Courses
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Survey of Energy Technology (at SEAS)
Principles governing energy generation and interconversion. Current and projected world energy use. Selected important current and anticipated future technologies for energy generation, interconversion, storage, and…
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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…
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Analytic Geometries, Descriptive Geometries: Thinking and Making
George L. Legendre, Cameron Wu
At a time when design software and numerically-controlled fabrication are becoming ubiquitous and commonplace, this lecture-workshop lays the technical and conceptual…
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Interface Design: Integrating Material Perceptions
The course explores the interface between architecture and engineering by examining our perceptions towards materials. Interdisciplinary research has gained interest in recent…
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Quantitative Aesthetics: Design as Signal
This course is looking at computational approaches to digital media that allow us to analyse and reinterpret our environment as a signal,…
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Optimizing Facade Performance: A Deep Dive on Design Decisions
Building envelopes are at the intersection of design, performance, and occupant experience in architectural design. Façades influence many aspects of building performance…
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Integrative Frameworks for Technology, Environment, and Society II
Woodward Yang, Antoine Picon, Sai Balakrishnan, Diane Davis, Ali Malkawi
Developing and implementing good solutions to real problems facing human society requires a broad understanding of the relationships between technology innovation, science, manufacturing, design thinking,…
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Scenes of Design, Development, and Disaster
The architect’s arrival on the scene – like that of the hero, the movie star, and the forensic technician – is an…
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Non-Professional Practice
The course aims to study unconventional modes of architectural practice and their underlying implications. It is based on a workshop format,…
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Miami Resilience: Affordability and Health
This advanced research seminar in Miami, Florida (USA) is thematically focused at the intersection of community resilience, public health and housing studies. With a particular…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Sai Balakrishnan, Martin Bechthold, Daniel D’Oca, Craig Douglas, Kiel Moe, Charles Waldheim, Ewa Harabasz, Allen Sayegh, Christopher Herbert, Michael Hooper, Alistair McIntosh, Joan Busquets, Diane Davis, Sonja Dümpelmann, Stephen Gray, Jock Herron, Oana Stanescu, Megan Panzano, Peter Rowe, John Peterson, Andres Sevtsuk, Christine Smith, Andrew Holder, Jennifer Bonner, Abby Spinak, Andrew Witt, Chris Reed, Tomás dePaor, Jesse M. Keenan, Rafael Moneo, Susan Snyder, Edward Eigen, Jon Lott, Jonathan Grinham, Preston Scott Cohen, Bing Wang, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Ray Torto, Panagiotis Michalatos, Niklas Maak
Students may take a maximum of 8 units with different GSD instructors in this course series. 9201 must be taken for either 2, or 4…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree MArch
The Thesis Program encourages students to take advantage of the wide range of resources and research initiatives of the Graduate School of Design and its…
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MDES Open Project II
“Open Projects” is a two-semester course sequence for second year MDes students. As the graduating requirement for students enrolled in the 4-Semester Track of the…
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Independent Design Engineering Project II
Martin Bechthold, Woodward Yang, Peter Stark
The Independent Design Engineering Project (IDEP) is a two-semester project during which students in the Master in Design Engineering (MDE) program work on understanding a…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
Diane Davis, Peter Rowe, K. Michael Hays, Eve Blau, Alex Krieger, Jock Herron
9502 must be taken for either 2, or 4 units. Under faculty guidance, the student conducts an independent reading program and formulates a thesis proposal.
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Thesis Extension in Satisfaction of Degree Doctor of Design
Iñaki Abalos, Martin Bechthold, Anita Berrizbeitia, Neil Brenner, Diane Davis, Ali Malkawi, Richard Peiser, Antoine Picon, Peter Rowe, Charles Waldheim
Thesis extension in satisfaction of the degree Doctor of Design.
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What is a Thesis? Conversations on Means and Methods of the Thesis Project
How does one frame the architectural problem? How does one begin the thesis project? This proseminar provides a platform for students to workshop and develop…
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Methods of Research in Art and Design: A Workshop-tutorial
This workshop focuses on the exploration, elaboration, and development of students’ research and experimentation in projects that intersect the fields of art…
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Discourse and Methods II
K. Michael Hays, Catherine Ingraham
This seminar is designed as an introduction to some of the major critical approaches and methodologies that have shaped the history and theory of the…
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