Courses
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Designing the Underneath: Architecture and/as Infrastructure
As both a collection of built objects – bridges, highways, tunnels, cables – and as a set of ideas about modernity, architecture has long sought…
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Space and Subjectivity in the Modern Period
Antoine Picon, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
The seminar will examine the relation between architectural space, real and imagined, and the constructions of the self from the 18th century to the present.
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Proseminar in History, Theory and Urban Studies
Prerequisites: Four graduate-level courses in this area or enrollment in doctoral program.This research seminar addresses subjects of history, theory and human sciences related to architecture…
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CAD/CAM: Introduction to Applications in Architecture
Seminar, limited enrollmentComputer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) techniques have widely pervaded fabrication environments for the production of architecture. Knowledge of this technology now has become…
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Acoustics
The schedule for this course is variable. Please select this studio carefully. To be able to do the project the students must have some…
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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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Painting and Paint; Studio Practice with Oil
The premise of this workshop is to establish a relationship, in oil painting, between individual experience by perception and the language(s) of representation and color.
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Carefully Reading Koolhaas
Introduction to Course:This course is a reading seminar, focusing on a selection of texts written by Rem Koolhaas, and a parallel selection of projects designed…
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Tessellation in Architecture
The seminar will seek to produce a graphic manual for the use of tessellation in architecture. We will examine architectural projects, with the aim to…
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Architecture and the Market
\”Between these two worlds – that of production, where everything is made, and that of consumption, where everything is used up – the market economy…
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Artifice
\”The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.\” Oscar WildeThis…
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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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The Bilbao Guggenhein Museum: Topics in Project Management
Please note the course schedule below.The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao has had an unprecedented impact not only on the city of Bilbao but also…
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Mobile Information Unit
Martin Bechthold, Martin Zogran
Students in last fall\’s course CAD/CAM I have proposed the design for a mobile information unit that is to be built this year. The unit…
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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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Elegance in Architecture
This seminar will explore systemic thinking and digital design techniquesthat yield elegant architectural forms. The last thirteen years in digital design and fabrication have given…
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The Ideology of the Map
Mapping reveals the complex relationship between representation and thinking, technology, culture and aesthetic practices. Embedded in the procedure are the general terms of cartography and…
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Out of the Box
Research for an upcoming exhibition, we will be looking at the work by a handful of architects who graduated from the GSD in the 40s…
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Paris and the Idea of the Modern City
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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Proseminar in History, Theory and Urban Studies
This research seminar addresses subjects of history, theory and human sciences related to architecture and the city for students preparing for or enrolled in doctoral…
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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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Interactive Spaces
This course provides the framework for the design of spatial interactivity.By rethinking the relationships between narration, information and space, the course investigates the potential of…
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Advanced Studies in Architectural Computing
DescriptionThe 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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The Marathon Drawing Studio
FIELD PAINTINGThis seminar/workshop will introduce the practice of plein air painting to the architect. The issues of color and spatial invention through the medium of…
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Difference, Experience, Sensibility: Three Themes in European Architecture
For several decades, architecture in Europe aspired to contribute to general culture. It has represented concepts, demonstrated principles, embodied types or merely set examples. In…
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Architectural criticism in the post-Tafuri era
3416: Architectural criticism in the post-Tafuri eraTwentieth century modern architecture always had as a mandatory companion a group of critics, which were ready to argue…
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The Function of Ornament
The seminar will undertake a survey of modern ornament as this has been explored through building envelopes by various architects, in order to construct a…
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Texture Analysis: Film, Fashion, and Material Culture: Seminar
Film and fashion are most powerful image-makers. They are prime agents of visual expression and objects of material culture. They share a role in conveying…
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Independent Study by Candidates for PhD Degrees
Prerequisites: Four graduate-level courses in this area or enrollment in doctoral program.This research seminar addresses subjects of history, theory and human sciences related to architecture…
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The Bilbao Guggenhein Museum: Topics in Project Management
WEB SITEhttps://icommons.harvard.edu/~gsd-7222/. COURSE DESCRIPTIONSpiro N. Pollalis, Luis RodriguezLimited enrolment: 16 studentsThe Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao has had an unprecedented impact not only on the city…
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Design Research in Product Design
COURSE DESCRIPTIONWhat is design research? What are its criteria of success? The seminar/workshop will investigate design research methods from two perspectives:1.the Industrial Design/ Architecture interface.
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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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Universal Design and other Design Dilemmas
Ohms, Environments: Architecture, Environment, ResistanceIn 1959 UC Berkeley placed its school of architecture under the authority of \”environment.\” Berkeley\’s new College of Environmental Design signaled…
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Modulating Monocoques
The necessity to produce continuity, structure and articulation within complex topologic surfaces has given rise to a new refinement in contemporary architecture practice. While modularity…
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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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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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Smart Materials: Design Issues and Applications
Smart Materials, long the mainstay of advanced engineering applications, have begun to join the palette of fashionable materials for architecture. High visibility projects, elaborate installation…
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Strategic Management in Design and Construction
Real estate, civil engineering, architecture, and construction together comprise the largest industry in the world. Major social systems such as governments and marketplaces, major natural…
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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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Interactive Spaces
GSD 2314 Interactive Spaces explores the potentials of media as an integral part of architectural spaces. The seminar examines series of case studies and looks…
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Advanced Studies in Architectural Computing
DescriptionThe 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
FIELD PAINTINGThis seminar/workshop will introduce the practice of plein air painting to the architect. The issues of color and spatial invention through the medium of…
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Safety and Security in Design
The seminar will begin on February 9. Starting on February 3rd, pleasefeel free to email me at [email protected] and I will send youthe syllabus and…
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Modernism / Modernity
This reading-intensive seminar explores four dominant strains in the theorizing of modernism – Marxism and Critical Theory (Manfredo Tafuri, Hilde Heynen), Formalism (Colin Rowe, Robin…
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Transition/Zagreb: Urban Condition and Spatial Practice
The seminar is concerned with conceptualizing and examining transition as both a condition and spatial practice of the European post-communist city. A sequel to last…
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Proseminar in History and Theory
Prerequisites: Four graduate-level courses in this area or enrollment in doctoral program.This research seminar addresses subjects of history, theory and human sciences related to architecture…
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Innovative Constructions: cases in modern Japan
Enrollment: limited to 12Course Description Modern Japanese architecture has been much admired in the West for its attention to materials, its refined construction details, and…