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4.181 Architectural Design Workshop - Rethinking Office Development, Spring 2003
(2003-06)This is an interdisciplinary workshop, not a design workshop in the ordinary sense. It is certainly intended for graduate students in architecture but also for students in the Center for Real Estate (CRE), and for students ... -
4.181 Architecture Design Workshop: Researching User Demand for Innovative Offices, Fall 2002
(2002-12)The theme of this Workshop is the design of the changing workplace. The objective of this workshop is to make MIT graduate students fully aware of emerging technological and social trends that are revolutionizing the working ... -
4.206 Introduction to Design Computing, Spring 2004
(2004-06)Explores the role of computer visualization as a representational medium. Visualization is widely used in scientific, engineering, and design disciplines to help people understand complex phenomena and constructs. The key ... -
4.212 Design Fabrication, Spring 2003
(2003-06)Design Fabrication is an introductory course in the field of advanced computing, prototyping and building fabrication. The class is focused on the relationship between design, various forms of computer modeling both explicit ... -
4.241J / 11.330J Theory of City Form, Spring 2004
(2004-06)Theories about cities and the form that settlements should take will be discussed. Attempts will be made at a distinction between descriptive and normative theory, by examining examples of various theories of city form ... -
4.301 Introduction to the Visual Arts, Fall 2004
(2004-12)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 ... -
4.301 Introduction to the Visual Arts, Fall 2005
(2005-12)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 ... -
4.301 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 ...