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…

Study Abroad Seminar: Islands: The Career of a Metaphor

Andre Bideau

Either consciously deployed or a product of difference, the island was a recurring phenomenon in 20th-century urban environments. Based on its own organizational logic, it…

Buildings, Texts, and Contexts I

Erika Naginski, K. Michael Hays

This course is structured as a dialogue between the historical and theoretical frameworks that have shaped the formulation of architectural principles – what the architectural…

Imagining the City: Literature, Film, and the Arts

Giuliana Bruno

How do visual representation and narrative figuration contribute to construct urban identity? Explores the urban imagination in different artforms: architecture, cinema, literature, photography, and painting.

Structuring Urban Experience: From the Athenian Acropolis to the Boston Common

Christine Smith

This lecture course examines selected cities between the fifth century B.C. and the seventeenth century A.D., beginning with ancient Athens and ending with proposals…

Istanbul: From Imperial Capital to Global City

Sibel Bozdo??an

In the summer of 2013, popular discontent with the authoritarian neo-liberal urban policies of the Turkish government exploded in Istanbul, revealing the political nature…

Modernity and Crisis

Timothy Hyde

Is it even possible to offer a description of our contemporary moment that is not fundamentally defined by the experience of crisis? Financial crisis,…

Imagine Michelangelo

Christine Smith

The use of digital models as instruments of historical research. Almost all of Michelangelo’s architectural projects are unbuilt, unfinished, or have been significantly altered…

Architecture and its Texts (1650-1800)

Erika Naginski

This seminar focuses on a selection of important architectural writings from the late 17th and 18th centuries, with the aim of exploring the connections…

Rotterdam Study Abroad Seminar: The Present Environmental Predicament: Design and the Limits to Growth

Sebastien Marot

This Course is for students in the Rotterdam Study Abroad Program. The title of this seminar refers to two significant essays written in…

Construction Lab

Mark Mulligan, Danielle Etzler

This course will meet for the first time on Friday, August 30th, at 9 am in Room 111. This module introduces students to…

Energy in Architecture

Kiel Moe

This lecture course introduces students to energy and environmental issues, particularly those that must be faced by the discipline of architecture. An overview of the…

Structural Design 1

Patrick McCafferty

The course introduces the discipline of structural engineering as a means of unlocking hidden architectural design potential. Students develop the skills necessary to make informed…

Cases in Contemporary Construction

Mark Mulligan

As the final component in the required sequence of technology courses, this professionally-oriented course develops an integral understanding of the design and construction of buildings…

The Innovative Practice: Finding, Building and Leading Good Ideas with Others (at SEAS)

Beth Altringer

SEAS Engineering Sciences 21. Catalog Number: 70925 Enrollment: Limited to 25. Permission of instructor required. EXAM GROUP: 12, 13 Please check the…

Innovation in Science and Engineering: Conference Course (at SEAS)

David Weitz, Paul Bottino, David Ricketts

Engineering Sciences 139. Catalog Number: 0994 EXAM GROUP: 7, 8, 9 Please check the FAS schedule for room information. Explores…

Water Engineering (at SEAS)

Chad Vecitis, Anas Chalah

SEAS Engineering Sciences 165. Catalog Number: 4274 EXAM GROUP: 13, 14 Please check the FAS schedule for room information. Introduces the fundamentals…

Computer Vision (at SEAS)

Todd Zickler

SEAS Computer Science 283. Catalog Number: 4475 Please check the FAS schedule for room information. Vision as an ill-posed inverse problem: image formation, two-dimensional…

Material Systems: Digital Design, Fabrication, and Research Methods

Nathan King, Rachel Vroman

Computer-aided design, manufacturing, and engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE) technologies are increasingly integrated into many aspects of design and construction. ‘Digital Fabrication’ has been deeply embedded in…