My studios are influenced by Cirque de Soleil. Are yours?

Great Blog piece on what we can learn from Cirque de Soleil about the space we allow ourselves to create in...

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What do YOU think? Should Forbe's article apply to A-school as well?

What do you think? Is this Forbes article about what NOT to do to your employees equally appropriate to what professors should NOT be doing to their students? You tell me!
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Open Courseware: Free #Architecture Classes!

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MIT

Undergraduate Courses

		Course #	Course Title
		4.001J	CityScope: New Orleans
		4.101	Experiencing Architecture Studio
		4.104	Architecture Studio: Intentions
		4.104	Architectural Design: Intentions
		4.125	Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes
		4.125A	Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes
		4.125B	Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes
		4.170	Ecuador Workshop
		4.171	Ecuador Workshop
		4.183	Sustainable Design and Technology Research Workshop
		4.191	Introduction to Integrated Design
		4.205	Analysis of Contemporary Architecture
		4.211J	The Once and Future City
		4.243J	Media Technology and City Design and Development
		4.250J	Introduction to Urban Design and Development
		4.296	Furniture Making
		4.301	Introduction to the Visual Arts
		4.302	BSAD Foundations in the Visual Arts
		4.322	Introduction to Sculpture
		4.341	Introduction to Photography and Related Media
		4.341	Introduction to Photography
		4.351	Introduction to Video
		4.366	Advanced Projects in the Visual Arts: Personal Narrative
		4.401	Introduction to Building Technology
		4.411	Building Technology Laboratory
		4.42J	Fundamentals of Energy in Buildings
		4.440	Basic Structural Design
		4.462	Basic Structural Design
		4.493	Emergent Materials II
		4.500	Introduction to Design Computing
		4.501	Architectural Construction and Computation
		4.520	Computational Design I: Theory and Applications
		4.521	Computational Design I: Theory and Applications
		4.602	Modern Art and Mass Culture
		4.608J	Topics in the Avant-Garde in Literature and Cinema
		4.614	Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures
		4.615	The Architecture of Cairo
		4.651	Art Since 1940
		4.A21	Stories Without Words: Photographing the First Year

Graduate Courses

		Course #	Course Title
		4.107	MArch Portfolio Seminar
		4.123	Architectural Design I: Perceptions and Processes
		4.131	Architectural Design II: Essence: Glass House
		4.131B	Architectural Design II: Material & Tectonic Transformations: The Herreshoff Museum
		4.132	Architecture Design II: Cuba Studio
		4.143	Immaterial Limits: Process and Duration
		4.144	Architectural Design II: New Orleans Studio
		4.155B	Architectural Design III: A Student Center for MIT
		4.163J	Urban Design Studio: Providence
		4.163J	Urban Design
		4.166	Beijing Urban Design Studio
		4.166	Beijing Urban Design Studio
		4.170	Ecuador Workshop
		4.171	Ecuador Workshop
		4.171	The Space Between Workshop
		4.175	Case Studies in City Form
		4.183	Sustainable Design & Technology Research Wkshp
		4.184	Architectural Design Wkshp: Collage - Method & Form
		4.184	Arch. Design Wkshps: Comput. Design for Housing
		4.185J	Beijing Urban Design Studio
		4.195	Special Problems in Architectural Design
		4.196	Architecture Design, Level II: Cuba Studio
		4.213J	Advanced Seminar: Urban Nature and City Design
		4.215J	Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry
		4.215J	Sites in Sight: Photography as Inquiry
		4.220	Urban Housing: Paris, London, New York
		4.240J	Urban Des. Skills: Interpreting & Representing the City
		4.241J	Theory of City Form
		4.247J	Urban Design Policy and Action
		4.247J	Urban Design Policy and Action
		4.252J	Introduction to Urban Design and Development
		4.255J	Site and Infrastructure Systems Planning
		4.257J	Property Rights in Transition
		4.273	Introduction to Design Inquiry
		4.273	Intro. to Design Inquiry
		4.285	Research Architecture:Design of Open Governance Systems
		4.285	Power of Place: Media Technology, Youth, and City Design and Development
		4.296	Furniture Making
		4.297	Special Problems in Architecture Studies
		4.303	Production Space: Art, Archit. & Urbanism Dialogue
		4.303	Dialogue in Art, Architecture, and Urbanism
		4.343	Photography and Related Media
		4.367	Studio Seminar in Public Art
		4.370	Interrogative Design Workshop
		4.406	Ecologies of Construction
		4.430	Daylighting
		4.440	Basic Structural Design
		4.442	Building Technologies III: Building Struct. Systems II
		4.448	Analysis of Historic Structures
		4.461	Building Technology I: Materials and Construction
		4.462	Basic Structural Design
		4.463	Building Technology III: Building Structural Systems
		4.463	Building Technologies III: Structural Systems II
		4.491	Form-Finding & Structural Optimization: Gaudi Wkshp
		4.493	Natural Light in Design
		4.493	Emergent Materials II
		4.510	Digital Design Fabrication
		4.511	Digital Mock-Up Workshop
		4.520	Computational Design I: Theory and Applications
		4.521	Computational Design I: Theory and Applications
		4.580	Inquiry into Computation and Design
		4.607	Thinking About Architecture: In History and at Present
		4.608J	Topics in the Avant-Garde in Literature and Cinema
		4.638	Drawings & Numbers: Five Centuries of Digital Design
		4.645	Architecture from 1750 to the Present
		4.661	Theory & Method in the Study of Architecture and Art
		4.665	Contemporary Architecture and Critical Debate
		4.696	A Global History of Architecture Writing Seminar

U. of MICHIGAN

Course #	Course Title
ARCH 324	Structures II

U. of NOTRE DAME

Course #	Course Title
ARCH 50611	Nature and the Built Environment,

U. of HONG KONG

		Course #	Course Title
		YARC0002	Sustainability in the Built Environment
		ARCH6026	Green Building Principles and Practices
		ARCH6026	Energy and Environmental Systems for Green Buildings
		ARCH6028	Energy Efficiency in Buildings
		ARCH6028	Technologies for Energy Efficient Buildings

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