Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees

9502 must be taken for either 2 or 4 units.  Under faculty guidance, the student conducts an independent reading program and formulates a thesis proposal.

Preparation of Doctoral Thesis Proposal

Martin Bechthold, Diane Davis, David Moreno Mateos, Mohsen Mostafavi, Antoine Picon, Charles Waldheim

Independent study with doctoral advisor to produce a preliminary literature review. Prerequisite: Enrollment in GSD DDes program. …

Thesis Extension in Satisfaction of Degree Doctor of Design

Martin Bechthold, Ann Forsyth, K. Michael Hays, Jerold S. Kayden, Ali Malkawi, Erika Naginski, Antoine Picon, Peter Rowe, Charles Waldheim

Thesis extension in satisfaction of the degree Doctor of Design.

MArch II Proseminar

Preston Scott Cohen

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…

Proseminar in PUBLICS: Of the Public. In the Public. By the Public

Toni L. Griffin

Public, as a noun or adjective, is not confined to a single discipline, practice, narrative or theory.  It is instead, a complicated construct that can…

Proseminar in MEDIUMS: On Making Culture, Technology, and Art

Allen Sayegh

In this proseminar, we will take a critical look at the current and emerging landscape of design technologies and technologically driven design. We will examine…

Proseminar in NARRATIVES: Word and Image as Narrative Structure

Erika Naginski

In our Proseminar, we will grapple with a selection of critical discussions on word and image as these have been formulated in aesthetic philosophy, literary…

Proseminar in ECOLOGIES: Interrelated, In-between, Dynamic

Chris Reed

Our aim in the proseminar is to explore the inherent inventedness of ecology as a field of inquiry, its distinctly relational nature, and the potential…

Second Semester Architecture Core: SITUATE

Jeffry Burchard, Tomás dePaor, Sean Canty, Iman Fayyad, Yasmin Vobis, Oana Stanescu, Patrick McCafferty

The overarching pedagogical agenda for second semester is to expand upon the design methodologies developed in the first semester such that students acquire an understanding…

Fourth Semester Architecture Core: RELATE

Jon Lott, Jennifer Bonner, Michelle Chang, Jenny French, Alfredo Thiermann, Charlotte von Moos, Ron Witte, Nat Oppenheimer

The fourth and final semester of the core sequence, this architecture studio tackles the complexity of the urban condition through the design of housing.

Collaborative Design Engineering Studio II

Julia Lee, Allen Sayegh

The spring studio builds upon theoretical and technical concepts already introduced in the MDE program with the emphasis on creative and critical thinking, observational and…

The American Brick in Arcadia

Mark Lee, Hanif Kara

‘The architect is a bricklayer who has studied Latin.’ – Adolf Loos‘Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together.’ – Ludwig Mies van…

Intuition and the Machine

George L. Legendre

This studio combines the experience of a multi-year design research agenda with the fresh outlook of a collaborative design experiment.  The purpose of the experiment…

Midtown, Midrise, Mid-door

Christopher C.M. Lee

The studio will consider three recent and significant shifts in the design of collective housing in London: the viability and desirability of working from home;…

BRIDGE WHERE YOU ARE: The Anamorphic Double

Grace La

Uniquely called upon to embody purpose and beauty, bridges tend to be judged (more than any civic construction save the tower) on their singular object…

Small institutions

Roger Tudó Galí, Josep Ricart Ulldemolins, Xavier Ros Majó

Inspired by Louis Kahn's passionate and enigmatic interest in institutions and their origins, the aim of this studio is to investigate the possibility of a…

Fudo/Umwelt. Devising Transformative Environments in Japan

Mohsen Mostafavi

This studio is concerned with speculations (formal, material, social, cultural) on the future relations between architecture (design), people, and the city.  The site of the…

Temporary and Ephemeral Structures [M1]

Toshiko Mori

In light of recent global turbulence generated by a series of crises – environmental, economic, political, social, and medical – architecture is once again challenged…

Parkitecture at Pullman [M1]

Jeanne Gang, Claire Cahan

The U.S. National Park Service (NPS) has struggled to tell the complex story of America and to reflect the country’s rich diversity. Despite recent progress…

The Black New Deal [M1]

Bryan Lee

The Black New Deal Studio is a Design Justice course exploring the architecture made manifest as a result of privilege and power structures that define…

Porches, Portals and Passageways [M2]

Sharon Johnston

This studio will be the second in a series that explores the potential of a small scale municipal building to engage the urban and social…

Cancel Architecture II [M2]

Preston Scott Cohen

This studio continues the investigation of architectural consequences arising from the dismantlement of Confederate monuments presently under way in numerous cities across the United States.

Underground [M2]

Matthew Au, Mira Henry

Instructors: Mira Henry and Matthew Au The studio will design two facades and a below level nightclub for an existing retail store along the western…

FRINGE CITIES: The legacies and future of renewal in the small American city

Michael Murphy

Across the nation, small, post-industrial cities today occupy a critical boundary between our polarized metropolitan hubs and vast rural landscapes. These are the Fringe Cities.

Quo Vadis, Addis? Manufacturing-led Urbanization in Ethiopia – Empower Design!

Marc Angélil

The studio ‘Quo Vadis, Addis?’ addresses the question of how to integrate existing manufacturing zones in the textile and garment sector within the socio-spatial fabric…

Digital Media: Design Systems

Sawako Kaijima

The course is an introduction to fundamental concepts, methods, and practical techniques in design computation with emphasis on a systems perspective. We…

Digital Media: Writing Form

George L. Legendre

This course offers an introduction to the field of design and computation through the essential pursuit of writing form. Setting aside the…

Digital Media: Not Magic

Michelle Chang

According to folklore, Michelangelo fell to his knees upon seeing the Florentine fresco Annunciation, went silent, and eventually concluded that the image…

Representation First (!!!), Then Architecture

Jennifer Bonner

Current tendencies in the discipline suggest a split between two opposing architectural projects: the easy project versus the difficult project[1].  Primarily related…

Off: On a Tangent

Sean Canty

“An art professor once told me that in composition, elements should either overlap or there should be some space between them; that…

Views, With Rooms

Megan Panzano

Evolving theories on optics, over time and place, have created a set of objects that physically model vision. Each renders vision visible…

Talking Architecture

Diego Grass

What is the use of architects interviewing other architects? Of course, it is about camaraderie, sharing experiences, and providing support. But, if…

Immersive Landscape: Representation through Gaming Technology

Eric de Broche des Combes

"Soon will come plausible alternatives to our world. You may have failed in this one but what if you had a million…

Drawing for Designers 2: Human Presence and Appearance in Natural and Built Environment

Ewa Harabasz

The aim of the class is to learn how to depict and express the presence and appearance of people in natural and…

Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices

Malkit Shoshan

The Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices Seminar investigates art and design work in the interdisciplinary modalities of contemporary culture and the city. As artists and…

Type and the Idea of the City: Architecture’s Search for what is Common

Christopher C.M. Lee

Open to all students, the seminars in this course will complement Option Studio 1318: Midtown, Midrise, Mid-door. It will equip students with…

Experiments in Public Freedom

Sergio Lopez-Pineiro

As places that accept and encourage multiple representations, cities need spaces to enable unregulated, temporary, and spontaneous events. Due to their role…

Material Practice and its Agency

Toshiko Mori

This seminar introduces an understanding of material discourse in design and architecture that affects cultural, social ,economic and political issues.  In addition…

Acoustic Space: A Media Archaeology of Building Types

Alfredo Thiermann

This is a seminar on the past and present relationship between architecture, information technologies, and mass media. More than ever before, we…

The Fifth Plan

Ron Witte

In this seminar we will consider the evolution of the floor plan across five iterations: proto-modern, modern, post-modern, sequel-modern, and, most importantly,…

Regarding an Archive

Jorge Silvetti, Mark Lee

This will be the last course I will teach before retirement at the end of this academic year. Personally, it is an…

Philosophy of Technology: From Marx and Heidegger to AI, Genome Editing, and Geoengineering (HKS)

Mathias Risse

Technology shapes how power is exercised in society, and thereby also changes how the present changes into the future. Technological innovation is all around us,…

Buildings, Texts, and Contexts: Modernism and its Counter-Narratives

Lisa Haber-Thomson, K. Michael Hays

Modernism has fundamentally to do with the emergence of new kinds of objects and events and, at the same time, new conceptualizations of their appearance,…

Rome

Christine Smith

A seminar on the art, architecture, and urbanism of Rome where the layering of material artifacts from successive historical periods provides an…

Cities, Infrastructures, and Politics: From Renaissance to Smart Technologies

Antoine Picon

Infrastructures play a decisive role in urban development and in the life of cities. This course will envisage this role from a…

Case Studies in Conservation and Adaptive Reuse

David Fixler

Traditional conservation practice is increasingly proving inadequate to address the cultural, economic, social and environmental challenges facing the diverse array of buildings…

The Ruin Aesthetic: Episodes in the History of an Architectural Idea

Erika Naginski

One of the arresting images in Michel Serres's Rome: The Book of Foundations is the idea that history is "a knot of different times" —…

Rules for the Electronic Zoo: A Mediatechnics of the Neoliberal Present

John May

Expanding outwards from a lecture bearing the same title, delivered in the spring of 2020, this course explores the technical and political composition of the…

Architecture: Histories of the Present

Mohsen Mostafavi

“Poets and prophets, like magicians, learn their craft from predecessors. And just as magicians will invoke the real or supposed source of…

History of the Art Museum

Seng Kuan

This seminar explores the development of the modern art museum as an architectural type, measured against the evolving nature of display objects, audience, urbanity, technology,…