Courses
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Constructing Vision
The course examines how architects have historically used means of representation, not only as allographic tools, but as design tools that visually organize buildings and…
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Michelangelo: Precedents, Innovations, Influence
An exploration of Italian Renaissance and Baroque architecture and urbanism through the persona of Michelangelo as witness, agent, and inspiration. We look at architecture and…
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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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Field Studies in Real Estate, Planning & Urban Design: Slum Rehabilitation in Mumbai, India & Urban Regeneration in Lowell, Massachusetts
Credits4 units. Students who want to do more in-depth design work may also register for a 2 unit Independent Study with the professors, augmenting the…
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Analytic Methods of Urban Planning: Quantitative
Michael Hooper, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal
This course introduces students to quantitative analysis and research methods. The module is divided into two sections. In the first, students gain exposure to, and…
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Transportation Policy and Planning
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
Guest instructors: Frank Apeseche, Glenn Mueller, Richard Georgi and Jack RodmanThis course builds on GSD 5204 and comparable introductory real estate courses offered by other…
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Design, Law, Policy
Law has a powerful imprint on the design of the built environment. As much as technological innovation, market calculation, artistic creativity, and cultural norms, law…
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Urbanization and International Development
This course undertakes a detailed examination of global urbanization in the context of international development. The course is divided into four components. It begins by…
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Building Design Typologies and Operational Principles of Real Estate
Building typologies are fundamental instruments for constructing urban patterns and spatial forms. In the discourse of modern architecture and urbanism, the study of building typologies…
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Environmental Planning and Sustainable Development: History, Theory, and Practice
The goal of this course is to provide an introduction to the ideas and information necessary to integrate environmental viability and sustainable development with other…
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Real Estate in Emerging Markets
Overview: Emerging markets are defined, for this course, as geographic areas with a lack of physical (roads, pipes) and institutional (legal codes, professional organizations) infrastructure.
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Affordable and Mixed-Income Housing Development, Finance, and Management
This \”nuts and bolts\” course focuses on the development, financing, and management of both rental and ownership affordable and mixed-income housing developments. The primary public…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies II
Peter Del Tredici, Laura Solano
In the first 3-week segment of the course, Peter Del Tredici will cover the characteristics and modification of soils in natural as well as built…
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Analysis and Design of Building Structures II
A continuation of GSD 6201, this course provides students with an enhanced understanding of structural analysis and engineering design concepts. Students learn the fundamentals of…
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Materials, Constructions, Processes: City of Wood
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 is the study of the thermal, luminous and acoustic behavior of buildings in an architectural context. The course examines…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies IV
Niall Kirkwood, Pierre Bélanger
GSD 6242 Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies IV addresses the interdependence between site, technology and design in landscape architecture. The ambitions of the course are to develop…
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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 Design through Engineers
Hanif Kara, Andreas Georgoulias
This course aims to teach, stimulate and demonstrate \”design led\” opportunities that exist in the zone between Architecture and Engineering, through the paradigm of Design…
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Day-Lighting Buildings
The primary focus of this course is the study of natural and electric lighting in an architectural context. The course promotes the integration of occupant…
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Water, Aquatic Ecology, and Land-Water Linkages
This course is intended to provide students with an understanding of water that will inform their professional approaches to landscape architecture, architecture, and planning, and…
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Sustainability
Erik Olsen and Matthias Rudolph from Transsolar will teach instead of Matthias Schuler in Spring 2011. Prerequisite: GSD 6205 or equivalentCourse description:Based on basic information…
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Issues in Architectural Practice and Ethics
Jay Wickersham, Maryann Thompson
This course, for students in the fourth semester of the MArchI program, raises basic issues arising in contemporary architectural practice. The course challenges the students…
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Business Strategy, Economics, and Sustainability
This course aims to equip students with strategy and economic tools to be effective leaders of firms in the built environment. The primary topics covered…
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Sustainable Cities: Urbanization, Infrastructure, and Finance
Jointly Listed at Harvard Business School as HBS 1485This course has an irregular schedule: Tuesday January 25 then most Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays on HBS calendar,…
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Real Estate Development, Design, and Construction
A. Eugene Kohn, John Macomber, Christopher Gordon
Jointly Listed at Harvard Business School as HBS 1465This course has an irregular schedule: Most Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays on HBS calendar, 1:30 – 2:50 pm,…
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Leading the Design Firm
This course introduces students to the business side of the design industry. It highlights the ways in which a design firm is a business like…