Courses
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Second Semester Architecture Core: SITUATE
Jeffry Burchard, Tomás dePaor, Sean Canty, Iman Fayyad, Yasmin Vobis, Oana Stanescu, Patrick McCafferty
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, Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich, Paola Sturla, Sara Zewde
Second semester core studio explores research and methods in the design of complex urban conditions: sites layered with multiple and uncoordinated interventions that present issues…
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Second Semester Core Urban Planning Studio
Daniel D’Oca, Stephen Gray, Brie Hensold, Kathy Spiegelman, Richard Peiser
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
Jon Lott, Jennifer Bonner, Michelle Chang, Jenny French, Alfredo Thiermann, Charlotte von Moos, Ron Witte, Nat Oppenheimer
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
Jill Desimini, Rosalea Monacella, Danielle Choi, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Belinda Tato, Alex Wall
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
The spring studio builds upon theoretical and technical concepts already introduced in the MDE program with the emphasis on creative and critical thinking, observational and…
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The American Brick in Arcadia
‘The architect is a bricklayer who has studied Latin.’ – Adolf Loos‘Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together.’ – Ludwig Mies van…
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Intuition and the Machine
This studio combines the experience of a multi-year design research agenda with the fresh outlook of a collaborative design experiment. The purpose of the experiment…
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Midtown, Midrise, Mid-door
The studio will consider three recent and significant shifts in the design of collective housing in London: the viability and desirability of working from home;…
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BRIDGE WHERE YOU ARE: The Anamorphic Double
Uniquely called upon to embody purpose and beauty, bridges tend to be judged (more than any civic construction save the tower) on their singular object…
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Small institutions
Roger Tudó Galí, Josep Ricart Ulldemolins, Xavier Ros Majó
Inspired by Louis Kahn's passionate and enigmatic interest in institutions and their origins, the aim of this studio is to investigate the possibility of a…
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Fudo/Umwelt. Devising Transformative Environments in Japan
This studio is concerned with speculations (formal, material, social, cultural) on the future relations between architecture (design), people, and the city. The site of the…
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Temporary and Ephemeral Structures [M1]
In light of recent global turbulence generated by a series of crises – environmental, economic, political, social, and medical – architecture is once again challenged…
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Parkitecture at Pullman [M1]
The U.S. National Park Service (NPS) has struggled to tell the complex story of America and to reflect the country’s rich diversity. Despite recent progress…
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The Black New Deal [M1]
The Black New Deal Studio is a Design Justice course exploring the architecture made manifest as a result of privilege and power structures that define…
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Porches, Portals and Passageways [M2]
This studio will be the second in a series that explores the potential of a small scale municipal building to engage the urban and social…
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Cancel Architecture II [M2]
This studio continues the investigation of architectural consequences arising from the dismantlement of Confederate monuments presently under way in numerous cities across the United States.
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Underground [M2]
Instructors: Mira Henry and Matthew Au The studio will design two facades and a below level nightclub for an existing retail store along the western…
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LANDSCAPES OF THE VOID: URBAN PROJECTS ON RESIDUAL TOPOGRAPHIES.
Instructor: Danilo Martic I remember looking at buildings made of stone, and thinking, there has to be an interesting landscape somewhere out there because these stones…
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TAR CREEK REMADE
TAR CREEK REMADE: Environmental Legacy, Toxic Terrain and Re-Imagining the Future in the Tri-State Mining Area, Ottawa County, Oklahoma, USA. TAR CREEK REMADE will explore…
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Away…Offshore…Adrift… Shifting Landscapes, Unstable Futures
Nantucket, meaning "faraway land or island" or "sandy, sterile soil tempting no one” in Algonquin, is an island 30 miles off the southeastern coast of…
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SHADING SUNSET: Reimagining the Streets of Los Angeles for a Warmer Future
This studio reimagines the contemporary public realm of Los Angeles by reconceptualizing its streets as venues for social life in relation to sunlight. This work…
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SAO PAULO REACTION: TAMANDUATEÍ RIVER MOUTH
Cristiane Muniz, Fernando Viegas
The city of São Paulo grew dramatically during the 20th century. However, the transformation of the small village into the largest South American metropolis in…
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Xiamen Studio. Merging urban development and natural landscape.
Merging urban development and natural landscape: Searching for “spectacular or regular” projects? The Studio Option focuses on the capacity of large-scale projects to direct the…
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Building Respect on San Francisco’s Third Street
In the past decade (prior to the presence of the Coronavirus), San Francisco’s economy experienced its most substantial growth in nearly a century. Two factors…
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DIVIDING BRIDGES & BRIDGING DIVIDES. A studio on infrastructures and their consequences
Cities fail their citizens if they adapt too slowly. The pace of adaptation is, in part, dependent on the capacity of spatial practitioners to reimagine…
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FRINGE CITIES: The legacies and future of renewal in the small American city
Across the nation, small, post-industrial cities today occupy a critical boundary between our polarized metropolitan hubs and vast rural landscapes. These are the Fringe Cities.
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Quo Vadis, Addis? Manufacturing-led Urbanization in Ethiopia – Empower Design!
The studio ‘Quo Vadis, Addis?’ addresses the question of how to integrate existing manufacturing zones in the textile and garment sector within the socio-spatial fabric…
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Below and Beyond: Imagining the future of underground infrastructure at Harvard Square
This studio aims to propose a near-future scenario for the Brattle Tunnel, a piece of decommissioned train infrastructure located under Harvard Square. As the oldest…
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Landscape Representation II
Landscape Representation II examines the relationship between terrain and the dynamic landscape it supports and engenders. The course explores and challenges the representational conventions of…
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Digital Media: Design Systems
The course is an introduction to fundamental concepts, methods, and practical techniques in design computation with emphasis on a systems perspective. We…
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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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Digital Media: Not Magic
According to folklore, Michelangelo fell to his knees upon seeing the Florentine fresco Annunciation, went silent, and eventually concluded that the image…
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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
“An art professor once told me that in composition, elements should either overlap or there should be some space between them; that…
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Views, With Rooms
Evolving theories on optics, over time and place, have created a set of objects that physically model vision. Each renders vision visible…
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Talking Architecture
What is the use of architects interviewing other architects? Of course, it is about camaraderie, sharing experiences, and providing support. But, if…
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Immersive Landscape: Representation through Gaming Technology
"Soon will come plausible alternatives to our world. You may have failed in this one but what if you had a million…
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Drawing for Designers 2: Human Presence and Appearance in Natural and Built Environment
The aim of the class is to learn how to depict and express the presence and appearance of people in natural and…
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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 and the city. As artists and…
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Theories and Practices of Landscape Architecture
Pablo Pérez-Ramos, Katarzyna Balug
What do you need to know in order to understand this landscape? This course explores how cultural values are embedded in the design of landscapes.
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Landscape Fieldwork: People, Politics, Practices (with FAS)
Course description: This lecture course explores landscape architecture’s ethical and political power to shape the world. It will provide students with fieldwork…
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Type and the Idea of the City: Architecture’s Search for what is Common
Open to all students, the seminars in this course will complement Option Studio 1318: Midtown, Midrise, Mid-door. It will equip students with…
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Experiments in Public Freedom
As places that accept and encourage multiple representations, cities need spaces to enable unregulated, temporary, and spontaneous events. Due to their role…
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Material Practice and its Agency
This seminar introduces an understanding of material discourse in design and architecture that affects cultural, social ,economic and political issues. In addition…
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Artificial Intelligence in Contemporary Design Practice
Unprecedented issues, such as climate change, challenge the standard hyper-specialized approach to problem-solving. Within this context, there is a need for professions…
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Thinking Through Soil: the earth in the herbarium
Every material process that shapes the construction of the urban environment passes through the soil at some point. In Thinking Through Soil, we will use…
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Acoustic Space: A Media Archaeology of Building Types
This is a seminar on the past and present relationship between architecture, information technologies, and mass media. More than ever before, we…
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The Fifth Plan
In this seminar we will consider the evolution of the floor plan across five iterations: proto-modern, modern, post-modern, sequel-modern, and, most importantly,…
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The anatomy of (wild)fire, a design quest?
The research seminar examines the anatomy of (wild)fires in the context of climatic disintegration and the dismantling of agro-cultural practices of collectively…
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