Courses
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Rethinking Suburban History
Rethinking Suburban HistoryRecent historical research about American suburbs demonstrates that they are much more varied and complicated than previously imagined. Descriptions of \”the suburbs,\” as…
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Visual Fabrics: Film, Fashion and Material Culture
Explores the common language of film and fashion, both powerful image makers and objects of material culture. Film and fashion share a role with architecture…
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Paris: The Growth of a Modern Metropolis
This seminar examines the role Paris has played in the birth and development of the idea of the modern city as seen through the multiple…
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Hub of the Universe: Boston in the Gilded Age
In 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes described Boston\’s State House as the \”hub of the solar system\” : the exact center of the universe was marked…
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Versailles to the Visionaries
A course on architectural theory and achievement in France in the 17th and 18th centuries. While we will proceed chronologically from the reign of Louis…
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The Piranesi Effect
The Piranesi EffectThis seminar will focus on the work and legacy of the architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). A selective approach to relevant aspects of…
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The History of Horticulture in Landscape Architecture
Does horticulture have a role in landscape architecture? Did Historicism and Modernism help banish flowers? This seminar offers answers by reviewing the history of horticulture…
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HistoHistory and Theory of Urban Planning and Designries 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…
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Public and Private Development
This course explores the analytic frameworks, skills, and bodies of knowledge required to understand, evaluate, plan, and implement public and private development within cities and…
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Urban Politics, Planning, and Development
The course views cities and urban regions as political constructs. Its purpose is to help students think strategically about major urban problems and controversies, particularly…
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Analytic Methods: Quantitative
The first module of this course introduces students to selected quantitative methods for thinking about urban planning problems. The module is divided into two sections.
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Transportation Policy, Planning, and Mangagement
Prerequisites: GSD 5203, or equivalent introduction to microeconomics. This course provides an overview of the issues involved in transportation planning as well as an introduction…
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Advanced Real Estate Development and Finance
Instructors: – Glenn R. Mueller, Ph.D. 303-550-1781, & Frank Apeseche 617- 556-8120Guest instructors:, Wynne MunClass Time: Friday 8:30 – 11:30, January 30 – May 1,…
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Villages in Development in the Pearl River Delta
Villages in DevelopmentThis workshop will focus on villages in China\’s Pearl River Delta. The rapid development of the region has increasingly led villages away from…
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Land Tenure and Property Rights as a Development Strategy: International Theory & Practice
In contemporary international development practice, a central principle holds that weak and insecure land and property rights are obstacles to economic growth and poverty reduction.
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Public Approvals for Private Development Projects
Because most urban development is undertaken by private proponents but has important societal implications, it is subject to increasingly rigorous and often contentious public review.
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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 partially from the work of the instructor, weekly lectures and discussions will consider those aspects of the design of housing that are critical for…
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There Goes the Neighborhood: Perceptions and Realities of Neighborhoods and Neighborhood Change
James Stockard, Toni L. Griffin
Neighborhoods are the stuff of which cities are made. Downtowns are the iconic parts of cities and commercial and industrial districts are important. But neighborhoods…
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Ecology, Plants and Technology II
Paula Meijerink, Michael Van Valkenburgh
As the continuation of GSD 6106, this is the second in the core sequence of Ecology, Plants and Technology courses. The first module of GSD…
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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
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
The primary focus of this course will be the study of the thermal, luminous and acoustic behavior of buildings in an architectural context. The course…
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Plants and Technology II
Peter Del Tredici, Gary R. Hilderbrand
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 Construction in 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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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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Virtual Gardens
Prerequisites: GSD 2106 or GSD 2107 or permission of instructor. Proficiency with computing and willingness to adventure.Course Description: Examines the special problems and opportunities involved…
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Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems: Theory and Applications
This course explores Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and their applications. GIS serves as a framework for organizing knowledge about places and for developing logical models…
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In Search of the Engineer
Hanif Kara, Andreas Georgoulias
Course DescriptionGSD:6328 aims to redefine the conventional boundaries between architecture and structural engineering through the paradigm of Design Engineering. Students will be exposed to a…
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Building Information Models
This seminar course explores Building Information Models (BIM), business processes, applications and environments (e.g., Revit). These environments are quickly being adopted throughout the building industry…
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Water, Aquatic Ecology, and Land-Water Linkages
This course looks at water across the globe in relation to (1) aquatic ecology, (2) land-water interactions, emphasizing hydrology and water quality, and (3) human…
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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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Sustainability
Please note, this course has an irregular schedule. See below.Sustainability – an integrated design approach in combination with your studio or research projectMatthias Schuler…
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Construction Automation
Construction AutomationPrerequisites: CAD/CAM 1 or permission of instructorOffered only for the second time this year, this advanced seminar introduces students to emerging technologies under the…
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Advanced Topics in Technology: Emerging Materials in Landscape Architecture
Since the start of this century, advances and innovations in design materials and technology have grown with head spinning speed. This, layered with institutionalized green…
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Issues in the Practice of Architecture
Jay Wickersham, Maryann Thompson, Carl Sapers
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
The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao has had an unprecedented impact not only on the city of Bilbao but also on the value of design and…
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Strategy, Sustainability, and Finance
The primary topics covered in this course are business strategy, sustainability in the built environment, and economic analysis of choices in sustainability and strategy. The…
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Managing the Design Project
The pedagogical objectives of this lecture course, which covers the management of design projects, include: introduction to design project management and leadership, design services delivery,…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Paula Meijerink, Brent Ryan, Christoph Reinhart, Susan Fainstein, Christian Werthmann, Kostas Terzidis, Sanford Kwinter, Antoine Picon, Felipe Correa, Martin Zogran, Bing Wang, Martin Bechthold, Joan Busquets, Niall Kirkwood, Peter Del Tredici, Rodolfo Machado, Stephen Ervin, Anne McGhee, T. Kelly Wilson, John Beardsley, Gary R. Hilderbrand, Judith Grant Long, Andreas Georgoulias
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 research…
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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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Exhibiting the Virtual Space
Judith Grant Long, Niall Kirkwood, Spiro Pollalis, Wooyoung Kimm
The Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ) is organizing an international fair for the summer of 2009, expecting to attract many visitors from all over the…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree MArch
Maryann Thompson, Mariana Ibanez, Eric Howeler, Ingeborg Rocker, Mark Mulligan, Andrea Leers, T. Kelly Wilson, Jorge Silvetti, Jonathan Levi, Peter Rowe, K. Michael Hays, Preston Scott Cohen, Joan Busquets, Martin Bechthold, John Hong, Thomas Schroepfer, Martin Zogran, Eve Blau, Felipe Correa, Antoine Picon, Kostas Terzidis, Timothy Hyde
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
Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, Brent Ryan
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
K. Michael Hays, Martin Bechthold, Allen Sayegh, Eve Blau, Kostas Terzidis, Christoph Reinhart
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
Stephen Ervin, Peter Rowe, Antoine Picon
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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Preparation of Doctoral Thesis Proposal
A. Hashim Sarkis, Niall Kirkwood, Kostas Terzidis, Judith Grant Long
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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