Courses
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Responsive Environments: Poetics of Space
The course introduces students to the tools and design methods for creating responsive environments and technologically driven experiences in the built environment. By putting the…
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Off: On a Tangent
This course uses the tangential as a formal, rhetorical, and mathematical framework to interrogate the relationship between the part and the whole,…
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Discourse and Advocacy in the Spaces of Curation
Curation, the intentional act of selection and display of content, is often categorized in one of two ways: as an institutionalized type exemplified by the…
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Drawing for Designers 2: Human Presence and Appearance in Natural and Built Environment
The aim of the class is to learn how to depict and express the presence and appearance of people in natural and…
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Interrogative Design: Cultural Prosthetics
The course is open to students interested in pursuing artistic, design and research projects that critically interrogate and proactively respond to 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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Thinking Landscape – Making Cities
In this design seminar, students will reframe the interrelationships of a city’s built and landscape form to engage the effects of changing…
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Extracanonical Buildings
analysis, "a breaking-up" or "an untying;" from ana– "up, throughout" and lysis "a loosening" [1] This project-based seminar is concerned with the formal analysis of…
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Investigating Normal: Assistive and Adaptive Design for Interdependent Futures
Part seminar in disability studies and part design laboratory, this course introduces students to design by, with, and for people with atypical bodies and minds.
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Urban Grids-3:Grid Plan versus Big Project
Within a larger research scope of exploring open forms for city design, this seminar will focus on a clear discussion of two…
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Institutions & Impact: Mental Health – Could Hybrid Institutions have more impact?
The world is rapidly changing around us, and to many, conventional institutions – from libraries to museums and from healthcare to schools – are failing.
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Machine Learning and the Image of the City
This project-based seminar explores the potential for machine learning to enhance our creative process as we re-imagine the image of the contemporary…
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Environmental Histories, Archived Landscapes
The course explores design methodologies for evaluating archives as evidence of material, spatial, and cultural change in constructed landscapes. Because archives seek comprehensiveness (rather than…
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The Spectacle Factory
The Spectacle Factory examines the modern history of immersive theater, entertainment, and media spaces from the standpoint of the history of architecture and design. It…
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Urban Design and the Color-Line
We cannot talk about physical infrastructure in the United States without also talking about race. This seminar/workshop introduces students to the role…
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Making Participation Relevant to Design
By trying to understand how participation can make design more relevant to society, we can create more socially just cities. This course…
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Developing for Social Impact
This course explores a question with great currency but no methodology: how can real estate development both advance social purpose and account…
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Local Government Solutions to America’s Affordable Rental Housing Challenge
James Stockard, Bennett Hecht, Kimberly Driggins
There are 10.9 million renters who are severely housing cost burdened – spending more than 50% of their income on shelter. The…
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Policy Analysis: A Tool for Evidence-Based Decision Making
Policy analysis is problem solving. It involves making systematic comparisons across a set of alternatives to address a particular policy or planning problem, usually in…
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New Towns and Affordable Housing Development in Africa
This course is a research seminar delving into new town development and affordable housing production in Africa. The course provides an overview…
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The (New) Image of the City
The rest of the 21st century is being drawn right now. More than ever before, organizations and individuals rely on projective images that indicate their…
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Typologies of Liberation
Building codes and policies have always been a civil rights issue. Essential forms of land use control, zoning, federal and municipal codes, as well as…
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Pre- and Post-
Pre- and Post- is an introduction to fundamental concepts, techniques, and methods in digital design, with a focus on the processes of…
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Data Analysis and Data Physicalization
Data Analysis and Data Physicalization is a research seminar that explores the analysis and communication of data through statistical analysis and physical…
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Towards a new Science of Design?
This project- and discussion-based seminar offers a deep, critical inspection of contemporary design practices, research methods and discourses informed by Neuroscience, Behavioral Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction…
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Automation in Practice: Building the future of Architecture(s), Engineering, and Construction
Population is estimated to exceed 10 billion people by the year 2050 requiring an immediate doubling of productivity in the AEC industry which includes Architecture…
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Informal Robotics / New Paradigms for Design & Construction
This course teaches how to create original robotic devices made of light, compliant – informal – materials. New fabrication techniques are transforming…
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LIT: A Survey and Design Research Seminar of Light and Lighting (Module 1)
What makes for a good luminous environment? What distinguishes a good luminous environment from a bad one? This course surveys the many shades of light…
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Data Science for Building Performance Simulation and Architectural Design Optimization (Module 2)
The modeling of energy-efficient buildings and sustainable urban development is an increasing concern in both the building design and sustainability consulting industries. Early adoption of…
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Introduction to Machine Learning for Designers
This course will provide an introduction to the rapidly advancing area of research in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Designers will come away with a…