Courses

COURSE FULL – Portfolio Workshop

Instructor(s): Lauren Kim Date/Time: Jan 7 and 8 (M,T) / 10:00-12:00 and Jan 14,15 (M,T) / 10:00-12:00 Location:…

CANCELLED – Pilates

Instructor(s): MJ Kenny Date/Time: Jan 10 (R) / 12:00-1:00 Location: 123 Description: Requirements:…

Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

Instructor(s): Paul Cote Date/Time: Jan 7 (M) / 1-2:45 Location: 516 Description: This course…

CANCELLED – Obtaining Terrain and Transforming Information

Instructor(s): Paul Cote Date/Time: Jan 7 (M) / 3-5 Location: 516 Prerequisite: Introduction to Geographic…

CANCELLED – Terrain Modeling in Context with RhinoTerrain

Instructor(s): Paul Cote Date/Time: Jan 8 (T) / 1-2:45 Location: 516 Prerequisite: Obtaining Terrain and…

CANCELLED – GPS Tricks for Field Research

Instructor(s): Paul Cote Date/Time: Jan 8 (T) / 3-5 Location: 516 Description: This course…

COURSE FULL – LEED Certification Preparation

Instructor(s): Scott Simpson and Emma Corbalan of KlingStubbins Date/Time: Jan 14-18 (M,T,W,R,F) / 11am -1pm Location: KlingStubbins,…

COURSE FULL – App Development for Apple and Android

Instructor(s): Mark Hagen Date/Time: Jan 14 and 15 (M,T) / 1:00-3:00 Location: 510 Description:…

Eating Well with No Time and No Money

Instructor(s): Michelle Gallant Date/Time: Jan 15 (T) / 12:00-1:00 Location: 121 Description: You know that…

Personal Money Management Strategies for Financial Success

Instructor(s): Tom Murphy Date/Time: Jan 16 (W), 12:00-2:00 Location: 109 Description: Come and learn…

Practicing Landscape Architecture: Notes from the Field

Instructor(s): Christopher Buccino and Ailyn Mendoza Date/Time: Jan 16 and 17 (W,R) / 9-11:30 Location: 318…

Designing Playgrounds

Instructor(s): Natalia Gaerlan Date/Time: Jan 7 and 8 (M,T) / 1:00-2:30 Location: 510 Description:…

COURSE FULL – Introduction to Cinema 4d

Instructor(s): Michael Peguero Date/Time: Jan. 7, 9, and 11 (M,W,F) / 11am-1pm Location: 111 Description:…

Introduction to After Effects

Instructor(s): Michael Peguero Date/Time: Jan 8 and 10 (T,R) / 11am-1pm Location: 111 Prerequisites: Everyone…

Introduction to Building Energy Modeling

Instructor(s): Alison Ledwith Date/Time: Jan 7-10 (M,T,W,R) / 2:00-4:00 Location: 122 Description: This course…

Take Me for Granted: A Designers Guide to Project Funding

Instructor(s): Cheryl Huffman Date/Time: Jan 16-18 (W,R,F) / 10:30-12:00pm Location: 121 Description: Best practices…

Visualizing Identity in Design Praxis

Instructor(s): Ailyn Mendoza Date/Time: Jan 14-16 (MTW) / 12:30-3:30 Location: 516 Prerequisites: Minimal knowledge of…

COURSE FULL – Retrofitting Suburbia: Policies, Politics, and Designs

Instructor(s): Lynn Richards and Deanna Van Buren Date/Time: Jan 17 and 18 (R,F) / 9:00-5:00pm Location: 112…

Civic Art + Transformation

Instructor(s): Jim Lasko Date/Time: Jan 8-10 (T,W,R ) / 10:30-12:30 and Jan 15 and 16 (T,W) / 10:30-12:30 Location:…

Public Speaking for Pin-Ups and Beyond

Instructor(s): Laura Lapointe Date/Time: Jan 8 and 10 (T,R) / 2:00-4:00 and Jan 15 and 17 (T,R) / 2:00-4:00…

Designing Happy Places: How Art, Policy and Urban Design can Reshape our Cities

Instructor(s): LZ Nunn and Karen Lee Bar Sinbar Date/Time: Jan 15-17, 10-1:15 Location: Arts @ 29 Garden…

Creating an Online Portfolio

Instructor(s): Wes Thomas Date/Time: Jan 9-11 (W,R,F) / 2-3:30 Location: 111 Description: This course…

COURSE FULL – 3D Printing Material Optimization

Instructor(s): Prof. Panagiotis Michalatos & Andrew Payne (DDES) Date/Time: Jan 7 (M) 9:00am-1:00pm at GSD; 2:00pm-5:00 site visit to Objet…

Designing with LEDs

Instructor(s): Kera Lagios and Justin T Brown Date/Time: Jan 14, 17 (M,R) / 9:00-4:00 Location: 505…

Design Your Time

Instructor(s): Frinde Maher, Ed.D., and Ginny Zanger, Ed.D Date/Time: Jan 16 (W) / 3:30-5 Location: 121…

COURSE FULL – (Re)Mapping Health: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Innovative Methods for Representing Spatial Data

Instructor(s): Ingeborg Rocker, Robert Gerard Pietrusko, Ronak Patel, Caroline Shannon Date/Time: Jan 7-11 + 14-18 (MTWRF) / 9-5 Location:…

Curating Architecture

Instructor(s): Gaspar Libedinsky Date/Time: Jan 7-11 (MWTRF) / 10-7 Location: Stubbins Description: This week-long…

CANCELLED – Energy Necklace Studio

Instructor(s): Susan Israel and Kathryn Duff Date/Time: Jan14 -16 (MTW), 10-5 Location: 112 Description:…

The Near Future of Industrial Design

Instructor(s): Jonathan Olivares Date/Time: Jan 14 and 15 (M,T), 10-6 Location: 109 Description: New…

Figure Drawing: Improve and Expand on Skills (Session B)

Instructor(s): Anne McGhee Date/Time: Jan 8 and 10 (T,R) / 2:00-5:00 Location: 7 Sumner Rd. Room 402…

First Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture

Preston Scott Cohen, Cameron Wu, Kiel Moe, Ingeborg Rocker, Jeffry Burchard, Katy Barkan, Mariana Ibanez

Prerequisites: Enrollment in MArch I program.The first of a four-semester sequence of design studios introduces students to the practice of architectural design, discussing the theoretical…

Third Semester Core: Architectural Design

Eric Howeler, Maryann Thompson, Jonathan Levi, Vincent Bandy, Danielle Etzler, Iñaki Abalos

The third of a four-semester sequence of design studios brings together the exploration of ‘type’ with the technique of architectural form-making. The studio vehicle will…

Kyoto Studio

Toshiko Mori

Kyoto Studio proposes research at two different scales. The first is at the scale of object-creation. The second is observing how these micro-economies of traditional…

Transforming Melnea Cass Boulevard: Architecture, Transport and Regeneration in Central Boston

Nathalie de Vries

People have growing awareness about how they want to organise the environments in which they live, work and trade. Users and owners of houses and…

Fun Palace II

Thomas Leeser

Cedric Price spent most of his career designing, promoting and building his most famous work known as The Fun Palace. Even though the project was…

Re-use, Re-public, Re-presentation

Florian Idenburg

Within the New Normal – defined as an era of deglobalisation, austerity and sobriety, this studio examines how architecture can be instrumental in defining a…

Pursuing Figuration: Questions of Process, Structure, Scale and Enclosure

Lawrence Scarpa, Brian Healy

In a story, the narrative is captured in the telling; it is the selective details and descriptive moments that evoke a tone or mood. The…

The Ornamental Space

Christian Kerez

“There are three kinds of space that must be regarded as primary: functional, ornamental, and symbolic. The basic architectural formal values do not extend beyond…

Unfinished Work

Ben van Berkel

Last studio, students addressed the question of knowledge space, and how such spaces facilitate the generation and dissemination of information. The interest of the studio…

Shapeshifter

Zoe Prillinger, Luke Ogrydziak

Contemporary architecture is in the middle of an extended shift from drawing to computation as the foundation of design practice. As such, issues of automatism…

Reconsidering Architecture: Rotterdam Study Abroad Studio Option

Remment Koolhaas

In spite of 100 years of globalization, the range of architectural typologies and the common understanding of the elements of the discipline may have diminished.

Visual Studies

Ewa Harabasz

The course objective is to develop and improve students’ skills in freehand drawing based on direct observation, and to encourage them to incorporate drawing into…

Projective Representation in Architecture

Cameron Wu

This course examines the history, theory and practice of parallel (orthographic) and central (perspective) projection. The objective is to provide the tools to imagine and…

Digital Media I

Christopher Hoxie

This course seeks to posit the role of digital media within the broader context of digital practice and to examine the generative capacities of the…

Digital Media II

Andrew Witt

This class explores the design and science of logical form making, examined through geometry, parametric control, algorithms, and digital tools. The point of departure is…

Drawing in the City of Rome

Jennifer Riley

The Rome Drawing Seminar is a three-week freehand drawing and architecture/urban design analysis course conducted entirely out-of-doors in the city of Rome during the summer.

Paper or Plastic: Reinventing Shelf-life in the Supermarket Landscape

Teman Evans, Teran Evans

The supermarket shelf is a highly volatile, hyper-competitive space. On this shelf products struggle to maximize every possible advantage, all in a ruthless effort to…

Art, Design and the Public Domain

Krzysztof Wodiczko

This seminar is intended to serve as an important research, discussion and presentation forum, information resource and a critical laboratory for further development of…

Interrogative Design: Animating Monuments

Krzysztof Wodiczko

The course will focus on the ways in which designers and artists can help the \”entrenched in the past\” monuments to become enlivened for…

A Science of the Environment

Sanford Kwinter

The science of ecology purports to study life as the sum of interactions between organisms and their natural environment. The term ‘natural’ has in recent…