This course investigates the history of a wide range of buildings, architecture, cities, landscapes and theory across the 20th century around the world. We interrogate the deep legacies of colonialism, globalization, extractivism and capitalism in which modern architecture so actively participated.
This seminar examines the histories and definitions of environmental racism, environmental injustice/justice and environmental unfreedoms.
This interdisciplinary course investigates the intersections of computing, cognition, and syntax through the visual-perceptual, rule-based approach of shape grammars.
The Laboratory for Cybernetics enables students to engage with wicked challenges using models and methods from Cybernetics and Systems.
This seminar focuses on the formless as an operation relative to social constructs, parametrics and aesthetics. Participants in the seminar develop an archive, original visualizations that utilizes multiple mediums and platforms, and culminate in a final project a part of an exhibition.
This course takes reuse as our point of design and construction inspiration. Students select salvaged materials from a local material reseller and experiment with material reconfigurations informed by a wide range of related reuse practices, organizations and precedents.
Bamboo, a material brimming with immense, yet largely unexplored potential, particularly within the realm of architecture, stands as a testament to nature’s ingenuity.
This course focuses on the search engine and the discussion of digital representations in the context of search engines and generative AI.
This graduate level mini-course compares global community and infrastructure rating systems to gain perspective about sustainable infrastructure development and community design. The course uses USGBC's LEED Cities & Communities Rating System and the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) Envision Rating System as springboards for exploration and discussion of other world rating systems that address these topics.
This graduate level mini-course compares global community and infrastructure rating systems to gain perspective about sustainable infrastructure development and community design. The course uses USGBC's LEED Cities & Communities Rating System and the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) Envision Rating System as springboards for exploration and discussion of other world rating systems that address these topics.
A diverse student cohort drawn from Architecture, Drama and Arts Management students will work with the actual client, the Festival d'Avignon, and Theater consultants Jean Guy Lecat and Len Auerbach to plan and program the project design challenge, which will be the subject of the co- requisite Architecture studio (48:405/505/750)
This course is a continuation of Theater Architecture 1, 62408/708, which is a prerequisite. A diverse student cohort drawn from Architecture, Drama and Arts Management students will work with the programming and planning guidelines that were developed in Theater Architecture 1 to further define the building design (Architecture students), performing arts programming (MAM students), and production systems (Drama students) for the subject theater project.
