The Anxiety of Difference

Mack Scogin

\”In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.\”— Emerson The studio…

Stubborn Urbanism

Preston Scott Cohen

With the intention to develop alternative strategies for densification within diverse urban districts, this studio will investigate various design techniques for the production of urban…

Beyond Paris: A New University Campus at Aubervilliers

Andrea Leers

The physical, political, and social boundary of Paris, unchanged for nearly 150 years and delineated today by the ring road- the \”Peripherique\” – has insured…

Stimulus Package: Post-Crisis Urbanism and Architecture

Shohei Shigematsu

STIMULUS PACKAGEPost-Crisis Urbanism and ArchitectureRecent events – the widespread collapse of the world\’s financial systems, the continued rise in unemployment, the extensive federal bailout program…

Digital Design: Algorithms and Scripts

Kostas Terzidis

Digital Design: Algorithms and Scripts Course Objectives and OutcomesThe course aims at investigating and exploring the systems, processes, and techniques of computational design in the…

Interactive Spaces

Allen Sayegh

This course provides the framework for the design of advanced spatial interactivity on the Internet. By rethinking the relation between information and space, the course…

Cinematic Architecture

Kostas Terzidis, Allen Sayegh

This course focuses on the idea that architecture can be conceived, understood, and presented as a narrative (i.e. a story about a building). Similar to…

Building Books

Lars Muller

Please note, this course has an irregular schedule. See below.The course will introduce students to the potentials of the book as amedium for the…

iTimeLightSpace: Architecture/Landscape Animation/Invention

T. Kelly Wilson, Stephen Ervin

iTimeLightSpace: Architecture/Landscape Animation/InventionCritics: Adjunct Associate Prof. T. Kelly Wilson Director of Digital Resources, Stephen ErvinThis cross disciplinary seminar, which will meet once a week, will…

Behind Today’s Architectural Trends

Rafael Moneo

Please note, this course has an irregular schedule. See below.This lecture course will follow the latest episodes in contemporary architecture. The development of a…

The Architectural Imaginary: Experimental Architecture of the 1970s

K. Michael Hays

Prerequisites: GSD 4201-4206 or equivalent or post-professional-degree status (MArch 2, MDesS, etc). This course examines selected architecture practices and projects in the expanded decade of…

Digitalization Takes Command

Lluis Ortega

This course will critically survey the claims made since the introduction of digital technology to the discipline and practice of architecture and evaluate them in…

Digital Culture: Architecture and Cities

Antoine Picon

The rise of digital culture has coincided with a profound change in architecture that goes beyond the spectacular forms produced with the help of the…

Tracing Mobilities – Designing Ubiquities

Jan Jungclaus, Dido Tsigaridi

Tracing Mobilities — Designing UbiquitiesHuman activities are increasingly conducted while people are \”on the move.\” Mobility is the coordination in time and space, with impact…

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…

Frames of Mind: Approaches to Film Theory

Giuliana Bruno

Introduction to the language of film theory aimed at developing analytic skills to interpret films. Historical survey of classical and contemporary theory beginning with turn-of-the-century…

Buildings, Texts, and Contexts

Antoine Picon

Charts the emergence of rationalism and neo-classicism, as well as the impact of the industrialization, professionalization, and institutionalization of architecture and urbanism.

Buildings, Texts, and Contexts

Eve Blau

Focuses on modernisms -its codification, representation, and dissemination -and emphasizes its multiple political, social, and cultural dimensions.Focuses on modernisms -its codification, representation, and dissemination -and…

Rome and St. Peter’s

Christine Smith

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…

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…