Courses
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Immersive Environments II
This is an advanced seminar exploring the spatial temporal qualities of the built environment through the disciplines of still and moving image. This seminar will…
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Projection/Installation/Intervention
Projection: Latin: Projectum, Proicere: Pro:forth, Jacere:throw, Throw-Forth, (in place and time) Action, process, state, condition, technique, effect of throwing out, away and…
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Basel Study Abroad Seminar: Communicating Architecture, The Architect as Author and Editor
The Course is a discussion forum as much as a hands-on lab – to debate the conditions of communication in architecture and the transition from…
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Masters at the beginning of the XXI Century
The lecture course serves to emphasize my belief that a critical reflection on contemporary architecture is always helpful to allow students to reflect on why…
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Global Redesign Project
In the last few iterations of this seminar, we have started to extend our skillset as designers of the built environment to outside of our…
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Architecture and Art: From Minimalism to Neuro-phenomenology
Since the first pronouncements of the \’death\’ of painting in the post-Abstract Expressionist era, art consistently sought to radicalize its practice by overturning the traditional…
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Air in Motion / Thermodynamic Materialism
Iñaki Abalos, Matthias Schuler, Jianxiang Huang
The air has been treated in architecture and its historiography as an element which existence is recognized, but about which only one could speak metaphorically,…
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Masters at the beginning of the XXI Century: Texts
This seminar course serves to examine and comment on the texts related to the works of the architects Rem Koolhaas, Herzog + DeMeuron, Sejima +…
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The Mixed-Reality City
Jesse Shapins, James Burns, Yanni Loukissas
The contemporary city is constituted by multiple overlapping, intermixing realities articulated between built form and imagined space, individuated experience and collective memory, embodied sensation and…
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Basel Study Abroad Seminar: Islands: The Career of a Metaphor
From Karl Ehn’s Karl Marx Hof to Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation, housing in classical modernity formed self-sufficient ideal worlds. These were characterized by a rupture…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts II
Any account of architecture’s history over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries is faced with the challenge of addressing the general rupture caused…
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Frames of Mind: Approaches to Film Theory
Introduction to the language of film theory aimed at developing analytic skills to interpret films. Historical survey of classical and contemporary theory beginning with turn-of-the-century…
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Rome and St. Peters
The art and architecture of Rome from Antiquity to Modernity with particular attention to the Vatican, where the layering of material artifacts from successive…
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Michelangelo: Precedents, Innovations, Influence
An exploration of Italian Renaissance architecture and urbanism through the persona of Michelangelo as witness, agent, and inspiration. We look at architecture and urbanism…
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Visual Fabrics: Film, Fashion and Material Culture
What is the place of materiality in our virtual world? How do film and fashion communicate as objects of material culture? As powerful image makers,…
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Architecture, Science and Technology, XVIIIth Century-Present
Since the first industrial revolution, science and technology have constantly challenged architecture. Technology in particular has represented a powerful source of change for architecture.
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Baroque Architecture
Lecture-based survey in a traditional historical vein of European architecture from 1600 to 1750, with the work of Michelangelo as prelude and Piranesi as closure.
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Structure, Infrastructure, and Ornament
With the rise of digital culture, ornament is back. Its return has been accompanied with recurring interrogations regarding the need to redefine tectonics, and…
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Case Studies in Critical Conservation: Architecture and Cities
This course analyzes international case studies in the conservation of buildings and urban environments as a means for developing projective strategies for interpreting and…
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Materials, Constructions, Processes
The course introduces a conceptual framework for the design of building assemblies, as informed by a clear understanding of construction technologies and of the properties…
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Environmental Technologies in Buildings
The primary focus of this course is the study of the thermal, luminous and acoustic behavior of buildings in an architectural context. The course examines…
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Analysis and Design of Building Structures II
A continuation of GSD 6227, this course provides students with an enhanced understanding of structural analysis and engineering design concepts. Students learn the fundamentals of…
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In Search of Design through Engineers
Hanif Kara, Andreas Georgoulias
This course aims to teach, stimulate and demonstrate \”design led\” opportunities that exist in the zone between Architecture and Engineering, through the paradigm of…
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Architectural Design in Detail
Architectural design encompasses multiple scales from that of the city to the smallest details of construction, transitions and surface. The excellence of design can be…
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Thermoregulation Using Hybrid Materials
This seminar is about designing hybrid materials to orchestrate the flow of heat through buildings in novel ways. The primary aim is inspire…
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(Re)fabricating Tectonic Prototypes
Leire Asensio-Villoria, instructor, with Hanif Kara, structural consultant The course is framed by a general ambition to develop explorations in digital design, fabrication and parametric…
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Optimizations: Material Distributions
This course explores the role of structural optimization methods in design and fabrication problems. In a series of experiments, students will try to materialize and…
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Forms of Energy: Maximum Power Design
Few words can transform the formation and functions of architecture in this century more than a deep and pervasive recognition that matter is but an…
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Quantitative Aesthetics: Models of Movement
This course is looking at computational approaches to digital media that allow us to analyze and reinterpret our environment as a signal. This year we…
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Fabrication of Composites
Natural/Bio-fiber composites (Bio-Composites) are emerging as a viable alternative to glass and carbon fiber reinforced composites. The combination of natural, bio-fibers like Hemp, Flax, Jute,…
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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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Designing Things for Humans
Architects and urbanists are good at responding to briefs. Traditional design briefs are conceived as abstractions of perceived needs, specifications or market opportunities. The…
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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, and…
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Visualization
The amount and complexity of information produced in science, engineering, business, and everyday human activity is increasing at staggering rates. The goal of this course…
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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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Real Estate Development, Design, and Construction
John Macomber, A. Eugene Kohn, Christopher Gordon
This course is a module. It lasts the second half of the semester only. Jointly Listed at Harvard Business School as HBS 1465 This…
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Project Delivery
Major changes are underway in the design and construction industry. Advances in technology, increased owner-user expectations, and new approaches to project delivery are affecting every…
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Leading the Design Firm
This course introduces students to the business side of the design industry. It highlights the ways in which a design firm is a business…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Masters Degrees
Richard Peiser, Chuck Hoberman, Sonja Dümpelmann, Diane Davis, Neil Brenner, Christopher C.M. Lee, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Leire Asensio Villoria, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, Michael Hooper, Jill Desimini, Pierre Bélanger, Ciro Najle, Deidre Schmidt, Florian Idenburg, Rahul Mehrotra, Eric Howeler, Kiel Moe, Silvia Benedito, Felipe Correa, Eve Blau, Jay Wickersham, Bing Wang, Erkin Ozay, Christopher Hoxie, Joan Busquets, Ann Forsyth, Peter Rowe, Jonathan Levi, James Stockard, Jorge Silvetti, Mark Laird, Remment Koolhaas, A. Hashim Sarkis, Niall Kirkwood, Peter Del Tredici, Mark Mulligan, Jana Cephas, Robert Pietrusko, Martin Bechthold, K. Michael Hays, Rachel Vroman
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, Chuck Hoberman, Leire Asensio Villoria, Florian Idenburg, Mariana Ibanez, Eric Howeler, Ingeborg Rocker, Kiel Moe, Felipe Correa, Cameron Wu, Elizabeth Whittaker, Jinhee Park, John Hong, Martin Bechthold, Mark Mulligan, Jorge Silvetti, Peter Rowe, Toshiko Mori, Preston Scott Cohen, Mack Scogin
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 for the Degree Master in Design Studies
Richard T.T. Forman, Diane Davis, Neil Brenner, Panagiotis Michalatos, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, Michael Hooper, Holly Samuelson, Christoph Reinhart, Jana Cephas, Timothy Hyde, Gareth Doherty, Sanford Kwinter, Kiel Moe, Andrew Witt, K. Michael Hays, Miho Mazereeuw, Allen Sayegh
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
Sanford Kwinter, Jesse Shapins, Michael Hooper, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Diane Davis
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
Peter Rowe, Charles Waldheim, Antoine Picon, Martin Bechthold, A. Hashim Sarkis, Anita Berrizbeitia
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
Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, A. Hashim Sarkis, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis
Under guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.
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Discourse and Methods
This course is open only to Ph.D. students in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and Design (other FAS Ph.D. students may participate with instructor\’s…
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Design Film Series
Instructor(s): Alix Reiskind Date/Time: Jan 10 (H), 2 pm and Jan 17 (H), 2 pm Location: Visual +…
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COURSE FULL – Figure Drawing: Improve and Expand on Skills
Instructor(s): Anne McGhee Date/Time: Jan 15 and 17 (T,R) / 2:00-5:00 Location: 7 Sumner Rd. Room 402…
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Yoga
Instructor(s): Elizabeth Brown Date/Time: Jan 8 and 10 (T,R) / 12:00-1:00 Location: 121 Description:…
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COURSE FULL – Custom Metalwork Studio
Instructor(s): Erica Moody Date/Time: Jan 7 and 8 (M,T) / 9:00-4:00 Location: 59 Park St, 1st fl…
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CANCELLED – English as a Second Language Workshop (session 1)
Instructor(s): Helen Snively Date/Time: Jan 7, 9, 11 (M,W,F) / 12:30-3:30 Location: 123 Description:…
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