Courses
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First Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Ingeborg Rocker, Preston Scott Cohen, Elizabeth Whittaker, Cameron Wu, Kiel Moe, Mariana Ibanez, Yael Erel
Prerequisites: Enrollment in MArch I program.The first of a four-semester sequence of design studios introduces students to the practice of architectural design, discussing the theoretical…
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Landscape Architecture I: First Semester Core Studio
Gary R. Hilderbrand, Silvia Benedito, Andrea Hansen, Jane Hutton
This studio course introduces students to elements of landscape architectural design at the scale of the public garden in an urban context. As the first…
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First Semester Core Urban Planning Studio
Kathy Spiegelman, David Gamble, Ana Gelabert-Sanchez, Kathryn Madden
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
Eric Howeler, Maryann Thompson, Jonathan Levi, Vincent Bandy, 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, Julia Watson, Kelly Shannon
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, Gabriel Duarte
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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Itinerant Architecture
The world we live in today is complex, afflicted with various risks and instabilities. This is particularly true for underserved communities, whose situations require, but…
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Landscape Wooden (Hill and Water) House
Landscape Wooden (Hill and Water) House+++A Natural Form of Architectural Narration and ConstructionIn ancient Chinese landscape painting, \”hill and water\” typology consists of \”hill and…
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End(eavors) Game
When the \”age of the world picture\” gave way to the \”first machine age,\” architecture went from being a book to being a machine, from…
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Light Monumentality
How can we define the concept of monumentality in contemporary architectural terms? Who or to what power structure(s) does the condition of monumentality belong? How…
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Evolutionary Infrastructure – the new mega form
Marion Weiss, Michael Manfredi
Biased toward expediting movement and inherently resistant to supporting other forms of inhabitation, transportation infrastructure is an archaic monument to mono-functional use. With ever increasing…
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Forward into the (Deep) Past
Back to the Future: The Harvard Kalahari Project RevisitedThe Kalahari Desert of southern Africa is our laboratory this semester. We will reject contemporary theories of…
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Dominant types and the idea of the City: Housing Beijing
This studio works typologically. It recognizes the city as a repository of architectural knowledge and potential. The city here is understood through its persistent architectures,…
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Urban Efficiency
The site, NYC will be utilized as the testing environment. In the next 40 years, the world\’s population is forecast to increase by 50% with…
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Istanbul: Between Contour and Silhouette
Summary: The studio explores how an architectural project could relate to the city through the manipulation of the ground line and the skyline. The practical…
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Paris Study Abroad Option Studio: Storyboard as Architecture Project
This course is offered as part of the Paris study abroadStoryboard as architecture projectThe city should give exceptional quality of life : a large range…
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Rivercity Gothenburg
Gothenburg is a water city, but it no longer has any connection to the water. Once a bustling port and industrial corridor, Gothenburg\’s Gota Alv…
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Water Front New Haven
Henri Bava, Olivier Philippe, Michel Hossler
Drawing the urban extension of the city center of New Haven towards the industrial port, crossing rail tracks and the motorway to reconnect city and…
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Central Park Revisited
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
\”I\’m a city boy. In the big cities they\’ve set it up so you can go to a park and be in a miniature countryside,…
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Modernizing MIT: An innovative approach to site design and detail
Modernizing MIT is a site-based design studio exploring the relationship between modern landscape design and significant works of architecture located throughout the campus of MIT.
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Rosario Territorial Front
Juan Rois, Leire Asensio Villoria
This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.T.S. Eliot, \”The Hollow Men\” (1925)Latin-American cities, especially those of Indian Laws foundation,…
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Water Line…Chicagos Urban River Corridor
Chicago has transformed from an industrial giant that depended on the Chicago River for moving materials in and out, to an influential 21st century global…
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Istanbul: Between Contour and Silhouette
Summary: The studio explores how an architectural project could relate to the city through the manipulation of the ground line and the skyline. The practical…
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Evolutionary Infrastructure – the new mega form
Marion Weiss, Michael Manfredi
Biased toward expediting movement and inherently resistant to supporting other forms of inhabitation, transportation infrastructure is an archaic monument to mono-functional use. With ever increasing…
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Rosario Territorial Front
Juan Rois, Leire Asensio Villoria
This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.T.S. Eliot, \”The Hollow Men\” (1925)Latin-American cities, especially those of Indian Laws foundation,…
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Mexico City and the Production of Housing
Introduction: Mexico City is one of the most dynamic and complex metropolitan areas in the world today. With over 20.1 million inhabitants, remarkable urban growth,…
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Visual Studies
This course will help you develop your sketching ability. The emphasis is heuristic-on specific ways that hand drawing can inspire, guide, and speed your design…
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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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Landscape Representation I
This course introduces students to the history, techniques, and conventions of representation used in the field of landscape architecture. Rather than a static description of…
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Digital Media I
Iterative design workflows will be used for generating, analyzing and representing variations in form, light, materials, and temporal simulations in the design development process. The…
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Digital Media II
Topics in Parametric and Generative Geometry and Modeling This class explores the design and science of logical form making, examined through geometry, parametric control, algorithms,…
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Landscape Representation III: Landform and Ecological Process
Andrea Hansen, Julia Watson, Shauna Gillies-Smith, Wilson Martin, Michael Flynn
This course seeks to examine the fundamental relationship between landform and the dynamic landscape processes it supports and engenders through in-depth study of the methods…
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Drawing in the City of Rome
The Rome drawing workshop places students within the context of Rome to live in, observe, analyze and draw from its complex configuration the ideas insightful…
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Immersive Environments
This seminar 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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Intermediate Landscape as Digital Media
The course will focus on digital modeling and representational tools for designers. Through the course, students will gain knowledge of digital design media and tools…
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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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Communicating Architecture, The Architect as Author and Editor
Over the past two years the Course has evolved and become a discussion forum as much as a hands-on lab – to debate…
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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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Cartographies of Hydrology
Cartographies of Hydrology is an advanced representation course. The course begins from the premise that mapping is a \’tactical enterprise\’ and builds upon James Corner\’s…
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Art, Design and the Public Domain
The first meeting of this course will take place on September 1st at 6 PM in room 510. Interested students should plan to attend. This…
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Interrogative Design: Animating Monuments
This course is cross listed with VES as VES137X. The course will focus on the ways in which designers and artists can…
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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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GIS and Representation for Planning
While urban planners use a variety of modes to communicate ideas, visual expression is one of the most compelling methods to describe the physical environment.
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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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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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Shrinking Landscapes
03343 will meet for the first meeting in portico 123 on Friday, September 2nd. This advanced research seminar will explore landscape issues and potentials…
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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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Recalibrating Infrastructure
The first meeting of this course will take place on September 6th at 6 PM in room 510. Interested students should plan to attend. This…
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Third Coast Project
This seminar applies research to analyze and speculate on regional territories, specifically the Great Lakes Basin. With over 20% of the world\’s total surface fresh…
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