Reading Seminar: Manfredo Tafori

George Baird

Dilbert’s cubicle and other workplace delights

Monica Ponce de Leon

This course will study very specific industrial design objects whose history has affected the evolution of the work place.Students will be required to design furniture,…

Media and Modernity: Architecture and the City 1920-1970

Eve Blau

This course explores ways in which architectural knowledge was shaped, transmitted, consumed, and instrumentalized through modes of representational discourse other than architecture itself – photography,…

Frames of Mind: Introduction to Film Theory and Film Analysis

Giuliana Bruno

This course will meet in Carpenter Center 402.A basic introduction to the language of film theory, aimed at developing analytic skills to interpret films. We…

Buildings, Texts, and Contexts

Sarah Goldhagen

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…

Buildings, Texts, and Contexts

Sarah Goldhagen

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…

Cross-Cultural Encounters: Architecture, Modernity and Identity beyond the West

Sibel Bozdo??an

This course offers a theoretical framework to study the spatial, architectural and urban expressions of successive encounters between \”the west\” and the rest of the…

Practices in Democracy (3): Design and the Challenges for Development from the Marshall Plan to Micro Credit

A. Hashim Sarkis

Summary:The course examines the impact of different models of social and economic development on architectural and urban design. It focuses on Latin America and the…

A Cultural Study of Film: Mapping and Fashioning Space: Seminar

Giuliana Bruno

This course will meet in Carpenter Center 402.The impulse to map (ourselves) is a major drive of contemporary visual culture. Since Fredric Jameson\’s call for…

Leon Batista Alberti: 1404-1472

Christine Smith

This course explores selected aspects of the writings and works of Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), seeking to place these in their historical and cultural contexts.During…

Proseminar in History and Theory

Sarah M. Whiting

Analysis and Design of Building Structures II

Martin Bechthold

Building Construction

Kenneth Kao

Contemporary building materials and components are introduced through an investigation of construction assemblies and details. Design concepts and their translation into construction will be examined…

Environmental Technologies in Buildings

Matthias Schuler

***NOTE***Schedule meets alternate weeks:February 12 & 13February 26 & 27March 12 & 13April 2 &3April 16 & 17April 30 & May 1FINAL EXAM TBA–do not…

New Technologies in Design

Daniel Schodek, Nico Kienzl

Database Systems for Design

Ugo Gagliardi, Urs Hirschberg, Pau Sola-Morales Serra

The growing embodiment of architectural design in digital media requires the proper choice of data structure, formats, and protocols (system architecture) to insure that the…

Innovative Constructions: cases in modern Japan

Mark Mulligan

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…

House: Innovation in Design & Technology

Kenneth Kao

TCourse Description: This seminar explores select architects\’ innovative construction of the single-family house. This course will focus on the design, technology, and management of these…

Architectural Component Prototyping

Kimo Griggs

The format for the course Architectural Component Prototyping has changed each time that it has been offered in a continuing effort to cover the broad…

Building Simulation

Ali Malkawi

During the past decade, advancements in computer technology made it possible for building simulation to be part of the design process. This seminar will provide…

Legal Aspects of Design Practice

Carl Sapers

This course focuses on the special obligations and privileges of a design professional. We study governmental regulation, taxation, accounting, and legal organization for a design…

Introduction to the Practice of Architecture

Mack Scogin, Carl Sapers, Victoria Beach

This is a discussion developed by Scogin, Sapers, and Beach to introduce the student to basic issues in architectural practice, including: how an architect obtains…

Collaborative Design

Jeffrey Huang

This professionally oriented course builds on GSD 7320 \”Information Technology in the Design Professions\” and focuses in detail on issues of collaborative design, including global…

The Bilbao Guggenhein Museum: Topics in Project Management

Spiro Pollalis, Luis Rodriguez

To see a previous course website, please go to: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/courses/7400-02s99/The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao has had an unprecedented impact not only on the city of…

Superficial Spaces

George L. Legendre, June-Hao Hou

We cherish immaterial surfaces, as painters cherish some material pigment for its unique expressive qualities. Like tempera or oil paint, the pigment-surface is a raw…

Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees

Nader Tehrani, Daniel Schodek, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, Mona Serageldin, Rafael Moneo, Ron Witte, Anne McGhee, T. Kelly Wilson, Paul Cote, John Beardsley, Peter Rowe, Armando Carbonell, Joseph MacDonald

Preparation of Design Thesis Proposal for MArch

Toshiko Mori

Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree MArch

George L. Legendre, Marco Steinberg, Sarah Goldhagen, Ron Witte, Remment Koolhaas, Toshiko Mori

This entails preparatory work for all students intending subsequently to enroll in GSD 9301. Students research thesis proposals for review and acceptance by faculty.

Independent Thesis for the Degree Master in Design Studies

Jeffrey Huang

Preparation of Doctoral Thesis Proposal

Daniel Schodek, Carl Steinitz, Michelle Addington, François Vigier, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, Jeffrey Huang

Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Doctor of Design

Daniel Schodek, Michelle Addington, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, Jeffrey Huang, Richard Peiser

Thesis Extension in Satisfaction of the Degree Master in Architecture

Introduction to Design and Visual Studies

Preston Scott Cohen, Gary Rohrbacher, Tim Love, Victoria Beach, John Bass, Julio Salcedo, Marco Steinberg

The first of a four-semester sequence of design studios introduces students to the practice of architectural design, discussing the theoretical principles on which such practice…

Architectural Design

Toshiko Mori, Darell Fields, Ron Witte, Jonathan Levi, Ashley Schafer, Joseph MacDonald

The third of a four-semester sequence of design studios emphasizes the development of a building as a material construct. The focus is on investigation of…

Re-Entering Boston Symphony Hall, by Way of Marfa, Texas

Peter Rose

The studio will be in two parallel parts. The first will focus on exploration of strategies of minimalism mostly in art, but to some degree…

Inside and Outside the Box/ A Chelsea Addition

Linda Pollak

The studio will focus on additions and connections to a loft building in Chelsea. The building is the home of The Kitchen, a not-for-profit institution…

$3200. Exercises on Elementary Architecture Throughout the Chilean Territory

Alejandro Aravena

PLASTIC A low-income house in Chile costs US $7000, land and infrastructure included. Each family, having saved at least US$ 300, is eligible to get…

A Field of Schools: Rethinking the Relationship Between School and City in San Diego

A. Hashim Sarkis

SummaryThe studio revises the predominant models of school design in the United States by addressing more effectively the relationship between the school and its surrounding…

Miami’s Little Haiti: A Neighborhood in Transition

John Keenen, Terence Riley

Our design proposal for the fall 2001 semester focuses on Little Haiti, an urban neighborhood located in Miami. Little Haiti is situated on the east-west…

Defining/Unraveling an Edge: An Exhibition Space and Cultural Center for the Arnold Arboretum

Maryann Thompson

site:The edge condition between the Forest Hills T-stop and Harvard University\’s Arnold Arboretum.The Forest Hills T-stop shares an undeveloped boundary with the Arnold Arboretum. The…

Superficial Chaos and Subterranean Transparency: An Olympic Commuter in LA Castellana

Luis Rojo de Castro

Among cities, the scale of Madrid traffic problems is suffocating. In the opinion of experts, in order to confront, or at least to ameliorate them,…

Expansion and Renovation of the Cleveland Museum of Art

Karen Bausman

The Cleveland Museum of Art has recently announced plans for a major architectural initiative of renovation and expansion. A Facilities Master Plan, developed in 1999…

Under the Influence: Negotiating the Complex Logic of Urban Property

Roger Sherman

Under the Influence: Negotiating the Complex Logic of Urban Property the excitement of city life cannot be preserved if all conflict is eliminated (it is…

Visual Studies

T. Kelly Wilson

This course will emphasize the construction of space on the two-dimensional surface by way of freehand drawing. In-class visual exercises will identify key concepts in…

Projective Representation in Architecture

Preston Scott Cohen

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…

Drawing in the City of Rome

T. Kelly Wilson

Advanced 3-D Modeling and Animation

Urs Hirschberg, Allen Sayegh

This courses provides a theoretical foundation for advanced geometric modeling and focuses on the architecture of movement and the conception and creation of animated form.

Visualizing Information

Urs Hirschberg, Jeffrey Huang, David Rose

This seminar explores how information can be presented visually on the Internet and provides a broad understanding of the visualization of different types of information.

Introduction to Architectural Theory

George Baird, Sarah M. Whiting

This course presents the range of material factors (physical, cultural, social, and historical) that condition the production of architecture and their interaction with the ideologies…

Everyday Spaces

Linda Pollak

In geography, an \”entire spatial language has emerged for comprehending the contours of social reality.\” (Neil Smith) The seminar explores ways in which a more…