Courses
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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, the…
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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,…
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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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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.
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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 traditional…
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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 practice of Architecture. Positioned within the space of interdisciplinary boundaries,…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…