Courses
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Style and Time
Farshid Moussavi, Ricardo Solar
This course explores a non-representational approach to style, its consequence on the process of design, as well as on the built environment…
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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…
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History and Theory of Urban Interventions
This class provides a high-intensity introduction the history and theory of urban planning practice under modern capitalism. Building upon an interdisciplinary literature drawn from planning…
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Histories of Landscape Architecture I: Textuality and the Practice of Landscape Architecture
Note, the first meeting on Wednesday, August 31, 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: The Tower and the Sphere: Architecture and Modernity
K. Michael Hays, Bryan Norwood
Modernism has fundamentally to do with the emergence of new kinds of objects and events and, at the same time, new conceptualizations of their appearance,…
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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…
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Urbanization in the East Asian Region
This course meets for the first time on Monday, September 12th. The purpose of this lecture course is to provide an…
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Michelangelo Architect: Precedents, Innovation, Influence
An exploration of Italian Renaissance architecture and urbanism through the persona of Michelangelo as witness, agent, and inspiration. We look at architecture…
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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…
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Architecture, Urbanism and National Identity in Muslim Geographies
Commonly (and carelessly) used terms like “Islamic architecture” or “Islamic city” remain highly contentious because they designate monolithic, faith-based conceptualizations that fall…
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Transformation of Nature and the Nature of Transformation
The topic of this seminar is how do landscape architects ‘transform” the materials they invoke. We all use the lazy term ‘nature’, but its treatments…
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Practical Wisdom, or the nature of architectural intelligence
Since the advent of architecture in universities, and particularly since World War II, architects have raided the other disciplines for insights and…
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The Shapes of Utopia
Utopia's fall from grace in the modern period is tied to architecture's failure in giving shape to dreams of a new society wrought from social…
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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.”— Rem Koolhaas, JunkspaceWhen…
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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.
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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…
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Land Use and Environmental Law
As a scarce and necessary resource, land triggers competition and conflict over possession, use, development, and preservation. For privately owned land, the market manages much…
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Cities by Design I
Cities by Design I is concerned with in-depth longitudinal examination of urban conditions in and among selected cities in the world. The…
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Field Studies in Real Estate, Planning, and Urban Design: Miami Beach and Boston
Saving Miami Beach from Climate-Change and Redeveloping Boston’s Columbia Point The Field Study course is designed to provide students an understanding of the dynamics and…
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Policy Making in Urban Settings (at HKS)
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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Analytic Methods of Urban Planning: Quantitative
This course introduces students to quantitative analysis and research methods. The course begins with a discussion of how quantitative methods fit within the broader research…
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Analytic Methods: Qualitative
How can planners understand places in a rich, meaningful, and yet systematic way? This module examines how qualitative approaches can be used…
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Transportation Policy and Planning (at HKS)
Provides an overview of the issues involved in transportation policy and planning, as well as an introduction to the skills necessary for solving the various…
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Housing and Urbanization in the United States
James Stockard, Jennifer Molinsky
This course examines housing as both an individual concern and an object of policy and planning. It is intended to provide those…
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Healthy Places
The connection between health, well-being, and place is a complex one with many dimensions. This class focuses on four topics that will…
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Prosperity, Civic Values and Diversity in a Gentrifying City: The Case of Central Square, Cambridge
In Cambridge, as in other rapidly gentrifying cities, change is constant. Brought on by the city’s burgeoning innovation economy, and its deeply…
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Sustainable Real Estate
This introductory course surveys the historical foundations, economic logics and underlying physics that underscore the design, development and operations of sustainable buildings.
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Form+Finance: the Design of Real Estate
This course exposes students to tools, instruments and strategies for design thinking and the mechanisms of finance and market forces that shape and impact built…
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The Spatial Politics of Land: A Comparative Perspective
This course focuses on the deeply contested and political processes of land-use planning, i.e. of allocating land amongst different, often competing uses,…
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There Goes the Neighborhood: Perceptions and Realities of Neighborhoods and Neighborhood Change
Gentrification and the real and perceived impacts this form of neighborhood change has on longtime local residents (typically black folks) as well as new dwellers,…
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Real Estate Finance and Development Fundamentals for Public and Private Participants (at HKS)
Classroom is at HKS, Littauer 28 Class meeting time is Mon, Wed from 4:45 to 6:00 PM. However the first class will be on…
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Public Space
In an age of digital empire, people will reflect on 2011 as the year in which physical public space reclaimed its lofty status in the public sphere.
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Urban Governance and the Politics of Planning in the Developing World
This course starts from the premise that urban politics and governance arrangements shape the definition, form and practice of planning and therefore its outcomes. Using…
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Tokyo Study Abroad Seminar: Tokyo on a Crossroads
Factors driving Tokyo’s urban mutation are beginning to change and becoming complex after the long period of economic growth. While it’s busy trying to fulfill…
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Construction Lab
Why do we build with certain types of materials, and not others? How do the properties and qualities of materials constrain the ways in which…
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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
This course introduces students to the analysis and design of structural systems. The fundamental principles of statics, structural loads, and rigid body equilibrium are considered…
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Cases in Contemporary Construction
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: Ecology and the Design World
Steven Handel, Christopher Matthews
Fall term, four units, required for both MLA 1 and MLA AP students taking the third LA core-studio. Ecological Principles for Design (Steven Handel). The…
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The Innovative Practice: Finding, Building and Leading Good Ideas with Others (at SEAS)
SEAS Engineering Sciences 21. Catalog Number: 70925Enrollment: Limited to 25. Permission of instructor required.EXAM GROUP: 12, 13 Please check the FAS schedule…
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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)
Introduces the fundamentals of water biology, chemistry, physics and transport processes needed to understand water quality and water purification technologies. Practical instruction in basic water…
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Material Practice as Research: Digital Design and Fabrication
The translation between the architectural design and the subsequent actualization process is mediated by various tools and techniques. Through the adoption in…
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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…
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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…
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Scale in Landscape Architecture
This seminar studies concepts of scale in landscape architecture and critically assesses how they are operative in the planning, design and making…
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Mapping II: Geosimulation
This advanced lecture course is a continuation of GSD6322 Mapping: Geographic Representation and Speculation. In Mapping II, students will learn the theories…
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Models, Prototypes and Projections
From the discipline’s aesthetic ambitions to its wider scientific background, conceptual models of the environment have formed a thread between practices of…
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Building Simulation: Performance Prediction Methods for Design and CFD
Simulation is the process of making a simplified model of some complex system and using it to predict the behavior of the…
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