Courses
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Digital Media I: Unseen Harvard: Elements of Ambience
Allen Sayegh, Melissa Franklin
What is an ambiance of a place? Why do you get different feelings from each environment? Are there consistent elements that define ambience? Can we…
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Today’s architects’ ambitions: in search of a new narrative canon
Since the establishment of the canonical narrative of mid-20th century architecture, we have become accustomed to view current architecture as a result…
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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…
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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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Property in Common: The Nexus Between Architecture and Real Estate
The course looks at systemic and theoretical issues that underlie contemporary dilemmas in architectural design, real estate, and property systems. It examines…
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Cities, Infrastructures, and Politics: From Renaissance to Smart Technologies
“A Peep at the Gas-lights in Pall Mall”, a humorous caricature of reactions to the installation of the new invention of gas-burning street lighting on…
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Discourses and Methods: Conservation, Destruction, and Curating Impermanence
Natalia Escobar Castrillon, K. Michael Hays
This seminar on critical conservation aims to develop concepts, and strategies able to describe and curate the transitory and dynamic nature of…
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Resilience and Adaptation Science: From Theory to Practice
Through the lens of climate change, this foundation course surveys the intellectual development of resilience and adaptation in the social, natural and…
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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 1
This course introduces students to the design and behavior of fundamental structural systems. The course focuses on providing a qualitative understanding such that students can…
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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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Cases in Contemporary Construction
As the final component in the required sequence of technology courses, this professionally-oriented course develops an integral understanding of the design and construction of buildings…
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Interdisciplinary Design in Practice
This course aims to teach, stimulate and demonstrate “design led” opportunities that exist in the practice of Architecture. Positioned within the space of interdisciplinary…
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Adaptive Architectures
Adaptability is the means by which organisms respond to their environments, individuals interact with each other and new technologies are absorbed into…
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Material Distributions: Digital Immersive Workflows for Design, Simulation, Fabrication
This course explores the interplay between form and structure, between architecture and its material support, in the context of digital design workflows.
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Integrative Frameworks for Technology, Environment, and Society II
Woodward Yang, Antoine Picon, Martin Bechthold, Robert Silman, Ali Malkawi
Developing and implementing good solutions to real problems facing human society requires a broad understanding of the relationships between technology innovation, science, manufacturing, design thinking,…
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The Practice as Project
Florian Idenburg, Jeffry Burchard
Background: The role of the architect adjusts as society changes. Inevitably, there will be a continual need for numbers of well rounded, licensed and…