Courses
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Life-Cycle Design
The design of sustainable buildings has long focused on reducing energy needs during the operational phase, largely disregarding energy and material consumption as well…
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Issues in Architectural Practice and Ethics
This course, for students in the fourth semester of the MArch 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 adjusts as society changes. Inevitably, there will be a continual need for numbers of well rounded, licensed and affiliated architects…
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Urban Theory Lab Research Practicum: ‘Operational Landscapes’ of Planetary Urbanization
This research practicum is part of an ongoing series of courses which develops the research agenda of the Urban Theory Lab-GSD (UTL-GSD)—namely, to investigate the…
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Living in the Kinetic City: Mapping Housing in a Landscape of Flux, Mumbai
Increasing concentrations of global flows have exacerbated the inequalities and spatial divisions of social classes in Mumbai. In this context, the creation of an…
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Vegetal City 2: Plane Tree Mania
In this seminar/workshop we will explore an under-studied but crucially important urban realm—the designed, adapted vegetative canopy—through descriptive, analytical, and projective methods. We will…
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SURPLUS HOUSING: Models of Collective Living in South America.
Housing as typology is one of the richest representations of a city’s history and evolution of culture. The gradual collection of dwellings in multiple…
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Genome of the Built Environment: Measuring the Unseen
The built environment is one of the most fascinating yet enigmatic artifact of the human being. We perceive it as a complex entity resulting…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Masters Degrees
Richard Peiser, Fionn Byrne, Laura Wolf-Powers, Niklas Maak, Donald Zizzi, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Eric de Broche des Combes, Edward Eigen, Christopher Herbert, Sonja Dümpelmann, Ewa Harabasz, Niall Kirkwood, Peter Del Tredici, Jorge Silvetti, Peter Rowe, K. Michael Hays, Preston Scott Cohen, Ann Forsyth, Joan Busquets, Billie Faircloth, Grace La, John May, Allen Sayegh, Bing Wang, Eve Blau, Felipe Correa, Bradley Cantrell, Andrew Witt, Caroline Constant, Andrew Holder, Antoine Picon, Chris Reed, Jeffry Burchard, Stephen Gray, Beth Altringer, Toni L. Griffin, Mariana Ibanez, Florian Idenburg, Erika Naginski, Hanif Kara, Jane Hutton, Jill Desimini, Leire Asensio Villoria, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Carles Muro, Susan Snyder, Cristina Diaz Moreno, George Thomas, Efren Garcia Grinda
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
Mark Mulligan, Peter Rowe, Mack Scogin, Preston Scott Cohen, Martin Bechthold, Grace La, Kiel Moe, Eric Howeler, Jeffry Burchard, Mariana Ibanez, Jennifer Bonner, Florian Idenburg, Iñaki Abalos, Carles Muro, Christopher C.M. Lee, Edward Eigen
The Thesis Program encourages students to take advantage of the wide range of resources and research initiatives of the Graduate School of Design and its…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree MAUD, MLAUD, or MUP
Daniel D’Oca, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, Peter Rowe, Ann Forsyth, David Gamble, Felipe Correa, Rahul Mehrotra, Michael Hooper, Laura Wolf-Powers, Fionn Byrne, Sai Balakrishnan
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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Master of Design Studies Final Project
Niall Kirkwood, Ray Torto, Sonja Dümpelmann, Rosetta S. Elkin, Leire Asensio Villoria, Holly Samuelson, Stephen Gray, Andres Sevtsuk, Dilip da Cunha, Kiel Moe, Silvia Benedito, Andrew Witt, Peter Del Tredici, Peter Rowe, K. Michael Hays, Ann Forsyth, Allen Sayegh, Salmaan Craig, Susan Snyder, Pierre Bélanger, Martin Bechthold, Panagiotis Michalatos, George Thomas, Edward Eigen
The final design project is an 8 unit final project. As the final graduating requirement for all MDes students, the project involves a substantive independent…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Master in Landscape Architecture
Gary R. Hilderbrand, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Rosetta S. Elkin, Jill Desimini, Jane Hutton, Bradley Cantrell, 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
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, Anita Berrizbeitia, Joan Busquets, Martin Bechthold, Ali Malkawi, Charles Waldheim, 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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Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Doctor of Design
Peter Rowe, Neil Brenner, Ali Malkawi, Martin Bechthold, Antoine Picon, A. Hashim Sarkis
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, Anita Berrizbeitia, Martin Bechthold, Antoine Picon, Charles Waldheim, Judith Grant Long, Diane Davis
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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What is a Thesis? Conversations on Means and Methods of the Thesis Project
Mohsen Mostafavi, John May, Jon Lott
The course is organized around a series of in-depth discussions with leading figures in the design fields. Weekly meetings provide a forum for exploring…
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Art, Design and the Public Domain Pre-Final Project Workshop
Frida Escobedo, James Voorhies
The seminar 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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