Courses
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Interiors, Environments, Atmosphere
Confronted with the new importance given to energy and sustainability requirements, the architectural discipline is not only in need of new technological knowledge and…
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Selected Topics on Contemporary Chinese Architecture and Urban Planning
For more than three decades and still today, China has embraced rapid social, economic, and cultural transformation. Discussion of contemporary Chinese…
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Making Sacred Space
Many recently-built churches are ugly as sin. Others are wonderful as form but don’t work well functionally or symbolically. Most are just boring. How…
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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”…
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Le Corbusier: Themes/Discourse/Figures
Antoine Picon, K. Michael Hays
Half a century after his death, Le Corbusier remains the most emblematic architect of the twentieth century and a major reference for the architectural discipline.
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Discourses and Methods: Conservation, Destruction, and Curating Impermanence
Natalia Escobar Castrillon, K. Michael Hays
This seminar on critical conservation aims to develop concepts and strategies able to describe and curate the transitory and dynamic nature of architecture, landscapes…
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Power & Place: Culture and Conflict in the Built Environment
This lecture/workshop course studies and analyzes processes and expressions of power in urban form and design in the built North American environment. Focusing on…
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Countryside versus Cityside: A Seminar in Environmental History
This Course is for students in the Rotterdam Study Abroad Program. Investigating the countryside, as architects, requires a zooming out of the city and the…
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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…
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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…
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Interdisciplinary Design Practice
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…
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The Thermal Allometry of Massive, Breathing Buildings
By form and ‘massing’ alone, termite mounds balance the baritone beat of thermal mass with the soprano shrill of surface convection and the tenor pulse…
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Digital Structures and Material Distribution
This course explores the role of computational structural analysis and form finding methods in design and fabrication problems. Such techniques can offer hints on…
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Structural Surfaces
This course is about maximum effect with minimum means. Complex surfaces present a wide variety of construction and structural challenges, as well as a…
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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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Life-Cycle Design
The design of sustainable buildings has long focused on reducing energy needs during the operational phase, largely disregarding energy and material consumption as well…
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Issues in Architectural Practice and Ethics
This course, for students in the fourth semester of the MArch I program, examines basic issues arising in contemporary architectural practice. The course challenges the students to examine critically…
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The Practice as Project
The role of the architect adjusts as society changes. Inevitably, there will be a continual need for numbers of well rounded, licensed and affiliated architects…
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Genome of the Built Environment: Measuring the Unseen
The built environment is one of the most fascinating yet enigmatic artifact of the human being. We perceive it as a complex entity resulting…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Masters Degrees
Richard Peiser, Fionn Byrne, Laura Wolf-Powers, Niklas Maak, Donald Zizzi, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Eric de Broche des Combes, Edward Eigen, Christopher Herbert, Sonja Dümpelmann, Ewa Harabasz, Niall Kirkwood, Peter Del Tredici, Jorge Silvetti, Peter Rowe, K. Michael Hays, Preston Scott Cohen, Ann Forsyth, Joan Busquets, Billie Faircloth, Grace La, John May, Allen Sayegh, Bing Wang, Eve Blau, Felipe Correa, Bradley Cantrell, Andrew Witt, Caroline Constant, Andrew Holder, Antoine Picon, Chris Reed, Jeffry Burchard, Stephen Gray, Beth Altringer, Toni L. Griffin, Mariana Ibanez, Florian Idenburg, Erika Naginski, Hanif Kara, Jane Hutton, Jill Desimini, Leire Asensio Villoria, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Carles Muro, Susan Snyder, Cristina Diaz Moreno, George Thomas, Efren Garcia Grinda
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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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree MArch
Mark Mulligan, Peter Rowe, Mack Scogin, Preston Scott Cohen, Martin Bechthold, Grace La, Kiel Moe, Eric Howeler, Jeffry Burchard, Mariana Ibanez, Jennifer Bonner, Florian Idenburg, Iñaki Abalos, Carles Muro, Christopher C.M. Lee, Edward Eigen
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 of Design Studies Final Project
Niall Kirkwood, Ray Torto, Sonja Dümpelmann, Rosetta S. Elkin, Leire Asensio Villoria, Holly Samuelson, Stephen Gray, Andres Sevtsuk, Dilip da Cunha, Kiel Moe, Silvia Benedito, Andrew Witt, Peter Del Tredici, Peter Rowe, K. Michael Hays, Ann Forsyth, Allen Sayegh, Salmaan Craig, Susan Snyder, Pierre Bélanger, Martin Bechthold, Panagiotis Michalatos, George Thomas, Edward Eigen
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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Preparation of Doctoral Thesis Proposal
Peter Rowe, Anita Berrizbeitia, Joan Busquets, Martin Bechthold, Ali Malkawi, Charles Waldheim, Neil Brenner
Under faculty guidance, the student conducts a reading program and formulates a thesis proposal. The course is intended for doctoral students.
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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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What is a Thesis? Conversations on Means and Methods of the Thesis Project
Mohsen Mostafavi, John May, Jon Lott
The course is organized around a series of in-depth discussions with leading figures in the design fields. Weekly meetings provide a forum for exploring…
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Art, Design and the Public Domain Pre-Final Project Workshop
Frida Escobedo, James Voorhies
The seminar will serve as a space for artistic and design experimentation, and discussion intended to foreground students’ emergent interests, concepts, and methodologies toward their…
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Discourse and Methods II
This is one of two seminars fulfilling a requirement for successful completion of the PHD curriculum. The seminar is designed as an introduction to canonical…
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Cryptographic Masks: De/Tuned Mapping of Architecture, Art and Sound – CANCELED
Instructor: Clemens Finkelstein, MDS 2017 Anthony Morey, MDS 2017 Max Enrollment: 15 Date/Time: Jan 5, 7, 8, 11, 13, 15/10 a.m. –…
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Naive Design – Drawing the Impossible
Instructor: Clemens Finkelstein, MDS 2017 Anthony Morey, MDS 2017 Max Enrollment: 15 Date/Time: Jan 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14/1 – 3…
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DESIGN WITH DATA: Informed Urban Design/Planning decision-making through data-driven design process and analysis – CANCELED
Instructor: Ken Goulding, Principal at Sasaki Chanwoo Kim, Associate, Urban Designer at Sasaki Associates (MLA 1AP and MAUD 2013) Max Enrollment: 20…
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Ruin Your Project – CANCELED
Instructor: Eliyahu Keller, MDS 2016 Max Enrollment: 16 Date/Time: Jan 5-12/2 – 5 p.m. Location: TBD Description: What and when is…
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Designing data graphics: a return to the basics – CANCELED
Instructor: Oliver Curtis, MDS 2017 Max Enrollment: 12 Date/Time: Jan 5 and 8/9 – 11 a.m. Location: TBD Description: This course…
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Nation-building: Beirut, Damascus, Istanbul
Instructor: Ramzi Naja, ARCH II 2016 Max Enrollment: 12 Date/Time: Jan 12-15/1-4 p.m. Location: L08/Gropius Description: The term "Nation-building" is…
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Architectures of Repository – CANCELED
Instructor: Michael Clapp, ARCII 2017 Max Enrollment: 12 Date/Time: Jan 5, 6, 8, 11, 13, 15/10 a.m.- 1 p.m. Location: TBD…
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Positively Pom Poms 101
Instructor: Anne Creamer, GSD Staff Max Enrollment: 12 Date/Time: Jan 8/9:15-1pm Location: 4th floor lounge Description: Are you interested in creating…
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Creating a Simple Book
Instructor: Irina Gorstein Conservator, Harvard GSD Max Enrollment: 6 Date/Time: Jan 11-12/9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Location: Conservation Laboratory (Gund…
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Macaron Tea Party – CANCELED
Instructor: Shantel Blakely Public Programs Manager, Harvard GSD Max Enrollment: 15 Date/Time: Jan 13-15/2:30 – 5 p.m. Location: TBD Description:…
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A Project a Day: Architectural Tours
Instructor: Rex Tzen (Coordinator), ARC 2016 Max Enrollment: 15 Date/Time: Jan 4-15/11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Location: Cambridge and Boston area…
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Broadway of Manhattan Revealed 1609-Today: Walking on Broadway through cartographic analysis, geographic scale comparisons, and architectural projects
Instructor: Jonathan J. Cohn, Principal at Perkins Eastman (NY), AIA, LEED AP Jung Hyun Woo, MDS 2016 Max Enrollment: 15 Date/Time: Jan…
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Web-based Data Visualization and Interactive Mapping – CANCELED
Instructor: Lezhi Li, MDES 2016 Max Enrollment: 15 Date/Time: Jan 5-8/1 – 3:30 p.m. Location: TBD Description: This course will cover…
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Custom Metalwork Studio: Brazing and soldering small metal projects – FULL
Instructor: Erica Moody, Principal of Magma Metalworks, Inc. Max Enrollment: 4 Date/Time: Jan 7 and 8/10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Location: metal…
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Five Steps to Make a Great Mobile Application
Instructor: Yujie Hong, MDS 2016 Max Enrollment: 40 Date/Time: Jan 5, 7, 12, and 14/1 – 4 p.m. Location: 4th floor lounge Description: This course…
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Data-driven insights: urban water systems and green infrastructure – CANCELED
Instructor: Sang Cho, Research Assistant, Harvard GSD Yannis Orfanos, Research Associate, Harvard GSD Max Enrollment: 8 Date/Time: Jan 6, 7, 11, 12 and…
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Synthetic Ecology: Urbanization After Nature
Instructor: Daniel Daou, DDES 2016 Max Enrollment: 15 Date/Time: Jan 5, 7, 12, and 14/2 – 4 p.m. Location: Stubbins Description: The course offers a…
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