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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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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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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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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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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(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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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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Bibliotheca II: The Library Test Kitchen
Jeffrey Schnapp, Jeff Goldenson
Note: Dual enrollment in 09115 Bibliotheca II and Moneo’s 03211 Behind Todays Architectural Trends is possible. Bibibliotheca II: Library Test Kitchen builds off the…
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Evolutionary Productions (Tokyo Study Abroad Seminar)
The objective of this seminar is to exam the evolutionary development of Japanese craft culture and production processes through the lens of tools employed to…
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Discourse and Methods
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…