Courses
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The History of Plants and Animals in Landscape Design: Antiquity to the Present
Does horticulture have a role in landscape architecture? Do wild animals have a place in garden design and urbanized areas? This seminar offers answers by…
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Beginnings of Architecture
K. Michael Hays, Antoine Picon
This is an intensive reading and discussion seminar for the theoretically ambitious, or, if not ambitious, at least curious and brave. Drawing on a range…
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The Shapes of Utopia
\’you speak of that city of which we are the founders, and which exists in idea only, for I do not think there is such…
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Personifications of Modernism: Philip Johnson
The progress of modern architecture has been accompanied by a dependence upon personifications, while the critique of modern architecture has been no less committed to…
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Urbanism, Suburbanism, and Climate
This seminar will explore an important episode in the history of the built landscape as a mechanism of climate management. In the period right after…
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Urbanism in Europe
This seminar analyzes the socio-spatial characteristics of the European city. Given the wide variety of urbanisms that exist on the European continent, we must of…
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Reinventing Formal and Informal Latin American Urbanism
This course pursues two objectives: (1) It provides a general overview of Latin American Urbanism in order to understand how cities in this part of…
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Housing Policy in the United States: The Intersection of the Public and Private Sectors
In the 20th century, housing policy in the United States crafted a complex finance and delivery system that is the envy of the world. This…
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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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Sentient Cities as Cybernetic, Real-time, Control Systems : Theory and Practice of Urban Sensing_
A sensationalist approach can be applied to cities as cybernetic mechanisms which is the focus of this course on Sentient Cities as Cybernetic, Real-time, Control…
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Towards a Sustainable Infrastructure
Spiro Pollalis, Andreas Georgoulias
This limited-enrollment seminar focuses on the development of a working framework for sustainable infrastructure systems. The course will start with a mapping of the different…
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Optimizations
The optimization in design problems is elusive due to the inherent multiplicity and ambiguity of the optimal for real world problems. However partial optimization of…
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Performance Domains
In this course students will be required to design an environment related to a particular temporal event such as a segment of a dance or…
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Special Offerings in Science and Technology
Computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) techniques have long been a critical component of the GSD culture. Building on methods and capabilities developed in GSD 6317…
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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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Dynamic Landscape
Piet Oudolf is a prominent Dutch garden designer renowned for his unconventional methods of featuring plants throughout their life cycle. The inspiration for the New…
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The Military-Industrial Landscape
The military-industrialization of the North American economy occupies a vast physical footprint across the continent. Over the past 250 years, military activity has expanded from…
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Lisbon: Research on Innovative Boulevards
PREREQUISITE: completion of fall 2010 studio, Rethinking Real and Virtual Infrastructures in the 21st Century: Innovative Boulevards in Lisbon, and permission of instructor.As Fall…
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Resource Extraction Urbanism: Recasting the South American Productive Landscape
ABSTRACTAs current development pressures continue to transform the hinterlands at an unprecedented rate, it has become more crucial than ever for the design disciplines…
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Baku: Oil City
Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, formerly part of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, is now one of the most dynamic and rapidly changing urban…
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PHYTO Remediation and Rebuilding Technologies in the Landscape
Niall Kirkwood, Kathryn Kennen
GSD 9108 is a research seminar, speculative in nature and broad in scope that requires students to take part in a joint exploration with the…
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Advanced Research Seminar: School for Year 2030
What might American education look like in the year 2030? By that time, today newborns will become college freshmen. The task of looking ahead at…
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Sustainable Urbanism in the Gulf in the Pre-Oil Period
This seminar will focus on the sustainability of settlements until oil had a major economic impact in the countries of the Gulf, the body of…
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RESONANCE II: Portable Concert Hall for Phillip Glass:
Note: Participation in Professor Mori\’s fall 2010 course is a prerequisite. Contact Professor Mori for additional information. This independent research seminar is a three semester…
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Preparation of Design Thesis Proposal for Master in Landscape Architecture
A weekly seminar required for MLA candidates electing to pursue a design thesis. The course intent is to define the design thesis and to frame…