Courses
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Adventure and Fantasy Simulation, 1871-2036: Seminar
Visual constituents of high adventure since the late Victorian era, emphasizing wandering woods, rogues, tomboys, women adventurers, faerie antecedents, halflings, crypto-cartography, Third-Path turning, martial arts,…
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History of Gardens and Public Landscapes, 1600 to 1900
GSD 4317 covers the formal/cultural history and theoretical underpinnings of modern gardens and public landscapes. Beginning in early modern Europe, the course moves from English…
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Rome and St. Peter’s
The art and architecture of Rome from Antiquity to Modernity with particular attention to the Vatican, where the layering of material artifacts from successive historical…
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Modern Architecture and Urbanism in China
Modernizing influences, largely from the hands of foreign powers, first forcefully entered China in the aftermath of the Opium War and signing of the Treaty…
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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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Architecture, Science and Technology, XVIIIth Century-Present
Since the first industrial revolution, science and technology have constantly challenged architecture. Technology in particular has represented a powerful source of change for architecture. New…
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Transparency
The concept of transparency is critical not only to understanding 20th century modernism, but also to engaging current architectural concerns with mediation, density, surface, light,…
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Hub of the Universe: Boston in the Gilded Age
An exploration of the architectural and urban development of Boston from its founding in 1630 to the First World War with emphasis on the Gilded…
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Histories of the Future
Design (of buildings, cities, landscapes) is an anticipatory discipline, whose techniques, practices, and desires are directed toward the formulation of futures. Not future objects as…
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The Poetics of Materials (episodes in the cultural history of modern making)
The Spectacle Factory examines the modern history of immersive theater, entertainment, and media spaces from the standpoint of the history of architecture and design. It…
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Adolf Loos, Our Contemporary
This year we will be celebrating 100 years to the Loos House in Vienna. This seminar set about to trace the impact of Adolf Loos\’s…
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Architecture or Poverty: The Challenges of Social and Economic Development from 1945 to the present
Is poverty an architectural question? When does it emerge as an ethical concern for the architect? How have modern architects historically addressed the problem of…
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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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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 and Planning
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
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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Land Tenure and Property Rights as a Development Strategy: International Theory & Practice
In international development practice, a central principle holds that weak and insecure land and property rights are obstacles to economic growth, poverty reduction and the…
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Olympic Urbanism II: Winter Games
This module investigates the civic aspirations and spatial expressions of sports facilities, athletes\’ villages, transportation and other infrastructure built to accommodate the Winter Olympic Games.
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Public Approvals for Private Development Projects
The course\’s principal objective is to provide a conceptual framework for understanding the interplay of private property protections and regulatory programs on privately sponsored development…
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Building Design Typologies and Operational Principles of Real Estate
Building typologies are fundamental instruments for constructing urban patterns and spatial forms. In the discourse of modern architecture and urbanism, the study of building typologies…
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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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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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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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Affordable Housing and Mixed-Income Housing Development, Finance, and Management
This \”nuts and bolts\” course focuses on the development, financing, and management of both rental and ownership affordable and mixed-income housing developments. The primary public…
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Ecology, Plants and Technology II
Emily Mueller de Celis, 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 provides students with an enhanced understanding of structural analysis and engineering design concepts. Students learn the fundamentals of…
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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 addresses interdependencies among technical, cultural, and professional aspects of built landscapes at an advanced level in landscape architecture. Technologies are investigated as critical…
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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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Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems: Theory and Applications
Geographic Information Systems serve as a framework for organizing knowledge about places and for developing logical models of the ways places operate under existing and…
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Material Ecologies Workshop
Landscapes are shaped by continuous flows of materials and energy driven by anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic forces. Within constructed landscape systems, materials range from living to…
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In Search of Design through Engineers
Andreas Georgoulias, Hanif Kara
This course aims to teach, stimulate and demonstrate \”design led\” opportunities that exist in the zone between Architecture and Engineering, through the paradigm of Design…
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Building Information Models
This seminar course explores the Building Information Model (BIM) and its impact on business processes, production, and software environments (e.g., Revit, Digital Project). With the…
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Water, Aquatic Ecology, and Land-Water Linkages
This course is intended to provide students with an understanding of water and aquatic ecosystems that will: – inform their professional approaches to architecture, landscape…
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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
This advanced, research-based seminar investigates opportunities and challenges of automation in the context of architecture and architectural products. An extension of research on computer-aided design…
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Thermal Analysis of Buildings
Prerequisites: 6205 or equivalent; access to a newer laptop, working knowledge in Rhino and Ecotect Weather ToolThis seminar will introduce students to manual and computer-based…
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The DIGITAL CRAFT
Away from autonomous production, anonymous materials, scripted space and a no-hands approach, this course will explore the potentials of digital fabrication techniques towards end-user products…
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Advanced Topics: Earthworks
Note: this class will not meet on 1/25. Instead, the first course meeting will be on Wednesday, 1/27 from 6-9 PM in room 318.This seminar…
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Green Infrastructure in the Non-formal City
Today, there are one billion people living in squatter communities worldwide, a number expected to double by 2030. 50% of our total urban growth will…
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GeoWeb: Virtual Worlds as Public Infrastructure
This seminar/workshop examines the growing utility of the World Wide Web as a framework for organizing the world???s spatial knowledge. Three-dimensional virtual worlds such as…
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Issues in the Practice of Architecture
Maryann Thompson, Jay Wickersham
This course, for students in the fourth semester of the MArchI program, raises basic issues arising in contemporary architectural practice. The course challenges the students…
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The Bilbao Guggenhein Museum: Topics in Project Management
Luis Rodriguez, Spiro Pollalis
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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Real Estate Development, Design, and Construction
Schedule: Thursdays and Fridays, 1:30 – 2:50 pm (also select Wednesdays: Feb 24, Mar 10, Mar 31, Apr 28)Aldrich Hall, Harvard Business SchoolThis course focuses…
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Integrated Project Delivery
Lecture course for 4 credits on Integrated Practice and Integrated Project Delivery. Pedagogical objectives include the broad survey and introduction to various collaborative approaches to…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Maryann Thompson, David Leatherbarrow, Erika Naginski, Andreas Georgoulias, Suzanne Lanyi Charles, Richard Jennings, Eric Belsky, Sanford Kwinter, Bing Wang, Joan Busquets, Holly Clarke, K. Michael Hays, Kenneth Kao, John Beardsley, Anne McGhee, Stephen Ervin, Peter Del Tredici, Niall Kirkwood, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, Richard Peiser, Scheri Fultineer, Judith Grant Long, Dorothee Imbert, Pierre Bélanger
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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