Courses
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…