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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…