chaseharmon/MIT_Course_Catalog · Datasets at Hugging Face

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4.140[J]	How to Make (Almost) Anything	Provides a practical hands-on introduction to digital fabrication, including CAD/CAM/CAE, NC machining, 3-D printing and scanning, molding and casting, composites, laser and waterjet cutting, PCB design and fabrication; sensors and actuators; mixed-signal instrumentation, embedded processing, and wired and wireless communications. Develops an understanding of these capabilities through projects using them individually and jointly to create functional systems.	true	Fall	Graduate	3-9-6	Permission of instructor	6.9020[J], MAS.863[J]	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.151	Architecture Design Core Studio I	Explores the foundations of design through a series of bracketed methods of production. These methods exercise topics such as form, space, organization, structure, circulation, use, tectonics, temporality, and experience. Students develop methods of representation that span from manual to virtual and from canonical to experimental. Each method is evaluated for what it offers and privileges, supplying a survey of approaches for design exercises to follow. First in a sequence of design subjects, which must be taken in order. Limited to first-year MArch students.	true	Fall, Fall, IAP, Spring	Graduate	0-12-9 [P/D/F]	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.152	Architecture Design Core Studio II	Builds on Core I skills and expands the constraints of the architectural problem to include issues of urban site logistics, cultural and programmatic material (inhabitation and human factors), and long span structures. Two related projects introduce a range of disciplinary issues, such as working with precedents, site, sectional and spatial proposition of the building, and the performance of the outer envelope. Emphasizes the clarity of intentions and the development of appropriate architectural and representational solutions. Limited to first-year MArch students.	true	Spring, Fall, Spring	Graduate	0-12-9	4.151	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.153	Architecture Design Core Studio III	Interdisciplinary approach to design through studio design problems that engage the domains of building technology, computation, and the cultural/historical geographies of energy. Uses different modalities of thought to examine architectural agendas for 'sustainability'; students position their work with respect to a broader understanding of the environment and its relationship to society and technology. Students develop a project with a comprehensive approach to programmatic organization, energy load considerations, building material assemblies, exterior envelope and structure systems. Limited to second-year MArch students.	true	Fall	Graduate	0-12-9	4.152	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.154	Architecture Design Option Studio	Offers a broad range of advanced-level investigations in architectural design in various contexts, including international sites. Integrates theoretical and technological discourses into specific topics. Studio problems may include urbanism and city scale strategies, habitation and urban housing systems, architecture in landscapes, material investigations and new production technologies, programmatic and spatial complex building typologies, and research centered studies. Mandatory lottery process.	true	Fall, Spring	Graduate	0-10-11	4.153	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.163[J]	Urban Design Studio	The design of urban environments. Strategies for change in large areas of cities, to be developed over time, involving different actors. Fitting forms into natural, man-made, historical, and cultural contexts; enabling desirable activity patterns; conceptualizing built form; providing infrastructure and service systems; guiding the sensory character of development. Involves architecture and planning students in joint work; requires individual designs or design and planning guidelines.	true	Spring	Graduate	rranged	Permission of instructor	11.332[J]	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.173[J]	China Urban Design Studio	Design studio that includes architects, urban designers, and city planners working in teams on a contemporary development project of importance in China, particularly in transitional, deindustrializing cities. Students analyze conditions, explore alternatives, and synthesize architecture, city design, and implementation plans. Lectures and brief study tours expose students to history and contemporary issues of urbanism in China. Offered every other spring at MIT in parallel with urban design studio at Tsinghua University, Beijing, involving students and faculty from both schools. Field visit to China will occur in January prior to studio. Limited to 10.	true	Spring	Graduate	0-21-0	Permission of instructor	11.307[J]	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.180	Design Workshop	Subject in design inquiry taught in studio format treating selected issues of the built world in depth. The problem may be prototypical or a particular aspect of a whole project, but always interdisciplinary in nature.	true	Fall	Graduate	rranged	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.181	Architectural Design Workshop	Addresses design inquiry in a studio format. In-depth consideration of selected issues of the built world. The problem may be prototypical or a particular aspect of a whole project, but is always interdisciplinary in nature.	true	Fall, IAP, Spring	Graduate	rranged	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.182	Architectural Design Workshop	Addresses design inquiry in a studio format. In-depth consideration of selected issues of the built world. The problem may be prototypical or a particular aspect of a whole project, but is always interdisciplinary in nature.	true	Fall, Spring	Graduate	rranged	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.183-4.185	Architectural Design Workshop	Addresses design inquiry in a studio format. In-depth consideration of selected issues of the built world. The problem may be prototypical or a particular aspect of a whole project, but is always interdisciplinary in nature.	true	Fall, Spring	Graduate	rranged	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.189	Preparation for MArch Thesis	Preparatory research development leading to a well-conceived proposition for the MArch design thesis. Students formulate a cohesive thesis argument and critical project using supportive research and case studies through a variety of representational media, critical traditions, and architectural/artistic conventions. Group study in seminar and studio format, with periodic reviews supplemented by conference with faculty and a designated committee member for each individual thesis. Restricted to MArch students.	true	Fall, Spring, Summer	Graduate	3-1-5	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.190	Practical Experience in Architecture	Practical experience through summer and January IAP internships secured by the student in the field of architecture, urbanism, digital design, art, or building technology. Before registering for this subject, students must have an offer from the organization and complete the Department of Architecture application with their advisor's signature. Upon completion of the internship, students must submit an evaluation form available from the departmental academic office. Students are limited to a total of three approved experiences. Restricted to Course 4 graduate students.	true	IAP, Summer	Graduate	rranged [P/D/F]	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.191	Independent Study in Architecture Design	Supplementary work on individual or group basis. Registration subject to prior arrangement for subject matter and supervision by staff.	true	Fall, IAP, Spring	Undergraduate	rranged	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.192	Independent Study in Architecture Design	Supplementary work on individual or group basis. Registration subject to prior arrangement for subject matter and supervision by staff.	true	Fall, IAP, Spring	Undergraduate	rranged [P/D/F]	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.193	Independent Study in Architecture Design	Supplementary work on individual or group basis. Registration subject to prior arrangement for subject matter and supervision by staff.	true	Fall, IAP, Spring	Graduate	rranged	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.194	Independent Study in Architecture Design	Supplementary work on individual or group basis. Registration subject to prior arrangement for subject matter and supervision by staff.	true	Fall, IAP, Spring	Graduate	rranged [P/D/F]	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.S00	Special Subject: Design	Seminar or lecture on a topic in design that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	rranged	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.S01	Special Subject: Design	Seminar or lecture on a topic in design that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	rranged	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.S02	Special Subject: Design	Seminar or lecture on a topic in design that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.	true	IAP	Graduate	rranged [P/D/F]	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.S03	Special Subject: Design	Seminar or lecture on a topic in design that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.	true	Spring	Graduate	rranged	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.S10	Special Subject: Architecture Design	Seminar or lecture on a topic in architecture design that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	rranged	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.S11	Special Subject: Architecture Design	Seminar or lecture on a topic in architecture design that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.	true	IAP, Spring	Undergraduate	rranged [P/D/F]	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.S12	Special Subject: Architecture Design	Seminar or lecture on a topic in architecture design that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.	true	Fall, Spring	Graduate	rranged	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.S13	Special Subject: Architecture Design	Seminar or lecture on a topic in architecture design that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.	true	Spring	Graduate	rranged	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.S14	Special Subject: Architecture Design	Seminar or lecture on a topic in architecture design that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.	true	IAP, Spring	Graduate	rranged [P/D/F]	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.S15	Special Subject: Design	Seminar or lecture on a topic in design that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.	true	Spring	Graduate	rranged	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.210	Positions: Cultivating Critical Practice	Through formal analysis and discussion of historical and theoretical texts, seminar produces a map of contemporary architectural practice. Examines six pairs of themes in terms of their recent history: city and global economy, urban plan and map of operations, program and performance, drawing and scripting, image and surface, and utopia and projection. Restricted to year-one MArch students.	true	Fall	Graduate	3-0-6	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.211[J]	The Once and Future City	Examines the evolving structure of cities, the dynamic processes that shape them, and the significance of a city's history for its future development. Develops the ability to read urban form as an interplay of natural processes and human purposes over time. Field assignments in Boston provide the opportunity to use, develop, and refine these concepts. Enrollment limited.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	11.016[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	CI-H
4.213[J]	Ecological Urbanism Seminar	Weds the theory and practice of city design and planning as a means of adaptation with the insights of ecology and other environmental disciplines. Presents ecological urbanism as critical to the future of the city and its design, as it provides a framework for addressing challenges that threaten humanity — such as climate change, rising sea level, and environmental and social justice — while fulfilling human needs for health, safety, welfare, meaning, and delight. Applies a historical and theoretical perspective to the solution of real-world challenges. Enrollment limited.	true	Spring	Graduate	3-0-9	Permission of instructor	11.308[J]	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.215[J]	Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry	Explores photography as a disciplined way of seeing, and as a medium of inquiry and of expressing ideas. Readings, observations, and photographs form the basis of discussions on landscape, light, significant detail, place, poetics, narrative, and how photography can inform research, design and planning, among other issues. Recommended for students who want to employ visual methods in their theses. Enrollment limited.	true	Spring	Graduate	3-0-9	null	11.309[J]	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.217[J]	Disaster Resilient Design	Seminar examines the linkages between natural hazards and environmental design. Engages theoretical debates about landscapes of risk, vulnerability, and resilience. Participants generate proposals for disaster resilience through combinations of retrofit, reconstruction, resettlement, commemorative, and anticipatory design. Methods include rapid bibliographic search, risk analysis, landscape synthesis, and comparative international methods. Projects vary and may focus on current crises or involve collaboration with the Aga Khan Development Network and other humanitarian organizations. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Limited to 15.	true	Fall	Graduate	3-0-6	null	11.315[J]	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.218	Disaster Resilient Design	Seminar examines the linkages between natural hazards and environmental design. Engages theoretical debates about landscapes of risk, vulnerability, and resilience. Participants generate proposals for disaster resilience through combinations of retrofit, reconstruction, resettlement, commemorative, and anticipatory design. Methods include rapid bibliographic search, risk analysis, landscape synthesis, and comparative international methods. Projects vary and may focus on current crises or involve collaboration with the Aga Khan Development Network and other humanitarian organizations. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Limited to 15; preference to Course 4 majors and minors.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.221	Architecture Studies Colloquium	Aims to create a discourse across the various SMArchS discipline groups that reflects current Institute-wide initiatives; introduce SMarchS students to the distinct perspective of the different SMarchS discipline groups; and provide a forum for debate and discussion in which the SMarchS cohort can explore, develop and share ideas. Engages with interdisciplinary thinking, research, and innovation that is characteristic of MIT's culture and can form a basis for their future work. Limited to first-year SMArchS students.	true	Fall	Graduate	2-0-1	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.222	Professional Practice	Gives a critical orientation towards a career in architectural practice. Uses historical and current examples to illustrate the legal, ethical and management concepts underlying the practice of architecture. Emphasis on facilitating design excellence and strengthening connections between the profession and academia. Restricted to MArch students.	true	Fall	Graduate	3-0-3	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.227	Landscapes of Energy	Spatializes large technological systems of energy, analyzes existing and speculative energy visions, and imagines energy futures in relation to concerns of ecology, politics, and aesthetics. Identifies different scales of thinking about the territory of energy from that of environmental systems, to cities, regions, and global landscapes. Readings and students' research projects draw on critical geography, history of technology, environmental history to synthesize energy attributes within the design disciplines. Limited to 12.	true	Spring	Graduate	3-0-9	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.228[J]	Contemporary Urbanism Proseminar: Theory and Representation	Critical introduction to key contemporary positions in urbanism to the ends of researching, representing, and designing territories that respond to the challenges of the 21st century. Provides an overview of contemporary urban issues, situates them in relation to a genealogy of urban precedents, and constructs a theoretical framework that engages the allied fields of architecture, landscape architecture, political ecology, geography, territorial planning, and environmental humanities. Comprised of three sections, first section articulates a framework on the urban as both process and form, shifting the emphasis from city to territory. Second section engages a series of related urban debates, such as density/sprawl, growth/shrinkage, and codes/exception. Third section calls upon urban agency in the age of environment through the object of infrastructures of trash, water, oil, and food. Limited to 25.	true	Fall	Graduate	rranged	Permission of instructor	11.348[J]	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.229[J]	Collectives: New Forms of Sharing	Considers ways in which collaborative approaches to living can reshape architecture and the city. Students investigate historic and present spatial models and platforms (digital and physical) of collaboration and sharing. Explores how economic, political and social transformations, such as co-ownership, community-based exchange, digital collectives, and self-organization, can lead to new programs, typologies, designs, and new relationships between user, designer, and developer. Limited to 15.	true	Spring	Graduate	3-0-9	Permission of instructor	11.228[J]	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.230	SIGUS Workshop	Interdisciplinary projects and interactive practices in urban settlement issues as investigated by MIT's SIGUS (Special Interest Group in Urban Settlements), with a focus on developing countries throughout the world. Participation by guest practitioners. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version.	true	Spring	Graduate	rranged	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.231	SIGUS Workshop	Interdisciplinary projects and interactive practices in urban settlement issues as investigated by MIT's SIGUS (Special Interest Group in Urban Settlements), with a focus on developing countries throughout the world. Participation by guest practitioners. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version.	true	Spring, Fall, IAP, Spring, Spring	Graduate	rranged	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.240[J]	Urban Design Skills: Observing, Interpreting, and Representing the City	Introduces methods for observing, interpreting, and representing the urban environment. Students draw on their senses and develop their ability to deduce, question, and test conclusions about how the built environment is designed, used, and valued. The interrelationship of built form, circulation networks, open space, and natural systems are a key focus. Supplements existing classes that cover theory and history of city design and urban planning and prepares students without design backgrounds with the fundamentals of physical planning. Intended as a foundation for 11.329.	true	Fall	Graduate	4-2-2	null	11.328[J]	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.241[J]	The Making of Cities	Examines the complex development of cities through history by tracing a diachronic accumulation of forms and spaces in specific cities, and showing how significant ideas were made manifest across distinct geographies and cultures. Emphasizes how economic, spiritual, political, geographic and technological forces have simultaneously shaped and, in turn, been influenced by the city.	true	Spring	Graduate	rranged	11.001, 11.301, or permission of instructor	11.330[J]	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.242[J]	Walking the City (New)	Students investigate how landscapes and cities shape them — and vice versa — by examining the literature of walking and the environments in which they move. Through extensive walking, students explore the city to analyze its design and varied histories, drawing on cartography, art, sociology, and memory to create fresh narratives. Students write architecture and city criticism, design "story maps," and are invited to walk as an art practice. Emphasis is on the relationship between the human body and freedom, or a lack thereof, and between pathways and the complex emotions that emerge from traversing them. Limited to 12. Preference to Course 4 and 11 graduate students who have completed at least two semesters.	true	Fall	Graduate	2-0-10	null	11.240[J]	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.244[J]	Urban Design Seminar: Perspectives on Contemporary Practice	Examines innovations in urban design practice occurring through the work of leading practitioners in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning. Features lectures by major national and global practitioners in urban design. Projects and topics vary based on term and speakers but may cover architectural urbanism, landscape and ecology, arts and culture, urban design regulation and planning agencies, and citywide and regional design. Focuses on analysis and synthesis of themes discussed in presentations and discussions.	true	Spring	Graduate	2-0-7	null	11.333[J]	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.245[J]	DesignX Entrepreneurship	Students in teams accepted to the MITdesignX accelerator begin work on their ventures in this intense two-week bootcamp. Participants identify the needs and problems that demonstrate the demand for their innovative technology, policy, products, and/or services. They research and investigate various markets and stakeholders pertinent to their ventures, and begin to test their ideas and thesis in real-world interviews and interactions. Subject presented in workshop format, giving teams the chance to jump-start their ventures together with a cohort of people working on ideas that span the realm of design, planning real estate, and the human environment. Registration limited to students accepted to the MITdesignX accelerator in the fall.	true	IAP	Graduate	4-0-2	Permission of instructor	11.245[J]	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.246[J]	DesignX Accelerator	Students continue to work in their venture teams to advance innovative ideas, products, and services oriented to design, planning, and the human environment. Presented in a workshop format with supplementary lectures. Teams are matched with external mentors for additional support in business and product development. At the end of the term, teams pitch their ventures to an audience from across the school and MIT, investors, industry, and cities. Registration limited to students accepted to the MITdesignX accelerator in the fall.	true	Spring	Graduate	2-4-6	Permission of instructor	11.246[J]	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.247[J]	Urban Design Ideals and Action	Examines the relationship between urban design ideals, urban design action, and the built environment through readings, discussions, presentations, and papers. Analyzes the diverse design ideals that influence cities and settlements, and investigates how urban designers use them to shape urban form. Provides a critical understanding of the diverse formal methods used to intervene creatively in both developed and developing contexts, especially pluralistic and informal built environments.	true	Fall	Graduate	2-0-7	null	11.337[J]	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.248[J]	Advanced Urban Design Skills: Observing, Interpreting, and Representing the City	Through a studio-based course in planning and urban design, builds on the foundation acquired in 11.328 to engage in creative exploration of how design contributes to resilient, just, and vibrant urban places. Through the planning and design of two projects, students creatively explore spatial ideas and utilize various digital techniques to communicate their design concepts, giving form to strategic thinking. Develops approaches and techniques to evaluate the plural structure of the built environment and offer propositions that address policies and regulations as well as the values, behaviors, and wishes of the different users.	true	Fall	Graduate	4-2-4	11.328 or permission of instructor	11.329[J]	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.250[J]	Introduction to Urban Design and Development	Examines the evolving structure of cities and the way that cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas can be designed and developed. Surveys the ideas of a wide range of people who have addressed urban problems. Stresses the connection between values and design. Demonstrates how physical, social, political and economic forces interact to shape and reshape cities over time. Introduces links between urban design and urban science.	true	Fall, Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	11.001[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
4.252[J]	Introduction to Urban Design and Development	Examines the physical and social structure of cities and ways they can be changed. Includes significant thinkers in urban form, 20th-century American city design, urban design and society, global urban design, and design of neighborhoods and streets. Core lectures are supplemented by student papers examining the relationship of contemporary projects to history and theory, and factors of high quality global urban design and development. Guest speakers present cases involving current projects or research illustrating scope and methods of urban design theory and practice. Intended for those seeking an introduction to fundamental knowledge of theory and praxis in city design and development.	true	Spring	Graduate	3-0-9	Permission of instructor	11.301[J]	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.253[J]	Urban Design Politics	Examines ways that urban design contributes to distribution of political power and resources in cities. Investigates the nature of relations between built form and political purposes through close study of public and private sector design commissions and planning processes that have been clearly motivated by political pressures, as well as more tacit examples. Lectures and discussions focus on cases from both developed and developing countries.	true	Spring	Graduate	3-0-9	Permission of instructor	11.302[J]	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.254[J]	Real Estate Development Studio	Focuses on the synthesis of urban, mixed-use real estate projects, including the integration of physical design and programming with finance and marketing. Interdisciplinary student teams analyze how to maximize value across multiple dimensions in the process of preparing professional development proposals for sites in US cities and internationally. Reviews emerging real estate products and innovative developments to provide a foundation for studio work. Two major projects are interspersed with lectures and field trips. Integrates skills and knowledge in the MSRED program; also open to other students interested in real estate development by permission of the instructors.	true	Spring	Graduate	6-0-12	Permission of instructor	11.303[J]	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.255[J]	Site and Environmental Systems Planning	Introduces a range of practical approaches involved in evaluating and planning sites within the context of natural and cultural systems. Develops the knowledge and skills to analyze and plan a site for development through exercises and an urban design project. Topics include land inventory, urban form, spatial organization of uses, parcelization, design of roadways, grading, utility systems, off-site impacts, and landscape strategies.	true	Spring	Graduate	6-0-9	Permission of instructor	11.304[J]	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.256[J]	Revealing the City	Through study of the essay as a literary form and mode of writing, students explore the promise and perils of the variegated city. Participants create artful narratives by examining how various literary forms — poetry, fiction, and essay — illuminate our understanding of cities. Special emphasis is on the writer as the reader's advocate, with the goal of writing with greater creativity and sophistication for specialized and general-interest audiences. Limited to 12. Preference to Course 4 and 11 graduate students who have completed at least two semesters.	false	Fall	Graduate	2-0-10	null	11.256[J]	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.264[J]	Advanced Seminar in Landscape and Urbanism	Explores theories, practices, and emerging trends in the fields of landscape architecture and urbanism, such as systemic design, landscape urbanism, engineered nature, drosscapes, urban biodiversity, urban mobility, megaregions, and urban agriculture. Lectures, readings, and guest speakers present a wide array of multi-disciplinary topics, including current works from P-REX lab. Students conduct independent and group research that is future-oriented.	true	Spring	Graduate	3-0-9	Permission of instructor	11.334[J]	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.275[J]	Advanced Urbanism Colloquium	Introduces critical theories and contemporary practices in the field of urbanism that challenge its paradigms and advance its future. Includes theoretical linkages between ideas about the cultures of urbanization, social and political processes of development, environmental tradeoffs of city making, and the potential of design disciplines to intervene to change the future of built forms. Events and lecture series co-organized by faculty and doctoral students further engage and inform research. Preference to doctoral students in the Advanced Urbanism concentration.	true	Fall, Spring	Graduate	1-1-1 [P/D/F]	Permission of instructor	11.912[J]	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.288	Preparation for SMArchS Thesis	Students select thesis topic, define method of approach, and prepare thesis proposal for SMArchS degree. Faculty supervision on an individual or group basis. Intended for SMArchS program students prior to registration for 4.ThG.	true	Fall, Spring, Summer	Graduate	rranged [P/D/F]	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.291	Independent Study in Architecture Studies	Supplementary work on individual or group basis. Registration subject to prior arrangement for subject matter and supervision by staff.	true	Fall, IAP, Spring	Undergraduate	rranged	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.292	Independent Study in Architecture Studies	Supplementary work on individual or group basis. Registration subject to prior arrangement for subject matter and supervision by staff.	true	Fall, IAP, Spring	Undergraduate	rranged [P/D/F]	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.293	Independent Study in Architecture Studies	Supplementary work on individual or group basis. Registration subject to prior arrangement for subject matter and supervision by staff.	true	Fall, IAP, Spring	Graduate	rranged	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.294	Independent Study in Architecture Studies	Supplementary work on individual or group basis. Registration subject to prior arrangement for subject matter and supervision by staff.	true	Fall, IAP, Spring, Spring	Graduate	rranged [P/D/F]	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.299	Summer Research Topics	Supplementary summer work on individual basis. Registration subject to prior arrangement for subject matter and supervision by staff.	true	Summer	Graduate	rranged [P/D/F]	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.S20	Special Subject: Architecture Studies	Seminar or lecture on a topic in architecture studies that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	rranged	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.S21	Special Subject: Architecture Studies	Seminar or lecture on a topic in architecture studies that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.	true	IAP	Undergraduate	rranged [P/D/F]	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.S22	Special Subject: Architecture Studies	Seminar or lecture on a topic in architecture studies that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.	true	Fall	Graduate	rranged	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.S23	Special Subject: Architecture Studies	Seminar or lecture on a topic in architecture studies that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.	true	Spring	Graduate	rranged	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.S24	Special Subject: Architecture Studies	Seminar or lecture on a topic in architecture studies that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.	true	Spring	Graduate	rranged [P/D/F]	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.S25	Special Subject: Urban Housing	Seminar or lecture on a topic in urban housing that is not covered in the regular architecture curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.	true	Fall	Graduate	rranged	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.S26	Special Subject: City Form	Seminar or lecture on a topic in city form that is not covered in the regular architecture curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.	true	Fall	Graduate	rranged	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.S27	Special Subject: Urban Design	Seminar or lecture on a topic in urban design that is not covered in the regular Architecture curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.	true	Fall	Graduate	rranged	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.S28	Special Subject: Architecture Studies	Seminar or lecture on a topic in architecture studies that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.	true	Fall	Graduate	rranged	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.301	Introduction to Artistic Experimentation	Introduces artistic practice and critical visual thinking through three studio-based projects using different scales and media, for instance, "Body Extension," "Shaping Time," "Public Making," and/or "Networked Cultures." Each project concludes with a final presentation and critique. Students explore sculptural, architectural, performative artistic methods; video and sound art; site interventions and strategies for artistic engagement in the public realm. Lectures, screenings, guest presentations, field trips, readings, and debates supplement studio practice. Also introduces students to the historic, cultural, and environmental forces affecting both the development of an artistic vision and the reception of a work of art. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-3-6	null	null	false	false	false	False	Arts	False
4.302	Foundations in Art, Design, and Spatial Practices	Develops an introductory foundation in artistic practice and its critical analysis, and develops artistic approaches and methods by drawing analogies to architectural thinking, urbanism, and design practice. Covers how to communicate ideas and experiences on different scales and through two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and time-based media in new genres. Uses artistic methods that engage the public realm through spatial, sculptural, performative, and process-oriented practices. Instruction components include video screenings, guest lectures, visiting artist presentations, and field trips. Instruction and practice in written and oral communication provided. Lab fee required. Limited to 18; preference to Course 4 majors and minors.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-3-6	4.02A or 4.021	null	false	false	false	False	Arts	False
4.307	Art, Architecture, and Urbanism in Dialogue	Initiates a dialogue between architecture, urbanism, and contemporary art by focusing on the work of practitioners who intertwine the three disciplines in a critical spatial practice. Investigates themes and works ranging from early modernist practices to the contemporary and research based. Lectures, screenings, readings, and discussions with guests and faculty contribute to the development of group and individual projects and their presentation. Additional work required of students taking graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.	true	Spring, Spring	Graduate	3-3-6	4.301, 4.302, or permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	Arts	False
4.308	Art, Architecture, and Urbanism in Dialogue	Initiates a dialogue between architecture, urbanism, and contemporary art by focusing on the work of practitioners who intertwine the three disciplines in a critical spatial practice. Investigates themes and works ranging from early modernist practices to the contemporary and research based. Lectures, screenings, readings, and discussions with guests and faculty contribute to the development of group and individual projects and their presentation. Additional work required of students taking graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.	true	Spring	Graduate	rranged	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.310	Introduction to Screen Printing	Exposes students to the technical skills needed for successful screen printing. Students produce single and multicolor prints on paper and fabric using a variety of methods. Covers an introduction to preparing and reclaiming screens, creating handmade and digital cut stencils, use of screen positives and photo emulsion, mono prints and editions, registration, and more. Lab fee required. Additional work required of students taking for graduate credit. Limited to 10 total for versions meeting together.	true	Fall, Spring	Undergraduate	0-3-3	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.311	Introduction to Screen Printing (New)	Expose students to the technical skills needed for successful screen printing. Students produce single and multicolor prints on paper and fabric using a variety of methods. Covers an introduction to preparing and reclaiming screens, creating handmade and digital cut stencils, use of screen positives and photo emulsion, mono prints and editions, registration, and more. Lab fee required. Additional work required of students taking for graduate credit. Limited to 10 total for versions meeting together.	true	Fall, Spring	Graduate	0-3-6	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.314	Advanced Workshop in Artistic Practice and Transdisciplinary Research	Examines artistic practice as a form of critical inquiry and knowledge production. Offers opportunity to develop art as a means for addressing the social, cultural, and ecological consequences of technology, to build bridges between industry and culture, and to challenge the boundaries between public and private, and human and non-human. Provides instruction in evaluating models of experimentation, individual research, and collaboration with other disciplines in the arts, culture, science, and technology. Supports the development of individual and collective artistic research projects. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-3-6	4.301, 4.302, or permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	Arts	False
4.315	Advanced Workshop in Artistic Practice and Transdisciplinary Research	Examines artistic practice as a form of critical inquiry and knowledge production. Offers opportunity to develop art as a means for addressing the social, cultural, and ecological consequences of technology, to build bridges between industry and culture, and to challenge the boundaries between public and private, and human and non-human. Provides instruction in evaluating models of experimentation, individual research, and collaboration with other disciplines in the arts, culture, science, and technology. Supports the development of individual and collective artistic research projects. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.	true	Fall, Fall, Spring, Spring, Spring, Fall, Spring, Fall, Fall, IAP, Spring, Fall, Spring	Graduate	rranged	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	Arts	False
4.316	Culture Fabric: Art, Fashion, Identity	Focuses on the concept of "fabric" both as a medium and as a framework to explore the complex cultural histories, meanings, and functions of clothing and wearable technologies. Guides students in an exploration of ways in which clothing signals one's belonging to a group and reflects the degree of one's conformity with established social or cultural norms as well as ways in which clothing and fashion may provide insights into broader cultural codes, societal politics, and processes of transformation. Additional work is required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-3-6	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.317	Culture Fabric: Art, Fashion, Identity	Focuses on the concept of "fabric" both as a medium and as a framework to explore the complex cultural histories, meanings, and functions of clothing and wearable technologies. Guides students in an exploration of ways in which clothing signals one's belonging to a group and reflects the degree of one's conformity with established social or cultural norms as well as ways in which clothing and fashion may provide insights into broader cultural codes, societal politics, and processes of transformation. Additional work is required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.	true	Spring	Graduate	3-3-3	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.318	Toxic Textiles/Fashion Fables	Critiques the widespread phenomenon of fast fashion and considers the notion of "toxic textiles" to explore the cultural, social, political, economic, and environmental footprint of clothing. Examines the storytelling capacity of the textile medium as an artistic and critical response to the world's pressing concerns. Introduces experimentation with textile art and fashion design, informed case studies in contemporary art, decolonizing fashion, performative and wearable technologies, experimental preservation, and fabric upcycling. Students exhibit one studio-based final project at the end of the term. Sewing skills beneficial but not required. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.319	Toxic Textiles/Fashion Fables	Critiques the widespread phenomenon of fast fashion and considers the notion of "toxic textiles" to explore the cultural, social, political, economic, and environmental footprint of clothing. Examines the storytelling capacity of the textile medium as an artistic and critical response to the world's pressing concerns. Introduces experimentation with textile art and fashion design, informed case studies in contemporary art, decolonizing fashion, performative and wearable technologies, experimental preservation, and fabric upcycling. Students exhibit one studio-based final project at the end of the term. Sewing skills beneficial but not required. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.	true	Spring	Graduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.320	Introduction to Sound Creations	Develops a critical awareness of how sound art as a field for artistic exploration is performed, produced, and distributed. Explores contemporary and historical practices that emerge outside of purely musical environments and investigates specific compositional developments of post-war modernity and electro-acoustic music, as well as non-musical disciplines related to the psychophysics of hearing and listening. Lectures, screenings, readings, and discussions with guests and faculty contribute to the development of group and individual projects. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-3-6	null	null	false	false	false	False	Arts	False
4.321	Introduction to Sound Creations	Develops a critical awareness of how sound art as a field for artistic exploration is performed, produced, and distributed. Explores contemporary and historical practices that emerge outside of purely musical environments and investigates specific compositional developments of post-war modernity and electro-acoustic music, as well as non-musical disciplines related to the psychophysics of hearing and listening. Lectures, screenings, readings, and discussions with guests and faculty contribute to the development of group and individual projects. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.	true	Spring	Graduate	rranged	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.322	Introduction to Three-Dimensional Art Work	Explores three-dimensional art work, including sculptures and installations, from design to model to finished piece. Addresses challenges associated with design and fabrication, process, context, and relationships between objects, the body, and physical or cultural environments. Lectures, screenings, field trips, readings, and debates supplement studio practice. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-3-6	null	null	false	false	false	False	Arts	False
4.323	Introduction to Three-Dimensional Art Work	Explores three-dimensional art work, including sculptures and installations, from design to model to finished piece. Addresses challenges associated with design and fabrication, process, context, and relationships between objects, the body, and physical or cultural environments. Lectures, screenings, field trips, readings, and debates supplement studio practice. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.	true	Spring	Graduate	rranged	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.324	Artist, Architect, Tinkerer, Engineer: How to Collaborate Across Disciplines	Seminar connecting the arts and sciences by exploring methodological similarities and differences across the arts, architecture, engineering, and social sciences. Through targeted reading and exercises, each student develops a collaborative project that engages directly with another discipline. Projects are iterated over the course of the term. Readings, visitors, and lectures expose students to a wide range of practitioners across different fields. Students interrogate the underlying methodologies that unite and separate their disciplines. Presents best-practice models for cultivating collaboration through the use of case studies. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-3-6	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.325	Artist, Architect, Tinkerer, Engineer: How to Collaborate Across Disciplines	Seminar connecting the arts and sciences by exploring methodological similarities and differences across the arts, architecture, engineering, and social sciences. Through targeted reading and exercises, each student develops a collaborative project that engages directly with another discipline. Projects are iterated over the course of the term. Readings, visitors, and lectures expose students to a wide range of practitioners across different fields. Students interrogate the underlying methodologies that unite and separate their disciplines. Presents best-practice models for cultivating collaboration through the use of case studies. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.	true	Fall	Graduate	rranged	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.328	Climate Visions	Presents artistic intelligence and modes of creative production as ways to contribute to and critically engage with climate science. In conversation with local stakeholders, students develop hybrid projects of art and design that negotiate between pragmatics and fiction to envision solutions to the climate crisis. Case studies and class participation examine dialectics between aesthetics and scientific knowledge related to environmental care and repair. Includes prototyping and publishing spatial, digital, and material experimentations to generate new work individually and/or collaboratively by way of diverse media explorations. Visiting speakers and field trips accompany lectures, readings, class discussions, and presentations. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 12.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-3-6	null	null	false	false	false	False	Arts	False
4.329	Climate Visions	Presents artistic intelligence and modes of creative production as ways to contribute to and critically engage with climate science. In conversation with local stakeholders, students develop hybrid projects of art and design that negotiate between pragmatics and fiction to envision solutions to the climate crisis. Case studies and class participation examine dialectics between aesthetics and scientific knowledge related to environmental care and repair. Includes prototyping and publishing spatial, digital, and material experimentations to generate new work individually and/or collaboratively by way of diverse media explorations. Visiting speakers and field trips accompany lectures, readings, class discussions, and presentations. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 12.	true	Fall	Graduate	rranged	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.330	Documentary Production	Presents the basics of capturing documentary footage and sounds in real world scenarios, while navigating the ethics of capturing "reality," depicting real people, and representing "truth." Investigates methodologies of editing for production: for film or alternative media such as interactive, web, installation, and location intervention. From Robert Flaherty (silent era) and John Grierson (British model) to Morin & Rouch (cinema verite) and George Stoney (community engagement) to Errol Morris (epistemological interview) and Adam Chris (journalistic essay), considers the history and context of documentary and the various ways people have attempted to represent the real world, including newer hybrid forms that mix fiction, nonfiction, and nonlinear interactive works. Students produce a documentary short on the subject and in the medium of their choice. Additional work required of graduate students. Lab fee required. Limited to 10 total for versions meeting together.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	1-2-6	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.331	Documentary Production	Presents the basics of capturing documentary footage and sounds in real world scenarios, while navigating the ethics of capturing "reality," depicting real people, and representing "truth." Investigates methodologies of editing for production: for film or alternative media such as interactive, web, installation, and location intervention. From Robert Flaherty (silent era) and John Grierson (British model) to Morin & Rouch (cinema verite) and George Stoney (community engagement) to Errol Morris (epistemological interview) and Adam Chris (journalistic essay), considers the history and context of documentary and the various ways people have attempted to represent the real world, including newer hybrid forms that mix fiction, nonfiction, and nonlinear interactive works. Students produce a documentary short on the subject and in the medium of their choice. Additional work required of graduate students. Lab fee required. Limited to 10 for total versions meeting together.	true	Spring	Graduate	1-2-6	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.332	Introduction to Interactive, Participatory, and Generative Art Making	Students create art projects that interact with participants and/or environment using a variety of code and hardware-based solutions including MAX/MSP/Jitter, a graphical object-based coding environment, and Arduino physical computing technologies. Students use sensors or generate data to control or interact with lights, speakers, video, audio, motors and much more. Final projects are presented in "n/tr.ACT," an interactive art show in the ACT Gallery. Lab fee required. Additional work required of students taking for graduate credit. Limited to 8 total for versions meeting together.	true	Fall, Spring	Undergraduate	0-3-3	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.333	Introduction to Interactive, Participatory, and Generative Art Making	Students create art projects that interact with participants and/or environment using a variety of code and hardware-based solutions including MAX/MSP/Jitter, a graphical object-based coding environment, and Arduino physical computing technologies. Students use sensors or generate data to control or interact with lights, speakers, video, audio, motors and much more. Final projects are presented in "n/tr.ACT," an interactive art show in the ACT Gallery. Lab fee required. Additional work required of students taking for graduate credit. Limited to 8 total for versions meeting together.	true	Fall	Graduate	0-3-6	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.341	Introduction to Photography and Related Media	Introduces history and contemporary practices in artistic photography through projects, lectures, artist visits, group discussions, readings, and field trips. Fosters visual literacy and aesthetic appreciation of photography/digital imaging, as well as critical awareness of how images in our culture are produced and constructed. Provides instruction in the fundamentals of different camera formats, film exposure and development, lighting, black and white darkroom printing, and digital imaging. Assignments allow for incorporation of a range of traditional and experimental techniques, development of technical skills, and personal exploration. Throughout the term, present and discuss projects in a critical forum. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.	true	Fall, Spring	Undergraduate	3-3-6	null	null	false	false	false	False	Arts	False
4.342	Introduction to Photography and Related Media	Introduces history and contemporary practices in artistic photography through projects, lectures, artist visits, group discussions, readings, and field trips. Fosters visual literacy and aesthetic appreciation of photography/digital imaging, as well as critical awareness of how images in our culture are produced and constructed. Provides instruction in the fundamentals of different camera formats, film exposure and development, lighting, black and white darkroom printing, and digital imaging. Assignments allow for incorporation of a range of traditional and experimental techniques, development of technical skills, and personal exploration. Throughout the term, present and discuss projects in a critical forum. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.	true	Fall, Spring, Spring, Spring, Fall, Spring, Fall, Fall, IAP, Spring, Fall, Spring	Graduate	rranged	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	Arts	False
4.344	Advanced Photography and Related Media	Fosters critical awareness of how images in our culture are produced and constructed. Covers a range of experimental techniques and camera formats, advanced traditional and experimental black-and-white darkroom printing, and all aspects of digital imaging and output. Includes individual and group reviews, field trips, and visits from outside professionals. Topical focus changes each term; coursework centers on student-initiated project with emphasis on conceptual, theoretical, and technical development. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Equipment available for checkout. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.	true	Spring, Spring, Fall, Spring, Fall, Fall, IAP, Spring, Fall, Spring	Graduate	3-3-6	4.341 or permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	Arts	False
4.345	Advanced Photography and Related Media	Fosters critical awareness of how images in our culture are produced and constructed. Covers a range of experimental techniques and camera formats, advanced traditional and experimental black-and-white darkroom printing, and all aspects of digital imaging and output. Includes individual and group reviews, field trips, and visits from outside professionals. Topical focus changes each term; coursework centers on student-initiated project with emphasis on conceptual, theoretical, and technical development. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Equipment available for checkout. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.	true	Spring	Graduate	rranged	4.342 or permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
4.346	Aesthetic Revolutions: Crafting Avant-Garde Film & Video (New)	Students explore the complexities of avant-garde cinematic practices through crafting short videos. By studying the conceptual, technical, and social dimensions of avant-garde cinema, participants develop innovative storytelling approaches that challenge mainstream conventions. Students engage in film screenings and discussions that trace the history of moving images from their origins to the contemporary era, with a specific focus on avant-garde practices. Introduces practical knowledge of video capturing, audio recording, lighting, and editing, while emphasizing aesthetic strategies for individual concept development. Specific project topics may vary each term, allowing for the opportunity to repeat for credit. Lab fee required. Limited to 25.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-3-6	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False

4.140[J]

How to Make (Almost) Anything

Provides a practical hands-on introduction to digital fabrication, including CAD/CAM/CAE, NC machining, 3-D printing and scanning, molding and casting, composites, laser and waterjet cutting, PCB design and fabrication; sensors and actuators; mixed-signal instrumentation, embedded processing, and wired and wireless communications. Develops an understanding of these capabilities through projects using them individually and jointly to create functional systems.

true

Fall

Graduate

3-9-6

Permission of instructor

6.9020[J], MAS.863[J]

false

False

4.151

Architecture Design Core Studio I

Explores the foundations of design through a series of bracketed methods of production. These methods exercise topics such as form, space, organization, structure, circulation, use, tectonics, temporality, and experience. Students develop methods of representation that span from manual to virtual and from canonical to experimental. Each method is evaluated for what it offers and privileges, supplying a survey of approaches for design exercises to follow. First in a sequence of design subjects, which must be taken in order. Limited to first-year MArch students.

true

Fall, Fall, IAP, Spring

Graduate

0-12-9 [P/D/F]

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.152

Architecture Design Core Studio II

Builds on Core I skills and expands the constraints of the architectural problem to include issues of urban site logistics, cultural and programmatic material (inhabitation and human factors), and long span structures. Two related projects introduce a range of disciplinary issues, such as working with precedents, site, sectional and spatial proposition of the building, and the performance of the outer envelope. Emphasizes the clarity of intentions and the development of appropriate architectural and representational solutions. Limited to first-year MArch students.

true

Spring, Fall, Spring

Graduate

0-12-9

4.151

null

false

False

4.153

Architecture Design Core Studio III

Interdisciplinary approach to design through studio design problems that engage the domains of building technology, computation, and the cultural/historical geographies of energy. Uses different modalities of thought to examine architectural agendas for 'sustainability'; students position their work with respect to a broader understanding of the environment and its relationship to society and technology. Students develop a project with a comprehensive approach to programmatic organization, energy load considerations, building material assemblies, exterior envelope and structure systems. Limited to second-year MArch students.

true

Fall

Graduate

0-12-9

4.152

null

false

False

4.154

Architecture Design Option Studio

Offers a broad range of advanced-level investigations in architectural design in various contexts, including international sites. Integrates theoretical and technological discourses into specific topics. Studio problems may include urbanism and city scale strategies, habitation and urban housing systems, architecture in landscapes, material investigations and new production technologies, programmatic and spatial complex building typologies, and research centered studies. Mandatory lottery process.

true

Fall, Spring

Graduate

0-10-11

4.153

null

false

False

4.163[J]

Urban Design Studio

The design of urban environments. Strategies for change in large areas of cities, to be developed over time, involving different actors. Fitting forms into natural, man-made, historical, and cultural contexts; enabling desirable activity patterns; conceptualizing built form; providing infrastructure and service systems; guiding the sensory character of development. Involves architecture and planning students in joint work; requires individual designs or design and planning guidelines.

true

Spring

Graduate

rranged

Permission of instructor

11.332[J]

false

False

4.173[J]

China Urban Design Studio

Design studio that includes architects, urban designers, and city planners working in teams on a contemporary development project of importance in China, particularly in transitional, deindustrializing cities. Students analyze conditions, explore alternatives, and synthesize architecture, city design, and implementation plans. Lectures and brief study tours expose students to history and contemporary issues of urbanism in China. Offered every other spring at MIT in parallel with urban design studio at Tsinghua University, Beijing, involving students and faculty from both schools. Field visit to China will occur in January prior to studio. Limited to 10.

true

Spring

Graduate

0-21-0

Permission of instructor

11.307[J]

false

False

4.180

Design Workshop

Subject in design inquiry taught in studio format treating selected issues of the built world in depth. The problem may be prototypical or a particular aspect of a whole project, but always interdisciplinary in nature.

true

Fall

Graduate

rranged

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.181

Architectural Design Workshop

Addresses design inquiry in a studio format. In-depth consideration of selected issues of the built world. The problem may be prototypical or a particular aspect of a whole project, but is always interdisciplinary in nature.

true

Fall, IAP, Spring

Graduate

rranged

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.182

Architectural Design Workshop

Addresses design inquiry in a studio format. In-depth consideration of selected issues of the built world. The problem may be prototypical or a particular aspect of a whole project, but is always interdisciplinary in nature.

true

Fall, Spring

Graduate

rranged

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.183-4.185

Architectural Design Workshop

Addresses design inquiry in a studio format. In-depth consideration of selected issues of the built world. The problem may be prototypical or a particular aspect of a whole project, but is always interdisciplinary in nature.

true

Fall, Spring

Graduate

rranged

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.189

Preparation for MArch Thesis

Preparatory research development leading to a well-conceived proposition for the MArch design thesis. Students formulate a cohesive thesis argument and critical project using supportive research and case studies through a variety of representational media, critical traditions, and architectural/artistic conventions. Group study in seminar and studio format, with periodic reviews supplemented by conference with faculty and a designated committee member for each individual thesis. Restricted to MArch students.

true

Fall, Spring, Summer

Graduate

3-1-5

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.190

Practical Experience in Architecture

Practical experience through summer and January IAP internships secured by the student in the field of architecture, urbanism, digital design, art, or building technology. Before registering for this subject, students must have an offer from the organization and complete the Department of Architecture application with their advisor's signature. Upon completion of the internship, students must submit an evaluation form available from the departmental academic office. Students are limited to a total of three approved experiences. Restricted to Course 4 graduate students.

true

IAP, Summer

Graduate

rranged [P/D/F]

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.191

Independent Study in Architecture Design

Supplementary work on individual or group basis. Registration subject to prior arrangement for subject matter and supervision by staff.

true

Fall, IAP, Spring

Undergraduate

rranged

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.192

Independent Study in Architecture Design

Supplementary work on individual or group basis. Registration subject to prior arrangement for subject matter and supervision by staff.

true

Fall, IAP, Spring

Undergraduate

rranged [P/D/F]

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.193

Independent Study in Architecture Design

Supplementary work on individual or group basis. Registration subject to prior arrangement for subject matter and supervision by staff.

true

Fall, IAP, Spring

Graduate

rranged

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.194

Independent Study in Architecture Design

Supplementary work on individual or group basis. Registration subject to prior arrangement for subject matter and supervision by staff.

true

Fall, IAP, Spring

Graduate

rranged [P/D/F]

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.S00

Special Subject: Design

Seminar or lecture on a topic in design that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

rranged

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.S01

Special Subject: Design

Seminar or lecture on a topic in design that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

rranged

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.S02

Special Subject: Design

Seminar or lecture on a topic in design that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.

true

IAP

Graduate

rranged [P/D/F]

null

false

False

4.S03

Special Subject: Design

Seminar or lecture on a topic in design that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.

true

Spring

Graduate

rranged

null

false

False

4.S10

Special Subject: Architecture Design

Seminar or lecture on a topic in architecture design that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

rranged

null

false

False

4.S11

Special Subject: Architecture Design

Seminar or lecture on a topic in architecture design that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.

true

IAP, Spring

Undergraduate

rranged [P/D/F]

null

false

False

4.S12

Special Subject: Architecture Design

Seminar or lecture on a topic in architecture design that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.

true

Fall, Spring

Graduate

rranged

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.S13

Special Subject: Architecture Design

Seminar or lecture on a topic in architecture design that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.

true

Spring

Graduate

rranged

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.S14

Special Subject: Architecture Design

Seminar or lecture on a topic in architecture design that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.

true

IAP, Spring

Graduate

rranged [P/D/F]

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.S15

Special Subject: Design

Seminar or lecture on a topic in design that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.

true

Spring

Graduate

rranged

null

false

False

4.210

Positions: Cultivating Critical Practice

Through formal analysis and discussion of historical and theoretical texts, seminar produces a map of contemporary architectural practice. Examines six pairs of themes in terms of their recent history: city and global economy, urban plan and map of operations, program and performance, drawing and scripting, image and surface, and utopia and projection. Restricted to year-one MArch students.

true

Fall

Graduate

3-0-6

null

false

False

4.211[J]

The Once and Future City

Examines the evolving structure of cities, the dynamic processes that shape them, and the significance of a city's history for its future development. Develops the ability to read urban form as an interplay of natural processes and human purposes over time. Field assignments in Boston provide the opportunity to use, develop, and refine these concepts. Enrollment limited.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

11.016[J]

false

False

Humanities

CI-H

4.213[J]

Ecological Urbanism Seminar

Weds the theory and practice of city design and planning as a means of adaptation with the insights of ecology and other environmental disciplines. Presents ecological urbanism as critical to the future of the city and its design, as it provides a framework for addressing challenges that threaten humanity — such as climate change, rising sea level, and environmental and social justice — while fulfilling human needs for health, safety, welfare, meaning, and delight. Applies a historical and theoretical perspective to the solution of real-world challenges. Enrollment limited.

true

Spring

Graduate

3-0-9

Permission of instructor

11.308[J]

false

False

4.215[J]

Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry

Explores photography as a disciplined way of seeing, and as a medium of inquiry and of expressing ideas. Readings, observations, and photographs form the basis of discussions on landscape, light, significant detail, place, poetics, narrative, and how photography can inform research, design and planning, among other issues. Recommended for students who want to employ visual methods in their theses. Enrollment limited.

true

Spring

Graduate

3-0-9

null

11.309[J]

false

False

4.217[J]

Disaster Resilient Design

Seminar examines the linkages between natural hazards and environmental design. Engages theoretical debates about landscapes of risk, vulnerability, and resilience. Participants generate proposals for disaster resilience through combinations of retrofit, reconstruction, resettlement, commemorative, and anticipatory design. Methods include rapid bibliographic search, risk analysis, landscape synthesis, and comparative international methods. Projects vary and may focus on current crises or involve collaboration with the Aga Khan Development Network and other humanitarian organizations. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Limited to 15.

true

Fall

Graduate

3-0-6

null

11.315[J]

false

False

4.218

Disaster Resilient Design

Seminar examines the linkages between natural hazards and environmental design. Engages theoretical debates about landscapes of risk, vulnerability, and resilience. Participants generate proposals for disaster resilience through combinations of retrofit, reconstruction, resettlement, commemorative, and anticipatory design. Methods include rapid bibliographic search, risk analysis, landscape synthesis, and comparative international methods. Projects vary and may focus on current crises or involve collaboration with the Aga Khan Development Network and other humanitarian organizations. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Limited to 15; preference to Course 4 majors and minors.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

4.221

Architecture Studies Colloquium

Aims to create a discourse across the various SMArchS discipline groups that reflects current Institute-wide initiatives; introduce SMarchS students to the distinct perspective of the different SMarchS discipline groups; and provide a forum for debate and discussion in which the SMarchS cohort can explore, develop and share ideas. Engages with interdisciplinary thinking, research, and innovation that is characteristic of MIT's culture and can form a basis for their future work. Limited to first-year SMArchS students.

true

Fall

Graduate

2-0-1

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.222

Professional Practice

Gives a critical orientation towards a career in architectural practice. Uses historical and current examples to illustrate the legal, ethical and management concepts underlying the practice of architecture. Emphasis on facilitating design excellence and strengthening connections between the profession and academia. Restricted to MArch students.

true

Fall

Graduate

3-0-3

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.227

Landscapes of Energy

Spatializes large technological systems of energy, analyzes existing and speculative energy visions, and imagines energy futures in relation to concerns of ecology, politics, and aesthetics. Identifies different scales of thinking about the territory of energy from that of environmental systems, to cities, regions, and global landscapes. Readings and students' research projects draw on critical geography, history of technology, environmental history to synthesize energy attributes within the design disciplines. Limited to 12.

true

Spring

Graduate

3-0-9

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.228[J]

Contemporary Urbanism Proseminar: Theory and Representation

Critical introduction to key contemporary positions in urbanism to the ends of researching, representing, and designing territories that respond to the challenges of the 21st century. Provides an overview of contemporary urban issues, situates them in relation to a genealogy of urban precedents, and constructs a theoretical framework that engages the allied fields of architecture, landscape architecture, political ecology, geography, territorial planning, and environmental humanities. Comprised of three sections, first section articulates a framework on the urban as both process and form, shifting the emphasis from city to territory. Second section engages a series of related urban debates, such as density/sprawl, growth/shrinkage, and codes/exception. Third section calls upon urban agency in the age of environment through the object of infrastructures of trash, water, oil, and food. Limited to 25.

true

Fall

Graduate

rranged

Permission of instructor

11.348[J]

false

False

4.229[J]

Collectives: New Forms of Sharing

Considers ways in which collaborative approaches to living can reshape architecture and the city. Students investigate historic and present spatial models and platforms (digital and physical) of collaboration and sharing. Explores how economic, political and social transformations, such as co-ownership, community-based exchange, digital collectives, and self-organization, can lead to new programs, typologies, designs, and new relationships between user, designer, and developer. Limited to 15.

true

Spring

Graduate

3-0-9

Permission of instructor

11.228[J]

false

False

4.230

SIGUS Workshop

Interdisciplinary projects and interactive practices in urban settlement issues as investigated by MIT's SIGUS (Special Interest Group in Urban Settlements), with a focus on developing countries throughout the world. Participation by guest practitioners. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version.

true

Spring

Graduate

rranged

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.231

SIGUS Workshop

Interdisciplinary projects and interactive practices in urban settlement issues as investigated by MIT's SIGUS (Special Interest Group in Urban Settlements), with a focus on developing countries throughout the world. Participation by guest practitioners. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version.

true

Spring, Fall, IAP, Spring, Spring

Graduate

rranged

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.240[J]

Urban Design Skills: Observing, Interpreting, and Representing the City

Introduces methods for observing, interpreting, and representing the urban environment. Students draw on their senses and develop their ability to deduce, question, and test conclusions about how the built environment is designed, used, and valued. The interrelationship of built form, circulation networks, open space, and natural systems are a key focus. Supplements existing classes that cover theory and history of city design and urban planning and prepares students without design backgrounds with the fundamentals of physical planning. Intended as a foundation for 11.329.

true

Fall

Graduate

4-2-2

null

11.328[J]

false

False

4.241[J]

The Making of Cities

Examines the complex development of cities through history by tracing a diachronic accumulation of forms and spaces in specific cities, and showing how significant ideas were made manifest across distinct geographies and cultures. Emphasizes how economic, spiritual, political, geographic and technological forces have simultaneously shaped and, in turn, been influenced by the city.

true

Spring

Graduate

rranged

11.001, 11.301, or permission of instructor

11.330[J]

false

False

4.242[J]

Walking the City (New)

Students investigate how landscapes and cities shape them — and vice versa — by examining the literature of walking and the environments in which they move. Through extensive walking, students explore the city to analyze its design and varied histories, drawing on cartography, art, sociology, and memory to create fresh narratives. Students write architecture and city criticism, design "story maps," and are invited to walk as an art practice. Emphasis is on the relationship between the human body and freedom, or a lack thereof, and between pathways and the complex emotions that emerge from traversing them. Limited to 12. Preference to Course 4 and 11 graduate students who have completed at least two semesters.

true

Fall

Graduate

2-0-10

null

11.240[J]

false

False

4.244[J]

Urban Design Seminar: Perspectives on Contemporary Practice

Examines innovations in urban design practice occurring through the work of leading practitioners in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning. Features lectures by major national and global practitioners in urban design. Projects and topics vary based on term and speakers but may cover architectural urbanism, landscape and ecology, arts and culture, urban design regulation and planning agencies, and citywide and regional design. Focuses on analysis and synthesis of themes discussed in presentations and discussions.

true

Spring

Graduate

2-0-7

null

11.333[J]

false

False

4.245[J]

DesignX Entrepreneurship

Students in teams accepted to the MITdesignX accelerator begin work on their ventures in this intense two-week bootcamp. Participants identify the needs and problems that demonstrate the demand for their innovative technology, policy, products, and/or services. They research and investigate various markets and stakeholders pertinent to their ventures, and begin to test their ideas and thesis in real-world interviews and interactions. Subject presented in workshop format, giving teams the chance to jump-start their ventures together with a cohort of people working on ideas that span the realm of design, planning real estate, and the human environment. Registration limited to students accepted to the MITdesignX accelerator in the fall.

true

IAP

Graduate

4-0-2

Permission of instructor

11.245[J]

false

False

4.246[J]

DesignX Accelerator

Students continue to work in their venture teams to advance innovative ideas, products, and services oriented to design, planning, and the human environment. Presented in a workshop format with supplementary lectures. Teams are matched with external mentors for additional support in business and product development. At the end of the term, teams pitch their ventures to an audience from across the school and MIT, investors, industry, and cities. Registration limited to students accepted to the MITdesignX accelerator in the fall.

true

Spring

Graduate

2-4-6

Permission of instructor

11.246[J]

false

False

4.247[J]

Urban Design Ideals and Action

Examines the relationship between urban design ideals, urban design action, and the built environment through readings, discussions, presentations, and papers. Analyzes the diverse design ideals that influence cities and settlements, and investigates how urban designers use them to shape urban form. Provides a critical understanding of the diverse formal methods used to intervene creatively in both developed and developing contexts, especially pluralistic and informal built environments.

true

Fall

Graduate

2-0-7

null

11.337[J]

false

False

4.248[J]

Advanced Urban Design Skills: Observing, Interpreting, and Representing the City

Through a studio-based course in planning and urban design, builds on the foundation acquired in 11.328 to engage in creative exploration of how design contributes to resilient, just, and vibrant urban places. Through the planning and design of two projects, students creatively explore spatial ideas and utilize various digital techniques to communicate their design concepts, giving form to strategic thinking. Develops approaches and techniques to evaluate the plural structure of the built environment and offer propositions that address policies and regulations as well as the values, behaviors, and wishes of the different users.

true

Fall

Graduate

4-2-4

11.328 or permission of instructor

11.329[J]

false

False

4.250[J]

Introduction to Urban Design and Development

Examines the evolving structure of cities and the way that cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas can be designed and developed. Surveys the ideas of a wide range of people who have addressed urban problems. Stresses the connection between values and design. Demonstrates how physical, social, political and economic forces interact to shape and reshape cities over time. Introduces links between urban design and urban science.

true

Fall, Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

11.001[J]

false

False

Humanities

False

4.252[J]

Introduction to Urban Design and Development

Examines the physical and social structure of cities and ways they can be changed. Includes significant thinkers in urban form, 20th-century American city design, urban design and society, global urban design, and design of neighborhoods and streets. Core lectures are supplemented by student papers examining the relationship of contemporary projects to history and theory, and factors of high quality global urban design and development. Guest speakers present cases involving current projects or research illustrating scope and methods of urban design theory and practice. Intended for those seeking an introduction to fundamental knowledge of theory and praxis in city design and development.

true

Spring

Graduate

3-0-9

Permission of instructor

11.301[J]

false

False

4.253[J]

Urban Design Politics

Examines ways that urban design contributes to distribution of political power and resources in cities. Investigates the nature of relations between built form and political purposes through close study of public and private sector design commissions and planning processes that have been clearly motivated by political pressures, as well as more tacit examples. Lectures and discussions focus on cases from both developed and developing countries.

true

Spring

Graduate

3-0-9

Permission of instructor

11.302[J]

false

False

4.254[J]

Real Estate Development Studio

Focuses on the synthesis of urban, mixed-use real estate projects, including the integration of physical design and programming with finance and marketing. Interdisciplinary student teams analyze how to maximize value across multiple dimensions in the process of preparing professional development proposals for sites in US cities and internationally. Reviews emerging real estate products and innovative developments to provide a foundation for studio work. Two major projects are interspersed with lectures and field trips. Integrates skills and knowledge in the MSRED program; also open to other students interested in real estate development by permission of the instructors.

true

Spring

Graduate

6-0-12

Permission of instructor

11.303[J]

false

False

4.255[J]

Site and Environmental Systems Planning

Introduces a range of practical approaches involved in evaluating and planning sites within the context of natural and cultural systems. Develops the knowledge and skills to analyze and plan a site for development through exercises and an urban design project. Topics include land inventory, urban form, spatial organization of uses, parcelization, design of roadways, grading, utility systems, off-site impacts, and landscape strategies.

true

Spring

Graduate

6-0-9

Permission of instructor

11.304[J]

false

False

4.256[J]

Revealing the City

Through study of the essay as a literary form and mode of writing, students explore the promise and perils of the variegated city. Participants create artful narratives by examining how various literary forms — poetry, fiction, and essay — illuminate our understanding of cities. Special emphasis is on the writer as the reader's advocate, with the goal of writing with greater creativity and sophistication for specialized and general-interest audiences. Limited to 12. Preference to Course 4 and 11 graduate students who have completed at least two semesters.

false

Fall

Graduate

2-0-10

null

11.256[J]

false

False

4.264[J]

Advanced Seminar in Landscape and Urbanism

Explores theories, practices, and emerging trends in the fields of landscape architecture and urbanism, such as systemic design, landscape urbanism, engineered nature, drosscapes, urban biodiversity, urban mobility, megaregions, and urban agriculture. Lectures, readings, and guest speakers present a wide array of multi-disciplinary topics, including current works from P-REX lab. Students conduct independent and group research that is future-oriented.

true

Spring

Graduate

3-0-9

Permission of instructor

11.334[J]

false

False

4.275[J]

Advanced Urbanism Colloquium

Introduces critical theories and contemporary practices in the field of urbanism that challenge its paradigms and advance its future. Includes theoretical linkages between ideas about the cultures of urbanization, social and political processes of development, environmental tradeoffs of city making, and the potential of design disciplines to intervene to change the future of built forms. Events and lecture series co-organized by faculty and doctoral students further engage and inform research. Preference to doctoral students in the Advanced Urbanism concentration.

true

Fall, Spring

Graduate

1-1-1 [P/D/F]

Permission of instructor

11.912[J]

false

False

4.288

Preparation for SMArchS Thesis

Students select thesis topic, define method of approach, and prepare thesis proposal for SMArchS degree. Faculty supervision on an individual or group basis. Intended for SMArchS program students prior to registration for 4.ThG.

true

Fall, Spring, Summer

Graduate

rranged [P/D/F]

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.291

Independent Study in Architecture Studies

Supplementary work on individual or group basis. Registration subject to prior arrangement for subject matter and supervision by staff.

true

Fall, IAP, Spring

Undergraduate

rranged

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.292

Independent Study in Architecture Studies

Supplementary work on individual or group basis. Registration subject to prior arrangement for subject matter and supervision by staff.

true

Fall, IAP, Spring

Undergraduate

rranged [P/D/F]

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.293

Independent Study in Architecture Studies

Supplementary work on individual or group basis. Registration subject to prior arrangement for subject matter and supervision by staff.

true

Fall, IAP, Spring

Graduate

rranged

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.294

Independent Study in Architecture Studies

Supplementary work on individual or group basis. Registration subject to prior arrangement for subject matter and supervision by staff.

true

Fall, IAP, Spring, Spring

Graduate

rranged [P/D/F]

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.299

Summer Research Topics

Supplementary summer work on individual basis. Registration subject to prior arrangement for subject matter and supervision by staff.

true

Summer

Graduate

rranged [P/D/F]

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.S20

Special Subject: Architecture Studies

Seminar or lecture on a topic in architecture studies that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

rranged

null

false

False

4.S21

Special Subject: Architecture Studies

Seminar or lecture on a topic in architecture studies that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.

true

IAP

Undergraduate

rranged [P/D/F]

null

false

False

4.S22

Special Subject: Architecture Studies

Seminar or lecture on a topic in architecture studies that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.

true

Fall

Graduate

rranged

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.S23

Special Subject: Architecture Studies

Seminar or lecture on a topic in architecture studies that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.

true

Spring

Graduate

rranged

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.S24

Special Subject: Architecture Studies

Seminar or lecture on a topic in architecture studies that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.

true

Spring

Graduate

rranged [P/D/F]

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.S25

Special Subject: Urban Housing

Seminar or lecture on a topic in urban housing that is not covered in the regular architecture curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.

true

Fall

Graduate

rranged

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.S26

Special Subject: City Form

Seminar or lecture on a topic in city form that is not covered in the regular architecture curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.

true

Fall

Graduate

rranged

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.S27

Special Subject: Urban Design

Seminar or lecture on a topic in urban design that is not covered in the regular Architecture curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.

true

Fall

Graduate

rranged

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.S28

Special Subject: Architecture Studies

Seminar or lecture on a topic in architecture studies that is not covered in the regular curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.

true

Fall

Graduate

rranged

null

false

False

4.301

Introduction to Artistic Experimentation

Introduces artistic practice and critical visual thinking through three studio-based projects using different scales and media, for instance, "Body Extension," "Shaping Time," "Public Making," and/or "Networked Cultures." Each project concludes with a final presentation and critique. Students explore sculptural, architectural, performative artistic methods; video and sound art; site interventions and strategies for artistic engagement in the public realm. Lectures, screenings, guest presentations, field trips, readings, and debates supplement studio practice. Also introduces students to the historic, cultural, and environmental forces affecting both the development of an artistic vision and the reception of a work of art. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-3-6

null

false

False

Arts

False

4.302

Foundations in Art, Design, and Spatial Practices

Develops an introductory foundation in artistic practice and its critical analysis, and develops artistic approaches and methods by drawing analogies to architectural thinking, urbanism, and design practice. Covers how to communicate ideas and experiences on different scales and through two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and time-based media in new genres. Uses artistic methods that engage the public realm through spatial, sculptural, performative, and process-oriented practices. Instruction components include video screenings, guest lectures, visiting artist presentations, and field trips. Instruction and practice in written and oral communication provided. Lab fee required. Limited to 18; preference to Course 4 majors and minors.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-3-6

4.02A or 4.021

null

false

False

Arts

False

4.307

Art, Architecture, and Urbanism in Dialogue

Initiates a dialogue between architecture, urbanism, and contemporary art by focusing on the work of practitioners who intertwine the three disciplines in a critical spatial practice. Investigates themes and works ranging from early modernist practices to the contemporary and research based. Lectures, screenings, readings, and discussions with guests and faculty contribute to the development of group and individual projects and their presentation. Additional work required of students taking graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.

true

Spring, Spring

Graduate

3-3-6

4.301, 4.302, or permission of instructor

null

false

False

Arts

False

4.308

Art, Architecture, and Urbanism in Dialogue

Initiates a dialogue between architecture, urbanism, and contemporary art by focusing on the work of practitioners who intertwine the three disciplines in a critical spatial practice. Investigates themes and works ranging from early modernist practices to the contemporary and research based. Lectures, screenings, readings, and discussions with guests and faculty contribute to the development of group and individual projects and their presentation. Additional work required of students taking graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.

true

Spring

Graduate

rranged

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.310

Introduction to Screen Printing

Exposes students to the technical skills needed for successful screen printing. Students produce single and multicolor prints on paper and fabric using a variety of methods. Covers an introduction to preparing and reclaiming screens, creating handmade and digital cut stencils, use of screen positives and photo emulsion, mono prints and editions, registration, and more. Lab fee required. Additional work required of students taking for graduate credit. Limited to 10 total for versions meeting together.

true

Fall, Spring

Undergraduate

0-3-3

null

false

False

4.311

Introduction to Screen Printing (New)

Expose students to the technical skills needed for successful screen printing. Students produce single and multicolor prints on paper and fabric using a variety of methods. Covers an introduction to preparing and reclaiming screens, creating handmade and digital cut stencils, use of screen positives and photo emulsion, mono prints and editions, registration, and more. Lab fee required. Additional work required of students taking for graduate credit. Limited to 10 total for versions meeting together.

true

Fall, Spring

Graduate

0-3-6

null

false

False

4.314

Advanced Workshop in Artistic Practice and Transdisciplinary Research

Examines artistic practice as a form of critical inquiry and knowledge production. Offers opportunity to develop art as a means for addressing the social, cultural, and ecological consequences of technology, to build bridges between industry and culture, and to challenge the boundaries between public and private, and human and non-human. Provides instruction in evaluating models of experimentation, individual research, and collaboration with other disciplines in the arts, culture, science, and technology. Supports the development of individual and collective artistic research projects. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-3-6

4.301, 4.302, or permission of instructor

null

false

False

Arts

False

4.315

Advanced Workshop in Artistic Practice and Transdisciplinary Research

Examines artistic practice as a form of critical inquiry and knowledge production. Offers opportunity to develop art as a means for addressing the social, cultural, and ecological consequences of technology, to build bridges between industry and culture, and to challenge the boundaries between public and private, and human and non-human. Provides instruction in evaluating models of experimentation, individual research, and collaboration with other disciplines in the arts, culture, science, and technology. Supports the development of individual and collective artistic research projects. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.

true

Fall, Fall, Spring, Spring, Spring, Fall, Spring, Fall, Fall, IAP, Spring, Fall, Spring

Graduate

rranged

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

Arts

False

4.316

Culture Fabric: Art, Fashion, Identity

Focuses on the concept of "fabric" both as a medium and as a framework to explore the complex cultural histories, meanings, and functions of clothing and wearable technologies. Guides students in an exploration of ways in which clothing signals one's belonging to a group and reflects the degree of one's conformity with established social or cultural norms as well as ways in which clothing and fashion may provide insights into broader cultural codes, societal politics, and processes of transformation. Additional work is required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-3-6

null

false

False

4.317

Culture Fabric: Art, Fashion, Identity

Focuses on the concept of "fabric" both as a medium and as a framework to explore the complex cultural histories, meanings, and functions of clothing and wearable technologies. Guides students in an exploration of ways in which clothing signals one's belonging to a group and reflects the degree of one's conformity with established social or cultural norms as well as ways in which clothing and fashion may provide insights into broader cultural codes, societal politics, and processes of transformation. Additional work is required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.

true

Spring

Graduate

3-3-3

null

false

False

4.318

Toxic Textiles/Fashion Fables

Critiques the widespread phenomenon of fast fashion and considers the notion of "toxic textiles" to explore the cultural, social, political, economic, and environmental footprint of clothing. Examines the storytelling capacity of the textile medium as an artistic and critical response to the world's pressing concerns. Introduces experimentation with textile art and fashion design, informed case studies in contemporary art, decolonizing fashion, performative and wearable technologies, experimental preservation, and fabric upcycling. Students exhibit one studio-based final project at the end of the term. Sewing skills beneficial but not required. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

4.319

Toxic Textiles/Fashion Fables

Critiques the widespread phenomenon of fast fashion and considers the notion of "toxic textiles" to explore the cultural, social, political, economic, and environmental footprint of clothing. Examines the storytelling capacity of the textile medium as an artistic and critical response to the world's pressing concerns. Introduces experimentation with textile art and fashion design, informed case studies in contemporary art, decolonizing fashion, performative and wearable technologies, experimental preservation, and fabric upcycling. Students exhibit one studio-based final project at the end of the term. Sewing skills beneficial but not required. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.

true

Spring

Graduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

4.320

Introduction to Sound Creations

Develops a critical awareness of how sound art as a field for artistic exploration is performed, produced, and distributed. Explores contemporary and historical practices that emerge outside of purely musical environments and investigates specific compositional developments of post-war modernity and electro-acoustic music, as well as non-musical disciplines related to the psychophysics of hearing and listening. Lectures, screenings, readings, and discussions with guests and faculty contribute to the development of group and individual projects. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-3-6

null

false

False

Arts

False

4.321

Introduction to Sound Creations

Develops a critical awareness of how sound art as a field for artistic exploration is performed, produced, and distributed. Explores contemporary and historical practices that emerge outside of purely musical environments and investigates specific compositional developments of post-war modernity and electro-acoustic music, as well as non-musical disciplines related to the psychophysics of hearing and listening. Lectures, screenings, readings, and discussions with guests and faculty contribute to the development of group and individual projects. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.

true

Spring

Graduate

rranged

null

false

False

4.322

Introduction to Three-Dimensional Art Work

Explores three-dimensional art work, including sculptures and installations, from design to model to finished piece. Addresses challenges associated with design and fabrication, process, context, and relationships between objects, the body, and physical or cultural environments. Lectures, screenings, field trips, readings, and debates supplement studio practice. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-3-6

null

false

False

Arts

False

4.323

Introduction to Three-Dimensional Art Work

Explores three-dimensional art work, including sculptures and installations, from design to model to finished piece. Addresses challenges associated with design and fabrication, process, context, and relationships between objects, the body, and physical or cultural environments. Lectures, screenings, field trips, readings, and debates supplement studio practice. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.

true

Spring

Graduate

rranged

null

false

False

4.324

Artist, Architect, Tinkerer, Engineer: How to Collaborate Across Disciplines

Seminar connecting the arts and sciences by exploring methodological similarities and differences across the arts, architecture, engineering, and social sciences. Through targeted reading and exercises, each student develops a collaborative project that engages directly with another discipline. Projects are iterated over the course of the term. Readings, visitors, and lectures expose students to a wide range of practitioners across different fields. Students interrogate the underlying methodologies that unite and separate their disciplines. Presents best-practice models for cultivating collaboration through the use of case studies. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-3-6

null

false

False

4.325

Artist, Architect, Tinkerer, Engineer: How to Collaborate Across Disciplines

Seminar connecting the arts and sciences by exploring methodological similarities and differences across the arts, architecture, engineering, and social sciences. Through targeted reading and exercises, each student develops a collaborative project that engages directly with another discipline. Projects are iterated over the course of the term. Readings, visitors, and lectures expose students to a wide range of practitioners across different fields. Students interrogate the underlying methodologies that unite and separate their disciplines. Presents best-practice models for cultivating collaboration through the use of case studies. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.

true

Fall

Graduate

rranged

null

false

False

4.328

Climate Visions

Presents artistic intelligence and modes of creative production as ways to contribute to and critically engage with climate science. In conversation with local stakeholders, students develop hybrid projects of art and design that negotiate between pragmatics and fiction to envision solutions to the climate crisis. Case studies and class participation examine dialectics between aesthetics and scientific knowledge related to environmental care and repair. Includes prototyping and publishing spatial, digital, and material experimentations to generate new work individually and/or collaboratively by way of diverse media explorations. Visiting speakers and field trips accompany lectures, readings, class discussions, and presentations. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 12.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-3-6

null

false

False

Arts

False

4.329

Climate Visions

Presents artistic intelligence and modes of creative production as ways to contribute to and critically engage with climate science. In conversation with local stakeholders, students develop hybrid projects of art and design that negotiate between pragmatics and fiction to envision solutions to the climate crisis. Case studies and class participation examine dialectics between aesthetics and scientific knowledge related to environmental care and repair. Includes prototyping and publishing spatial, digital, and material experimentations to generate new work individually and/or collaboratively by way of diverse media explorations. Visiting speakers and field trips accompany lectures, readings, class discussions, and presentations. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 12.

true

Fall

Graduate

rranged

null

false

False

4.330

Documentary Production

Presents the basics of capturing documentary footage and sounds in real world scenarios, while navigating the ethics of capturing "reality," depicting real people, and representing "truth." Investigates methodologies of editing for production: for film or alternative media such as interactive, web, installation, and location intervention. From Robert Flaherty (silent era) and John Grierson (British model) to Morin & Rouch (cinema verite) and George Stoney (community engagement) to Errol Morris (epistemological interview) and Adam Chris (journalistic essay), considers the history and context of documentary and the various ways people have attempted to represent the real world, including newer hybrid forms that mix fiction, nonfiction, and nonlinear interactive works. Students produce a documentary short on the subject and in the medium of their choice. Additional work required of graduate students. Lab fee required. Limited to 10 total for versions meeting together.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

1-2-6

null

false

False

4.331

Documentary Production

Presents the basics of capturing documentary footage and sounds in real world scenarios, while navigating the ethics of capturing "reality," depicting real people, and representing "truth." Investigates methodologies of editing for production: for film or alternative media such as interactive, web, installation, and location intervention. From Robert Flaherty (silent era) and John Grierson (British model) to Morin & Rouch (cinema verite) and George Stoney (community engagement) to Errol Morris (epistemological interview) and Adam Chris (journalistic essay), considers the history and context of documentary and the various ways people have attempted to represent the real world, including newer hybrid forms that mix fiction, nonfiction, and nonlinear interactive works. Students produce a documentary short on the subject and in the medium of their choice. Additional work required of graduate students. Lab fee required. Limited to 10 for total versions meeting together.

true

Spring

Graduate

1-2-6

null

false

False

4.332

Introduction to Interactive, Participatory, and Generative Art Making

Students create art projects that interact with participants and/or environment using a variety of code and hardware-based solutions including MAX/MSP/Jitter, a graphical object-based coding environment, and Arduino physical computing technologies. Students use sensors or generate data to control or interact with lights, speakers, video, audio, motors and much more. Final projects are presented in "n/tr.ACT," an interactive art show in the ACT Gallery. Lab fee required. Additional work required of students taking for graduate credit. Limited to 8 total for versions meeting together.

true

Fall, Spring

Undergraduate

0-3-3

null

false

False

4.333

Introduction to Interactive, Participatory, and Generative Art Making

Students create art projects that interact with participants and/or environment using a variety of code and hardware-based solutions including MAX/MSP/Jitter, a graphical object-based coding environment, and Arduino physical computing technologies. Students use sensors or generate data to control or interact with lights, speakers, video, audio, motors and much more. Final projects are presented in "n/tr.ACT," an interactive art show in the ACT Gallery. Lab fee required. Additional work required of students taking for graduate credit. Limited to 8 total for versions meeting together.

true

Fall

Graduate

0-3-6

null

false

False

4.341

Introduction to Photography and Related Media

Introduces history and contemporary practices in artistic photography through projects, lectures, artist visits, group discussions, readings, and field trips. Fosters visual literacy and aesthetic appreciation of photography/digital imaging, as well as critical awareness of how images in our culture are produced and constructed. Provides instruction in the fundamentals of different camera formats, film exposure and development, lighting, black and white darkroom printing, and digital imaging. Assignments allow for incorporation of a range of traditional and experimental techniques, development of technical skills, and personal exploration. Throughout the term, present and discuss projects in a critical forum. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.

true

Fall, Spring

Undergraduate

3-3-6

null

false

False

Arts

False

4.342

Introduction to Photography and Related Media

Introduces history and contemporary practices in artistic photography through projects, lectures, artist visits, group discussions, readings, and field trips. Fosters visual literacy and aesthetic appreciation of photography/digital imaging, as well as critical awareness of how images in our culture are produced and constructed. Provides instruction in the fundamentals of different camera formats, film exposure and development, lighting, black and white darkroom printing, and digital imaging. Assignments allow for incorporation of a range of traditional and experimental techniques, development of technical skills, and personal exploration. Throughout the term, present and discuss projects in a critical forum. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.

true

Fall, Spring, Spring, Spring, Fall, Spring, Fall, Fall, IAP, Spring, Fall, Spring

Graduate

rranged

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

Arts

False

4.344

Advanced Photography and Related Media

Fosters critical awareness of how images in our culture are produced and constructed. Covers a range of experimental techniques and camera formats, advanced traditional and experimental black-and-white darkroom printing, and all aspects of digital imaging and output. Includes individual and group reviews, field trips, and visits from outside professionals. Topical focus changes each term; coursework centers on student-initiated project with emphasis on conceptual, theoretical, and technical development. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Equipment available for checkout. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.

true

Spring, Spring, Fall, Spring, Fall, Fall, IAP, Spring, Fall, Spring

Graduate

3-3-6

4.341 or permission of instructor

null

false

False

Arts

False

4.345

Advanced Photography and Related Media

Fosters critical awareness of how images in our culture are produced and constructed. Covers a range of experimental techniques and camera formats, advanced traditional and experimental black-and-white darkroom printing, and all aspects of digital imaging and output. Includes individual and group reviews, field trips, and visits from outside professionals. Topical focus changes each term; coursework centers on student-initiated project with emphasis on conceptual, theoretical, and technical development. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Equipment available for checkout. Lab fee required. Limited to 20.

true

Spring

Graduate

rranged

4.342 or permission of instructor

null

false

False

4.346

Aesthetic Revolutions: Crafting Avant-Garde Film & Video (New)

Students explore the complexities of avant-garde cinematic practices through crafting short videos. By studying the conceptual, technical, and social dimensions of avant-garde cinema, participants develop innovative storytelling approaches that challenge mainstream conventions. Students engage in film screenings and discussions that trace the history of moving images from their origins to the contemporary era, with a specific focus on avant-garde practices. Introduces practical knowledge of video capturing, audio recording, lighting, and editing, while emphasizing aesthetic strategies for individual concept development. Specific project topics may vary each term, allowing for the opportunity to repeat for credit. Lab fee required. Limited to 25.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-3-6

null

false

False