Construction and Property Degrees

...will include twentieth-century housing reform movements and work by the London County Council, CIAM, and American public housing agencies. Lectures...

...Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session This class serves as an introduction to methods of analyzing, evaluating and recording the urban environment based on field observation... Learn about: Urban Design...

...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...

...of media technology and the Internet to enhance communication and transform city design and community development in inner-city neighborhoods...

...2 hours / session Public lectures: 1 session / week, 1 hour / session (5 sessions total) None Hidden behind the common fact that we live in an urbanizing... Learn about: Quality Training, Urban Design...

...of both the complex system of governance within which urban design occurs and the effective tools available for creative intervention. Lectures... Learn about: Urban Design...

..."On the basis of a structural understanding of Manhattan, for example, one can order a substantial quantity of facts and fancies about the nature of the world we live... Learn about: Urban Design...

...which act to shape and to change cities; Part 2 surveys key models of physical form and social intervention that have been deployed to resolve competing... Learn about: Urban Design...

...The class investigates the nature of the relations between built form and political purposes through close examination of a wide variety of situations... Learn about: Urban Design...

...collaboration between Japan's Sekisui House and MIT School of Architecture and Planning formed to envision, design, and build prototypical sustainable... Learn about: Professor Training, Team Training...

...1 session / week, 2 hours / session The property rights revolution spreads across the globe as more things convert into private ownership. In...

...The aim of the course is to develop a view of computation and design beyond the specifics of techniques and tools, and a critical, self-awareness of...

...prototype created last semester will be used as the starting point, featuring collaborative filtering and electronic agent technology pioneered at the Media... Learn about: Decision Making...

...the potential of information technology and the Internet to transform public education, city design, and community development in inner-city neighborhoods...

...The course will be comprised of readings, discussions, guest speakers and group design sessions. Laboratory sessions will be focused on implementation... Learn about: XML training...

...engages in the notion of space from various points of departure. The goal is first of all to engage in the term and secondly to examine possibilities of...

...and other diverse disciplines. We will consider how collaborations between artists and architects might provide opportunities for rethinking / redesigning urban spaces...

...either as a physical object that is usually smaller than the real object, or as a simple description that can be used in calculations.” This definition...

...either as a physical object that is usually smaller than the real object, or as a simple description that can be used in calculations.” This definition...

...introductions to a variety of materials and techniques both traditional (wood, metal, plaster) as well as non-traditional (fabric, latex, found objects...