Courses
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Second Semester Architecture Core: SITUATE
Grace La, Jeffry Burchard, Max Kuo, Tomás dePaor, Jennifer Bonner, Patrick McCafferty
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, Silvia Benedito, Danielle Choi, Jill Desimini, Peter Del Tredici, Martha Schwartz, Eric de Broche des Combes, Nadir Abdessemed
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
Daniel D’Oca, Stephen Gray, Kathy Spiegelman
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 Architecture Core: RELATE
Carles Muro, Jeannette Kuo, Andrew Holder, Mariana Ibanez, Belinda Tato, Luis Callejas
RELATE is the last of a four-semester sequence of studios that aim at introducing the students to architectural design through specific pedagogical lenses. This studio…
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Landscape Architecture IV
Pierre Bélanger, Nicholas Pevzner, Fionn Byrne, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Robert Pietrusko, Peter Del Tredici
Addressing the inertia of urban planning and the overexertion of civil engineering in the 20th century, this course focuses on the design of large, complex,…
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Territorio Guarani III
This is the third consecutive studio investigating architectural strategies and modes of intervention in the culturally and environmentally rich Territorio Guarani, the South American region…
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Misapplied Mies Applied (Final): The Performance Shed (Cancelled)
“The Bauhaus has a certain idea, but this idea has nothing to do with politics. Look at your writing table, this shabby writing table. Do…
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(Re) planned Obsolescence… Rethinking the Architecture of Waste
Hanif Kara, Leire Asensio Villoria
Despite the recent emergence of a number of novel industrial buildings, the role of the designer, and specifically the Architect, has been largely absent from…
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Work Environments 2: Glass Works
This studio is the second of three sponsored by the furniture company Knoll that examines, through research and design, the disruptive transformations that occur globally…
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Center for the Performing Arts at the Cranbrook Educational Community
The studio problem will be the design of a performing arts center on the historic Cranbrook campus in Bloomfield Hills, MI. Eliel Saarinen lived on…
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Third Natures. London’s Typological Imagination
Cristina Diaz Moreno, Efren Garcia Grinda
The second reincarnation of Third Natures at the GSD is based on three premises that will determine the content and scope of the projects that…
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etceteras
Something like that, You know what I mean So on and so on Ad infinitum Such as So forth…
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Redesigning the Actor Network in Rural Areas around Tokyo
Momoyo Kaijima, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
This studio aims to propose instrumental space in the rural areas around Tokyo, intervening into an alternative actor network (Bruno Latour) that governs the area’s…
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Readymade Architecture
Readymade, defined by André Breton and Paul Éluard in 1938 is “an ordinary object elevated to the dignity of a work of art by the…
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Rotterdam Studio Abroad: Smart Countrysides
The 2016 Spring Rotterdam Study Abroad Studio will be a collaborative effort with Niklas Maak and Sebastien Marot exploring new forms of research and engagement…
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Seoul Remade: Design of the ‘Kool’ and the Everyday
The central issue of the studio is the remaking of a contemporary city landscape, fabric and district in Seoul, Korea which is undergoing rapid transformation.
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Miami Rise and Sink: Design for Urban Adaptation
This studio addresses contemporary conditions for ‘urban adaptation’ in an era of sea level rise, and forms a portion of the Office for Urbanization’s research…
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Southampton Quay
Michel Desvigne, Inessa Hansch
Le Havre is a major European port located in Upper Normandy at the mouth of the Seine. The city was built at the entrance to…
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Frontier City
The early 21st century is defined by the information age, and characterized by a shift from traditional industries into a knowledge-based economy. This phenomenon forms…
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Housing in Merida Yucatan: the urban and the territorial
This is the 3rd studio sponsored by INFONAVIT, the National Workers Housing Institute of Mexico. As in previous years, this studio seeks to generate new…
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“Regular City” in Chongqing: Searching for Domesticated Superstructures
The Studio sets out to interpret urban evolution in Chongqing in order to draw conclusions for the hypothesis of central city development at the heart…
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Oh, Jerusalem: Eternal Center / Generic Periphery
“Jerusalem …. focus of the struggle between the Abrahamic religions, the shrine for increasingly popular Christian, Jewish and Islamic fundamentalism, the strategic battlefield of clashing…
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Extreme Urbanism IV: Looking at Hyper Density – Dongri, Mumbai
In recent years, housing has become an extremely scarce commodity in Mumbai. In 2007, Mumbai was the sixth most expensive city globally to rent an…
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The Factory and the City: Rethinking the industrial spaces of the developmental city
The studio is premised upon two fundamental ambitions, the recuperation of an idea of the city as a project and the pursuit of alternative forms…
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Wood, Urbanism: From the Molecular to the Territorial
Jane Hutton, Kiel Moe, Daniel Ibanez
Ironically, architects and landscape architects are their most vague in the act of specification. Designers have little idea of what specifying something as seemingly prosaic…
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Jakarta: Models of Collective Space for the Extended Metropolis
This advanced option studio will examine the role of new mass transit infrastructure as a driver for new models of collective space, in a context…
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Landscape Representation II
Building on the foundation established in Landscape Representation I, this course will introduce and extend a range of representational techniques and approaches to generate, communicate…
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Responsive Environments: Bergamo eMotion
This course looks into the future of the built environment from a technologically augmented point of view, with a strong focus on sustainability and…
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Digital Design and Making – Landscape and Ecological Approaches
The course is aimed at fostering conceptual as well as technical approaches towards the integration of digital design and fabrication techniques within the design…
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Superficial Spaces (Cancelled)
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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Painting for Designers: Techniques, Methods and Concepts
The course objective is to advance through painting students visual skills in artistic representation and creative imagination. Assigned and generated by students projects will…
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Immersive Landscape: Representation through Gaming Technology
The course is aimed at investigating new ways to interpret, conceive and describe landscape. While traditional methods of representation will prevail for some time,…
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The Poetics of Place: Critical Writing for Designers
The seminar will explore the relationship between the written word and visual culture. Students will be expected to visit specific sites in the Cambridge/Boston…
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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
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…
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Today’s Architecture as Seen Through Enduring Concerns
This lecture course focuses on the critical reflection of long-standing issues in the architectural practice still providing a valuable frame for considering recent…
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Fieldwork in Conservation Design
Architects practicing in the 21st century can no longer assume that most of their design projects will begin with an empty site. Several factors –…
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Landscape as Urbanism in Latin America
Schedule updated to 8:30-11:30 on Tuesdays. The discourse and practices of landscape as urbanism as developed over the past two decades can be found…
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Type and the Idea of the City
Open to all students, the seminars in this course will compliment Option Studio 1508: The Factory and the City. It will provide the theoretical…
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Socio-Environmental Responsive Design
Jose Luis Vallejo, Belinda Tato
This seminar considers the complexity of the human ecosystem and the interpenetration of natural and artificial elements that are embedded within it. People, nature,…
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The Architecture of Health: Power, Technology, and the Hospital
This seminar traces the form of the hospital from the beginning of modern medicine through to the present, across Europe, the United States, and…
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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 in…
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Urban Grids: Open form for City Design
Framework: Within a larger research scope on “Revisiting the urban grids in the XXI century”, this seminar will focus on the…
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Potential Architecture
The work of the architect, the urban designer and designers at large is conditioned by a number of factors that delimit and demarcate the…
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Political Landscapes
This course is offered for students enrolled in the Rotterdam Study Abroad Program. This seminar invites students to analyze the political iconography of the countryside,…
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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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