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3.00 Credits
This seminar will be divided into two parts. It will begin with an overview of the historical evolution of the building envelope. This will include both an examination of existing construction technology and the natural forces that these surfaces must mitigate, including methods of modeling such as sun-shading, lateral forces, etc. The emphasis, however, will be on investigating contemporary developments in the design of building envelopes in both a technical and formal sense. These technologies will include: new cladding materials and coatings such as photo-reactive paint and electrochromatic glass, fiber concrete; new curtain wall technology including stress skin; rain screen wall systems; green walls, green roofs, photovoltaics and water harvesting systems.
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6.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar aims to look at the current architectural discourse by tracing the fissures that developed around the status of the object and the reading of context that emerged as a reaction to the disciplines mid-century obsession with utility and the relentlessness of post-war sprawl that seemed to render current modes of architectural production impotent. This epic spun-off parallel discourses around modes of reading, one focused on the legibility of meaning in form and the other around reading practices focused on emergent urban conditions. The seminar aims to trace the path of language-based reading practices from Rowe to Eisenman, research-based narrative that spans from Venturito Koolhaas and map the complex of spaces that lie between them and have mutated to the present.
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3.00 Credits
Process innovation in the design and construction industries is far too rare. Even with access to powerful tools such as CADD and the Internet, many opportunities for process improvement are overlooked and problems are repeatedly ignored. Within this course, cross-discipline project teams will use contemporary business tools to evaluate longstanding industry practices and develop ideas for process innovation. At the end of the semester, students will present innovation concepts to members of the Project Delivery Innovation Forum, a group of industry leaders that may select student ideas for further research on real projects.
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3.00 Credits
An introductory survey of the characteristics of the delivery of architectural services by professional design organizations. Through readings and lectures, students become familiar with the social, technical, legal, ethical, and financial milieu of modern architecture practice.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar for advanced undergraduate students and graduate students will focus on the writings and practice of the semester's four RSA Cullinan visitors: art historian David Joselit (Yale), architect Michael Maltzan (L.A.), architect Alejandro Zaera-Polo (London), and art historian Neil Levine (Harvard). The seminar will be a platform for researching these four topics, including additional background references, other writings by these four figures as well as writings about them and their own work. Additionally, the seminar will feature one seminar session each with the four speakers.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
Independent research or design arranged in consultation with a faculty member. Subject to approval of faculty advisor and director.
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3.00 Credits
This is an introductory course in the use of Building Information Management (BIM) software. The course will utilize "Revit Architecture" by Autodesk, which is now installed on the PC's in RAVL. Students will produce a complete drawing package including architectural, mechanical and structural drawings of a building they have previously designed in studio or a structure developed specifically for this exercise.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine Twentieth Century architectural discourse in a broad intellectual context. Course material will cover the period between 1900 and the present, focusing on 1965-1995. Special attention will be paid to relationships among philosophy, critical theory, cultural criticism, and the objects and theories of architecture. The following topics are covered: Anticipation and Reflection, Formalist Aesthetics, Architecture and Form, Culture and Modernity, Culture and Depth Analysis, Psychoanalytic Interpretation, Architecture and Desire, Culture and Politics, Marxism and Neo-Historicism, Architecture and Political Critique, Phenomology and Reception, Architecture and the Life-World, Culture after Modernism, Semiotics and Structuralism, Discourse and Discipline, Deconstruction and Textuality, Deconstruction (Re)constructed, Feminism and Gender Theory, Architecture and Difference.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar examines the urban forms of pluralism and indeterminacy that emerged during late Modernism with the breakdown of CIAM and was positioned through the projects of the 'megastructure,' 'omnibuilding' and 'pod' in the postwar period. Exploring the link between this 'almost project' that was interrupted during the 1970s and 80s., the seminar explores recent analogous trajectories within systems of infrastructure, landscape and ecology in providing a platform for the continued project of plurality. Unpacked through an examination of theoretical texts and projects by Hannah Arendt, Buckminster Fuller, Cedric Price, Yona Friedman, Archigram, Archizoom, Superstudio, OMA, Stan Allen, Keller Easterling and Konstantinos Doxiadis amongst others, it positions a new role and relevancy for the architect who is confronted with an increasingly indeterminate globe and contingent city.
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