Massachusetts Institute of Technology courses

...systems that are wholly visual, rather than textual or numerical. They provide a powerful means for design analysis and synthesis, for design exploration...

...a computational or generative approach to design using shape grammars. Shape grammars were one of the first, and remain one of the few, computational design...

...work done on the computer (digital computing) and by-hand. Design will include both the process of making designs and artifacts, as well as the designs and artifacts themselves...

...global capitalism, or mass politics? Is culture generated by elites, or by anonymous energies bubbling up from below? What is the relationship between...

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...simultaneously studying their continuing historical significance. The sequence of topics that will be introduced cannot be absolutely predetermined...

...What strategies did they deploy to meet their modernist imperatives? To what extent did their projects maintain a critical stance towards the culture industry?...

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...conservatism and modernization that is still with us. The urban and architectural chaos was exacerbated by the late-twentieth-century acute problems of rapid expansion...

...Modernism as a successor—as constitutive forces in its evolution? MIT students were required to obtain permission of the instructor. This course requires...

...It is well known that quantification has always been an essential component of classical design: proportional systems in particular have been keenly investigated...

...the discourse of a global modernity at large. It explores modern architectural history through thematic exposition rather than as a simple chronological succession of ideas...

...for this class will be researched from established sources, but will be thought through and written on your own. We encourage you to get help with editing...

...and then subsequently some of the key ways in which questions of technology have been absorbed into architectural, and more generally, other forms of cultural...

...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...

...An array of topics falls under the rubric of this subject and they are organized to provoke conversation. Requirements include attendance, completion...

...cybernetics, and so on. Students will look at buildings, writing and movements as part of the evolving critiques of modernism from the 1950s onwards...

...while the contemporary art world claims to be "transnational," "global," or "cosmopolitan." The aesthetic of modernism in EuroAmerica reflected the tumultuous...

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