Courses
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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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Modernist Challenges After World War II
Modernism after World War II, a lecture class, answers the question of what happened to modernism after its initial synthesis and codification in the late…
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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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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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Alternative Constructions
An in-depth consideration of selected topics of enduring relevance for the theory and practice of architecture. The course examines concepts such as wonder, knowledge, authority,…
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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
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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Structural Systems in Buildings
This course covers the organization and design of building structures as components of total building systems. It addresses both traditional and industrialized structural systems, planning…
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Computer – Aided Design and Manufacturing & Manufacturing: Design Development
The course will focus on the use of CATIA in relation to the design development process. Students will complete a series of required introductory exercises,…
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Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing: Fundamentals
This seminar will introduce the fundamentals of CAD/CAM technologies through lectures and hands-on workshop activities using the facilities at the school. The technologies will be…
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Structures in Design
Why don\’t things fall down? Some of us believe that this is a question well worth considering in architecture, and not just a problem that…
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Proseminar in Building Technology: Light Science
This proseminar is open to doctoral students and other advanced studentswho are focusing their research on the energy-based technologies inarchitecture, with a particular emphasis on…
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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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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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New Diagnostic Approaches for Practicing Architects
Most business leaders don\’t see space in a workplace environment; only the objects that occupy space. To see space or, more precisely, the shape of…
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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
Niall Kirkwood, T. Kelly Wilson, Anne McGhee, Stephen Ervin, Alex Krieger, Sarah M. Whiting, Martha Schwartz, A. Hashim Sarkis
Candidates may arrange individual work focusing on subjects or issues that are of interest to them but are not available through regularly offered course work.
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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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Independent Research Study: Weaving Material and Habitation
Toshiko Mori, Joan Busquets, Remment Koolhaas, Alex Krieger, Peter Rowe, Matthew Kiefer
The Workshop explores fabrication and material potential of weaving methods to consider possibilities for habitation structures. Weaving exists in every culture. It is one of…
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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, Daniel Schodek, Carl Steinitz, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis
Under guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.
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Second Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Ground Leftovers / Program Functions During the second half of the semester students will be asked to develop a building around programs whose specific functional…
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Fourth Semester Core: Architectural Design
Preston Scott Cohen, Sarah M. Whiting, Ashley Schafer
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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Weatherize
weather…Beyond media-perfect weather catastrophes, this studio researches issues of weather in our everyday culture and its effect on architecture.…newsBy now, every year has its millenium…
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“My Way” – A Trip to Gee’s Bend
America Irby, \”Ma Willie\” Abrams, Indiana Bendolph, Della Mae Bridges, Seebell Kennedy, Pearlie Pettway Hall, Jeesie T. \”Bootnie\” Pettway, Sue Willie Seltzer, Fannie T. Westbrook,…
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New Central Library for Shantou University
Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron
Shantou University has ambitious plans to grow in quality (not in quantity) to become one of the foremost educational hubs in China.The tropical vegetation offers…
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Unanticipated Urbanity: Revisiting Las Vegas
Las Vegas isn\’t phony anything: it has its own resounding, relentless identity. And Vegas is arguably the most interesting American city of the moment, the…
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Studio Option
Post Blast Lower Manhattan21st C. Civic Humanist InstitutionsTHE CITY AS A LITERARY TEXTTEXT INTERTEXT, CONTEXTPROVOCATION TO PROGRAMPOST BLAST LOWER MANHATTANA DEFINITIVE CITY ARCHITECTURE \”DAS UNBEHAGEN…
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Eyes in the Heat: Optics and Violence: A New Museum at Queens West
Project Description: Long Island City, New York CityTwo major initiatives have created significant new pressure on the redevelopment of Long Island City in New York.
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The Temporal Field – A Sports and Recreation Center
This project for a student recreation center will involve a range of explorations of temporal phenomena that influence architectural space, form and structure. Students will…
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Japan Transfer
In an era characterized by instant global communication and transfer ofinformation, architecture remains a powerful and tangible instrument of cultural exchange. To explore this proposition…
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Studio Option
My pedagogy is mainly based in fostering observation and the fact that architecture relays in the comprehension of our surrounding world. Indeed, from that comprehension…
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Fundamentals of CAD
This course has a dual objective: it provides the conceptual framework for employing computing in or making immediate and effective use of the emerging digital…
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Advanced Digital Media
With modeling applications becoming more diverse, intuitive, and commonplace, there is a renewed questioning of the position of geometric modeling within the design process. Animation,…
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Interactive Spaces
This course provides the framework for the design of spatial interactivity. By rethinking the relationships between narration, information and space, the course investigates the potential…
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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 abstraction and representation.
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The State of Design
This course will provide an overview of the role of design in recent history and today. The state of design is strong. Design can greatly…
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L’Esquisse
Making up the architect\’s first response to the elemental conditions of a project is a combination of pure mental speculation and the first physical signs…
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On the artifact
The ways in which we read and construe the value of artifacts within the material realm ultimately circumscribes what we are capable of conceptualizing and…
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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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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…
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Leon Batista Alberti and Italian Renaissance: Architecture, Painting, and Sculpture 1400-1520
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.
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