Courses
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
This course presents a selected range of concepts developed by philosophers, historians, and theorists to explain the production and experience of architecture, and the historical…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
Explores the aims and methods of Architectural History through the paradigm of Classicism. Considers the relation of theory to the history of theory, of theory…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
The atomic bomb, spring break, jet travel, existentialism, the polio vaccine, India and Pakistan, abstract expressionism, ISO containers, the transistor radio, LSD, the United Nations,…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
Introduces the primarily textual material that has constituted architectural discourse from the 1960s to the present, including such topics as representation, realism, and event-structure in…
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North American Seacoasts and Landscapes: Discovery Period to the Present
Selected topics in the history of the North American coastal zone, including the seashore as wilderness, as industrial site, as area of recreation, and as…
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Constructing Vision
The course examines how designers have used means of representation not only to represent their work but, importantly, to construct architecturally based visual worlds. In…
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Urbanization in the East Asian Region
The purpose of this seminar is to provide an overall account of the urbanization in selected cities within the East Asian region; to characterize relevant…
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Landscape and/in the City: The Case of Switzerland
This seminar examines the relationship of landscape and city in Switzerland as a framework for the exhibition and symposium bConstructing the Swiss Landscapeb that will…
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Architecture, Science and Technology, XVIIIth Century-Present
Since the first industrial revolution, science and technology have constantly challenged architecture. Technology in particular has represented a powerful source of change for architecture. New…
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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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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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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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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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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
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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Markets and Market Failures
This course introduces economics to students who have had little previous exposure to the subject. Basic tools are covered, including supply, demand, and market equilibrium;…
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Real Estate Finance and Development
This course employs a case method study of private sector real estate, with quantitative and financial emphasis. Analysis and class discussion of case studies introduce…
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Policy-Making in Urban Settings
An introduction to policymaking in American cities, focusing on economic, demographic, institutional, and political settings. It examines economic development and job growth in the context…
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Transportation Planning and Development
Access and mobility are essential elements of an urban plan. Through lectures, discussions, case studies, and exercises, this course examines the issues and analytical framework…
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Landscape Strategies for Low-Income Settlements
There are now approximately one billion people living in non-formal squatter communities world-wide; these settlements vary dramatically in size, character, and level of political and…
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Sacred Sites – Contested Sites
This seminar will explore the processes, cultural and theological, by which sites within the landscape become sacralized and the conflicts that arise as populations with…
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Housing Delivery Systems in the United States
This course will examine the process by which housing is produced in the United States. The course considers the primary actors in the delivery system,…
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Local Development and Economic Restructuring
This seminar rests on the consideration that any intervention for the development of a depressed (or declining) area should be informed by an understanding of…
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Negotiation and Conflict Resolution in Urban Planning and Design
This course introduces students to the practice of negotiation and mediation in the context of urban planning and development. Learning from general theories of negotiation…
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Redevelopment Policy
Redevelopment PolicyUrban redevelopment is the process by which government, private investors, and households transform the uses and financial returns of the urban built environment. As…
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Site Ecology and Environment
This course is required for all incoming MLA1 AP students (fall 2005 and beyond), and MLA1 students returning for their second year (fall 2006 and…
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Ecology, Plants and Technology I
Laura Solano, Matthew Urbanski
This is the first in the core sequence of Ecology, Plants and Technology courses. The first module emphasizes the identification of prominent plants in the…
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Materials and Construction: An Introduction to Techniques, Composition and Strategies
Thomas Schroepfer, Toshiko Mori
This module introduces students to the role of materials and fabrication in architecture. Properties and principles of materials are discussed in a comprehensive manner involving…
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Energy, Technology and Building
This lecture course introduces students to energy and environmental issues, particularly those that must be faced by the discipline of architecture. An overview of the…
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Analysis and Design of Building Structures I
The course introduces students to the analysis and design of structural elements and systems. The fundamental principles of statics and equilibrium are considered first, followed…
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Building Technology
As the final component in the required sequence of technology courses, this professionally oriented course develops an integral understanding of the design and construction of…
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Plants and Technology I
This course is devoted to understanding basic biological principals and horticultural practices that affect the growth of plants in the human landscape and determine the…
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Landscape Ecology
This course examines the structure, functioning, and change of a mosaic of ecological systems, such as forests, wetlands, fields, corridors, and villages. Focus is on…
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CAD/CAM 1: Introduction to applications in Architecture
This course teaches the fundamentals of computer-aided design and manufacturing (cad/cam), with a focus on applications in architecture. The core question will be how component…
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Virtual Gardens
Prerequisites: GSD 2106 or GSD 2107 or permission of instructor. Proficiency with computing and willingness to adventure.Course Description: Examines the special problems and opportunities involved…
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Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems: Theory and Applications
This course is a survey and technical introduction to the analytical uses of spatial data and geographic information systems from an urban and regional planning…
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Ecological Strategies for Disturbed Sites
This applied lecture and workshop course focuses on the reuse and reconstruction of derelict and minimally managed urban landscapes. Emphasis will be placed on strategies…
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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. First, it will expose students to…
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Leading the Design Firm
This course is co-taught by Prof. Spiro Pollalis and Brian Kenet.This course introduces GSD students to the business side of the industry from the perspective…
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Architectural Specifications
Architectural specifications are essential to the realization of the project design. While drawings communicate form and quantity, specifications communicate materials and quality. The primary goals…
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From Concept to Implementation
This course focuses on the organizational and managerial issues to carry an architectural design from concept to implementation. Centering on the needs of the owner,…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
James Kostaras, Scheri Fultineer, Daniel Schodek, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, A. Hashim Sarkis, Richard Sommer, Mark Mulligan, Stephen Ervin, Anne McGhee, Jorge Silvetti, John Beardsley, Leland Cott, Sibel Bozdo??an, Holly Clarke, Preston Scott Cohen, Joan Busquets, Michael Meredith, Allen Sayegh, Eve Blau, Kostas Terzidis, Susan Fainstein
Candidates may arrange individual work focusing on subjects or issues that are of interest to them but are not available through regularly offered course work.
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Independent Studio by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
An individual design studio may be arranged to develop a concept or problem not available in regularly offered studios. Students must submit an independent studio…
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Prep of Design Thesis Proposal for MArch
Toshiko Mori, Pierre de Meuron, Jacques Herzog
This entails preparatory work for all students intending subsequently to enroll in GSD 9301. Students research thesis proposals for review and acceptance by faculty.Prerequisites: Graduate…
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Prep of Design Thesis Proposal for MAUD/MLAUD and MUP
In this seminar required for students intending to pursue an independent thesis through GSD 9302 in the following term, direction is given as to the…
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Preparation of Thesis for Master in Landscape Architecture
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and approval by the landscape architecture faculty.In this preparatory seminar for students intending to enroll in GSD 9303 the following term, direction…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree MArch
Monica Ponce de Leon, Laura Miller, Maryann Thompson, Ingeborg Rocker, Marco Steinberg, Martin Bechthold, Preston Scott Cohen, T. Kelly Wilson, Peter Rose, Jonathan Levi, Spiro Pollalis, Toshiko Mori
Following preparation in GSD 9203, each student conducts a design exploration that tests and expands the thesis.Prerequisites: GSD 9203.
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