Courses
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Digital Media for Design
The course will focus on the interrogation and acquisition of different emerging and established digital design approaches for designers. Students will gain knowledge of digital…
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Design Anthropology: Objects, Landscapes, Cities
In recent years, there has been a movement in anthropology toward a focus on objects, while design and planning have been moving toward the…
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Paths of Leisure and the South American Project
Within the first decades of the Twentieth century Oscar Niemeyer conceived innovative hostels in Minas Gerais Brazil. Riding the summits of the Avila above…
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Grids, Score for Designing the City
Within a larger research scope on “Revisiting the urban grids in the XXI century”, this seminar will focus on the investigation of recent urbanistic projects…
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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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Field Studies in Real Estate, Planning & Urban Design: Hudson Railroad Yards, New York City
Richard Peiser, Bing Wang, A. Eugene Kohn
The Field Study course is designed to provide students an understanding of the dynamics and complexities of reality that create contemporary urban physical environments. The…
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North Hollywood Field Study: Suburban Transit-oriented Town Center Redevelopment
North Hollywood’s town center sits at the junction of the subway to downtown Los Angeles and the bus lines serving the San Fernando Valley. North…
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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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Urban Theory Lab Research Seminar
In the early 1970s, Henri Lefebvre anticipated a situation of "generalized urbanization" in which an "urban fabric" would be extended to encompass the entire planet. …
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Kinetic City: Research Seminar on Temporal Urbanism
The research seminar will explore the phenomenon of temporal urbanism. The intention of the course is to expose students to the existing literature of…
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Discourse and Methods
This course is open only to Ph.D. students in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and Design (other FAS Ph.D. students may participate with instructor\’s…