Courses
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
Introduces the formulation of architectural principles – what Rudolf Wittkower called the \’apparatus of forms\’ – by means of selected case studies from Brunelleschi to…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
Nineteenth-century architecture is a difficult subject in a design school. Its aesthetics is in sharp contrast to the contemporary quest for authenticity. Although today\’s architectural…
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Modernization in the Visual United States Environment, 1890-2035
Modernization of the United States visual environment as directed by a nobility creating new images and perceptions of such themes as wilderness, flight, privacy, clothing,…
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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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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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Constructing Vision
The course examines how architects have historically used means of representation, not only as allographic tools, but as design tools that visually organize buildings and…
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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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The History of Plants and Animals in Landscape Design: Antiquity to the Present
Does horticulture have a role in landscape architecture? Do wild animals have a place in garden design and urbanized areas? This seminar offers answers by…
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Michelangelo: Precedents, Innovations, Influence
An exploration of Italian Renaissance and Baroque architecture and urbanism through the persona of Michelangelo as witness, agent, and inspiration. We look at architecture and…
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Beginnings of Architecture
K. Michael Hays, Antoine Picon
This is an intensive reading and discussion seminar for the theoretically ambitious, or, if not ambitious, at least curious and brave. Drawing on a range…
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The Shapes of Utopia
\’you speak of that city of which we are the founders, and which exists in idea only, for I do not think there is such…
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Personifications of Modernism: Philip Johnson
The progress of modern architecture has been accompanied by a dependence upon personifications, while the critique of modern architecture has been no less committed to…
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Urbanism, Suburbanism, and Climate
This seminar will explore an important episode in the history of the built landscape as a mechanism of climate management. In the period right after…
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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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Field Studies in Real Estate, Planning & Urban Design: Slum Rehabilitation in Mumbai, India & Urban Regeneration in Lowell, Massachusetts
Credits4 units. Students who want to do more in-depth design work may also register for a 2 unit Independent Study with the professors, augmenting the…
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Analytic Methods of Urban Planning: Quantitative
Michael Hooper, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal
This course introduces students to quantitative analysis and research methods. The module is divided into two sections. In the first, students gain exposure to, and…
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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
Guest instructors: Frank Apeseche, Glenn Mueller, Richard Georgi and Jack RodmanThis course builds on GSD 5204 and comparable introductory real estate courses offered by other…
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Design, Law, Policy
Law has a powerful imprint on the design of the built environment. As much as technological innovation, market calculation, artistic creativity, and cultural norms, law…
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Urbanization and International Development
This course undertakes a detailed examination of global urbanization in the context of international development. The course is divided into four components. It begins by…
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Urbanism in Europe
This seminar analyzes the socio-spatial characteristics of the European city. Given the wide variety of urbanisms that exist on the European continent, we must of…
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Reinventing Formal and Informal Latin American Urbanism
This course pursues two objectives: (1) It provides a general overview of Latin American Urbanism in order to understand how cities in this part of…
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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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Environmental Planning and Sustainable Development: History, Theory, and Practice
The goal of this course is to provide an introduction to the ideas and information necessary to integrate environmental viability and sustainable development with other…
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Housing Policy in the United States: The Intersection of the Public and Private Sectors
In the 20th century, housing policy in the United States crafted a complex finance and delivery system that is the envy of the world. This…
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Real Estate in Emerging Markets
Overview: Emerging markets are defined, for this course, as geographic areas with a lack of physical (roads, pipes) and institutional (legal codes, professional organizations) infrastructure.
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Affordable 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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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies II
Peter Del Tredici, Laura Solano
In the first 3-week segment of the course, Peter Del Tredici will cover the characteristics and modification of soils in natural as well as built…
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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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Materials, Constructions, Processes: City of Wood
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 is the study of the thermal, luminous and acoustic behavior of buildings in an architectural context. The course examines…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies IV
Niall Kirkwood, Pierre Bélanger
GSD 6242 Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies IV addresses the interdependence between site, technology and design in landscape architecture. The ambitions of the course are to develop…
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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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In Search of Design through Engineers
Hanif Kara, Andreas Georgoulias
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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Day-Lighting Buildings
The primary focus of this course is the study of natural and electric lighting in an architectural context. The course promotes the integration of occupant…
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Water, Aquatic Ecology, and Land-Water Linkages
This course is intended to provide students with an understanding of water that will inform their professional approaches to landscape architecture, architecture, and planning, and…
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Sentient Cities as Cybernetic, Real-time, Control Systems : Theory and Practice of Urban Sensing_
A sensationalist approach can be applied to cities as cybernetic mechanisms which is the focus of this course on Sentient Cities as Cybernetic, Real-time, Control…
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Towards a Sustainable Infrastructure
Spiro Pollalis, Andreas Georgoulias
This limited-enrollment seminar focuses on the development of a working framework for sustainable infrastructure systems. The course will start with a mapping of the different…
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Sustainability
Erik Olsen and Matthias Rudolph from Transsolar will teach instead of Matthias Schuler in Spring 2011. Prerequisite: GSD 6205 or equivalentCourse description:Based on basic information…
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Optimizations
The optimization in design problems is elusive due to the inherent multiplicity and ambiguity of the optimal for real world problems. However partial optimization of…
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Performance Domains
In this course students will be required to design an environment related to a particular temporal event such as a segment of a dance or…
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Special Offerings in Science and Technology
Computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) techniques have long been a critical component of the GSD culture. Building on methods and capabilities developed in GSD 6317…
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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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Dynamic Landscape
Piet Oudolf is a prominent Dutch garden designer renowned for his unconventional methods of featuring plants throughout their life cycle. The inspiration for the New…
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Issues in Architectural Practice and Ethics
Jay Wickersham, Maryann Thompson
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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Business Strategy, Economics, and Sustainability
This course aims to equip students with strategy and economic tools to be effective leaders of firms in the built environment. The primary topics covered…
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Sustainable Cities: Urbanization, Infrastructure, and Finance
Jointly Listed at Harvard Business School as HBS 1485This course has an irregular schedule: Tuesday January 25 then most Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays on HBS calendar,…
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