Courses
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The Dead
What do we do with the dead? Humans are the only species on earth to ritually prepare and intentionally place their dead, constructing graves, tombs,…
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Ford’s Fields: Readings in Urbanism, Ecology, and Industrial Economy
Across a range of disciplines, landscape has emerged over the past decade as model and medium for the contemporary city. This has been particularly true…
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The Culture Now Project
Uncertainty The Culture Now Project focuses on cities beyond metropolitan areas or in remote rural areas—Midsize America: a vast area of the American terrain,…
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Canceled: Urbanism, Quantified: Modalities of mapping and modeling in contemporary design practice
Contemporary design practice has a habit of qualifying the word “urbanism” with any number of modifiers: Ecological Urbanism. Landscape Urbanism. Relational Urbanism. Tactical Urbanism. These…
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Fieldwork in Conservation Design
Architects practicing in the 21st century can no longer assume that most of their design projects will begin with an empty site. Several factors –…
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Landscape as Urbanism in Latin America
Schedule updated to 8:30-11:30 on Tuesdays. The discourse and practices of landscape as urbanism as developed over the past two decades can be found…
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Type and the Idea of the City
Open to all students, the seminars in this course will compliment Option Studio 1508: The Factory and the City. It will provide the theoretical…
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Socio-Environmental Responsive Design
Jose Luis Vallejo, Belinda Tato
This seminar considers the complexity of the human ecosystem and the interpenetration of natural and artificial elements that are embedded within it. People, nature,…
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The Architecture of Health: Power, Technology, and the Hospital
This seminar traces the form of the hospital from the beginning of modern medicine through to the present, across Europe, the United States, and…
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Film, Media, Space (at VES)
The possibility to access the media everywhere and every time gives us the illusion to be emancipated from any temporal or spatial constraint and yet,…
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Soft Thought: Towards a Theory of Computational Design
Digital design remains one of the few areas within the discipline of architecture that remains relatively under theorized. This situation is in part the result…
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The Subject and the City
This seminar takes as its premise that a history and theory of the city cannot be known without an accompanying history and theory…
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The Subject and the City
This seminar takes as its premise that a history and theory of the city cannot be known without an accompanying history and theory of the…
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The Forms of Water: Aquatic Landscapes in South America
South America can be analyzed as an aquatic territory: the three major river basins (Orinoco, Amazonas and the Plata), ground waters as the Guaraní…
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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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The Beginnings of Design: Living Together with Other Buildings
Please note, this course has an irregular schedule. See below.It is a rare building that isn\’t affected by the presence of other buildings. During…
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Dilbert’s cubicle and other workplace delights
This course will study very specific industrial design objects whose history has affected the evolution of the work place.Students will be required to design furniture,…
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The Function of Style
Farshid Moussavi, James Khamsi
This seminar is a continuation of the research on function initiated in past years.The function of ornament challenged the understanding of ornament as superficial and…
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The Function of Style
The \”generic city\” of the late 20th century, which was defined by senselessness and anonymity, has given way to a new type of urbanism. Whether…
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The Function of Style: 2000-2010
Farshid Moussavi, Jonathan Scelsa
During the 19th and most of the 20th century, discussions of style revolved around pure formalism or pure functionalism. Style, as the way of assembling…
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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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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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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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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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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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New Geographies: Shaping Context by Design
The participants in the seminar will be presented with the following proposal: The Geographic is a dominant but latent paradigm in design today which we…
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New Geographies: Imagining a City-World Beyond Cosmopolis
The course invites the students to imagine better urban and architectural forms that overcome the limitations of the global city, or cosmopolis. Much of the…
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New Geographies: Imagining a City-World Beyond Cosmopolis
The course invites the students to imagine better urban and architectural forms that overcome the limitations of the global city, or cosmopolis. Much of the…
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Urban Design for Planners
course objectivesThis seminar course will introduce physical planners to the approaches, techniques, and tools of urban design necessary to structure the spatial and dimensional relationships…
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Urban Design for Planners
This seminar course will introduce physical planners to the approaches, techniques, and tools of urban design necessary to structure the spatial and dimensional relationships of…
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Introduction to Urban Design Techniques
This seminar course will introduce students from outside the discipline of urban design to the approaches, techniques, and tools of urban design necessary to structure…
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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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Buildings from Within
Please note first class takes place on Tuesday, January 30.As a complement to the lecture course, this seminar will examine 4 projects of my own.
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Light and Space: Experiments in Transforming the Photosphere
This course will have two primary focuses. The first will be on the experimental manipulation of materials and the environment with a view to understanding…
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Light and Space: Experiments in Transforming the Photosphere
This course will have two primary focuses. The first will be on the experimental manipulation of materials and the environment with a view to understanding…
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Feeling and Form
Course will explore problems of perception of space and time and the structures of experience. We will look at historical modernist forms of experiment and…
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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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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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Digital Culture, Architecture and the City
This course is scheduled to take place in the Sackler lecture hall, in the Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway. Some twenty years ago, when…
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Digital Culture, Architecture and the City
Some twenty years ago, when Bernard Tschumi and young instructors like Greg Lynn or Ali Rahim launched the so-called \”Paperless Studio,\” based upon the intensive…
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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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Global Redesign Project
In the last few iterations of this seminar, we have started to extend our skillset as designers of the built environment to outside of our…
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Paths of Leisure and the South American Project
Within the first decades of the Twentieth century Oscar Niemeyer conceived innovative hostels in Minas Gerais Brazil. Riding the summits of the Avila above…
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Architecture and Art: From Minimalism to Neuro-phenomenology
Since the first pronouncements of the \’death\’ of painting in the post-Abstract Expressionist era, art consistently sought to radicalize its practice by overturning the traditional…
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The Architectural Imagination (Graduate Seminar in General Education)
K. Michael Hays, Erika Naginski
This course is a Graduate Seminar in General Education. We seek graduate students, especially doctoral students, from departments across the University. In the seminar, we…
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Transformations in Spatial Thought: 1970-2000
The ideas of three theorist-historians dominated architectural thought through the postwar mid-century: those of Colin Rowe, Aldo Rossi, and Manfredo Tafuri. At some point in…
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