Courses
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Second Semester Architecture Core: SITUATE
Michelle Chang, Adam Frampton, Elle Gerdeman, Angela Pang, Ritchie Yao, Alexander Porter, Nancy Nichols
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, Elaine Stokes
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, Cory Berg, Brie Hensold, Wendell Joseph, Mitchell Silver
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, Nima Javidi, Andrew Holder, Cara Liberatore, Elizabeth Whittaker, Emmett Zeifman
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, Francesca Benedetto, Claire Fellman, Tomas Folch, Matthew Girard, Belinda Tato, Pamela Conrad, Min Yeo
The Near Future City The fourth and final semester for the core Landscape Architecture sequence responds to our most pressing urban agenda in the years…
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Collaborative Design Engineering Studio II
Kipp Bradford, Mark Coughlin, Jonathan Grinham, Karen Reuther
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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Architecture or the City
Today, it would be reasonable to argue that the architecture of urban morphology is more visibly autonomous than at any time since the advent of…
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Mingei and its Future: Hida Takayama, Japan
The studio looks at the legacy of Mingei, the “Craft of the People.” Mingei is a philosophy developed in the 1920s in Japan by Soetsu…
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Translogic Studio: A Proto-Urban Vertical Monastery
For this Studio we will focus on typological transformation and archetypal hybridization, integration of design and technology, and the relationship between precedent, speculation, and invention…
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Kit House II
This studio has two objectives. The first is to revisit an icon of American vernacular. The second, to reflect on the design process itself, on…
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The Temporary Contemporary: Assembling a Public in Downtown Los Angeles
The contemporary is a moving ratio of modernity, moving through the recent past and near future in a nonlinear space that gauges modernity…
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Urban Glitch
Urban Glitch is a studio designed to research the pressing issue of systems-linked architecture in relation to the complex and intertwined ecological and social imperatives…
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Long Living Spolia
Spolia, derived from the Latin word for "spoils" or "booty," involves repurposing art and architectural elements from previous constructions or demolished structures. The practice dates…
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Rethinking Metabolic Rift: Tokyo: Architecture Between Scales and Typologies
Can Tokyo be a cultural city, a city that is cognizant of the “metabolic rift”—the often-inevitable environmental degradation that accompanies urbanization—and yet committed to confronting…
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Nordic Urban Weave: On Domesticity and Civic Continuity
Set within Copenhagen’s post-industrial Nordhavn District, the studio investigates the global challenges of water resiliency and housing—a common yet complex condition in many harbor cities…
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The Coming Community
In The Coming Community, Giorgio Agamben recounts the following tale, as told by Walter Benjamin to Ernst Bloch: "The Hassidim tell a story about the…
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Magna Parens Materia
In the last century, architects have been driven by market conditions to build with the highest possible combination of CO2-heavy materials, including steel and reinforced…
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Reconstructions | Abandoned Lands + Abolitionist Futures
Harvard University has recently confronted its history with the release of a report detailing the institution's complicity in enslavement, stretching back to its founding. This…
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The Landscapes of the Norwegian Scenic Routes
Over the past thirty years, the "Norwegian Scenic Routes" project has produced imaginative buildings and landscapes in poetic dialogue with Norway's unique scenery and road…
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Bangkok Porous City: New Landscapes of Equity and Prosperity 2.0
Anita Berrizbeitia, Kotchakorn Voraakhom, Ignacio Bunster-Ossa
This studio will bring together faculty and students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to imagine how the last development parcel where river and city meet in…
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Wild Ways 3.0: California Connectivity
Site: Territorial California, from Death Valley to the Central Valley and the Sierra Madre Mountains This studio will explore themes of peri-urban, rural, regional, and…
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Under the Palm Trees
Sultan Youssef ben Tachfine founded in the 11th century Marrakech as the new capital of the Maroc empire in the middle of a desert plateau…
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Extreme Urbanism 9 – Imagining Housing as Urban Form
In recent years, housing has become an extremely scarce commodity in Mumbai. In 2007, Mumbai was the sixth most expensive city globally to rent an…
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New New Zealand Housing: Recasting the Good Life at Mid-Density
The studio is about housing and recasting ideas of the good life amidst contemporary challenges. It centers on the currently unfolding housing legislation in New…
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Envisioning the Rural Metropolis
With the United Nations estimating 250 million climate refugees by 2050, there are depopulating inner areas in Europe and the United States that, while often…
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Designing the Conditions: The Return of the Public Developer
The studio explores the role of design in emerging forms of public-sector housing development in the United States. Our testing ground is a former industrial…
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City as Resource
”When you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that…
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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: Writing Form
This course offers an introduction to the field of design and computation through the essential pursuit of writing form. Setting aside the better-known paradigms of…
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Digital Media: Models
This course is an introduction to fundamental concepts, techniques, and methods related to digital media in architecture and design, with a focus on reciprocal processes…
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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 of the Virgin…
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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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Images as Instruments
In the last three decades, architectural praxis has undergone a paradigmatic shift, precipitated by what Jonathan Crary delineates as a seismic transformation in visuality—a metamorphosis…
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Public Space in the Informal City
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 the class is…
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Place-Based Scenario Planning
The climate crisis is, in part, a communication crisis. How can we communicate the choices that communities will need to make to adapt to climate…
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Images of the Environment: Terror and Beauty
This project-based seminar will focus on producing “thick” descriptions of photographs of environmental crises in the recent decades. Those of interest include Edward Burtynsky’s series…
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Territorial Commons: Mapping Narratives in the Shifting Extractive Landscapes of the Antipodes
The relentless pursuit of economic growth has historically propelled an ever-expanding reliance on natural resources, shaping and altering cultures while transforming landscapes. This pursuit of…
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Theories and Practices of Landscape Architecture
Pablo Pérez-Ramos, Anita Berrizbeitia
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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Wild Ways: The Nature of Wilderness, Wild-ness and Wild Being(s) in the Anthropocene
This seminar interrogates changing ideas of nature on an urbanizing planet under the intertwined crises of climate change (global heating) and biodiversity loss (extinction) –…
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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 to their pragmatic…
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Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Drawing Landscapes, Energy, and Matter
The structures and forms we perceive on the land are produced by forces that make order and those that upset it. Landscape architecture is one…
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Thinking Landscape-Making Cities – Designing Regenerative Futures
This design seminar challenges you to create regenerative concepts and strategies for a just, temperate, and regenerative urban future. You will design a new settlement…
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Towards a Newer Brutalism
In the early 1950s, British architects Alison and Peter Smithson announced their arrival with a call for a “new brutalism”—a polemic sketched out over several…
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URBAN GRIDS-3: GRID PLANS versus BIG PROJECTS
The historic evolution of the city can be tied to “regular systems” that have allowed for rational forms of development, which can be understand as…
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Appearance
This seminar will focus on architecture’s appearance, how architecture is grasped by its public. We will explore the sources, significances, and receptions of our work’s…
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African Landscape Architecture: Alternative Futures for the Field
A central aim of this seminar is to reveal the plurality of ways landscapes are shaped across the African continent and how they help mitigate…
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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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Contextual Capacities
Urban analysis, understanding of ‘context,’ and specificity of a place, have long been intrinsic to architectural and urban discourse and practice. Today, this discussion is…
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Redefining Urban Design
The field of urban design is undergoing a process of major transformation. Josep Lluís Sert’s initial definition as the space between planning and architecture, emphasizing…
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