Courses
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Responsive Environments: The Future of Shopping
Allen Sayegh, Stefano Andreani
The course looks into the future of the built environment from a technologically augmented point of view, with a strong focus on…
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Constructing Visual Narratives of Place
The seminar/workshop explores the representation of identity and memory in the city and its territory. The case study is Boston, in its…
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Curatorial Practice
Today everybody is a curator – we curate our meals, our social media feeds, and our outfits. What does it mean to…
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New Natures: Constructing a Brief for Coextensive Networks
This seminar explores the act of brief making for alternative urban landscape assemblies through artefacts generated through film and fabricated models.
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Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices
The Interdisciplinary Art Practices seminar investigates the exploratory character of art and design work in the interdisciplinary modalities of the contemporary culture. In the present…
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Urban Form: Transition as Condition
The fixed categories by which we have traditionally understood the urban no longer hold. They have been undermined by the multiplicity of…
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Advanced Seminar in City Form: Future of Streets
The Advanced Seminar in City Form invites a group of students to research and discuss themes about the form of cities in…
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Experiments in Public Freedom
As places that accept and encourage multiple representations, cities need spaces to enable unregulated, temporary, and spontaneous events. Due to their role…
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Robots In + Out of Buildings
New forms of mobility are currently being developed for the transport of both people and goods. From autonomous container ships and trucks,…
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Philosophy of Technology
Zero net energy. Parametric design. Wood skyscrapers. 3-D printing of exotic structures. What marvels technology brings us! We acknowledge that we live…
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Urban Grids: Open form for City Design-2
Framework:Within a larger research scope on “Revisiting the urban grids in the XXI century”, this seminar will focus on the investigation…
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Rotterdam Study Abroad Seminar: World Without Work – A Rural Utopia?
This Course is for students in the Rotterdam Study Abroad Program. In the coming years, the countryside will be fundamentally altered by technology, migration and climate…
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London Study Abroad Seminar – London: Past, Present, and Emerging
London is a city with many people from different places defined by its openness (like no other Global city). Its people are united by mutual…
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London Study Abroad Seminar: Architecture after Neoliberalism
Half a century ago, it was still possible to believe that architecture was made for the greater good of all. This conviction became eroded by…
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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…
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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…
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Super Landscapes, Super Sports
As a form of play, sports are deeply embedded in human nature and culture. Throughout history, sports have had considerable impact on…
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Making Sacred Space
This course addresses the current crisis in church design by an in depth consideration of the ideas, images, concepts, and legislation that inform the creation…
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Bavarian Rococo: Heterotopias
This is both a history / theory seminar and a course in contemporary design technique. Its point of departure is the observation…
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Bramante is better than Alberti . . .
A seminar, in the manner of a forum, devoted to the practice of architectural critique and evaluation. Ten significant and comparable pairs…
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Andrea Palladio: Innovative Learning Experience
Howard Burns, Guido Beltramini
The two most eminent scholars of the architecture of Andrea Palladio, Guido Beltramini and Howard Burns of the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea…
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Materiality, Visual Culture, and Media (at VES)
What is the place of materiality in our visual age of rapidly changing materials and media? How is it fashioned in the arts, architecture and…
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Architecture and Landscape before and after Watergate
In one of the defining moments of the Senate Watergate Hearings, June 28, 1973, Senator Howard H. Baker, Jr., put the “central…
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Rotterdam Study Abroad Seminar: Architecture, Urbanism, and Agriculture
In order to stimulate the research on the Countryside, the course will investigate the relationship between architecture and agriculture, both in history and today. While…
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Urbanization and International Development
This course brings together two fields of specialization that are central to planners keen on working in international contexts: i) the field…
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Towns and Settlements in Metropolitan Regions
As cities expand into metropolitan regions they inevitably push up against, produce, otherwise engage, and sometimes engulf already established settlements on their…
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Environment, Economics, and Enterprise
Holly Samuelson, Frank Apeseche
How can one optimize the benefits of environmental or social sustainability while generating a higher return on investment in buildings? Where are…
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Energetics of Urbanization
Two significant discourses on energy and urbanization are converging, with increasingly parallel questions and concerns. First, a discourse on extended urbanization…
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Community Development: Past, Present, and Future
This course provides a critical overview of conceptual and applied approaches to community development. It examines evolving patterns and drivers of urban…
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Survey of Energy Technology (at SEAS)
Principles governing energy generation and interconversion. Current and projected world energy use. Selected important current and anticipated future technologies for energy generation, interconversion, storage, and…
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Urban Restoration Ecology
We will explore principles of modern ecology that relate to restoring ecological structure and function to previously degraded lands. These are often…
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Structures in Landscape Architecture
Topics Covered: The conceptual, expressive and practical roles of structure and structural understanding in the design and making of works of landscape…
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Planted Form and Re-Formation: Past Futures and Antecedent Inventions
Planted Form and Re-Formation is a seminar that investigates how and why vegetation (as a living design medium) changes over time, and…
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Optimizing Facade Performance: A Deep Dive on Design Decisions
Building envelopes are at the intersection of design, performance, and occupant experience in architectural design. Façades influence many aspects of building performance…
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Scenes of Design, Development, and Disaster
The architect’s arrival on the scene – like that of the hero, the movie star, and the forensic technician – is an…
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Non-Professional Practice
The course aims to study unconventional modes of architectural practice and their underlying implications. It is based on a workshop format,…
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Housing Tropes* and the Role of Design
This course will focus on conceptualizing the role of design and the agency of architecture and planning in the process of housing…
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Beyond Reconstruction: Mexico and the 2017 Earthquakes
In September of 2017 Mexico experienced a serious of devastating earthquakes affecting not only Mexico City but also several states in the…
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Miami Resilience: Affordability and Health
This advanced research seminar in Miami, Florida (USA) is thematically focused at the intersection of community resilience, public health and housing studies. With a particular…
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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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What is a Thesis? Conversations on Means and Methods of the Thesis Project
How does one frame the architectural problem? How does one begin the thesis project? This proseminar provides a platform for students to workshop and develop…
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Methods of Research in Art and Design: A Workshop-tutorial
This workshop focuses on the exploration, elaboration, and development of students’ research and experimentation in projects that intersect the fields of art…
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Discourse and Methods II
K. Michael Hays, Catherine Ingraham
This seminar is designed as an introduction to some of the major critical approaches and methodologies that have shaped the history and theory of the…