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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…