Courses
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Second Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Ron Witte, Thomas Schroepfer, T. Kelly Wilson
10,000 & 100 The second semester Core studio focuses on the synthesis of program and form. There will be two projects: one four-week urban project…
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Second Semester Core: Landscape Architecture Design
Paula Meijerink, Martha Schwartz
This course is the second of a four-semester core sequence of landscape design and planning studios. In this semester, students will expand their previous investigations…
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Fourth Semester Core: Architectural Design
Housing Architecture What interests the architect about housing is the way in which it peculiarly straddles the categorical distinctions between architecture and urban design. Housing…
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Fourth Semester Core: Planning and Design of Landscapes
Holly Clarke, Chris Reed, Christian Werthmann
The fourth of the four-term sequence of landscape design and planning studios develops the design concepts introduced in the first year and applies them to…
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UK/NL A Building in Amsterdam Harbour
UK/NLA building in Amsterdam harbourTony Fretton- www.tonyfretton.co.ukThe site for the project is a small island in the, an area of water between the railway line…
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Notes from the Underground: Boston Disconnect
NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND: SUBWAY SUPERSTATIONThe studio will be based on the premise that the Boston subway system is dysfunctional and inadequate, but also critical…
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Touristic Development in the Istrian Peninsula, Puntizela, Croatia
Instructors: Prof. Jorge Silvetti Teaching Associate Ivan RupnikThis studio will explore the impact of contemporary large-scale tourism in Puntizela, a prime virgin location in the…
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The Bone Studio 2: Experimental Concrete Architecture
The Bone Studio 2: Experimental Concrete Architecture The Bone Studio will continue the exploration started last spring semester into the concept of cellular solids and…
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Structured Ornament, Contextualizing Blank Typologies
The studio will explore ornament as an operative device to organize buildings and to integrate them within the urban realm. We will explore ornamentation as…
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“Two” Investigations in Residential Design
This studio explores design at the residential scale through sites located in Manhattan, New York and Sonoma, California. The class will address the form-making capabilities…
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The Regeneration of Harlow
Martha Schwartz, Jonathan Fitch
The Regeneration of HarlowWith Jon Fitch guest Studio CriticGenerously Funded by CABE: Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, UKCOURSE DESCRIPTIONINTRODUCTIONThe Schwartz Spring 2005 Option…
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Monterrey, a Mexican City and Landscape in Transformation: Three Rivers, One Region
Monterrey, a Mexican City and Landscape in Transformation: Three Rivers, One Region. OUTLOOKMonterrey is located in the north east region of the country and is…
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A New Neighborhood for Charleston, SC
INSTRUCTOR:Alex Krieger, assisted by Klaus Mayer, Loeb FellowParticipation:The Charleston Studio is open to, indeed welcomes the participation of, students from each of the disciplines at…
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Re-imagining Dudley
The Dudley Square business district was once the commercial and entertainment center of the Roxbury community. In the 1940\’s this area was the largest retailing…
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Monterrey, a Mexican City and Landscape in Transformation: Three Rivers, One Region.
Studio Title:Monterrey, a Mexican City and Landscape in Transformation: Three Rivers, One Region.Sponsor:Agencia Para La Planeacion Del Dessarrollo Urbano de Neuvo LeonMonterey, Nuevo Leon, MexicoMs.
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Provoking a New Form of Urbanity: The Corvin Promenade, Budapest
Rodolfo Machado, Felipe Correa
Throughout the last decade and a half, after the fall of the Soviet Union, Hungary has pursued aggressively its participation in a free-market system, shifting…
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Intermodal Istanbul
Intermodal Istanbul:Exploring possible forms of intersection at Sirkeci Meydan(Square) between a public square, a ferry terminal, an archaeological site, and a tram and train stationSummary:…
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New Orleans: Redesigning a Fragile Edge
ABSTRACT1. City Emerging from the WaterThe City of New Orleans is located at 90 degrees West longitude, and 30 degrees North latitude, 30 miles north…
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Newry, Northern Ireland – Revealing History in Urban Reconstruction
BackgroundOn April 10, 1998, a historic peace deal was signed between the Nationalists and the Unionists in Northern Ireland, UK. As part of the deal,…
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Studies in Landscape Representation II
A sequel to the course, Studies in Landscape Representation I, this course focuses on drawing and digital computation as modes of design inquiry. A series…
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Digital Media I
The course will help to develop basic skills in visual literacy and communication through the use of digital media. Considering that one of the primary…
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Site Systems Representation II
A sequel to the course Site Systems Representation I, this course focuses specifically on intermediate concepts of geometric modeling specific to the discipline of landscape…
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Advanced Drawing
DISEGNO=DISEGNO DESSEIN=DESSINIn Italian and French, drawing and design are the same word.This course concentrates on drawing as a design tool, from the initial stages of…
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Interactive Spaces
GSD 2314 Interactive Spaces explores the potentials of media as an integral part of architectural spaces. The seminar examines series of case studies and looks…
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Advanced Studies in Architectural Computing
DescriptionThe course is an in-depth study into the theories, processes, and structures of computing in architecture. It will seek to develop design projects that will…
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Drawing from Masters
FIELD PAINTINGThis seminar/workshop will introduce the practice of plein air painting to the architect. The issues of color and spatial invention through the medium of…
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M[ont]agic Operations in Landscape Spatiality
M[ont]agic Operations in Landscape SpatialityContemporary philosophical, design and cultural criticism recognize the phenomenon of \”montage\” as a visual discourse particularly analogous to the disjunctive and…
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Theories and Practices of Contemporary Landscape Architecture 1950-2000
Practice, according to Garrett Eckbo, is \’knowing how to do something; theory is knowing why.\’This course will explore the \’know why\’ of landscape architecture since…
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On Contemporary Architecture
What remains in contemporary architecture of the \”avant garde\” modern architecture principles?Until very recently, it was widely accepted that contemporary architecture arose directly from the…
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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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Advanced Topics in Theory
The module examines selected architecture practices and projects in the period between 1966 and 1983. The hypothesis of the class is this: The historical avantgardes…
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Safety and Security in Design
The seminar will begin on February 9. Starting on February 3rd, pleasefeel free to email me at [email protected] and I will send youthe syllabus and…
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Landscape Urbanization
This lecture course explores the theories, tactics and workings of Landscape Urbanism. It positions Landscape Urbanism as an intellectual re-alignment of landscape\’s role in urbanization…
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Configurations of Public Space – debate and design
All struggles against oppression in the modern world begin by redefining what had previously been considered \”private\”, non-public, and non-political issues as matters of public…
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The City of Leisure and Tourism
Since the 1960s, tourism has had a profound impact on cities. Many great cities, such as Paris or Rome, are discovering that their historic centers…
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Frames of Mind: Approaches to Film Theory
Introduction to the language of film theory, aimed at developing analytic skills to interpret films. A historical survey that spans turn-of-the-century scientific motion studies to…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
This six-module sequence, offered over three semesters, presents an introduction to the complex, interwoven web of conceptual issues and historical narratives in western architecture from…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts
This six-module sequence, offered over three semesters, presents an introduction to the complex, interwoven web of conceptual issues and historical narratives in western architecture from…
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Modernization in the Visual United States Environment, 1890-2035
Modernization of the United States visual environment as directed by a nobility creating new images and perceptions of such themes as wilderness, flight, privacy, clothing,…
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Adventure and Fantasy Simulation, 1871-2036: Seminar
Visual constituents of high adventure since the late Victorian era, emphasizing wandering woods, rogues, tomboys, women adventurers, faerie antecedents, halflings, crypto-cartography, Third-Path turning, martial arts,…
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History of Modern Gardens and Public Landscapes: 1800 to the present
This survey lecture course presents the history of landscape design in Europe and North America from early modern times to the emergence of modern landscape…
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Digital Culture, Space and Society
GENERAL ARGUMENTComputer and networks like the Internet have transformed our perception of space. They are also synonymous with the development of a new type of…
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Art and Architecture in Italy; 1250-1520
This is an introduction to Italian painting, sculpture, and architecture from ca. 1250 to 1520 emphasizing style and technique. The course is structured in three…
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Modernism / Modernity
This reading-intensive seminar explores four dominant strains in the theorizing of modernism – Marxism and Critical Theory (Manfredo Tafuri, Hilde Heynen), Formalism (Colin Rowe, Robin…
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Transition/Zagreb: Urban Condition and Spatial Practice
The seminar is concerned with conceptualizing and examining transition as both a condition and spatial practice of the European post-communist city. A sequel to last…
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The History of Horticulture in Landscape Architecture
Recent changes in the historiography of the European garden opened up a new field of study — the history of landscape architecture from a horticultural/cultural…
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The Culture and Politics of the Built Environment in the US: Seminar
Yearlong research seminar in conjunction with the Charles Warren Center workshop of scholars working in the field. Scholars will be working on research projects that…
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