Courses
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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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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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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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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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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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Geo Architecture: A History and Theory for an Emerging Aesthetic
The course approaches architectural form through geographically inspired constructs. Drawing from physical and human geography, the proposed theory expands the setting of architecture from the…
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The Shapes of Utopia
Utopia\’s fall from grace in the modern period is tied to architecture\’s failure in giving shape to dreams of a new society wrought from…
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A History of Nature Conservation and Cultural Landscape Preservation: Where do they intersect today in urban centers and beyond?
Historic Urban Landscape, HUL, is new. In 2011, UNESCO adopted HUL, the first instrument on the historic environment issued by UNESCO in 35 years. This…
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Urban Theory after 1968: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanism
This class elaborates some of the theoretical foundations for the ongoing research of the Urban Theory Lab on the contemporary “urban revolution”. Such an investigation…
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Case Studies in Critical Conservation: Strategies for Curating the Built Environment
This course analyzes case studies in conservation as a means for developing projective strategies for interpreting and curating buildings, landscapes, and cities. More specifically,…
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Public and Private Development
This course explores the analytic frameworks, skills, and bodies of knowledge required to understand, evaluate, plan, and implement public and private development within cities and…
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Markets and Market Failures
This course provides an introduction to how markets operate, the criteria for assessing their performance, and the circumstances under which they perform well or poorly.
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Cities by Design II
Rahul Mehrotra, Christine Smith, Ricky Burdett, Jana Cephas, Eve Blau, Peter Rowe, Jose Castillo, Erkin Ozay
The year-long ‘Cities by Design’ course is mandatory for all incoming Masters of Urban Design Students. All other students are welcome to enroll in…
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Analytic Methods of Urban Planning: Quantitative
This course introduces students to quantitative analysis and research methods. The course begins with a discussion of how quantitative methods fit within the broader research…
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Analytic Methods: Qualitative
This module reviews the epistemologies of urban knowledge. How do planners and designers know what they know? We will discuss methods of field research in…
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Advanced Real Estate Finance
This course builds on GSD 5204 and comparable introductory real estate courses offered by other schools at Harvard. This year’s course covers five main…
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Building and Leading Real Estate Enterprises and Entrepreneurship
This course focusses on how you conceive, start, manage and lead successful real estate companies. By virtue of the industry in which they compete,…
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Transportation Policy and Planning (at KSG)
Provides an overview of the issues involved in transportation policy and planning, as well as an introduction to the skills necessary for solving…
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Urbanization and International Development
This course undertakes a detailed examination of global urbanization in the context of international development. The course is divided into four components. It…
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Housing and Urbanization in Global Cities
Alexander von Hoffman, Deidre Schmidt
This course analyzes housing policy and planning in developing urban societies around the world but especially in the Global South. Through slide presentations, lectures,…
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Global Leadership in Real Estate and Design
In today’s connected urban centers, shifts in cultural preferences, design thinking, and spatial significations often reflect and parallel transitions in capital forces and economic realities,…
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Urban Design for Planners
Course Objectives This seminar course introduces physical planners to the approaches, techniques and tools of urban design necessary to structure the spatial and…
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The Design of Real Estate
Building typologies are fundamental instruments for constructing urban patterns and spatial forms. In the discourse of modern architecture and urbanism, the study of building typologies…
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International Humanitarian Response I and II (at HSPH)
Stephanie Kayden, Peter Walker
GSD SES 05432 is the equivalent of GHP 515 and GHP 518. This course is the equivalent of 3 GSD units, not 4.
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Environmental Planning & Sustainable Development
The goal of this course is to provide an introduction to the ideas and information necessary to integrate environmental viability and sustainable development with other…
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Real Estate in Frontier Markets (at HBS)
This course is offered as a 2 unit course in spring 2014. Jointly Listed at Harvard Business School as HBS 1462 Meets according to the…
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Affordable and Mixed-Income Housing Development, Finance, and Management
This “nuts and bolts” course focuses on the development, financing, and management of both rental and ownership affordable and mixed-income housing developments. The primary public…
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Construction Systems
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 Systems in Architecture
The primary focus of GSD 6125 is the study of ecological considerations in architectural design. These considerations include the thermal, luminous, and acoustic behavior of…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies II
Peter Del Tredici, Laura Solano
Module 3: Topography & Grading/Solano Topography—-the land—is one of the most basic mediums and tools of landscape architecture. The pedagogic mission of this…
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Structural Design 2
A continuation of GSD 6227, this course provides students with an enhanced understanding of structural analysis and engineering design concepts. Students learn the fundamentals of…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies IV
Niall Kirkwood, Alistair McIntosh
The role of the discipline of landscape architecture is first, to describe and understand the found environment of a particular site and deploy means to…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies V
SECTION 1: Topography—-the land—is one of the most basic mediums and tools of landscape architecture. The core mission of this class is for students to…
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Survey of Energy Technology (at SEAS)
EAS Engineering Sciences 229. Survey of Energy Technology Catalog Number: 94822 EXAM GROUP: 7, 8 Please check the FAS schedule for…
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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 integrate…
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Mapping: Geographic Representation and Speculation
Maps do not represent reality, they create it. As a fundamental part of the design process, the act of mapping results in highly authored…
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Brownfields Practicum: Regeneration of Brownfield Lands
This course concerns the reclamation of sites altered by prior industrial or commercial uses and in particular those that are derelict, environmentally hazardous and…
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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…
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Water, Aquatic Ecology, and Land-Water Linkages
This course is intended to provide students with an understanding of water that will inform their professional approaches to landscape architecture, architecture, and planning,…
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Computational Material Distributions: Gradients of Compliance
This course explores the role of computational structural analysis and form finding methods in design and fabrication problems. Such techniques give us indication on…
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What is energy and how (else) might we think about it?
Designers today require radically different intellectual frameworks within which to think energy, environment, and ecology. The need to rethink applies not only to the positivist…
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Real-Time Cities: an Introduction to Urban Cybernetics
In real-time cities, urbanity merges with digital information so that the built environment is dynamically sensed and synchronously actuated to perform more efficiently, intelligently,…
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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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Design Competitions
Design competitions are increasingly used to procure design of, well, just about anything you can think of. In the world of built and landscape environments,…