MIT Architecture: Fall 2006 Subject Listings



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Fall 2006 Course 4 Subjects

4 Thesis and UROP

Course	Name	Instructors	Credit	Level
4.THG	Graduate Thesis	Thesis Advisor	TBA	H
4.THU	Undergraduate Thesis	Thesis Advisor	0-1-11	U
4.UR	Undergraduate Research in Architecture (UROP)	Ochsendorf	TBA	U
4.URG	Undergraduate Research in Architecture (UROP)	Ochsendorf	TBA	U
4.189	Preparation for MArch Thesis	Advisor	3-1-5	H
4.288	Preparation for SMArchS Thesis	Thesis Advisor	3-0-6	H
4.388	Preparation for SMVisS Thesis	Wodiczko	0-6-0	H
4.488	Preparation for SMBT Thesis	Thesis Advisor	TBA	H
4.489	Preparation for Building Technology PhD Thesis	Thesis Advisor	TBA	H
4.589	Preparation for Computation - PhD Thesis	Thesis Advisor	TBA	H
4.689	Preparation for History, Theory and Criticism - PhD Thesis	Thesis Advisor	TBA	H

4.1xx Architectural Design

Course	Name	Instructors	Credit	Level
4.101	Experiencing Architecture Studio	Hubbard	3-3-6	U
4.105	Architectural Design Skills I	Tsamis Pendleton-Julian	2-2-8	G
4.108	BSAD Portfolio Seminar	Luther	2-0-1	U
4.123	Architectural Design: Level I	Chen Howler Pendleton-Julian	0-12-9	G
4.125	Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes	Wampler Joslin	0-12-9	U
4.131	Architectural Design: Level II — Personal Geographies: Life and Culture in Mexico City	Simi Hoque	0-12-9	U
4.143	Architectural Design: Level II	Domeyko Killian Yoon	0-12-9	H
4.155	Architectural Design: Level III	Joy Scott (PDF)	0-12-9	H
4.163J 11.332J	Urban Design — San Paolo	Beinart de Monchaux	0-12-9	H
4.166	Beijing Studio	Wampler Frenchman Chang	0-18-0	H
4.170/4.171	The Space Between Workshop - International Workshop	Wampler	3-2-7 3-2-4	U H
4.175	Case Studies in City Form	Dennis	0-6-6	H
4.180	Architectural Design Workshop for Undergraduates— Veneto Summer Experience	Kanda	0-6-0	U
4.181	Architecture Design Workshop	Maas	3-0-6	H
4.182	Architectural Design Workshop:The Prefab Workshop	Turkel	3-0-6	H
4.183	Architectural Design Workshop— Japan Workshop	Kanda	3-0-6	H
4.184	Architectural Design Workshop - Modelling the Beaux-Arts	Jarzombek Naginski	3-0-6	H
4.185	Architectural Design Workshoop — Urban Noise: sound propagation, acoustical control and the urban soundscape	Rosenberg	3-0-6	H
4.191	Special Problems in Architectural Design — Introduction to Integrated Design	Watson	3-3-6	U
4.192	Special Problems in Architectural Design — BSAD Thesis Preparation	Wampler	1-0-2	U
4.2xx Architectural Studies
Course	Name	Instructors	Credit	Level
4.213J/ 11.308J	Advanced Seminar: Urban Nature and City Design	Spirn	3-0-9	H
4.215J/ 11.309J	Sites in Sight: Photographing the Urban Landscape	Spirn	3-0-9	G
4.220	Urban Housing: Paris, London, New York	Dennis	3-0-6	H
4.221	Architecture Studies Faculty Colloquium	Kwinter	2-0-1	G
4.222	Professional Practice	Hubbard	3-0-3	G
4.236J / 11.463J	Structuring Low Income Housing Projects in Developing Countries	Goethert	3-0-9	H
4.240J/ 11.328J	Urban Design Skills:Observing, Interpreting & Representing the City	Ben-Joseph	3-0-9	G
4.242J / 11.331J	Advanced Seminar in City Form --	Beinart	2-0-7	H
4.246J / 11.349J	Real Estate Development I	Fisher Ciochetti	6-6-15	G
4.250J / 11.001J	Introduction to Urban Design and Development	Silberberg	3-0-9	U
4.252J / 11.301J	Introduction to Urban Design and Development	Frenchman	3-0-9	G
4.262J / 11.311J	Ideal Forms of Contemporary Urbanism	D'Hooghe	3-0-6	H
4.279	Special Problems in Architecture - A Natural History of Computation	Kwinter	3-0-9	H
4.295	Special Problems in Architecture Studies - Redesigning context: Advanced architectural thinking beyond the boundaries of architecture	Henn	3-0-3	H

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4.3xx Visual Arts

Course	Name	Instructors	Credit	Level
4.301	Introduction to the Visual Arts	Regina Möeller Joe Zane	2-4-6	U
4.302	BSAD Foundations in the Visual Arts	Jacob	2-4-6	U
4.303	The Production of Space: Art, Architecture and Urbanism in Dialogue	Bauer	3-3-3	G
4.322	Introduction to Sculpture	Jacob	2-4-6	U
4.341	Introduction to Photography & Related Media	Frank	3-3-6	U
4.343	Photography and Related Media	Frank	2-1-6	G
4.351	Introduction to Video	Gibbons	2-4-6	U
4.366	Advanced Projects in Visual Arts: Advanced Video	Gibbons	2-4-6	U
4.370	Interrogative Design Workshop — Designing for the City of Strangers	Wodiczko	3-3-6	H
4.390	Visual Arts Independent Studio (SMVisS students only)	Möller	0-3-15 0-3-12	H


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4.4xx Building Technology

Course	Name	Instructors	Credit	Level
4.411	Building Technology Laboratory	Norford	2-4-6	U
4.42J / 1.044J / 2.66J	Fundamentals of Energy in Buildings	Glicksman	3-2-7	U
4.430	Daylighting	Andersen	3-0-6	H
4.461	Building Tech I: Materials & Construction	Fernandez	3-1-5	G
4.463	Building Tech III: Introduction to Building Structural Systems II	Ochsendorf	3-2-4	G
4.481	Building Technology Seminar	Fernandez Norford Glicksman Andersen Ochsendorf	2-0-1	H
4.5xx Computation
Course	Name	Instructors	Credit	Level
4.520/4.521	Computational Design I: Theory & Applications	Knight	3-0-9 3-0-6	U G
4.540	Introduction to Shape Grammars I	Stiny	3-0-6	G
4.560	Geometric Modeling	Nagakura	2-2-8	G
4.566	Advanced Projects in Digital Media	Nagakura	2-2-5	H
4.580	Inquiry into Computation & Design	Knight	3-0-9	G
4.581	Proseminar in Computation	Stiny	3-0-9	H
4.583	Phd Forum in Computation	Knight	3-0-0	H
4.596	Workshop in Computation - Design Without Boundaries	Mitchell Casalegno	3-0-9	H
4.597	Workshop in Computation-Design Explorers	Kilian	3-0-6 3-0-9	H

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4.6xx History, Theory and Criticism

Course	Name	Instructors	Credit	Level
4.601	Introduction to Art History	Naginski	3-2-7	U
4.605	Introduction to the History and Theory of Architecture	Friedman	4-0-8	U
4.607	Thinking About Architecture: In History and At Present	Jarzombek	3-0-6	H
4.614	Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures	Rabbat	3-0-9	U
4.619	Historiography of Islamic Architecture	Rabbat	3-0-9	H
4.627/4.628	Special Problems in Islamic & Nonwestern Architecture: Arabesque and Islamic Geometric Pattern Design	Chorbachi	3-0-9 3-0-6	U/H
4.645	Selected Topics in Architecture: 1750 to the Present	Dutta	3-0-6	G
4.651	20th Century Art	Jones	3-0-9	U
4.655	Advanced Study in Modern Architecture - Autonomy & Constraints	Anderson	3-0-9	H
4.661	Theory and Method in the Study of Architecture and Art	Jarzombek	3-0-9	H
4.662	Advanced Study in the History of Urban Form — Mapping and Making: Topographic Survey and Urban Design. Rome 1551 - 1667.	Friedman	3-0-6 3-0-9	H
4.667	Special Studies in the History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture — Urban Morphology, Low- and Mid-rise High-density Housing Appropriate to Shanghai	Anderson	3-0-6	H
4.680	Advanced Studies in the HTC of Art and Architecture — Building, Body, Biome	Dutta Jones	3-0-6 3-0-9	H
4.692	Special Studies in the HTC of Art — Visionary Architecture: Boullée, Ledoux, Lequeu	Naginski	3-0-9	H