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Advanced Applications in Sustainable Architecture
SCI 6374
2024 Fall
Holly Samuelson
This elective seminar will provide a deeper dive into issues of evidence-based, high-performance, ecological building design.The course is intended for MArch students, MDes students, and anyone with an interest in the environmental performance of buildings. Diverse problem-solvers, with any on...
Environmental Systems 2 [Module 2]
SCI 6122
2024 Fall
Holly Samuelson
Purpose: This course is the second of a two-module sequence in building technology (6121, 6122) and constitutes part of the core curriculum in architecture.Objective: To continue the study of environmental considerations in architectural design.Content: The course will cover building systems and the...
Pollution Control in Aquatic Ecosystems
ESE 163
2024 Fall
Patrick Ulrich
Monday, Wednesday
12:00pm to 1:15pm
This course is focused on aspects of environmental engineering related to the fate, transport, and control of pollution in surface water ecosystems. Course modules will cover ecological impacts of environmental contaminants; fundamental chemistry of natural waters; surface water aspects of engineeri...
AI for Social Impact
COMPSCI 2880
2024 Fall
Milind Tambe
Monday, Wednesday
3:45pm to 5:00pm
Recent years have seen AI successfully applied to societal challenge problems. Indeed, recognizing the potential of AI for tremendous social impact in the future, "AI for social impact" is growing as a subdiscipline within AI. In this course, we will discuss successful case studies of use...
Environmental Systems 2 [Module 2]
SCI 6122
2023 Fall
Holly Samuelson
Monday, Wednesday
10:30am to 11:45am
Purpose: This course is the second of a two-module sequence in building technology (6121, 6122) and constitutes part of the core curriculum in architecture.Objective: To continue the study of environmental considerations in architectural design.Content: The course will cover building systems and the...
AI for Social Impact
COMPSCI 288
2024 Spring
Milind Tambe
Monday, Wednesday
3:45pm to 5:00pm
Recent years have seen AI successfully applied to societal challenge problems. Indeed, recognizing the potential of AI for tremendous social impact in the future, "AI for social impact" is growing as a subdiscipline within AI. In this course, we will discuss successful case studies of use...
Working Landscapes: Natural Resiliency And Redesign
SCI 6380
2024 Fall
Robert Zimmerman
Ecological principles and their application to design and planning will be emphasized. Topics will include understanding human impacts on natural systems through engineering and design, their consequences, and the use of ecological principles and methods of landscape design and planning to ach...
Working Landscapes: Natural Resiliency And Redesign
SCI 6380
2023 Fall
Robert Zimmerman
Tuesday
9:00am to 11:45am
Ecological principles and their application to design and planning will be emphasized. Topics will include understanding human impacts on natural systems through engineering and design, their consequences, and the use of ecological principles and methods of landscape design and planning to ach...
Structures in Landscape Architecture, Joint & Detail
SCI 6458
2024 Spring
Alistair McIntosh
Wednesday
3:00pm to 5:45pm
This class will study the design from and constructional detail of the landscape pavilion and the pedestrian bridge. This work will be focused through the lens of a visual understanding of structural principles and their associated material and detail languages.In a changing climate the landscape pa...
Plants and Placemaking - New Ecologies for a Rapidly Changing World
SCI 6379
2024 Spring
Matthew Cunningham
Monday
9:00am to 11:45am
In the face of crises spanning pandemics, political turmoil, and the rapid degradation of the planet’s natural systems—all within a backdrop of myriad inequalities—the power of plants in shaping human experience has been proven. Erosive pressures associated with changes to climate have placed global...
Buildings and Urban Intelligence
SCI 6488
2023 Fall
Mayuri Rajput
Tuesday
12:00pm to 2:45pm
Rapidly increasing urban sprawl is evolving into a scenario where about 70% of the world’s population would be living in urban areas by the year 2050. Increased urbanization coupled with an explosion in availability of high-resolution data has opened new avenues of understanding and operating buildi...
Water, Land-Water Linkages, and Aquatic Ecology
SCI 6333
2024 Fall
Timothy Dekker, Nicholas Nelson
GSD 6333 covers water across the globe in relation to (1) land-water interactions, emphasizing hydrology and water quality, (2) aquatic ecology, and (3) human activities, including design questions and methodologies. While the course will focus on fresh waters, there will be limited coverage of near...
Water, Land-Water Linkages, and Aquatic Ecology
SCI 6333
2023 Fall
Timothy Dekker, Nicholas Nelson
Friday
10:30am to 1:15pm
GSD 6333 covers water across the globe in relation to (1) land-water interactions, emphasizing hydrology and water quality, (2) aquatic ecology, and (3) human activities, including design questions and methodologies. While the course will focus on fresh waters, there will be limited coverage of near...
Data Science for Environmentally Responsive Buildings
SCI 6484
2024 Spring
Elence Xinzhu Chen, Sunghwan Lim
Monday
10:30am to 1:15pm
Objective: With extensive high-fidelity measured data collected from modern buildings, data science has become a promising tool for optimizing building performance and design, enhancing the built environment, and reducing environmental impacts. Data science and Machine Learning (ML) techniques have ...