Courses
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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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Visual Fabrics: Film, Fashion and Material Culture
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…
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Architecture, Science and Technology, XVIIIth Century-Present
Since the first industrial revolution, science and technology have constantly challenged architecture. Technology in particular has represented a powerful source of change for architecture. New…
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Transparency
The concept of transparency is critical not only to understanding 20th century modernism, but also to engaging current architectural concerns with mediation, density, surface, light,…
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Hub of the Universe: Boston in the Gilded Age
An exploration of the architectural and urban development of Boston from its founding in 1630 to the First World War with emphasis on the Gilded…
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Histories of the Future
Design (of buildings, cities, landscapes) is an anticipatory discipline, whose techniques, practices, and desires are directed toward the formulation of futures. Not future objects as…
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The Poetics of Materials (episodes in the cultural history of modern making)
The Spectacle Factory examines the modern history of immersive theater, entertainment, and media spaces from the standpoint of the history of architecture and design. It…
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Adolf Loos, Our Contemporary
This year we will be celebrating 100 years to the Loos House in Vienna. This seminar set about to trace the impact of Adolf Loos\’s…
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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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Science and Technology
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 will be the study of the thermal, luminous and acoustic behavior of buildings in an architectural context. The course…
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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
Andreas Georgoulias, Hanif Kara
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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Sustainability
Please note, this course has an irregular schedule. See below.Sustainability – an integrated design approach in combination with your studio or research projectMatthias Schuler…
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Construction Automation
This advanced, research-based seminar investigates opportunities and challenges of automation in the context of architecture and architectural products. An extension of research on computer-aided design…
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Thermal Analysis of Buildings
Prerequisites: 6205 or equivalent; access to a newer laptop, working knowledge in Rhino and Ecotect Weather ToolThis seminar will introduce students to manual and computer-based…
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The DIGITAL CRAFT
Away from autonomous production, anonymous materials, scripted space and a no-hands approach, this course will explore the potentials of digital fabrication techniques towards end-user products…
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Issues in the Practice of Architecture
Maryann Thompson, Jay Wickersham
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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The Bilbao Guggenhein Museum: Topics in Project Management
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…
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Strategy, Sustainability, and Finance
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…
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Real Estate Development, Design, and Construction
Schedule: Thursdays and Fridays, 1:30 – 2:50 pm (also select Wednesdays: Feb 24, Mar 10, Mar 31, Apr 28)Aldrich Hall, Harvard Business SchoolThis course focuses…
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Integrated Project Delivery
Lecture course for 4 credits on Integrated Practice and Integrated Project Delivery. Pedagogical objectives include the broad survey and introduction to various collaborative approaches to…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Maryann Thompson, David Leatherbarrow, Erika Naginski, Andreas Georgoulias, Richard Jennings, Eric Belsky, Sanford Kwinter, Bing Wang, Joan Busquets, Holly Clarke, K. Michael Hays, Kenneth Kao, John Beardsley, Anne McGhee, Stephen Ervin, Peter Del Tredici, Niall Kirkwood, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, Richard Peiser, Judith Grant Long, Pierre Bélanger
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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Rethinking a Library and a YMCA: the case of Warrensville Heights
Peter Rowe, Iñaki Abalos, Felipe Correa, Spiro Pollalis, Andreas Georgoulias, Brian Kenet, William Valentine
The research seminar in the Fall 2009, entitled: 9206A: Toward Socially-inclusive Sustainable Development has produced the master plan for 17 vacant acres located at the…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree MArch
Maryann Thompson, Danielle Etzler, Mariana Ibanez, Eric Howeler, Ingeborg Rocker, Mark Mulligan, Jonathan Levi, Peter Rowe, Toshiko Mori, Preston Scott Cohen, John Hong, Thomas Schroepfer, 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
Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, Spiro Pollalis, Martin Bechthold, Allen Sayegh, Antoine Picon, Sanford Kwinter, Mariana Ibanez
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…
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Preparation of Doctoral Thesis Proposal
Richard Peiser, A. Hashim Sarkis, Peter Rowe, K. Michael Hays, Martin Bechthold, Antoine Picon, Kostas Terzidis, Christoph Reinhart
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
A. Hashim Sarkis, Peter Rowe, Kostas Terzidis, Judith Grant Long
Under guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.
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Thesis Extension in Satisfaction of the Degree Master in Architecture
Thesis Extension…
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First Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Preston Scott Cohen, Elizabeth Whittaker, Cameron Wu, Ingeborg Rocker, Eric Howeler, Danielle Etzler, Yael Erel
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, John Hong, Timothy Hyde, Mariana Ibanez, Florian Idenburg, Nathaniel Belcher
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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Computational Design and Material GestaltPerformative Wood: Reciprocities of Form, Material, Structure and Environment
\”The manifest form – that which appears – is the result of a computational interaction between internal rules and external (morphogenetic) pressures that, themselves, originate…
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Toward an Industrial Ecology for New Caofeidian
AN INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY FOR NEW CAOFEIDIAN Professor: Nanako Umemoto [email protected] Teaching Associate: Neil Cook [email protected]: A Chinese model of development? \”China can no…
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Global Redesign Project I: Le Kinkeliba
OVERVIEW Le Kinkeliba is a small but highly successful bottom-up medical and educational NGO aid organization founded in 1995 by Dr. Gilles Degois of Paris.
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TB Clinics and Research Laboratories in Ethiopia
Rose Option Studio, Fall 2009TB Clinics and Research Laboratories in EthiopiaPROJECTThe Studio Project will be in two parts: a central TB Clinic and Research Laboratory…
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Inventing Architecture
I n G e n e r a lOur goal is to work with an idea. What is a project about? What is the idea…
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Mies Immersion
Mies ImmersionThe Performance ShedMies\’s work had an essence of formlessness, amorphousness, nothingness, perversion and anxiety behind a stealth shield of serenityRem KoolhaasI am, in fact,…
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Reticulated Form II: Airport Terminus in Bucharest
Reticulated Form II: Airport Terminus in BucharestThis research and design studio is the second in a series that focuses on parametric explorations of reticulation: division,…
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Detournement
D\’tournement1. PresentationThe colonization of the Chilean desert, located between the 20th and 30th southern parallels, is historically connected with mining, shepherding communities and exchange dynamics…
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The Urban Theater
The Urban Theater Gordon Kipping with Maria Stefanidis Urban public space is idealized in the public square. Typically bounded by buildings that possess some civic…
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The New Gate: Public Space, Infrastructure, and the Re-Orientation of Historic Istanbul
Istanbul Re-Oriented: Over the past four decades, the city of Istanbul has grown away from the congestion of its historic center towards its vast metropolitan…
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Mediums
Are you tired of ____?If you answered yes to this question, keep reading.It could be said that avant-garde production works according to this formula: Medium…
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Visual Studies
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…
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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…
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Drawing in the City of Rome
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…
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Sculpting in Motion
Computer Graphics have opened up unprecedented ways of form making and animation. This unfolding universe of visual inputs that is based on complex geometries and…
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Immersive Environments
Immersive EnvironmentsThis course seeks to posit the role of digital media within the broader context of digital practice and to examine generative capacities of the…
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