Thesis Extension in Satisfaction of Degree Doctor of Design

Martin Bechthold, Anita Berrizbeitia, Neil Brenner, Joan Busquets, Mohsen Mostafavi, Richard Peiser, Antoine Picon, Peter Rowe, Charles Waldheim, Diane Davis

Thesis extension in satisfaction of the degree Doctor of Design.

Discourse and Methods I

Diane Davis, Neil Brenner

This course is open only to Ph.D. students in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and Design (Ph.D. students from other departments may participate with…

Discourse and Research Methods

Martin Bechthold

Research conducted in the Doctor of Design Program (DDes) at the GSD spans a broad range of topics and areas of investigation that not only…

First Semester Architecture Core: PROJECT

Sean Canty, Jenny French, Elle Gerdeman, Lisa Haber-Thomson, Zeina Koreitem

Project is the first core studio of the four-semester sequence of the MArch I program. With a multiplicity of references, Project may refer to fundamental…

Third Semester Architecture Core: INTEGRATE

Jon Lott, Grace La, John May, Jay Siebenmorgen, Oana Stanescu, Belinda Tato

Integration is the agenda for the third semester architecture design studio. Architecture is fundamentally a part-to-whole problem, involving the complex integration of building components, systems…

Collaborative Design Engineering Studio I (with SEAS)

Andrew Witt, Jock Herron, Peter Stark

The first year Collaborative Design Engineering Studio runs for two semesters, and this year will address the theme of “mobility”. The first semester focuses on…

UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA: Living Post-Work

Annabelle Selldorf

Today, at an unprecedented rate, new technologies and global networks (underground, in space, in the cloud) are transforming the ways in which we understand and…

Dwelling / Garden / Being, Suzhou

Zhang Ke

“Poetically man dwells on this earth”, the phrase by Hölderlin inspired Heidegger to write an essay entitled “Building Dwelling Thinking”, in which he reveals how…

The House: The Waken Desire

Tatiana Bilbao, Iwan Baan

“An old house, a shadowy porch, tiles, a crumbling Arab decoration, a man sitting against the Wall, a deserted Street, a Mediterranean tree: this…

On Health II: Amsterdam Health Kitchen

Ben van Berkel, Christian Veddeler

The widespread emphasis on healthy living and the demand for creating environments, cities and buildings accordingly has aligned with the ongoing integration of technology into…

Natural Monument

Mauricio Pezo, Sofia von Ellrichshausen

It would be deceiving to claim a return to nature since there has never been a real departure from it. Buildings complete nature as…

An American Plan

Kersten Geers, David Van Severen

This is the first of a series of studios focusing on American Architecture. The research will happen sideways. Not through analysis of local phenomena,…

reCYCLO: Architectures of Waste

Caroline O’Donnell

Human beings have traditionally built enclosures from close-to-hand materials: tents from animal hides in the desert, log cabins in forests, stone huts in rocky areas,…

Architecture as a Tool to Improve Lives: Development of a Day Care Centre for Rohingya Children

Anna Heringer

For decades, construction in the context of international aid has predominantly followed a specific pattern: foreign organizations erect their structures, made of industrialized and…

Soft Spaces

Simon Frommenwiler, Simon Hartmann, Tilo Herlach

Architectural design has to deal increasingly with given and inflexible concepts describing separation of functions, perimeters and areas of control. The three-year HHF Option Studio…

New Formations for the Social Metropolis

Alison Brooks

This studio will explore housing architecture’s latent potential to transform the global project of urbanisation to one of productivity, inclusivity, hybridity and resilience. We…

The Future Provincetown 1

Preston Scott Cohen

Historical accretion vs total design and artisanal production vs technological innovation are two of the most productive dialectics to have accompanied modern architecture since…

Rotterdam Study Abroad Studio Option: Countryside III

Remment Koolhaas

Multiple Miamis

Chris Reed, Sean Canty

This interdisciplinary studio will take on questions of how design can address issues of inequity, race, affordability, and resilience in the context of the contemporary…

Architectural Representation I

Megan Panzano

Architectural Representation I: Origins + Originality Architectural representation is an ideology – a source of ideas and visionary theorizing that has a set…

Architectural Representation II

Iman Fayyad

This course examines the history, theory and practice of parallel (orthographic) and central (perspective) projection. The objective is to provide the tools to imagine and…

Digital Media: Design Systems

Sawako Kaijima

The course is an introduction to fundamental concepts, methods and practical techniques in design computation with emphasis on a systems perspective.

Digital Media: Image

Zeina Koreitem

Over the past three decades the architectural process has been drastically reorganized by what historian Jonathan Crary calls “a transformation in the nature of visuality…

Representation First (!!!), Then Architecture

Jennifer Bonner

Current tendencies in the discipline suggest a split between two opposing architectural projects: the easy project versus the difficult project. Primarily…

MAKE/BELIEVE

Dan Borelli, Rebecca Uchill

How does the action of making reflect, produce, enhance, aggregate, and/or suspend the beliefs of authors and audiences? This hybrid production-theory course…

Graphic / Volume Conflations

Viola Ago

“The myth of the Neutral Tool under complete human control and the myth of the Autonomous Destiny that no human can…

Paper or Plastic: Reinventing Shelf-life in the Supermarket Landscape

Teman Evans, Teran Evans

The supermarket shelf is a highly volatile, hyper-competitive space. On this shelf products struggle to maximize every possible advantage, all in a…

Drawing for Designers: Techniques of Expression, Articulation, and Representation

Ewa Harabasz

The course is intended as a creative drawing laboratory for designers and an expressive and a playful supplement to computer based labor.

Immersive Landscape: Representation through Gaming Technology

Eric de Broche des Combes

Soon will come plausible alternatives to our world.You may have failed in this one but what if you had a million…

Public Projection: Projection as a Tool for Expression and Communication in Public Space

Krzysztof Wodiczko

The class will focus on development of original projection projects that can inspire and facilitate artistic expression and cultural communication in the…

Art, Design and the Public Domain Proseminar

Krzysztof Wodiczko

This seminar is intended to serve as a theoretical and practical laboratory for the development of student ideas and concepts toward their artistic, design and…

Culture, Conservation and Design

Susan Snyder, George Thomas

This proseminar addresses issues of Critical Conservation, an evolving discipline that illuminates the bridge between Cultural Meaning, Identity and Context as part…

An Unsentimental Look at Architecture and Social Craft

John Peterson

Designers of the built environment have had an on-again/off-again relationship with social agency. Progressive design and social outcomes were closely linked in…

Werewolf: Architectures of Change

Caroline O’Donnell

While the figure of Vitruvian man has long served as a metaphorical reference for an architecture evolved through design, but fixed in…

Selected Current (and Recurrent) Topics in Architecture Theory and Design Practice

Jorge Silvetti

A research seminar consisting on assigned readings, presentations, discussions, and design experiments on current (and some ever re-current) topics in architectural theory and design practice.

Style Worry or #FOMO

Max Kuo

Reyner Banham once described the proliferation of styles after a waning epoch as “style worry,” an anxiety where the architect must decide how to…

Buildings, Texts, and Contexts I

Erika Naginski, Andrew Holder

This course is structured as a dialogue between the historical and theoretical frameworks that have shaped the formulation of architectural principles – what the architectural…

Michelangelo Architect: Precedents, Innovation, Influence

Christine Smith

An exploration of Italian Renaissance architecture and urbanism through the persona of Michelangelo as witness, agent, and inspiration. We look at architecture…

Structuring Urban Experience: From the Athenian Acropolis to the Boston Common

Christine Smith

This lecture course examines selected cities between the fifth century B.C. and the seventeenth century A.D., beginning with ancient Athens and…

Signal, Image, Architecture III: The Automatic Present

John May

“I know well enough what time is, provided that nobody asks me; but if am asked what it is, and try to explain, I am…

Building Conservation and Renewal: Assessment, Analysis, Design

David Fixler

What are the spatial, material, and broad cultural values inherent in a building or site that must be understood to craft interventions…

Domesticity, Privacy, Transparency, Performance

Alice Friedman

This seminar explores 20th and 21st-century notions of domesticity in the U.S, and Europe through the lens of cultural politics, gender…

Architecture in Early Modern England: Themes and Methods

Erika Naginski

This seminar takes a selective approach to architectural culture in 16th– and 17th-century England (that is, roughly speaking, from the Tudor period…

Rotterdam Study Abroad Seminar: Exhibiting Architecture – The Agency of Display

Lea-Catherine Szacka

“What does it mean to exhibit architecture?” Exhibitions are an integral part of the history of architecture. While architecture entered the gallery during the…

Rotterdam Study Abroad Seminar: Architecture, Urbanism, and Agriculture

Sebastien Marot

This course is for students in the Rotterdam Study Abroad Program. In order to stimulate the research on the Countryside, the course will investigate…

Sustainable Real Estate

Jesse M. Keenan

This introductory course surveys the historical foundations, economic logics and underlying physics that underscore the design, development and operations of sustainable buildings.

Environmental Systems 1

Ali Malkawi

This course is the first of a two-module sequence in Building Technology (6121, 6122) and constitutes part of the core curriculum in architecture. Objectives:To…

Environmental Systems 2

Holly Samuelson

This course is the second of a two-module sequence in Building Technology (6121, 6122) and constitutes part of the core curriculum in architecture as well…

Construction Systems

Carl Solander

In this course we examine architecture as the manifestation of logics of systems, assemblies, and materials.  We seek to understand how component assemblies have evolved…

Structural Design II

Martin Bechthold

This course is a continuation of GSD 6227 and, after an overview/reminder introduction, furthers understanding of more developed structural systems and materials in architectural design.