Browsing MIT OCW Archived Courses by Title
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4.301 Introduction to the Visual Arts, Fall 2006
(2006-12)Introduction to artistic practice and aesthetic analysis through studio work and lectures. Students communicate ideas and experiences through various media such as sculpture, installation, performance, and video. Projects ... -
4.42J / 1.044J / 2.66J Fundamentals of Energy in Buildings, Fall 2003
(2003-12)4.42J (or 2.66J or 1.044J), Fundamentals of Energy in Buildings, is an undergraduate class offered in the Department of Architecture, and jointly in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department ... -
4.42J / 1.044J / 2.66J Fundamentals of Energy in Buildings, Fall 2008
(2008-12)This subject provides a first course in thermo-sciences for students primarily interested in architecture and building technology. It introduces the fundamentals important to energy, ventilation, air conditioning and comfort ... -
4.430 Daylighting, Fall 2006
(2006-12)This class provides the tools necessary for an efficient integration of daylighting issues in the overall design of a building. The fundamentals of daylighting and electric lighting are introduced and their relevance to ... -
4.440 Basic Structural Theory, Spring 2003
(2003-06)This course introduces the static behavior of structures and strength of materials. Topics covered include: reactions, truss analysis, stability of structures, stress and strain at a point, shear and bending moment diagrams, ... -
4.462 / 4.441 Building Technologies II: Building Structural Systems I, Spring 2003
(2003-06)This course serves as an introduction to the history, theory, and construction of basic structural systems with an introduction to energy issues in buildings. Emphasis is placed on developing an understanding of basic ... -
4.492 Daylighting, Fall 2004
(2004-12)The course focuses on the use and optimization of daylight in buildings and on its complementarity to artificial (electric) lighting, to aim at reducing the building's environmental impact while improving the visual comfort ... -
4.493 Natural Light in Design, January (IAP) 2005
(2005-01)Today, computer-based simulations are becoming increasingly popular, especially when daylighting and energy conservation are amongst the key goals for a project. This two-week workshop will expose participants to the current ... -
4.500 Introduction to Design Computing, Spring 2006
(2006-06)This course introduces students to architectural design and computation through the use of computer modeling, rendering, and digital fabrication. The focus is on the exploration of space and place-making through the use ... -
4.510 Digital Design Fabrication, Fall 2005
(2005-12)This class serves as an introductory subject in advanced computing, rapid prototyping, and CAD/CAM fabrication for architects. It focuses on the relationship between design and various forms of computer modeling as input, ... -
4.602 Modern Art and Mass Culture, Spring 2004
(2004-06)This class provides an introduction to modern art and theories of modernism and postmodernism. It focuses on the way artists use the tension between fine art and mass culture to mobilize a critique of both. We will examine ... -
4.607 Thinking About Architecture: In History and At Present, Fall 2002
(2002-12)This course studies the interrelationship of theory, history, and practice as it relates to architecture and the architect. It looks at theory not as a specialized discourse relating only to architecture, but as touching ... -
4.651 20th Century Art, Fall 2002
(2002-12)Critical examination of major developments in European and American art during the past century. Surveys art's engagements with modernization, radical politics, utopianism, mass culture, changing conceptions of mind and ... -
4.661 Theory and Method in the Study of Architecture and Art, Fall 2002
(2002-12)This seminar is open to graduate students, and is intended to offer a synoptic view of selected methodologies and thinkers in art history (with some implications for architecture). It is a writing-intensive class based on ... -
4.A21 Stories Without Words: Photographing the First Year, Fall 2005
(2005-12)The transition from high school and home to college and a new living environment can be a fascinating and interesting time, made all the more challenging and interesting by being at MIT. More than recording the first ... -
5.04 Principles of Inorganic Chemistry II, Fall 2004
(2004-12)Systematic presentation of the chemical applications of group theory. Emphasis on the formal development of the subject and its applications to the physical methods of inorganic chemical compounds. Against the backdrop of ... -
5.04 Principles of Inorganic Chemistry II, Fall 2008
(2008-12)This course provides a systematic presentation of the chemical applications of group theory with emphasis on the formal development of the subject and its applications to the physical methods of inorganic chemical compounds. ... -
5.067 Crystal Structure Refinement, Fall 2007
(2007-12)This course in crystal structure refinement examines the practical aspects of crystal structure determination from data collection strategies to data reduction and basic and advanced refinement problems of organic and ... -
5.068 Physical Methods in Inorganic Chemistry, Spring 2005
(2005-06)Introduction to the study of physical methods to probe the electronic and geometric structure of inorganic compounds. Included are electronic photoelectron spectroscopy; vibrational and rotational spectroscopy; magnetic ... -
5.069 Crystal Structure Analysis, Spring 2008
(2008-06)This course covers the following topics: X-ray diffraction: symmetry, space groups, geometry of diffraction, structure factors, phase problem, direct methods, Patterson methods, electron density maps, structure refinement, ...