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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The seminar will explore theories of urbanism and housing by reading canonical writers who have created distinctive and influential ideas about urbanism and housing from the nineteenth century to the present. The writers are architects, planners, and social scientists. The theories are interdisciplinary. One or two major work will be discussed each week. We will critically evaluate their relevance and significance for architecture now. Topics include: modernism, functionalism and social change; technological futurism; social critiques of urban design, the New Urbanism; the networked city; and sustainable urbanism.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
We will consider that a successful thesis entails the meeting of a socio-cultural problematic with a specific disciplinary issue, that the confluence and exchange between these external and internal situations can instigate an original contribution to architectural knowledge and technique. The "newness" of this contribution comes through a particular kind of repetition, a wily swerve within the established canon. The seminar will introduce disciplinary methods and themes through close readings of architectural texts and objects and will provide a workshop for the testing and elaboration of architectural polemics through directed research.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The Advanced Design Studio examines architecture as cultural production, taking into account its capacity to structure both physical environments and social organizations. A specific problem or topic area will be set by each studio critic, and may include a broad range of building types, urban districts or regional landscapes, questions of sustainability, building materials or building performance. Studio work will include research and data gathering, analysis and program definition. Students are expected to master a full range of design media, including drawing, model-making and computer-aided design.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course will familiarize participants with the basic theories and practices of ecological design in architecture. It will promote professional practices that foster environmentally sound design decision-making and achieve beneficial social and economic outcomes. It will investigate how designing within the matrix of natural systems and processes can enhance both the experiential and poetic dimensions of architecture.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
An examination of the connection between the evolved structure of the human brain and the demands made on it to metabolize the environment for survival through: 1) examination of the history of the Great African Rift Valley over 3 million years; 2) a survey of the pioneering work of early 20th century neurologists and theoretical biologists who speculated on how the nervous system produces coherent form of actions and behavior; 3) development of a synthesized approach for a design prototype of a mobile, single-person housing unit to be in the Laikipia District in northern Kenya, working across architecture, neurology, geology and landscape.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This seminar is an effort to use design tools as a way to gain understanding of how physical infrastructure affects and can influence social organization and ideologies. The course will survey the general topics and specific case studies to develop an understanding of the contexts and forms of civil works and infrastructures.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Investigating the rich interplay between form, space, skin, structure, material assembly, performance and representation, this course seeks to develop creative and productive approaches for analyzing very recent buildings.The past decade has witnessed the realization of a wealth of buildings, which has been documented in over-sized books, design blogs, and glossy magazines but not carefully dissected with inventive analytical tools. This analysis will be positioned within the context of the history of building analysis, and buildings key to that history.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course is intended to expose the students to a range of major works, built and unbuilt, of architecture from 1950 to the present. This course will focus on these particular buildings as they open themselves to a textual analysis. These analyses are intended to open up issues such as criticality, autonomy and singularity as they begin to evolve in architectural building (as opposed to texts) in the last half of the 20th century. This course will concentrate on individual buildings not architects. Each analysis will be accompanied by an illustrated presentation and selected readings.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The American city has undergone a number of restructurings since colonial times. However, the mutations that occurred at the beginning and in the middle of the twentieth century not only restructured the city but also dramatically changed its configuration in a radical way. We might be living a similar situation today at the beginning of a new century, when changes as powerful as the sub-urbanization of the 1950's are generating new configurations of urban space and form that are expanding once more the definition of the city and urban culture.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Explores architecture as a social art and the spatial organization of the human environment. Projects include a broad range of problem types, including individual buildings, groups of buildings, urban districts, and landscapes.
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