Courses
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What is energy and how (else) might we think about it?
Designers today require radically different intellectual frameworks within which to think energy, environment, and ecology. The need to rethink applies not only to the positivist…
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Building Simulation
Simulation is the process of making a simplified model of some complex system and using it to predict the behavior of the original…
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Designed Porous Media
This seminar is about designing porous surfaces and materials to orchestrate the flow of heat through buildings in novel ways. The primary aim…
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Real-Time Cities: an Introduction to Urban Cybernetics
In real-time cities, urbanity merges with digital information so that the built environment is dynamically sensed and synchronously actuated to perform more efficiently, intelligently,…
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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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Issues in Architectural Practice and Ethics
Maryann Thompson, Jay Wickersham
This course, for students in the fourth semester of the M.Arch 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 today is constantly shifting. While society will continue to require numbers of well rounded, licensed and affiliated architects to…
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Design Competitions
Design competitions are increasingly used to procure design of, well, just about anything you can think of. In the world of built and landscape environments,…
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The Ephemeral City: Research Seminar on Temporal Urbanism
ADV-09129 /The Ephemeral City: Research Seminar on Temporal Urbanism Today, the scale and pace of contemporary urbanization challenges the notion of permanence as a…
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Cultivating Scale: Territorial Planting Strategies
Plants are the matrix in which the earth’s habits are formed and are therefore the basic unit for understanding dynamic ecological relationships. They are a…
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The Oceanic Turn: Advanced Landscape Infrastructure Seminar
Pierre Belanger meets with students Adriana Chavez (March ’13, MDes ’14), Erin Wythoff (MLA ’14), and Phoebe White (MLA ’14). Photo by Melanie Rieders. From…
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Urban Theory Lab, Project-Based Seminar: Extreme Territories of Urbanization
In the early 1970s, Henri Lefebvre anticipated a situation of \”generalized urbanization\” in which an \”urban fabric\” would be extended to encompass the entire planet.
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Cold Storage – An Interactive Documentary Project
Libraries are not mere repositories, but sites breeding strange hybrids of knowledge, people, and material things. Building on the strength of two years of…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Masters Degrees
Maryann Thompson, David Sanderson, Matthew Wilson, Edward Eigen, Sonja Dümpelmann, Diane Davis, Neil Brenner, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, Michael Hooper, Jane Hutton, Beth Altringer, Robert Pietrusko, Sanford Kwinter, Kiel Moe, Felipe Correa, Cameron Wu, Bing Wang, Joan Busquets, Richard Peiser, Niall Kirkwood, Peter Del Tredici, Jorge Silvetti, James Stockard, Peter Rowe, K. Michael Hays, Ann Forsyth, Rahul Mehrotra
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
Maryann Thompson, Mark Mulligan, Alex Krieger, Jorge Silvetti, Mack Scogin, Preston Scott Cohen, Paul Nakazawa, Grace La, Elizabeth Whittaker, Cameron Wu, Antoine Picon, Sanford Kwinter, Charles Waldheim, Timothy Hyde, Ingeborg Rocker, Eric Howeler, Jeffry Burchard, Florian Idenburg, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Christopher C.M. Lee, Edward Eigen
Following preparation in GSD 9203, each student conducts a design exploration that tests and expands the thesis.Prerequisites: GSD 9203…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree MAUD, MLAUD, or MUP
Daniel D’Oca, Luis Callejas, Diane Davis, A. Hashim Sarkis, Alex Krieger, Peter Rowe, Joan Busquets, Eric Belsky, Jana Cephas, Michael Hooper
Following preparation in GSD 9204, each student pursues a topic of relevance to urban design or urban planning, which may include design or planning exploration,…
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Independent Thesis for the Degree Master in Design Studies
K. Michael Hays, Martin Bechthold, Allen Sayegh, Eve Blau, Ali Malkawi, Andrew Witt, Kiel Moe, Charles Waldheim, Timothy Hyde, Hanif Kara, Holly Samuelson, Pierre Bélanger, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, Leire Asensio Villoria, Panagiotis Michalatos, Neil Brenner, 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, Yanni Loukissas, Erika Naginski, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Susan Snyder, George Thomas
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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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Master in Landscape Architecture
Anita Berrizbeitia, Rosetta S. Elkin, David Mah, Jane Hutton, Andrea Hansen, Charles Waldheim, Ann Forsyth, Silvia Benedito, Gareth Doherty
Following preparation in GSD 9341, each student pursues a topic of relevance to landscape architecture, which must include academic inquiry and design exploration.
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Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
Erika Naginski, Susan Snyder, 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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Preparation of Doctoral Thesis Proposal
Peter Rowe, K. Michael Hays, Martin Bechthold, Antoine Picon, Diane Davis
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
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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Research Methods in Landscape Architecture
This seminar offers an overview of various types and practices of research methodology in contemporary landscape architecture. Central to the ambitions of the course is…
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Proseminar in Art, Design and the Public Domain
Krzysztof Wodiczko, Yanni Loukissas
The proseminar 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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