http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:49:03 PDT Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:49:03 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=555294 This is an advanced subject in computer modeling and CAD CAM fabrication, with a focus on building large-scale prototypes and digital mock-ups within a classroom setting. Prototypes and mock-ups are developed with the aid of outside designers, consultants, and fabricators. Field trips and in-depth relationships with building fabricators demonstrate new methods for building design. The class analyzes complex shapes, shape relationships, and curved surfaces fabrication at a macro scale leading to new architectural languages, based on methods of construction. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=591451 This course is an introduction to the great buildings and engineering marvels of Rome and its empire, with an emphasis on urban planning and individual monuments and their decoration, including mural painting. While architectural developments in Rome, Pompeii, and Central Italy are highlighted, the course also provides a survey of sites and structures in what are now North Italy, Sicily, France, Spain, Germany, Greece, Turkey, Croatia, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, and North Africa. The lectures are illustrated with over 1,000 images, the majority from Professor Kleiner's personal collection. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=554785 This studio proposes to engage tectonics as a material process. By exploring transformation, indeterminacy and mutability inherent in material and landscape processes, students will be challenged to engage notions of duration as a design strategy for architecture and urbanism. While the second law of thermodynamics states that the material universe tends toward a state of increasing disorder, architects build and construct in opposition to these forces. Attempting to delay the processes of disorder, decay and collapse, tectonics is often seen as the embodied expression of an arrested moment the finite resolution of the building process. Yet the processes that enable and disable architecture extend beyond any arrested moment. A more detailed description can be found in the syllabus section. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=591427 In this seminar, students will design and perfect a digital environment to house the activities of large-scale organizations of people making bottom-up decisions, such as with citizen-government affairs, voting corporate shareholders or voting members of global non-profits and labor unions. A working Open Source prototype created last semester will be used as the starting point, featuring collaborative filtering and electronic agent technology pioneered at the Media Lab. This course focuses on development of online spaces as part of an interdependent human environment, including physical architectures, mapped work processes and social/political dimensions. A cross-disciplinary approach will be taken; students with background in architecture, urban planning, law, cognition, business, digital media and computer science are encouraged to participate. No prior technical knowledge is necessary, though a rudimentary understanding of web page creation is helpful. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=656569 Academic Earth offers free in-depth Online classes and courses from the world's leading scholars to encourage worldwide distance learning without any physical boundardies. 1500+ Video-based lectures in a variety of subjects from 30+ universities. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=680983 This course covers principles and methods for technical System Architecture. It presents a synthetic view including: the resolution of ambiguity to identify system goals and boundaries; the creative process of mapping form to function; and the analysis of complexity and methods of decomposition and re-integration. Industrial speakers and faculty present examples from various industries. Heuristic and formal methods are presented. Restricted to SDM (System Design and Management) students. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=606652 This open courseware online course is a digital walkabout on the primary concepts, principles, and issues of sustainability. The course features almost 50 "doculectures" filmed in a cinematic style, crowd sourced by over 100 filmmakers and scholars across the globe. Produced under CC 3.0 this experimental pedagogy uses vibrant HD imagery and surround-sound optimized for headphones, with discrete virtual and spacial elements to transport the student into the material by using advanced concepts in cognitive neuroscience. The content is designed to inform and inspire. This course is intended for upper division or graduate level university students, and the content is normalized for all disciplinary backgrounds. Rather than lectures, the course has eight Chapters, each with several Parts that detail the Chapter topic area. This course is an experiment in PowerPoint-free courseware, and the course material is presented by information intensive doculectures filmed on-location or in a studio. The information intensity of these doculectures captures that of a well-developed university lecture, but with the dynamic sights and sounds of an HD documentary to enhance learning. All instructional doculectures are downloadable to mobile devices. The doculecture "A Planet in Peril" has received a prestigious award from an international film festival. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=661506 This is a free course offered by Yale on YouTube.״This course is an introduction to the great buildings and engineering marvels of Rome and its empire, with an emphasis on urban planning and individual monuments and their decoration, including mural painting. While architectural developments in Rome, Pompeii, and Central Italy are highlighted, the course also provides a survey of sites and structures in what are now North Italy, Sicily, France, Spain, Germany, Greece, Turkey, Croatia, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, and North Africa. The lectures are illustrated with over 1,500 images, many from Professor Kleiner's personal collection.״ http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=620016 This course examines the architecture of Ancient Rome, beginning with its origins in the eighth century BC and continuing through the fourth century AD with the move of the Roman capital to Constantinople. Topics include the major building methods and styles used in Roman architecture as well as interior decoration. This free course may be completed online at any time. See course site for detailed overview and learning outcomes. (Art History 409)