Courses
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Second Semester Core: SITUATE
Grace La, Cameron Wu, Elizabeth Whittaker, Renata Sentkiewicz, Katy Barkan, Jeffry Burchard, Max Kuo, Ingeborg Rocker
The overarching pedagogical agenda for second semester is to expand upon the design methodologies developed in the first semester such that students acquire an understanding…
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Landscape Architecture II
Anita Berrizbeitia, Jill Desimini, Martha Schwartz, Shauna Gillies-Smith, Luis Callejas
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
Ann Forsyth, Alex Krieger, Daniel D’Oca, Kathryn Madden, Robert Pietrusko
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: RELATE
Florian Idenburg, Carles Muro, Timothy Hyde, Ingeborg Rocker, Eric Howeler, Spela Videcnik
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, David Mah, Silvia Benedito, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Leire Asensio Villoria, Leena Cho, Zaneta Hong, Enriqueta Llabres Valls, Eduardo Rico Carranza
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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Apres Ski: Eco Village Les Diablerets
In this studio, we will look at the other side of the “coin” of the rapid urbanization phenomena. As we discuss the need to strategize…
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“You Can’t Die in Disney World” A ZOO (as in chaos)
\” You Can\’t Die in Disney World \” A ZOO ( as in chaos ) A current visit to the Disciplinary Zoo of…
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Indebted Architecture
The project is to analyze and design buildings as if their forms correlate to the movement of thought. In order to do so, several existing…
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IN THE LAND OF ÑANDUTí: following the lines, threads, and figures of the river
This studio will have water as its most conspicuous element. Inside, around and over it, we would develop proposals for intervention in an area of…
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Real and Imaginary Variables (Final): Global Arenas
Halfway between the socially responsive discourse of programmatic indeterminacy and the alleged futility of form-giving, we will explores architecture’s critical return to form. Our interest…
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High-rise / High-density
Jonathan Sergison, Stephen Bates
We are interested in questions of housing in the city and, in this instance, in how an American typology – the high-rise multi-story apartment building…
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Another nature
Currently, when considering the nature of architecture, isn’t it problematic to simply define it as an ‘artifact’ or ‘artificial environment’ that is conceived and constructed…
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Borrominations, or the Auratic Dome
Thousands of lives sharing their lack of reciprocity and involvement under a single roof: this seems to be the way in which public space functions…
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Thermodynamic Materialism Applied to Dense Urban Conglomerates, Two Chinese Case Studies
Iñaki Abalos, Matthias Schuler
This option studio will focus on the new wave of urbanization of medium scale cities in China characterized by large infrastructure expansion, interest in sustainable…
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Envisioning Miami: Simulated Natures
Karen M’Closkey, Keith VanDerSys
This studio concentrates on new forms of media and their role in the identification and creation of patterns; in particular, we examine techniques that enable…
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The Ocean State
Michael Van Valkenburgh, Rosetta S. Elkin, Gullivar Shepard
Collaboration is the future of design research. Sites are no longer fixed points, but emerge out of the assembly of essential conditions, the confluence of…
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From the City to the Object: Terre des Hommes 2017 – Towards a New Identity
Renee Daoust, Real Lestage, Jane Hutton
2017 marks three important dates for the City of Montreal: ·the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation ·the 375th anniversary of the City…
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Caen Island: Public Space
Michel Desvigne, Inessa Hansch
Caen is a city of 100,000 inhabitants situated in Normandy, France. Partially reconstructed after World War II, today the city holds lofty architectural ambitions. The…
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Negative Planning in Nanshahe, Haidian District, Beijing
Kongjian Yu, Stephen Ervin, Adrian Blackwell
According to Beijing Master Plan 2004-2020, the metropolitan region will evolve into a polycentric structure, with ‘two axes, two belts and multiple centers.’ The two…
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Retrofitting the (post?) Industrial Metropolis: Housing and Economic Growth in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area and the Bajío Region
Mexico’s national authorities are rethinking their housing policy frameworks, so as to connect questions of housing supply and affordability to location as well as to…
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Medellin: Urban Porosity as Social Infrastructure: A Multidisciplinary Hub for Change
This course explores the space that the architect-urban designer has in the contemporary world, and his/her role as an agent of/for social transformation through design.
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Obsolescence and Pathways to Redevelopment: The Shekou Industrial District in Shenzhen, China
A striking aspect of China’s recent modernization and urbanization has been a relatively high rate of obsolescence, variously pegged at around 30 years for many…
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Design and Politics – Managing Risks and Vulnerabilities
Contemporary spatial design faces a political paradox. To address emerging environmental challenges and the risk of climate-related disasters, it must transcend political boundaries to operate…
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Barcelona’s Grids: in Search of New Paradigms
FRAMEWORK. The construction of modern Barcelona can be seen as a laboratory of urban projects and planning strategies. This process spanning two centuries features…
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Los Angeles Study Abroad Studio: The Possibilities of the Wrong Scale
Los Angeles has for most of its life had a deeply ambivalent relationship with the more canonical vision, forms, and mechanisms of urbanism. While seen…
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Landscape Representation II
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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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…
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Responsive Environments (REA Lab Seminar)
This course looks at the relationship between technology, perception and the built environment. Smart, media driven products and environments are becoming extension of our sense…
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Superficial Spaces
At a time when architectural discourse and practice are (still) brimming with references to new geometries, this offering investigates the architectural potential of abstract three-dimensional…
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Conic and Developable Surfaces
In terms of Differential Geometry, developable surfaces are defined as those with vanishing Gaussian curvature which can be unrolled to a plane without distortion.
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Landscape as Painting
This course will not meet on Thursday, January 30th. Instead, a orientation session will be held from 11:30-1 on Friday, January 24th in room 318.
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On Landscape and Atmosphere
The seminar traces the relationship between landscape architecture and atmosphere. The varying levels of concealment or exposure, immersion or separation are primary to the…
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Projection/Installation/Intervention
In the coming years, one in three returning veterans from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may be suffering from war-related post-traumatic stress, and they…
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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 as the…
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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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Exploring Contemporary Architecture through Persisting Issues
The lecture course serves to emphasize my belief that a critical reflection on long-standing issues in the architectural practice can provide a valuable…
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The Subject and the City
This seminar takes as its premise that a history and theory of the city cannot be known without an accompanying history and theory…
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The Forms of Water: Aquatic Landscapes in South America
South America can be analyzed as an aquatic territory: the three major river basins (Orinoco, Amazonas and the Plata), ground waters as the Guaraní…
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Digital Culture, Architecture and the City
This course is scheduled to take place in the Sackler lecture hall, in the Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway. Some twenty years ago, when…
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Philosophy of Technology
\”In addition to man’s ageless obligation to meet the threat of things, he bears for the first time the responsibility of prime agent…
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Urban Grids: Score for Designing the City
Framework: Within a larger research scope on “Revisiting the urban grids in the XXI century”, this seminar will focus on the investigation of recent…
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Study Abroad Seminar: Contested Territories: Geopolitics, Media and Design in Southern California
As a landscape of tenuous contradictions – cultural complexity and social isolation, exploitative settlement and fulfillment of the American Dream, ecological diversity and environmental degradation…
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Study Abroad Seminar: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Hyperreality
Contemporary postmodern culture is dominated, according to French cultural theorist, Jean Baudrillard, by simulation and hyperreality. In postmodern culture the image has become the new…
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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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Film Theory, Visual Thinking
How do moving images transform the way we think? Introduction to film theory aimed at interpreting the visual world, and developing skills to analyze films…
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Histories of Landscape Architecture II: Design, Representation, and Use
This course introduces students to relevant topics, themes, and sites that help us understand the conception, production, evolution, and reception of designed and found landscapes…
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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
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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