Visual Fabrics: Film, Fashion and Material Culture

Giuliana Bruno

Explores the common language of film and fashion, both powerful image makers and objects of material culture. Film and fashion share a role with architecture…

Paris: The Growth of a Modern Metropolis

Antoine Picon, Neil Levine

This seminar examines the role Paris has played in the birth and development of the idea of the modern city as seen through the multiple…

Hub of the Universe: Boston in the Gilded Age

Christine Smith

In 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes described Boston\’s State House as the \”hub of the solar system\” : the exact center of the universe was marked…

Versailles to the Visionaries

Erika Naginski

A course on architectural theory and achievement in France in the 17th and 18th centuries. While we will proceed chronologically from the reign of Louis…

The Piranesi Effect

Erika Naginski

The Piranesi EffectThis seminar will focus on the work and legacy of the architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). A selective approach to relevant aspects of…

Analysis and Design of Building Structures II

Martin Bechthold

A continuation of GSD 6201, this course introduces more advanced topics such as funicular systems, statically indeterminate structures, pre-stressing as well as surface structures. Specifically,…

Science and Technology

Jonathan Levi, Eric Howeler

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…

Environmental Technologies in Buildings

Christoph Reinhart

The primary focus of this course will be the study of the thermal, luminous and acoustic behavior of buildings in an architectural context. The course…

Innovative Construction in Japan

Mark Mulligan

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…

In Search of the Engineer

Hanif Kara, Andreas Georgoulias

Course DescriptionGSD:6328 aims to redefine the conventional boundaries between architecture and structural engineering through the paradigm of Design Engineering. Students will be exposed to a…

Building Information Models

Michael Schroeder

This seminar course explores Building Information Models (BIM), business processes, applications and environments (e.g., Revit). These environments are quickly being adopted throughout the building industry…

Green R+D: Case Studies in Sustainability

Kenneth Kao

This class provides a forum for the investigation of advances in the design of green buildings, components, and assemblies. Design pull, the push of technology,…

Sustainability

Matthias Schuler

Please note, this course has an irregular schedule. See below.Sustainability – an integrated design approach in combination with your studio or research projectMatthias Schuler…

Construction Automation

Martin Bechthold

Construction AutomationPrerequisites: CAD/CAM 1 or permission of instructorOffered only for the second time this year, this advanced seminar introduces students to emerging technologies under the…

Issues in the Practice of Architecture

Jay Wickersham, Maryann Thompson, Carl Sapers

This course, for students in the fourth semester of the MArch I program, introduces basic issues in practice and the profession of architecture, challenging the…

The Bilbao Guggenhein Museum: Topics in Project Management

Spiro Pollalis, Luis Rodriguez

The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao has had an unprecedented impact not only on the city of Bilbao but also on the value of design and…

Strategy, Sustainability, and Finance

John Macomber

The primary topics covered in this course are business strategy, sustainability in the built environment, and economic analysis of choices in sustainability and strategy. The…

Managing the Design Project

Richard Jennings

The pedagogical objectives of this lecture course, which covers the management of design projects, include: introduction to design project management and leadership, design services delivery,…

Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees

Paula Meijerink, Brent Ryan, Christoph Reinhart, Susan Fainstein, Lluis Ortega, Christian Werthmann, Kostas Terzidis, Sanford Kwinter, Antoine Picon, Daniel Lopez-Perez, Felipe Correa, Margaret Crawford, Marco Cenzatti, Martin Zogran, Bing Wang, Martin Bechthold, Joan Busquets, Niall Kirkwood, Peter Del Tredici, Rodolfo Machado, Stephen Ervin, Anne McGhee, T. Kelly Wilson, John Beardsley, Gary R. Hilderbrand, Judith Grant Long, Andreas Georgoulias

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…

Prep of Design Thesis Proposal for MArch

Timothy Hyde

Prerequisites: Graduate standing and permission of the thesis program director.This entails preparatory work for all students intending subsequently to enroll in GSD 9301. Students research…

Exhibiting the Virtual Space

Judith Grant Long, Niall Kirkwood, Spiro Pollalis, Nazneen Cooper, Wooyoung Kimm

The Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ) is organizing an international fair for the summer of 2009, expecting to attract many visitors from all over the…

Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree MArch

Maryann Thompson, Mariana Ibanez, Lluis Ortega, Eric Howeler, Ingeborg Rocker, Mark Mulligan, Andrea Leers, T. Kelly Wilson, Jorge Silvetti, Peter Rose, Jonathan Levi, Peter Rowe, K. Michael Hays, Preston Scott Cohen, Joan Busquets, Martin Bechthold, John Hong, Michael Meredith, Thomas Schroepfer, Martin Zogran, Joseph MacDonald, Marco Cenzatti, Margaret Crawford, Eve Blau, Felipe Correa, Antoine Picon, Kostas Terzidis, Timothy Hyde

Following preparation in GSD 9203, each student conducts a design exploration that tests and expands the thesis.Prerequisites: GSD 9203…

Independent Thesis for the Degree Master in Design Studies

K. Michael Hays, Martin Bechthold, Allen Sayegh, Eve Blau, Kostas Terzidis, Christoph Reinhart

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…

Preparation of Doctoral Thesis Proposal

A. Hashim Sarkis, Niall Kirkwood, Margaret Crawford, Kostas Terzidis, Judith Grant Long

Under faculty guidance, the student conducts a reading program and formulates a thesis proposal. The course is intended for doctoral students.

Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Doctor of Design

Martin Bechthold, Margaret Crawford, Antoine Picon, Kostas Terzidis, Richard Peiser, Daniel Schodek, A. Hashim Sarkis, Niall Kirkwood, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, Joan Busquets, Robert France

Thesis Extension in Satisfaction of the Degree Master in Architecture

Thesis Extension…

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

Preston Scott Cohen, Daniel Lopez-Perez, Ingeborg Rocker, Eric Howeler, Lluis Ortega, Mariana Ibanez, Paul Andersen

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…

Third Semester Core: Architectural Design

Jonathan Levi, Laura Miller, Peter Rose, John Hong, Timothy Hyde, Florian Idenburg

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…

Back to Maddalena

Stefano Boeri, Paolo Bercah

Please note the course schedule below.Stefano Boeri + conrad-bercahBACK TO MADDALENAa tourist epicenter for the young at the ex US Navy base after the 2009…

Crossing: Border Station Studio

Julie Snow

Crossing: Border Station Studio The US General Services Administration has a mandate to accelerate the delivery of new border stations along the US borders with…

The GINA Studio

Frank Barkow, Christopher Bangle

The GINA Studio.Harvard University 2008.Body WorkGINA – is an acronym for a formal and functional design philosophy based on an emerging technology developed by engineers…

Cleverage: finding and exploiting loopholes for architectural advantage

Wes Jones

Cleverage: finding and exploiting loopholes for architectural advantage The term \”cleverage\” comes from the idea of \”leveraging\” \”cleverness\” to achieve uncommon effects and open…

Desert Islands

Michael Meredith

First, it is true that from the deserted island it is not creation but re-creation, not the beginning, but a re-beginning that takes place. The…

Rising Mass: Tall Cultivars For a Fast-Sprouting Type

George L. Legendre

Rising Mass: Tall Cultivars For a Fast-Sprouting TypeAs a Matter of Pure FormHalfway between today\’s dominant discourse of programmatic freedom and the alleged over-determination of…

Reticulated Form: United States Air Force Academy

Joseph MacDonald

RETICULATED FORM:UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY Today an architect must operate as a force of organization, a fulcrum from which new questions are asked and…

UNAM de CENTRAL LIBRARY

Mimi Hatram Hoang, Mahadev Raman, Eric Bunge, Paul Kassabian

UNAM deCENTRAL LIBRARY _Integrated StudioSynopsis: This architecture design studio will use The National Autonomous University of Mexico\’s (UNAM\’s) campus in Mexico City as a site…

The Overskyscraper

Ciro Najle

high speciesTHE OVERSKYSCRAPERUBIQUITOUS TOWER COLLECTIVESSkyscraper cities, tower agglomerations and tower clusters, airport hub cities, waterfront developments, mixed-use developments, high-rise housing developments, high-rise condominiums, luxury residential…

CONNECTED ISOLATION: Designing Architecture and Territory in the Galapagos Islands

Maryann Thompson

The Galapagos Archipelago is renown for having the unique ecology that led Charles Darwin to describe the mechanisms of natural selection. Its islands are interconnected…

Visual Studies

T. Kelly Wilson

This course emphasizes the construction of space on the two-dimensional surface by way of freehand drawing. In-class visual exercises identify key concepts in the construction…

Projective Representation in Architecture

Preston Scott Cohen, Cameron Wu

Historically, certain kinds of reciprocity between geometry and architecture have been used to bring about rational causes and practical means of formal innovation. Today, the…

Drawing in the City of Rome

T. Kelly Wilson

Kinetic Architecture

Kostas Terzidis

In architecture, the notion of motion is often represented as an abstract formal configuration that implies relationships of cause and effect. Deformation, juxtaposition, superimposition, absence,…

Sculpting in Motion

Allen Sayegh

Prerequisites: GSD 2107 or equivalent.Computer Graphics have opened up unprecedented ways of form making and animation. This unfolding universe of visual inputs that is based…

Algorithmic Architecture

Kostas Terzidis

As architecture enters the new era of digital representation, geometrical theories and processes are being implemented, tested, and pushed to their limits. Recent theories of…

Immersive Environments

Christopher Hoxie

Over the past 15 years several areas of research within digital practice have evolved into their own disciplinary areas of knowledge – from prototyping and…

Superficial Spaces

George L. Legendre

At a time when architectural discourse and practice are still brimming with references to new geometries, this course investigates the architectural potential of three-dimensional surfaces.

Architecture and Art: From Robert Smithson to the emerging `New Synthesis¿

Sanford Kwinter

Since the first announcements of the \’demise\’ of painting in the post-Abstract Expressionist era, art has consistently sought to radicalize its practice by upending the…

Part Animal: Forms of Architecture, Forms of Life

Catherine Ingraham

A point of stability, a circle of property, and an opening to the outside –these are the three aspects of the refrain. — DeleuzeDifferentiation in…

The Architecture of Mobility: Desiging for the Mobile Subject

Max Hirsh

The Architecture of Mobility: Designing for the Mobile SubjectMax HirshThis course interrogates the relationship between architecture practice and mobility and examines architectural strategies that address…

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.