Courses
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Landscape of Contemporary and Anticipatory Practice
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…
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The Architect in History: The Evolution of Practice from Renaissance to 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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Lifecycle Design
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…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree MArch
Andrea Leers, Florian Idenburg, Mariana Ibanez, Ingeborg Rocker, Mack Scogin, Cameron Wu, Timothy Hyde
Following preparation in GSD 9203, each student conducts a design exploration that tests and expands the thesis.Prerequisites: GSD 9203…
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Master of Design Studies Final Project
K. Michael Hays, Giuliana Bruno, Sanford Kwinter, Erika Naginski, Jeffrey Schnapp, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Neil Brenner
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
Richard Peiser, Charles Waldheim, A. Hashim Sarkis, Peter Rowe, Anita Berrizbeitia, Martin Bechthold, Christoph Reinhart, Spiro Pollalis
Under guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.
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Second Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Ingeborg Rocker, Angus Eade, Elizabeth Whittaker, Cameron Wu, Danielle Etzler
The second of a four-semester sequence of design studios continues examination of the issues raised in the first semester and begins investigation of more complex…
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Fourth Semester Core: Architectural Design
Timothy Hyde, Thomas Schroepfer, Felipe Correa, Eric Howeler, Florian Idenburg, Carles Muro
The last of a four-semester sequence of design studios concludes the introduction to architectural design by emphasizing students\’ elaboration and substantiation of personal ideas through…
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The Function of Time: The Contemporary Art Museum
During the last two decades, a new type of art museum has arisen which promotes art without history, dedicated to contemporary issues. This has been…
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Your Space
Virtually all of what we do as humans takes place within the space of architecture. The design of space is the defining claim of the…
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New Metabolism
Osaka, the second largest urban region in Japan, initiated several urban renewal projects in the last years. One concrete project currently in preparation is the…
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Type and Topography
This studio is the third in a series that explores the mutual determinacy of architectural and urban form. The aim is to explore new models…
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Material Systems/Structural Geometry: America¿s Cup, San Francisco
The proliferation of architectural design focused on building form defined by modulated systems suggests the importance of finding evermore sophisticated modes of translation between material…
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Islands in Time
This studio is led by Ben van Berkel, Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor, and assisted by Instructor Imola Berczi. Please see the studio schedule below.\”I have…
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The Architecture of Interstitial Urbanism
Paul Nakazawa will serve as Co-Instructor, and Joao Paulo Meirelles de Faria is the Teaching Assistant.This option studio will seek to generate alternative design strategies…
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Center for Limnology: Divided Waters in Chicago
This studio is led by Jeanne Gang, Design Critic, and assisted by Instructor John Wolters. Please see the studio schedule below. The studio requires analyzing…
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Beyond Paris: The Palaiseau Campus at Paris Saclay
IntroductionResearch on strategies for new campuses in the Paris region continues in this third studio on the subject. The growth of metropolitan Paris beyond its…
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Architectural Design V – IX: Urban Design Studio “Contested Waters, Mumbai”
Option studion in Zurich, ETH.
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Responsive Environments
Digitally driven interactive experiences have become an extension of our bodies that extend into our environment. The design of these experiences is often derived by…
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Intermediate Landscape as Digital Media
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…
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Immersive Environments II
This seminar is part two of GSD 2319 / Immersive Environments – an advanced digital media seminar focusing on the design and representation of integrated…
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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 the…
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Conversations on architecture of the second half of the XXth century
Professor: Jose Rafael Moneo with invited guest: Peter EisenmanLast year this lecture course was an attempt to reflect on the \”underground currents that inform…
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The Function of Style
The \”generic city\” of the late 20th century, which was defined by senselessness and anonymity, has given way to a new type of urbanism. Whether…
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Light and Space: Experiments in Transforming the Photosphere
This course will have two primary focuses. The first will be on the experimental manipulation of materials and the environment with a view to understanding…
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The Architectural Imagination (Graduate Seminar in General Education)
K. Michael Hays, Erika Naginski
This course is a Graduate Seminar in General Education. We seek graduate students, especially doctoral students, from departments across the University. In the seminar, we…
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Transformations in Spatial Thought: 1970-2000
The ideas of three theorist-historians dominated architectural thought through the postwar mid-century: those of Colin Rowe, Aldo Rossi, and Manfredo Tafuri. At some point in…
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The Mixed-Reality City
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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The Beginnings of a Project: A Reflection on Design Methodologies Through Four Case Studies.
To look at the inception of a project, at the inputs that were at the beginning of a building\’s design, leads immediately to question issues…
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Critical History: Curating Images, Objects, Media
Jeffrey Schnapp, Peter Galison
This class will take place in the Science Center room 469.Critical History is an experimental seminar dedicated to bridging the worlds of media and things,…
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PhD Methodology Seminar
The seminar is designed as an introduction to the methodologies and disciplines that have shaped the field of architectural history and theory. We will probe…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
Introduces the formulation of architectural principles – what Rudolf Wittkower called the \’apparatus of forms\’ – by means of selected case studies from Brunelleschi to…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
Nineteenth-century architecture is a difficult subject in a design school. Its aesthetics is in sharp contrast to the contemporary quest for authenticity. Although today\’s architectural…
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Rome and St. Peter’s
The art and architecture of Rome from Antiquity to Modernity with particular attention to the Vatican, where the layering of material artifacts from successive historical…
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Michelangelo: Precedents, Innovations, Influence
An exploration of Italian Renaissance and Baroque architecture and urbanism through the persona of Michelangelo as witness, agent, and inspiration. We look at architecture and…
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Beginnings of Architecture
K. Michael Hays, Antoine Picon
This is an intensive reading and discussion seminar for the theoretically ambitious, or, if not ambitious, at least curious and brave. Drawing on a range…
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The Shapes of Utopia
\’you speak of that city of which we are the founders, and which exists in idea only, for I do not think there is such…
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Personifications of Modernism: Philip Johnson
The progress of modern architecture has been accompanied by a dependence upon personifications, while the critique of modern architecture has been no less committed to…
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Analysis and Design of Building Structures II
A continuation of GSD 6201, this course provides students with an enhanced understanding of structural analysis and engineering design concepts. Students learn the fundamentals of…
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Materials, Constructions, Processes: City of Wood
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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Innovative Construction in Japan
Modern Japanese architecture has been much admired in the West for its attention to materials, its refined construction details, and its ability to integrate traditional…
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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 Design…
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Building Information Models
This seminar course explores the Building Information Model (BIM) and its impact on business processes, production, and software environments (e.g., Revit, Digital Project). With the…
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Day-Lighting Buildings
The primary focus of this course is the study of natural and electric lighting in an architectural context. The course promotes the integration of occupant…
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Sentient Cities as Cybernetic, Real-time, Control Systems : Theory and Practice of Urban Sensing_
A sensationalist approach can be applied to cities as cybernetic mechanisms which is the focus of this course on Sentient Cities as Cybernetic, Real-time, Control…
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Towards a Sustainable Infrastructure
Spiro Pollalis, Andreas Georgoulias
This limited-enrollment seminar focuses on the development of a working framework for sustainable infrastructure systems. The course will start with a mapping of the different…
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Sustainability
Erik Olsen and Matthias Rudolph from Transsolar will teach instead of Matthias Schuler in Spring 2011. Prerequisite: GSD 6205 or equivalentCourse description:Based on basic information…
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