Courses
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A House for Almost Everything [M2]
The studio will focus on fundamental elements that comprise a building as a premise for making architecture. We will examine the ecology of a building,…
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GROUNDSCRAPERS [M2]
Nowadays, demands for other ways of social spatial organizations are needed, – for sanitary and social reasons – a new type is required to fill…
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Architectural Representation I
Architectural Representation I: Origins + Originality Architectural representation is an ideology—a source of ideas and visionary theorizing that has a set of origins and qualities.
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Architectural Representation II
Architectural Representation II: Projective Disciplines This course examines systems of projection as constructs that mediate between our spatial imagination and built form. Projective systems have…
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Digital Media: Telepresence
Telepresence refers to a set of technologies that provide stimuli to a user’s senses, so that the person feels as if they are present or…
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Digital Media: Artifacts
This course is an introduction to fundamental concepts, techniques, and methods related to digital media in architecture and design, with a focus…
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Responsive Environments
The course introduces students to the tools and design methods for creating responsive environments and technologically driven experiences in the built environment. By putting the…
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Mini MOOCs
INTRO. Distance learning tools are here to stay. The course will introduce students to make their own mini MOOCs (Massive Open Online…
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Paper or Plastic: Reinventing Shelf Life in the Supermarket Landscape
We tend to assume that supermarkets are static, neutral spaces where little of significance ever happens. The supermarket shelf is actually a…
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Drawing for Designers: Techniques of Expression, Articulation, and Representation
The course is intended as a creative drawing laboratory for designers and an expressive, playful supplement to computer-based labor. This course will…
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Public Projection: Projection as a Tool for Expression and Communication in Public Space
The class will focus on the development of original projection projects that can inspire and facilitate artistic expression and cultural communication in public space. In…
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Art, Design and the Public Domain Proseminar
“What do I want history to do to me?,” asks Zadie Smith. “I might want history to reduce my historical antagonist—and increase me. I might…
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Culture, Conservation and Design
This proseminar addresses issues of critical conservation, an evolving discipline that illuminates the bridge between cultural meaning, identity, and context as part…
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An Unsentimental Look at Architecture and Social Craft
Designers of the built environment have had an on-again, off-again relationship with social agency. Progressive design and social outcomes were closely linked in…
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Marvelous Architecture – The Hallucination Of Reason
The seminar "Marvelous Architecture – The Hallucination Of Reason" is about architecture theory crossbred with representation. It will explore the specificity of architectural…
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Building, Texts, and Contexts: Between Origins and Modernity: 18th- and 19th-Century Architecture
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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Screens – Projecting Media and The Visual Arts
Giuliana Bruno, Emilio Vavarella
How do screens function as interface between us and the world? What is the role of the screen in contemporary visual arts and media culture?…
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Building Conservation and Renewal: Assessment, Analysis, Design
What are the spatial, material, and cultural values inherent in a property that must be understood to craft interventions and additions that…
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Environmentalisms II: How to Have a Politics?
Today we find ourselves in a paradoxical situation: at the very moment that the idea of “environment” is being placed at the center of our…
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Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, and Architecture 1960 to the Present
The concept of postmodernism finds its definitive articulation in architecture, even though postmodern thought far exceeds the use of the term postmodern…
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Architecture and Construction: From the Vitruvian Tradition to the Digital
The course aims to contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between architecture and construction through the study of key historical…
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The Project and the Territory: Japan Story
What is the future of urbanization?What role can design play in shaping that future? What will happen to the conflicting tensions…
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Urban Ethnographies
Planners’ understanding of social process and cultural values is often woefully inadequate, and their thinking is dominated by a “one-size-fits-all” approach and…
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Public health in an era of epidemics: from the camp to the building
We didn’t need a pandemic to know that we shouldn’t conceive any more architecture projects and urban planning interventions that disregard their…
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New Spaces of Justice
This class will take the shape of a multidisciplinary workshop in collaboration with Virgil Abloh, Nóra Al Haider and the Legal Design Lab at Stanford…
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Race, Power, and Resistance in the City
The police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other Black Americans, as well as the racial health disparities highlighted by the…
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Justice: Ethics in an Age of Pandemic and Racial Reckoning (at FAS)
What is a just society? What do we owe one another as citizens? What is a good life? These questions, long debated by philosophers, arise…
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Environmental Systems 1
This course is the first of a two-module sequence in building technology (6121, 6122) and constitutes part of the core curriculum in architecture. Objectives: –…
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Environmental Systems 2
Purpose: This course is the second of a two-module sequence in building technology (6121, 6122) and constitutes part of the core curriculum in architecture. Objective:…
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Construction Systems
This course introduces students to methods of construction: conceptually, historically, and practically. We will consider how construction techniques emerge in relation to architectural desires and…
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Structural Design II
Martin Bechthold, Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez
This course is a continuation of GSD 6227 and completes the introduction to the analysis and design of building structures. Both 6227 and 6229 are…
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Innovation in Science and Engineering: Conference Course (at SEAS)
The course explores factors and conditions contributing to innovation in science and engineering; how important problems are found, defined, and solved; roles of teamwork and…
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Material Systems: Digital Design and Fabrication
Digital design and fabrication technologies have become integral to the discourse surrounding contemporary design and architectural practice. The translation from design to…
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Introduction to Computational Design
Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez
#GSD6338 is an introductory course on Computational Design, with particular focus on architecture, landscape and urbanism. In this course, we will understand…
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Interface Design: Integrating Material Perceptions
The course explores the interface between architecture and engineering by examining our perceptions towards materials. Interdisciplinary research has gained interest in recent…
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Advanced Topics on Embodied Carbon in Buildings
Present assumptions indicate that the management of our material world accounts for more than half of all global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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Domestic Logistics
Modern domestic spaces are embedded in networks of goods, labor, media, and technology that shape their functions, capacities, and cultural role. They…
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Advanced Applications in Sustainable Architecture
This new elective seminar will provide a deeper dive into issues of evidence-based, high-performance, sustainable building design. The course is intended for…
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Optimizing Facade Performance: A Deep Dive on Design Decisions
Building envelopes are at the intersection of design, performance, and occupant experience in architectural design. Facades influence many aspects of building performance,…
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Visualization (at SEAS)
This course is an introduction to key design principles and techniques for visualizing data. It covers design practices, data and image models, visual perception, interaction…
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Transformable Design Methods
This course is intended for students interested in how to create products, buildings, and environments that utilize physical transformation to realize enhanced…
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Confronting Climate Change: A Foundation in Science, Technology and Policy (at FAS)
This course will consider the challenge of climate change and what to do about it. Students will be introduced to the basic science of…
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Foundations of Practice
Jeffry Burchard, Gregg Garmisa, Timothy R. Twomey
For students in the fifth semester of the MArch I degree program, this course examines models and issues that define contemporary professional practice. Requiring students…
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Integrative Frameworks for Technology, Environment, and Society I
Developing and implementing good solutions to real problems facing human society requires a broad understanding of the relationships between technology innovation, science, manufacturing, design thinking,…
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Frameworks of Practice
How should we practice today? The discipline, the profession, and the practice of architecture are invented and designed things. And the roles,…
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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 half…
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Elements of the Urban Stack
Paul Nakazawa, Elizabeth Christoforetti
The Urban Stack is a pedagogical framework for understanding the infrastructures of power that operate in relationship to practice. These elements shape…
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Forms of Assembly
This course is an advanced two semester research and project-based seminar initiated by Art, Design, and the Public Domain MDes, in collaboration with…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Seth Denizen, Alistair McIntosh, George Thomas, Elizabeth Whittaker, Charles Waldheim, Iman Fayyad, Stephen Gray, Jonathan Grinham, Mark Lee, George L. Legendre, Ann Forsyth, Alex Wall, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Lily Song, Oana Stanescu, Gareth Doherty, Preston Scott Cohen, Nathan King, Alfredo Thiermann, Megan Panzano, Joan Busquets, Malkit Shoshan, Stephen Ervin, Toshiko Mori, Jorge Silvetti, John May, Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich, Andrew Witt, Abby Spinak, Daniel D’Oca, Susan Snyder
Students may take a maximum of 8 units with different GSD instructors in this course series. 9201 must be taken for either 2, or 4…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree MArch
The Thesis Program encourages students to take advantage of the wide range of resources and research initiatives of the Graduate School of Design and its…
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