Courses
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Visions of the Japanese House
This course has an irregular schedule. See below.Visions of the Japanese HouseLimited enrollment Lecture, Non-WesternFall 2008Ken Tadashi Oshima, Ph.D.This seminar explores the origins, derivations,…
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Film Architectures: Seminar Course
What is our experience of architecture in cinema? Considering the relation of these two arts of space, we look at how film and architecture are…
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Imagining the City: Literature, Film, and the Arts
How do visual representation and narrative figuration contribute to construct urban identity? Explores the urban imagination in different artforms: architecture, cinema, literature, photography, and painting.
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Art and Architecture in Western Europe, 950-1250
Medieval Studies 107. Authority and Invention: Art and Architecture in Western Europe, 950-1250. Catalog Number: 9420 (FAS); GSD Catalogue Number 4358 Christine Smith (Design School)…
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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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Proseminar in History, Theory and Urban Design
Margaret Crawford, K. Michael Hays
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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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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Urban Politics and Planning
Examines the politics of urban planning, land use, environmental regulation, and economic development. Principal aim is to help students think strategically about the role of…
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Markets and Market Failures
This course provides an introduction to how markets operate, the criteria for assessing their performance, and the circumstances under which they perform well or poorly.
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Real Estate Finance and Development
This course teaches the fundamentals of real estate finance anddevelopment. Lectures and case studies introduce students to the fullrange of financial analysis skills and analytical…
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Planning and Environmental Law
This course examines the key substantive legal issues that affect the use, preservation, and development of land in the United States, and the principles and…
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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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Architecture Expanded: New Positioning in Scale, Context and Agency
Stephen Ramos, Neyran Turan, Gareth Doherty
The course aims to examine the changing role of design within new scales of context emerging in contemporary urbanism. Designers are increasingly being compelled to…
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Climate Change, Planning, and Cities
Following on the last UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report and the earlier Stern Review on economic consequences, a consensus has emerged that the…
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Comparative International Planning and Cities
This course examines the planning and growth of cities in \’developing\’ nations across the \’global South\’ since the end of colonialism in the 1960s. We…
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Ecology as Urbanism; Urbanism as Ecology
In light of recent interest in the concept of ecological urbanism, this course will read projects and texts on the relation of landscape ecology to…
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Balkanization: From Metaphor of War to Shaping of Cities
Balkanization: from Metaphor of War to Shaping of CitiesOutside support: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Slovenia (in discussion), Austrian Cultural Centre, New York (in…
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Political Economy of Urbanization
Over the last two decades or so, cities have been undergoing a drastic process of restructuring. An ever-growing number of terms-urban villages, edge cities, exopolises,…
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Material Geographies 1: Large-Scale Infrastructure and Urbanization in the Sonoran Desert
AbstractThis advanced research workshop aims to explore the role of territorial infrastructural systems in relation to \”fast paced\” forms of urbanization within the North American…
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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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Redevelopment Policy
Urban redevelopment is the process by which government, private investors, and households transform the uses and financial returns of the urban built environment. As an…
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Historic Preservation: Strategies for Urban Revitalization
This course provides an introduction to the theory and practice of historic preservation in urban settings in the United States. The objective of the course…
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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
Eric Howeler, Thomas Schroepfer
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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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 ecological structure, functioning, and change of a mosaic of natural systems and land uses, such as woods, wetlands, fields, streams, roads,…
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Innovation in Structure
Werner Sobek, Timothy Macfarlane
Please note the course schedule below.In our recent examples of architecture, visions of architects are enhanced by innovative approaches in structures by leading engineers and…
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CAD/CAM: Introduction to Applications in Architecture
Martin Bechthold, Stephen Hickey
Computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) techniques have widely pervaded fabrication environments for the production of architecture. Knowledge of this technology now has become part of…
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Day-Lighting Buildings
Day-Lighting Buildings The primary focus of this course will be the study of lighting in an architectural context. The course will stress the integration of…
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Advanced Fabrications: Fast, Cheap, and Brilliant
Advanced Fabrication: Fast, Cheap, and BrilliantThe field\’s longstanding emphasis on stability and timelessness as hallmarks of serious work has unnecessarily limited the scope of projects…
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Building Performance Simulation – Energy
Building Performance Simulation – EnergyThis seminar will introduce students to technical and non-technical aspects of using whole building energy simulation during building design, retrofitting and…
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Smart Materials
This course introduces students to smart materials, a term used to describe materials and products that have changeable properties and that are able to reversibly…
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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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International Design Practice: Business, Law, and Culture
The practice of architecture is becoming more and more global. American architectural firms pursue foreign markets; foreign architects compete successfully for prestigious commissions within the…
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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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A New Framework for Practice
During the past several years, top-tier architects, landscape architects and urban planners practicing in the major economies of the world have enjoyed an unprecedented abundance…
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Design and Development: from Concept to Implementation
Spiro Pollalis, Andreas Georgoulias
This course examines the design and development process, from the first idea and the original conceptual sketch to the creation of real assets. The focus…
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Leading the Design Firm
This course introduces GSD students to the business side of the design industry and attempts to highlight both the ways in which a design firm…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Peter Rowe, T. Kelly Wilson, Anne McGhee, Stephen Ervin, Richard T.T. Forman, John R. Stilgoe, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, Richard Peiser, Matthew Urbanski, Brian W. Blaesser, Susan Fainstein, Christian Werthmann, Farshid Moussavi, Kostas Terzidis, Gareth Doherty, Sanford Kwinter, Felipe Correa, Marco Cenzatti, Bing Wang, Allen Sayegh, Michael Meredith, Preston Scott Cohen, Spiro Pollalis, Laura Solano, K. Michael Hays, Gary R. Hilderbrand
Students may take a maximum of 8 credit units with different instructors in this course series.Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Candidates may arrange individual work focusing on…
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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
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and permission of the thesis program director. This entails preparatory work for all students intending subsequently to enroll in GSD 9301. Students…
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Preparation for Independent Thesis Proposal for MUP, MAUD, or MLAUD
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
John R. Stilgoe, John Beardsley
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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Social Spaces in the Academy II
Joan Busquets, Gareth Doherty, Jerold S. Kayden, Martin Zogran
Building on initial results from a provost-funded research study conducted several years ago by the first offering of this research seminar, this second offering will…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree MArch
Maryann Thompson, Mariana Ibanez, Lluis Ortega, Joseph MacDonald, Michael Meredith, Preston Scott Cohen, Jonathan Levi, Jorge Silvetti, Remment Koolhaas, Timothy Hyde
Prerequisites: GSD 9203.Following preparation in GSD 9203, each student conducts a design exploration that tests and expands the thesis.
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