Courses
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First Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Preston Scott Cohen, Anna Pla Catala, Elizabeth Whittaker, Cameron Wu, Michael Wang, Ingeborg Rocker
Prerequisites: Enrollment in MArch I program or permission of the program director.The first of a four-semester sequence of design studios introduces students to the practice…
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Landscape Architecture I: First Semester Core Studio
Jane Hutton, Paula Meijerink, Michael Van Valkenburgh, Charles Waldheim, Andrea Hansen
This studio course introduces students to the fundamental elements of landscape architectural design at the scale of the public garden in an urban context. The…
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First Semester Core Urban Planning Studio
Judith Grant Long, David Gamble, Kathy Spiegelman, David Mah, Michael Hooper, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal
The first semester core studio of the Master of Urban Planning program introduces students to the fundamental knowledge and technical skills used by urban planners…
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Third Semester Core: Architectural Design
Jonathan Levi, Maryann Thompson, Eric Howeler, Mariana Ibanez, Florian Idenburg, Danielle Etzler
Prerequisites: GSD 1101 and GSD 1102, or advanced standing in the MArch I program. The third of a four-semester sequence of design studios brings together…
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Landscape Architecture III: Third Semester Core Studio
Pierre Bélanger, Niall Kirkwood, Christian Werthmann, Julia Watson
Addressing the inertia of urban planning and the overexertion of civil engineering in the 20th century, this course focuses on the design of large, complex,…
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Elements of Urban Design
Felipe Correa, Anita Berrizbeitia, Rafael Segal
Elements of Urban Design is an advanced core studio for the post professional programs in urban design. The studio introduces a wide host of ideas,…
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RioStudio
The Graduate School of Design vs. Business School Studio aims to combine the creative experimentation of the designers with the rigorous number crunching of the…
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Global Redesign Project 2. Resonance: Virtual and Real: Design of a Performing Arts Center
GLOBAL REDESIGN PROJECT 2: RESONANCE: VIRTUAL AND REAL: DESIGN OF A PERFORMANCE ART CENTER SYLLABUS GLOBAL REDESIGN PROJECT 2: RESONANCE: VIRTUAL AND REAL: DESIGN OF…
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Dense + Green
In the context of today\’s debates on sustainable approaches for high density cities, contemporary architectural practice increasingly seeks new possibilities for integrating green spaces in…
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Rising Mass 2
Halfway between today\’s dominant discourse of programmatic freedom and the alleged over-determination of pure form-making, this studio celebrate architecture\’s ongoing critical return to form. Our…
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FORMAGRAPHICS
For centuries used as a fundamental form of geometric rationality, and perhaps now used as a reaction to the various types of topological / fluid…
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Performative Wood: Integral Design Computation and Materialization
Today, thanks in part to the new theories of self-organization that have revealed the potential complexity of behaviour of even the humbler forms of matter-energy,…
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Geography of a Bridge: Reconfiguring Istanbul¿s Ataturk Kopru across the Golden Horn
The studio aims to unlock the architectural potential of an infrastructural element by reconfiguring its status between system and object. The site is the foot…
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London: A Particular Proposition
The Studio will look at London, a city where design ingenuity has been nurtured by the unpromising parameters of layered historic regulation, international trade and…
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Dense Structure- Stressed Structures: Institute for Innovation in Infrastructure, Madrid, Spain
The city of Madrid is undergoing today one of its most important urban and infrastructural challenges; the burying of the M-30 ring highway has recovered…
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Poseidon’s Temple: Vessels, Membranes, and Urban Archipelagos
This studio will investigate a Mid-American city as it transitions from post-industrial decline, towards a new, water-based urbanism. Can its architecture and remnant infrastructure be…
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Architecture, In Extremes: A Spa in Wadi Rum, Jordan
The project is a Spa Resort located in Wadi Rum, which is one of the most important natural history sites in Jordan. Wadi Rum is…
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Roman Water_Gate: A New Entrance for the Metropolitan Area of Rome
The city of Rome has planned the development of a new commercial port in the vicinity of Fiumicino, close to the International airport Leonardo da…
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Boston Botony Bay
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
The Boston Botany Bay studio will re-define the concept of the botanical garden for the 21st century. The archipelago of islands in the Boston Harbor…
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Context Informs Form
Context Informs Form is a site based design studio exploring the relationship between modern landscape design and significant works of architecture. Students will be redesigning…
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Rethinking Real and Virtual Infrastructures in the 21st Century: Innovative Boulevards in Lisbon
FRAMEWORK.The modernization of Lisbon traditional city to a large extent involved the creation of linear spaces-avenues-associated with new economic and social activities, introducing different uses:…
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Geography of a Bridge: Reconfiguring Istanbul¿s Ataturk Kopru across the Golden Horn
The studio aims to unlock the architectural potential of an infrastructural element by reconfiguring its status between system and object. The site is the foot…
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Boston’s Innovation District
Matthew Kiefer, Dennis Pieprz, Janne Corneil
Can we imagine a new urban paradigm where innovative planning strategies and urban design ideas foster new ways of living, working, and interacting in the…
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Urban Social Design
Jose Luis Vallejo, Belinda Tato
CitiesThe city is a complex organism composed of a multitude of interwoven layers, links and interactions between all the elements that it comprises. The increased…
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London: A Particular Proposition
The Studio will look at London, a city where design ingenuity has been nurtured by the unpromising parameters of layered historic regulation, international trade and…
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Looking to the Future: Design, Sustainability, and Growth in Northern Greece
Spiro Pollalis, Martha Schwartz
Following a recent administrative reorganization, Edessa, a small historic town with natural beauties in northern Greece, has become the capital of a larger area. The…
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Visual Studies
This course cultivates the ability to draw by hand and encourages you to incorporate hand drawing into your design process. Each session includes a lecture…
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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
Christopher Hoxie, Andrew Witt
Topics in Parametric and Generative Geometry and ModelingThis class explores the design and science of logical form making, examined through geometry, parametric control, algorithms, and…
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Landscape Representation I
This course introduces students to the history, techniques, and conventions of representation used in the field of landscape architecture. The primary objective is the cultivation…
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Site Representation and Research
Developing and communicating practical ideas about places begins with identification of crucial entities and relationships that affect some aspect of the functioning or evaluation of…
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Landscape Representation III: Landform and Ecological Process
This course seeks to expand the fundamental relationships between dynamic landscape processes and the methods in which they are understood, conveyed, and graphically communicated. As…
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Immersive Environments
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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Augmented Architecture
Note: This course will meet in the Project Room on the days listed below. This course focuses on the idea that spatial experience can be…
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Intermediate Drawing
The purpose of this course is to draw. To be able to draw one must learn to see, or read, the world around us. Disegno…
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Communication for Designers
\”The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings. In the end the communicator will be confronted…
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Superficial Spaces
At a time when architectural discourse and practice are brimming with references to new geometries, this offering investigates the architectural potential of abstract three-dimensional surfaces.
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Communicating Architecture, The Architect as Author and Editor
The Course will introduce students to the potentials of the book as a medium for the communication of architecture. Editorial conditions and design rules have…
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Dioramic Modes in Landscape Architecture
This seminar/workshop explores the practical and theoretical potential of the diorama as a robust set of representational operations in the design and description of landscape…
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Advanced Landscape as Digital Media: Fabricating Grounds
The course is aimed at fostering a conceptual as well as technical approach to the introduction of digital design and fabrication techniques within landscape design…
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Landscape as Animation
This elective seminar studies the work of artist Joshua Mosley, in particular his methods of representing landscape through sequential photographic animation. In conjunction with four…
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Interrogative Design: Projection/Instillation/InterventionInterrogative Design: Projection/Instillation/Intervention
Interrogative Design Workshop:Projection / Installation / InterventionInterrogative Design Workshop will be offered as a part of new program in Art Design and the Public Domain.
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Art, Design and the Public Domain
With the beginning of this academic year GSD is introducing a program in Art Design and the Public Domain. This seminar is intended to become…
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Theories of Landscape as Urbanism, Landscape as Infrastructure: Paradigms, Practices, Prospects
Responding to contemporary urban patterns, ecological pressures and decaying infrastructures, this course brings together a series of influential thinkers and researchers from the design commons…
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Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form
Literature and Arts B Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form. This course takes an interpretive look at the American city in terms…
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Methods of Urban Planning
This companion course to the first-term Core Urban Planning Studio introduces students to selected methods used by urban planners in understanding, analyzing, and influencing the…
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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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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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