Courses
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Advanced Independent Seminar/Workshop: Weaving, Materials and Habitation
Mark Mulligan, Toshiko Mori, Remment Koolhaas, Peter Rowe, Richard Marshall, Roberto Pasini, Jeffrey Inaba, Richard Sommer, Alex Krieger, Martin Zogran
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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Product Design: Industrial Design
Intended as an in-depth overview of the history and practice of product design, the seminar will investigate questions central to its discipline.The course will follow…
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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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Transparency
The concept of transparency is, therefore, critical – not only to understanding early and mid-20th century modernism – but also to engaging current architectural concerns…
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Energy and Environment Implications for Buildings: Daylight
Energy and environmental considerations for buildings have typically been in the form of prescription: material specifications and/or design guidelines. These prescriptions not only limit the…
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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. The course is organized into two…
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Strategic Management in Design and Construction
Together, real estate and construction make up the largest industry in the world. They are also exceptionally fragmented, fractious, and information intensive. The Internet and…
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People and Buildings
Most business leaders don\’t see space; only the objects that occupy space. To see space or, more precisely, the shape of space is a new…
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Oil Painting: Perception to Abstraction
The premise of this workshop is to establish a relationship, in oil painting, between individual experience by perception and the language(s) of abstraction. The workshop…
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Projected Thinking: Representation in 2 and 3D
This workshop will be in three phases, each combining lecture presentations with hands-on studio work. The first phase will explore the effective use of cinematic…
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Introduction to Graphic Design
Introduction to Graphic Design is an intensive twelve week course that formats lectures and studio classes to engage students in the practical applications of graphic…
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Modern Architecture – Architectural Criticism
***NOTE***This class will follow the schedule:Wednesday & Thursday, 9:00-11:00 a.m.Room 318Feb. 27/28March 13/14April 3/4April 17/18May 1/2Four aspects of architectural criticism will be addressed in this…
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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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A Cultural Study of Film: Mapping and Fashioning Space: Seminar
This course will meet in Carpenter Center 402.The impulse to map (ourselves) is a major drive of contemporary visual culture. Since Fredric Jameson\’s call for…
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Leon Batista Alberti: 1404-1472
This course explores selected aspects of the writings and works of Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), seeking to place these in their historical and cultural contexts.During…
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Database Systems for Design
Ugo Gagliardi, Urs Hirschberg, Pau 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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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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House: Innovation in Design & Technology
TCourse Description: This seminar explores select architects\’ innovative construction of the single-family house. This course will focus on the design, technology, and management of these…
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Architectural Component Prototyping
The format for the course Architectural Component Prototyping has changed each time that it has been offered in a continuing effort to cover the broad…
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Building Simulation
During the past decade, advancements in computer technology made it possible for building simulation to be part of the design process. This seminar will provide…
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Collaborative Design
This professionally oriented course builds on GSD 7320 \”Information Technology in the Design Professions\” and focuses in detail on issues of collaborative design, including global…
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The Bilbao Guggenhein Museum: Topics in Project Management
Spiro Pollalis, Luis Rodriguez
To see a previous course website, please go to: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/courses/7400-02s99/The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao has had an unprecedented impact not only on the city of…
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Superficial Spaces
George L. Legendre, June-Hao Hou
We cherish immaterial surfaces, as painters cherish some material pigment for its unique expressive qualities. Like tempera or oil paint, the pigment-surface is a raw…
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Everyday Spaces
In geography, an \”entire spatial language has emerged for comprehending the contours of social reality.\” (Neil Smith) The seminar explores ways in which a more…
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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
NOTE: The first meeting for this course is Wednesday, Sept. 12,2-4 p.m., in Carpenter Center Room 402.What is our experience of architecture in cinema? Considering…
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The Sixties: Architecture, Media, and the City in the Time of the Vietnam War
This seminar examines a critical moment in American architectural culture, during which disillusionment with postwar corporate modernism and the failure of urban renewal and public…
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Environment and Energy Implications: The Discrete System
Energy and environmental considerations for buildings have typically been in the form of prescription: material specifications and/or design guidelines. These prescriptions not only limit the…
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Shells, Tensile Structures and Kinetic Systems
The integration of shells, tensile structures and kinetic systems into architectural projects requires specialized design, construction and material knowledge in order to enable a meaningful…
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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. The course is organized into two…
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E-Commerce in Real Estate and Construction
Course Description:Together, real estate and construction make up the largest industry in the world. They are also exceptionally fragmented, fractious, and information intensive. The Internet…
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People and Buildings
Course Description:The seminar will examine the interaction effect between the context of space and the context of culture. In any organizational culture, there are two…