toni L. Griffin
Neighborhoods are the stuff of which cities are made. Downtowns are the iconic parts of cities and commercial and industrial districts are important. But neighborhoods…
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Material Ecologies Workshop
Landscapes are shaped by continuous flows of materials and energy driven by anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic forces. Within constructed landscape systems, materials range from living to…
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Building Information Models
This seminar course explores the Building Information Model (BIM) and its impact on business processes, production, and software environments (e.g., Revit, Digital Project). With the…
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Construction Automation
This advanced, research-based seminar investigates opportunities and challenges of automation in the context of architecture and architectural products. An extension of research on computer-aided design…
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Thermal Analysis of Buildings
Prerequisites: 6205 or equivalent; access to a newer laptop, working knowledge in Rhino and Ecotect Weather ToolThis seminar will introduce students to manual and computer-based…
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The DIGITAL CRAFT
Away from autonomous production, anonymous materials, scripted space and a no-hands approach, this course will explore the potentials of digital fabrication techniques towards end-user products…
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Advanced Topics: Earthworks
Note: this class will not meet on 1/25. Instead, the first course meeting will be on Wednesday, 1/27 from 6-9 PM in room 318.This seminar…
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Green Infrastructure in the Non-formal City
Today, there are one billion people living in squatter communities worldwide, a number expected to double by 2030. 50% of our total urban growth will…
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GeoWeb: Virtual Worlds as Public Infrastructure
This seminar/workshop examines the growing utility of the World Wide Web as a framework for organizing the world???s spatial knowledge. Three-dimensional virtual worlds such as…
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The Bilbao Guggenhein Museum: Topics in Project Management
Luis Rodriguez, Spiro Pollalis
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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Rethinking a Library and a YMCA: the case of Warrensville Heights
Peter Rowe, Iñaki Abalos, Felipe Correa, Spiro Pollalis, Andreas Georgoulias, Brian Kenet, William Valentine
The research seminar in the Fall 2009, entitled: 9206A: Toward Socially-inclusive Sustainable Development has produced the master plan for 17 vacant acres located at the…