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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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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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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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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Disaster Field Lab
GSD 5343 will challenge its participants to develop design strategies in the face of great human suffering, political instability, high development pressure and coordination…
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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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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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Disaster Recovery Management and Urban Development: Rebuilding Cities After a Disaster
Note, this course will be presented on Friday the 20th of January at 2:40pm in Taubman 275 at HKS. GSD students are welcome to attend.
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Urban Responses to Sea Level Rise
Jerold S. Kayden, David Barron, Daniel Schrag, Gerald Frug, Charles Waldheim
This seminar taught by faculty from Design, Law and Engineering, will explore various strategies of urban adaptation to climate change with a focus on the…
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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’s newborns will become college freshmen. The task of looking ahead at…
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Advanced Research Seminar: Cultural Tourism and Creating a living community at Al-Turaif, Saudi Arabia World Heritage Site
Al-Turaif is part of the historic oasis of Al Dir’iya located on the banks of Wadi Hanifa next to Riyahd. It is the…
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Urban Formation and Spatial Analysis in East Asian Cities
Urban formation among cities and towns in East Asia varies in rate and scale both within and between national settings. China, for example, currently exhibits…
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Advanced Research Seminar on Urban Climate
The course examines the spatial and urban design influences on urban climate, and the effects of climate variability and extremes on population health in urban…
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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…