Courses
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Scale: City, Object, Field
*PLEASE NOTE*The first class meeting will take place this Thursday (September 3rd) from 1-2:00 pm in room 510. The seminar is concerned with how scale…
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Fifteen Things (a secret history of Italian design)
Fifteen Things (a secret history of Italian design) Department of Architecture Seminar – 4 credits limited enrollment Tuesday 2:00 – 5:00 510 Gund HallFifteen Things…
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Proseminar in History, Theory and Urban Design
Proseminar in History, Theory and Urban Design K. Michael Hays, Timothy Hyde Department of Urban Planning and Design Seminar – 4 credits Monday 12:00 –…
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CAD/CAM: Introduction to Applications in Architecture
CAD/CAMIntroduction to Applications in ArchitectureCourse DescriptionComputer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) techniques have widely pervaded fabrication environments for the production of architecture. Knowledge of this technology…
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ZED Workshop
The seminar examines the process of innovative architectural practice, integrating the research and development of emerging green technologies from concept to collaborative design and engineering.
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Natural Building Ventilation
Syllabus for 6419: Natural Building VentilationTerm: Fall 2009Department: ArchitectureCourse Type: Seminar Workshop (2 credits)Instructor: Jelena Srebric, Ph.D.Time and location: Please note, this course will meet…
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Design Research Methods
The purpose of this proseminar is to (a) guide doctoral students in the development and preparation of their research proposals, (b) to provide them with…
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A New Framework for Practice
The purpose of this course is: 1. to enable students to better understand the landscape of contemporary practice within a larger social, economic and political…
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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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Toward Socially-inclusive Sustainable Development Toward Socially-inclusive Sustainable Development
Joan Busquets, Ingeborg Rocker, Chris Reed, Spiro Pollalis, Niall Kirkwood, John Hong, Wooyoung Kimm, Jinhee Park, Hailim Suh, Brian Kenet, William Valentine
Warrensville Heights, Ohio is an economically challenged, post-industrial, inner-ring suburb of Cleveland. At the heart of this community is a 17-acre brownfield site that the…
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Interactive Spaces
This course provides the framework for the design of advanced spatial interactivity on the Internet. By rethinking the relation between information and space, the course…
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Cinematic Architecture
This course focuses on the idea that architecture can be conceived, understood, and presented as a narrative (i.e. a story about a building). Similar to…
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Building Books
Please note, this course has an irregular schedule. See below.The course will introduce students to the potentials of the book as amedium for the…
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iTimeLightSpace: Architecture/Landscape Animation/Invention
T. Kelly Wilson, Stephen Ervin
iTimeLightSpace: Architecture/Landscape Animation/InventionCritics: Adjunct Associate Prof. T. Kelly Wilson Director of Digital Resources, Stephen ErvinThis cross disciplinary seminar, which will meet once a week, will…
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Digitalization Takes Command
This course will critically survey the claims made since the introduction of digital technology to the discipline and practice of architecture and evaluate them in…
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Digital Culture: Architecture and Cities
The rise of digital culture has coincided with a profound change in architecture that goes beyond the spectacular forms produced with the help of the…
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Tracing Mobilities – Designing Ubiquities
Tracing Mobilities — Designing UbiquitiesHuman activities are increasingly conducted while people are \”on the move.\” Mobility is the coordination in time and space, with impact…
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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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Visual Fabrics: Film, Fashion and Material Culture
Explores the common language of film and fashion, both powerful image makers and objects of material culture. Film and fashion share a role with architecture…
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Paris: The Growth of a Modern Metropolis
This seminar examines the role Paris has played in the birth and development of the idea of the modern city as seen through the multiple…
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The Piranesi Effect
The Piranesi EffectThis seminar will focus on the work and legacy of the architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). A selective approach to relevant aspects of…
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Building Information Models
This seminar course explores Building Information Models (BIM), business processes, applications and environments (e.g., Revit). These environments are quickly being adopted throughout the building industry…
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Green R+D: Case Studies in Sustainability
This class provides a forum for the investigation of advances in the design of green buildings, components, and assemblies. Design pull, the push of technology,…
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Construction Automation
Construction AutomationPrerequisites: CAD/CAM 1 or permission of instructorOffered only for the second time this year, this advanced seminar introduces students to emerging technologies under the…
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The Bilbao Guggenhein Museum: Topics in Project Management
The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao has had an unprecedented impact not only on the city of Bilbao but also on the value of design and…
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Kinetic Architecture
In architecture, the notion of motion is often represented as an abstract formal configuration that implies relationships of cause and effect. Deformation, juxtaposition, superimposition, absence,…
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Immersive Environments
Over the past 15 years several areas of research within digital practice have evolved into their own disciplinary areas of knowledge – from prototyping and…
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Superficial Spaces
At a time when architectural discourse and practice are still brimming with references to new geometries, this course investigates the architectural potential of three-dimensional surfaces.
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The Architecture of Mobility: Desiging for the Mobile Subject
The Architecture of Mobility: Designing for the Mobile SubjectMax HirshThis course interrogates the relationship between architecture practice and mobility and examines architectural strategies that address…
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Film Architectures: Seminar Course
What is our experience of architecture in cinema? Considering the relation of these two arts of space, we look at how film and architecture are…
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The Ruin Aesthetic: Episodes in the History of an Architectural Idea
The Ruin Aesthetic: Episodes in the History of an Architectural Idea One of the most arresting images in Michel Serres\’s Rome: The Book of Foundations…
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Advanced Fabrications: Fast, Cheap, and Brilliant
Advanced Fabrication: Fast, Cheap, and BrilliantThe field\’s longstanding emphasis on stability and timelessness as hallmarks of serious work has unnecessarily limited the scope of projects…
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Building Performance Simulation – Energy
Building Performance Simulation – EnergyThis seminar will introduce students to technical and non-technical aspects of using whole building energy simulation during building design, retrofitting and…
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Smart Materials
This course introduces students to smart materials, a term used to describe materials and products that have changeable properties and that are able to reversibly…
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Design Research Methods
The purpose of this seminar is to guide doctoral students in the development and preparation of their research proposals. First, it will expose students to…
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A New Framework for Practice
During the past several years, top-tier architects, landscape architects and urban planners practicing in the major economies of the world have enjoyed an unprecedented abundance…
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Interactive Spaces
This course provides the framework for the design of advanced spatial interactivity on the Internet. By rethinking the relation between information and space, the course…
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Advanced Studies in Architectural Computing
The course is an in-depth study into the theories, processes, and structures of computing in architecture. It will seek to develop design projects that will…
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Drawing from Masters
It takes two artists to make a drawing, even if one of them is dead. — Anonymous\”The artist accustomed to copying the best from the…
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The Domestic Scene
Few spaces are as consciously contrived in their form and appearance as those of the private dwelling. Coincident with the advent of the \”cult of…
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The Function of Systems
The Function of Systems Cities that once hosted nations now host a rich array of \’cosmopolitans\’ as a result of processes of globalization. Cities are…
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The (New) Languages of Architecture
The (New) Languages of ArchitectureInstructor: Sanford KwinterThe last decade and a half has seen a remarkable profusion of architectural styles, an entirely new level of…
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Visual Fabrics: Film, Fashion and Material Culture
Explores the common language of film and fashion, both powerful image makers and objects of material culture. Film and fashion share a role with architecture…
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Artifice: (An Archeology of Postmodernism)
The styles of Philip Johnson, Charles Moore\’s historicism, the linguistics of Peter Eisenman, and the theatrics of Hans Hollein; the technophilia of Cedric Price and…
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Material Matters: Case Studies on the Environmental Impact of Material Selection and Application
Material Matters:Case studies on the environmental impact of material selection and applicationThe various fields included under the rubric of design have had a tremendous impact…
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Building Information Models
This seminar course explores Building Information Models (BIM), business processes, applications and environments (e.g., Revit). These environments are quickly being adopted throughout the building industry…
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Construction Automation
Construction AutomationPrerequisites: CAD/CAM 1 or permission of instructorThis advanced seminar introduces students to emerging technologies under the broad umbrella of construction automation. An extension of…
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Surfacing Stone: Digital Explorations in Masonry Curtain Wall Design
Surfacing Stone: Digital Explorations in Masonry Curtain Wall Design Instructors: Martin Bechthold, Wes McGee and Monica Ponce de LeonCourse Description:This course will research the potential…
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The Bilbao Guggenhein Museum: Topics in Project Management
The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao has had an unprecedented impact not only on the city of Bilbao but also on the value of design and…
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Kinetic Architecture
In architecture, the notion of motion is often represented as an abstract formal configuration that implies relationships of cause and effect. Deformation, juxtaposition, superimposition, absence,…