Courses
-
Digital Media I
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
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…
-
Advanced Studies in Architectural Computing
The 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…
-
Painting and Paint; Studio Practice with Oil
The premise of this workshop is to establish a relationship, in oil painting, between individual experience by perception and the language(s) of representation and color.
-
On Contemporary Architecture
Please note first class takes place on Tuesday, January 30.This lecture course will follow the latest episodes in contemporary architecture. The development of a critical…
-
Carefully Reading Koolhaas
Introduction to Course:This course is a reading seminar, focusing on a selection of texts written by Rem Koolhaas, and a parallel selection of projects designed…
-
The Architectural Imaginary: Experimental Architecture of the 1970s
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…
-
Tessellation in Architecture
The seminar will seek to produce a graphic manual for the use of tessellation in architecture. We will examine architectural projects, with the aim to…
-
Architecture and the Market
\”Between these two worlds – that of production, where everything is made, and that of consumption, where everything is used up – the market economy…
-
Buildings from Within
Please note first class takes place on Tuesday, January 30.As a complement to the lecture course, this seminar will examine 4 projects of my own.
-
Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
The first class will be held on Tuesday, January 30th, in Piper from 10:00am – 11:30am.Charts the emergence of rationalism and neo-classicism, as well as…
-
Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
Focuses on modernisms -its codification, representation, and dissemination -and emphasizes its multiple political, social, and cultural dimensions.
-
Rome and St. Peter’s
A course on St. Peter\’s Basilica and its surrounding architectural complex from Antiquity to the Baroque, tracing the development of the Vatican area from an…
-
Digital Culture, Space and Society
The first class will be held on Tuesday, January 30th, in Room 111 from 2:00pm – 5:00pm. Computer and networks like the Internet have transformed…
-
Sites of Conflict + Innovation: At the Center of the New Europe
Prerequisites: GSD 4201-4206 or equivalent or postprofessional degree status (MArch II, MDesS, PhD, etc)This course is concerned with understanding the dynamics of change and innovation…
-
Nature and the Ideal: Art and Architecture in Italy 1250-1520
This is an introduction to Italian painting, sculpture, and architecture from ca. 1250 to 1520 emphasizing style and technique. The course is structured in three…
-
Artifice
\”The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.\” Oscar WildeThis…
-
Analysis and Design of Building Structures II
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, Thomas Schroepfer
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
Toshiko Mori, Matthias Schuler, Thomas Lechner
This course examines the fundamental scientific principles underlying the thermal, luminous and acoustic behavior of buildings and introduces students to the existing technologies for creating…
-
Innovative Constructions: cases in modern 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…
-
Innovation in Structure
In our recent examples of architecture, visions of architects are enhanced by innovative approaches in structures by leading engineers. They engage in early stages of…
-
Parametric Design and Information Models
Daniel Schodek, Michael Schroeder
This lecture course consists of two related modules that should normally be taken together (see note below). The first module explores the design development process…
-
In Search of the Engineer
Please note the course schedule below.Instructors:Spiro Pollalis: www.gsd.harvard.edu/~pollalis and Hanif Kara: http://www.akt-uk.com/Teaching Fellow:Andreas Georgoulias ([email protected])Course Description In recent examples of architecture, visions of architects are…
-
Green R+D: Case Studies in Sustainability
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,…
-
Random Rules
This workshop will research the tensions and contradictions between advancing manufacturing techniques in the field of architecture and the deplorable standards of the construction industry…
-
Legal Aspects of Design Practice
This course, an elective practice course, is open to students who have taken GSD 7212, an equivalent practice course, or who have had actual practice…
-
Issues in the Practice of Architecture
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
Please note the course schedule below.The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao has had an unprecedented impact not only on the city of Bilbao but also…
-
Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Daniel Schodek, Niall Kirkwood, Richard T.T. Forman, Mark Mulligan, Alex Krieger, Anne McGhee, T. Kelly Wilson, John Beardsley, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, Sibel Bozdo??an, K. Michael Hays, Martin Bechthold, Allen Sayegh, Antoine Picon, Kostas Terzidis, Ingeborg Rocker
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 subjects…
-
Prep of Design Thesis Proposal for MArch
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…
-
Mobile Information Unit
Martin Bechthold, Martin Zogran
Students in last fall\’s course CAD/CAM I have proposed the design for a mobile information unit that is to be built this year. The unit…
-
Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree MArch
Ingeborg Rocker, Martin Zogran, Thomas Schroepfer, Preston Scott Cohen, Spiro Pollalis, Peter Rowe, Jonathan Levi, Jorge Silvetti, Andrea Leers, A. Hashim Sarkis, Toshiko Mori, Pierre de Meuron, Jacques Herzog
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
Martin Bechthold, Antoine Picon
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
Richard Peiser, Daniel Schodek, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, A. Hashim Sarkis, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, Thomas Schroepfer, Kostas Terzidis
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
Daniel Schodek, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, A. Hashim Sarkis, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, 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
Thesis Extension…
-
First Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Preston Scott Cohen, Thomas Schroepfer, Mariana Ibanez
Prerequisites:Enrollment in the MArch I program or permission of the program director. The first of a four-semester sequence of design studios introduces students to the…
-
Third Semester Core: Architectural Design
Toshiko Mori, Alex Anmahian, Jonathan Levi, John Hong, Timothy Hyde
Prerequisites: GSD 1101 and GSD 1102, or advanced standing in the MArch I program. The third of a four-semester sequence of design studios emphasizes the…
-
Center for the Arts, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Site:Located on a rolling landscape within the White Oak tree canopy of Martha\’s Vineyard\’s Menemsha Hills, the site offers a sense of spatial complexity and…
-
Before Motown – After Techno: Designing for the Detroit Musical Continuum
Detroit has attitude, energy and grit – all qualities that allowed it to create sounds that revolutionized the world of music. Its musical legacy and…
-
Paffard Keatings-Clay: Mastery Through Innovation, Innovation Through Mastery
Issues/themesModernism: there is more meat on that bone.Working within the disciplineThe canon, challenging it, contributing to itExcellence requires StandardsExcellence vs. novelty as a core valueArchitecture…
-
BOMBAY STUDIO: Urban Adjustments Negotiating the Kinetic and Static City
Location: The city of Bombay (now Mumbai) with over 12 million residents. India\’s financial center, with perhaps the world\’s most prolific film industry. 5 million…
-
privately owned, publicly accessible: negotiating with the academic prestige
_FACTSColumbia University is both a leading academic institution of the world and one of the most constrained for space. At 326 square feet per student,…
-
Dance Space
This studio will be concerned with the design of a mobile and experimental dance theater for a site in Boston and another site in Stuttgart,…
-
Migrating Coastlines: Emergent TranFORMations for Dubai, U.A.E.
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
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
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
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
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…
Pagination Links
- Go to page 1
- Go to page 2
- Go to page 3
- Go to page 4
- Go to page 5
- Go to page 6
- Go to page 7
- Go to page 8
- Go to page 9
- Go to page 10
- Go to page 11
- Go to page 12
- Go to page 13
- Go to page 14
- Go to page 15
- Go to page 16
- Go to page 17
- Go to page 18
- Go to page 19
- Go to page 20
- Go to page 21
- Go to page 22
- Go to page 23
- Go to page 24
- Go to page 25
- Go to page 26
- Go to page 27
- Go to page 28
- Go to page 29
- Go to page 30
- Go to page 31
- Go to page 32
- Go to page 33
- Go to page 34
- Go to page 35
- Go to page 36
- Go to page 37
- Go to page 38
- Go to page 39
- Go to page 40
- Go to page 41
- Go to page 42
- Go to page 43
- Go to page 44
- Go to page 45
- Go to page 46
- Page 47
- Go to page 48
- Go to page 49
- Go to page 50
- Go to page 51
- Go to page 52
- Go to page 53
- Go to page 54
- Go to page 55
- Go to page 56
- Go to page 57
- Go to page 58