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.

Museum of Maya Archaeology in Copan, Honduras

Jorge Silvetti

This studio will be concerned with the design of a new facility for the Museum of Copan Archaeology, located in the archaeological park of Copan,…

TIDES

Emilio Tunon, Luis Mansilla

TIDESSancti-Petri, Cadiz, Spain. On the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, a multitude of cultures have settled. Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs have left their marks in…

Grapes

Peter Ebner, Franziska Ullmann

Grapes hotel + wineryebner + ullmann, optionstudio peter ebner, spring 2006 A home from home – a wine hotel on the outskirts of ViennaWine hotel…

Digital Media I

Kostas Terzidis

Digital Media I and II provide students with the conceptual framework for employing digital media in the design process, and deliver the practical skills for…

Interactive Spaces

Allen Sayegh

This course provides the framework for the design of spatial interactivity.By rethinking the relationships between narration, information and space, the course investigates the potential of…

Advanced Studies in Architectural Computing

Kostas Terzidis

DescriptionThe course is an in-depth study into the theories, processes, and structures of computing in architecture. It will seek to develop design projects that will…

The Marathon Drawing Studio

T. Kelly Wilson

FIELD PAINTINGThis seminar/workshop will introduce the practice of plein air painting to the architect. The issues of color and spatial invention through the medium of…

On Contemporary Architecture

Rafael Moneo

The course examines the main architectural strategies that emerge from the study of contemporary architecture. Issues such as linearity, fragmentation, megastructures and containers, the use…

Difference, Experience, Sensibility: Three Themes in European Architecture

George Baird, Irenee Scalbert

For several decades, architecture in Europe aspired to contribute to general culture. It has represented concepts, demonstrated principles, embodied types or merely set examples. In…

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 the…

Architectural criticism in the post-Tafuri era

Rafael Moneo

3416: Architectural criticism in the post-Tafuri eraTwentieth century modern architecture always had as a mandatory companion a group of critics, which were ready to argue…

The Function of Ornament

Farshid Moussavi

The seminar will undertake a survey of modern ornament as this has been explored through building envelopes by various architects, in order to construct a…

Frames of Mind: Approaches to Film Theory

Giuliana Bruno

Introduction to the language of film theory, aimed at developing analytic skills to interpret films. A historical survey that spans turn-of-the-century scientific motion studies to…

Buildings, Texts, and Contexts

Antoine Picon

This six-module sequence, offered over three semesters, presents an introduction to the complex, interwoven web of conceptual issues and historical narratives in western architecture from…

Buildings, Texts, and Contexts

Eve Blau

This six-module sequence, offered over three semesters, presents an introduction to the complex, interwoven web of conceptual issues and historical narratives in western architecture from…

Digital Culture, Space and Society

Antoine Picon

Computer and networks like the Internet have transformed our perception of space. They are also synonymous with the development of a new type of society,…

Texture Analysis: Film, Fashion, and Material Culture: Seminar

Giuliana Bruno

Film and fashion are most powerful image-makers. They are prime agents of visual expression and objects of material culture. They share a role in conveying…

Alternative Constructions

Christine Smith

An in-depth consideration of selected topics of enduring relevance for the theory and practice of architecture. The course examines concepts such as wonder, knowledge, authority,…