The core courses are intentionally interdisciplinary with offerings in all the design fields encompassed by the school as well as in other schools and institutes within the University. Particular emphasis is placed on the history of modern and contemporary architecture and on current theoretical and methodological approaches to the analysis and interpretation of architectural culture in its broadest sense.
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The History and Theory concentration draws students with professional degrees in architecture, urban design, landscape, and other design fields, who have specialized interests in a broad range of historical and theoretical areas of advanced study. The Master of Design Studies is a post-professional degree program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Yanel de Angel Salas MDesS 2006 Editor Cambridge, Massachusetts 2007 Our sincerest appreciation goes to Book Masters, Inc., especially Sue Bray, for their consistent patience and support through out this publication process. Finally, we are grateful to Harvard University Graduate School of Design, a place that nourishes our minds and creativity and whose community, including faculty, staff and fellow classmates, contributed to our formation.
Given the variety of themes these courses allowed us to explore, this book is organized alphabetically by author.
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Kari Jormakka’s Outside the Canon: Revisionist Readings of Aalto, and the many professors that contribute to the course series Buildings, Text and Contexts. Michael Hays’s The Architectural Imaginary: Experimental Architecture of the 1970’s, Prof. Antoine Picon’s Digital Culture, Space and Society, Prof. Some of these professors and courses are: Prof. The essays in this publication developed as part of course and research interests under the tutelage of various professors, to whom we are indebted for sparking the theoretical concepts that motivated these intellectual pursuits. We are also deeply grateful to the Frances Loeb Library and its staff, the Widener Library, the Fine Arts Library and the invaluable resources Harvard University offers to the academic community. This effort was possible with the support of the MDesS department chair Daniel Schodek, the program coordinator Eve Blau and the Advanced Studies Programs administrator Barbara Elfman. In 2006 we were joined by students from the 2007 class: Joris Fach, Luis Miguel Lus Arana, Marcelo Rangel, Juan Luis Rodríguez and Delia Wendel, whose papers represent half of the contributions to this book. We believed this publication to be an appropriate medium to share the academic work our program rigorously pursues. Gendall, Francisco González de Canales, Jamie Hand, Mark R. This original group of students from the class of 2006, included Dubravko Bacic, Sinisha Brdar, John P. In 2005 a group of Master of Design Studies (MDesS) students in the History and Theory program got together to articulate what has materialized in this publication. This publication is sponsored by Harvard University Graduate School of Design.īook layout and cover designed by Yanel de Angel Salas.Īdvanced Studies Programs Master in Design Studies, History and Theory Series, 2006-07 The work herein is that of individual authors it does not necessarily represent the views of Harvard University Graduate School of Design or any of its programs or faculty. No part of this publication may be reproduced without permission. Copyright © 2007 Harvard University Graduate School of Design All rights reserved. (DIS) COURSES ESSAYS ON ARCHITECTURE HISTORY AND THEORYĪdvanced Studies Programs Master in Design Studies, History and Theory Harvard University Graduate School of DesignĪdvanced Studies Programs Master in Design Studies, History and Theory Cambridge: Harvard University Graduate School of Design. HARVARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN (DIS) COURSES ESSAYS ON ARCHITECTURE HISTORY AND THEORY 2006-2007Īdvanced Studies Programs MDesS, HISTORY AND THEORY SERIES
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