Courses
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Introduction to Computational Design
This is an introductory course to computational design and the prerequisite for a spring course that deals with more advanced topics in…
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Building Simulation: Performance Prediction Methods for Design and CFD
Simulation is the process of making a simplified model of some complex system and using it to predict the behavior of the…
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Hybrid Formations: Interdisciplinary Design
“How much does your building weigh?” This question was posed to Lord Norman Foster by Buckminster Fuller after he visited the Sainsbury…
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Energy Simulation
The best intent does not always lead to the best performing design, as intuition and rules of thumb often fail to adequately…
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Visualization (at SEAS)
SEAS Computer Science 171 Catalog Number: 8877 Tu., Th., 2:30-4, and a weekly section to be arranged. Please check the…
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Natural Ventilation
Topics to be covered:1. Climate analysis, thermal comfort and natural ventilation potential.2. Basics of wind-driven and buoyancy-driven ventilation.3. Thermal…
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Nano Micro Macro: Adaptive Material Laboratory (with SEAS)
Martin Bechthold, Joanna Aizenberg
Recent developments in material science embrace ever smaller scales of investigation, moving the frontier of innovation into the nano-scale with its novel…
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Daylighting
Picture a space, one that feels vibrant, comfortable, warm, and healthy. Now visualize someplace cheerless, depressing, and dull. What changed in your…
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Tokyo Study Abroad Seminar on Structure and Material in Japan
This seminar consists of lectures, site visits, and hands on experience on materials of traditional Japanese crafts in relation to architecture and built environment. Lectures…
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Integrative Frameworks for Technology, Environment, and Society I
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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Frameworks of Contemporary Practice
Purpose of the course: 1. Examine architecture through the optics of the Discipline, Profession and Practice — the issues of knowledge domains,…
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Innovation in Project Delivery
Project delivery—the organizational, legal and economic arrangements by which society produces its built environment—has undergone a radical transformation over the past half…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Frank Apeseche, Sai Balakrishnan, Anita Berrizbeitia, Sibel Bozdo??an, Jeffry Burchard, Joan Busquets, Fionn Byrne, Bradley Cantrell, Felipe Correa, Salmaan Craig, Diane Davis, Daniel D’Oca, Edward Eigen, Ann Forsyth, Stephen Gray, Ewa Harabasz, K. Michael Hays, Andrew Holder, Zaneta Hong, Niall Kirkwood, David Mah, Panagiotis Michalatos, Kiel Moe, Mark Mulligan, Carles Muro, Robert Pietrusko, Peter Rowe, Holly Samuelson, Allen Sayegh, Mack Scogin, Jorge Silvetti, Ray Torto, Charles Waldheim, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Christopher C.M. Lee, David Gamble, Bing Wang, Richard Peiser, Sonja Dümpelmann
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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Master in Design Studies Final Project
Frank Apeseche, Martin Bechthold, Salmaan Craig, George Thomas, Bradley Cantrell, Diane Davis, Jill Desimini, Daniel D’Oca, Gareth Doherty, K. Michael Hays, John May, Panagiotis Michalatos, Kiel Moe, Erika Naginski, Richard Peiser, Antoine Picon, Holly Samuelson, Allen Sayegh, Susan Snyder
The final design project is an 8 unit final project. As the final graduating requirement for all MDes students, the project involves a substantive independent…
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MDes Open Project 1
“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 Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
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 in Satisfaction of Degree Doctor of Design
Martin Bechthold, Anita Berrizbeitia, Neil Brenner, Joan Busquets, Ali Malkawi, Peter Rowe, Charles Waldheim
Thesis in Satisfaction of the degree Doctor of Design.
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Thesis Extension in Satisfaction of Degree Doctor of Design
Iñaki Abalos, Martin Bechthold, Anita Berrizbeitia, Neil Brenner, Diane Davis, Jerold S. Kayden, Ali Malkawi, Antoine Picon, Peter Rowe, A. Hashim Sarkis, Charles Waldheim
Thesis extension in satisfaction of the degree Doctor of Design.
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Thesis Extension in Satisfaction of Degree MArch
Thesis Extension…
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MArch II Proseminar
This course provides a forum for critical discussion of contemporary design practices that is exploratory and speculative in nature. The course emphasizes collaborative thinking and…
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Doctoral Program Proseminar
This pro-seminar is one way of fulfilling a requirement for successful completion of the Doctor of Design program. Primarily, it will focus on various thematic…
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Second Semester Architecture Core: SITUATE
Grace La, Jeffry Burchard, Max Kuo, Tomás dePaor, Jennifer Bonner, Patrick McCafferty
The overarching pedagogical agenda for second semester is to expand upon the design methodologies developed in the first semester such that students acquire an understanding…
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Fourth Semester Architecture Core: RELATE
Carles Muro, Jeannette Kuo, Andrew Holder, Mariana Ibanez, Belinda Tato, Luis Callejas
RELATE is the last of a four-semester sequence of studios that aim at introducing the students to architectural design through specific pedagogical lenses. This studio…
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Territorio Guarani III
This is the third consecutive studio investigating architectural strategies and modes of intervention in the culturally and environmentally rich Territorio Guarani, the South American region…
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Misapplied Mies Applied (Final): The Performance Shed (Cancelled)
“The Bauhaus has a certain idea, but this idea has nothing to do with politics. Look at your writing table, this shabby writing table. Do…
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(Re) planned Obsolescence… Rethinking the Architecture of Waste
Hanif Kara, Leire Asensio Villoria
Despite the recent emergence of a number of novel industrial buildings, the role of the designer, and specifically the Architect, has been largely absent from…
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Work Environments 2: Glass Works
This studio is the second of three sponsored by the furniture company Knoll that examines, through research and design, the disruptive transformations that occur globally…
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Center for the Performing Arts at the Cranbrook Educational Community
The studio problem will be the design of a performing arts center on the historic Cranbrook campus in Bloomfield Hills, MI. Eliel Saarinen lived on…
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Third Natures. London’s Typological Imagination
Cristina Diaz Moreno, Efren Garcia Grinda
The second reincarnation of Third Natures at the GSD is based on three premises that will determine the content and scope of the projects that…
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etceteras
Something like that, You know what I mean So on and so on Ad infinitum Such as So forth…
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Redesigning the Actor Network in Rural Areas around Tokyo
Momoyo Kaijima, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
This studio aims to propose instrumental space in the rural areas around Tokyo, intervening into an alternative actor network (Bruno Latour) that governs the area’s…
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Readymade Architecture
Readymade, defined by André Breton and Paul Éluard in 1938 is “an ordinary object elevated to the dignity of a work of art by the…
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Rotterdam Studio Abroad: Smart Countrysides
The 2016 Spring Rotterdam Study Abroad Studio will be a collaborative effort with Niklas Maak and Sebastien Marot exploring new forms of research and engagement…
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Wood, Urbanism: From the Molecular to the Territorial
Jane Hutton, Kiel Moe, Daniel Ibanez
Ironically, architects and landscape architects are their most vague in the act of specification. Designers have little idea of what specifying something as seemingly prosaic…
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Responsive Environments: Bergamo eMotion
This course looks into the future of the built environment from a technologically augmented point of view, with a strong focus on sustainability and…
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Superficial Spaces (Cancelled)
At a time when architectural discourse and practice are (still) brimming with references to new geometries, this offering investigates the architectural potential of abstract three-dimensional…
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Conic and Developable Surfaces
In terms of Differential Geometry, developable surfaces are defined as those with vanishing Gaussian curvature which can be unrolled to a plane without distortion.
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Painting for Designers: Techniques, Methods and Concepts
The course objective is to advance through painting students visual skills in artistic representation and creative imagination. Assigned and generated by students projects will…
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Today’s Architecture as Seen Through Enduring Concerns
This lecture course focuses on the critical reflection of long-standing issues in the architectural practice still providing a valuable frame for considering recent…
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Fieldwork in Conservation Design
Architects practicing in the 21st century can no longer assume that most of their design projects will begin with an empty site. Several factors –…
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Socio-Environmental Responsive Design
Jose Luis Vallejo, Belinda Tato
This seminar considers the complexity of the human ecosystem and the interpenetration of natural and artificial elements that are embedded within it. People, nature,…
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The Architecture of Health: Power, Technology, and the Hospital
This seminar traces the form of the hospital from the beginning of modern medicine through to the present, across Europe, the United States, and…
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Philosophy of Technology
“In addition to man’s ageless obligation to meet the threat of things, he bears for the first time the responsibility of prime agent in…
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Potential Architecture
The work of the architect, the urban designer and designers at large is conditioned by a number of factors that delimit and demarcate the…
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Political Landscapes
This course is offered for students enrolled in the Rotterdam Study Abroad Program. This seminar invites students to analyze the political iconography of the countryside,…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts II
Any account of architecture’s history over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries is faced with the challenge of addressing the general rupture caused…
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Film Theory, Visual Thinking
How do moving images transform the way we think? Introduction to film theory aimed at interpreting the visual world, and developing skills to analyze films…
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Screens: Media Archaeology and the Visual Arts Seminar
How do screens function as interface between us and the world? What is the role of the screen in contemporary visual arts and media culture?…
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Property in Common: The Nexus Between Architecture and Real Estate
Property both in law and in logic means enforceable rights, not things. It is a political relation between persons that includes private (right to…
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