Courses
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Materials and Construction: An Introduction to Techniques, Composition and Strategies
Mark Mulligan, Danielle Etzler
This course will meet for the first time on Friday, August 31st, at 9 am in Room 109. This module introduces students to…
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Energy, Technology and Building
This lecture course introduces students to energy and environmental issues, particularly those that must be faced by the discipline of architecture. An overview of the…
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Analysis and Design of Building Structures I
The first meeting of this course will take place on Friday, August 31st from 2:30-4 in room 111. The course introduces the discipline of…
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Building Technology
As the final component in the required sequence of technology courses, this professionally-oriented course develops an integral understanding of the design and construction of buildings…
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Computational Design [Numerical Descriptions as Design Tools]
This is a series of lectures and workshops on computational design covering fundamental and advanced topics in the field. The lectures will introduce mathematical and…
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Simulation in Design
The best intent does not always lead to the best performing design, as intuition and rules of thumb sometimes fail to adequately inform decision making.
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Life-Cycle Design
The design of sustainable buildings has long focused on reduced energy needs during the operational phase, largely disregarding energy and material consumption as well as…
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The Architect in History: The Evolution of Practice from the Renaissance to the Present
This course examines the history of architectural practice, focusing on the changing role and definition of the architect, with the goal of providing new perspectives…
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Design and Development: from Concept to Implementation
This course examines the real estate development process, from the first design idea and original conceptual sketch to the creation of building and infrastructure assets.
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Library Test Kitchen
Jeffrey Schnapp, Jeff Goldenson, Ann Whiteside
Bridging the analog and the digital worlds, the offline and the online, libraries represent one of the most exciting opportunities for design and redesign on…
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MArch II Proseminar
This course provides a forum for critical discussion of contemporary design practices that is exploratory and speculative in nature. The course emphasizes collaborative thinking and…
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Responsive Environments: DISAPPEARANCE
This course focuses on creating digitally driven interactive experiences in our built environment derived from technological advances in embedded technologies, smart materials, and body-centric interactive…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts II
Any account of architecture’s history over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries is faced with the challenge of addressing the general rupture caused…
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Frames of Mind: Approaches to Film Theory
Introduction to the language of film theory aimed at developing analytic skills to interpret films. Historical survey of classical and contemporary theory beginning with turn-of-the-century…
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Rome and St. Peters
The art and architecture of Rome from Antiquity to Modernity with particular attention to the Vatican, where the layering of material artifacts from successive historical…
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Michelangelo: Precedents, Innovations, Influence
An exploration of Italian Renaissance architecture and urbanism through the persona of Michelangelo as witness, agent, and inspiration. We look at architecture and urbanism in…
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Case Studies in Critical Conservation: Architecture and Urban Design
K. Michael Hays, Rahul Mehrotra
Case studies in the conservation of selected buildings and city fabrics presented by experts in the field provide the focus for discussions of contemporary conservation…
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Materials, Constructions, Processes
The course introduces a conceptual framework for the design of building assemblies, as informed by a clear understanding of construction technologies and of the properties…
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Environmental Technologies in Buildings
The primary focus of this course is the study of the thermal, luminous and acoustic behavior of buildings in an architectural context. The course examines…
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Analysis and Design of Building Structures II
A continuation of GSD 6201, this course provides students with an enhanced understanding of structural analysis and engineering design concepts. Students learn the fundamentals of…
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Innovative Construction in Japan
Modern Japanese architecture has been much admired in the West for its attention to materials, its refined construction details, and its ability to…
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In Search of Design through Engineers
Hanif Kara, Andreas Georgoulias
This course aims to teach, stimulate and demonstrate \”design led\” opportunities that exist in the zone between Architecture and Engineering, through the paradigm of Design…
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Sustainability
Prerequisite: GSD 6205 or equivalent Course description: Based on basic information form the background lectures the application of a sustainable approach into a…
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Optimizations
Optimization in design problems is elusive due to the inherent multiplicity and ambiguity of the optimal for real world problems. However partial optimization of specific…
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Issues in Architectural Practice and Ethics
Maryann Thompson, Jay Wickersham
This course, for students in the fourth semester of the M.Arch I program, examines basic issues arising in contemporary architectural practice. The course challenges the students to examine critically…
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Real Estate Development, Design, and Construction
John Macomber, A. Eugene Kohn, Christopher Gordon
Jointly Listed at Harvard Business School as HBS 1465 General Notes: GSD students should register for this course as GSD 7409.The course GSD 7309,…
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Leading the Design Firm
This course introduces students to the business side of the design industry. It highlights the ways in which a design firm is a business like…
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Visual Studies
This course will help you develop your sketching ability. The emphasis is heuristic-on specific ways that hand drawing can inspire, guide, and speed your design…
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Projective Representation in Architecture
This course examines the history, theory and practice of parallel (orthographic) and central (perspective) projection. The objective is to provide the tools to imagine and…
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Digital Media I
Iterative design workflows will be used for generating, analyzing and representing variations in form, light, materials, and temporal simulations in the design development process. The…
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Digital Media II
Topics in Parametric and Generative Geometry and Modeling This class explores the design and science of logical form making, examined through geometry, parametric control, algorithms,…
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What Are We Up To?
Course is offered as part of the Paris study abroad.Enrollment in this course is no longer open as it is part of the Paris Study…
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A Science of the Environment
The science of ecology purports to study life as the sum of interactions between organisms and their natural environment. The term \’natural\’ has in recent…
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MArch II Proseminar
Prerequisites: Enrollment in the MArch II program.This course provides a forum for critical discussion of contemporary design practices that is exploratory and speculative in nature.
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts I: Classical and Baroque (folds of history and theory)
K. Michael Hays, Erika Naginski
This course is structured as a dialogue between the historical and theoretical frameworks that have shaped the formulation of architectural principles – what the architectural…
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Film, Modernity and Visual Culture
Cinema has changed the way we see and think. Modern visual culture develops with the art of film. Course considers this major 20th century shift…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts III: Architecture in the 20th Century
This course will examine the discourse and practices of modern architecture in the context of the political, economic, aesthetic, and cultural changes that occurred across…
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Authority and Invention: Medieval Art and Architecture
Masterworks of art and architecture in Western Europe from the decline of Rome to the dawn of the Italian Renaissance. Explores the creative tension between…
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Situating the Modern: Modern Architecture and Vernacular Traditions
The first meeting of this course will take place on September 1st at 6 PM in room 318. Interested students should plan to attend. This…
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The Ruin Aesthetic: Episodes in the History of an Architectural Idea
One of the arresting images in Michel Serres\’s Rome: The Book of Foundations is the idea that history is \”a knot of different times\” —…
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Paris: The Design of a Metropolis
Enrollment in this course is closed. It is offered as part of the Paris study abroad program. The class will offer an in-depth reading of…
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Materials and Construction: An Introduction to Techniques, Composition and Strategies
Mark Mulligan, Danielle Etzler
This module introduces students to fundamental properties and behaviors of buildings and other structures. Principles of design and construction are discussed in a comprehensive manner…
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Energy, Technology and Building
This lecture course introduces students to energy and environmental issues, particularly those that must be faced by the discipline of architecture. An overview of the…
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Analysis and Design of Building Structures I
The course introduces the discipline of structural engineering as a means of unlocking hidden architectural design potential. Students develop the skills necessary to make…
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Building Technology
Prerequisites: GSD 6202, GSD 6203, and GSD 6205; or equivalent. As the final component in the required sequence of technology courses, this professionally oriented course…
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Computational Design [Numerical Descriptions as Design Tools]
The first meeting of Panagiotis Michalatos\’ 06338: Computational Design [Numerical Descriptions as Design Tools] will take place in room 124 at 10 AM this Thursday,…
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Modeling Urban Energy Flows
The primary focus of this course is the study of energy flows in and around groups of buildings. The investigated scales will range from individual…
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Structural Engineering and Architecture
The first meeting of this course will take place on September 6th at 6 PM in room 318. Interested students should plan to attend. This…
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The Architect in History: The Evolution of Practice from Renaissance to Present
This course examines the history of architectural practice, focusing on the changing role and definition of the architect, with the goal of providing new perspectives…