Massachusetts Institute of Technology courses

...interact, interfere and continuously orbit around one another as cities expand, contract and evolve. CityScope will take you through a series of phases...

...and structured for students with no previous experience in design. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 3 hours / session The purpose of this course is to offer...

...This is the second undergraduate design studio. It introduces a full range of architectural ideas and issues through drawing exercises, analyses of precedents...

...covering the entire MIT curriculum. No enrollment or registration. Freely browse and use OCW materials at your own pace. There's no signup, and no start or end dates...

...These skills range from techniques of hand drafting, to generation of 3D computer models, physical model building, sketching, diagramming, and computing... Learn about: 3d training...

...Students are expected to arrive with a portfolio in hand. However, the course will not be focused on the mere improvement of an existing portfolio...

...architecture, visualization and perception, design computation, material ecology, and environmental design and sustainability. Students will examine...

...There's no signup, and no start or end dates. Knowledge is your reward. Use OCW to guide your own life-long learning, or to teach others. We don't offer...

...Freely browse and use OCW materials at your own pace. There's no signup, and no start or end dates. Knowledge is your reward. Use OCW to guide your own life-long learning... Learn about: Architecture Design...

...who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography saw the vast Map to be Useless and permitted it to decay and fray under the Sun and winters...

...Zimmerman Steve Imrich Barbara Brady Angela Watson Melanidie Coo Les Norford Jay Weber Jack Myer Americo Andrade Rick Holmes Paul Donnaly Bill Hubbard...

...environmental objectives - light, heat, air and other microclimatic forces naturally and without resource to excessive inputs of energy. The studio...

...but minimizing drag by designing sleek profiles. The design of racing boats is driven by needing to make them as light as possible, requiring less energy to propel them forward...

...Design will be from the scale of one unit to the scale of a building and an area. During the semester there will be feedback from architects that have worked in... Learn about: Architecture Design...

...resolution of the building process. Yet the processes that enable and disable architecture extend beyond any arrested moment. Lectures: 3 sessions /... Learn about: Construction Training, IT Law...

...for a site near the French Quarter in New Orleans. The objectives of the project are the following: Since it is unclear how and where New Orleans will be rebuilt...

...rather than imposes: such a discovery is the foremost challenge of this studio. The issue of "students" is of primary importance. What are...

...public spaces are important to the livability of a city, especially a city like Providence whose economic base is arts and culture. The public realm quite... Learn about: Urban Design...

...value of the site with environmental challenges; as well as how to use the site for urban development. A special focus of the studio will be to consider... Learn about: Urban Design...

...the range, distribution and scale of MIT academic and non-academic activities; the provision for bio-tech and other employment activities, the amount... Learn about: Urban Design...