Courses
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree MArch
Maryann Thompson, Jorge Silvetti, Peter Rowe, K. Michael Hays, Mack Scogin, Preston Scott Cohen, Grace La, Elizabeth Whittaker, Silvia Benedito, Kiel Moe, Jeffry Burchard, Florian Idenburg, Leire Asensio Villoria, Carles Muro, Edward Eigen
Each student conducts a design exploration that tests and expands the thesis. Prerequisites: completion of two (2) options studios and approval of thesis preparation…
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Master of Design Studies Final Project
Richard Peiser, Ray Torto, Sonja Dümpelmann, Rosetta S. Elkin, Panagiotis Michalatos, Leire Asensio Villoria, Holly Samuelson, Stephen Gray, Andres Sevtsuk, Dilip da Cunha, Kiel Moe, Silvia Benedito, Andrew Witt, Allen Sayegh, Niall Kirkwood, Peter Del Tredici, Peter Rowe, K. Michael Hays, Ann Forsyth, Pierre Bélanger, Salmaan Craig, Susan Snyder, Martin Bechthold, George Thomas, Edward Eigen
The Final Project will consist of a theoretical/position component, and of a practical/experimental component. The scope of each of the two components will be determined…
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Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Doctor of Design
Peter Rowe, Neil Brenner, Ali Malkawi, Martin Bechthold, Antoine Picon, A. Hashim Sarkis
Under guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.
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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 Core: SITUATE
Grace La, Cameron Wu, Elizabeth Whittaker, Jeffry Burchard, Luis Callejas, Victor Navarro Rios
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 Core: RELATE
Carles Muro, Vincent Bandy, Max Kuo, Eric Howeler, Mariana Ibanez, Renata Sentkiewicz
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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Portmanian Architecture
Carl Dworkin will be serving as Teaching Associate for this studio. Portmanian Architecture is architecture characterized by the tropes that constitute the famed atrium hotels…
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Chamamé: The intangible rhythms of the Guarani Region
This will be the second of three proposed Architecture Design Studios to study and develop architectural design proposals in an area of South America that…
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Blob Block Slab Mat Slat
Teased over the apparent lack of historical perspective in OMA’s proposal for the extension of the Dutch Parliament (1978), Rem Koolhaas quipped that the brief…
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Boxes for America
This studio is the 13th incarnation of Architecture Without Content. Architecture Without Content started as research on the Big Box in 2010. The idea being…
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Work Environments 1: Campus and Event
This studio is the first out of three studios that examines, through research and design, the disruptive transformations that take place globally in environments where…
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Re-Defining Urban Living
The studio will deal with contemporary urban conditions, exploring optimal ways to live in the city but also the meaning of overused terms such as…
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OBJECT STUDIO
Our objective will be to precisely define projects based on the simultaneous presence of three conditions: 1_ Place. Here, it is the city, at…
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Spartan Unwonted
I’ll have the “Spartan” Special rare, please with a side of straddle-ramp salad just a touch of Boudoir sauce and a…
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Third Natures: London Pleasure Gardens
Cristina Diaz Moreno, Efren Garcia Grinda
Cristina Díaz Moreno & Efrén Garcia Grinda (The Consortium of Fantastic Ideas) The notion of the building as a Third Nature explores the possibility of…
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Study Abroad Option Studio: “Poor but Sexy”: Berlin, The New Communal
Frank Barkow, Arno Brandlhuber
Former Berlin Mayor Klaus “Wowi” Wowereit’s claim in 2004 that Berlin is “Arm aber Sexy”, poor but sexy, set the tone for a post-reunification milieu…
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Responsive Environments: Glitchy Food
Today, more than ever before, we feel the technological presence as part of our everyday life. The all-pervasive nature of digital information and technological interaction…
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Superficial Spaces
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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Projection/Installation/Intervention
The course will focus on the ways in which designers and artists can help monuments \”entrenched in the past\” to become enlivened for the living…
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Critical Conservation: Urban Cultural Ecologies of Progressive Places
Critical Conservation seeks to disentangle the complex web of 19th c. elite values of historic preservation and 20th c. mass-culture strategies that together complicate 21st…
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Film, Media, Space (at VES)
The possibility to access the media everywhere and every time gives us the illusion to be emancipated from any temporal or spatial constraint and yet,…
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Soft Thought: Towards a Theory of Computational Design
Digital design remains one of the few areas within the discipline of architecture that remains relatively under theorized. This situation is in part the result…
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Digital Culture, Architecture and the City
Some twenty years ago, when Bernard Tschumi and young instructors like Greg Lynn or Ali Rahim launched the so-called \”Paperless Studio,\” based upon the intensive…
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The Mixed-Reality City: The urban fabric as landscape, network, and platform
The contemporary city is constituted by multiple overlapping, intermixing realities articulated across built form and imagined space, individual experience and collective memory, embodied sensation 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 the…
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Light Structures II
Light Structure The seminar is a one yearlong study of Light Structure spanning two semesters, fall 2014 and spring 2015. The students can…
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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 designer\’s…
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Berlin Study Abroad Seminar: Plattenbau vs. the New Communal. Mass Housing, Alternative Dwelling Models, and a theory of Shared Spaces in Germany
With equal emphasis on historical and theoretical analysis, this seminar investigates the potential offered by various forms of historic alternative dwelling, and new ways to…
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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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Translating Architecture: Walter Gropius and the Legacy of the Bauhaus
The inspiration behind this course is Walter Gropius (1883-1969), German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who subsequently moved to the United States, and…
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Michelangelo Architect: Precedents, Innovations, Influence
An exploration of Italian Renaissance architecture and urbanism through the persona of Michelangelo as witness, agent, and inspiration. We look at architecture and urbanism in…
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The Ruin Aesthetic: Episodes in the History of an Architectural Idea
One of the arresting images in Michel Serres\’s Rome: The Book of Foundations is the idea that history is \”a knot of different times\”—a knot…
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Structure, Infrastructure, and Ornament
With the rise of digital design and fabrication, ornament is back. Its return has been accompanied with recurring interrogations regarding the need to redefine tectonics,…
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Case Studies in Critical Conservation: Strategies for Curating the Built Environment
This course analyzes case studies in conservation as a means for developing projective strategies for interpreting and curating buildings, landscapes, and cities. More specifically, the…
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Narratives of Design Science
From Aldo Rossi’s Scientific Autobiography to Buckminster Fuller’s “Design Science”, the intellectual framework and heuristic tools of the exact sciences such as physics and mathematics…
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Berlin Study Abroad Seminar: The Urban Architecture of Berlin: From Schinkel to the Present
After abstract modernist planning lost contact with the physical aspects of the built environment, we returned to looking at the city at the scale of…
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Environment, Economics, and Enterprise
Holly Samuelson, Frank Apeseche
How can one optimize the benefits of environmental or social sustainability while generating a higher return on investment in buildings? Where are the opportunities for…
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Construction Systems
This course introduces a framework to know the instantiation of architecture through construction systems. Construction systems will be discovered through the methods of dissection, drawing,…
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Environmental Systems in Architecture
The primary focus of GSD 6125 is the study of ecological considerations in architectural design. These considerations include the thermal, luminous, and acoustic behavior of…
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Structural Design 2
This course is a continuation of GSD 6227 and, after an overview/reminder introduction, furthers understanding of more developed structural systems and materials in architectural design.
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Design Survivor: Experiential Lessons in Designing for Desirability (at SEAS)
SEAS Engineering Sciences 22. Catalog Number: 87699 EXAM GROUP: 2, 3 Please check the FAS schedule for room information. Multi-disciplinary…
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Survey of Energy Technology (at SEAS)
EAS Engineering Sciences 229. Survey of Energy Technology Catalog Number: 94822 EXAM GROUP: 7, 8 Please check the FAS schedule for…
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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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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 practice of Architecture. Positioned within the space of interdisciplinary boundaries,…
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(Re)fabricating Tectonic Prototypes
Leire Asensio-Villoria, instructor, with Hanif Kara, structural consultant The course is framed by a general ambition to develop explorations in digital design, fabrication and parametric…
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Material Distributions: Gradients of Compliance
This course explores the role of computational structural analysis and form finding methods in design and fabrication problems. Such techniques can offer hints on how…
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Forms of Energy: Nonmodern
The spring 2015 Forms of Energy focuses on Nonmodern Forms of Energy and Design. Nonmodern refers to those forms and formations of energy that are…
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Quantitative Aesthetics: Re-sensing / Augmenting reality
This course is looking at computational approaches to digital media that allow us to analyze and reinterpret our environment as a signal, creating interactive interventions…
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