Courses
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Structural Design 2
This course is a continuation of GSD 6227 and, after an overview/reminder introduction, furthers understanding of more developed structural systems and materials in architectural design.
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Survey of Energy Technology (at SEAS)
EAS Engineering Sciences 229. Survey of Energy Technology Catalog Number: 94822 EXAM GROUP: 7, 8 Please check the FAS schedule for…
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Innovative Construction in Japan
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…
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In Search of Design through Engineers
Hanif Kara, Andreas Georgoulias
This course aims to teach, stimulate and demonstrate \”design led\” opportunities that exist in the practice of Architecture. Positioned within the space of interdisciplinary boundaries,…
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Material Distributions: Gradients of Compliance
This course explores the role of computational structural analysis and form finding methods in design and fabrication problems. Such techniques can offer hints on how…
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Forms of Energy: Nonmodern
The spring 2015 Forms of Energy focuses on Nonmodern Forms of Energy and Design. Nonmodern refers to those forms and formations of energy that are…
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Issues in Architectural Practice and Ethics
Maryann Thompson, Jay Wickersham
This course, for students in the fourth semester of the M.Arch I program, examines basic issues arising in contemporary architectural practice. The course challenges the students to examine critically…
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The Practice as Project
The role of the architect today is constantly shifting. While society will continue to require numbers of well rounded, licensed and affiliated architects to provide…
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Innovation in Project Delivery
Project delivery – the organizational, legal and economic arrangements by which society produces its built environment – has undergone a radical transformation over the past…
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Media as Method
Today, the models of thought and levels of cognition that underlie the tools and technologies we use still on a daily basis, and over long…
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Visual Studies
Schedule: The course will meet once as a group on the first class, 8:30 am on Tuesday, September 3rd, in room 111. The course…
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Projective Representation in Architecture
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…
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Digital Media I
This course seeks to posit the role of digital media within the broader context of digital practice and to examine the generative capacities of the…
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Digital Media II
This class explores the design and science of logical form making, examined through geometry, parametric control, algorithms, and digital tools. The point of departure is…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts I
Erika Naginski, K. Michael Hays
This course is structured as a dialogue between the historical and theoretical frameworks that have shaped the formulation of architectural principles – what the architectural…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts III: Rethinking Architecture
This course in the History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture looks at several iconic buildings and architectural texts from the beginning of the twentieth century…
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Authority and Invention: Medieval Art and Architecture
Masterworks of art and architecture in Western Europe from the decline of Rome to the dawn of the Italian Renaissance. Explores the creative tension between…
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Structuring Urban Experience: From the Athenian Acropolis to the Boston Common
This lecture course examines selected cities between the fifth century B.C. and the seventeenth century A.D., beginning with ancient Athens and ending with proposals for…
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Situating the Modern: Modern Architecture and Vernacular Traditions
From National Romanticism in the late 19th century to Critical Regionalism debates in the 1980s, architecture’s ability to evoke a sense of place, locality or…
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Construction Lab
This course is an introduction to materials in both science and construction. The motivation is to equip the next generation of architects with the means…
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Energy in Architecture
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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Structural Design 1
The course introduces the discipline of structural engineering as a means of unlocking hidden architectural design potential. Students develop the skills necessary to make informed…
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Cases in Contemporary Construction
Mark Mulligan, Andreas Georgoulias
As the final component in the required sequence of technology courses, this professionally-oriented course develops an integral understanding of the design and construction of buildings…
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Water Engineering (at SEAS)
SEAS Engineering Sciences 165. Catalog Number: 4274 EXAM GROUP: 13, 14 Please check the FAS schedule for room information. Introduces the fundamentals…
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Computer Vision (at SEAS)
SEAS Computer Science 283. Catalog Number: 4475 Please check the FAS schedule for room information. Vision as an ill-posed inverse problem: image formation, two-dimensional…
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Introduction to Computational Design
This is an introductory course to computational design and the prerequisite for a spring course that deals with more advanced topics in the field. This…
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High Performance Buildings and Systems Integration
The interrelationships of environmental control systems as they relate to high performance/well integrated buildings will be explored in details. The course will address the main…
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Energy Simulation for Design
The best intent does not always lead to the best performing design, as intuition and rules of thumb sometimes fail to adequately inform decision making.
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Natural Ventilation
Note regarding the schedule: This Module 1 course will end on SEPTEMBER 29th. Topics to be covered: Basics of wind-driven and buoyancy-driven ventilation.
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Daylighting
Picture a space, one that feels vibrant, comfortable, warm, and healthy. Now visualize someplace cheerless, depressing, and dull. What changed in your mind\’s eye? Most…
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The Architect in History: The Evolution of Practice from the Renaissance to the Present
This course examines the history of architectural practice, focusing on the changing role and definition of the architect, with the goal of providing new perspectives…
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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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Exploring Contemporary Architecture through Persisting Issues
The lecture course serves to emphasize my belief that a critical reflection on long-standing issues in the architectural practice can provide a valuable…
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Digital Culture, Architecture and the City
This course is scheduled to take place in the Sackler lecture hall, in the Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway. Some twenty years ago, when…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts II
Any account of architecture’s history over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries is faced with the challenge of addressing the general rupture caused…
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Film Theory, Visual Thinking
How do moving images transform the way we think? Introduction to film theory aimed at interpreting the visual world, and developing skills to analyze films…
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The Shapes of Utopia
Utopia\’s fall from grace in the modern period is tied to architecture\’s failure in giving shape to dreams of a new society wrought from…
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Case Studies in Critical Conservation: Strategies for Curating the Built Environment
This course analyzes case studies in conservation as a means for developing projective strategies for interpreting and curating buildings, landscapes, and cities. More specifically,…
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Construction Systems
The course introduces a conceptual framework for the design of building assemblies, as informed by a clear understanding of construction technologies and of the properties…
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Environmental Systems in Architecture
The primary focus of GSD 6125 is the study of ecological considerations in architectural design. These considerations include the thermal, luminous, and acoustic behavior of…
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Structural Design 2
A continuation of GSD 6227, this course provides students with an enhanced understanding of structural analysis and engineering design concepts. Students learn the fundamentals of…
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Survey of Energy Technology (at SEAS)
EAS Engineering Sciences 229. Survey of Energy Technology Catalog Number: 94822 EXAM GROUP: 7, 8 Please check the FAS schedule for…
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Innovative Construction in Japan
Modern Japanese architecture has been much admired in the West for its attention to materials, its refined construction details, and its ability to integrate…
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In Search of Design through Engineers
Hanif Kara, Andreas Georgoulias
This course aims to teach, stimulate and demonstrate \”design led\” opportunities that exist in the zone between Architecture and Engineering, through the paradigm of…
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Computational Material Distributions: Gradients of Compliance
This course explores the role of computational structural analysis and form finding methods in design and fabrication problems. Such techniques give us indication on…
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What is energy and how (else) might we think about it?
Designers today require radically different intellectual frameworks within which to think energy, environment, and ecology. The need to rethink applies not only to the positivist…
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Real-Time Cities: an Introduction to Urban Cybernetics
In real-time cities, urbanity merges with digital information so that the built environment is dynamically sensed and synchronously actuated to perform more efficiently, intelligently,…
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Issues in Architectural Practice and Ethics
Maryann Thompson, Jay Wickersham
This course, for students in the fourth semester of the M.Arch I program, examines basic issues arising in contemporary architectural practice. The course challenges the students to examine critically…
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Visual Studies
Schedule: The course will meet once as a group on the first class, 8:30 am on Tuesday, September 3rd, in room 111. The course…
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Projective Representation in Architecture
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…