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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This workshop explores how designers might become as sensitive to space as they are to objects. Through a number of projects and precedent studies, architectural design is studied in relation to the Space Between. The design process is studied in reverse, considering space first and objects second. This is not to imply that objects are not
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- architecture
- architecture
- tectonics
- place making
- space
- space between
- urban design
- urban redesign
- village
- neighborhood
- mixed-use public space
- light and space
- affordable design
- green design
- leed
- cultural understanding
- path
- place
- space as activator.
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course serves as an introduction to urban form and design, focusing on the physical, historical, and social form of cities. Selected cities are analyzed, drawn, and compared, to develop a working understanding of urban and architectural form. The development of map making and urban representation is discussed, and use of the computer i
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- architecture
- ishfahan
- alexandria
- washington
- dc
- amsterdam
- street network
- city form
- urban
- design
- block types
- housing
- density
- social form
- building types
- edges
- fields
- streets
- squares
- monuments
- civic structure
- map-making
- urban history
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This workshop investigates the current state of sustainability in regards to architecture, from the level of the tectonic detail to the urban environment. Current research and case studies will be investigated, and students will propose their own solutions as part of the final project.
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- architecture
- sustainable design
- built environment
- green design and technology
- urbanism
- tectonics
- materials
- sustainability
- ecology
- energy
- solar gain
- fossil fuels
- natural resources
- renewable energy
- modern design
- green design
- technology
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This class investigates the theory, method, and form of collage. It studies not only the historical precedents for collage and their physical attributes, but the psychology and process that plays a part in the making of them. The class was broken into three parts, changing scales and methods each time, to introduce and study the rigor by wh
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- architecture
- collage
- modern art
- painting
- art theory
- deconstructivism
- semantics
- syntactics
- art history
- id
- ego
- superego
- psychology of art
- meaning and representation
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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An intensive nine day remote collaborative workshop involving MIT and Miyagi University in Japan. The objective is to develop a small housing project using shape computation as a design methodology. Students will use and test new interactive software for designing, sharing applications with overseas partners, presenting projects on an Inter
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- architecture
- workshop
- design inquiry
- problem
- research
- studio
- remote collaboration
- design computation
- shape
- buildings
- virtual
- workspace
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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During this course, we will be exploring basic questions of architecture through several short design exercises. Working with many different media, students will discover the interrelationship of architecture and its related disciplines, such as structures, sustainability, architectural history and the visual arts. Each problem will focus o
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- architecture
- sustainability
- engineering
- built environment
- life-cycle assessment
- lca
- product impact
- product life cycle
- infrastructure
- computational methods
- water
- wastewater
- energy
- materials
- construction
- introductory design
- studio
- drawing
- modeling
- 3d models
- architecture
- architectural design
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This class focuses on representation tools used by architects during the design process and attempts to discuss the relationship they develop with the object of design. Representation plays a key role in architectural design, not only as a medium of conveying and narrating a determined meaning or a preconceived idea, but also as a code of c
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- architecture
- representation
- digital media
- digital design
- images
- mapping
- material studies
- architecture
- cad
- design
- rendering
- modeling
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This architectural studio will have one main project for the semester:Â to explore the issues surrounding the redesign of an area in Havana, Cuba. It is a typical area about the size of a Law of Indies block that presently has a mix of housing, work, and shopping, in buildings that need to be replaced and others that need to be rehabilitated
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- architecture
- architecture
- tectonics
- place making
- urban design
- cuba
- urban redesign
- havana
- village
- neighborhood
- mixed-use public space
- light and space
- affordable design
- green design
- leed
- cultural understanding
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The goal of this course is to investigate with students backgrounds on some of the pivotal events that have shaped our understanding and approach to architecture. Emphasis of discussion will be primarily on buildings and works of individual architects. Canonical architects, buildings and movements that have exerted significant influences on
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- architecture
- le corbusier
- de stijl
- bauhaus
- international style architecture
- deconstructivist architecture
- post-modernist architecture
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This class presents an analysis of the development of housing models and their urban implications in Paris, London, and New York City from the seventeenth century to the present. The focus will be on three models: the French hotel, the London row house, and the New York City tenement and apartment building. Other topics covered will include
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- architecture
- housing
- urban planning
- city development
- urban history
- seventeenth century to the present
- new york city
- london
- paris
- tenements
- slums
- row houses
- court and garden
- country estate
- urban development
- modernism
- city planning
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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Theories about cities and the form that settlements should take will be discussed. Attempts will be made at a distinction between descriptive and normative theory, by examining examples of various theories of city form over time. The class will concentrate on the origins of the modern city and theories about its emerging form, including the
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- architecture
- cities
- urbanism
- typology
- form
- space making
- mythology
- industrialization
- urban history
- political urbanism
- london
- paris
- jerusalem
- johannesburg
- new york
- st petersburg
- barcelona
- vienna
- chicago
- berlin
- chandigarh
- urban development
- theories of place
- utopianism
- suburbs
- suburban development
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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Introduction to Design Inquiry explores the nature and exercise of design intelligence. It aims to open avenues for further research and, along them, to open vistas on the teaching of design and on more mindful professional design practices.
We see design as processes located in individuals and groups, shaped by the formation and experience
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- architecture
- design process
- human interaction
- representaion
- intermediary objects
- expressive objects
- shape grammars
- design generatives
- object design
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This subject explores the varied nature and practice of computation in design. We will view computation and design broadly. Computation will include both work done on the computer (digital computing) and by-hand. Design will include both the process of making designs and artifacts, as well as the designs and artifacts themselves. The aim of
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- architecture
- design process
- human interaction
- representation
- intermediary objects
- expressive objects
- shape grammars
- design generatives
- object design
- design
- computation
- generative algorithms
- digital computing
- design software
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In this seminar, students will design and perfect a digital environment to house the activities of large-scale organizations of people making bottom-up decisions, such as with citizen-government affairs, voting corporate shareholders or voting members of global non-profits and labor unions. A working Open Source prototype created last semes
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- architecture
- networked computers
- digital environment
- online spaces as part of an interdependent human environment
- physical architectures
- mapped work processes
- social/political dimensions
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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Furniture making is in many ways like bridge building, connections holding posts apart with spans to support a deck. Many architects have tried their hand at furniture design, Wright, Mies Van Der Rohe, Aalto, Saarinen, Le Corbusier, and Gerhy. We will review the history of furniture making in America with a visit to the Decorative Arts Col
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- architecture
- construction
- design
- furniture
- arts and crafts
- bauhaus
- japanese design
- chinese design
- quakers
- shakers
- american construction
- stick style
- structures
- woodworking
- wood properties
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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The course investigates e-Learning systems from a business, policy, technical and legal perspective. The issues presented will be tackled by discussion of the design and structure of the various example systems. The connection between information architectures and the physical workplace of the users will also be examined. The course will be
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- architecture
- xml
- e-learning
- e-learning systems
- business
- policy
- technical
- legal
- design
- connection between information architectures and the physical workplace
- unified modeling language