Courses
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Modernity and Crisis
Is it even possible to offer a description of our contemporary moment that is not fundamentally defined by the experience of crisis? Financial crisis,…
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Imagine Michelangelo
The use of digital models as instruments of historical research. Almost all of Michelangelo’s architectural projects are unbuilt, unfinished, or have been significantly altered…
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Architecture and its Texts (1650-1800)
This seminar focuses on a selection of important architectural writings from the late 17th and 18th centuries, with the aim of exploring the connections…
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Rotterdam Study Abroad Seminar: The Present Environmental Predicament: Design and the Limits to Growth
This Course is for students in the Rotterdam Study Abroad Program. The title of this seminar refers to two significant essays written in…
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Construction Lab
Mark Mulligan, Danielle Etzler
This course will meet for the first time on Friday, August 30th, at 9 am in Room 111. This module introduces students to…
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Energy in Architecture
This lecture course introduces students to energy and environmental issues, particularly those that must be faced by the discipline of architecture. An overview of the…
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Structural Design 1
The course introduces the discipline of structural engineering as a means of unlocking hidden architectural design potential. Students develop the skills necessary to make informed…
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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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The Innovative Practice: Finding, Building and Leading Good Ideas with Others (at SEAS)
SEAS Engineering Sciences 21. Catalog Number: 70925 Enrollment: Limited to 25. Permission of instructor required. EXAM GROUP: 12, 13 Please check the…
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Innovation in Science and Engineering: Conference Course (at SEAS)
David Weitz, Paul Bottino, David Ricketts
Engineering Sciences 139. Catalog Number: 0994 EXAM GROUP: 7, 8, 9 Please check the FAS schedule for room information. Explores…
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Water Engineering (at SEAS)
SEAS Engineering Sciences 165. Catalog Number: 4274 EXAM GROUP: 13, 14 Please check the FAS schedule for room information. Introduces the fundamentals…
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Computer Vision (at SEAS)
SEAS Computer Science 283. Catalog Number: 4475 Please check the FAS schedule for room information. Vision as an ill-posed inverse problem: image formation, two-dimensional…
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Material Systems: Digital Design, Fabrication, and Research Methods
Computer-aided design, manufacturing, and engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE) technologies are increasingly integrated into many aspects of design and construction. ‘Digital Fabrication’ has been deeply embedded in…
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Introduction to Computational Design
This is an introductory course to computational design and the prerequisite for a spring course that deals with more advanced topics in the field.
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Expanded Mechanisms / Empirical Materialisms
Machines and material are vitally connected and reciprocally constrained. Each responds dynamically to the other through a range of geometric, chemical, and physical events…
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High Performance Buildings and Systems Integration
The interrelationships of environmental control systems as they relate to high performance/well integrated buildings will be explored in details. The course will address the…
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Design By Committee. Digital Interfaces for Collaborative and Participatory Design
This Seminar/Workshop will look into the design and technical challenges involved in the development of web based interfaces for collaborative and participatory design scenarios.
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Energy Simulation in Design
The best intent does not always lead to the best performing design, as intuition and rules of thumb sometimes fail to adequately inform decision…
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Second Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Cameron Wu, John Hong, Mariana Ibanez, Katy Barkan, Jeffry Burchard, Elizabeth Whittaker, Ingeborg Rocker
The overarching pedagogical agenda for second semester is to expand upon the methodology of technique from the first semester such that students should develop an…
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Fourth Semester Core: Architectural Design
Florian Idenburg, Danielle Etzler, Jinhee Park, Eric Howeler, Spela Videcnik, Renata Sentkiewicz
The last of a four-semester sequence of design studios concludes the introduction to architectural design by emphasizing students\’ elaboration and substantiation of ideas through complex…
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WHYCANTWEJUSTDANCE?? HUMANEORIGINSINNOCENTOBSESSIONSANDCHEAPSHOES
Why can’t we just dance? Humane Origins Innocent Obsessions And Cheap Shoes What is architecture’s role today in…
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The Studio Studio
The architectural treatise and manifesto have disappeared. Today, we have architectural theory and criticism of architecture. But is it possible to call any contemporary building…
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Ruins, Memory and the Imagination
This studio will navigate the turbulent waters where the currents of History and Architecture converge. While such merger has been a constant impulse in architecture’s…
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Real and Imaginary Variables II
Halfway between the socially responsive discourse of programmatic indeterminacy and the alleged futility of form-giving, this studio explores architecture’s critical return to form. Our interest…
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Geometry of Span and Flight
Robert Levit, Rodolphe el-Khoury
Formal themes: The evolution of digitally driven formal experiment has taken a turn away from its freewheeling origins in the first flush of digitally-derived…
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Ecologics: Refiguring the Civic Ground
Christoph Reinhart and Matthew Waxman will collaborate on this studio. What is the role of architecture in urbanism and what is the role of…
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Basel Study Abroad Studio Option: The City and Energy, A typological study
Pierre de Meuron, Jacques Herzog
Contemporary discussion on energy and architecture is largely dictated by the condition of scarcity. We often hear that our cities and our buildings are responsible…
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On the Order of Objects: Mediating between Monuments, Museums, and Megaliths in the Historic Center of Istanbul
SUMMARY The studio is set in the area around the old Byzantine hippodrome in the historic center of Istanbul. Here an accumulation of buildings…
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Chicago Grid: In Search For New Paradigms
Chicago can be seen as a paradigm city for its rapid growth and transformation, its economic importance and its innovative contributions to the techniques of…
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Thermodynamic Madrid. A New Good Life
Iñaki Abalos, Matthias Schuler
This course explores new methods, tools, scales, and materials to address the renovation of historic centers outside both the radical preservationism of the protectionist theories…
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Drawing in the City of Rome
While this course takes place in Italy after the end of the Spring semester, it is technically a fall course and units will apply…
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Responsive Environments
Advances in current embedded sensing and actuating technologies combined with media is creating an unprecedented opportunities in blurring the boundaries between the digital and…
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Digital Media for Design
The course will focus on the interrogation and acquisition of different emerging and established digital design approaches for designers. Students will gain knowledge of digital…
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Superficial Spaces FAV
At a time when architectural discourse and practice are (still) brimming with references to new geometries, this offering investigates the architectural potential of abstract three-dimensional…
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