Courses
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Second Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Ingeborg Rocker, Angus Eade, Elizabeth Whittaker, Cameron Wu, 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, 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, Gareth Doherty, Rafael Segal, Sonia Hirt
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
Timothy Hyde, Thomas Schroepfer, Felipe Correa, Eric Howeler, Florian Idenburg, Carles Muro
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
Chris Reed, Gary R. Hilderbrand, Miho Mazereeuw, David Mah
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 Time: The Contemporary Art Museum
During the last two decades, a new type of art museum has arisen which promotes art without history, dedicated to contemporary issues. This has been…
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Your Space
Virtually all of what we do as humans takes place within the space of architecture. The design of space is the defining claim of the…
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New Metabolism
Osaka, the second largest urban region in Japan, initiated several urban renewal projects in the last years. One concrete project currently in preparation is the…
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Type and Topography
This studio is the third in a series that explores the mutual determinacy of architectural and urban form. The aim is to explore new models…
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Material Systems/Structural Geometry: America¿s Cup, San Francisco
The proliferation of architectural design focused on building form defined by modulated systems suggests the importance of finding evermore sophisticated modes of translation between material…
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Islands in Time
This studio is led by Ben van Berkel, Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor, and assisted by Instructor Imola Berczi. Please see the studio schedule below.\”I have…
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The Architecture of Interstitial Urbanism
Paul Nakazawa will serve as Co-Instructor, and Joao Paulo Meirelles de Faria is the Teaching Assistant.This option studio will seek to generate alternative design strategies…
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Center for Limnology: Divided Waters in Chicago
This studio is led by Jeanne Gang, Design Critic, and assisted by Instructor John Wolters. Please see the studio schedule below. The studio requires analyzing…
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Beyond Paris: The Palaiseau Campus at Paris Saclay
IntroductionResearch on strategies for new campuses in the Paris region continues in this third studio on the subject. The growth of metropolitan Paris beyond its…
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Architectural Design V – IX: Urban Design Studio “Contested Waters, Mumbai”
Option studion in Zurich, ETH.
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Between the Bridges: Beyond Infrastructure
Stephen Cassell, Susannah Drake
The effects of climate change necessitate a radical rethinking of the role of ecology and infrastructure within the city. While the full magnitude of the…
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Peri-urban Development in China: Alternatives for the Landscape of Southeast Beijing
Kongjian Yu, Mark Mulligan, Stephen Ervin, Peter Rowe
This planning and design studio will focus on alternative landscape/urban futures for the town of Taihu (Taihuzhen), located at the low-lying southeastern periphery of Beijing,…
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Landscape Morphology
The studio will focus on the transformation of a former airfield into a metropolitan park over a 10-year period with landscape as a medium between…
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Detroit, Interrupted: Defining the New American Urban Geography
Toni L. Griffin, Andrea Hansen
In no other community in America has the current economic recession wreaked more dislocation than in Detroit. Over the last decade, Southeast Michigan has lost…
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EXTREME URBANISM: Reimagining Mumbai’s Back Bay
The Studio will explore the condition of extreme urbanism in the form of social, cultural and economic disparities and how these manifest themselves in the…
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Detroit, Interrupted: Defining the New American Urban Geography
Andrea Hansen, Toni L. Griffin
In no other community in America has the current economic recession wreaked more dislocation than in Detroit. Over the last decade, Southeast Michigan has lost…
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EXTREME URBANISM: Reimagining Mumbai’s Back Bay
The Studio will explore the condition of extreme urbanism in the form of social, cultural and economic disparities and how these manifest themselves in the…
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Overurbanism
\”that the destiny of humanity depends upon the attainment of its highest type.\” Friedrich Nietzsche, \’The Will to Power\’Skyscraper collectives, tower agglomerations, bundles, clusters, and…
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Verticalscapes/Chicago
What is a VERTICALSCAPE?: An hybrid entity which, due to inertia, we momentarily continue to call vertical construction or \”architecture\”. This vertical \”entity\” is an…
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Beyond Paris: The Palaiseau Campus at Paris Saclay
IntroductionResearch on strategies for new campuses in the Paris region continues in this third studio on the subject. The growth of metropolitan Paris beyond its…
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What’s in Store, Baltimore?
Central Baltimore (not to be confused with Downtown Baltimore), is an area at the geographic center of the city whose high residential and commercial vacancy,…
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Peri-urban Development in China: Alternatives for the Landscape of Southeast Beijing
Kongjian Yu, Mark Mulligan, Stephen Ervin, Peter Rowe
This planning and design studio will focus on alternative landscape/urban futures for the town of Taihu (Taihuzhen), located at the low-lying southeastern periphery of Beijing,…
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Landscape Representation II
Building on the foundation established in Landscape Representation I, this course seeks to expand on the essential tools and methods required to develop, test, produce…
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Responsive Environments
Digitally driven interactive experiences have become an extension of our bodies that extend into our environment. The design of these experiences is often derived by…
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Intermediate Landscape as Digital Media
The course will focus on digital modeling and representational tools for designers. Through the course, students will gain knowledge of digital design media and tools…
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Landscape As Video
Moving images – photographic sequences and digital video – offer the potential for an expanded reading of the designed landscape that transcends the capacity of…
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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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Advanced Drawing
DISEGNO = DISEGNO DESSEIN =DESSEIN In Italian and French, drawing and design are the same word. This course concentrates on drawing as a design tool,…
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Interrogative Design: Animating Monuments
The course will focus on the ways in which designers and artists can help the \”entrenched in the past\” monuments to become enlivened for the…
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Theories of Landscape Architecture
Anita Berrizbeitia, John Beardsley
This course will explore the \’know why\’ of landscape architecture since the Second World War, juxtaposing both the built works and the writings of landscape…
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Conversations on architecture of the second half of the XXth century
Professor: Jose Rafael Moneo with invited guest: Peter EisenmanLast year this lecture course was an attempt to reflect on the \”underground currents that inform…
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Ford’s Fields: Readings in Urbanism, Ecology, and Industrial Economy
Across a range of disciplines, landscape has emerged over the past decade as model and medium for the contemporary city. This has been particularly true…
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The Function of Style
The \”generic city\” of the late 20th century, which was defined by senselessness and anonymity, has given way to a new type of urbanism. Whether…
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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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The Architectural Imagination (Graduate Seminar in General Education)
K. Michael Hays, Erika Naginski
This course is a Graduate Seminar in General Education. We seek graduate students, especially doctoral students, from departments across the University. In the seminar, we…
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Transformations in Spatial Thought: 1970-2000
The ideas of three theorist-historians dominated architectural thought through the postwar mid-century: those of Colin Rowe, Aldo Rossi, and Manfredo Tafuri. At some point in…
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Critical Ecologies
Over the past 30 years, the study and practice of ecology has broadened from a classical Newtonian paradigm and a Kuhnian normal science focused on…
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The Mixed-Reality City
The contemporary city is constituted by multiple overlapping, intermixing realities, articulated between built form and imagined space, individuated experience and collective memory, embodied sensation and…
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The Beginnings of a Project: A Reflection on Design Methodologies Through Four Case Studies.
To look at the inception of a project, at the inputs that were at the beginning of a building\’s design, leads immediately to question issues…
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Grids, Score for Designing the City
Within the research on \”Revisiting the urban grids in the XXI century\”, this seminar will focus on the investigation of recent urbanistic projects which use…
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Ecological Urbanism
Over the past two years at the GSD, there has been a conference, exhibition, and book on ecological urbanism. The course asks a simple question:…
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Critical History: Curating Images, Objects, Media
Jeffrey Schnapp, Peter Galison
This class will take place in the Science Center room 469.Critical History is an experimental seminar dedicated to bridging the worlds of media and things,…
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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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Histories of Landscape Architecture II: Design, Representation and Management, 1600-1900
GSD 4142 covers the formal/cultural history and theoretical underpinnings of gardens and public landscapes from the Baroque to City Beautiful. Beginning in early modern Europe,…
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