Courses
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Topics in Architectural Theory
Sarah M. Whiting, K. Michael Hays
This course is an advanced elective course for students who wish to pursue studies in the field of twentieth century architectural theory beyond the introduction…
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Current Architecture as Cultural Discourse
\”In fact it is only the ideal soul of society, that which has authority to command and prohibit, that is expressed in architectural compositions properly…
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Current Architecture as Cultural Discourse
\”In fact it is only the ideal soul of society, that which has authority to command and prohibit, that is expressed in architectural compositions properly…
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Architecture and Art: From Robert Smithson to the emerging `New Synthesis¿
Since the first announcements of the \’demise\’ of painting in the post-Abstract Expressionist era, art has consistently sought to radicalize its practice by upending the…
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Part Animal: Forms of Architecture, Forms of Life
A point of stability, a circle of property, and an opening to the outside –these are the three aspects of the refrain. — DeleuzeDifferentiation in…
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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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Decorating Diversions: Industrial Design, Consumerism and the Production of Spaces
The history and practice of Decorative Arts, Industrial Design and the Design of Interiors are intrinsically intertwined and at times indistinguishable. The more recent rubric…
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Decorating Diversions: Industrial Design, Consumerism and the Production of Spaces
The history and practice of Decorative Arts, Industrial Design and the Design of Interiors are intrinsically intertwined and at times indistinguishable. The more recent rubric…
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Conservation of Older Buildings: Techniques and Technics
This course will teach the understanding of existing building form and fabric and how to conserve them. Where does one even start the evaluation process?…
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Conservation of Older Buildings: Techniques and Technics
This course will teach the understanding of existing building form and fabric and how to conserve them. Where does one even start the evaluation…
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Critical Conservation: Understanding the Urban Cultural Ecology of Progressive Places
21st Critical Conservation seeks to disentangle the complex web of 19th c. elite values of historic preservation and 20th c. mass-culture strategies that together…
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Culture, Conservation and Design – Creating the Conversation
This seminar will situate the conversation about Strategic & Critical Conservation in the cultural realm with the goal of expanding and developing an understanding of…
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Culture, Conservation and Design
This proseminar addresses theoretical foundations of Critical Conservation as an evolving discipline that bridges between Cultural Meaning, Identity and Context. Its goal is to enable…
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Culture, Conservation and Design
This proseminar addresses theoretical foundations of Critical Conservation as an evolving discipline that bridges between Cultural Meaning, Identity and Context. Its goal is to…
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What Are We Up To?
Course is offered as part of the Paris study abroad.Enrollment in this course is no longer open as it is part of the Paris Study…
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Everyday Spaces
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…
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Universal Design and other Design Dilemmas
This course will trace a topic at the intersection between Architecture, Interior Design and Industrial Design: Universal Design. While today it encompasses very specific principles,…
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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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Special Offerings in Design Theory
Provocation\”There is hardly any real architectural theory to be found, despite the diversity of practices at work today, anddespite a hugely expanded volume of architectural…
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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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Learning from The Function of Style
Farshid Moussavi, James Khamsi
This course will meet at 12 noon instead of 10 AM on Wednesday, September 2nd. The springboard for this course is The Function…
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The Ideology of the Map
Mapping reveals the complex relationship between representation and thinking, technology, culture and aesthetic practices. Embedded in the procedure are the general terms of cartography and…
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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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Media Archaeology of Place
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Jesse Shapins, Ernst Karel
Combining media art practice with critical inquiry and ethnographic research, Boston and other sites serve as laboratories for exploring different modes of representing place. Films,…
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Out of the Box
Research for an upcoming exhibition, we will be looking at the work by a handful of architects who graduated from the GSD in the 40s…
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Designing the Underneath: Architecture and/as Infrastructure
As both a collection of built objects – bridges, highways, tunnels, cables – and as a set of ideas about modernity, architecture has long sought…
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The Architecture of Mobility: Desiging for the Mobile Subject
The Architecture of Mobility: Designing for the Mobile SubjectMax HirshThis course interrogates the relationship between architecture practice and mobility and examines architectural strategies that address…
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A Science of the Environment
The science of ecology purports to study life as the sum of interactions between organisms and their natural environment. The term \’natural\’ has in recent…
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A Science of the Environment
The science of ecology purports to study life as the sum of interactions between organisms and their natural environment. The term ‘natural’ has in recent…
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A Science of the Environment
The science of ecology purports to study life as the sum of interactions between organisms and their natural environment. The term ‘natural’ has in recent…
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Advanced offering in Theory and Methods
The current global crisis , a perfect storm of finance, environment and politics, requires a need to rethink the role and practice of architects, planners,…
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Global Redesign Project
Architects as agents of change in a globally interconnected world is the theme of inquiry for this seminar. It is not a coincidence that we…
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Architecture and Art: From Minimalism to Neuro-phenomenology
Since the first pronouncements of the \’death\’ of painting in the post-Abstract Expressionist era, art consistently sought to radicalize its practice by overturning the traditional…
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Architecture and Art: From Minimalism to Neuro-phenomenology
Since the first pronouncements of the \’death\’ of painting in the post-Abstract Expressionist era, art consistently sought to radicalize its practice by overturning the traditional…
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Critical Preservation Practices
This seminar combines theoretical readings from the history of preservation and conservation in architecture with presentations of contemporary cases of architectural, landscape, and urban conservation…
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The Mixed-Reality City
The contemporary city is constituted by multiple overlapping, intermixing realities articulated across built form and imagined space, individual experience and collective memory, embodied sensation…
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Light Structure I
Lightness is an attribute that spans: structure, performance, materiality, assembly, and transportation; as well as, experiences and perceptions of a built environment. Based on its…
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How to do Things with Words
This seminar will seek to explore the (actual and potential) roles and uses of writing within design and the design field. It will address…
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Mass Individualism: The Form of the Multitude
What do three contemporary tropes ubiquitous in recent architecture have in common: 1) complex and varied aggregations, 2) the migration of informal domestic atmospheres into…
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Conservation Canons and Institutions
Rahul Mehrotra, K. Michael Hays
This module will study and analyze the canons and institutions that have traditional guided the parameters of conservation and preservation practice. The seminar will critically…
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Conservation History, Its Canons and Institutions
This course analyzes the canons and institutions that have traditionally guided the parameters of conservation and preservation practice. As such, the course situates conservation…
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Critical Conservation as Social Activism: History, Theory, and Methods
Historic preservation strategies have been used by communities to achieve various social ends, ranging from staving off gentrification and restricting neighborhood development to developing…
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Design for Learning
When Walter Gropius discussed the “training of an architect” he identified the very first years of formal education, Nurseries and Kindergartens. In truth, the early…
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States of Design: The Present and Future of the Field in Twelve Parts
In the past decades, design has branched out in many new directions that have galvanized emerging practitioners, sparked business models, and set the worldwide…
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The Moment of the Monument
Built around two practica–involving the \”excavation\” of an existing monument and the design of a future monument–the course examines the rise and fall of the…
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BIBLIOTHECA: The Library Past/Present/Future
\”Wisdom builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down\” reads the lead verse of Proverbs 14. The verse may serve…
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The Aperture Analyzed: The Form and Space of Openings
This seminar will focus on an essential component of architecture, the aperture, which has broad implications for our understanding of space. An aperture is commonly…
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The Aperture Analyzed: The Form and Space of Openings
This seminar will focus on an essential component of architecture, the aperture, which has broad implications for our understanding of space. An aperture is…
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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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