Courses
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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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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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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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Gender and Space
What role does gender play in the theoretical understanding and concrete experience of architecture and urban space? This course investigates the significance of gender in…
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Modernity and European Landscape Architecture
In this seminar, students will position the modern discipline of landscape architecture in relation to theories of architecture, urbanism, and hygiene during the first half…
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Learning from The Function of Style
Farshid Moussavi, James Khamsi
This course will meet at 12 noon instead of 10 AM on Wednesday, September 2nd. The springboard for this course is The Function…
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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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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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Media Archaeology of Place
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Jesse Shapins, Ernst Karel
Combining media art practice with critical inquiry and ethnographic research, Boston and other sites serve as laboratories for exploring different modes of representing place. Films,…
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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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New Geographies
The participants in the seminar will be presented with the following proposal: Geography is a dominant but latent paradigm in design today and we need…
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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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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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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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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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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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Advanced offering in Theory and Methods
The current global crisis , a perfect storm of finance, environment and politics, requires a need to rethink the role and practice of architects, planners,…
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Global Redesign Project
Architects as agents of change in a globally interconnected world is the theme of inquiry for this seminar. It is not a coincidence that we…
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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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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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Critical Preservation Practices
This seminar combines theoretical readings from the history of preservation and conservation in architecture with presentations of contemporary cases of architectural, landscape, and urban conservation…
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Environmental Contentions
What do designers of the built environment see as environment? This is a particularly difficult question at the turn of a century that has witnessed…
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European Modernism
This seminar studies the development of modernism in Europe between 1900 and 1945, with a particular emphasis on England, Sweden and France. It examines the…
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European Modernism
This seminar studies the development of modernism in Europe between 1900 and 1945, with a particular emphasis on England, Sweden, and France. It examines the…
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Landscape Urbanization
This lecture course explores the theories, tactics and workings of Landscape Urbanism. It positions Landscape Urbanism as an intellectual re-alignment of landscape\’s role in urbanization…
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Recalibrating Infrastructure
This advanced research seminar will probe the contemporary networked metropolis, using Los Angeles and its surrounding region as a springboard. Current modes of production and…
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Recalibrating Infrastructure
The first meeting of this course will take place on September 6th at 6 PM in room 510. Interested students should plan to attend. This…
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The Mixed-Reality City
The contemporary city is constituted by multiple overlapping, intermixing realities articulated across built form and imagined space, individual experience and collective memory, embodied sensation…
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Third Coast Project
This seminar applies research to analyze and speculate on regional territories, specifically the Great Lakes Basin. With over 20% of the world\’s total surface fresh…
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Light Structure I
Lightness is an attribute that spans: structure, performance, materiality, assembly, and transportation; as well as, experiences and perceptions of a built environment. Based on its…
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How to do Things with Words
This seminar will seek to explore the (actual and potential) roles and uses of writing within design and the design field. It will address…
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Mass Individualism: The Form of the Multitude
What do three contemporary tropes ubiquitous in recent architecture have in common: 1) complex and varied aggregations, 2) the migration of informal domestic atmospheres into…
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The Culture of Cities
During the 19th century, as dramatic urban transformations rendered many European and American cities nearly unrecognizable, a new urban discourse emerged. Urban critics struggled to…
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Urban Grids: Exploring its Design Potentials
The first meeting will take place on Wednessday, August 31st, 6 PM in room 510. Framework:Within a larger research scope on \”Revisiting the urban grids…
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Concepts of Nature
Architects design buildings, and the majority of buildings are in cities. It is not surprising, therefore, that most architects see in the city, in its…
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Conservation Canons and Institutions
Rahul Mehrotra, K. Michael Hays
This module will study and analyze the canons and institutions that have traditional guided the parameters of conservation and preservation practice. The seminar will critically…
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Conservation History, Its Canons and Institutions
This course analyzes the canons and institutions that have traditionally guided the parameters of conservation and preservation practice. As such, the course situates conservation…
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Critical Conservation as Social Activism: History, Theory, and Methods
Historic preservation strategies have been used by communities to achieve various social ends, ranging from staving off gentrification and restricting neighborhood development to developing…
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The City of Leisure and Tourism
Since the 1960s, tourism has had a profound impact on cities. Many great cities, such as Paris or Rome, are discovering that their historic centers…
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The City of Leisure and Tourism
Since the 1960s, tourism has had a profound impact on cities. Many great cities, such as Paris or Rome, are discovering that their historic centers…
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The City of Leisure and Tourism
Since the 1960s, tourism has had a profound impact on cities. Many great cities, such as Paris or Rome, are discovering that their historic centers…
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Urban Architecture and Nature in South America: Studies on Symbolic Imagery, Urban Projects, Landscape, and Territorial Transf
This lecture course looks at the construction of landscape – as social and symbolic artifact – in South America and at the ways in which…
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Design for Learning
When Walter Gropius discussed the “training of an architect” he identified the very first years of formal education, Nurseries and Kindergartens. In truth, the early…
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States of Design: The Present and Future of the Field in Twelve Parts
In the past decades, design has branched out in many new directions that have galvanized emerging practitioners, sparked business models, and set the worldwide…
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The Moment of the Monument
Built around two practica–involving the \”excavation\” of an existing monument and the design of a future monument–the course examines the rise and fall of the…
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BIBLIOTHECA: The Library Past/Present/Future
\”Wisdom builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down\” reads the lead verse of Proverbs 14. The verse may serve…
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The Aperture Analyzed: The Form and Space of Openings
This seminar will focus on an essential component of architecture, the aperture, which has broad implications for our understanding of space. An aperture is commonly…
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The Aperture Analyzed: The Form and Space of Openings
This seminar will focus on an essential component of architecture, the aperture, which has broad implications for our understanding of space. An aperture is…
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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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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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