Courses
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Building Simulation
Ali Malkawi, Carlos Cerezo Davila
This course is the third of four modules (6121, 6122, 6125, & 6126) and constitutes part of the core curriculum in architecture. Objective: The best…
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Materials
This course explores the science and design of materials. How do we classify materials? Why do we build with certain materials? What are the energy,…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies II
Karen Janosky, Catherine Miller, Kirt Rieder
This course is required for all first-year MLA I and MLA I AP students. Topography is one of the primary and most powerful elements of…
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Structural Design 1
This course introduces students to the analysis and design of structural systems. The fundamental principles of statics, structural loads, and rigid body equilibrium are considered…
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Cases in Contemporary Construction
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…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies IV
GSD 6242 is the final course in the Ecologies, Techniques and Technologies landscape core sequence. It is a required course for all MLA I, and…
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Digital Material Systems: Ceramics
Digital design and fabrication technologies have become integral to the discourse surrounding contemporary design and architectural practice. The translation from design to realization is mediated…
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Plants and Placemaking – New Ecologies for a Rapidly Changing World
In the face of crises spanning pandemics, political turmoil, and the rapid degradation of the planet’s natural systems—all within a backdrop of myriad inequalities—the power…
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Structures in Landscape Architecture, Joint & Detail
This class will study the design from and constructional detail of the landscape pavilion and the pedestrian bridge. This work will be focused through the…
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Informal Robotics
This course teaches how to create original robotic devices made of light, compliant – informal – materials. New fabrication techniques are transforming the field of…
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Procedural Fields: Functional Design of Discrete Hyperdimensional Spaces
Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez
This course will introduce participants to computational methods for the generation of discrete multi-dimensional media, using functional definitions. Digital modeling techniques are at the core…
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Data Science for Environmentally Responsive Buildings
Objective: With extensive high-fidelity measured data collected from modern buildings, data science has become a promising tool for optimizing building performance and design, enhancing the…
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BioFabrication
Rapid global climate change has lent new urgency to our longstanding interest of growing materials to break the unstainable reality of material extraction, use and…
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Machine Aesthetics: The Surrogate of Taste
The use of generative AI models increasingly involves the reliance on a few black box pretrained and centralized models where design intent is conveyed through…
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Climate Positive Design Lab
As the climate and biodiversity crises escalate, our world faces unprecedented times. With the 1.5oC threshold quickly approaching and 75% of emissions coming from the…
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EMBODIED CARBON- Material Cycles, Circularity, and Advances in Reverse Engineering
At a time when urgent action is needed to avert the climate crisis, it is very difficult to take an idealistic approach when considering key…
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Integrative Frameworks for Technology, Environment, and Society II
This graduate-level seminar course is part of the MDE program's first-year core curriculum, comprising a two-course sequence spanning one year. The course focuses on building…
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Designing Critical Practices
Today, landscape architecture is a field in active transformation. At a broad scale, the climate crisis is transforming the built and natural environment surrounding us—putting…
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Is the Grass Any Greener? Architectural Practice & Project Delivery Around the World
Conversations about how architectural practice is regulated, how architects do their work, and how construction projects are delivered are typically constrained by regional and national…
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History and Theory of Architectural Practice
Who is the architect? This course considers architectural practice from social and historical perspectives, and it charts changing definitions of the architect with respect to…
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From Inception to Realization: Three Museum Case Studies
The process of design is continuous. At the inception of a project, we sketch, analyze with scale overlays, and develop preliminary massing models. Months later,…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Andrew Holder, Kathleen Brandenburg, Diane Davis, Rahul Mehrotra, Andrew Witt, Ann Forsyth, Lisa Haber-Thomson, Edward Eigen, Martin Bechthold, Anita Berrizbeitia, Mark Lamster, Ewa Harabasz, Rosalea Monacella, Holly Samuelson, Luis Callejas, Allen Sayegh, Elizabeth Christoforetti, Jock Herron, John May, Lorena Bello Gómez, Malkit Shoshan, Ali Malkawi, James Stockard
Students may take a maximum of 8 units with different GSD instructors in this course series. 9201 must be taken for either 2, or 4…
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Thesis project / Project Thesis
As the culminating effort for the Master of Architecture degree, a “Thesis” entails multiple expectations. It is a demonstration not only of competency and expertise,…
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Independent Study on Multi-Cultural Design Environments
An examination and comparison of design practices in a professional setting. This course is open only to students who will be undertaking an internship or…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree MArch
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
Following participation in the department’s fall thesis preparation seminar (GSD 9204), the spring term of the second year sees students complete, defend, and submit…
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Independent Thesis for the Degree Master in Design Studies
(Previously "Open Projects”) Prerequisites: Filing of signed "Declaration of Advisor" form with MDes office, and approval signature of the program director. A student who selects…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Master in Landscape Architecture
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 Design Engineering Project II
The Independent Design Engineering Project (IDEP) is a two-semester project during which students in the Master in Design Engineering (MDE) program work on understanding a…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
Holly Samuelson, Ali Malkawi, Antoine Picon, Peter Rowe, Richard Peiser
9502 must be taken for either 2 or 4 units. Under faculty guidance, the student conducts an independent reading program and formulates a thesis proposal.
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Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree Doctor of Design
Martin Bechthold, Diane Davis, Gareth Doherty, Mohsen Mostafavi, Peter Rowe, Carole Voulgaris, Charles Waldheim
Thesis in Satisfaction of the degree Doctor of Design. DDES stduents should search the my.harvard course catalog for their advisor's name and enrol in the…
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Thesis Extension in Satisfaction of Degree Doctor of Design
Martin Bechthold, Anita Berrizbeitia, Diane Davis, Gareth Doherty, Ann Forsyth, Ali Malkawi, John May, Rahul Mehrotra, Mohsen Mostafavi, Erika Naginski, Richard Peiser, Antoine Picon, Peter Rowe, Carole Voulgaris, Charles Waldheim, Gary R. Hilderbrand
Thesis extension in satisfaction of the degree Doctor of Design. DDES stduents should search the my.harvard course catalog for their advisor's name and enrol in…
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Discourse and Research Methods
This pro-seminar is a core requirement for successful completion of the Doctor of Design program. Primarily, it will focus on various thematic areas that range…
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Discourse and Methods II
Antoine Picon, Divya Subramanian
The objective of the seminar is to examine and discuss in depth some of the main methodological issues that students enrolled in the PhD program…
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MDes Open Project: Forms of Assembly. All Things Considered
“When bodies congregate, move, and speak together, they lay claim to a certain space as public space.” – Judith Butler. In the public space, we…
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MDes Open Project: O(perating)S(ystem)1.1
Illumination is hard wired. Lighting networks require electric grids, digital chips, insulated conduit. Material infrastructure allows for immaterial transmission. Illumination blurs a building’s boundaries, creating…
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MDes Open Project: Physical Realms Synthetic Realities
This OP explores the notion of reality and authenticity of experiences in the built environment through the lens of current emergent technologies. By harnessing emergent…
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MDes Open Project: Experimental Infrastructures
Infrastructure is an encompassing and promiscuous term that has been enjoying a renaissance in design, the social sciences, and public discourse. We are inundated by…
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MDes Open Project: Framing Regenerative Futures
Framing Regenerative Futures is a platform to critically examine contemporary challenges to settlement and society and then, in collective and individual work, to create imaginative…
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MDes Open Project: Revisiting the Space of Appearance, the Implication of the “Self”
In considering the social dimension of space, the designer, (architect, landscape architect, urban designer, artist) is called to engage reality in all its messiness, indeterminacy…
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MDes Open Project: Communicating Climate – Representing Risk
In contemporary practice, designers are often called upon to visualize the implications of and potential responses to climate adaptation on behalf of individuals and institutions,…
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Master in Real Estate Practicum Prep
Frank Apeseche, Matthew Kiefer, Weijia Song
This 0-unit seminar is part of the 12-unit Master in Real Estate Practicum. Participation is limited to students in the Master in Real Estate program…
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