Indoor Air Environment Simulation with CFD

Instructor: Nari Yoon Max Enrollment: 10 Date/Time: Jan 14-17/10-2 Location: Gund 510 Description: Computational Fluid Dynamics…

Intro To Cinema 4D

Instructor: Michael Peguero Max Enrollment: 30 Date/Time: Jan 14 and 16, 10:00-1:00 Location: Gund 109 Description: An introductory course into…

Intro To Unity3D

Instructor: Michael Peguero Max Enrollment: 30 Date/Time: Jan 13, 15 and 17, 10:00-1:00 Location: Gund 121 Description: This introductory course…

Leaving Nobody Behind: Affordable Shelter Design and Finance for Developing Countries’ Citizens

Instructors: Matt Nohn & Deidre Schmidt, Loeb Fellows Max Enrollment: 20 Date/Time: Jan 13 9:30-6:00 Location: Gund 124…

Newsroom: On Moderation

Instructors: Martti Kalliala, Florian Mewes, Jenna Sutela Max Enrollment: 20 Date/Time: Jan 6-17 10:00-12:00 Location: Gund 123…

Repurposing Mass Fabrication – CANCELLED

Instructors: Joëlle Bitton and Kevin Hinz Max Enrollment: 10 Date/Time: Jan 14-17 2:00-4:00 Location: Gund 517 Description: Everyday life troubleshooting…

Take Me For Granted: A Designer’s Guide to Project Funding (Intensive Course)

Instructor: Cheryl Huffman Max Enrollment: 15 Date/Time: Jan 17 (9-12) Location: Gund 505 Description: Back by popular demand, this course…

Low down on Citation Tools – CANCELLED

Instructors: Sarah Dickenson and Hugh Truslow (Librarian for Fung Library), Paul Bain (Reference and Education Services Librarian, Countway Library) Max Enrollment: 15…

Academic Work and Copyright – CANCELLED

Instructors: Alix Reiskind (Visual Resource Librarian), Sarah Dickinson (Research Support Services Librarian), and Kyle K. Courtney, Copyright Advisor, Harvard Office of Scholarly Communication Max…

Digging Deep: How to Find and Use Primary Source Material – CANCELLED

Instructor: Ines Zalduendo, Special Collections Archivist and Reference Librarian Max Enrollment: 15 Date/Time: Jan 16; 10:30-2:30 Location: Frances Loeb Library, Special…

Post production work flow in Adobe Photoshop

Instructor: Sunggi Park Max Enrollment: 15 Date/Time: Jan. 7, 9, 14, 16/2-5pm Location: Gund 109 Description:…

Drawing, Movement and the Built Environment

Instructors: Helen Miller, Teaching Fellow in Visual and Environmental Studies Joshua Hart, Assistant Professor at MassArt Chris Moffett, Philosopher of Education, Feldenkrais…

Acting for architects

Instructor: Christian Gonzalez Max Enrollment: 12 Date/Time: Jan. 15; 6:00-9:30 pm Location: Gund 318 Description: Course…

Design for Personal Stereolithography 3D Printing

Instructors: Will Walker, Educational Coordinator and Designer / Craig Broady, Mechanical Engineer www.Formlabs.com Max Enrollment: 12 Date/Time: Jan 15-17; 1:00-3:00 Location:…

Experimental Methods with Casting Materials

Instructor: Tim Zeitler Max Enrollment: 10 Date/Time: Jan. 6-9; 9:00-12:00 Location: Gund 505 (Day One); Woodshop room (Other Days) Description:…

Session A: Figure Drawing: Improve and Expand on Skills

Instructor: Anne McGhee Max Enrollment: 15 Date/Time: Jan 7 and 9/2:00-5:00 * Please note, students may participate in both session A…

Session B: Figure Drawing: Improve and Expand on Skills

Instructor: Anne McGhee Max Enrollment: 15 Date/Time: Jan 14 and 16/2:00-5:00 * Please note, students may participate in both session A…

Form Generation through Mathematics

Instructor: Patricia Correa Max Enrollment: 18 Date/Time: Jan 20-24 from 9-2 Location: 42 Kirkland, Room 42-1-G Description:…

Yoga

Instructor: Natasha Collette Max Enrollment: 15 Date/Time: Jan 16/12:00-1:00 Location: Gund 121 Description: This slow-flow vinyasa class is accessible to…

Yoga

Instructor: Elizabeth Brown Max Enrollment: 15 Date/Time: Jan 10/12:00-1:00 Location: Gund 121 Description: This no nonsense yoga sessions with Elizabeth…

Form UVW: Principles of animation, decomposition, and modeling using 3ds Max – CANCELLED

Instructor: Vaughn Thomas Horn Max Enrollment: 15 Date/Time: Jan. 7, 9, 14, 16; 10:00-11:30 Location: Gund 505 Description: Students will…

Entrepreneurial Design Firm Workshop – FULL

Instructors: Brian Kenet and Masako Ikegami Max Enrollment: 12 Date/Time: Jan. 6-10 (9:30-3:00); Jan 13- 15 (optional: 9:30-5:00) Location:…

A Project a Day: Architectural Tours

Title: Into the City Instructors: Eric Howeler Alex Krieger Kiel Moe Toshiko Mori Maryann Thompson Charles Waldheim…

Presentation and public speaking: the basics

Instructor: Rosabella Alvarez-Calderon Max Enrollment: 12 Date/Time: Jan. 13-14; 9:00-12:00 Location: Gund 112 Description: An introduction to public speaking and…

DIY [Toy] Product Design

Instructor: Dimitris Papanikolaou Max Enrollment: 12 Date/Time: Jan 6-10 and 13 (6 sessions)/1-4pm Location: Gund 510 Description:…

First Semester Core: PROJECT

Iñaki Abalos, Cameron Wu, Kiel Moe, Ingeborg Rocker, Jeffry Burchard, Megan Panzano, Katy Barkan

Project is the first core studio of the four-semester sequence of the MArch I program. With a multiplicity of references, Project may refer to fundamental…

Third Semester Core: INTEGRATE

Eric Howeler, Maryann Thompson, Vincent Bandy, Mariana Ibanez, Danielle Etzler, Iñaki Abalos

Integration is the agenda for the third semester architecture design studio. Architecture is fundamentally a part-to-whole problem, involving the complex integration of building components, systems…

Kyoto Studio II: Seasons and Architecture

Toshiko Mori

This studio will explore architecture as a responsive entity to seasons in climate, economy, politics and socio-cultural landscape. Through the analysis of building paradigms and…

Unfinished Work III

Ben van Berkel

This third installation of ‘Unfinished Work’ will broaden the research and design interests developed in the last two studio sessions. In the first studio,…

workplan

Florian Idenburg

workspheres The office is no more. We work anywhere, anytime. We don’t have professions any longer. We don’t even think we work, it’s just…

Alimentary Design

Shohei Shigematsu, Christine Cheng

Alimentary is defined as of or relating nourishment or nutrition; furnishing sustenance or maintenance. Food is a fundamental requirement of human life and a universal…

Parametric Semiology – High Performance Architecture for Apple, Google and Facebook

Patrik Schumacher, Marc Fornes

Marc Fornes will also be involved in this studio. All problems of society are problems of communication. Especially within post-Fordist network society, total social productivity…

Material Performance – Fibrous Tectonics

Achim Menges

Advances in the conception of materiality and the technologies of materialization have always been a catalyst for design innovation in architecture. Today, technological advancements across…

La Strada Novissima

Mark Lee, Sharon Johnston

CONTINUOUS CITY VS. DISCONTINUOUS CITY The Continuous City, characterized by clearly delineated urban spaces of streets, squares, and boulevards, was a dominant concept of…

Green Card Conversations

Solano Benitez

Projects are born from conversation. In Latin, the verb ‘converse’, cumversare, has a double root: cum, with, and versare, spin. Spin with or spin together.

Theatre and the City

Sheila O’Donnell, John Tuomey

The Abbey has been Ireland’s National Theatre since its foundation by WB Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory in 1904. Originally associated with poets and writers,…

Rotterdam Study Abroad Studio Option: Elements of Architecture

Remment Koolhaas

Instructors: Rem Koolhaas / Stephan Trüby / AMO Ambition: Following two semesters of work by GSD students on architectural elements – the door, the…

Meydan: Designing the Surfaces of Public Space around Beyazit Square, Istanbul

A. Hashim Sarkis, Erkin Ozay

Summary: The studio explores the architectural means by which a public space could be configured to support a variety of specific urban functions while encouraging…

Visual Studies

Ewa Harabasz

Schedule: The course will meet once as a group on the first class, 8:30 am on Tuesday, September 3rd, in room 111. The course…

Projective Representation in Architecture

Cameron Wu

This course examines the history, theory and practice of parallel (orthographic) and central (perspective) projection. The objective is to provide the tools to imagine and…

Digital Media I

Christopher Hoxie

This course seeks to posit the role of digital media within the broader context of digital practice and to examine the generative capacities of the…

Digital Media II

Andrew Witt

This class explores the design and science of logical form making, examined through geometry, parametric control, algorithms, and digital tools. The point of departure is…

Paper or Plastic: Reinventing Shelf-life in the Supermarket Landscape

Teman Evans, Teran Evans

The supermarket shelf is a highly volatile, hyper-competitive space. On this shelf products struggle to maximize every possible advantage, all in a ruthless effort to…

Art, Design and the Public Domain

Krzysztof Wodiczko

This seminar is intended to serve as an important research, discussion and presentation forum, information resource and a critical laboratory for further development of…

Projection-Animation

Krzysztof Wodiczko

This course will focus on the ways in which designers and artists can help to enliven both existing and future monuments and facades for…

Critical Conservation: Understanding the Urban Cultural Ecology of Progressive Places

Susan Snyder, George Thomas

21st Critical Conservation seeks to disentangle the complex web of 19th c. elite values of historic preservation and 20th c. mass-culture strategies that together…

A Science of the Environment

Sanford Kwinter

The science of ecology purports to study life as the sum of interactions between organisms and their natural environment. The term ‘natural’ has in recent…

The Mixed-Reality City

Yanni Loukissas

The contemporary city is constituted by multiple overlapping, intermixing realities articulated across built form and imagined space, individual experience and collective memory, embodied sensation…

How to do Things with Words

Sanford Kwinter

This seminar will seek to explore the (actual and potential) roles and uses of writing within design and the design field. It will address…

Critical Conservation as Social Activism: History, Theory, and Methods

Jana Cephas

Historic preservation strategies have been used by communities to achieve various social ends, ranging from staving off gentrification and restricting neighborhood development to developing…