Courses
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Responsive Environments: Episodes in Experiential Futures
This course introduces to the students the tools and necessary thinking framework to create technologically driven speculative environments in the near future…
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Representation First (!!!), Then Architecture
Current tendencies in the discipline suggest a split between two opposing architectural projects: the easy project versus the difficult project[1]. Primarily related…
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MAKE/BELIEVE
How does the action of making reflect, produce, enhance, aggregate, and/or suspend the beliefs of authors and audiences? This hybrid production-theory course…
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Book Project Number Zero
Pier Paolo Tamburelli, Thomas Kelley
1. Architecture is inseparable from bookmaking. Ever since Sebastiano Serlio discovered the potentials of the printing press, no cultural project in the…
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Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices
The Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices Seminar investigates art and design work in the interdisciplinary modalities of contemporary culture and the city. As artists and…
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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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Material, Atmosphere and Ambience
This seminar introduces an understanding of atmosphere and ambience within the discourse of material practice in architecture. The materials are a contextual…
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Style Worry or #FOMO
Reyner Banham once described the proliferation of styles after a waning epoch as “style worry,” an anxiety where the architect must decide…
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Acoustic Space: A media archaeology of building types
We live in acoustic space. We live constantly plugged-in, travelling in our personal sonic bubbles defined by headphones and other devices. We…
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The Fifth Plan
In this seminar we will consider the evolution of the floor plan across five iterations: proto-modern, modern, post-modern, sequel-modern, and, most importantly,…
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Book Project Number Zero
Pier Paolo Tamburelli, Thomas Kelley
1. Architecture is inseparable from bookmaking. Ever since Sebastiano Serlio discovered the potentials of the printing press, no cultural project in the field of architecture…
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Architecture as an Urban Issue: Challenges & Inventions in the Practice in Tokyo
Tokyo today is in a dilemma of urbanism. As a post-growth phenomenon, abandoned houses are increasing in number, especially in the old residential-commercial mix belt…
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Rome
A seminar on the art, architecture, and urbanism of Rome where the layering of material artifacts from successive historical periods provides an…
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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. Twelve significant and comparable pairs…
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Palladio and Raphael: An Innovative Learning Experience
Guido Beltramini, Howard Burns
Two leading scholars of the architecture of Andrea Palladio, Guido Beltramini and Howard Burns of the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio, Vicenza,…
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Case Studies in Conservation and Adaptive Re-use
Traditional conservation practice is increasingly proving inadequate to address the cultural, economic, social and environmental challenges facing the diverse array of buildings…
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Cultural Fever: Postmodern Effects in Sino-American Architecture
It is widely recognized that the advanced architecture of the 1970s-80s left a legacy of experimentation and theoretical speculation as intense as any in architecture’s…
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Conservation, Destruction, and Curating Impermanence
“History is what hurts.” -Fredric Jameson. This course deals with the political dimension of architectural, urban, and landscape conservation and aims to…
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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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Developing for Social Impact
How can real estate development advance social purpose while accounting for development feasibility? With increasing urgency, those involved in shaping the…
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Public health in an era of epidemics: from the camp to the building
We shouldn’t conceive anymore architecture projects and urban planning interventions that disregard their impact on public health. The way we design buildings,…
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Advanced Introduction to Robotics (at SEAS)
Also offered as Engineering Sciences 259: Advanced Introduction to Robotics Introduction to computer-controlled robotic manipulators. Topics include coordinate frames and transformations, kinematic structure and solutions,…
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Thermal Monocoques: An Energy Systems Laboratory
In this seminar, students learn to design energy systems that can orchestrate the flow of energy through buildings in novel ways. For…
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Enactive Design: Creative Applications through Concurrent Human-Machine Interaction
Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez, Zach Seibold
Enactive Design is an advanced research seminar on human-machine interaction. We will explore the role of real-time, bidirectional communication between human and…
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Circular Eco-nomics: Mapping Architectural & Urban Ecosystems
This course introduces students to the idea of circular sustainable economies, hereby described as “eco-nomics,” looking simultaneously into the economics of sustainable lifestyles and work…
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Informal Robotics / New Paradigms for Design & Construction
Today new materials and fabrication techniques are transforming the field of robotics. Rather than rigid metal parts connected by mechanical components, robots…
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Tectonic Tradition in Japan
In Japan, design, both traditional and contemporary, is inseparable from materials and how they are constructed together. There is a long history of fruitful collaboration…
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Non-Professional Practice
"I've never worked for a living. I consider working for a living slightly imbecilic from an economic point of view. I hope…
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Products of Practice: From code to plan to code
A seminar that critically mines historic systems of representation and the product (or media) of the architect in relationship to the evolving…
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Miami Resilience: Housing & Infrastructure
This advanced research seminar in Miami, Florida (USA) is thematically focused at the intersection of community resilience, infrastructure design, housing studies, building science and zoning.
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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 Research Methods
Research conducted in the Doctor of Design Program (DDes) at the GSD spans a broad range of topics and areas of investigation that not only…
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Discourse and Methods II
This seminar serves as an introduction to prevalent critical approaches and methodologies in the history and theory of the design disciplines. The focus will be…