The exhaustive list of topics in Architectural History and Criticism in which we provide Help with Homework Assignment and Help with Project is as follows:
Experiencing Architecture Studio
Work in class on concrete formwork
Due: Site "heavy" built in chipboard, "final" massing of studio sketched in chipboard, first-pass openings sketched on trace overlays
Campus Tour: Relationships betweeen spaces
Inter-group Exhibit: "Pre-final" 1/2-scale models
Due: First-pass columns on 1/4-scale plans and 1/8-scale models; BH talk on using SketchUp in designs
Last class
Photo and advising day; BH talk on spatial zones, organizing plan and site by abstraction
Photo day; Begin construct 1/2-scale Final Model base
First Mid-Review: 1/4-scale plans and 1/8-scale model showing "heavy," "hollow," and structure
Due: 1/8-scale sketch plans, card-stock spaces on context model; BH talk on site attitudes
Due: "Final" 1/4-scale plans; BH talk on 1/2-scale "show" plans and "tectonic nature" of concrete
South End Field Trip
Pin-up: Massing in chip on 1/2-scale final model. Desk crits on opening sketches
Optimist's Daughter reading; BH demo on drafting, cutting. Make scale figures, build 1/8-scale cube models. Students and TAs talk about choices of designer
Inter-group Exhibit: SketchUp site images; BH talk on columns as structure and idea
Second Mid-Review: 1/2-scale plans and 1-in-scale Detail Models
Due: First sketch of site apportionment; BH demo on fome-cor; Build 1/16-scale gesture model
Due: 1/4-scale plan of site on trace; TA demos on column experience; Column experience on 1/4-scale plans
Inter-group Pin-up: Second-pass 1/4-scale plans and 1/8-scale models; Class work on beams and planes
Final Review: With faculty, alums, and guests, all day in the review spaces
Pin-up: First arrangement of work-space "cubes" on 1/8-scale models; BH demo on SketchUp
Due: 1/2-scale plans; BH demo on concrete formwork and casting; Talk in groups on 1-in-scale Detail Models
Carpenter Center tour: Spaces within a structural order
Due: Written statement on choice of designer, facilities; Begin 1/8-scale context model;BH demo on using trace to "surprise yourself"
Due: Completed 1/2-scale model base; BH talk on proportion and openings
Analysis of Contemporary Architecture
Aldo Rossi and Carlo Scarpa
Le Corbusier buildings and cities
Suburbia, sprawl, Congress for New Urbanism, DuanyPlater-Zyberk
Introduction
De Stijl and Schrader Schroder house
Rem Koolhaas and Frank Gehry
Post Modernism: less is a bore
Final review exhibition
James Stirling
Alvar Aalto
Case-study house program
Philip Johnson and the International Style of 1932
Aldo Van Eyck
Field trip to Yale, overnight stay with Sunday trip to Exeter Library
William McDonough, green building practices
Louis Kahn
Mies van der Rohe: Berlin and America, less is more
Eero Saarinen, Paul Rudolph
Five Architects: Eisenman, Graves, Gwathmey, Hejduk, Meier
Urbanism CIAM and Team X
Walter Gropius: Bauhaus and Harvard
Adolf Loos, Peter Behrens and the German Werkbund
Louis Sullivan: Adler and Sullivan
Deconstructivist architecture
Visit Gropius House, Lincoln, MA
Frank Lloyd Wright
Work in class on concrete formwork
Due: Site "heavy" built in chipboard, "final" massing of studio sketched in chipboard, first-pass openings sketched on trace overlays
Campus Tour: Relationships betweeen spaces
Inter-group Exhibit: "Pre-final" 1/2-scale models
Due: First-pass columns on 1/4-scale plans and 1/8-scale models; BH talk on using SketchUp in designs
Last class
Photo and advising day; BH talk on spatial zones, organizing plan and site by abstraction
Photo day; Begin construct 1/2-scale Final Model base
First Mid-Review: 1/4-scale plans and 1/8-scale model showing "heavy," "hollow," and structure
Due: 1/8-scale sketch plans, card-stock spaces on context model; BH talk on site attitudes
Due: "Final" 1/4-scale plans; BH talk on 1/2-scale "show" plans and "tectonic nature" of concrete
South End Field Trip
Pin-up: Massing in chip on 1/2-scale final model. Desk crits on opening sketches
Optimist's Daughter reading; BH demo on drafting, cutting. Make scale figures, build 1/8-scale cube models. Students and TAs talk about choices of designer
Inter-group Exhibit: SketchUp site images; BH talk on columns as structure and idea
Second Mid-Review: 1/2-scale plans and 1-in-scale Detail Models
Due: First sketch of site apportionment; BH demo on fome-cor; Build 1/16-scale gesture model
Due: 1/4-scale plan of site on trace; TA demos on column experience; Column experience on 1/4-scale plans
Inter-group Pin-up: Second-pass 1/4-scale plans and 1/8-scale models; Class work on beams and planes
Final Review: With faculty, alums, and guests, all day in the review spaces
Pin-up: First arrangement of work-space "cubes" on 1/8-scale models; BH demo on SketchUp
Due: 1/2-scale plans; BH demo on concrete formwork and casting; Talk in groups on 1-in-scale Detail Models
Carpenter Center tour: Spaces within a structural order
Due: Written statement on choice of designer, facilities; Begin 1/8-scale context model;BH demo on using trace to "surprise yourself"
Due: Completed 1/2-scale model base; BH talk on proportion and openings
History and Theory of Architecture
Discussion: the pyramids
History and time
Chang'an
Discussion: Timgad and Roman urbanism
Discussion: the profession of the architect in classical antiquity
Discussion: ritual plans
Southeast Asia and Angkor Wat
From Armenia to Borobudur
Midterm exam
Early Hindu architecture
Gothic architecture: Cistercians & cathedrals
Pits and granaries: the sacred section
Colonial worlds
800 BCE: Iron and the New World Order: Greeks, Etruscans, Assyrians
Buddhism: Out of India
Grains, animals and the village world
Midterm review
Discussion: the plan of St. Gall
The Gravettians and the hunting tradition of the north
Cities, gods and empires
Early Islam: 800 CE
First societies
1500 BCE: After the Cataclysm: Knossos and Karnak
500 BCE: Persia and Central Asia
Discussion: architecture history textbooks
Discussion: The MIT Chapel
Rome (continued)
Rome
Early Christian transitions
The Americas
Fire, water and chariots
Discussion: first societies
TOPICS
Discussion: buildings and representations in time
The Holocene and the agro-pastoral emergence
Late medieval Europe: Renaissance in perspective
Review session
UNESCO & cultural nationalism
Final Exam
Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures
Part I: The Formative Period
The Life and Message of the Prophet.
The Mosque of the Prophet in Medina and other Early Mosques.
Religious Architecture: Visual Impressions and Intellectual Contours.
Simple Origins and Influences of pre-Islamic Traditions.
Rituals of Worship: The Vocabulary of Religious Architecture.
Part II: The Classical Period
The Splendors of the Abbasids at Baghdad and Samarra.
Iran and Central Asia: Developments on the Eastern Frontier.
The Survival and Revival of pre-Islamic Modes of Construction and Expression.
The Introduction of the Mausoleum.
An Islamic Architectural Language: Monumentalizing the Hypostyle Type.
Religious Monuments of the West: Ifriqiya and Spain.
Imperial versus Provincial Expressions of Power.
The conquests and the adaptation of ancient motifs as assertive elements of a new faith.
The First Islamic monument: the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem.
Competing ideologies, myths, and world views.
First Caliphal Expressions: Umayyad Mosques (715-50).
Islamization of the Empire and Arabization of the State.
Fatimid Cairo: New Traditions and Old Forms.
Muqarnas: Decorative Purposes and Symbolic Meanings.
Part III: The Medieval Period
The Achitecture of the Great Seljuqs: The Four-Iwan Plan, Fom Palatial to Religious.
Crusades and Counter Crusades.
The Articulation of the Idea of Jihad.
The Architecture of the Sunni Revival: Eastern Influences and Western Traditions.
The Introduction and Spread of the Madrasa and the Khanqah.
Religious Architecture of India under the Sultanates.
Cairo: The Capital of Islam.
Mamluk Religious Architecture.
Ayyubid and Early Mamluk Religious Architecture.
The Mongol Invasions and Consequent Islamization.
The Mosques, Madrasas, and Mausolea of the Ilkhanids.
Discussion: The Political and Social Roles of Religious Architecture.
Part IV: The Age of the Gunpowder Empires
Timurid and Uzbek Architecture: A Tradition of Monumentality.
Anatolia: The Islamization of the Northern Frontiers.
From the Rum Seljuks to the Early Ottomans.
Imperial Ottoman Mosques and Kulliyes.
Discussion: Religion and the City.
Short film, The Islamic City.
Imperial Safavid Mosques and Madrasas of Isfahan.
Short film, Isfahan.
Mosques and Mausolea of the Great Mughals of India.
Part V: The Modern Period
Historicism in Contemporary Religious Architecture: The Building of Mosques in the West.
Discussion: The Religious Image of Islam.
Some Contemporary Mosques and their Messages.
The Architecture of Cairo
History and geography.
The Nile and the site of Cairo.
The legacy of ancient Egypt.
Egypt on the eve of Islam
Hellenism.
Christianity and the Copts.
The coming of Islam: Arabia and Egypt.
Foundation of al-Fustat
What is a misr?
Abbasids and Tulunids (8th and 9th Century)
Imperial ambitions: IbnTulun and al-Ikhshid.
The foundation of al-Qata‘i.
The Mosque of IbnTulun.
Buildings of the Ikhshidids.The Mosque of ‘Amruibn al-‘As: the first mosque in Africa.
The vocabulary of the mosque: the minaret, the mihrab and the minbar.
The Nilometer.
Part 5 - Modernization and After - Muhammad 'Ali to the Present
Competing Neo Styles in the Early Twentieth Century
The emergence of vernacular style in the 1940's.
Historicism in Twentieth-Century Cairo
Cairo's expansion and modernization.
The works of HasanFathy, Ramses WissaWasef, and their students.
Population explosion and urban chaos.
Problems of preservation and accommodation.
The image of Cairo: past and present.
Cairo From Napoleon to Muhammad `Ali
The architectural and urban works of Muhammad Ali.
The Mosque at the Citadel.
The Westernization of the palatial architecture.
The Modernization of Cairo
Orientalism and the fascination of Egypt.
Ethnographer-painters and the romanticization of Cairo.
The Comité de preservation des monuments du Caire and preservation.
Cairene architecture in the late nineteenth century.
Historicism and the Mamluk revival.
Other Orientalizing styles.
Cosmopolitan architecture.
The Ancient City
Religion in the Greek City
Religion in the Roman City
Civic space I: The Agora
Introduction to the Study of Ancient Cities
Polis: The City of Athens
Urbs: The City of Rome
Recreational Space
City and Country: Theories of the City
Conclusions
Civic space II: The Forum
Feeding the City
Domestic Space
MArch Portfolio Seminar
Review of Web Portfolios in class
The Art of Description
Architects on Buildings
Written Intentions
TOPICS
Medium + Message
Web Tutorial Text and Image
Printed Matter
Review Portfolios in class
Architectural Design: Material Essence: The Glass House
TOPICS
Show and Tell
Material and Tectonic Transformations: The Herreshoff Museum
Pin-up with Tim Eliasson
Trip to Tri-Pyramid, Concord
Pin Up
Field Trip: Fort Worth
Project 3 Concepts/Design Generation
Desk Crits
Pin-up with Guest Critics
Project 3.2: Design Organization
Andrew Scott in St Louis
Tony Hunt Lecture
Desk Crits
Mid Project Review
Project 4: Skin and Bones
Materials Language
Desk Crits
Introduction to Studios
Project 1: Introduction
All Studios - Field Trip to T. Island
Pin Up of First Individual Ideas/Concepts but in Groups
Group Esquisse
Hybridization
Desk Crits
Group Presentations of Design Strategies
Assignment of Faculty
Research, Development and Testing
Working Pin Ups with Faculty
Workshop
Prototype/Fabrication
Review of Group Work with Critics
Project 2A: Introduction
Wellesley Visit
Site Studies/Model
Desk Crits
Pin Up
Project 2B: Site and Material Studies
Tim Eliasson Lecture
Peter Cook Lecture
Peter delTredici: Plants
Desk Crits
Desk Crits
Project 5: Prototype and Fabricate
Make and Test: Workshop
Pin-up
Desk Crits
Review
Final Project:
Design Synthesis/Presentation
Desk Crits
Mock-ups
MArch Thesis Reviews
Final Review
Studio
Review: Reliance Pavilion
First Studio: Project 1 Group Introduction
Studio
Field Trip:
Prototype / Production
Studio
Studio
Pin Up of First Ideas / Concepts
Working Review
Studio / Shop Time
Informal Pin Up
Studio
Lecture: Tim Eliason / Tri-Pyramid
Last Studio
Studio
Review: Program / Concept
Research, Development and Test
Working Review
Field Trip to Thomson Island
Team Presentations x 12 of Design Strategies
Research, Development and Test
Lecture / Demonstration:
Field Trip: Peabody / Essex Museum
Lecture: George Brin / RISD
Show and Tell
Final Review
Group Esquisse
Studio
Working Review
Studio
Studio / Shop Time
Immaterial Limits: Process and Duration
Informal pin-up in groups of 3
3 Models, Set 2 due
Desk critique
Desk critique
3 Models, Set 1 due
Leave for Chicago
Introduction to a Quarry
Desk critique for Problem 1 Part 2
Desk critique
Desk critique
Level 2 Forum, Trajectory 2 posted
Presentation by Saul Griffith
Desk critique
Fabrication
Desk critique
Desk critique
Fabrication
Pin Up 2 Models Due in sketch model form at 1"=1/32"
Desk critique
Final Review
Models due
Problem 1 Part 1 Due
Desk critique
Scale jump to 1" = 1/8" Models and Drawings
Desk critique
Lecture by Brigitte Shim
Desk critique
Student Process Presentations
Defamiliarization Representations Due
Desk critique
Introduce Studio Issues and Problem
Fabrication
Pin Up
Mid Review
Desk critique
Review Problem 1 Part 2
Desk critique
Desk critique
Desk critique
Architectural Design: Collage - Method and Form
Sequence 2: Expansion
Separation and Reattachment
King and Worker
Close Examination and Description
Reconstitution of Descriptions
Sequence 3: Relational
Two-person Paper Collage and Museum Field Trip
Sequence 1: Extraction
First Collage
Framing
Three Dimensional Interpretation
Large Collage
Aesthetic Extraction
Final Review
Obliteration and Recovery
Precedents in Critical Practice
Shrinking Cities Competition
Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown: Learning from Las Vegas
dECOi
Program ? Performance (Relations, Effects, Atmospheres)
West 8: Toronto Central Waterfront competition entry
R&Sie(n) Architects
Jürgen Mayer H.
Office dA
OMA: Seattle Central Library and Très Grande Bibliothèque
Downsview Park Competition
Herzog & de Meuron: American works
ZahaHadid: Vitra Fire Station; and BMW Central Plant
UN Studio
Diller Scofidio + Renfro: early work; drawings; and ICA Boston
Drawing ? Scripting
Urban Plan ? Map of Operations
CAP (Ali Rahim and HinaJamelle)
Peter Eisenman: Cannaregio Project; and two early houses
Hernan Diaz
Bernard Tschumi: The Manhattan Transcripts; and one building by Tschumi
Jean Nouvel: La Fondation Cartier
Steven Holl: early drawings; and Simmon Hall
MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program finalists
Atelier Bow-Wow: Made in Tokyo; and one building by Bow-Wow
Machado and Silvetti: two projects in Boston
MVRDV
Introduction
LO-TEK
Mapping of contemporary discourse
Atelier FCJZ
FOA: Yokohama Terminal
Introduction
City ? Global Economy
Reiser-Umemoto: Atlas of Novel Tectonics; and projects
Image ? Surface
Analysis of Historic Structures
Metal Structures II
Projects/Discussion
Projects/Discussion (cont.)
Timber Structures I
Final Presentations (cont.)
Final Presentations
Concrete Structures
Metal Structures I
Masonry Structures I
Timber Structures II
Introduction
Masonry Structures II
Thinking About Architecture: In History and at Present
Metaphysics and anti-metaphysics
Debate 1
Social contract
Defining the architect
Course introduction
Modernity
Heidegger
Debate 3
Course wrap-up Avant-garde
Debate 2
Psychology
Husserl
Drawings & Numbers: Five Centuries of Digital Design
Alberti's Improbable Image-making Technologies
Discussion of Final Presentation Topics
Alberti and the (Untrustworthy) Power of Man-made Images
Introduction: Drawings, Numbers, and the Power of (Printed) Images
The Primacy of the Word: Vitruvius and the Mystery of his Missing Images
Image-making Technologies, Architecture, and Identical Replication
On Some Semi-automatic Machines for the Drawing of the Architectural Orders Oddly Invented in the Seventeenth Century
Selected Topics in Architecture: Architecture from 1750 to the Present
LECTURE TOPICS
Constructing the Past
Body as Metaphor in Architecture
Ludic Spaces
The Architecture of Play
Lines Across the City
Exploring Forth and Digging Under
Prelude to an Architecture of Globalization: The Transatlantic Slave Trade
Landscape
The Politics of Site
Architecture and Industrialism, Part 1: The Ghosts of Technology
Architecture as Ornament
Architecture and Industrialism, Part 2: Masses, Classes and Regions
Domesticity
Gender in Space
Making of the Modernist Avant-Garde and the Operative Historian
Body Talk
Architecture and the State
Post-War Narratives of "Development"
Final Lecture
Contemporary Architecture and Critical Debate
Second Interim Exam
Technofantasy / Megastructure
Architecture and Deconstruction
Introduction
Phenomenology and Place
1968
Aldo Rossi and the Archetypes of Memory
Kenneth Frampton and Critical Regionalism
Bodies
ManfredoTafuri and the Venice School
Modernisms Elsewhere
First Interim Exam
CTRL [Space]
Vernacularism
Voyages into the Surface - Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown
Minimalism and Monumentality - Louis Kahn
Final Paper (4500 words) Due
Traces on the City
Environmentalism
Superstudio - Italy between First and Third Worlds
Megacities
Theory Outtake 3
The New York Five
Critiques of Modernism
Architecture and Post-Modernism
Blobs, Curves and the Formless
Theory Outtake 1
Late CIAM and the Architecture of the Welfare State
Theory Outtake 2