Courses
-
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,…
-
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…
-
Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form
Lecture meets T/Th 1-2 pm in Gund 111. The graduate section will meet the first week, Tuesday 1/27 at 11:30 in Gund 510.
-
Film, Media, Space (at VES)
The possibility to access the media everywhere and every time gives us the illusion to be emancipated from any temporal or spatial constraint and yet,…
-
Soft Thought: Towards a Theory of Computational Design
Digital design remains one of the few areas within the discipline of architecture that remains relatively under theorized. This situation is in part the result…
-
Digital Culture, Architecture and the City
Some twenty years ago, when Bernard Tschumi and young instructors like Greg Lynn or Ali Rahim launched the so-called \”Paperless Studio,\” based upon the intensive…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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,…
-
Michelangelo Architect: Precedents, Innovations, Influence
An exploration of Italian Renaissance architecture and urbanism through the persona of Michelangelo as witness, agent, and inspiration. We look at architecture and urbanism in…
-
A History of Nature Conservation and Cultural Landscape Preservation: Where do they intersect today in urban centers and beyond?
Historic Urban Landscape, HUL, is a new approach to integrating urban preservation within the three pillars of sustainability: economy—ecology—society. In 2011, UNESCO adopted HUL, the…
-
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, the…
-
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…
-
Urban Politics and Planning (at KSG)
Course focuses on how public governance and planning shape cities and urban regions in the United States and Europe. Topics include U.S. and European urban…
-
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.
-
Cities by Design II
Eve Blau, Alex Krieger, Sibel Bozdo??an, Rahul Mehrotra, Julie Buckler
Cities by Design studies urban form. Each semester the course focuses on five cities in order to expose students to a range of factors that…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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, real…
-
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…
-
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, presentations…
-
Economic Development in Urban Planning
Course Objectives and Outcomes This course introduces students to the theories, analytic frameworks and financial tools used to encourage local economic development in the…
-
Global Leadership in Real Estate and Design
In today’s increasingly connected urban centers, shifts in cultural preferences, design thinking, and spatial significations often reflect and parallel transitions in capital forces and economic…
-
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 dimensional…
-
The Design of Real Estate
This lecture course highlights the intersection between design and real estate through the focus on building typologies that are fundamental instruments for constructing urban patterns…
-
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.
-
Environmental Planning & Sustainable Development
Note on course location: This class will meet at the Harvard Art Museums, room 0600. The goal of this course is to provide an…
-
Affordable and Mixed-Income Housing Development, Finance, and Management
Explores issues relating to the development, financing, and management of housing affordable to low and moderate income households. Examines community-based development corporations, public housing authorities,…
-
Construction Systems
This course introduces a framework to know the instantiation of architecture through construction systems. Construction systems will be discovered through the methods of dissection, drawing,…
-
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…
-
Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies II
Peter Del Tredici, Laura Solano, Thomas Ryan
Module 3: Topography & Grading/Solano & Ryan Topography—-the land—is one of the most basic mediums and tools of landscape architecture. The pedagogic mission…
-
Structural Design 2
This course is a continuation of GSD 6227 and, after an overview/reminder introduction, furthers understanding of more developed structural systems and materials in architectural design.
-
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…
-
Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies V
Christopher Matthews, Laura Solano, Thomas Ryan
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…
-
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…
-
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 traditional…
-
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 views…
-
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 located…
-
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 practice of Architecture. Positioned within the space of interdisciplinary boundaries,…
-
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, and…
-
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 can offer hints on how…
-
Forms of Energy: Nonmodern
The spring 2015 Forms of Energy focuses on Nonmodern Forms of Energy and Design. Nonmodern refers to those forms and formations of energy that are…
-
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…
-
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 provide…
-
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,…
-
Innovation in Project Delivery
Project delivery – the organizational, legal and economic arrangements by which society produces its built environment – has undergone a radical transformation over the past…
-
Media as Method
Today, the models of thought and levels of cognition that underlie the tools and technologies we use still on a daily basis, and over long…