New courses in Architecture from MIT OpenCourseWare, provider of free and open MIT course materials. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture 2021-06-15T19:51:03+05:00 MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu en-US Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm Shape grammars are systems of visual rules by which one shape may be transformed into another. By applying these rules recursively, a simple shape can be elaborated into a complex pattern. This course offers an in-depth introduction to shape grammars and their applications in architecture and related areas of design. More specifically, it involves manipulation of shapes in the algebras Uij, in the algebras Vij and Wij incorporating labels and weights, and in algebras formed as composites of these. Discussions center on rules and computations, shape and structure, and designs. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-540-introduction-to-shape-grammars-i-fall-2018 Fall 2018 Stiny, George 2019-12-16T16:49:31+05:00 4.540 en-US shape grammars visual calculation ice rays schemas embedding recursion patterns styles Palladian maximal elements identity compositionality MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course focuses on the thermal, luminous, and acoustic behavior of buildings, examining the basic scientific principles underlying these phenomena and introducing students to technologies and analysis techniques for designing comfortable indoor environments. Students are challenged to apply these techniques and explore the role light, energy, and sound can play in shaping architecture. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-401-environmental-technologies-in-buildings-fall-2018 Fall 2018 Reinhart, Christoph 2019-10-09T14:23:17+05:00 4.401 4.464 en-US heating cooling ventilation thermal comfort lighting daylighting thermal mass insulation shading solar energy efficiency MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course investigates the power of art in historical perspective, focusing on Euro-American traditions of art from the fourteenth to the twenty-first century. It examines changing conceptions of the artist, the work of art, and the discipline of art history, exploring the roles images and objects have played over time, how they functioned in various social, economic, and cultural contexts, and whose interests they served or sought to disrupt. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-601-introduction-to-art-history-fall-2018 Fall 2018 Smentek, Kristel 2019-06-04T20:15:45+05:00 4.601 en-US art painting sculpture medieval Renaissance Neoclassicism Romanticism Orientalism Impressionism Modernism abstract expressionism MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This seminar explores “land” as a genre, theme, and medium of art and architecture of the last five decades. Focusing largely on work within the boundaries of the United States, the course seeks to understand how the use of land in art and architecture is bound into complicated entanglements of property and power, the inheritances of non-U.S. traditions, and the violence of colonial ambitions. The term “landscape” is variously deployed in the service of a range of political and philosophical positions. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-s67-landscape-experience-seminar-in-land-art-fall-2016 Fall 2016 Uchill, Rebecca K. Jones, Caroline 2017-07-18T20:57:09+05:00 4.S67 en-US landscape art architecture Utah Arizona New Mexico Texas United States property power tradition political positions philosophical positions pilgrimage property development history MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This class is developed around the concept of disobedient interference within the existing models of production of space and knowledge. Modeling is the main modus operandi of the class as students will be required to make critical diagrammatic cuts through processes of production in different thematic registers – from chemistry, law and economy to art, architecture and urbanism – in order to investigate the sense of social responsibility and control over the complex agendas embedded in models that supports production of everyday objects and surroundings. Students will be encouraged to explore relations between material or immaterial aspects and agencies of production, whether they emerged as a consequence of connection of mind, body and space, or the infrastructural, geographical and ecological complexities of the Anthropocene. These production environments will be taken as modeling settings. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-313-advanced-studio-on-the-production-of-space-fall-2016 Fall 2016 Urbonas, Gediminas Bojic, Nikola 2017-03-21T19:37:37+05:00 4.313 4.312 en-US models representation scale objects space spatial relation art design artifacts morphology architecture urbanism infrastructure environment MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course studies how international modernism interacted with the concept of "nation" and how contemporary discourses concerning globalism changes that dynamic. This course also looks at how art uses and critiques globalization on various levels. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-671-nationalism-internationalism-and-globalism-in-modern-art-spring-2016 Spring 2016 Jones, Caroline 2016-11-14T20:45:39+05:00 4.671 4.670 en-US modern art architecture nationalism imperial expansion contemporary art transnational globalism modernism global capitalism MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course proposes that investigating the ways in which territory is produced, maintained and strategized, generates conflicts, establishes divisions, and builds identities can lead to a more critical understanding of architecture's role in society. This course is designed to expand the student's literacy in the concept of territory and its relation to the realm of architecture. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-s26-territory-spatial-reification-of-power-spring-2016 Spring 2016 Kozlowski, Gabriel 2016-09-19T03:59:07+05:00 4.S26 en-US architecture territory cities landscapes regions spatial systems place and power politics land division property private vs. public borders countries neighborhoods buildings mapping cartography MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This seminar is open to graduate students, and is intended to offer a synoptic view of selected methodologies and thinkers in art and architectural history (with many theorists from other fields). The syllabus outlines the structure of the course and the readings and assignments for each week; the goal is to become aware of the apparatuses of discourse, and find your own voice within them. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-661-theory-and-method-in-the-study-of-architecture-and-art-fall-2015 Fall 2015 Jones, Caroline 2016-03-04T22:06:47+05:00 4.661 en-US Theory Method Architecture art history demise of formalism formalism connoisseurial appreciation art historical prose writing intensive writing-intensive revisionism social history visual studies anthropology globalism MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm Over the last 40 years, new managerial technologies in Western democratic societies have emerged to dominate our perceived and lived reality. Demands for autonomy and a creative life, which have been the touchstones for artistic endeavors, have been readily absorbed into management philosophies, becoming normative values for self-management and entrepreneurial innovation. Is this art's triumph or demise? Can we imagine other worlds beyond our managed reality and propose forms of living not yet captured by the rationality of network capitalism? We will explore the "creative" figure and how it can shape renewed critical expressions in fields such as technology, design, science, philosophy, etc. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-s33-unmanageability-pathless-realities-and-approaches-spring-2015 Spring 2015 Kahan, Gabriel Chen, Howard 2015-10-19T21:24:51+05:00 4.S33 en-US creativity art management philosophies self-management entrepreneurial innovation capitalism technology design science philosophy cultural theory MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm Twentieth and twenty-first century architecture is defined by its rhetorical subservience to something called "technology." Architecture relates to technology in multiple forms, as the organizational basis of society, as production system, as formal inspiration, as mode of temporization, as communicational vehicle, and so on. Managerial or "systems-based" paradigms for societal, industrial and governmental organization have routinely percolated into architecture's considerations, at its various scales from the urban to the domestic, of the relationships of parts to wholes. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-647-technopolitics-culture-intervention-fall-2014 Fall 2014 Dutta, Arindam 2015-05-05T14:50:03+05:00 4.647 en-US architecture technology urbanism society culture art humanization territory government politics environment MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This seminar offers a critical review of scholarship on Islamic architecture through close reading of scholarly texts, museum exhibitions, and architectural projects. It also tackles methodological and historiographical questions about the field's formation, genealogy, recent expansion, and its evolving historical and theoretical contours. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-619-historiography-of-islamic-architecture-fall-2014 Fall 2014 Rabbat, Nasser 2015-05-05T14:49:56+05:00 4.619 en-US architecture Islamic Islam museum history design art historiography MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm Art museums are powerful and contested institutions. They are also innovative sites of architectural and artistic practice. From the exhibitionary complex of the nineteenth century to the experiential complex of today, this course investigates the art museum from historical and contemporary perspectives, striking a balance between theoretical investigation and case studies of recent exhibitions and museum buildings. Where and why did the concept of the public art museum emerge, and how have its functions changed over time? How do art museums continue to shape our definitions of what art is? How have they responded to recent critiques of the self-described 'universal' museum and to claims for the ethical display of ill-gotten artifacts or the restitution of such objects as Greek vases and bronzes looted from Benin? And why is the Euro-American art museum so compelling a model that it has spread around the globe? To address these and other questions, we will also go behind the scenes. Visits to local museums and discussions with curators are an essential component of the course. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-609-the-art-museum-history-theory-controversy-spring-2014 Spring 2014 Smentek, Kristel 2015-03-18T01:12:41+05:00 4.609 en-US art museum art history museums repatriation history of architecture gallery cultural appropriation MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm What was the early modern economy like, and how did monetization impact artistic production, consumption, and the afterlife of objects? This seminar-format class explores major topics and themes concerning interconnections between early modern artistic and architectural creation and the economy. We will approach capitalism not as an inevitable system, but rather as a particular historical formation. Core course themes: commodification, production, and consumption, using case studies of the impact of the mercantile economy on chapels; palaces; prints and paintings, and their replication; and other material objects, including coins. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-663-history-of-urban-form-locating-capitalism-producing-early-modern-cities-and-objects-spring-2014 Spring 2014 Jacobi, Lauren 2014-12-18T22:13:07+05:00 4.663 en-US capital production guild coin numismatic palace Florence bank economy Renaissance modern medieval commodification production consumption mercantile chapel print painting buy sell labor patron sponsor globalization corporate MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course provides a foundation to the design of the environment from the scale of the object, to the building to the larger territory. The design disciplines of architecture as well as urbanism and landscape are examined in context of the larger influence of the arts and sciences. Students are expected to develop skills in thinking and analysis, spatial representation, and design methodologies. Through lectures and design exercises, students are provided an opportunity to establish a reference for understanding the discipline of architecture and environmental design, and are given an introduction to design fundamentals and the design process. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-111-introduction-to-architecture-environmental-design-spring-2014 Spring 2014 Bello Gomez, Lorena 2014-12-18T22:13:00+05:00 4.111 en-US architecture scale drawing measurement modeling environment space representation design studio landscape cube projection MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course explores the reciprocal relationships among design, science, and technology by covering a wide range of topics including industrial design, architecture, visualization and perception, design computation, material ecology, and environmental design and sustainability. Students will examine how transformations in science and technology have influenced design thinking and vice versa, as well as develop methodologies for design research and collaborate on design solutions to interdisciplinary problems. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-110j-design-across-scales-disciplines-and-problem-contexts-spring-2013 Spring 2013 Yoon, Meejin Oxman, Neri 2014-03-18T17:49:45+05:00 4.110J 4.S64 MAS.330J en-US 4.110J 4.110 4.S64 MAS.330J MAS.330 design media animation image data visualization representation database Processing fabrication technology systems model AI intelligence programming optimization machine play game utopia future dystopia science fiction environment growth organization MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course covers theories about the form that settlements should take and attempts a distinction between descriptive and normative theory by examining examples of various theories of city form over time. Case studies will highlight the origins of the modern city and theories about its emerging form, including the transformation of the nineteenth-century city and its organization. Through examples and historical context, current issues of city form in relation to city-making, social structure, and physical design will also be discussed and analyzed. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-241j-theory-of-city-form-spring-2013 Spring 2013 Beinart, Julian 2013-12-28T02:50:41+05:00 4.241J 11.330J en-US cities urbanism architecture modernism typology form space grid industrialization urban history Kevin Lynch political urbanism London Paris Jerusalem Johannesburg New York St. Petersburg Barcelona Vienna Chicago Berlin Chandigarh urban development utopianism suburb suburban development MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course is an intensive introduction to architectural design tools and process, and is taught through a series of short exercises. The conceptual basis of each exercise is in the interrogation of the geometric principles that lie at the core of each skill. Skills covered in this course range from techniques of hand drafting, to generation of 3D computer models, physical model-building, sketching, and diagramming. Weekly lectures and pin-ups address the conventions associated with modes of architectural representation and their capacity to convey ideas. This course is tailored and offered only to first-year M.Arch students. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-105-geometric-disciplines-and-architecture-skills-reciprocal-methodologies-fall-2012 Fall 2012 Clifford, Brandon 2013-06-20T20:20:35+05:00 4.105 en-US geometry representation architecture drawing projection perspective planes axonometric stereotomy volume surface curvature curves discretization generation construction publication presentation MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This is the second undergraduate architecture design studio, which introduces design logic and skills that enable design thinking, representation, and development. Through the lens of nano-scale machines, technologies, and phenomena, students are asked to explore techniques for describing form, space, and architecture. Exercises encourage various connotations of the "machine" and challenge students to translate conceptual strategies into more integrated design propositions through both digital and analog means. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-112-architecture-design-fundamentals-i-nano-machines-fall-2012 Fall 2012 Tibbits, Skylar 2013-06-14T19:54:07+05:00 4.112 en-US architecture architectural design nano-machine programmable matter drawing scripting casting modeling self-assembly self-replication Processing generation machine space scale void bounding box system habitation architectural space MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course provides students with the opportunity to develop a map of contemporary architectural practice and discourse. The seminar examines six 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. Students will study buildings and read relevant texts in order to place recent architectural projects in disciplinary and cultural context. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-210-precedents-in-critical-practice-fall-2012 Fall 2012 Miljački, Ana 2013-03-08T15:42:06+05:00 4.210 en-US architectural criticism manifesto contemporary architecture architectural practice city global economy urban plan map drawing scripting utopia program performance history MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course explores natural and electric lighting that integrates occupant comfort, energy efficiency and daylight availability in an architectural context. Students are asked to evaluate daylighting in real space and simulations, and also high dynamic range photography and physical model building. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-430-daylighting-spring-2012 Spring 2012 Reinhart, Christoph 2013-01-16T15:42:50+05:00 4.430 en-US daylighting Rhino DIVA sunlight photometry heliodon solar gains glare HDR photography materiality modeling MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm