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ARCH6939-1 / Fall 2025

GIS for Design Practices

GIS for Design Practices will introduce GSAPP students to mapping concepts and techniques, including finding, creating, manipulating, and representing spatial information.

This course is focused on the use of spatial methods and cartography as part of the toolset of designers. The thoughtful use of spatial data can reveal previously unseen patterns, change the way we see our world, and transform understandings of initial site conditions. However, maps are never just representations, they are nearly always active agents in shaping the worlds they describe. Geographic analysis can define the baseline of what is considered or excluded – and when used by designers of the built environment, what is possible and what is not possible.

This course engages with this agency of maps directly in hands-on workshops covering the technical skills required to use maps as both tools for research and design-based interventions. Likewise, the course will focus throughout on fostering a deep understanding of the promises, as well as the limitations of GIS-based methods.

Other Semesters & Sections
Course Semester Title Student Work Instructor Syllabus Requirements & Sequence Location & Time Session & Points Call No.
ARCH6939‑1 Fall 2024
GIS for Design Practices
Dare Brawley, Mario Giampieri
300 BUELL SOUTH
F 11 AM - 1 PM
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
10581
ARCH6939‑1 Fall 2023
GIS for Design Practices
Eric Brelsford, Manon Vergerio
300 BUELL SOUTH
F 11 AM - 1 PM
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
10308