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Provides a broad view of the culture and social structure of Italy, drawing from Italian literature, history, and current events.
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Field and figure relationships (interrelation of parts dominated by the general character of the whole) are the general themes for studying numerous issues relevant to the design of elevations and facades. The first part of the semester is a lecture/seminar format. Students are required to research and present a paper for discussion. In the latter part of the semester, students do exercises to demonstrate their understanding of the issues addressed.
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Independent study.
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Examination of Japanese architecture (buildings and gardens) and their contexts: landscapes, settlements, and cities. The course is addressed to those interested in Japanese architecture as a manifestation of Japanese culture and as a subject for analysis. Emphasis is on underlying concepts, ordering principles, formal typologies, space and its representation, perceptual phenomena, and symbolic content. Readings focus on theoretical treatments of these aspects by Japanese and western writers.
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What have been the major issues in the theory and practice of architectural design through time and across cultures, and how is aesthetic judgment related to more general systems of ordering within a particular society or group? This course draws on concepts, methods, and findings from the broad field of cultural anthropology to address these questions. Case studies and examples are drawn from a wide range of architectural traditions around the world for which there is significant ethnographic literature, with special emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa, India, and the United States. Topics include the ideational and formal relationships between folk and monumental traditions in complex societies; the structure of the ideal social order and its refraction in the material world; cosmological models and architectural form; geometries of non-Western traditions; and the relationship between indigenization and culture change.
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Independent study.
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The first semester of this yearlong course addresses the design of the indoor thermal environment, including the appropriate application of building envelope materials and assemblies, and an introduction to the principles of sustainability. Beginning with the basics of human thermal comfort, followed by the concept and practice of solar heating, passive cooling, indoor air quality, and human health, students will learn how to shape the form of a building to respond to climate and the needs of an occupant. In the second half of the semester, students address the design of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems, including heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) equipment, vertical transportation, communication, security, and fire protection systems.
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Concepts and procedures for the design of overall structural framing systems in steel, concrete, and timber construction.
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The major visual impact of bridges on the built environment cannot be denied. And yet, during the past century, architects have virtually abandoned their historical role in the design of these structures. Engineers, on the other hand, have claimed bridge design as their responsibility and have hailed it as evidence of structural art. Are the basic principles of bridge design such that this situation makes sense for our society? Or is a rethinking of the manner in which bridges are designed called for? Students examine and experiment with the design of bridge structural forms, not only in terms of what is technically feasible but also, with equal emphasis, in the context of aesthetic, historical, and social considerations. Weekly meetings include lectures, discussion seminars, and studio-type design reviews.
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Historical technological advances that created major paradigm shifts for communications as well as advances in computer technology are presented. Technical fundamentals of computer graphics capabilities are emphasized. The latter half of the course covers the effect of these scientific advances on many discipline-specific areas including architecture, art and animation, photography and the film industry, medicine, engineering design, the corporate structure, and education. The course is heavily supplemented with pictorial content consisting of slides, movies, and live interactive demonstrations.
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For description, see CS 4620.
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This course, in which classroom discussion and debate play a central role, explores the history of important theoretical issues involving art and architecture. The readings, which span from the Greeks to today, focus on more than just questions of aesthetics and include theories of ethics, origins, imagination, nature, society, and pedagogy.
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Significant developments in European urban design from 1300 to 1600. Particular attention is given to Italy and Spain. Focuses on a series of case studies: entire towns, specific urban spaces, and individual building types. Weekly discussions contextualize the city within a larger cultural framework. This course considers how civic, economic, social, political, legislative, technical, and material concerns have had a significant impact on the form, function, and patronage of these places, spaces, and structures. The relevance of Renaissance theory to contemporary practice is also emphasized through the discussion of several 20th-century urban plans and built projects.
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Examines the relationship between cinematic forms of mass media and architecture. Explores the representation, perception, and understanding of architecture as it has been mediated by various cinematic genres including film, television, and documentaries. Considers how cinema has been deployed as a tool in architectural production, how it has influenced the experience and design of space, the extent to which it has been used as a vehicle for critical commentary on the urban condition, and the way it is imbedded in the historical development of architecture and urbanism.
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Examines the complex relationship between the built environment, the construction and definition of cultural heritage, collective memory and civic identity, and the commodification or commercial celebration of specific buildings, sites, and urban events. Focuses on late 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century Europe. Particular attention is awarded to the discourse surrounding the restoration of buildings (and figures such as Ruskin, Viollet-le-Duc, and Giovannoni); political agendas guiding restoration and urban renewal projects; newly defined venues of modern urban spectacle (e.g., the World’s Fair, department stores, morgues, and panoramas); and the role played by tourism in the commodification of local and foreign sites.
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Exploration into the urban morphology, architecture, and civic life of Renaissance Rome. The city was a thriving center for architectural practice. It drew practitioners from throughout the peninsula and served as an important theoretical model for architects elsewhere. The course surveys the important issues, individuals, and building projects of the city between 1450 and 1600 with particular emphasis on the intellectual and physical rediscovery and re-appropriation of Antiquity; the role of the Vatican with its large population of pilgrims, tourists, resident church officials, foreign bankers, and dignitaries that made specific demands of the built environment; and the unique topography and natural resources of the city’s location. The last portion of the course addresses the legacy of the Renaissance during the period of Italian unification and the Fascist regime.
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Architects put revolutionary attitudes about form, space, light, and the arts into practice during the course of the 17th century. Focusing on the urban centers of Rome and Paris and the cultural landscapes of Spain, England, and Central Europe, this course explores how architecture, urban design, and the arts were employed to promote state and church.
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Surveys the architectural record of ancient and medieval India with an emphasis on stupa and temple traditions. Devotes attention to European efforts to write a Western-style architectural history for India and to the British fascination with explaining Indian ethnology and history over two centuries. Attempts to evaluate the claim made by the historian James Fergusson that architecture provided the basis for reconstructing an imperfectly known Indian history. Also examines the notion that scholarly enterprises were closely entwined with strategies for domination. To this end, students read 19th-century firsthand reports on architecture in antiquarian English-language journals alongside more modern accounts. They are compared with indigenous architecture writings that were often unacknowledged by Europeans.
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Focuses on 19th-century cities as settings for modernisms and modernities, new visions and experiences of modern life. The relationship between urbanism and creativity that emerges during the 19th century engages students in Berlin, Havana, Miami, London, Bombay, Paris, Harlem, and other cities. Issues of center and periphery, nation and locality, capital and colony also emerge. Urban pleasures and dangers for men, women, and the other as revealed through histories of the built environment but also through literature, painting, photography, and film are examined.
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Precursors and proponents of the modern movement from the late 19th century into the 1940s are considered in this course. The cultural intents of the modern are examined in architectural and urban design for individuals, groups, and institutions, from Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Frank Lloyd Wright to de Stijl, the Bauhaus, and design education. Attention is paid to the politics of design serving the state in the 1930s.
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From early 18th to early 19th century, European society underwent profound change. Political absolutism—the doctrine of unlimited governmental control—was challenged; enlightenment attitudes—commitments to human reason, science, and education—gained ascendancy. This course considers architectural and urban design in these times of tumult. It begins with efforts to foment architectural revolution within inherited traditions and ends with attempts to establish design traditions within revolutionary settings.
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