Courses
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Second Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Cameron Wu, John Hong, Yael Erel, Jeffry Burchard, Jinhee Park, James Khamsi, Ingeborg Rocker
The overarching pedagogical agenda for second semester is to expand upon the methodology of technique from the first semester such that students should develop an…
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Landscape Architecture II
Anita Berrizbeitia, Jill Desimini, Romy Hecht
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, Daniel D’Oca, Janne Corneil, Anne Tate, David Spillane
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, Michael Piper, Rafael Segal, Eric Howeler, Florian Idenburg, Danielle Etzler
The last of a four-semester sequence of design studios concludes the introduction to architectural design by emphasizing students\’ elaboration and substantiation of ideas through complex…
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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
Farshid Moussavi, Jonathan Scelsa
This is the second in a series of research based studios devoted to the spatial and temporal implications that contemporary art provokes for a museum…
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White Napkins: A Collection of Short Theses on Radical Interiors
short th\’sis, n [AS. scort, scort, short; O.H.G. scurz, short, cut off; ON. skort, short piece of clothing. L thesis; Gr. thesis, a position, from…
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Architectural Reckoning
The task of designing an addition to a highly respected building requires bringing judgments to bear perhaps more explicitly than in the case of any…
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Un-War Architecture
Krzysztof Wodiczko, Allen Sayegh
Since earliest times artists and designers have been major contributors to the Culture of War. War propaganda commissions, design of s uniforms, armor,…
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Real and Imaginary Variables
Halfway between the socially responsive discourse of programmatic freedom and the alleged futility of parametric form-giving, this studio celebrates architecture’s critical return to form. Our…
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ARCHITECTURE 2.0: Pending Futures
By 2015, predictions are that the information on the internet will reach a zettabyte (in comparison, all the books in the present Library of Congress…
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Thinking about Home-for-All (Tokyo Study Abroad Studio)
This studio is not part of the option studio lottery. Enrollment is full. This is the studio associated with the Tokyo Study Abroad program.
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The Garden in the Machine: A Demonstration Landscape for Deere & Company
The primary foci of the studio will be: ·The potential of landscape maintenance, its processes, and machinery to inspire potent and inventive program and…
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Gansevoort Peninsula: A 5-acre Unfinished Segment of Hudson River Park, NY, NY
Michael Van Valkenburgh, Rosetta S. Elkin
The tremendous expansion of parkland in New York City in the last 15 years has its closest parallel in Parks Commissioner Robert Moses’ building campaign…
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Rethinking the Manhattan Grid: Score for Designing the Future
FRAMEWORK Manhattan’s development has been based on Commissioners’ Plan which has just celebrated its second centenary. The precision of layout, the judicious definition of…
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Neokoolhisms
Skyscraper collectives, tower agglomerations, mixed-use developments, high-rise housing developments, marinas and luxury condominiums; airport hubs, office enclaves, industrial parks, hotel complexes, conference centers, financial centers;…
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Extreme Urbanisms II: Speculations and Alternative Futures for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region
Rahul Mehrotra, Gareth Doherty
The studio will engage with the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) as its site for enquiry, research, and design propositions. The pedagogical thrust of…
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The School of the Year 2030 in Rio de Janeiro
In the context of the current efforts of Rio de Janeiro to reformulate and develop public policies for strategic urban development and renewal this studio…
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Thermodynamic somatisms/ Verticalscapes II
The Studio will seek to consolidate an advanced understanding of high‐rise construction in association with thermodynamics and to experiment with various somatic aspects of human…
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Retooling Gabon
Introduction This studio is dedicated to reimagining the future of Gabon’s capital, Libreville, in the wake of recent developments in the country. Gabon holds…
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Peri-urban Development Alternatives for Southwest Beijing:Qinglonghu zhen
Kongjian Yu, Stephen Ervin, Adrian Blackwell
Overview. Beijing, China is one of the fastest developing urban regions in the world and among the most challenging places for the study and practice…
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A Line in the Andes: Rethinking Quito through its sub-surface
This option studio examines how the introduction of a new metro transit system can serve as the backbone for the development of more comprehensive urban…
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REDISCOVERING GLORiES
Our studio in Barcelona is an ‘atelier` which for us contains a program balancing between those existing in a professional office and those of a…
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Landscape Representation II
Jill Desimini, Rosetta S. Elkin
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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Drawing in the City of Rome
While this course takes place in Italy after the end of the Spring semester, it is technically a fall course and units will apply to…
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Responsive Environments: DISAPPEARANCE
This course focuses on creating digitally driven interactive experiences in our built environment derived from technological advances in embedded technologies, smart materials, and body-centric interactive…
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Landscape as Photography
Gregory Halpern, Rosetta S. Elkin
In this course, photography is introduced as a means of both expression and documentation. Photographic sequences in particular offer the potential for an expanded reading…
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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 Moving Image
The course traces the genealogy of landscape as moving image in the context of the visual-aural culture of representing time, space, and phenomena. It examines…
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Superficial Spaces
At a time when architectural discourse and practice are brimming with references to new geometries, this offering investigates the architectural potential of abstract three-dimensional surfaces.
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Immersive Environments II
This is an advanced seminar exploring the spatial temporal qualities of the built environment through the disciplines of still and moving image. This seminar…
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Preservation Media Project: The Hatch Cottage
Christopher Hoxie, Mark Mulligan
In 1960 John Hall, a self-taught architect, designed and built a modest yet innovative summer cottage for Robert Hatch, a magazine editor, and his wife…
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Advanced Drawing
The course objective is to advance through drawing students\’ visual skills in artistic representation and creative imagination. Assigned and generated by students projects will…
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Theories of Landscape Architecture
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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Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form
This course takes an interpretive look at the American city in terms of changing attitudes toward urban life. City and suburb are experienced…
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Design Anthropology: Objects, Landscapes, Cities
This course will examine the intersections between design and anthropology. In recent years, there has been a movement in anthropology toward a focus on objects,…
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The Culture Now Project
Uncertainty The Culture Now Project focuses on cities beyond metropolitan areas or in remote rural areas—Midsize America: a vast area of the American terrain,…
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The Function of Style: 2000-2010
Farshid Moussavi, Jonathan Scelsa
During the 19th and most of the 20th century, discussions of style revolved around pure formalism or pure functionalism. Style, as the way of assembling…
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Feeling and Form
Course will explore problems of perception of space and time and the structures of experience. We will look at historical modernist forms of experiment and…
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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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Planetary Urbanization: Theoretical Foundations and Frontiers
This seminar is the first in a series of courses that will develop the research agenda of the newly founded Urban Theory Lab-GSD…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts II
Any account of architecture’s history over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries is faced with the challenge of addressing the general rupture caused…
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Frames of Mind: Approaches to Film Theory
Introduction to the language of film theory aimed at developing analytic skills to interpret films. Historical survey of classical and contemporary theory beginning with turn-of-the-century…
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Histories of Landscape Architecture II: Design, Representation and Management, 1600-1900
GSD 4142 is a lecture course, meeting once weekly for three hours with a discussion section. It covers the formal/cultural history and theoretical underpinnings of…
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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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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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Rome and St. Peters
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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