Courses
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Natural Ventilation
Note regarding the schedule: This Module 1 course will end on SEPTEMBER 29th. Topics to be covered: Basics of wind-driven and buoyancy-driven ventilation.
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Informal Robotics / New Paradigms for Design & Construction
Today new materials and fabrication techniques are transforming the field of robotics. Rather than rigid metal parts connected by mechanical components, robots may now be…
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Daylighting
Picture a space, one that feels vibrant, comfortable, warm, and healthy. Now visualize someplace cheerless, depressing, and dull. What changed in your mind\’s eye? Most…
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Practices of Landscape Architecture
This course examines critical aspects of landscape architecture practice through the consideration of historical and contemporary frameworks for professional services, the legal and financial contexts…
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Frameworks of Contemporary Practice
Purpose of the course is to: 1. Examine architecture through the lenses of the Discipline, Profession and Practice — the issues of knowledge domains, development…
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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 perspectives…
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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 1503: The Countryside as a City. It will provide the theoretical and…
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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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Teaching Creativity: Landscape Architecture, Originality, and Autobiography
This seminar will be an exploration into creativity in landscape architecture —what it is, where it comes from, what feeds it, and, crucially, whether and…
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Mapping Cultural Space: Sites, Systems, and Practices Across Eurasia
Eve Blau, Julie Buckler, Kelly Ann O’Neill-Uzgiris
The seminar will explore the significance of cultural space as both an object and a tool of analysis, taking as its focus Eurasia, an area…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Masters Degrees
Maryann Thompson, Ray Torto, Chuck Hoberman, Edward Eigen, Sonja Dümpelmann, Diane Davis, Ewa Harabasz, Neil Brenner, Panagiotis Michalatos, Krzysztof Wodiczko, John Dixon Hunt, Jane Hutton, Frank Apeseche, Shohei Shigematsu, Holly Samuelson, Erika Naginski, Florian Idenburg, Rahul Mehrotra, Jana Cephas, Andreas Georgoulias, Gareth Doherty, Antoine Picon, Luis Valenzuela, Kiel Moe, Andrew Witt, Jay Wickersham, Bing Wang, Allen Sayegh, Grace La, Joan Busquets, Ann Forsyth, Toshiko Mori, K. Michael Hays, Peter Rowe, Jorge Silvetti, Anita Berrizbeitia, Felipe Correa, Carlos Felix Raspall Galli, Remment Koolhaas, Michael Hooper, Leire Asensio Villoria, Christopher Hoxie, Charles Waldheim
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
Jorge Silvetti, Peter Rowe, Toshiko Mori, Mack Scogin, Preston Scott Cohen, Grace La, Elizabeth Whittaker, Kiel Moe, Charles Waldheim, Eric Howeler, Jeffry Burchard, Megan Panzano, Florian Idenburg, Iñaki Abalos, Panagiotis Michalatos, 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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Independent Thesis for the Degree Master in Design Studies
Holly Samuelson, Frank Apeseche, David Mah, Michael Hooper, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Panagiotis Michalatos, Susan Snyder, Diane Davis, Sonja Dümpelmann, Salmaan Craig, Neil Leach, John R. Stilgoe, Allen Sayegh, Andrew Witt, Kiel Moe, Gareth Doherty, Robert Pietrusko, Rahul Mehrotra, Hanif Kara
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
Silvia Benedito, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Jana Cephas, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, Niall Kirkwood
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, Charles Waldheim, Robert Pietrusko
This weekly seminar is required for MLA candidates electing to pursue a design thesis. The intent is to define the parameters of the design thesis…
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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
Peter Rowe, Martin Bechthold, Antoine Picon, Diane Davis
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
A. Hashim Sarkis, Judith Grant Long, Charles Waldheim, Martin Bechthold, Spiro Pollalis, Anita Berrizbeitia, Peter Rowe, Richard Peiser, Antoine Picon
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
Charles Waldheim, Sonja Dümpelmann
This required seminar introduces candidates in the MLA II Program to the range of research on urbanism and landscape presently pursued by GSD faculty. Through…
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Proseminar in Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology
Charles Waldheim, Sonja Dümpelmann
This required seminar introduces candidates in the MDesS Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology [ULE] concentration to the range of research on urbanism and landscape presently pursued by…
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Risk and Resilience Proseminar
The Risk and Resilience Proseminar provides MDes students in this concentration with an introduction to discourses on risk and resilience that intersect with key issues…
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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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