Courses
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Sites of Conflict + Innovation: At the Center of the New Europe
Prerequisites: GSD 4201-4206 or equivalent or postprofessional degree status (MArch II, MDesS, PhD, etc)This course is concerned with understanding the dynamics of change and innovation…
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Modern Architecture and Urbanism in China
Modernizing influences, largely from the hands of foreign powers, first forcefully entered into China and began to take root in the aftermath of the Opium…
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Nature and the Ideal: Art and Architecture in Italy 1250-1520
This is an introduction to Italian painting, sculpture, and architecture from ca. 1250 to 1520 emphasizing style and technique. The course is structured in three…
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Artifice
\”The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.\” Oscar WildeThis…
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The History of Horticulture in Landscape Architecture
Recent changes in the historiography of the European garden opened up a new field of study — the history of landscape architecture from a horticultural/cultural…
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Markets and Market Failure
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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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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Field Studies in Real Estate
Class Meetings: Wednesday, 2:00 pm – 5::00 pm Gund 109Professors:Richard Peiser and Bing Wang Class Limit24 students – urban designers, planners, architects, landscape architects, and…
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Transportation Policy, Planning, and Mangagement
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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Advanced Real Estate Development and Finance
This course builds on GSD 5204 and comparable introductory real estate courses offered by other schools at Harvard. This year\’s course covers four main topics:…
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Strategic Planning and Local Development
This course examines strategies for urban and regional development within the context of a globalized economy where cities are the engines of growth. Fierce competition,…
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Public Approvals for Private Development Projects
The improvement of real property has social as well as physical and economic implications, and is therefore subject to increasingly rigorous public review. This course…
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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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Housing Policy in the United States: The Intersection of the Public and Private Sectors
In the twentieth century, housing policy in the United States has crafted a complex finance and delivery system. This course will examine the origins of…
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The Design of Housing in the United States
Drawing largely from the work of the instructor, weekly presentations and discussions will consider those aspects of the design of housing that are critical for…
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Planning and Theories of Justice
The aims of planning have been broadly defined in terms of justice, efficiency, and environmental protection. This course, which will meet for the first half…
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There Goes the Neighborhood: Perceptions and Realities of Neighborhoods and Neighborhood Change
James Stockard, Toni L. Griffin
There Goes the Neighborhood:Perceptions and Realities of Neighborhoods and Neighborhood ChangeNeighborhoods are the stuff of which cities are made. Downtowns are the iconic parts of…
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Ecology, Plants and Technology II
Gary R. Hilderbrand, Paula Meijerink
As the continuation of GSD 6106, this is the second in the core sequence of Ecology, Plants and Technology courses. The first module investigates plants…
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Analysis and Design of Building Structures II
A continuation of GSD 6201, this course introduces more advanced topics such as funicular systems, statically indeterminate structures, pre-stressing as well as surface structures. Specifically,…
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Science and Technology
Jonathan Levi, Thomas Schroepfer
The course introduces a conceptual framework for the design of building assemblies, as informed by a clear understanding of construction technologies and of the properties…
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Environmental Technologies in Buildings
Toshiko Mori, Matthias Schuler, Thomas Lechner
This course examines the fundamental scientific principles underlying the thermal, luminous and acoustic behavior of buildings and introduces students to the existing technologies for creating…
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Plants and Technology II
Niall Kirkwood, Peter Del Tredici
GSD 6219 Plants and Technology II will address the interdependence between plants, technology and design in landscape architecture. The purpose of this course is to…
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Innovative Constructions: cases in modern Japan
Modern Japanese architecture has been much admired in the West for its attention to materials, its refined construction details, and its ability to integrate traditional…
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Green Roofs and Ecological Landscape Design for Watershed Protection
The elective course \’Green Roofs and Ecological Landscape Design for Watershed Protection\’ will focus on green roofs as one alternative to create multi-functional and cost-effective…
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Innovation in Structure
In our recent examples of architecture, visions of architects are enhanced by innovative approaches in structures by leading engineers. They engage in early stages of…
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Urban and Surburban Ecology
Wildlife, vegetation, soil, air, water, and aquatic ecosystems, together with their human uses, are related to the distinctive, especially spatial, attributes of suburban and urban…
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Parametric Design and Information Models
Daniel Schodek, Michael Schroeder
This lecture course consists of two related modules that should normally be taken together (see note below). The first module explores the design development process…
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Brownfields Practicum – Sustainable Redevelopment of Brownfield Sites in Somerville, Massachusetts
Brownfields remain of the highest priority in the regeneration of the inner city. Defined by the US. Environmental Protection Agency as an \”abandoned, idled or…
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Watershed and Waterside Development Planning and Design
This course concentrates on how different land processes (natural) and activities (anthropogenic) affect aquatic systems. b(Part 1 is based on empirical cross-system comparisons to examine…
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In Search of the Engineer
Please note the course schedule below.Instructors:Spiro Pollalis: www.gsd.harvard.edu/~pollalis and Hanif Kara: http://www.akt-uk.com/Teaching Fellow:Andreas Georgoulias ([email protected])Course Description In recent examples of architecture, visions of architects are…
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Green R+D: Case Studies in Sustainability
This class provides a forum for the investigation of advances in the design of green buildings, components, and assemblies. Design pull, the push of technology,…
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Random Rules
This workshop will research the tensions and contradictions between advancing manufacturing techniques in the field of architecture and the deplorable standards of the construction industry…
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Advanced Topics: Earthworks
This seminar will examine two themes in earthworks: the techniques by which the land is altered through technology and design; and the way in which…
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Three-Dimensional Modeling of Cities
This course explores the technologies and standards that are beginning to permit the development and distribution of three-dimensional representations of places that are vast in…
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Legal Aspects of Design Practice
This course, an elective practice course, is open to students who have taken GSD 7212, an equivalent practice course, or who have had actual practice…
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Issues in the Practice of Architecture
This course, for students in the fourth semester of the MArch I program, introduces basic issues in practice and the profession of architecture, challenging the…
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The Bilbao Guggenhein Museum: Topics in Project Management
Please note the course schedule below.The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao has had an unprecedented impact not only on the city of Bilbao but also…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Daniel Schodek, Niall Kirkwood, Richard T.T. Forman, Mark Mulligan, Alex Krieger, Anne McGhee, T. Kelly Wilson, John Beardsley, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, Sibel Bozdo??an, K. Michael Hays, Martin Bechthold, Allen Sayegh, Antoine Picon, Kostas Terzidis, Ingeborg Rocker
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 subjects…
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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 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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Mobile Information Unit
Martin Bechthold, Martin Zogran
Students in last fall\’s course CAD/CAM I have proposed the design for a mobile information unit that is to be built this year. The unit…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree MArch
Ingeborg Rocker, Martin Zogran, Thomas Schroepfer, Preston Scott Cohen, Spiro Pollalis, Peter Rowe, Jonathan Levi, Jorge Silvetti, Andrea Leers, A. Hashim Sarkis, Toshiko Mori, Pierre de Meuron, Jacques Herzog
Following preparation in GSD 9203, each student conducts a design exploration that tests and expands the thesis.Prerequisites: GSD 9203…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree MAUD, MLAUD, or MUP
Following preparation in GSD 9204, each student pursues a topic of relevance to urban design or urban planning, which may include design or planning exploration,…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Master in Landscape Architecture
Prerequisites: GSD 9205.Following preparation in GSD 9205, each student pursues a topic of relevance to landscape architecture, which must include academic inquiry and design exploration.
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Independent Thesis for the Degree Master in Design Studies
Martin Bechthold, Antoine Picon
A student who selects this independent thesis for the degree Master in Design Studies pursues independent research of relevance to the selected course of study…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
Carl Steinitz, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis
Under faculty guidance, the student conducts a reading program and independent study. The course is intended for doctoral students.
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Preparation of Doctoral Thesis Proposal
Richard Peiser, Daniel Schodek, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, A. Hashim Sarkis, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, Thomas Schroepfer, Kostas Terzidis
Under faculty guidance, the student conducts a reading program and formulates a thesis proposal. The course is intended for doctoral students.
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Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Doctor of Design
Daniel Schodek, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, A. Hashim Sarkis, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, Martin Bechthold
Under guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.
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