Courses
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts II
Any account of architecture’s history over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries is faced with the challenge of addressing…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts III
Amanda Reeser Lawrence, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani
This semester, Buildings, Texts, and Contexts III is structured as a special two-part course, taught by two different instructors. Section I: Modernism. The Canon and…
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Cities, Infrastructures, and Politics: From Renaissance to Smart Technologies
Infrastructures play a decisive role in urban development and in the life of cities. This course will envisage this role from a…
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Competing Visions of Modernity in Japan
The course will trace the parallel trajectories of two of modern Japan’s most influential schools of architectural thought, represented by Kenzo Tange…
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Climate Change Resilience and Adaptation
Through the lens of climate change, this foundation course surveys the intellectual development of resilience and adaptation in the social, natural and…
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Building Simulation
This course is the third of four modules (6121, 6122, 6125, & 6125) and constitutes part of the core curriculum in architecture…
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Materials
This course explores the science of stuff. How do we classify stuff? How do we build with stuff? What are the energy, health, and societal…
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Structural Design 1
This course introduces students to the analysis and design of structural systems. The fundamental principles of statics, structural loads, and rigid body equilibrium are considered…
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Cases in Contemporary Construction
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…
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Building Human Interaction
This course investigates the interactions between humans and buildings with a focus on environmental sustainability and health. The exploration will fall into…
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Integrative Frameworks for Technology, Environment, and Society II
Developing and implementing good solutions to real problems facing human society requires a broad understanding of the relationships between technology innovation, science, manufacturing, design thinking,…
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Architectural Representation I
Architectural Representation I: Origins + Originality Architectural representation is an ideology – a source of ideas and visionary theorizing that has a set…
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Architectural Representation II
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…
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Digital Media: Design Systems
The course is an introduction to fundamental concepts, methods and practical techniques in design computation with emphasis on a systems perspective.
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Digital Media: Image
Over the past three decades the architectural process has been drastically reorganized by what historian Jonathan Crary calls “a transformation in the nature of visuality…
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Immersive Landscape: Representation through Gaming Technology
Soon will come plausible alternatives to our world.You may have failed in this one but what if you had a million…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts I
This course is structured as a dialogue between the historical and theoretical frameworks that have shaped the formulation of architectural principles – what the architectural…
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Michelangelo Architect: Precedents, Innovation, Influence
An exploration of Italian Renaissance architecture and urbanism through the persona of Michelangelo as witness, agent, and inspiration. We look at architecture…
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Structuring Urban Experience: From the Athenian Acropolis to the Boston Common
This lecture course examines selected cities between the fifth century B.C. and the seventeenth century A.D., beginning with ancient Athens and…
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Domesticity, Privacy, Transparency, Performance
This seminar explores 20th and 21st-century notions of domesticity in the U.S, and Europe through the lens of cultural politics, gender…
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Sustainable Real Estate
This introductory course surveys the historical foundations, economic logics and underlying physics that underscore the design, development and operations of sustainable buildings.
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Environmental Systems 1
This course is the first of a two-module sequence in Building Technology (6121, 6122) and constitutes part of the core curriculum in architecture. Objectives:To…
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Environmental Systems 2
This course is the second of a two-module sequence in Building Technology (6121, 6122) and constitutes part of the core curriculum in architecture as well…
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Construction Systems
In this course we examine architecture as the manifestation of logics of systems, assemblies, and materials. We seek to understand how component assemblies have evolved…
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Structural Design II
This course is a continuation of GSD 6227 and, after an overview/reminder introduction, furthers understanding of more developed structural systems and materials in architectural design.
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Introduction to Computational Design
Panagiotis Michalatos, Sawako Kaijima
This is an introductory course to computational design and the prerequisite for a spring course that deals with more advanced topics in…
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Architectural Acoustics (Module F2)
What does jazz sound like when it is played in a cathedral? How would Gregorian chant sound in a jazz club? And…
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LIT: A Survey and Design Research Seminar of Architectural Lighting (Module F1)
Light defines what and how we see; our bodies are intimately tied to cycles of light and dark. Light is also a…
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Foundations of Practice
Jeffry Burchard, Jesse M. Keenan
For students in the fifth semester of the M.Arch I degree program, this four (4) credit hour course examines models and…
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Integrative Frameworks for Technology, Environment, and Society I
Developing and implementing good solutions to real problems facing human society requires a broad understanding of the relationships between technology innovation, science, manufacturing, design thinking,…
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Innovation in Project Delivery
Project delivery – the organizational, legal and economic arrangements by which society produces its built environment – has undergone a radical transformation…
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MArch II Proseminar
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…
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Digital Media I
How do we define the “ambiance” of a place? What causes specific environments to evoke different feelings? Are there consistent elements that define these ambiances,…
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Digital Media II
This class explores the design and science of logical form making, examined through geometry, parametric control, algorithms, and digital tools. The point of departure is…
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Near Drawing
The agency of drawing within the discipline has been the topic of many recent academic symposia. In its current state, sophisticated technologies…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts II
Any account of architecture’s history over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries is faced with the challenge of addressing…
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Film Theory, Visual Thinking
How do moving images transform the way we think? Introduction to film theory aimed at interpreting the visual world, and developing skills to analyze films…
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Cities, Infrastructures, and Politics: From Renaissance to Smart Technologies
Infrastructures play a decisive role in urban development and in the life of cities. This course will envisage this role from a…
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Urban Tactics on the Arabian Peninsula
Celebrated as loudly as they are condemned, cities like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Doha of the Arabian Peninsula are sites for critical…
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Conservation, Destruction, and Curating Impermanence
This seminar on critical conservation aims to develop concepts and strategies able to describe and curate the transitory and dynamic nature of…
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Climate Change Resilience and Adaptation
Through the lens of climate change, this foundation course surveys the intellectual development of resilience and adaptation in the social, natural and…
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Building Simulation
This course is the third of four modules (6121, 6122, 6125, & 6125) and constitutes part of the core curriculum in architecture and the Master…
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Materials
Why do we build with certain types of materials and not others? How do the properties and qualities of materials constrain and enable the ways…
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Structural Design 1
This course introduces students to the analysis and design of structural systems. The fundamental principles of statics, structural loads, and rigid body equilibrium are considered…
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Cases in Contemporary Construction
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 buildings…
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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…
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Integrative Frameworks for Technology, Environment, and Society II
Woodward Yang, Antoine Picon, Sai Balakrishnan, Diane Davis, Ali Malkawi
Developing and implementing good solutions to real problems facing human society requires a broad understanding of the relationships between technology innovation, science, manufacturing, design thinking,…
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Visual Studies: Architectural Representation: Origins + Originality
Architectural representation is an ideology – a source of ideas and visionary theorizing that has an accompanying set of origins and natures. As such, it’s…
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Projective Representation in Architecture
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…
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Experiments in Computer Graphics
Over the past three decades the architectural process has been drastically reorganized by what historian Jonathan Crary calls “a transformation in the…