Courses
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts I
Erika Naginski, K. Michael Hays
This course is structured as a dialogue between the historical and theoretical frameworks that have shaped the formulation of architectural principles – what the architectural…
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Histories of Landscape Architecture I: Textuality and the Practice of Landscape Architecture
Note, the first meeting on Wednesday, September 3rd, will take place in Stubbins, room 112, rather than Piper Auditorium. This course introduces students to a…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts III: Rethinking Architecture
This course in the History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture looks at several iconic buildings and architectural texts from the beginning of the twentieth century…
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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
The purpose of this lecture course is to provide an overall account of urbanization in selected cities within the rapidly developing East Asian region from…
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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. Explores the creative tension between…
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Structuring Urban Experience: From the Athenian Acropolis to the Boston Common
This lecture course examines selected cities between the fifth century B.C. and the seventeenth century A.D., beginning with ancient Athens and ending with proposals for…
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Walking
WALKING is a seminar on the history, culture and practice of pedestrian movement, as it concerns design. We shall study some texts of varied kinds,…
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Istanbul: Urban History Research Seminar
Istanbul’s aggressive neo-liberal urban transformations since the mid 1990s has lent urgency to studies of urban history and collective memory. Supported by the Mellon Initiative…
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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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“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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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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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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Real Estate Finance and Development
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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Land Use and Environmental Law
As a scarce and necessary resource for earthly activity, land triggers competition and conflict over its possession, use, development, and preservation. For privately owned land,…
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Cities by Design I
Rahul Mehrotra, Jana Cephas, Peter Rowe, Jose Castillo, Joan Busquets, Christine Smith, Alex Krieger, Jerold S. Kayden, Neil Brenner
Cities by Design studies urban form. This semester, five cities -Mexico City, Barcelona, Shanghai, Rome, and Detroit- will serve as case studies in order to…
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Field Studies in Real Estate, Planning, and Urban Design
The Field Study course is designed to provide students an understanding of the dynamics and complexities of reality that create contemporary urban physical environments. The…
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Policy Making in Urban Settings (at KSG)
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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Markets and Market Failures with Cases (at KSG)
Markets and Market Failures with Cases at KSG – HKS API-105A . Chris Hebert will offer the other version of Markets and Market Failures, GSD…
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Transportation Planning and Development
This is an introductory course that examines the complex relationship between transportation, land use and urban form, and the varied instruments available to planners seeking…
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Housing and Urbanization in the United States
James Stockard, Jennifer Molinsky
This course examines housing as an object of policy and planning as it relates to urban form and issues of social concern. It is intended…
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Healthy Places
Can the way places are planned and designed improve health? It seems obvious that there is such a link between environments and health but how…
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Planning for the 21st Century: Emerging Trends, Challenges and Opportunities
What role does design play in the planning process? How will demographic and other emerging trends influence how we design and plan for communities for…
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Creating Resilient Cities: Future Coasts and Spatial Analysis of Cities at Risk
Coastal cities are undergoing environmental changes at a scale and pace that challenges traditional cultures, disciplinary methods, experience, histories and techniques. The same could be…
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Territorial Intelligence: Towards an Evidence Based Design
Disciplines linked to cities are experiencing a period defiant to conventional theory, methodologies, programs and projects. In understanding that design is not solely an aesthetic…
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Modern Housing and Urban Districts: Concepts, Cases and Comparisons
This seminar course will deal with ‘modern housing’ covering a period primarily from 1990 to the present. It will engage with ‘urban districts’ in so…
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Real Estate Finance and Development Fundamentals for Public and Private Participants (at KSG)
Classroom is at HKS, Rubenstein G-20 (Neustadt Classroom) Class meeting time is Mon, Wed from 4:40 to 6:00 PM. However the first…
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Market Analysis and Urban Economics
This course builds upon the academic literature and the applied experiences which constitutes the accumulated knowledge of urban and real estate economics and finance to…
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Urban Governance and the Politics of Planning in the Developing World
Course starts from the premise that urban politics and governance arrangements can both enable and constrain effective planning action. Using a focus on cities in…
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Construction Lab
This course is an introduction to materials in both science and construction. The motivation is to equip the next generation of architects with the means…
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Energy in Architecture
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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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies I
Matthew Urbanski, Rosetta S. Elkin
Recognizing that plants are one of the essential mediums of landscape architecture, this class seeks to introduce the student to two basic relationships; the relationship…
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Structural Design 1
The course introduces the discipline of structural engineering as a means of unlocking hidden architectural design potential. Students develop the skills necessary to make informed…
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Cases in Contemporary Construction
Mark Mulligan, Andreas Georgoulias
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 buildings…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies III: Introduction to Ecology
Peter Del Tredici, Laura Solano, Thomas Ryan, Erle Ellis
Fall term, four units, open to MLA students taking the third LA core-studio. Notes regarding the schedule: Module 1: The first module…
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The Innovative Practice: Finding, Building and Leading Good Ideas with Others (at SEAS)
SEAS Engineering Sciences 21. Catalog Number: 70925 Enrollment: Limited to 25. Permission of instructor required. EXAM GROUP: 12, 13 Please check…
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Innovation in Science and Engineering: Conference Course (at SEAS)
Engineering Sciences 139. Catalog Number: 0994 EXAM GROUP: 7, 8, 9 Please check the FAS schedule for room information. Explores…
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Water Engineering (at SEAS)
SEAS Engineering Sciences 165. Catalog Number: 4274 EXAM GROUP: 13, 14 Please check the FAS schedule for room information. Introduces the fundamentals…
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Advanced Introduction to Robotics (at SEAS)
Also offered as Engineering Sciences 259 : Advanced Introduction to Robotics Exam group: 8 Please check the FAS schedule for room information.
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Computer Vision (at SEAS)
SEAS Computer Science 283. Catalog Number: 4475 Please check the FAS schedule for room information. Vision as an ill-posed inverse problem: image formation, two-dimensional…
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Material Practice as Research: Digital Design and Fabrication
Leire Asensio Villoria, Carlos Felix Raspall Galli
The translation between the architectural design and the subsequent actualization process is mediated by various tools and techniques. Through the adoption in architectural design practice…
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Changing Natural and Built Coastal Environments
Steven Apfelbaum, Katharine Parsons
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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Changing Natural and Built Coastal Environments
Steven Apfelbaum, Katharine Parsons
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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Introduction to Computational Design
This is an introductory course to computational design and the prerequisite for a spring course that deals with more advanced topics in the field. This…
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Expanded Mechanisms / Empirical Materialisms
Machines and material are vitally connected and reciprocally constrained. Each responds dynamically to the other through a range of geometric, chemical, and physical events that…
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High Performance Buildings and Systems Integration
The interrelationships of environmental control systems as they relate to high performance/well integrated buildings will be explored in details. The course will address the main…
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Research Seminar on Urban Ecology
This 4-credit course is limited to 15 students who have completed the Ecologies, Techniques and Technologies sequence in the Landscape Architecture program (or its equivalent).The…
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Poetics of Landscape Construction
Niall Kirkwood, Alistair McIntosh
The GSD 6454 Poetics of Construction seminar promotes advanced understanding and executive skill in the design development of landscape architecture. Speculative in nature, it requires…
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Design By Committee. Digital Interfaces for Collaborative and Participatory Design
This Seminar/Workshop will look into the design and technical challenges involved in the development of web based interfaces for collaborative and participatory design scenarios where…
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Energy Simulation for Design
The best intent does not always lead to the best performing design, as intuition and rules of thumb sometimes fail to adequately inform decision making.
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