Massachusetts Institute of Technology courses

...of shape grammars in creative design, and teaches shape grammar fundamentals through in-class, hands-on exercises with abstract shape grammars...

...The class covers topics such as shapes, shape arithmetic, symmetry, spatial relations, shape computations, and shape grammars. It focuses on the application...

...No enrollment or registration. Freely browse and use OCW materials at your own pace. There's no signup, and no start or end dates. Knowledge is your reward...

...for this course. This subject introduces undergraduate students to the history of modern art and contemporary art, primarily in Europe and the...

...and appreciation of architecture, for its role in the intellectual environment in which we conduct our lives. Instruction and practice in oral and written...

...participate in at least one debate. These are formal debates with 5 minute opening statements on both sides, 5 minute rebuttal statements on both sides...

...thought of the last century. Figures to be considered are: Adorno, Aragon, Bataille, Beckett, Brecht, Breton, Bürger, Duchamp, Eisenstein, Ernst...

...1999. For the full reading list, please see the readings section. Don't show me this again This is one of over 2,200 courses on OCW. Find materials...

...and symbolized the image of the city for centuries to come. After that, Cairo was reduced to an Ottoman provincial capital until the end of the eighteenth century...

...museum exhibitions, and architectural projects. It also tackles methodological and historiographical questions about the field's formation, genealogy...

...theory and data-processing technologies was as crucial in the past as it is today, this course hopes to promote a more historically aware understanding...

...Greece, Egypt) as well as exploratory travels into the "others" of Europe to examine the modern origins of architectural history itself within the profession...

...This subject focuses on the objects, history, context, and critical discussion surrounding art since World War II. Because of the burgeoning increase in art production...

...These will be questions structured by the readings and case studies, prompting short essays. The final will be structured as above. In lieu of the final...

...and critically-informed histories. Don't show me this again This is one of over 2,200 courses on OCW. Find materials for this course in the pages linked along the...

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

...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...

...or global capitalism, while sometimes reinscribing these maleficient legacies from the past. The best contemporary art navigates a path in full knowledge of the stakes...

...context of emerging nations, posing itself as an artists' and intellectuals' movement against crude nationalism, yet often inscribing its works with national...

...The topic of the final lecture will be worked on during the semester. For that lecture, students will be asked to identify the themes of the survey course...