The appreciative sensitivity of the students of the course will be enhanced.RUT MIIT / UNSPLASH
Scope and learning
The curriculum of the Architecture Course in Harvard will be divided into three parts. The first one will title “Form and History”, will have four modules and intends to soak the student at the base of the architectural work, from the imaginative, conceptual and structural process, to the historical principles; The second part, «The Technology Effect», with three modules, will concentrate on the advance of buildings thanks to technological innovations, while the third and last part, «Representation and Context», also with three modules, will seek to exemplify the power of drawing and the representative models in architecture.
In order to guide the course to a completely immersive experience, analysis of iconic buildings will be carried out in the history of architecture in its different contexts, that is, the property per se, Its constructive aesthetics and technique will be an object of study, but also its impact and meaning within politics, history and economy. As is well known, The best way to learn architecture is drawing itso the pencil, paper and modeling programs will be essential; The student will end the course with the necessary knowledge to produce their own representation and architectural language.
Any architect who is in Harvard will have the tools to combat the social, environmental and political challenges of contemporary architecture.Clay Banks / Unspash
Harvard value in architecture
The architectural profession is one of Harvard's spoilsnot for nothing created the GSD (Graduate School of Design) in 1936. With a building in the purest functionalist style, the GSD has given the opportunity to architects, urbanists and landscapes to redefine architecture, to build a new critical vision, and the height of contemporary challenges. The urban anarchic resilience that the GSD has promoted in its classrooms adapts perfectly to volatile and increasingly accelerated contexts of today; Graduated professionals are the leaders who are taking the reins of the future in their hands.
Harvard acknowledges that architecture has been, is and will continue to be a silent witness of the history of humanity, from its cusps and apogees, to the most difficult events. Therefore, taking an architecture course at this university guarantees an integral perspective, but also grants the necessary tools for facing the uncertainty of the architect in the future of design.