Courses
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Paper or Plastic: Reinventing Shelf-life in the Supermarket Landscape
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…
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Art, Design and the Public Domain
This seminar is intended to serve as an important research, discussion and presentation forum, information resource and a critical laboratory for further development of…
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Interrogative Design: Animating Monuments
The course will focus on the ways in which designers and artists can help the \”entrenched in the past\” monuments to become enlivened for…
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A Science of the Environment
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…
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Mass Individualism: The Form of the Multitude
What do three contemporary tropes ubiquitous in recent architecture have in common: 1) complex and varied aggregations, 2) the migration of informal domestic atmospheres into…
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Conservation History, Its Canons and Institutions
This course analyzes the canons and institutions that have traditionally guided the parameters of conservation and preservation practice. As such, the course situates conservation…
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Elements: Rotterdam Study Abroad Seminar
The seminar will reconstruct the role of elemental thinking in the history and theory of architecture. With a particular focus on the writings of Henry…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts III? Fourth Factory: The Material Imagination and the Materialism of Architecture
Tatlin’s Tower “is made of iron, glass, and revolution,” wrote the Russian Formalist critic Viktor Shklovsky. At once a real and symbolic mode of production,…
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Imagining the City: Literature, Film, and the Arts
How do visual representation and narrative figuration contribute to construct urban identity? Explores the urban imagination in different artforms: architecture, cinema, literature, photography, and painting.
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Screens: Media Archaeology and the Visual Arts Seminar
How do screens function as interface between us and the world? What is the role of the screen in contemporary visual arts and media culture?…
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Authority and Invention: Medieval Art and Architecture
This course covers masterworks of art and architecture in Western Europe from the decline of Rome to the dawn of the Italian Renaissance, and explores…
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Situating the Modern: Modern Architecture and Vernacular Traditions
From National Romanticism in the late 19th century to Critical Regionalism debates in the 1980s, architecture’s ability to evoke a sense of place, locality or…
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Critical Memory and the Experience of History
This seminar presents selected texts from the history of conservation (Riegl, Viollet, Ruskin) together with theoretical treatments of the genealogy of collective memory (Halbwachs, Nora,…
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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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Materials and Construction: An Introduction to Techniques, Composition and Strategies
Mark Mulligan, Danielle Etzler
This course will meet for the first time on Friday, August 31st, at 9 am in Room 109. This module introduces students to…
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Energy, Technology and Building
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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Analysis and Design of Building Structures I
The first meeting of this course will take place on Friday, August 31st from 2:30-4 in room 111. The course introduces the discipline of…
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Building Technology
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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Materials and Fabrication Processes: An Introduction to Digital Techniques
Computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) techniques, often referred to as digital fabrication, are now in a post-infancy period and widely adopted for the production of…
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On The Bri[n]ck: Architecture of the Envelope
On the Bri(n)ck: Architectural Envelope traces the historical development of a debate concerning the architectural envelope beginning at the end of the 19th century. It…
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Computational Design [Numerical Descriptions as Design Tools]
This is a series of lectures and workshops on computational design covering fundamental and advanced topics in the field. The lectures will introduce mathematical and…
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Information Centered Design Futures – Canceled
With the rise of BIM (Building Information Modeling) and VDC (Virtual Design and Construction) over the past decade, Architecture, engineering and construction practices are rapidly…
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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 that…
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Design By Committee. Digital interfaces for collaborative and participatory design / Gamification
This Seminar/Workshop will look into the design and technical challenges involved in the development of web-based interfaces for collaborative design scenarios. …
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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 making.
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Architectural Acoustics
How would Be-Bop sound in a cathedral? How would Gregorian chant sound in a jazz club? And why can you hear every move your upstairs…
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Natural Ventilation
Topics to be covered: Basics of wind-driven and buoyancy-driven ventilation. Use of thermal mass and night cooling. Assisted natural ventilation. The use of airflow network…
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Life-Cycle Design
The design of sustainable buildings has long focused on reduced energy needs during the operational phase, largely disregarding energy and material consumption as well as…
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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 have…
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Contemporary Frameworks of Practice
The purpose of this course is: To explore the range of contemporary and emergent practices as they relate to landscapes of social, political, economic,…
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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 perspectives…
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Design and Development: from Concept to Implementation
This course examines the real estate development process, from the first design idea and original conceptual sketch to the creation of building and infrastructure assets.
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Library Test Kitchen
Jeffrey Schnapp, Jeff Goldenson, Ann Whiteside
Bridging the analog and the digital worlds, the offline and the online, libraries represent one of the most exciting opportunities for design and redesign on…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
A. Hashim Sarkis, Ray Torto, Michael Herzfeld, Panagiotis Michalatos, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Leire Asensio Villoria, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, Jill Desimini, Jane Hutton, Pierre Bélanger, Iñaki Abalos, Florian Idenburg, Mariana Ibanez, Rahul Mehrotra, Eric Howeler, Ingeborg Rocker, Andreas Georgoulias, Andrea Hansen, Gareth Doherty, Sanford Kwinter, Chris Reed, John Nastasi, Kiel Moe, Andrew Witt, Eve Blau, Cameron Wu, Erkin Ozay, Christopher Hoxie, Niall Kirkwood, Mark Mulligan, Jorge Silvetti, Anita Berrizbeitia, K. Michael Hays, Jerold S. Kayden, Mack Scogin, Preston Scott Cohen, Ann Forsyth, Diane Davis, Martin Bechthold
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
A. Hashim Sarkis, Panagiotis Michalatos, Danielle Etzler, Florian Idenburg, Eric Howeler, Ingeborg Rocker, Sanford Kwinter, Felipe Correa, Allen Sayegh, Jorge Silvetti, Toshiko Mori, Preston Scott Cohen, Mack Scogin
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 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
Richard T.T. Forman, Allen Sayegh, 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
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, Martin Bechthold, 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, Yael Erel, Jeffry Burchard, Jinhee Park, James Khamsi, 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
Timothy Hyde, Michael Piper, Rafael Segal, Eric Howeler, Florian Idenburg, Danielle Etzler
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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The Function of Time: The Contemporary Art Museum
Farshid Moussavi, Jonathan Scelsa
This is the second in a series of research based studios devoted to the spatial and temporal implications that contemporary art provokes for a museum…
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White Napkins: A Collection of Short Theses on Radical Interiors
short th\’sis, n [AS. scort, scort, short; O.H.G. scurz, short, cut off; ON. skort, short piece of clothing. L thesis; Gr. thesis, a position, from…
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Architectural Reckoning
The task of designing an addition to a highly respected building requires bringing judgments to bear perhaps more explicitly than in the case of any…
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Un-War Architecture
Krzysztof Wodiczko, Allen Sayegh
Since earliest times artists and designers have been major contributors to the Culture of War. War propaganda commissions, design of s uniforms, armor,…
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Real and Imaginary Variables
Halfway between the socially responsive discourse of programmatic freedom and the alleged futility of parametric form-giving, this studio celebrates architecture’s critical return to form. Our…
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ARCHITECTURE 2.0: Pending Futures
By 2015, predictions are that the information on the internet will reach a zettabyte (in comparison, all the books in the present Library of Congress…
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Thinking about Home-for-All (Tokyo Study Abroad Studio)
This studio is not part of the option studio lottery. Enrollment is full. This is the studio associated with the Tokyo Study Abroad program.
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