Courses
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Situating the Modern
From National Romanticism to Critical Regionalism, architecture\’s ability to evoke a sense of place, locality or identity has been valued as a form of resistance…
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Situating the Modern: Modern Architecture and Vernacular Traditions
The first meeting of this course will take place on September 1st at 6 PM in room 318. Interested students should plan to attend. This…
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Situating the Modern: Modern Architecture and Vernacular Traditions
From National Romanticism in the late 19th century to Critical Regionalism debates in the 1980s, architecture’s ability to evoke a sense of place, locality or…
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Situating the Modern: Modern Architecture and Vernacular Traditions
From National Romanticism in the late 19th century to Critical Regionalism debates in the 1980s, architecture’s ability to evoke a sense of place, locality or…
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Paris and the Idea of the Modern City
This seminar examines the role Paris has played in the birth and development of the idea of the modern city as seen through the multiple…
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Outside the Canon: Revisionist Readings of Aalto
OUTSIDE THE CANONRevisionist readings of Alvar AaltoProclaiming that \”God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is an abuse of…
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Modernization and Architecture in Latin America
The North and South American continents have been the natural sites of the \”new.\” Because of its particular history during the Twentieth Century, Latin America…
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Critical History: Space, Place, and Science
The seminar will examine various philosophical and historical approaches to the question of the relation between urban space, architecture, and science, from the founding reflections…
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Space and Subjectivity in the Modern Period
Antoine Picon, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
The seminar will examine the relation between architectural space, real and imagined, and the constructions of the self from the 18th century to the present.
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The Ruin Aesthetic: Episodes in the History of an Architectural Idea
The Ruin Aesthetic: Episodes in the History of an Architectural Idea One of the most arresting images in Michel Serres\’s Rome: The Book of Foundations…
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The Ruin Aesthetic: Episodes in the History of an Architectural Idea
One of the arresting images in Michel Serres\’s Rome: The Book of Foundations is the idea that history is \”a knot of different times\” —…
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The Shapes of Utopia
you speak of that city of which we are the founders, and which exists in idea only, for I do not think there is such…
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Fifteen Things (a secret history of Italian design)
Fifteen Things (a secret history of Italian design) Department of Architecture Seminar – 4 credits limited enrollment Tuesday 2:00 – 5:00 510 Gund HallFifteen Things…
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Visionary Architecture
This seminar will take a selective approach to French Visionary Architecture in the late 18th century. We will focus on some of the significant motifs,…
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Paris: The Design of a Metropolis
Enrollment in this course is closed. It is offered as part of the Paris study abroad program. The class will offer an in-depth reading of…
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The Cultural Invention of the “Shanty Town”
“Shanty towns” are not a concrete physical human construction but a concept. What they do have as a physical reality are a multitude of physical…
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Modernity and Crisis
Is it even possible to offer a description of our contemporary moment that is not fundamentally defined by the experience of crisis? Financial crisis,…
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Imagine Michelangelo
The use of digital models as instruments of historical research. Almost all of Michelangelo’s architectural projects are unbuilt, unfinished, or have been significantly altered…
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Imagine Michelangelo
The use of digital models as instruments of historical research. Almost all of Michelangelo’s architectural projects are unbuilt, unfinished, or have been significantly altered…
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“In the Manner of a Picture”: The Lure of the Picturesque
“Instead of trying to wrest order from chaos, the picturesque now is wrested from the homogenized, the singular liberated from the standardized.” —…
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Historical Ground
The seminar explores the role of historical information and knowledge in making places today, but also how contemporary designers may “invent” history that nonetheless…
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Forest, Grove, Tree: Planting Urban Landscapes
Discussions about the urban forest and tree canopy, carbon sequestration, sustainability, and tree adoption programs are becoming more prevalent by the day. This lecture course…
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Undoing Absolutes: Postmodern Archiitectural Theory
The seminar series investigates the theoretical underpinnings of diverse strands of postmodernism in architecture in the 1970s and 80s. Emphasis is given to the different…
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The Culture and Politics of the Built Environment in the US: Seminar
Yearlong research seminar in conjunction with the Charles Warren Center workshop of scholars working in the field. Scholars will be working on research projects that…
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Critical Memory and the Experience of History
This course will meet for the first time in ROOM 111 on Thursday, September 1st. This seminar presents selected texts from the history…
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Critical Memory and the Experience of History
This seminar presents selected texts from the history of conservation (Riegl, Viollet, Ruskin) together with theoretical treatments of the genealogy of collective memory (Halbwachs, Nora,…
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Slums in Architectural and Planning History
When and why did informality become an urban and architectural matter? Contemporary projects developed within precarious settlements and overcrowded areas are often interpreted as epitomes…
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Architecture and its Texts (1650-1800)
This seminar focuses on a selection of important architectural writings from the late 17th and 18th centuries, with the aim of exploring the connections…
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Architecture and its Texts (1650-1800)
This seminar focuses on a selection of important architectural writings from the late 17th and 18th centuries, with the aim of exploring the connections…
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Proseminar in History, Theory and Urban Studies
This research seminar addresses subjects of history, theory and human sciences related to architecture and the city for students preparing for or enrolled in doctoral…
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Proseminar in History, Theory and Urban Studies
Prerequisites: Four graduate-level courses in this area or enrollment in doctoral program.This research seminar addresses subjects of history, theory and human sciences related to architecture…
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Proseminar in History, Theory and Urban Design
Prerequisites: Four graduate-level courses in this area or enrollment in doctoral program.This research seminar addresses subjects of history, theory and human sciences related to architecture…
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Proseminar in History, Theory and Urban Design
Proseminar in History, Theory and Urban Design K. Michael Hays, Timothy Hyde Department of Urban Planning and Design Seminar – 4 credits Monday 12:00 –…
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Proseminar in History, Theory and Urban Design
This research seminar addresses subjects of history, theory and human sciences related to architecture and the city for students preparing for or enrolled in doctoral…
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Rotterdam Study Abroad Seminar: The Present Environmental Predicament: Design and the Limits to Growth
This Course is for students in the Rotterdam Study Abroad Program. The title of this seminar refers to two significant essays written in…
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Rotterdam Study Abroad Seminar: The Present Environmental Predicament: Design and the Limits to Growth
This Course is for students in the Rotterdam Study Abroad Program. The title of this seminar refers to two significant essays written in…
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Introduction to Urban Planning and Design
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/courses/5101f00…
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Introduction to Urban Planning and Design
This course provides an understanding of the dynamics that created contemporary urban and regional spatial patterns, of social theories pertinent to urbanized societies, and of…
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Histories and Theories of Urban Planning and Design
Intro to City & Reg…
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Histories and Theories of Urban Planning and Design
This course provides an understanding of the dynamics that created contemporary urban and regional spatial patterns, of social theories pertinent to urbanized societies, and of…
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Histories and Theories of Urban Planning and Design
Beginning with the mid 19th century city, this course surveys a broad range of urban interventions. These include transportation and infrastructural engineering, settlement houses, landscape…
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Histories and Theories of Urban Planning and Design
Beginning with the mid 19th century city, this course surveys a broad range of urban interventions. These include transportation and infrastructural engineering, settlement houses, landscape…
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Histories and Theories of Urban Interventions
Beginning with the mid-19th century city, this course surveys a broad range of urban interventions. These include transportation and infrastructural engineering, settlement houses, landscape design,…
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Histories and Theories of Urban Planning and Design
This course uses historical and analytical readings and case studies to address several major theoretical questions concerning the aims and outcomes of urban interventions. The…
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History and Theory of Urban Planning and Design
This course uses historical and analytical readings and case studies to address several major theoretical questions concerning the aims and outcomes of urban interventions. The…
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Public and Private Development
This course explores the analytic frameworks, skills, and bodies of knowledge required to understand, evaluate, plan, and implement public and private development within cities and…
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Urban Politics and Land Use Policy
Alan Altshuler, David Luberoff
COURSE OBJECTIVES AND DESCRIPTION The course views cities and urban regions as political constructs. Its purposes are to help you think strategically about major urban…
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Urban Politics and Land Use Policy
Alan Altshuler, David Luberoff
COURSE CONTENTThe course views cities and urban regions as political constructs. Its purposes are to help you think strategically about major urban problems and controversies,…
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Urban Politics and Land-Use Policy
The course views cities and urban regions as political constructs. Its purpose is to help you think strategically about major urban problems and controversies, particularly…
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