Courses
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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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Approaching the History of Modern of Architecture from Out There
Capitalist expansion is a crucial factor in explaining modern art (e.g., \”Primitivism\” and Cubism). This factor, however, is ignored in explaining modern architecture, as can…
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Conflict + Modernity: Case Study ZAGREB
This course is concerned with understanding the modalities of modernization and urban transformation in the context of cities in a region of Central Europe that…
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Modernization and Architecture in Latin America
The North and South American continents have been the natural sites of the \”new.\” Because of its particular history during the Twentieth Century, Latin America…
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Critical History: Space, Place, and Science
The seminar will examine various philosophical and historical approaches to the question of the relation between urban space, architecture, and science, from the founding reflections…
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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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Materials and Construction: An Introduction to Techniques, Composition, and Strategies
Toshiko Mori, Nader Tehrani, 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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Analysis and Design of Building Structures I
This course introduces students to the analysis and design of structural elements. Loads on structures are considered first; subsequent sessions cover the fundamental principles of…
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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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CAD/CAM I: Design Development in Digital Environments
This lecture course explores the design development process as it occurs within advanced digital environments, e.g., Catia, that support parametric modeling, and which are widely…
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Structural Surfaces
It is a common misbelief that curvature automatically lends structural capacities to any surface. While geometry and structural properties are indeed closely related, the precise…
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Proseminar in Building Technology: Light Science
This proseminar is open to doctoral students and other advanced students who are focusing their research on the energy-based technologies in architecture or on advanced…
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International Design Practice: Business, Law, and Culture
The practice of architecture is becoming more and more global. American architectural firms pursue foreign markets; foreign architects compete successfully for prestigious commissions within the…
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Founding Practices
The objective of this seminar/workshop is to equip individuals who aspire to found a design practice with the basic knowledge and tools required to conceptualize…
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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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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
Nader Tehrani, Kostas Terzidis, Alan Berger, Joseph MacDonald, Jeffrey Huang, Martin Bechthold, Joan Busquets, A. Hashim Sarkis, Niall Kirkwood, Christine Smith, Anne McGhee, Spiro Pollalis, Miroslava Benes, K. Michael Hays, Margaret Crawford, 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
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…
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Utopian?
Richard Peiser, Margaret Crawford, Martha Schwartz, A. Hashim Sarkis, Remment Koolhaas, Jeffrey Inaba
The course will examine the planning agendas of \’avant garde\’ Soviet architects from the 1970s. Can their \’project\’ be categorized as utopian? What were the…
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Preparation of Doctoral Thesis Proposal
A. Hashim Sarkis, Jeffrey Huang, Margaret Crawford
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, Daniel Schodek, Carl Steinitz, Michelle Addington, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, Jeffrey Huang, Antoine Picon
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, T. Kelly Wilson, Julio Salcedo, Ashley Schafer, Joseph MacDonald
10,000& 100The second semester Core studio focuses on the synthesis of program and form. There will be two projects: one four-week urban project in downtown…
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Fourth Semester Core: Architectural Design
Monica Ponce de Leon, Maryann Thompson, Nader Tehrani, Mark Robbins, Kimberly Ackert
Housing ArchitectureWhat interests the architect about housing is the way in which it peculiarly straddles the categorical distinctions between architecture and urban design. Housing is…
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Funerary Complex
ScenarioA woman in her mid forties recently received a sizable inheritance which includes her family\’s funeral home business. Like many family owned and operated funeral…
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Field Trip
FIELD TRIP\”Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file. Although I am fifteen feet ahead of him, anyone watching…
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Sculpture Park and Cultural Building, South East London
The WILKINSON EYRE studio will be setting a design brief for a Sculpture Park and Cultural Building on the site of the old Crystal Palace…
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Architecture(s) of Geopolitical Transgression
Korea\’s Demilitarized Zone is the last major scar left from the Cold War conflicts between communism and capitalism that characterized much of the second half…
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2CC
The focus of this studio is twofold. On the one hand, to study museum typologies in combination or singly parallel to an investigation of geometric…
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Superquadras, Projections and Pilotis
The aim of this studio is to generate alternative designs for the development of the last un-built areas (superquadras) in Brasilia, the capital city of…
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The Bone Studio
I claimed once before that the best standardization committee in the world is Nature herself. –Alvar AaltoNature has been a touchstone for architects and theorists…
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Background/Foreground
The aim of the studio will be to explore the dialogue between background and foreground, fabric and object, ensemble and icon, for architecture in the…
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Evoking Nature: Architecture as Landscape on the Emerald Necklace
Frank Barkow, Regine Leibinger
Recent artistic and architectural production has seen works which evoke natural phenomenon. These are projects producing atmospheric, geological, topographical or bio-topical conditions. Here nature is…
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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…
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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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Drawing from Masters
\’It takes two artists to make a drawing, even if one of them is dead.\’AnonymousThis course will introduce the student of drawing to the master…
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Urban Infoscapes
An increasing amount of information is available to urban designers and planners. Remote sensing and aerial photography have the potential to relay continuous and real…
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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
Prerequisites: Successful completion of GSD courses 4201 – 4206 inclusive, or equivalent.This course is an advanced elective course for students who wish to pursue studies…
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Scale and Modernity: City, Object, Subject
Modernity, since the late 19th century, has been experienced, perceived, and imagined in terms of radical and transformative changes in the scale of the city,…
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Frames of Mind: Introduction to Film Theory and Film Analysis
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…
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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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Art and Architecture in Western Europe, 950-1250
This lecture course introduces students to selected works of architecture, sculpture, and painting from the revival of monumental building around the turn of the millennium…
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Digital Culture, Space and Society
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…
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Proseminar in History and Theory
This seminar is for students in the Ph.D. program. Participants will present work toward their dissertation or toward a major research paper, emphasizing issues of…
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