Courses
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Algorithmic Architecture
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…
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Product Design: Industrial Design
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…
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Product Design: Industrial Design
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…
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Universal Design and other Design Dilemmas
Ohms, Environments: Architecture, Environment, ResistanceIn 1959 UC Berkeley placed its school of architecture under the authority of \”environment.\” Berkeley\’s new College of Environmental Design signaled…
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Gender and Space
What role does gender play in the theoretical understanding and concrete experience of architecture and urban space? This course investigates the significance of gender in…
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Modulating Monocoques
The necessity to produce continuity, structure and articulation within complex topologic surfaces has given rise to a new refinement in contemporary architecture practice. While modularity…
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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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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
Introduces foundational concepts of historical thinking as well as theoretical notions that have been relevant throughout architecture\’s history, such as form, technology, program, patronage, and…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
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…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
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…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
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…
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Film Architectures: Seminar Course
What is our experience of architecture in cinema? Considering the relation of these two arts of space, we look at how film and architecture are…
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Imagining the City: Literature, Film, and the Arts
How do visual representation and narrative figuration contribute to construct urban identity? Explores the urban imagination in different artforms: architecture, cinema, literature, photography, and painting.
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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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Empire, Nation and Modern Architecture: Ottoman/Turkish Case in Global Context
Few other modern nations exhibit the geographical, historical and cultural complexity of Turkey and even fewer have such tangled and difficult dilemmas of identity largely…
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Materials and Construction: An Introduction to Techniques, Composition and Strategies
Toshiko Mori, Thomas Schroepfer
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…
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Energy, Technology and Building
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…
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Analysis and Design of Building Structures I
Prerequisites: GSD 6101-MThe course introduces students to the analysis and design of structural elements and systems. The fundamental principles of statics and equilibrium are considered…
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Building Technology
As the final component in the required sequence of technology courses in the MArch I program, this professionally-oriented course develops an integral understanding of the…
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Advanced Materials and Technologies
This course will systematically explore materials and their properties. The initial part of the course will briefly review basic classes of materials (metals, ceramics, polymers…
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CAD/CAM 1: Introduction to applications in Architecture
This course teaches the fundamentals of computer-aided design and manufacturing (cad/cam), with a focus on applications in architecture. Our core question will be how component…
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Smart Materials: Design Issues and Applications
Smart Materials, long the mainstay of advanced engineering applications, have begun to join the palette of fashionable materials for architecture. High visibility projects, elaborate installation…
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Internet and Architecture
The Internet is fundamentally changing how we practice some of our most basic everyday activities, and challenging how we perceive and use architectural space. Yet…
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Strategic Management in Design and Construction
Real estate, civil engineering, architecture, and construction together comprise the largest industry in the world. Major social systems such as governments and marketplaces, major natural…
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Design Research Methods
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…
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Entrepreneurship
Talent, ingenuity, determination, and skill are all characteristics required of an architect to maintain a successful contemporary practice given the realities of a competitive global…
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From Concept to Implementation
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,…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Joan Busquets, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, Niall Kirkwood, Christine Smith, Anne McGhee, Jorge Silvetti, John Beardsley, Jonathan Levi, K. Michael Hays, Jerold S. Kayden
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…
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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.
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree MArch
Martin Bechthold, Preston Scott Cohen, A. Hashim Sarkis, Rodolfo Machado, T. Kelly Wilson, Jonathan Levi, Toshiko Mori
Prerequisites: GSD 9203.Following preparation in GSD 9203, each student conducts a design exploration that tests and expands the thesis.
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Preparation of Doctoral Thesis Proposal
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
Richard Peiser, Carl Steinitz, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, Joan Busquets
Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Doctor of Design…
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Second Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Ron Witte, Thomas Schroepfer, T. Kelly Wilson
10,000 & 100 The second semester Core studio focuses on the synthesis of program and form. There will be two projects: one four-week urban project…
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Fourth Semester Core: Architectural Design
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…
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UK/NL A Building in Amsterdam Harbour
UK/NLA building in Amsterdam harbourTony Fretton- www.tonyfretton.co.ukThe site for the project is a small island in the, an area of water between the railway line…
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Notes from the Underground: Boston Disconnect
NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND: SUBWAY SUPERSTATIONThe studio will be based on the premise that the Boston subway system is dysfunctional and inadequate, but also critical…
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Touristic Development in the Istrian Peninsula, Puntizela, Croatia
Instructors: Prof. Jorge Silvetti Teaching Associate Ivan RupnikThis studio will explore the impact of contemporary large-scale tourism in Puntizela, a prime virgin location in the…
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The Bone Studio 2: Experimental Concrete Architecture
The Bone Studio 2: Experimental Concrete Architecture The Bone Studio will continue the exploration started last spring semester into the concept of cellular solids and…
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Structured Ornament, Contextualizing Blank Typologies
The studio will explore ornament as an operative device to organize buildings and to integrate them within the urban realm. We will explore ornamentation as…
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Digital Media I
The course will help to develop basic skills in visual literacy and communication through the use of digital media. Considering that one of the primary…
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Interactive Spaces
GSD 2314 Interactive Spaces explores the potentials of media as an integral part of architectural spaces. The seminar examines series of case studies and looks…
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Advanced Studies in Architectural Computing
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…
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Drawing from Masters
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…
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On Contemporary Architecture
What remains in contemporary architecture of the \”avant garde\” modern architecture principles?Until very recently, it was widely accepted that contemporary architecture arose directly from the…
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Advanced Topics in Theory
The module examines selected architecture practices and projects in the period between 1966 and 1983. The hypothesis of the class is this: The historical avantgardes…
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Safety and Security in Design
The seminar will begin on February 9. Starting on February 3rd, pleasefeel free to email me at [email protected] and I will send youthe syllabus and…
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