Courses
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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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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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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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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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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…
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Screens: Media Archaeology and the Visual Arts Seminar
How do screens function as interface between us and the world? What is the role of the screen in contemporary visual arts and media culture?…
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Tree Stories: Seeing the wood for the trees and the trees for the wood
Discussions about the urban forest and tree canopy, carbon sequestration, sustainability, and tree adoption programs are becoming more prevalent by the day. In this…
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Critical Memory and the Experience of History
This seminar presents selected texts treating architecture as a foundational phenomena of being in the world (Hegel and Heidegger), as well as the…
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Critical and Social Cartography
How might we identify the practices of responsive/responsible social and critical cartography, amid the proliferation of digital spatial media? To address this question, this…
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Environment, Economics, and Enterprise
Holly Samuelson, Frank Apeseche
How can one optimize the benefits of environmental sustainability while generating a higher return on investment in buildings? Where are the opportunities for real…
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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.
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On The Bri[n]ck: Architecture of the Envelope (Canceled)
This course will not be offered in Spring 2014. On the Bri(n)ck: Architectural Envelope traces the historical development of a debate concerning the architectural…
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Smart[er] Cities
The vision of a Smart City is currently fostered by a technologically-enhanced worldview of the urban condition, whereas traditional and modern communication infrastructure,…
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(Re)fabricating Tectonic Prototypes
Leire Asensio-Villoria, instructor, with Hanif Kara, structural consultant The course is framed by a general ambition to develop explorations in digital design, fabrication and…
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Quantitative Aesthetics: Attention
This course is looking at computational approaches to digital media that allow us to analyze and reinterpret our environment as a signal, creating interactive…
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Designed Porous Media
This seminar is about designing porous surfaces and materials to orchestrate the flow of heat through buildings in novel ways. The primary aim…
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Visualization (at SEAS)
SEAS Computer Science 171 Catalog Number: 8877 Tu., Th., 2:30-4, and a weekly section to be arranged. Please check the…
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The Practice as Project
The role of the architect today is constantly shifting. While society will continue to require numbers of well rounded, licensed and affiliated architects to…
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The Ephemeral City: Research Seminar on Temporal Urbanism
ADV-09129 /The Ephemeral City: Research Seminar on Temporal Urbanism Today, the scale and pace of contemporary urbanization challenges the notion of permanence as a…
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Cultivating Scale: Territorial Planting Strategies
Plants are the matrix in which the earth’s habits are formed and are therefore the basic unit for understanding dynamic ecological relationships. They are a…
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The Oceanic Turn: Advanced Landscape Infrastructure Seminar
Pierre Belanger meets with students Adriana Chavez (March ’13, MDes ’14), Erin Wythoff (MLA ’14), and Phoebe White (MLA ’14). Photo by Melanie Rieders. From…
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Urban Theory Lab, Project-Based Seminar: Extreme Territories of Urbanization
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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Research Methods in Landscape Architecture
This seminar offers an overview of various types and practices of research methodology in contemporary landscape architecture. Central to the ambitions of the course is…
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Proseminar in Art, Design and the Public Domain
Krzysztof Wodiczko, Yanni Loukissas
The proseminar will serve as a space for artistic and design experimentation, and discussion intended to foreground students\’ emergent interests, concepts, and methodologies toward their…
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Discourse and Methods II
This is one of two seminars fulfilling a requirement for successful completion of the PHD curriculum. The seminar is designed as an introduction to canonical…