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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Michelangelo: Precedents, Innovations, Influence
An exploration of Italian Renaissance architecture and urbanism through the persona of Michelangelo as witness, agent, and inspiration. We look at architecture and urbanism in…
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Visual Fabrics: Film, Fashion and Material Culture
What is the place of materiality in our virtual world? How do film and fashion communicate as objects of material culture? As powerful image makers,…
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Architecture as Global Practice: Expert Culture in the Cold War
This seminar focuses on the transfer of architectural knowledge from the socialist East and the capitalist West towards the post-colonial South during the…
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Refolding the Baroque
K. Michael Hays, Erika Naginski
Misshapen pearl or postmodernist morphology? Stylistic category or generative design principle? Historically-grounded worldview or radical aesthetic credo? The panoply of Baroque concepts in architectural design…
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Case Studies in Critical Conservation: Architecture and Urban Design
K. Michael Hays, Rahul Mehrotra
Case studies in the conservation of selected buildings and city fabrics presented by experts in the field provide the focus for discussions of contemporary conservation…
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Metabolic Toyko (Tokyo Study Abroad Seminar)
Tokyo has been rebuilt numerous times through its history following natural disasters, war and intensive development. Most recently, the profound strains on the Japanese urban…
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The Archeology of Civic Sustenance: Sea-Side Developments in the Gulf
This sponsored-research seminar will address sustainable urban development at the onset of industrial revolution. Going beyond just documenting passive environmental design strategies, the very notion…
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Materials, Constructions, Processes
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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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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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…
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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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Sustainability
Prerequisite: GSD 6205 or equivalent Course description: Based on basic information form the background lectures the application of a sustainable approach into a…
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(Re)fabricating Tectonic Prototypes
The course is framed by a general ambition to develop explorations in digital design, fabrication and parametric tools that is equally informed and enriched by…
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Optimizations
Optimization in design problems is elusive due to the inherent multiplicity and ambiguity of the optimal for real world problems. However partial optimization of specific…
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Advanced Fabrication
Digital fabrication techniques have long been a critical component of the GSD culture. Building on methods and capabilities developed in 6317: Introduction to CAD/CAM and…
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Forms of Energy
Few words can transform the formation of architecture in this century more than a deep and pervasive recognition that matter is but an expression of…
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Quantitative Aesthetics: The Environment as a Signal
This course will explore the application of digital media and computational techniques in analysing the sensible aspects of our environment in both their spatial and…
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Mechatronic Space
The beginning of the 20th century promised a paradigm shift in human life and community as industry and innovation in engineering and science brought about…
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Visualization
The amount and complexity of information produced in science, engineering, business, and everyday human activity is increasing at staggering rates. The goal of this…
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Issues in Architectural Practice and Ethics
Maryann Thompson, Jay Wickersham
This course, for students in the fourth semester of the M.Arch I program, examines basic issues arising in contemporary architectural practice. The course challenges the students to examine critically…
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Real Estate Development, Design, and Construction
John Macomber, A. Eugene Kohn, Christopher Gordon
Jointly Listed at Harvard Business School as HBS 1465 General Notes: GSD students should register for this course as GSD 7409.The course GSD 7309,…
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