Environmental Design
22 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...
Environmental Design
Urban Studies
Architecture
intermediate
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...
Visual Arts
Urban Studies
Architecture
advanced
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
Climate Science
Environmental Design
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
Sociology
Urban Studies
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
Civil Engineering
Energy
intermediate
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...
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
Architecture
Civil Engineering
intermediate
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
Real Estate
Civil Engineering
advanced
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...
Urban Studies
Architecture
Civil Engineering
advanced
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...
Urban Studies
Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
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...
Art, Design & Architecture
Environmental Design
Urban Studies
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...
Environmental Design
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
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...
Environmental Design
History
Sociology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Beijing Urban Design Studio
Prof. Dennis Frenchman
The Beijing Urban Design Studio is a joint program between the MIT and Tsinghua University Schools of Architecture...
Environmental Design
Urban Studies
Economics
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...
Visual Arts
Architecture
Environmental Design
intermediate
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...
Environmental Design
Urban Studies
Real Estate
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
Systems Engineering
Art, Design & Architecture
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...
Environmental Design
Art, Design & Architecture
Architecture
intermediate
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...
Art, Design & Architecture
Policy and Administration
Urban Studies
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....
Environmental Design
Art, Design & Architecture
Visual Arts
advanced
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
Civil Engineering
Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate