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.

The Innovator’s Practice: Finding, Building and Leading Good Ideas with Others (at SEAS)

Beth Altringer

Students gain experience overcoming many under-represented challenges of becoming an innovator, including: identifying your intrinsic motivations, finding related good ideas, working effectively with others to…

Innovation in Science and Engineering: Conference Course (at SEAS)

David Weitz

Explores factors and conditions contributing to innovation in science and engineering; how important problems are found, defined, and solved; roles of teamwork and creativity; and…

Material Systems: Digital Design and Fabrication

Nathan King

Digital design and fabrication technologies have become integral to the discourse surrounding contemporary design and architectural practice. The translation from design…

Introduction to Computational Design

Panagiotis Michalatos, Sawako Kaijima

This is an introductory course to computational design and the prerequisite for a spring course that deals with more advanced topics in…

Digital Fabrication and Robotics

Stylianos Dritsas

The materials and procedures of constructing architecture have changed surprisingly little since the late 1800’s / early 1900’s when the introduction…

Deployable Surfaces: Dynamic Performance Through Multi-Material Architectures

Chuck Hoberman

Rapidly deployable structures have been with us since nomadic people used sticks and fabric to create the first tents. Out of these…

Visualization (at SEAS)

Hanspeter Pfister

An introduction to key design principles and techniques for visualizing data. Covers design practices, data and image models, visual perception, interaction principles, visualization tools, and…

Architectural Acoustics (Module F2)

Ben Markham

What does jazz sound like when it is played in a cathedral? How would Gregorian chant sound in a jazz club? And…

Nano Micro Macro: Adaptive Material Laboratory (with SEAS)

Jonathan Grinham, Joanna Aizenberg

In recent years, a wealth of cross-disciplinary research has produced unprecedented growth in the study of “architectured-materials."  At the heart of this…

LIT: A Survey and Design Research Seminar of Architectural Lighting (Module F1)

Dan Weissman

Light defines what and how we see; our bodies are intimately tied to cycles of light and dark. Light is also a…

Foundations of Practice

Jeffry Burchard, Jesse M. Keenan

For students in the fifth semester of the M.Arch I degree program, this four (4) credit hour course examines models and…

Integrative Frameworks for Technology, Environment, and Society I

Nabil Harfoush

Developing and implementing good solutions to real problems facing human society requires a broad understanding of the relationships between technology innovation, science, manufacturing, design thinking,…

Frameworks of Practice

Paul Nakazawa

Since the dawn of the technological society that emerged after World War II, the normative practice of architecture, particularly in the United…

Innovation in Project Delivery

Mark R. Johnson

Project delivery – the organizational, legal and economic arrangements by which society produces its built environment – has undergone a radical transformation…

Elements of the Urban Stack

Paul Nakazawa

As our physical and virtual worlds become more and more intertwined, the “Urban Stack” presents itself as an organizational system for…

Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees

Jock Herron, Karen Janosky, Joan Busquets, Diane Davis, Sai Balakrishnan, Martin Bechthold, Neil Brenner, Danielle Choi, Daniel D’Oca, Sonja Dümpelmann, Edward Eigen, Ann Forsyth, Jenny French, Ewa Harabasz, Sawako Kaijima, Allen Sayegh, Andres Sevtsuk, Jorge Silvetti, Andrew Witt, Preston Scott Cohen, Steven Handel, Oana Stanescu, Mack Scogin, Christopher Herbert, Lily Song, Gareth Doherty, Panagiotis Michalatos, Holly Samuelson, Jonathan Grinham, Francesca Benedetto, Niall Kirkwood, Sebastien Marot, Eric Howeler, Michael Hooper, K. Michael Hays, Robert Pietrusko, Malkit Shoshan, Grace La, John May, Andrew Holder, Tomás dePaor, Dilip da Cunha, Lea-Catherine Szacka, Marty Poirier, Stephen Gray, John Peterson

Students may take a maximum of 8 units with different GSD instructors in this course series. 9201 must be taken for either 2, or 4…

Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree MArch

The Thesis Program encourages students to take advantage of the wide range of resources and research initiatives of the Graduate School of Design and its…

Independent Design Engineering Project I

Martin Bechthold, Mary Tolikas

The Independent Design Engineering Project (IDEP) is a two-semester project during which students in the Master in Design Engineering (MDE) program work on understanding a…