Courses
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Second Semester Architecture Core: SITUATE
Jeffry Burchard, Michelle Chang, Elle Gerdeman, Oana Stanescu, Liang Wang, Emmett Zeifman
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…
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Landscape Architecture II
Craig Douglas, Gary R. Hilderbrand, Amy Whitesides, Sara Zewde, Min Yeo
The studio will explore how we might reimagine cemetery landscapes of the future in response to the challenges of the climate crisis, and the clear…
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Second Semester Core Urban Planning Studio
Daniel D’Oca, Stephen Gray, Brie Hensold, Mitchell Silver, Dana McKinney
The second semester core planning studio expands the topics and methodologies studied in the first semester core studio, GSD 1121, aiming to prepare students for…
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Fourth Semester Architecture Core: RELATE
Jenny French, Jennifer Bonner, Sean Canty, Andrew Holder, Grace La, Jon Lott, Elizabeth Whittaker
The fourth and final semester of the core sequence, this architecture studio tackles the complexity of the urban condition through the design of housing.
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Landscape Architecture IV
Lorena Bello Gómez, Tomas Folch, Danielle Choi, Mark Heller, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Rosalea Monacella, Belinda Tato, Alex Wall, Min Yeo
Near-Future City Urban Assemblages Encoded for Change This is the fourth and final semester for the core Landscape Architecture sequence. It questions ways in which…
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Collaborative Design Engineering Studio II
Kipp Bradford, Jonathan Grinham, Karen Reuther, Amanda Parkes
The second-semester studio builds upon theoretical and technical concepts already introduced in the MDE program, emphasizing problem assessment, creative and critical thinking, observational and experimentation-based…
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Ruinophilia & Pentimenti – Chinatown Milan Case Study
Arguably, the conception of ruins has long shaped western architecture historians’ origins narrative dating back to antiquity. Largely shaped by a distinct visual culture and…
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Grafting Adaptations onto Existing Buildings and into the City
Today’s architects have an urgent responsibility to address the climate crisis by radically reducing the greenhouse gas emissions resulting from our work. Reusing and adapting…
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Identity and Difference: Annuated Civic Typologies
This term we will revisit a theme we first explored in the option studios Block Blob Mat Slab Slat (2015) and—to a lesser extent— Intuition…
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Revitalizing Onomichi: Architecture, Community, Territory
Onomichi is a port city in Hiroshima Prefecture in the western part of Japan with a history of ship building. It was one of the…
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Voices of Change
Oliver Lütjens, Thomas Padmanabhan
The tone of our voice is more important than the words that we use. When we speak, we use a common language that we share…
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Barnes’ Barns in the Grid of Des Moines
This studio will explore the typology of the industrial shed – a 60,000 square foot building – developed from a kit-of-parts assembly to accommodate adaptable…
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Reconstructions / Unearthing Traces (On History, Memory and Architecture for Life)
“The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.” James A.
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The Last Free Space [M1]
What can public libraries do that other spaces – schools, community centers, museums – cannot do? This studio will study and speculate on how a…
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An Incomplete Performance [M1]
Our option studio will explore the double meaning of performance – working between the short-lived act of theatrical performance, and the environmental performance of long-lasting…
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Swerves [M1]
Half a century ago, architecture became open-ended. Buildings would change and grow, architects argued, not unlike cities. Architects embraced impermanence, promoted flexibility, timed obsolescence, and…
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Do-It-Anyway: Place, Tectonics, and Time [M1]
In this studio, students will design and fabricate a project at one-to-one scale in the space of seven weeks. Why? We are living in an…
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Designing the In-Between; Transecting the Heart of Chinatown on a Forgotten Site [M2]
A curious “missing tooth” in the chaotic and dense urban fabric of Boston’s Chinatown reveals a vivisection of the neighborhood and provides an opportunity for…
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Building on Buildings [M2]
In pre-Hispanic cultures, pyramids were often built on top of others. Layer by layer, the structures would grow, understanding that each finished building would at…
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Tower for a Collector [M2]
This studio follows on from a teaching program called “City & Utopia” established 10 years ago in Paris with the aim of exploring the world…
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Housing Future: Reclaiming the Chicago 6-Flat as a Site for Architecture [M2]
Lap Chi Kwong, Alison Von Glinow
The pairing of “Housing Future” and the “6-Flat” is somewhat contradictory. Housing Futures typically point towards advancements in new technologies or new configurations. On the…
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TUNISIAN NIGHTSCAPES: Nocturnal Landscapes in the Medina of Tunis
The studio will reimagine six public spaces in the Medina of Tunis, Tunisia. Taking a long-term view over a 5 to 50–year timespan, the studio…
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Biospheric Urbanism – Changing Climates
Critical MomentThe climate crisis poses the urgent question of how to make our built environment more resilient to the challenging atmospheric changes such as…
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CANARY IN THE MINE: De-carbonize, De-climatize, De-colonize rural communities
Canary in the mine is a sequence of Option Studios at the Harvard GSD focused on rural territories addressing communities and landscapes subject to ever-growing…
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Below, Above, and Beyond: Future of Antwerp’s Mobility and Public Space
This studio aims to project the near-future scenario of Antwerp 's mobility and public space. We will challenge the conventional monofunctionality of urban infrastructure by…
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BANGKOK REMADE
Niall Kirkwood, Kotchakorn Voraakhom
BANGKOK REMADE will advance alternative futures for the capital city of Thailand. The studio subtitled ‘Design to Enhance Social Dignity, Climate Resilience and Inspire the…
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Landscape Synergies of the new Energies
Faster than we would have ever thought we will and do already experience sustainable forms of energy production, storage, distribution and transport dominating and profoundly…
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Wild Ways 2.0: A Fifth Ecology for Metropolitan Los Angeles
Playing off Reyner Banham’s classic Los Angeles, The Architecture of Four Ecologies, the studio will explore themes of connectivity, resilience and landscape infrastructure under the…
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Airports and HST Stations as Nodes of Centrality for a New Age
Changes in territorial and urban mobilities play a vital role in addressing the challenges of environmental crisis. The studio will explore long-distance transportation modes as…
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Agropolitan Mats, Rugs and Quilts
This studio will focus designing a suite of buildings, connective armatures and productive landscapes that can catalyse sustainable food regions in the fringes of one…
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Future Proof Neighborhoods: Old and New Housing Ideals
The search for new models for affordable housing in the world’s growing cities has never been more urgent. Good and affordable housing is needed to…
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Designing the Conditions: Cooperative Housing in America
At the heart of how we conceive of housing in the United States lies a paradox: the goals of a house appreciating as an asset…
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The Future of Oil Boom Towns in Ecuadorian Amazonia
Geographers estimate that circa 80% of urbanization in Amazonia is peri-urban in nature. Since the urban frontier in the region is one of the fastest…
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Modulating Change
Mumbai’s urban identity has been in flux since its founding as a colonial port city. Its economy in the post-colonial phase of its history has…
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Landscape Representation II
The Landscape Representation II course will examine the relationship between terrain and the dynamic landscape it supports and engenders. The course explores and challenges the…
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Digital Media: Neural Bodies
This course explores generative artificial intelligence for volumetric, and especially architectural, modeling by considering the building as body from a computational and…
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Digital Media: Writing Form
This course offers an introduction to the field of design and computation through the essential pursuit of writing form. Setting aside the…
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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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Offsite/Onsite: Curating Contemporary Art
Today, everybody is a curator—we supposedly curate our meals, our social media feeds, and our outfits. But what does it mean to curate exhibitions of…
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Representation First (!!!), Then Architecture
Current tendencies in the discipline suggest a split between two opposing architectural projects: the easy project versus the difficult project[1]. Primarily related…
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Off: On a Tangent
The tangential inherently implicates the expression of how two things touch. In a moment where touching has become complicated, a formal exploration…
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Talking Architecture
This seminar is intended to contribute to the Public Events Program at Harvard GSD. During this third version of the course, students…
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Word(s) Count : Writing, Publishing, Design
The dual purposes of this course are 1) to teach students how to write clearly, concisely, and critically and 2) to teach the fundamentals of…
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Image as Instruments
Image as Instruments is an introduction to fundamental concepts, techniques, and methods in digital design, with a focus on the processes of…
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Public Drawing
This course seeks to open a discussion around the design and representation of public space in informal settlements, aiming to provide students with tools for…
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Drawing for Designers 2: Human Presence and Appearance in Natural and Built Environment
The course is intended as a creative drawing laboratory for designers, an expressive and playful supplement to computer-based labor. The aim of…
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Expository Cartography
Today’s cartographic convention, software, and methods of data harvesting all homogenize how designers approach and communicate through maps. Across practice and academia these forces produce…
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Bookmaking
Remment Koolhaas, Irma Boom, Phillip Denny
What was the book? What will it become? This team-taught, project-based seminar charts new trajectories for the future of the book. In tandem with exercises…
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Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices
The Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices Seminar investigates art and design work in the interdisciplinary modalities of contemporary culture, the city, and the world. As…
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Theories and Practices of Landscape Architecture
What do you need to know in order to understand this landscape? How do design culture and design thinking transform over time? How are cultural…
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Experiments in Public Freedom
Cities are spatial accumulations of capital and culture that can host and must cater to a vast array of different and often…
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Knowledge Design: What should or could knowledge look like in the 21st century?
This seminar/studio hybrid explores the shapes and forms that knowledge production is assuming in an array of disciplines, from media studies to digital humanities to…
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Thinking Landscape – Making Cities: Designing Regenerative Futures
This design seminar challenges the notion of a gradual adaptation to the climate crisis with proactive regenerative design. Students will create a…
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Urban Design & Planning for Climate Transformation, Intense Migration, & Rapid Urban Growth
We face a vulnerable future due to the accelerated intensity of natural and humanitarian disasters. The resultant scale of unprecedented migration has…
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The History of Heritage and the Heritage of History
This is a seminar course designed for design students who are interested in understanding the cultural background behind heritage theories, conservation practices, and related socio-cultural…
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Proximities / or Readings and Methods within Reflexive Formalism
“Making comparisons is the only good method in a world in which things take on consistency in relation to others. A comparison may be implicit…
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OPEN WORK [Module 1]
Half a century ago, architecture became open-ended. Buildings would change and grow, architects argued, not unlike cities. Architects embraced impermanence, promoted flexibility, timed obsolescence, and…
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Agropolitan Futures
This seminar examines the unsustainable relationship between urbanisation and agriculture. It will focus on Monsoon Asia where urbanisation rates are extreme and where most of…
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Towards a Newer Brutalism
In the early 1950s, Alison and Peter Smithson, along with their friend and colleague Reyner Banham, announced their arrival with a call for “a new…
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Urban Grids-3:Grid Plan versus Big Project
Within a larger research scope of exploring open forms for city design, this seminar will focus on a clear discussion of two…
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Appearance
This seminar will focus on architecture’s appearance, on how architecture is rendered both legible and actionable to its audience. The many labels applied to architecture’s…
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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…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts: Origins and Ends
Our aim is to address the general rupture caused by the rise of modernity—that is, by the social, economic, technological, and ideological transformations accompanying the…
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Histories of Landscape Architecture II
Designed gardens and landscapes are cultural artifacts that encompass three main expectations: pragmatic needs, cultural significance, and aesthetic order. Although some landscape narratives often ignore…
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Histories and Theories of Urban Form and Design
This course provides an introduction to the critical histories and theories of urban intervention and formation, and to the disciplinary practices of urban design in…
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Urban Planning Theory and Praxis: Comparative-Historical Origins and Applications
This course takes as its point of departure the historical and national origins of planning as a discipline, assesses its evolution over time and across…
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Modernization in the Visual United States Environment, 1890-2035
Here find an ecology of changes, a course on the ecosystem of change so rapid most thoughtful Americans know it as modernization. Design remembered and…
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Adventure and Fantasy Simulation, 1871-2036: Seminar
Fantasy opens portals to new life forms. It prepares us for supranatural humans, genetic adjustment, non-electronic novelty. It forms the core of natural-world reverence, maybe…
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Chinese Modern Architecture and Urbanism
Modernity as a topic is generally both a historical period and an ensemble of particular socio-cultural norms, attitudes and practices that arose…
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Making Sacred Space
This course addresses the current crisis in church design by an in depth consideration of the ideas, images, concepts, and legislation that inform the creation…
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Cities, Infrastructures, and Politics: From Renaissance to Smart Technologies
Infrastructure plays a decisive role in urban development and in the life of cities. This course will envisage this role from a historical perspective. History…
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Competing Visions of Modernity in Japan
The course will trace the parallel trajectories of two of modern Japan’s most influential schools of architectural thought, represented by Tange Kenzō (1913–2005) on the…
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Environmentalisms: How to Have a Politics?
Today we find ourselves in a paradoxical situation: as the words “neoliberalism” and “environment” have come to occupy the center of our political and cultural…
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Environmental Histories, Archived Landscapes
The course explores design methodologies for evaluating archives as evidence of material, spatial, and cultural change in constructed landscapes. Because archives seek comprehensiveness (distinct from…
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Architecture: Histories of the Present
“Poets and prophets, like magicians, learn their craft from predecessors. And just as magicians will invoke the real or supposed source of an illusion as…
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Natural Histories for Troubled Times, or, Revisiting the ‘Entangled Bank’
This seminar looks at our (troubled) times, its toxic landscapes and eco-unfriendly townscapes, through the lens of natural history. By “lens” we can think immediately…
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Urban Design Contexts and Operations
The course focusses essentially on modern, including contemporary, contexts and operations that have emerged during the past 100 or so years. Here urban design is…
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The Architect as Producer
In 2020, the interconnected crisis of racist violence, environmental collapse, and the global pandemic prompted profound changes in how we understand what architecture is and…
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Resilience Under New Water Regimes: The Case of Monterrey, [MX] Day-Zero
Globally, the world is experiencing a period of unprecedented drought, the worst in 1200 years according to NASA. With rising global average temperatures, water is…
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How To Be a Critic
This workshop seminar will focus the student’s ability to think and write critically about buildings, the city, and the urban landscape, and in the process…
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“Speaking of Architecture…” (Authorship/Objecthood/Criticism)
This seminar is motivated by the premise that all architecture is “architecture,” and is offered as a polemical dispute with the myriad attempts to remove…
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Yeah, they were all Yellow: Asian Feminist Architectural Possibilities
Intervention and reflection have been made in the primarily male-dominated architectural field with its phallogocentric Western metaphysics foundation, particularly since the 1980s. Yet much effort…
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Authenticity and Historical Dimension – Conditions for Landscape Projects
The reference to existing or lost traces of a site in general or to specific elements and artefacts in particular have been of eminent importance…
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Public and Private Development
Cities are developed by a complex blend of public and private actors and actions. This course employs a combination of lectures, discussions, readings, case studies,…
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Equitable Development and Housing Policy in Urban Settings (at HKS)
An introduction to policymaking in American cities, focusing on economic, demographic, institutional, and political settings. It examines inclusive and equitable economic development and job growth…
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Advanced Real Estate Development and Finance
This course builds on GSD 5204 and comparable introductory real estate courses offered by other schools at Harvard. It is an essential course for anyone…
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U. S. Housing Markets, Problems, and Policies
This course examines the operation of U.S. housing markets, the principal housing problems facing the nation, and policy approaches to address them within the existing…
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Experimental Infrastructures
Infrastructure is an encompassing term that can refer to anything from railroad ties to social media to ecosystems, and one which has…
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Urban Design and the Color-Line
We cannot talk about physical infrastructures in the United States without also talking about race. In this seminar/workshop, students will examine the…
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Making Participation Relevant to Design
By trying to understand how participation can make design more relevant to society, we can create more socially just cities. This course starts from the…
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Travel Behavior and Forecasting
All planning is based on planners’ beliefs about the future. In many cases, the most important (and most uncertain) aspects of the future relate to…
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Climate Justice
Recent discourse around climate change—including debates about the Anthropocene, Green New Deal legislation, the dire warnings of the IPCC, to name a few—increasingly make evident…
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Urban Design for Planners
Urban design is a complex and interdisciplinary process that indelibly shapes the economic, social, and physical character of places and communities, large and small. This…
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Native Americans in the 21st Century: Nation Building II (at HKS)
This community based research course focuses on some of the major issues Native American Indian tribes and nations face in the 21st century. It provides…
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Modern Housing and Urban Districts: Concepts, Cases, and Comparisons
This seminar course deals with ‘modern housing’ covering a period primarily from the 1900s to the present. It engages with ‘urban districts’…
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Designer Developer
Design and finance can both be understood as universal languages. Although architects, landscape architects, and planners are trained to produce and interpret design, it is…
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Land Loss, Reclamation, and Stewardship in Contemporary Native America
Daniel D’Oca, Eric Henson, Philip Deloria
This course will explore critical dimensions in American Indian land issues: historical land loss, contemporary tribal governmental efforts at land reclamation, stewardship, and co-management. We…
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Public Finance for Planners: Creating Equitable & Sustainable Communities
Infrastructure challenges are significant and rising. To meet these challenges, urban planners will need to acquire foundational knowledge and skills in the public finance discipline…
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New Towns and Affordable Housing Development in Africa
This course is a research seminar delving into new town development and affordable housing production in Africa. The course provides an overview…
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The (New) Image of the City
The rest of the 21st century is being drawn right now. More than ever before, organizations and individuals rely on projective images that indicate their…
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Creating Environmental Markets
There is a way out of the climate box we have created, though resistance to the necessary ecological transformation remains intense. Sunk investments in existing…
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Experimental Housing: Density and Incrementality
Generations of architects and urban designers have been searching for alternatives for standard apartment typologies. Many experiments have been designed and built…
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Planning Sustainable Built Environments
Modern infrastructure that invisibly delivers clean water and reliable power is often held up as a norm. Yet, in reality, it often fails, or even…
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Affordable and Mixed-Income Housing Development, Finance, and Management
Explores issues relating to the development, financing, and management of housing affordable to very low, low, and moderate income households. Examines community-based development corporations, public…
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Public Space
In a digital age, does physical public space matter? Tahrir Square, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Gezi Park, the streets of Hong Kong, Zuccotti Park, Madrid Rio,…
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Building Simulation
This course is the third of four modules (6121, 6122, 6125, & 6126) and constitutes part of the core curriculum in architecture. Objective: The best…
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Materials
This course explores the science of materials. How do we classify materials? How do we build with materials? What are the energy, health, and societal…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies II
Karen Janosky, Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich, Kirt Rieder
Topography is one of the primary and most powerful elements of landscape architecture, forming a foundation for plant growth, habitat, the flow of water and…
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Structural Design 1
This course introduces students to the analysis and design of structural systems. The fundamental principles of statics, structural loads, and rigid body equilibrium are considered…
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Cases in Contemporary Construction
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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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies IV
GSD 6242 is the fourth and final course in the Ecologies, Techniques and Technologies landscape core sequence. It is a required course for all MLA…
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Survey of Energy Technology (at SEAS)
Principles governing energy generation and interconversion. Current and projected world energy use. Selected important current and anticipated future technologies for energy generation, interconversion, storage, and…
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Mapping: Geographic Representation and Speculation
Maps both represent reality and create it. It is in the context of this contention that this course presents the fundamentals of mapping, spatial analysis,…
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Advanced Applications in Sustainable Architecture
This elective seminar will provide a deeper dive into issues of evidence-based, high-performance, ecological building design. The course is intended for MArch students, MDes students,…
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Plants and Placemaking – New Ecologies for a Rapidly Changing World
In the face of crises spanning pandemics, political turmoil, and the rapid degradation of the planet’s natural systems—all within a backdrop of myriad inequalities—the power…
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Towards a new Science of Design?
This project- and discussion-based seminar offers a deep, critical inspection of contemporary design practices, research methods and discourses informed by Neuroscience, Behavioral Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction…
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Automation in Practice: Building the future of Architecture(s), Engineering, and Construction
Population is estimated to exceed 10 billion people by the year 2050 requiring an immediate doubling of productivity in the AEC industry which includes Architecture…
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Structures in Landscape Architecture, Joint & Detail
This seminar/workshop explores how to design and make landscapes that are rationally constructed and expressively convincing. This search is focused through the lens of structural…
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Informal Robotics
This course teaches how to create original robotic devices made of light, compliant – informal – materials. New fabrication techniques are transforming…
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Ecosystem Restoration
Given the current speed of habitat and species loss caused by human development, the restoration of degraded ecosystems is one of the greatest challenges humankind…
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Procedural Fields: Functional Design of Discrete Hyperdimensional Spaces
Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez
This course will introduce participants to computational methods for the generation of discrete multi-dimensional media, using functional definitions. Digital modeling techniques are at the core…
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Data Science for Performance-Driven Design
The modeling of energy-efficient buildings and sustainable urban development is an increasing concern in both the building design and sustainability consulting industries. Early adoption of…
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Unsupervised Machine Learning for Designers
This course provides an introduction to the rapidly advancing area of research in unsupervised machine learning with a focus on generative models. Recent advances such…
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Nano, Micro, Macro: BioFabrication
Rapid global climate change has lent new urgency to our longstanding interest of growing materials to break the unstainable reality of material extraction, use and…
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Machine Aesthetics: The Binary and the Spectrum
The increasing encroaching of ML into the creative fields has been spearheaded by generative models that couple an artificial perceptual system to a generative parametric…
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Integrative Frameworks for Technology, Environment, and Society II
“Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones… it is the principal mark that distinguishes the professions from…
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Non-Professional Practice
“The particular threat to the intellectual today, whether in the West or the non-Western world, is not the academy, nor the suburbs, nor the appalling…
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Products of Practice: From code to plan to code
A research seminar that critically mines historic systems of representation, instrumentation, and the product (or media) of the architect in relationship to…
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Design Teaching Lab (DTL)
This course teaches design teaching for those interested in pursuing parallel paths in design and education. Starting from an understanding of design as a culture…
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International Real Estate and Urban Developments
Real estate, in the international realm, is anchored at the intersection of economic activities, capital flows, and the spatial transformation of the environment. While different…
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For Everyone a Garden: The Evolution of High-Rise Modular Housing Systems [1-unit, Module 2 course]
High density urban housing remains one of the puzzling unresolved issues of our time. Many experiments confuse issues of typology with those of construction methodologies.
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Edward Eigen, Eve Blau, Rahul Mehrotra, Jacob Reidel, Thaïsa Way, Danielle Choi, Rosalea Monacella, Daniel D’Oca, Ewa Harabasz, John May, Enrique Silva, Erika Naginski, Peter Rowe, Ann Forsyth, Diane Davis, Yun Fu, Richard Peiser, Ian Miley, Andrew Witt, Ellie Jungmin Han, Joan Busquets, Allen Sayegh, Alex Yuen, Christopher Herbert, Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez, Nathan King, Rachel Meltzer, David Fixler
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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Thesis project / Project Thesis
Lisa Haber-Thomson, Eric Howeler
As the culminating effort for the Master of Architecture degree, a “Thesis” entails multiple expectations. It is a demonstration not only of competency and expertise,…
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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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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree MAUD, MLAUD, or MUP
Following participation in the department’s fall thesis preparation seminar (GSD 9204), the spring term of the second year sees students complete, defend, and submit…
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Independent Thesis for the Degree Master in Design Studies
Holly Samuelson, Malkit Shoshan, Rosalea Monacella
(Previously "Open Projects”) Prerequisites: Filing of signed "Declaration of Advisor" form with MDes office, and approval signature of the program director. A student who selects…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Master in Landscape Architecture
Following preparation in GSD 9341, each student pursues a topic of relevance to landscape architecture, which must include academic inquiry and design exploration.
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Independent Design Engineering Project II
Martin Bechthold, Mary Tolikas
The Independent Design Engineering Project (IDEP) is a two-semester project during which students in the Master in Design Engineering (MDE) program work on understanding a…
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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.
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Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree Doctor of Design
Martin Bechthold, Diane Davis, David Moreno Mateos, Mohsen Mostafavi, Antoine Picon, Charles Waldheim
Thesis in Satisfaction of the degree Doctor of Design.
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Thesis Extension in Satisfaction of Degree Doctor of Design
Martin Bechthold, Anita Berrizbeitia, Gareth Doherty, Ann Forsyth, Jerold S. Kayden, Niall Kirkwood, Ali Malkawi, John May, Rahul Mehrotra, Erika Naginski, Richard Peiser, Peter Rowe, Holly Samuelson, Carole Voulgaris, Charles Waldheim
Thesis extension in satisfaction of the degree Doctor of Design.
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Discourse and Methods I
This course is open only to Ph.D. students in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and Design (Ph.D. students from other departments may participate with…
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Discourse and Research Methods
This pro-seminar is a core requirement for successful completion of the Doctor of Design program. Primarily, it will focus on various thematic areas that range…
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MDes Open Project: Forms of Assembly: All Things Considered
"When bodies congregate, move, and speak together, they lay claim to a certain space as public space." Judith Butler. In the…
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MDes Open Project: New Figures of Exodus (Histories and Philosophies of the Designed Present)
As the politics of extraction, exploitation, circulation, and adaptation cast an increasingly large shadow across the design disciplines, this project centers on an historical-philosophical study…
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MDes Open Project: Apparatus for Hacking Perception
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing our world today with a lot of indisputable evidence about it. Yet,…
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MDes Open Project: Black Counter-Cartographies and The Futures of Time
Black temporalities within zones of extraction are marked by the imposition of delay, which pushes people and spaces outside the regulated, normative…
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MDes Open Project: Revisiting Field Conditions
In surveying landscapes, neighborhoods, and communities, design could greatly benefit from further consideration of how they are recorded. While categorization and reproduction…
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MDes Open Project: Technology, Trust, and Governance
This Open Project collaboration concentrates on the transformation of democratic institutions and the novel mechanisms of trust building that governments are exploring…