Migrating Coastlines: Emergent TranFORMations for Dubai, U.A.E.

Ali Rahim

Emergent TransFORMationsToday\’s emergent digital techniques allow us to deal with the full complexity of material systems, by offering the tools to create effects that exceed…

Individual/Serial: A New Architecture for NYC Parks

Stephen Cassell

How does one create a new architecture for New York City\’s public parks? There are over 1,700 parks located on over 27,000 acres of parkland…

LUNIT

Nader Tehrani

MISSIONAs a solution to current economic and social concerns existing in the housing industry, (i.e. affordability, sustainability and individual customization), the LUNIT Project has been…

The Search for a Modern Monumentality: Master Plan and Design for the New Paris Courthouse

Andrea Leers

The subject of this studio will be the master plan and design of the new Paris Courthouse at the center of the city. In this…

Steer a million people per day. Beyoglu, Istanbul

Han Tumertekin

Steer a million people per day. Beyoglu, IstanbulThe studio will explore global scenarios for Istanbul and offer a concrete intervention to the specifities of a…

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

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…

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

Computer Graphics have opened up unprecedented ways of form making and animation. This unfolding new universe of visual stimuli that is based on complex geometry…

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…

Product Design: Industrial Design

Marco Steinberg

This first lecture module focuses on the historical aspect of product design. It seeks to evaluate the legacies of the practice by examining specific case…

Product Design: Industrial Design

Marco Steinberg

Following up on 2315-M1, this second module focuses on contemporary issues of product design. We will examine emerging technologies, design opportunities, and the interrelation between…

Elegance in Architecture

Ali Rahim

This seminar will explore systemic thinking and digital design techniquesthat yield elegant architectural forms. The last thirteen years in digital design and fabrication have given…

Current Architecture as Cultural Discourse

K. Michael Hays

\”In fact it is only the ideal soul of society, that which has authority to command and prohibit, that is expressed in architectural compositions properly…

The Ideology of the Map

Winifred Newman

Mapping reveals the complex relationship between representation and thinking, technology, culture and aesthetic practices. Embedded in the procedure are the general terms of cartography and…

Out of the Box

Michael Meredith

Research for an upcoming exhibition, we will be looking at the work by a handful of architects who graduated from the GSD in the 40s…

MArch II Proseminar

Jorge Silvetti

This course provides a forum for critical discussion of contemporary design practices that is exploratory and speculative in nature. The course emphasizes collaborative thinking and…

Buildings, Texts, and Contexts

K. Michael Hays

This course presents a selected range of concepts developed by philosophers, historians, and theorists to explain the production and experience of architecture, and the historical…

Buildings, Texts, and Contexts

Daniel Sherer

Explores the aims and methods of Architectural History through the paradigm of Classicism. Considers the relation of theory to the history of theory, of theory…

Buildings, Texts, and Contexts

Timothy Hyde

The atomic bomb, spring break, jet travel, existentialism, the polio vaccine, India and Pakistan, abstract expressionism, ISO containers, the transistor radio, LSD, the United Nations,…

Buildings, Texts, and Contexts

K. Michael Hays

Introduces the primarily textual material that has constituted architectural discourse from the 1960s to the present, including such topics as representation, realism, and event-structure in…

Architecture, Science and Technology, XVIIIth Century-Present

Antoine Picon

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…

Situating the Modern

Sibel Bozdo??an

From National Romanticism to Critical Regionalism, architecture\’s ability to evoke a sense of place, locality or identity has been valued as a form of resistance…

Paris and the Idea of the Modern City

Neil Levine, Antoine Picon

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…

Outside the Canon: Revisionist Readings of Aalto

Kari Jormakka

OUTSIDE THE CANONRevisionist readings of Alvar AaltoProclaiming that \”God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is an abuse of…

Proseminar in History, Theory and Urban Studies

K. Michael Hays, Eve Blau

This research seminar addresses subjects of history, theory and human sciences related to architecture and the city for students preparing for or enrolled in doctoral…

Materials and Construction: An Introduction to Techniques, Composition and Strategies

Thomas Schroepfer, Toshiko Mori

This module introduces students to the role of materials and fabrication in architecture. Properties and principles of materials are discussed in a comprehensive manner involving…

Energy, Technology and Building

Naree Phinyawatana

This lecture course introduces students to energy and environmental issues, particularly those that must be faced by the discipline of architecture. An overview of the…

Analysis and Design of Building Structures I

Mark Cruvellier

The course introduces students to the analysis and design of structural elements and systems. The fundamental principles of statics and equilibrium are considered first, followed…

Building Technology

Mark Mulligan

As the final component in the required sequence of technology courses, this professionally oriented course develops an integral understanding of the design and construction of…

CAD/CAM 1: Introduction to applications in Architecture

Martin Bechthold

This course teaches the fundamentals of computer-aided design and manufacturing (cad/cam), with a focus on applications in architecture. The core question will be how component…

Design Research Methods

Kostas Terzidis

The purpose of this seminar is to guide doctoral students in the development and preparation of their research proposals. First, it will expose students to…

Leading the Design Firm

Spiro Pollalis

This course is co-taught by Prof. Spiro Pollalis and Brian Kenet.This course introduces GSD students to the business side of the industry from the perspective…

Architectural Specifications

Mark Kalin

Architectural specifications are essential to the realization of the project design. While drawings communicate form and quantity, specifications communicate materials and quality. The primary goals…

From Concept to Implementation

Spiro Pollalis

This course focuses on the organizational and managerial issues to carry an architectural design from concept to implementation. Centering on the needs of the owner,…

Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees

James Kostaras, Scheri Fultineer, Daniel Schodek, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, A. Hashim Sarkis, Richard Sommer, Mark Mulligan, Stephen Ervin, Anne McGhee, Jorge Silvetti, John Beardsley, Leland Cott, Sibel Bozdo??an, Holly Clarke, Preston Scott Cohen, Joan Busquets, Michael Meredith, Allen Sayegh, Eve Blau, Kostas Terzidis, Susan Fainstein

Candidates may arrange individual work focusing on subjects or issues that are of interest to them but are not available through regularly offered course work.

Prep of Design Thesis Proposal for MArch

Toshiko Mori, Pierre de Meuron, Jacques Herzog

This entails preparatory work for all students intending subsequently to enroll in GSD 9301. Students research thesis proposals for review and acceptance by faculty.Prerequisites: Graduate…

Venice Biennale Seminar

Margaret Crawford, Joan Busquets, Farshid Moussavi, Michael Kubo, Felipe Correa

Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree MArch

Monica Ponce de Leon, Laura Miller, Maryann Thompson, Ingeborg Rocker, Marco Steinberg, Martin Bechthold, Preston Scott Cohen, T. Kelly Wilson, Peter Rose, Jonathan Levi, Spiro Pollalis, Toshiko Mori

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

Preparation of Doctoral Thesis Proposal

A. Hashim Sarkis, Jeffrey Huang, Margaret Crawford

Preparation of Doctoral Thesis Proposal…

Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Doctor of Design

Richard Peiser, Daniel Schodek, Carl Steinitz, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, A. Hashim Sarkis, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, Robert France, Martin Bechthold

Under guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.

Thesis Extension in Satisfaction of the Degree Master in Architecture

Toshiko Mori

Thesis Extension…

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

Laura Miller, T. Kelly Wilson, Patricia Heyda, Michael Meredith, Joseph MacDonald, Ingeborg Rocker

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…

Fourth Semester Core: Architectural Design

Monica Ponce de Leon, Kimberly Ackert, Robert Marino, Sandro Marpillero, Thomas Schroepfer, Virginie Lefebvre

Housing Architecture What interests the architect about housing is the way in which it peculiarly straddles the categorical distinctions between architecture and urban design. Housing…

Experiments with Blank Typologies: London Olympics, Lea Valley

Farshid Moussavi

Contemporary building technologies and the need for totally controlled environments have generated a growth in size and number of typologies that require an essentially \”blank\”…

Everybody loves Frank

Mack Scogin

Everybody Loves FrankMack ScoginIf the traditional role of the iconoclast is to attack cherished beliefs and ridicule venerated institutions, why is it in today\’s world…

Seoul Long Beach “investigation in materiality”

Byoung Cho

Project Title: Seoul Long Beach\”investigation in materiality\”Natural vs. Artificial materiality in the development of the Han River Edge Seoul, S. Korea\”I don\’t believe in one…

Offset Ceilings

Preston Scott Cohen

Offset CeilingsPreston Scott Cohen, Options Studio, Spring 406Despite dominating the visual field of architectural space and offering the greatest possibility of continuous reinvention, the ceiling…

Urban Hotel

Julie Snow

Introduction This studio investigates architecture beginning with the architectural envelope as the intersection of activity and site, an experiential intensity between construction and context. We…

A Museum of Architecture and Design, Murcia, Spain

Terence Riley

A private foundation and the local and regional governments of Murcia, Spain, are interested in developing a major cultural facility devoted to architecture and design.