Courses
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Architecture and Art: From Minimalism to Neuro-phenomenology
Since the first pronouncements of the \’death\’ of painting in the post-Abstract Expressionist era, art consistently sought to radicalize its practice by overturning the traditional…
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Critical Preservation Practices
This seminar combines theoretical readings from the history of preservation and conservation in architecture with presentations of contemporary cases of architectural, landscape, and urban conservation…
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Recalibrating Infrastructure
This advanced research seminar will probe the contemporary networked metropolis, using Los Angeles and its surrounding region as a springboard. Current modes of production and…
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The Moment of the Monument
Built around two practica–involving the \”excavation\” of an existing monument and the design of a future monument–the course examines the rise and fall of the…
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MArch II Proseminar
Prerequisites: Enrollment in the MArch II program.This course provides a forum for critical discussion of contemporary design practices that is exploratory and speculative in nature.
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Urban Design Proseminar
Mohsen Mostafavi, Gareth Doherty
The proseminar is a forum for conversation on contemporary urban design. It is structured around three overlapping discussions: urban design as form, operation, and urbanism.
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Proseminar in Landscape Architecture
This course surveys multiple definitions of landscape architecture. Rather than seeking a singular understanding of the field, the seminar postulates that landscape might be understood…
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Studies of the Built North American Environment: 1580 to the Present
North America as an evolving visual environment is analyzed as a systems concatenation involving such constituent elements as farms, small towns, shopping malls, highways, suburbs,…
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Histories of Landscape Architecture I: Textuality and the Practice of Landscape Architecture
The course focuses upon a series of short modern texts, as they relate to the practice of contemporary landscape architecture; these texts will be required…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
K. Michael Hays, Erika Naginski
The two-module sequence 4201-4202 will be taught as a single semester- long course for Fall 2010. This course is structured as a dialogue between historical…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
K. Michael Hays, Erika Naginski
The two-module sequence 4201-4202 will be taught as a single semester- long course for Fall 2009. This course is structured as a dialogue between historical…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
This module is concerned with the pluralism of modernity in the first half of the 20th century; with the many different conceptions of both the…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
The atomic bomb, spring break, existentialism, jet travel, the polio vaccine, India and Pakistan, the transistor radio, abstract expressionism, LSD, the United Nations, ISO containers,…
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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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Urbanization in the East Asian Region
This course provides an account of urbanization in the East Asian Region by way of a detailed examination of the historical development of selected cities,…
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Authority and Invention: Medieval Art and Architecture
Masterworks of art and architecture in Western Europe from the decline of Rome to the dawn of the Italian Renaissance (300 to 1300 A.D.). The…
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Istanbul: From Imperial Capital to Global City
This lecture/seminar offers an overview of Istanbul\’s urban/architectural transformations in the last two centuries, situating these developments within both the historical dynamics of modern Turkey…
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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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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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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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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 roles of…
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Markets and Market Failure
Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, Joseph Kalt
The first half of the course covers skills for predicting market behavior, including supply and demand and the behavior of firms and consumers. The second…
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Real Estate Finance and Development
Richard Peiser, David Hamilton
This course teaches the fundamentals of real estate finance and development. Lectures and case studies introduce students to the full range of financial analysis skills…
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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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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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Decent, Safe, and Sanitary: America’s Quest for Social Housing
Born of the dystopian concept of the nineteenth-century slum, housing reform came of age in the 1930s when reformers, many of them unconventional women, persuaded…
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Sustainable New Cities
Spiro Pollalis, Andreas Georgoulias, Wooyoung Kimm
This course will examine the new city project from the lens of design, business, and sustainability. Based on examples of the recent past and drawing…
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Urban Climate Adaptation
This course focuses on the municipal planning process for climate change, especially adaptive strategies aimed at reducing the public health burden of extreme events. In…
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Participation in Planning and Development: Theory and Practice
Examines the theory and practice of participatory planning and governance, drawing on developing and developed country experience. The seminar begins by briefly looking at the…
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Housing Delivery Systems in the United States
This is a practical course that will examine how, why and where housing is produced in the United States. We will begin by looking at…
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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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Real Estate Finance and Development Fundamentals
Provides an analytical framework for understanding the real estate finance and development process from both quantitative and nonquantitative perspectives. Topics addressed include: establishing investment/development objectives;…
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Materials and Construction: An Introduction to Techniques, Composition and Strategies
Mark Mulligan, Danielle Etzler
This module introduces students to fundamental properties and behaviors of buildings and other structures. Principles of design and construction are discussed in a comprehensive manner…
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Energy, Technology and Building
6112M2 will meet for the first class on Thursday, October 28th from 2:30-5:30 PM in room 109, and will also meet the following day, Friday,…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies I
Michael Van Valkenburgh, Matthew Urbanski
This is the first course in the core sequence of Ecologies, Techniques and Technologies and is divided into two half-semester modules. The first module emphasizes…
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Analysis and Design of Building Structures I
The course rigorously navigates future architects to the discipline of structural engineering, as an integral component of conceiving and designing buildings. Decisions on geometry and…
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Building Technology
Prerequisites: GSD 6202, GSD 6203, and GSD 6205; or equivalent.As the final component in the required sequence of technology courses, this professionally oriented course develops…
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Sustainability for Planning and Design
This survey course will give a critical overview over the most pressing issues and tendencies surrounding the term Sustainability focusing on the specific role of…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies III: Introduction to Ecology
Richard T.T. Forman, Peter Del Tredici
The science of ecology is introduced through the lenses of local sites, urban areas, and broad landscapes and regions. Key motifs during the course include…
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CAD/CAM: Introduction to applications in Architecture
Computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) techniques, often referred to as digital fabrication techniques, are being widely adopted for the production of architecture. As technology evolves…
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Brownfields Practicum: Regeneration and Reuse of Brownfield Lands
This course concerns the reclamation of sites altered by prior industrial or commercial uses and in particular those that are derelict, environmentally hazardous and located…
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Changing Natural and Built Coastal Environments
Katharine Parsons, Steven Apfelbaum
This course will examine natural and anthropogenic processes affecting the coastal zone and nearshore environment. Ecological principles and their application to design and planning will…
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Computational Design [Numerical Descriptions as Design Tools]
This is a series of lectures and workshops on computational design covering fundamental and advanced topics in the field. The lectures will introduce mathematical and…
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Environmentally Responsive Building Skins
The intent of the course is to comprehensively encompass building envelope design issues as pertaining to both its internal and external environments. The building skin…
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Net Zero Energy Development: Sustainable Communities & Technology
This seminar combines research with design workshop format to examine advances in the design and technology of Net Zero Energy buildings, neighborhoods, and infrastructures. The…
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Indoor Environmental Quality and Health
John Spengler, Philip Demokritou
This course is cross-listed at the School of Public Health (EH-522). Texts and Reading Materials1. Heinsohn, R. and J. Cimbala. 2003. Indoor Air Quality Engineering:…
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(Re)fabricating Tectonic Prototypes
(Re)fabricating tectonic prototypesThe course is framed by a general ambition to develop explorations in digital design, fabrication and parametric tools that is equally informed and…
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Thermal Performance and Comfort in Buildings
PURPOSE and OBJECTIVES:The course emphasizes understanding the impact that various environmental systems have on the building design and operation process:Environmental Technologies – A review of…
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Sustainable Plants for a Changing World
Summary: This lecture course will focus on the nature of the interaction between plants and the environments in which they grow. It will cover both…
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Design Research Methods
Judith Grant Long, Gareth Doherty
The purpose of this proseminar is to (a) guide doctoral students in the development and preparation of their research proposals, (b) to provide them with…
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