Courses

Landscape Wooden (Hill and Water) House

Wenyu Lu, Shu Wang

Landscape Wooden (Hill and Water) House+++A Natural Form of Architectural Narration and ConstructionIn ancient Chinese landscape painting, \”hill and water\” typology consists of \”hill and…

End(eavors) Game

Wes Jones

When the \”age of the world picture\” gave way to the \”first machine age,\” architecture went from being a book to being a machine, from…

Urban superimpositions\Historical Archive: Negotiating public roles in Piazzale Roma

Luis Rojo de Castro

Light Monumentality

John Hong, Jinhee Park

How can we define the concept of monumentality in contemporary architectural terms? Who or to what power structure(s) does the condition of monumentality belong? How…

Evolutionary Infrastructure – the new mega form

Marion Weiss, Michael Manfredi

Biased toward expediting movement and inherently resistant to supporting other forms of inhabitation, transportation infrastructure is an archaic monument to mono-functional use. With ever increasing…

Forward into the (Deep) Past

Lindy Roy

Back to the Future: The Harvard Kalahari Project RevisitedThe Kalahari Desert of southern Africa is our laboratory this semester. We will reject contemporary theories of…

Dominant types and the idea of the City: Housing Beijing

Christopher C.M. Lee

This studio works typologically. It recognizes the city as a repository of architectural knowledge and potential. The city here is understood through its persistent architectures,…

Urban Efficiency

Roisin Heneghan, Shih-Fu Peng

The site, NYC will be utilized as the testing environment. In the next 40 years, the world\’s population is forecast to increase by 50% with…

Istanbul: Between Contour and Silhouette

A. Hashim Sarkis

Summary: The studio explores how an architectural project could relate to the city through the manipulation of the ground line and the skyline. The practical…

Paris Study Abroad Option Studio: Storyboard as Architecture Project

Anne Lacaton

This course is offered as part of the Paris study abroadStoryboard as architecture projectThe city should give exceptional quality of life : a large range…

Visual Studies

Peter Lynch

This course will help you develop your sketching ability. The emphasis is heuristic-on specific ways that hand drawing can inspire, guide, and speed your design…

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

Iterative design workflows will be used for generating, analyzing and representing variations in form, light, materials, and temporal simulations in the design development process. The…

Digital Media II

Andrew Witt

Topics in Parametric and Generative Geometry and Modeling This class explores the design and science of logical form making, examined through geometry, parametric control, algorithms,…

Drawing in the City of Rome

Jennifer Riley

The Rome drawing workshop places students within the context of Rome to live in, observe, analyze and draw from its complex configuration the ideas insightful…

Immersive Environments

Christopher Hoxie

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

Intermediate Landscape as Digital Media

David Mah

The course will focus on digital modeling and representational tools for designers. Through the course, students will gain knowledge of digital design media and tools…

Communicating Architecture, The Architect as Author and Editor

Lars Muller

Over the past two years the Course has evolved and become a discussion forum as much as a hands-on lab – to debate…

Art, Design and the Public Domain

Krzysztof Wodiczko

The first meeting of this course will take place on September 1st at 6 PM in room 510. Interested students should plan to attend. This…

Interrogative Design: Animating Monuments

Krzysztof Wodiczko

This course is cross listed with VES as VES137X. The course will focus on the ways in which designers and artists can…

Culture, Conservation and Design – Creating the Conversation

Susan Snyder, George Thomas

This seminar will situate the conversation about Strategic & Critical Conservation in the cultural realm with the goal of expanding and developing an understanding of…

What Are We Up To?

Sebastien Marot

Course is offered as part of the Paris study abroad.Enrollment in this course is no longer open as it is part of the Paris Study…

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…

Conservation Canons and Institutions

Rahul Mehrotra, K. Michael Hays

This module will study and analyze the canons and institutions that have traditional guided the parameters of conservation and preservation practice. The seminar will critically…

BIBLIOTHECA: The Library Past/Present/Future

Jeffrey Schnapp, John Palfrey

\”Wisdom builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down\” reads the lead verse of Proverbs 14. The verse may serve…

MArch II Proseminar

Jorge Silvetti

Prerequisites: Enrollment in the MArch II program.This course provides a forum for critical discussion of contemporary design practices that is exploratory and speculative in nature.

Buildings, Texts, and Contexts I: Classical and Baroque (folds of history and theory)

K. Michael Hays, Erika Naginski

This course is structured as a dialogue between the historical and theoretical frameworks that have shaped the formulation of architectural principles – what the architectural…

Film, Modernity and Visual Culture

Giuliana Bruno

Cinema has changed the way we see and think. Modern visual culture develops with the art of film. Course considers this major 20th century shift…

Buildings, Texts, and Contexts III: Architecture in the 20th Century

Timothy Hyde

This course will examine the discourse and practices of modern architecture in the context of the political, economic, aesthetic, and cultural changes that occurred across…

Authority and Invention: Medieval Art and Architecture

Christine Smith

Masterworks of art and architecture in Western Europe from the decline of Rome to the dawn of the Italian Renaissance. Explores the creative tension between…

Situating the Modern: Modern Architecture and Vernacular Traditions

Sibel Bozdo??an

The first meeting of this course will take place on September 1st at 6 PM in room 318. Interested students should plan to attend. This…

The Ruin Aesthetic: Episodes in the History of an Architectural Idea

Erika Naginski

One of the arresting images in Michel Serres\’s Rome: The Book of Foundations is the idea that history is \”a knot of different times\” —…

Paris: The Design of a Metropolis

Antoine Picon

Enrollment in this course is closed. It is offered as part of the Paris study abroad program. The class will offer an in-depth reading of…

Undoing Absolutes: Postmodern Archiitectural Theory

Emmanuel Petit

The seminar series investigates the theoretical underpinnings of diverse strands of postmodernism in architecture in the 1970s and 80s. Emphasis is given to the different…

Critical Memory and the Experience of History

K. Michael Hays

This course will meet for the first time in ROOM 111 on Thursday, September 1st. This seminar presents selected texts from the history…

Materials and Construction: An Introduction to Techniques, Composition and Strategies

Mark Mulligan, Danielle Etzler

This module introduces students to fundamental properties and behaviors of buildings and other structures. Principles of design and construction are discussed in a comprehensive manner…

Energy, Technology and Building

Nico Kienzl

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…

Analysis and Design of Building Structures I

Patrick McCafferty

The course introduces the discipline of structural engineering as a means of unlocking hidden architectural design potential. Students develop the skills necessary to make…

Building Technology

Mark Mulligan

Prerequisites: GSD 6202, GSD 6203, and GSD 6205; or equivalent. As the final component in the required sequence of technology courses, this professionally oriented course…

CAD/CAM: Introduction to applications in Architecture

John Nastasi

Computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) techniques, often referred to as digital fabrication techniques, are being widely adopted for the production of architecture. As technology evolves…

Computational Design [Numerical Descriptions as Design Tools]

Panagiotis Michalatos

The first meeting of Panagiotis Michalatos\’ 06338: Computational Design [Numerical Descriptions as Design Tools] will take place in room 124 at 10 AM this Thursday,…

Modeling Urban Energy Flows

Christoph Reinhart

The primary focus of this course is the study of energy flows in and around groups of buildings. The investigated scales will range from individual…

Material Processes and Systems: Ceramic LAB

Martin Bechthold

The first meeting of 6429 will take place on September 6th at 6 PM in room 508. This class explores how innovative building components…

Structural Engineering and Architecture

Jurg Conzett

The first meeting of this course will take place on September 6th at 6 PM in room 318. Interested students should plan to attend. This…

The Environmental Performance of Tall Buildings

Joana Goncalves

This course embraces the overarching theme of the environmental performance of tall buildings proposing a critical review that covers issues related to the environmental performance…

Real-Time Cities: an Introduction to Urban Cybernetics

Nashid Nabian

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…

Landscape of Contemporary and Anticipatory Practice

Paul Nakazawa

The purpose of this course is: 1. to enable students to better understand the landscape of established and emergent practices within a larger social, economic…

The Architect in History: The Evolution of Practice from Renaissance to Present

Jay Wickersham

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…

Design and Development: from Concept to Implementation

Andreas Georgoulias

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.

Lifecycle Design

Martin Bechthold

The construction, maintenance and operation of the built environment consume significant resources in a world of rapidly depleting natural reserves. As our ability to design…