Construction and Property Degrees

...Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1 hour / session We are living in a time when it has become clear that the relationship between human (anthropogenic)... Learn about: Construction Training, Built Environment...

...focus on measurement and analysis of thermally driven and wind-driven airflows, lighting intensity and glare, and heat flow and thermal storage... Learn about: Building Technology...

...Students will investigate the behavior of structural systems and elements through design exercises, case studies, and load testing of models... Learn about: Environmental Impact, Structural Design, Construction Training...

...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...

...MIT OpenCourseWare is a free & open publication of material from thousands of MIT courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum. No enrollment or registration... Learn about: Building Technology, Construction Training...

...it aims to give the student perspective on the larger pushes and pulls that influence architecture and its meanings, whether these be economic...

...Each student will also be required to write three short papers. Class participation is essential and will be factored into the final grade. Lectures...

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...2 hours / session Among the cities associated with the Islamic civilization, Cairo is perhaps the most representative culturally and certainly the richest architecturally...

...Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session This seminar offers a critical review of scholarship on Islamic architecture through close reading of scholarly texts...

...of industrial and post-industrial expansion across the globe, with specific attention to the dominance of European modernism in setting the agenda...

...but we will also be looking at art from Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, as well as art "on the margins" — art that has been overlooked...

...and so on. Managerial or "systems-based" paradigms for societal, industrial and governmental organization have routinely percolated into architecture's considerations...

...the goal is to become aware of the apparatuses of discourse, and find your own voice within them. Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session MIT students...

...We will approach capitalism not as an inevitable system, but rather as a particular historical formation. Core course themes: commodification...

...Special attention will be paid to historiographic questions of how architects construe the terms of their "present." Lectures: 2 sessions /...

...to Art History or permission of the instructor. Modern art and architecture emerged in periods of unprecedented nationalism and imperial expansion...

...to Art History or permission of the instructor. Modern art and architecture emerged in periods of unprecedented nationalism and imperial expansion...

...The course will be run in the form of a writing seminar, except that students will be asked to prepare for the final class an hour-long lecture for...

...as a method of seeing and a tool for better understanding new surroundings. Over the course of the semester, students will develop a body of work through a series of assignments...