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4.347 | 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 | Graduate | 3-3-6 | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.352 | Advanced Video and Related Media | Introduces advanced strategies of image and sound manipulation, both technical and conceptual. Covers pre-production planning (storyboards and scripting), refinement of digital editing techniques, visual effects such as chroma-keying, post-production, as well as audio and sonic components. Context provided by regular viewings of contemporary video artworks and other audio-visual formats. Students work individually and in groups to develop skills in media literacy and communication. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20. | true | Spring, Spring | Graduate | 3-3-6 | 4.354 or permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | Arts | False |
4.353 | Advanced Video and Related Media | Introduces advanced strategies of image and sound manipulation, both technical and conceptual. Covers pre-production planning (storyboards and scripting), refinement of digital editing techniques, visual effects such as chroma-keying, post-production, as well as audio and sonic components. Context provided by regular viewings of contemporary video artworks and other audio-visual formats. Students work individually and in groups to develop skills in media literacy and communication. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20. | true | Spring | Graduate | rranged | 4.355 or permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.354 | Introduction to Video and Related Media | Examines the technical and conceptual variables and strategies inherent in contemporary video art practice. Analyzes structural concepts of time, space, perspective, and sound within the art form. Building upon the historical legacy of the moving the image, students render self-exploration, performance, social critique, and manipulation of raw experience into an aesthetic form. Emphasizes practical knowledge of lighting, video capturing and editing, and montage. Presentation and critique of student work, technical workshops, screenings, and reading discussions assist students with final project. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-3-6 | null | null | false | false | false | False | Arts | False |
4.355 | Introduction to Video and Related Media | Examines the technical and conceptual variables and strategies inherent in contemporary video art practice. Analyzes structural concepts of time, space, perspective, and sound within the art form. Building upon the historical legacy of film and other time-based image media, students render self-exploration, performance, social critique, and manipulation of raw experience into an aesthetic form. Emphasizes practical knowledge of lighting, video capturing and editing, and montage. Includes presentation and critique of student work, technical workshops, screenings, and readings with the objective of a final creative project. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. | true | Spring, Fall, Spring, Fall, Fall, IAP, Spring, Fall, Spring | Graduate | rranged | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.356 | Cinematic Migrations | Explores ideas and contexts behind moving images through a multifaceted look at cinema's transmutations, emergence on local and national levels, and global migrations. Examines the transformation caused by online video, television, spatial installations, performances, dance, and many formats and portable devices, as well as the theory and context of film's categorization, dissemination, and analysis. Presentations, screenings, field trips, readings, visiting artists, and experimental transdisciplinary projects broaden the perception of present cinema. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 12. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 3-3-6 | 4.301, 4.302, 4.354, or permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | Arts | False |
4.357 | Cinematic Migrations | Explores ideas and contexts behind moving images through a multifaceted look at cinema's transmutations, emergence on local and national levels, and global migrations. Examines the transformation caused by online video, television, spatial installations, performances, dance, and many formats and portable devices, as well as the theory and context of film's categorization, dissemination, and analysis. Presentations, screenings, field trips, readings, visiting artists, and experimental transdisciplinary projects broaden the perception of present cinema. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 12. | true | Fall, Spring, Fall, Fall, IAP, Spring, Fall, Spring | Graduate | rranged | 4.355 or permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.359 | Synchronizations of Senses | Focused on the practices of varied practitioners — film directors, artists, musicians, composers, architects, designers — whose writings relay a process of thinking and feeling integral to their forms of material production. Testing various ways aesthetic forms and their shifts — historic and contemporary — have relations to still emerging contemporary subjectivities (felt emotion in a human body), the class studies productions created by participants and case studies of varied producers, and generates new work individually and/or collaboratively via diverse media explorations. Includes reading, writing, drawing, and publishing, as well as photographic, cinematic, spatial, and audio operations and productions. Activities include screenings, listening assignments, and guest visits, in addition to readings, discussions, and presentations. Lab fee required. Limited to 12. | true | Spring | Graduate | 3-0-6 | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.361 | Performance Art Workshop | Explores performance in relation to the body as a space of resistance, the collective body and its powers, and performative acts that blur boundaries between art and life. Students trace gestures of care and conviviality by enacting scores and poetry, altering screens and other walls that divide and separate us, reclaiming time and undoing categories that alienate our bodies from life itself. Activities include contact improvisation, walking, reading, screening, and discussing theoretical, historical, and contemporary issues in relation to performance art. Several small performance-based projects, both collective and individual, assigned throughout the semester. Additional work required of students taking graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-3-6 | 4.301, 4.302, or permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | Arts | False |
4.362 | Performance Art Workshop | Explores performance in relation to the body as a space of resistance, the collective body and its powers, and performative acts that blur boundaries between art and life. Students trace gestures of care and conviviality by enacting scores and poetry, altering screens and other walls that divide and separate us, reclaiming time and undoing categories that alienate our bodies from life itself. Activities include contact improvisation, walking, reading, screening, and discussing theoretical, historical and contemporary issues in relation to performance art. Several small performance-based projects, both collective and individual, assigned throughout the semester. Additional work required of students taking graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20. | true | Spring, Fall, Fall, IAP, Spring, Fall, Spring | Graduate | rranged | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.368 | Studio Seminar in Art and the Public Sphere | Focuses on the production of artistic interventions in public space. Explores ideas, situations, objects, and materials that shape public space and inform the notion of public and publicness, with an emphasis on co-production and cooperative ethics. Examines forms of environmental art in comparison to temporal and critical forms of art and action in the public sphere. Historical models include the Russian Constructivists, the Situationists International, system aesthetics, participatory and conceptual art, contemporary interventionist tactics and artistic strategies, and methods of public engagement. Students develop an initial concept for a publicly-situated project. Includes guest lectures, visiting artist presentations, and optional field trips. Additional work required of students taking graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 12. | true | Spring, Spring | Graduate | 3-3-6 | 4.301 or 4.302 | null | false | false | false | False | Arts | False |
4.369 | Studio Seminar in Art and the Public Sphere | Focuses on the production of artistic interventions in public space. Explores ideas, situations, objects, and materials that shape public space and inform the notion of public and publicness, with an emphasis on co-production and cooperative ethics. Examines forms of environmental art in comparison to temporal and critical forms of art and action in the public sphere. Historical models include the Russian Constructivists, the Situationists International, system aesthetics, participatory and conceptual art, contemporary interventionist tactics and artistic strategies, and methods of public engagement. Students develop an initial concept for a publicly-situated project. Includes guest lectures, visiting artist presentations, and optional field trips. Additional work required of students taking graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 12. | true | Spring | Graduate | rranged | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.373 | Advanced Projects in Art, Culture, and Technology | Investigates conceptual and formal issues in a variety of media. Explores representation, interpretation and meaning, and how these relate to historical, social and cultural contexts. Helps students develop an initial concept for a publicly situated project. Includes guest lectures and visiting artist presentations. Additional work required of students taking 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 |
4.374 | Advanced Projects in Art, Culture, and Technology | Investigates conceptual and formal issues in a variety of media. Explores representation, interpretation and meaning, and how these relate to historical, social and cultural contexts. Helps students develop an initial concept for a publicly situated project. Includes guest lectures and visiting artist presentations. Additional work required of students taking graduate version. Lab fee required. Limited to 20. | true | Fall, Fall, IAP, Spring, Fall, Spring | Graduate | rranged | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.376[J] | Transmedia Art, Extraction, and Environmental Justice | Exploration of today's extractive economies and the role that artists, media-makers, and transmedia producers play in shaping public perception, individual choices, and movement-building towards sustainability. Traces the contingent geological, material, community, and toxic histories of extracted materials used throughout our built environment, as well as civic resistance and reform that could alter extraction practices. Scaffolded workshops with artists and media producers support students' production of creative documentary and other media projects. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 2-3-7 | null | CMS.374[J] | false | false | false | False | Arts | False |
4.378 | Future Heritage Workshop | Probes the ethics and aesthetics of historic preservation through an artistic lens. Introduces a range of themes related to politics of heritage, memory and commemoration, trauma, iconoclasm, and more. Explores the agency of monuments in relation to colonialism, nationalism, social justice, and democracy. Research is conducted in groups, through which students analyze contested heritage sites through critical artistic and spatial practices addressing traumatic, troubling, or toxic memory. Lectures, screenings, readings, and discussions inform the development of individual projects. At the end of the semester, students create projects that may involve artistic tools, collective learning experiences, creative processes, and transdisciplinary knowledge exchanges that demonstrate a new way of capturing, sustaining, and developing future heritage. 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 |
4.379 | Future Heritage Workshop | Probes the ethics and aesthetics of historic preservation through an artistic lens. Introduces a range of themes related to politics of heritage, memory and commemoration, trauma, iconoclasm, and more. Explores the agency of monuments in relation to colonialism, nationalism, social justice, and democracy. Research is conducted in groups, through which students analyze contested heritage sites through critical artistic and spatial practices addressing traumatic, troubling, or toxic memory. Lectures, screenings, readings, and discussions inform the development of individual projects. At the end of the semester, students create projects that may involve artistic tools, collective learning experiences, creative processes, and transdisciplinary knowledge exchanges that demonstrate a new way of capturing, sustaining, and developing future heritage. 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 |
4.387 | Thesis I: Art, Culture, and Technology Theory and Criticism Colloquium | Introduces foundational texts in contemporary theory and criticism at the intersection of art, culture, and technology. Through presentations and discussions, students explore the necessary methodological perspectives required of an interdisciplinary approach to artistic practices. Subject spans fall and IAP terms. Limited to SMACT students. | true | Fall | Graduate | 3-0-6 | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.388 | Thesis II: SMACT Thesis Preparation | Aids students in the selection of a thesis topic, development of an approach method, preparation of a proposal that includes an outline for their thesis. Explores artistic practice as a method of critical inquiry and knowledge production/dissemination. Students examine artist writings and consider academic formats and standards. Regular group meetings, including peer reviews, are supplemented by independent study and individual conferences with faculty. Restricted to first-year SMACT students. | true | Spring, Summer | Graduate | 3-0-6 | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.389 | Thesis III: SMACT Thesis Tutorial | Series of tutorials that includes regular presentations of student writing in group critiques and supports independent thesis research and development by providing guidance on research strategy and written presentation. Sessions supplemented by regular individual conferences with thesis committee members. Restricted to second-year SMACT students. | true | Fall | Graduate | 3-0-6 | 4.388 | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.390 | Art, Culture, and Technology Studio | Explores the theory and criticism of intersections between art, culture, and technology in relation to contemporary artistic practice, critical design, and media. Students consider methods of investigation, documentation, and display and explore modes of communication across disciplines. Students develop projects in which they organize research methods and goals, engage in production, cultivate a context for their practice, and explore how to compellingly communicate, display, and document their work. Regular presentation and peer-critique sessions, as well as reviews involving ACT faculty and fellows, and external guest reviewers provide students with ample feedback as their projects develop. Restricted to SMACT students. | true | Fall, Spring | Graduate | 3-3-12 | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.391 | Independent Study in Art, Culture, and Technology | 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 |
4.392 | Independent Study in Art, Culture, and Technology | 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 |
4.393 | Independent Study in Art, Culture, and Technology | Supplementary work on individual 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 |
4.394 | Independent Study in Art, Culture, and Technology | Supplementary work on individual basis. Registration subject to prior arrangement for subject matter and supervision by staff. | true | Fall, IAP, Spring, Fall, Spring | Graduate | rranged [P/D/F] | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.S30 | Special Subject: Art, Culture, and Technology | Seminar or lecture on a topic in visual arts 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 | Undergraduate | rranged | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.S31 | Special Subject: Art, Culture, and Technology | Seminar or lecture on a topic in visual arts 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.S32 | Special Subject: Art, Culture, and Technology | Seminar or lecture on a topic in visual arts 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.S33 | Special Subject: Art, Culture, and Technology | Seminar or lecture on a topic in visual arts 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.S34 | Special Subject: Art, Culture, and Technology | Seminar or lecture on a topic in visual arts 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.S35 | Special Subject: Art, Culture, and Technology | Seminar or lecture on a topic in visual arts 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 [P/D/F] | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.S36 | Special Subject: Art, Culture and Technology | Seminar or lecture on a topic in visual arts 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] | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.S37 | Special Subject: Art, Culture, and Technology | Seminar or lecture on a topic in visual arts 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.S38 | Special Subject: Art, Culture and Technology | Seminar or lecture on a topic in visual arts 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 |
4.401 | Environmental Technologies in Buildings | Introduction to the study of the thermal and luminous behavior of buildings. Examines the basic scientific principles underlying these phenomena and introduces students to a range of technologies and analysis techniques for designing comfortable indoor environments. Challenges students to apply these techniques and explore the role energy and light can play in shaping architecture. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 3-2-7 | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.411[J] | D-Lab Schools: Building Technology Laboratory | Focuses on the design, analysis, and application of technologies that support the construction of less expensive and better performing schools in developing countries. Prepares students to design or retrofit school buildings in partnership with local communities and NGOs. Strategies covered include daylighting, passive heating and cooling, improved indoor air quality via natural ventilation, appropriate material selection, and structural design. Investigations are based on application of engineering fundamentals, experiments and simulations. Case studies illustrate the role of technologies in reducing barriers to improved education. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Limited to 20 total for versions meeting together. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 2-3-7 | Calculus I (GIR) and Physics I (GIR) | EC.713[J] | true | false | false | False | False | False |
4.412 | D-Lab Schools: Building Technology Laboratory | Focuses on the design, analysis, and application of technologies that support the construction of less expensive and better performing schools in developing countries. Prepares students to design or retrofit school buildings in partnership with local communities and NGOs. Strategies covered include daylighting, passive heating and cooling, improved indoor air quality via natural ventilation, appropriate material selection, and structural design. Investigations are based on application of engineering fundamentals, experiments and simulations. Case studies illustrate the role of technologies in reducing barriers to improved education. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Limited to 20 total for versions meeting together. | true | Fall | Graduate | rranged | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.421 | Space-Conditioning Systems for Low-Carbon Buildings | Studies the physical principles of, and design strategies for, natural and mechanical systems for conditioning high-performance buildings that are needed to reduce anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases in coming decades. Topics include the dynamics of airflow in buildings in urban areas and the design of natural and mixed-mode ventilation systems, low-energy strategies and systems for dehumidification and sensible cooling, thermal storage at diurnal and seasonal time scales, and district heating and cooling systems. System design in leading commercial practice is presented and critiqued by invited practitioners and students. Through a group project, students assess climate- and building-specific systems on the basis of energy consumption, carbon emissions, and resilience to climate change. | true | Spring | Graduate | rranged | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.424[J] | Modeling and Approximation of Thermal Processes | Provides instruction on how to model thermal transport processes in typical engineering systems such as those found in manufacturing, machinery, and energy technologies. Successive modules cover basic modeling tactics for particular modes of transport, including steady and unsteady heat conduction, convection, multiphase flow processes, and thermal radiation. Includes a creative design project executed by the students. | true | Fall | Graduate | 3-0-9 | 2.51 | 2.52[J] | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.431 | Architectural Acoustics | Describes interactions between people and sound, indoors and outdoors, and uses this information to develop acoustical design criteria for architecture and planning. Principles of sound generation, propagation, and reception. Properties of materials for sound absorption, reflection, and transmission. Design implications for performance and gathering spaces. Use of computer modeling techniques. | true | Spring | Graduate | rranged | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.432 | Modeling Urban Energy Flows for Sustainable Cities and Neighborhoods | Studies energy flows in and around groups of buildings from individual buildings to complete large-scale neighborhoods. Students use emerging digital techniques to analyze and influence building design interventions in relation to energy use for construction (embodied energy) and operation, access to daylight, and assessing walkability and outdoor comfort at the neighborhood scale. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-2-7 | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.433 | Modeling Urban Energy Flows for Sustainable Cities and Neighborhoods | Studies energy flows in and around groups of buildings from individual buildings to complete large-scale neighborhoods. Students use emerging digital techniques to analyze and influence building design interventions in relation to energy use for construction (embodied energy) and operation, access to daylight, and assessing walkability and outdoor comfort at the neighborhood scale. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. | true | Spring, Fall, IAP | Graduate | 3-2-4 | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.440[J] | Introduction to Structural Design | Introduces the design and behavior of large-scale structures and structural materials. Emphasizes the development of structural form and the principles of structural design. Presents design methods for timber, masonry, concrete, and steel applied to long-span roof systems, bridges, and high-rise buildings. Includes environmental assessment of structural systems and materials. In laboratory sessions, students solve structural problems by building and testing simple models. Graduate and undergraduate students have separate lab sections. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-3-6 | Calculus II (GIR) | 1.056[J] | true | false | false | False | False | False |
4.441 | From the Solar House to Net Zero Buildings | Provides necessary historic awareness and technical skills for becoming agents of change for a carbon neutral building sector by further merging the fields of architectural design and environmental performance analysis. Students are presented with a "typical" building and explore various interventions, from envelope improvements to reduced internal lighting and equipment loads, ventilation and HVAC upgrades as well as onsite deployment of photovoltaics. Discusses which energy flows to pay attention to for different building types and how to productively work with the local microclimate, knowledge which can later promote elevated discussions between architect and environmental consultant. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-2-7 | 4.401 or permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.442 | From the Solar House to Net Zero Buildings | Provides necessary historic awareness and technical skills for becoming agents of change for a carbon neutral building sector by further merging the fields of architectural design and environmental performance analysis. Students are presented with a "typical" building and explore various interventions, from envelope improvements to reduced internal lighting and equipment loads, ventilation and HVAC upgrades as well as onsite deployment of photovoltaics. Discusses which energy flows to pay attention to for different building types and how to productively work with the local microclimate, knowledge which can later promote elevated discussions between architect and environmental consultant. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. | true | Spring | Graduate | 3-2-4 | 4.464 or permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.450[J] | Computational Structural Design and Optimization | Research seminar focusing on emerging applications of computation for creative, early-stage structural design and optimization for architecture. Incorporates computational design fundamentals, including problem parameterization and formulation; design space exploration strategies, including interactive, heuristic, and gradient-based optimization; and computational structural analysis methods, including the finite element method, graphic statics, and approximation techniques. Programing experience and familiarity with structural mechanics necessary. Additional work required of students taking graduate version. Limited to 25 total for versions meeting together. | true | Fall | Graduate | rranged | ((1.000 or (6.100A and 6.100B)) and (1.050, 2.001, or 4.462)) or permission of instructor | 1.575[J] | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.451 | Computational Structural Design and Optimization | Research seminar focusing on emerging applications of computation for creative, early-stage structural design and optimization for architecture. Incorporates computational design fundamentals, including problem parameterization and formulation; design space exploration strategies, including interactive, heuristic, and gradient-based optimization; and computational structural analysis methods, including the finite element method, graphic statics, and approximation techniques. Programing experience and familiarity with structural mechanics necessary. Additional work required of students taking graduate version. Limited to 25 total for versions meeting together. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | ((1.000 or (6.100A and 6.100B)) and (1.050, 2.001, or 4.440)) or permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.453 | Creative Machine Learning for Design | Focuses on applications of machine learning (ML) for creative design generation and data-informed design exploration, with an emphasis on visual and 3-D generative systems. Explores how recent advances in artificial intelligence, and specifically machine learning, can offer humans more natural, performance-driven design processes. Covers a wide range of machine learning algorithms and their applications to design, with topics including neural networks, generative adversarial networks, variational autoencoders, dimensionality reduction, geometric deep learning, and other ML techniques. Includes an open-ended, applied research or design project demonstrating an original, creative use of machine learning for design, architecture, engineering, or art. Limited to 20. | true | Spring | Graduate | 3-0-9 | 6.1010 or permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.462 | Introduction to Structural Design | Introduces the design and behavior of large-scale structures and structural materials. Emphasizes the development of structural form and the principles of structural design. Introduces design methods for timber, masonry, concrete, and steel applied to long-span roof systems, bridges, and high-rise buildings. Includes environmental assessment of structural systems and materials. Laboratory to solve structural problems by building and testing simple models. Graduate and undergraduate students have separate lab sections. | true | Spring, Fall, IAP, Spring | Graduate | 3-2-4 | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.463 | Building Technology Systems: Structures and Envelopes | Addresses advanced structures, exterior envelopes, and contemporary production technologies. Continues the exploration of structural elements and systems, expanding to include more complex determinate, indeterminate, long-span, and high-rise systems. Topics include reinforced concrete, steel and engineered-wood design, and an introduction to tensile systems. The contemporary exterior envelope is discussed with an emphasis on the classification of systems, performance attributes, and analysis techniques, material specifications and novel construction technologies. | true | Fall | Graduate | 3-2-4 | 4.440, 4.462, or permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.464[J] | Environmental Technologies in Buildings | Introduction to the study of the thermal and luminous behavior of buildings. Examines the basic scientific principles underlying these phenomena and introduces students to a range of technologies and analysis techniques for designing comfortable indoor environments. Challenges students to apply these techniques and explore the role energy and light can play in shaping architecture. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. | true | Fall | Graduate | 3-2-4 | null | 1.564[J] | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.481 | Building Technology Seminar | Fundamental research methodologies and ongoing investigations in building tehnology to support the development of student research projects. Topics drawn from low energy building design and thermal comfort, building systems analysis and control, daylighting, structural design and analysis, novel building materials and construction techniques and resource dynamics. Organized as a series of two- and three-week sessions that consider topics through readings, discussions, design and analysis projects, and student presentations. | true | Fall | Graduate | 2-0-1 | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.488 | Preparation for S.M.B.T. Thesis | Selection of thesis topic, definition of method of approach, and preparation of thesis proposal. Independent study supplemented by individual conference with faculty. | true | Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer | Graduate | rranged [P/D/F] | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.489 | Preparation for Building Technology Ph.D. Thesis | Selection of thesis topic, definition of method of approach, and preparation of thesis proposal. Independent study supplemented by individual conference with faculty. | true | Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer | Graduate | rranged [P/D/F] | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.491 | Independent Study in Building Technology | 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 |
4.492 | Independent Study in Building Technology | 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 |
4.493 | Independent Study in Building Technology | Supplementary work on individual 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 |
4.494 | Independent Study in Building Technology | Supplementary work on individual 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.S40 | Special Subject: Building Technology | Seminar or lecture on a topic in building technology 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 | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.S41 | Special Subject: Building Technology | Seminar or lecture on a topic in building technology 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.S42 | Special Subject: Building Technology | Seminar or lecture on a topic in building technology 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.S43 | Special Subject: Building Technology | Seminar or lecture on a topic in building technology 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.S44 | Special Subject: Building Technology | Seminar or lecture on a topic in building technology 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, IAP | Graduate | rranged [P/D/F] | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.S45 | Special Subject: Building Construction | Seminar or lecture on a topic in building construction 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 | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.S46 | Special Subject: Energy in Buildings | Seminar or lecture on a topic in energy in buildings 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.S47 | Special Subject: Architectural Lighting | Seminar or lecture on a topic in architectural lighting 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 | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.S48 | Special Subject: Structural Design | Seminar or lecture on a topic in structural 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 |
4.500 | Design Computation: Art, Objects and Space | Introduces 3-D CAD modeling to students with little or no experience in design or computation. Teaches surface, solid and mesh modeling techniques combined with a variety of modeling applications, from 3D printing to CNC fabrication and 3D rendering. Includes weekly modeling assignments leading up to a final project. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 2-2-8 | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.501 | Tiny Fab: Advancements in Rapid Design and Fabrication of Small Homes | Introduces digital fabrication as a method of home, hut, and shelter delivery/construction. Explores the progression of industrial-based building production from prefab to digital fab. Examines new computational techniques for rapid construction, as well as the basics of tiny building design, 3D modeling systems, scalable ways to prototype, and computer numerical control (CNC) fabrication. Students use lab time to design a prototype of a small building as a single packaged product. Additional work required of students taking graduate version. Lab fee required. Enrollment limited; preference to Course 4 majors and minors. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 2-3-7 | 4.500 | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.502 | Advanced Visualization: Architecture in Motion Graphics | Advanced projects in architectural visualization with an emphasis on the use of computer graphics animation, interactive media, and video production tools. Introduces advanced visualization software and teaches exploration of spatial expressions in motion graphics format. Review and discussion of selected literature and video materials on architecture and film. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Preference to Course 4 and 4-B majors and Design and Architecture minors. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 3-2-7 | 4.500 or permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.505 | Design Computation: Art, Objects, and Space | Introduces 3-D CAD modeling to students with little or no experience in design or computation. Teaches surface, solid, and mesh modeling techniques combined with a variety of modeling applications — from 3D printing to CNC fabrication and 3D rendering. Includes weekly modeling assignments leading up to a final project. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. | true | Fall | Graduate | 2-2-8 | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.507 | Introduction to Building Information Modeling in Architecture | Addresses fundamental methods, theories, and practices that engage contemporary modeling tools in the context of architectural design. Introduces selected academic and professional topics through lectures, demonstrations, and assignments. Topics include parametric modeling, component types and assembly, prototyping, scripting, and simulations. Initiates intellectual explorations in the use of building information modeling in research projects and design practices. Additional work required of students taking graduate version. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-2-7 | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.511 | Tiny Fab: Advancements in Rapid Design and Fabrication of Small Homes | Introduces digital fabrication as a method of home, hut, and shelter delivery/construction. Explores the progression of industrial-based building production from prefab to digital fab. Examines new computational techniques for rapid construction, as well as the basics of tiny building design, 3D modeling systems, scalable ways to prototype, and computer numerical control (CNC) fabrication. Students use lab time to design a prototype of a small building as a single packaged product. Additional work required of students taking graduate version. Lab fee required. Enrollment limited; preference to MArch students. | true | Spring | Graduate | rranged | 4.105 or permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.520 | Visual Computing | Introduces a visual-perceptual, rule-based approach to design using shape grammars. Covers grammar fundamentals through lectures and in-class exercises. Focuses on shape grammar applications, from stylistic analysis to creative design, through presentations of past applications and through short student exercises and projects. Presents computer programs for automating shape grammars. Additional work required of students taking graduate version. Enrollment limited; preference to Course 4 majors and minors. | true | Spring, Spring, Spring | Graduate | 3-0-9 | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.521 | Visual Computing | Introduces a visual-perceptual, rule-based approach to design using shape grammars. Covers grammar fundamentals through lectures and in-class, exercises. Focuses on shape grammar applications, from stylistic analysis to creative design, through presentations of past applications and through short student exercises and projects. Presents computer programs for automating shape grammars. Additional work required of students taking graduate version. Enrollment limited; preference to MArch students. | true | Spring, Spring | Graduate | 3-0-6 | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.540 | Introduction to Shape Grammars I | An in-depth introduction to shape grammars and their applications in architecture and related areas of design. Shapes in the algebras Ui j, in the algebras Vi j and Wi j incorporating labels and weights, and in algebras formed as composites of these. Rules and computations, shape and structure, designs. | true | Fall | Graduate | 3-0-6 | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.541 | Introduction to Shape Grammars II | An in-depth introduction to shape grammars and their applications in architecture and related areas of design. Shapes in the algebras Ui j, in the algebras Vi j and Wi j incorporating labels and weights, and in algebras formed as composites of these. Rules and computations. Shape and structure. Designs. | true | Spring | Graduate | 3-0-6 | 4.540 | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.542 | Background to Shape Grammars | An advanced examination of the shape grammar formalism and its relationship to some key issues in a variety of other fields, including art and design, philosophy, history and philosophy of science, linguistics and psychology, literature and literary studies, logic and mathematics, and artificial intelligence. Student presentations and discussion of selected readings are encouraged. Topics vary from year to year. Can be repeated with permission of instructor. | true | Spring | Graduate | 3-0-6 | 4.541 or permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.550 | Computational Design Lab | Provides students with an opportunity to explore projects that engage real world problems concerning spatial design, technology, media, and society. In collaboration with industry partners and public institutions, students identify topical issues and problems, and also explore and propose solutions through the development of new ideas, theories, tools, and prototypes. Industry and academic collaborators act as a source of expertise, and as clients and critics of projects developed during the term. General theme of workshop varies by semester or year. Open to students from diverse backgrounds in architecture and other design-related areas. Additional work required of students taking graduate version. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | rranged | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.557[J] | City Science | Focuses on innovative propositions for shaping the cities of tomorrow, responding to emerging trends, technologies, and ecological imperatives. Students take part in "what-if?" scenarios to tackle real-world challenges. Through collaborative, project-based learning in small teams, students are mentored by researchers from the City Science group. Projects focus on the application of these ideas to case study cities and may include travel. Invited guests from academia and industry participate. Repeatable for credit with permission of instructor. | true | Fall, Spring | Graduate | 3-0-9 | Permission of instructor | MAS.552[J] | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.562 | Advanced Visualization: Architecture in Motion Graphics | Advanced projects in architectural visualization with an emphasis on the use of computer graphics animation, interactive media, and video production tools. Introduces advanced visualization software and teaches exploration of spatial expressions in motion graphics format. Review and discussion of selected literature and video materials on architecture and film. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Preference to Course 4 and 4-B majors and Design and Architecture minors. | true | Fall | Graduate | 3-2-7 | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.566 | Advanced Projects in Digital Media | Develop independent projects in the study of digital media as it relates to architectural design. Students propose a project topic such as digital design tool, modeling and visualization, motion graphics, interactive design, design knowledge representation and media interface. Limited to 5. | true | Fall | Graduate | rranged | 4.562 or permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.567 | Introduction to Building Information Modeling in Architecture | Addresses fundamental methods, theories, and practices that engage contemporary modeling tools in the context of architectural design. Introduces selected academic and professional topics through lectures, demonstrations, and assignments. Topics include parametric modeling, component types and assembly, prototyping, scripting, and simulations. Initiates intellectual explorations in the use of building information modeling in research projects and design practices. Additional work required of students taking graduate version. Preference given to MArch students. | true | Spring | Graduate | rranged | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.570 | Computational Design Lab | Provides students with an opportunity to explore projects that engage real world problems concerning spatial design, technology, media, and society. In collaboration with industry partners and public institutions, students identify topical issues and problems, and also explore and propose solutions through the development of new ideas, theories, tools, and prototypes. Industry and academic collaborators act as a source of expertise, and as clients and critics of projects developed during the term. General theme of workshop varies by semester or year. Open to students from diverse backgrounds in architecture and other design-related areas. Additional work required of students taking graduate version. | true | Spring | Graduate | rranged | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.580 | Inquiry into Computation and Design | Explores the varied nature, history and practice of computation in design through lectures, readings, small projects, discussions, and guest visits by Computation group faculty and others. Topics may vary from year to year. Aims to help students develop a critical awareness of different approaches to and assumptions about computation in design beyond the specifics of techniques and tools, and to open avenues for further research. | true | Fall | Graduate | 3-0-9 | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.581 | Proseminar in Computation | Introduction to traditions of research in design and computation scholarship. | true | Fall | Graduate | 3-0-9 [P/D/F] | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.582 | Research Seminar in Computation | In-depth presentations of current research in design and computation. | true | Fall, Spring | Graduate | rranged [P/D/F] | 4.580 or permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.583 | Forum in Computation | Group discussions and presentation of ongoing graduate student research in the Computation program. | true | Fall | Graduate | 3-0-0 [P/D/F] | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.587 | SMArchS Computation Pre-Thesis Preparation | Preliminary study in preparation for the thesis for the SMArchS degree in Computation. Topics include literature search, precedents examination, thesis structure and typologies, and short writing exercise. | true | Spring | Graduate | 3-0-3 [P/D/F] | 4.221 or permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.588 | Preparation for SMArchS Computation Thesis | Students select thesis topic, define method of approach, and prepare thesis proposal for SMArchS Computation degree. Faculty supervision on a group basis. Intended for SMArchS Computation program students, prior to registration for 4.ThG. Limited to SMArchS Computation students. | true | Fall, Spring, Summer | Graduate | rranged [P/D/F] | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.589 | Preparation for Design and Computation PhD Thesis | Selection of thesis topic, definition of method of approach, and preparation of thesis proposal in computation. Independent study supplemented by individual conference with faculty. | true | Fall, Spring, Summer | Graduate | rranged [P/D/F] | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.591 | Independent Study in Architectural Computation | 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 |
4.592 | Independent Study in Architectural Computation | 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 |
4.593 | Independent Study in Architectural Computation | Supplementary work on individual 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 |
4.594 | Independent Study in Architectural Computation | Supplementary work on individual basis. Registration subject to prior arrangement for subject matter and supervision by staff. | true | Fall, IAP, Spring, IAP | Graduate | rranged [P/D/F] | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.S50 | Special Subject: Architectural Computation | Seminar or lecture on a topic in computation and 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.S51 | Special Subject: Architectural Computation | Seminar or lecture on a topic in computation and 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.S52 | Special Subject: Architectural Computation | Seminar or lecture on a topic in computation and 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 | Graduate | rranged | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.S53 | Special Subject: Architectural Computation | Seminar or lecture on a topic in computation and 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 | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
4.S54 | Special Subject: Architectural Computation | Seminar or lecture on a topic in computation and 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] | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
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