Environmental Design
44 resources
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Urban Design and Development
Prof. Susan Silberberg
This course examines the evolving structure of cities and the way that cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas can...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Architecture & Environmental Design
Lorena Bello Gomez
This course provides a foundation to the design of the environment from the scale of the object, to the building to...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Design for Sustainability
Dr. Eric Adams
The course considers the growing popularity of sustainability and its implications for the practice of engineering,...
Adaptation and Resilience
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry
Prof. Anne Whiston Spirn
This course explores photography as a disciplined way of seeing, as a research method, and as a medium of inquiry...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Urban Design Seminar
Jota Samper
This seminar focuses on understanding the role of high-quality design as a tool to address urban social problems....
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Built Environment
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Power of Place: Media Technology, Youth, and City Design and Development
Prof. Anne Whiston Spirn
This workshop provides an introduction to urban environmental design and explores the potential of information...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Business & Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Environmental Technologies in Buildings
Prof. Christoph Reinhart
This course focuses on the thermal, luminous, and acoustic behavior of buildings, examining the basic scientific...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Built Environment
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Site and Infrastructure Systems Planning
Prof. Eran Ben-Joseph
This course is a client-based land analysis and site planning project. The primary focus of the course changes from...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Civil Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Building Technology
Prof. Marilyne Andersen
The course aims at providing a fundamental understanding of the physics related to buildings and to propose an...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Built Environment
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Urban Design
Prof. Carol Burns
For many years, Cambridge, MA, as host to two major research universities, has been the scene of debates as to how...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Natural Light in Design
Prof. Marilyne Andersen
Today, computer-based simulations are becoming increasingly popular, especially when daylighting and energy...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Fundamentals of Energy in Buildings
Prof. Leon Glicksman
This design-based subject provides a first course in energy and thermo-sciences with applications to sustainable...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Urban Design Skills: Observing, Interpreting, and Representing the City
Prof. Eran Ben-Joseph
The course is designed to be an introduction to methods of analyzing, evaluating, and recording the urban...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Ecologies of Construction
Prof. John Fernandez
Ecologies of Construction examines the resource requirements for the making and maintenance of the contemporary...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
City Visions: Past and Future
Prof. Diane Davis
This class is intended to introduce students to understandings of the city generated from both social science...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
New Century Cities: Real Estate, Digital Technology, and Design
Prof. David Geltner
The course draws on faculty members from the Center for Real Estate, the City Design and Development Group...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Urban Design Policy and Action
Prof. J. Mark Schuster
Governments at every level assume a measure of responsibility for seeking good design. Some of that responsibility...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes
Prof. Jan Wampler
This subject introduces skills needed to build within a landscape establishing continuities between the built and...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Building Technology Laboratory
Prof. Les Norford
In this class, concepts of building technology and experimental methods are studied, in class and in lab...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Built Environment
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Dialogue in Art, Architecture, and Urbanism
Prof. Antonio Muntadas
In this class we will examine how the idea of the city has been “translated” by artists, architects, and other...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Beijing Urban Design Studio
Prof. Dennis Frenchman
This is the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Urban Design Studio, which is a joint program between the MIT and...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Economics
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Environmental Management Practicum: Brownfield Redevelopment
James Hamilton
Through site-specific client-based work, this course will allow students to materially contribute to redevelopment...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Sites in Sight: Photography as Inquiry
Prof. Anne Whiston Spirn
This course explores photography as a disciplined way of seeing, of investigating landscapes and expressing ideas....
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Urban Design Studio: Providence
Prof. Greg Morrow
This studio discusses in great detail the design of urban environments, specifically in Providence, RI. It will...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Special Problems in Architecture Studies
Daniel Greenwood
The course investigates e-Learning systems from a business, policy, technical and legal perspective. The issues...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Educational Technology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Architectural Design, Level I: Perceptions and Processes
Prof. Meejin Yoon
This studio explores the notion of in-between by engaging several relationships; the relationship between...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Architectural Design, Level III: A Student Center for MIT
Prof. Fernando Domeyko
This studio will investigate the social, programmatic, tectonic and phenomenological performance and character of a...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Sculpture
Prof. Sanjit Sethi
This class introduces fundamental issues in sculpture such as site, context, process, psychology and aesthetics of...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Springfield Studio
Prof. Ceasar McDowell
The Springfield Studio is a practicum design course that focuses on the physical, programmatic, and social renewal...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Research Topics in Architecture: Citizen-Centered Design of Open Governance Systems
Daniel Greenwood
In this seminar, students will design and perfect a digital environment to house the activities of large-scale...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Business & Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Architectural Design, Level II: New Orleans Studio
Prof. Jan Wampler
The project for this studio is to design a demonstration project for a site near the French Quarter in New Orleans....
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Architecture Design, Level II: Cuba Studio
Prof. Jan Wampler
This architectural studio will have one main project for the semester: to explore the issues surrounding the...
Anthropology
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
advanced
MIT OCW
free
The Space Between Workshop
Prof. Jan Wampler
This workshop explores how designers might become as sensitive to space as they are to objects. Through a number of...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
The Production of Space: Art, Architecture and Urbanism in Dialogue
Prof. Ute Meta Bauer
This seminar engages in the notion of space from various points of departure. The goal is first of all to engage in...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Architecture and Communication in Organizations
Prof. Diane Burton
While no businesses succeed based on their architecture or space design, many fail as a result of inattention to the...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Business & Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Gaoming Studio - China
Prof. Eran Ben-Joseph
The studio will focus on the district of Gaoming, located in the northwest of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) - the...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Economics
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Downtown
Prof. Bernard Frieden
This seminar focuses on downtowns in U.S. cities from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth century....
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Revitalizing Urban Main Streets: Mission Hill & Egleston Square, Boston
Prof. Karl Seidman
Revitalizing Urban Main Streets focuses on the physical and economic renewal of urban neighborhood Main Streets by...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Imaging the City: The Place of Media in City Design and Development
Prof. Lawrence Vale
Kevin Lynch’s landmark volume, The Image of the City (1960), emphasized the perceptual characteristics of the urban...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Brownfields Policy and Practice
James Hamilton
There are several hundred thousand Brownfield sites across the country. The large number of sites, combined with how...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Special Studies in Urban Studies and Planning - The Cardener River Corridor Workshop
Prof. Eran Ben-Joseph
This landscape and environmental planning workshop investigates and propose a framework for the enhancement,...
Adaptation and Resilience
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Technopolitics, Culture, Intervention
Prof. Arindam Dutta
Twentieth and twenty-first century architecture is defined by its rhetorical subservience to something called...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Revitalizing Urban Main Streets: St. Claude Avenue, New Orleans
Prof. Karl Seidman
This course focuses on the physical and economic renewal of urban neighborhood Main Streets by combining classroom...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Ecuador Workshop
Prof. Jan Wampler
This is a project to assist in the design, drawing, modeling and hopefully constructing of a small Community...
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
intermediate