Courses
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Transformable Design Methods
Architects have long imagined a built environment that is fundamentally dynamic. Portable buildings, retractable coverings, kinetic facades, and spaces that morph: these transformable structures…
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Nano Micro Macro: Adaptive Material Laboratory
This course explores design research methods and techniques through the microcosm of newly emerging biologically inspired material systems and their applications in buildings. Focused…
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Daylighting
Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. -Le Corbusier Course Description Picture a space, one that…
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Practices of Landscape Architecture
This course examines the profession of landscape architecture by looking at the historical and contemporary frameworks for practice, the documentation and delivery of projects, and…
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Frameworks of Contemporary Practice
The purpose of this course is to: 1. Examine architecture through the lenses of the Discipline, Profession and Practice — the issues of…
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The Architect in History: The Evolution of Practice from the Renaissance to the Present
This course examines the history of architectural practice, focusing on the changing role and definition of the architect, with the goal of providing new…
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Resource Extraction Urbanism II: Recasting the South American Hinterland
As current development pressures continue to transform the hinterlands at an unprecedented rate, it has become more crucial than ever for the design disciplines…
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New Geographies Lab Seminar: Territorial Tropes
The New Geographies lab seminar explores new potentials for architecture at a larger territorial scale. It caters primarily to students conducting their thesis research in…
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The Fourth Typology: Dominant Type and the Idea of the City
Open to all students, the seminars in this course will compliment Option Studio 1601: Macau: Cross-border Cities. It will provide the theoretical and historical…
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Library Test Kitchen III: Library Machines
Jeffrey Schnapp, Jeff Goldenson, Ann Whiteside
The Library, up there with the US Postal Service, represents one of the most exciting institutional design opportunities out there. Library Test Kitchen is…
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Real Estate and City Making in China
Real estate has increasingly become a compelling force in the process of city making, one uniquely capable of leading and guiding multiple steps in the…
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Design Learning Workshop
As part of a long-term initiative at the Graduate School of Design to develop new spaces for design learning, this course will explore nascent…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Maryann Thompson, Yanni Loukissas, Ray Torto, Edward Eigen, Rosetta S. Elkin, Panagiotis Michalatos, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Leire Asensio Villoria, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, Michael Hooper, David Mah, Pierre Bélanger, Frank Apeseche, Iñaki Abalos, Holly Samuelson, Erika Naginski, Rahul Mehrotra, Jana Cephas, Niall Kirkwood, Christine Smith, Mark Mulligan, Alex Krieger, Jorge Silvetti, Peter Rowe, Toshiko Mori, Joan Busquets, Allen Sayegh, Bing Wang, Cameron Wu, Andrew Witt, Antoine Picon, Charles Waldheim, Andreas Georgoulias, Judith Grant Long, Eric Howeler, Diane Davis, Neil Brenner
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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Preparation for Independent Thesis Proposal for MUP, MAUD, or MLAUD
This seminar is intended to provide the theoretical and methodological foundation for completing a graduate thesis in the Department of Urban Planning and Design. By…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree MArch
Maryann Thompson, Jorge Silvetti, Mack Scogin, Allen Sayegh, Cameron Wu, Andrew Witt, Ingeborg Rocker, Eric Howeler, Jana Cephas, Florian Idenburg, Danielle Etzler, Iñaki Abalos, Leire Asensio Villoria, Panagiotis Michalatos, 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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Independent Thesis for the Degree Master in Design Studies
Richard Peiser, Neil Brenner, Panagiotis Michalatos, Martin Bechthold, Allen Sayegh, Ali Malkawi, Andrew Witt, Silvia Benedito, Kiel Moe, Charles Waldheim, Timothy Hyde, Hanif Kara, Holly Samuelson, Pierre Bélanger, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, Leire Asensio Villoria, Edward Eigen
A student who selects this independent thesis for the degree Master in Design Studies pursues independent research of relevance to the selected course of study…
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Master of Design Studies Final Project
Jana Cephas, Erika Naginski, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Yanni Loukissas
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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Preparation of Design Thesis Proposal for Master in Landscape Architecture
Gareth Doherty, Sonja Dümpelmann
A weekly seminar required for MLA candidates electing to pursue a design thesis. The intent of the course is to define the parameters of the…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Master in Landscape Architecture
Following preparation in GSD 9205, each student pursues a topic of relevance to landscape architecture, which must include academic inquiry and design exploration.
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Preparation of Doctoral Thesis Proposal
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
A. Hashim Sarkis, Peter Rowe, Anita Berrizbeitia, Martin Bechthold, Antoine Picon, Charles Waldheim
Under guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.
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Thesis Extension in Satisfaction of Degree Doctor of Design
Richard Peiser, A. Hashim Sarkis, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, Jerold S. Kayden, Martin Bechthold, Charles Waldheim, Christoph Reinhart
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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Urban Design Proseminar
The proseminar is a forum for conversation on contemporary urban design. It is structured around three overlapping discussions: the formation of the discipline, critiques of…
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Proseminar in Landscape Architecture
This required seminar introduces incoming MLA II post-professional candidates to contemporary debates in the field of landscape architecture. The seminar also serves as a venue…
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Proseminar in Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology
This required seminar introduces candidates in the MDesS Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology [ULE] concentration to the range of urban questions presently pursued by GSD faculty advising…
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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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