Architecture:
Science Description :
The Department of
Architecture, established in 1865, is the
oldest architecture department in the United
States and is consistently ranked as one of
the top programs in the U.S. It is a place
where the individual creativity of a student
can be cultivated and nurtured in a
framework that is humanistically, socially,
and environmentally responsible.UnderGraduates Courses:
UnderGraduates Courses:
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The City, Spring 2003 New Folder
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Readings
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Assignments |
Projects
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- Clay,
Grady. Close-Up:
How to Read the American City.
Chicago, 1980.
- Jackson,
Kenneth. Crabgrass
Frontier: The Suburbanization of the
United States. Oxford, 1985.
Warner, Sam Bass. "A Brief History of
Boston." In Krieger, Alex, ed.
Mapping
Boston. MIT Press, 2001.
- Spirn,
Anne Whiston. The
Granite Garden. Basic Books, 1984.
- Jacobs,
Jane. The
Death and Life of Great American Cities.
Vintage, 1992.
Spirn, Anne Whiston.
- Jacobs,
Jane. "The Kind of Problem a City Is."
In The
Death and Life of Great American Cities.
Vintage, 1992. Spirn, Anne Whiston. "Epilogue"
In The
Granite Garden. Basic Books, 1984.
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Describe your site and reflect on why it
interests you. What questions does the
place raise for which you hope to find
answers this semester? The text should
be equivalent to approximately two typed
pages, accompanied by a map.
2- Find evidence
on your site of its environmental
history and ongoing natural processes.
The objective of this assignment is to
discover how natural processes shape
cities over time. The text should be
equivalent to approximately six typed
pages, accompanied by illustrations.
3-This
last assignment is an opportunity to
bring together what you have learned
from the course and to apply it to an
understanding of a single place -- your
site. It should be a summary and
reflection upon changes over time within
the site, their causes and significance.
What has changed and what has remained
constant and why? How do all the things
you have learned and observed contribute
to the sense of the place today? What
may they portend for the future? The
text should be equivalent to
approximately six typed pages,
accompanied by illustrations.s with Culture
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1-Grant Jordan - The
Back Bay
(PDF)
2-Anastasia Rodriguez
- The Fens
(PDF)
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Graduates Courses:
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Urban Design, Fall 2003
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Readings
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Assignments
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Projects
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Final Report of
the MIT Task Force on Student Life &
Learning: "Task Force on Student Life
and Learning," Profs. R. J. Hansman and
R. J. Silbey, chairs - September 1998.
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Williams,
Rosalind H. Retooling: A Historian
Confronts Technological Change.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. Ch. 1
(pp. 1-28) and Ch. 4 (pp. 145-195).
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Simha, O. Robert.
MIT
Campus Planning 1960-2000: An Annotated
Chronology. Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press, 2001, pp. 4-36, 109-141.- Ecology
and Systems: You Can't Change Only One
Thing
-Roberts,
Jeffrey C. "Is MIT a Good Place to Live?
The University Campus as a Residential
Environment." MCP Thesis, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, 2003.
-Report
on the Mayor's Committee on
University-Community Relationships. City
of Cambridge, 9 December, 1991.
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"Cambridgeport
Neighborhood Study." City of Cambridge:
Cambridgeport Neighborhood Committee and
Cambridge Community Development
Department, May, 2000.
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"Cambridge
Neighborhood Study - Update." City of
Cambridge: Cambridge Community
Development Department, March, 2003.
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1- Simha, Robert O. MIT
Planning 1960-2000: An Annotated Chronology.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Office of the Executive
Vice President, 2001. Rotch Library.
T171.M423.S56 2001.
2- Report of the
Presidential Task Force on Student Life &
Learning:
Task Force on Student Life and Learning.
3- Roberts, Jeffrey C.
"Is MIT a Good Place to Live? The University
Campus as a Residential Environment." MCP Thesis
(MIT, 2003). To be distributed.
5- Williams, Rosalind H.
Retooling: A
Historian Confronts Technological Change.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. Humanities
Library. T173.8.W55 2002.
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- Boston College
and Boston University by Dan Malinow
(PDF)
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Harvard University by Emily Greeves and
Ray Hodges
(PDF)
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Northeastern University by Emily Greeves
and Ray Hodges
(PDF)
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Harvard Business School and Suffolk
University by Todd Kohr and Eric Orozco
(PDF)
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UnderGraduates
and Graduates Courses:
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Topics in the Avant-Garde in Literature and
Cinema, Spring 2003
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Readings
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Lecture notes |
Assignment
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Jünger, Ernst.
The Storm
of Steel. New York: Penguin USA,
2004.
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Breton, André.
Nadja. New York: Grove Press,
1988.
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Ernst, Max.
Une
semaine de bonté, a Surrealistic Novel
in Collage. New York: Dover
Publications, 1976.
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Bataille,
Georges.
Story of the Eye. San Fransisco:
City Lights Books, 1987.
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Brecht, Bertolt.
Measures
Taken and Other Lehrstucke. New
York: Arcade Books, 2001.
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1-Avant-garde
(PDF)
2-Manifesto of the Communist Party
(German Edition 1872)
(PDF)
3-Futurism
(PDF)
4- Eisenstein
(PDF)
5-
Kandinsky (1886-1944)
(PDF)
6- Mass Culture
and Woman
(PDF)
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1-Modernity and
Modernization
(PDF)
2-Futurists
(PDF)
3- Eisenstein
(PDF)
4- Paul Wood
(PDF)
5- Avant-garde
vs. Modernism
(PDF)
6- Manifestoes
(PDF)
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