Courses
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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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Re-visions: Recording Architecture
This course introduces advanced digital techniques and motion graphics as primary emerging modes of architectural representation. Surprisingly little use of these approaches has been made…
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Special Offerings in Design Theory
Provocation\”There is hardly any real architectural theory to be found, despite the diversity of practices at work today, anddespite a hugely expanded volume of architectural…
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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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Approaching the History of Modern of Architecture from Out There
Capitalist expansion is a crucial factor in explaining modern art (e.g., \”Primitivism\” and Cubism). This factor, however, is ignored in explaining modern architecture, as can…
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Conflict + Modernity: Case Study ZAGREB
This course is concerned with understanding the modalities of modernization and urban transformation in the context of cities in a region of Central Europe that…
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Critical History: Space, Place, and Science
The seminar will examine various philosophical and historical approaches to the question of the relation between urban space, architecture, and science, from the founding reflections…
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Structural Surfaces
It is a common misbelief that curvature automatically lends structural capacities to any surface. While geometry and structural properties are indeed closely related, the precise…
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Proseminar in Building Technology: Light Science
This proseminar is open to doctoral students and other advanced students who are focusing their research on the energy-based technologies in architecture or on advanced…
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Founding Practices
The objective of this seminar/workshop is to equip individuals who aspire to found a design practice with the basic knowledge and tools required to conceptualize…
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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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From Concept to Implementation
This course focuses on the organizational and managerial issues to carry an architectural design from concept to implementation. Centering on the needs of the owner,…
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Drawing from Masters
\’It takes two artists to make a drawing, even if one of them is dead.\’AnonymousThis course will introduce the student of drawing to the master…
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Urban Infoscapes
An increasing amount of information is available to urban designers and planners. Remote sensing and aerial photography have the potential to relay continuous and real…
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Proseminar in History and Theory
This seminar is for students in the Ph.D. program. Participants will present work toward their dissertation or toward a major research paper, emphasizing issues of…
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New Materials and Technologies
Michelle Addington, Daniel Schodek
New Materials and Technologies for Design6208-01Seminar and Materials workshop6208-02Seminar and Simulation workshopInstructors:Dan SchodekMichelle AddingtonJohn AnCourse Meeting Times and LocationThursday afternoons, from 12:00 pm to 2:00…
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Databases in Design
Pau De Sola-Morales Serra, Ugo Gagliardi
The growing embodiment of architectural design in digital media requires the proper choice of data structure, formats, and protocols (system architecture) to insure that the…
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Innovative Constructions: cases in modern Japan
Modern Japanese architecture has been much admired in the West for its attention to materials, its refined construction details, and its ability to integrate traditional…
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Structural Surfaces
The seminar explores the use of structural surfaces in architecture, with reference to furniture and product design. It focuses on folded surfaces, pre-stressed surfaces and…
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The Bilbao Guggenhein Museum: Topics in Project Management
Spiro Pollalis, Luis Rodriguez
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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Technology in Design
This research seminar explores the use of information technology in the design process and in project delivery. The focus is on the designer and specifically…
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Independent Research Study
Peter Rowe, Eve Blau, Joan Busquets, Sheila Kennedy, Richard Peiser, Bing Wang
This research seminar examines \”transparency\” as a critical concept in the theoretical conceptualization of modern architecture in the 20th century. The purpose of the seminar…
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Algorithmic Architecture
As architecture enters the new era of digital representation, geometrical theories and processes are being implemented, tested, and pushed to their limits. Recent theories of…
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Universal Design and other Design Dilemmas
This course will trace a topic at the intersection between Architecture, Interior Design and Industrial Design: Universal Design. While today it encompasses very specific principles,…
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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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Computer – Aided Design and Manufacturing & Manufacturing: Design Development
The course will focus on the use of CATIA in relation to the design development process. Students will complete a series of required introductory exercises,…
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Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing: Fundamentals
This seminar will introduce the fundamentals of CAD/CAM technologies through lectures and hands-on workshop activities using the facilities at the school. The technologies will be…
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Structures in Design
Why don\’t things fall down? Some of us believe that this is a question well worth considering in architecture, and not just a problem that…
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Proseminar in Building Technology: Light Science
This proseminar is open to doctoral students and other advanced studentswho are focusing their research on the energy-based technologies inarchitecture, with a particular emphasis on…
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Founding Practices
The objective of this seminar/workshop is to equip individuals who aspire to found a design practice with the basic knowledge and tools required to conceptualize…
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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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New Diagnostic Approaches for Practicing Architects
Most business leaders don\’t see space in a workplace environment; only the objects that occupy space. To see space or, more precisely, the shape of…
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From Concept to Implementation
This course focuses on the organizational and managerial issues to carry an architectural design from concept to implementation. Centering on the needs of the owner,…
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Independent Research Study: Weaving Material and Habitation
Toshiko Mori, Joan Busquets, Elizabeth Mossop, Remment Koolhaas, Yue Wu, Alex Krieger, Peter Rowe, Matthew Kiefer, Jeffrey Inaba
The Workshop explores fabrication and material potential of weaving methods to consider possibilities for habitation structures. Weaving exists in every culture. It is one of…
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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 abstraction and representation.
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L’Esquisse
Making up the architect\’s first response to the elemental conditions of a project is a combination of pure mental speculation and the first physical signs…
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On the artifact
The ways in which we read and construe the value of artifacts within the material realm ultimately circumscribes what we are capable of conceptualizing and…
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Cities, Territories and Infrastructures
Contemporary urban and territorial space is largely produced by infrastructures. Some of them, like railways, freeways, giant bridges, or power plants, are overwhelmingly present in…
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Proseminar in History and Theory
This seminar is for students in the Ph.D. program. Participants will present work toward their dissertation or toward a major research paper, emphasizing issues of…
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New Materials and Technologies
Daniel Schodek, Michelle Addington
OVERVIEW…In normative design approaches, a single design state is usually created. The surface, the wall, and the envelope typically serve as the material bounds that…
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Databases in Design
Ugo Gagliardi, Pau De Sola-Morales Serra
The growing embodiment of architectural design in digital media requires the proper choice of data structure, formats, and protocols (system architecture) to insure that the…
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surfaces. kinetics
The seminar explores the use of surfaces and kinetic systems in architecture, with reference to furniture and product design. \’Surfaces\’ are explored first by an…
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Concept to Construct: Building Components and Assemblies
This research seminar will explore how various architects applied computer assisted tools and strategies in the development of design concept, building component fabrication and construction…
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The Bilbao Guggenhein Museum: Topics in Project Management
Spiro Pollalis, Luis Rodriguez
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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Technology in Design
This research seminar explores the use of information technology in the design process and in project delivery. The focus is on the designer and specifically…
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3x3x3: THREE months, THREE projects, THREE-thousand clients
Good design starts way before architects start sketching. Top architects are often distinguished from the rest partly because they insist on direct contact and close…