Courses
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Second Semester Architecture Core: SITUATE
Michelle Chang, Adam Frampton, Elle Gerdeman, Angela Pang, Ritchie Yao, Alexander Porter, Nancy Nichols
The overarching pedagogical agenda for second semester is to expand upon the design methodologies developed in the first semester such that students acquire an understanding…
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Landscape Architecture II
Craig Douglas, Gary R. Hilderbrand, Amy Whitesides, Min Yeo, Elaine Stokes
The studio will explore how we might reimagine cemetery landscapes of the future in response to the challenges of the climate crisis, and the clear…
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Second Semester Core Urban Planning Studio
Daniel D’Oca, Cory Berg, Brie Hensold, Wendell Joseph, Mitchell Silver
The second semester core planning studio expands the topics and methodologies studied in the first semester core studio, GSD 1121, aiming to prepare students for…
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Fourth Semester Architecture Core: RELATE
Jenny French, Sean Canty, Andrew Holder, Cara Liberatore, Elizabeth Whittaker, Emmett Zeifman
The fourth and final semester of the core sequence, this architecture studio tackles the complexity of the urban condition through the design of housing.
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Landscape Architecture IV
Lorena Bello Gómez, Tomas Folch, Francesca Benedetto, Claire Fellman, Matthew Girard, Belinda Tato, Pamela Conrad, Min Yeo
Near-Future City Urban Assemblages Encoded for Change This is the fourth and final semester for the core Landscape Architecture sequence. It questions ways in which…
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Collaborative Design Engineering Studio II
The second-semester studio builds upon theoretical and technical concepts already introduced in the MDE program, emphasizing problem assessment, creative and critical thinking, observational and experimentation-based…
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Landscape Representation II
The Landscape Representation II course will examine the relationship between terrain and the dynamic landscape it supports and engenders. The course explores and challenges the…
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Digital Media: Writing Form
This course offers an introduction to the field of design and computation through the essential pursuit of writing form. Setting aside the…
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Digital Media: Models
This course is an introduction to fundamental concepts, techniques, and methods related to digital media in architecture and design, with a focus on reciprocal processes…
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Digital Media: Not Magic
According to folklore, Michelangelo fell to his knees upon seeing the Florentine fresco Annunciation, went silent, and eventually concluded that the image of the Virgin…
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Responsive Environments
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
The tangential inherently implicates the expression of how two things touch. In a moment where touching has become complicated, a formal exploration…
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Image as Instruments
Image as Instruments is an introduction to fundamental concepts, techniques, and methods in digital design, with a focus on the processes of translation between digital…
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Public Drawing
This course seeks to open a discussion around the design and representation of public space in informal settlements, aiming to provide students with tools for…
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Drawing for Designers 2: Human Presence and Appearance in Natural and Built Environment
The course is intended as a creative drawing laboratory for designers, an expressive and playful supplement to computer-based labor. The aim of…
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Place-Based Scenario Planning
The climate crisis is, in part, a communication crisis. How can we communicate the choices that communities will need to make to adapt to climate…
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Images of the Environment
This research seminar will focus on producing thick descriptions of key photographs that shaped our understandings of various environmental crises post-December 7th, 1972. The photographed…
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Theories and Practices of Landscape Architecture
Pablo Pérez-Ramos, Anita Berrizbeitia
What do you need to know in order to understand this landscape? How do design culture and design thinking transform over time? How are cultural…
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WildWays: Entanglements of Nature in the Anthropocene
This seminar interrogates changing ideas of nature on an urbanizing planet under the cascading polycrisis of global heating, biodiversity loss, and socio-ecological vulnerability. Grounded in…
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Material Practice and its Agency
This seminar introduces an understanding of material discourse in design and architecture that affects cultural, social ,economic and political issues. In addition to their pragmatic…
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Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Landscape, Energy, Matter
The structures and forms we perceive on the surface of the land are produced by forces that make order and those that upset it. Landscape…
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Thinking Landscape – Making Cities: Designing Regenerative Futures
This design seminar challenges the notion of a gradual adaptation to the climate crisis with proactive regenerative design. Students will create a new settlement pattern…
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Towards a Newer Brutalism
In the early 1950s, Alison and Peter Smithson, along with their friend and colleague Reyner Banham, announced their arrival with a call for “a new…
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Urban Grids-3:Grid Plan versus Big Project
The historic evolution of the city can be tied to “regular systems” that have allowed for rational forms of development, which can be understand as…
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Appearance
This seminar will focus on architecture’s appearance, on how architecture is rendered both legible and actionable to its audience. The many labels applied to architecture’s…
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African Landscape Architecture: Alternative Futures for the Field
A central aim of this seminar is to reveal the plurality of ways landscapes are shaped across the African continent and how they help mitigate…
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Design Teaching Lab (DTL)
This course teaches design teaching for those interested in pursuing parallel paths in design and education. Starting from an understanding of design as a culture…
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