Courses
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Optimizations
The optimization in design problems is elusive due to the inherent multiplicity and ambiguity of the optimal for real world problems. However partial optimization of…
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Performance Domains
In this course students will be required to design an environment related to a particular temporal event such as a segment of a dance or…
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Special Offerings in Science and Technology
Computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) techniques have long been a critical component of the GSD culture. Building on methods and capabilities developed in GSD 6317…
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Issues in Architectural Practice and Ethics
Jay Wickersham, Maryann Thompson
This course, for students in the fourth semester of the MArchI program, raises basic issues arising in contemporary architectural practice. The course challenges the students…
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Business Strategy, Economics, and Sustainability
This course aims to equip students with strategy and economic tools to be effective leaders of firms in the built environment. The primary topics covered…
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Real Estate Development, Design, and Construction
A. Eugene Kohn, John Macomber, Christopher Gordon
Jointly Listed at Harvard Business School as HBS 1465This course has an irregular schedule: Most Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays on HBS calendar, 1:30 – 2:50 pm,…
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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 like…
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Baku: Oil City
Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, formerly part of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, is now one of the most dynamic and rapidly changing urban…
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RESONANCE II: Portable Concert Hall for Phillip Glass:
Note: Participation in Professor Mori\’s fall 2010 course is a prerequisite. Contact Professor Mori for additional information. This independent research seminar is a three semester…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Richard Peiser, Erik Olsen, Panagiotis Michalatos, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Herbert Dreiseitl, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, Michael Hooper, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, A. Hashim Sarkis, Niall Kirkwood, Peter Del Tredici, Mark Mulligan, Anne McGhee, Jorge Silvetti, James Stockard, K. Michael Hays, Gary R. Hilderbrand, Nicolas Retsinas, Bing Wang, Felipe Correa, John Macomber, Sanford Kwinter, Rafael Segal, Gareth Doherty, Eric Belsky, Richard Jennings, Andreas Georgoulias, Christian Werthmann, Timothy Hyde, Judith Grant Long, Christoph Reinhart, Ciro Najle, Frank Apeseche, David Mah, Leire Asensio Villoria
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, Danielle Etzler, Florian Idenburg, Eric Howeler, Ingeborg Rocker, A. Hashim Sarkis, Mark Mulligan, Jorge Silvetti, Jonathan Levi, Toshiko Mori, Mack Scogin, Preston Scott Cohen, Martin Bechthold, John Hong, Cameron Wu, Eve Blau, Antoine Picon, Rafael Segal, 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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Independent Thesis for the Degree Master in Design Studies
A. Hashim Sarkis, K. Michael Hays, Martin Bechthold, Michael Schroeder, Bing Wang, Sanford Kwinter, Eric Belsky, Charles Waldheim, Timothy Hyde, Christoph Reinhart, Erika Naginski, Jeffrey Schnapp, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, Leire Asensio Villoria, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Panagiotis Michalatos
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First Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Preston Scott Cohen, Anna Pla Catala, Elizabeth Whittaker, Cameron Wu, Michael Wang, Ingeborg Rocker
Prerequisites: Enrollment in MArch I program or permission of the program director.The first of a four-semester sequence of design studios introduces students to the practice…
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Third Semester Core: Architectural Design
Jonathan Levi, Maryann Thompson, Eric Howeler, Mariana Ibanez, Florian Idenburg, Danielle Etzler
Prerequisites: GSD 1101 and GSD 1102, or advanced standing in the MArch I program. The third of a four-semester sequence of design studios brings together…
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RioStudio
The Graduate School of Design vs. Business School Studio aims to combine the creative experimentation of the designers with the rigorous number crunching of the…
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Global Redesign Project 2. Resonance: Virtual and Real: Design of a Performing Arts Center
GLOBAL REDESIGN PROJECT 2: RESONANCE: VIRTUAL AND REAL: DESIGN OF A PERFORMANCE ART CENTER SYLLABUS GLOBAL REDESIGN PROJECT 2: RESONANCE: VIRTUAL AND REAL: DESIGN OF…
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Dense + Green
In the context of today\’s debates on sustainable approaches for high density cities, contemporary architectural practice increasingly seeks new possibilities for integrating green spaces in…
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Rising Mass 2
Halfway between today\’s dominant discourse of programmatic freedom and the alleged over-determination of pure form-making, this studio celebrate architecture\’s ongoing critical return to form. Our…
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FORMAGRAPHICS
For centuries used as a fundamental form of geometric rationality, and perhaps now used as a reaction to the various types of topological / fluid…
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Performative Wood: Integral Design Computation and Materialization
Today, thanks in part to the new theories of self-organization that have revealed the potential complexity of behaviour of even the humbler forms of matter-energy,…
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Geography of a Bridge: Reconfiguring Istanbul¿s Ataturk Kopru across the Golden Horn
The studio aims to unlock the architectural potential of an infrastructural element by reconfiguring its status between system and object. The site is the foot…
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London: A Particular Proposition
The Studio will look at London, a city where design ingenuity has been nurtured by the unpromising parameters of layered historic regulation, international trade and…
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Dense Structure- Stressed Structures: Institute for Innovation in Infrastructure, Madrid, Spain
The city of Madrid is undergoing today one of its most important urban and infrastructural challenges; the burying of the M-30 ring highway has recovered…
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Poseidon’s Temple: Vessels, Membranes, and Urban Archipelagos
This studio will investigate a Mid-American city as it transitions from post-industrial decline, towards a new, water-based urbanism. Can its architecture and remnant infrastructure be…
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Architecture, In Extremes: A Spa in Wadi Rum, Jordan
The project is a Spa Resort located in Wadi Rum, which is one of the most important natural history sites in Jordan. Wadi Rum is…
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Visual Studies
This course cultivates the ability to draw by hand and encourages you to incorporate hand drawing into your design process. Each session includes a lecture…
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Projective Representation in Architecture
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…
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Digital Media I
Christopher Hoxie, Andrew Witt
Topics in Parametric and Generative Geometry and ModelingThis class explores the design and science of logical form making, examined through geometry, parametric control, algorithms, and…
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Immersive Environments
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…
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Augmented Architecture
Note: This course will meet in the Project Room on the days listed below. This course focuses on the idea that spatial experience can be…
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Superficial Spaces
At a time when architectural discourse and practice are brimming with references to new geometries, this offering investigates the architectural potential of abstract three-dimensional surfaces.
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Communicating Architecture, The Architect as Author and Editor
The Course will introduce students to the potentials of the book as a medium for the communication of architecture. Editorial conditions and design rules have…
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Interrogative Design: Projection/Instillation/InterventionInterrogative Design: Projection/Instillation/Intervention
Interrogative Design Workshop:Projection / Installation / InterventionInterrogative Design Workshop will be offered as a part of new program in Art Design and the Public Domain.
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Art, Design and the Public Domain
With the beginning of this academic year GSD is introducing a program in Art Design and the Public Domain. This seminar is intended to become…
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Media Archaeology of Place
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Jesse Shapins, Ernst Karel
Combining media art practice with critical inquiry and ethnographic research, Boston and other sites serve as laboratories for exploring different modes of representing place. Films,…
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Global Redesign Project
Architects as agents of change in a globally interconnected world is the theme of inquiry for this seminar. It is not a coincidence that we…
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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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Critical Preservation Practices
This seminar combines theoretical readings from the history of preservation and conservation in architecture with presentations of contemporary cases of architectural, landscape, and urban conservation…
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The Moment of the Monument
Built around two practica–involving the \”excavation\” of an existing monument and the design of a future monument–the course examines the rise and fall of the…
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MArch II Proseminar
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.
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
K. Michael Hays, Erika Naginski
The two-module sequence 4201-4202 will be taught as a single semester- long course for Fall 2010. This course is structured as a dialogue between historical…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
K. Michael Hays, Erika Naginski
The two-module sequence 4201-4202 will be taught as a single semester- long course for Fall 2009. This course is structured as a dialogue between historical…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
This module is concerned with the pluralism of modernity in the first half of the 20th century; with the many different conceptions of both the…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
The atomic bomb, spring break, existentialism, jet travel, the polio vaccine, India and Pakistan, the transistor radio, abstract expressionism, LSD, the United Nations, ISO containers,…
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Authority and Invention: Medieval Art and Architecture
Masterworks of art and architecture in Western Europe from the decline of Rome to the dawn of the Italian Renaissance (300 to 1300 A.D.). The…
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