Courses
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Entropy, History, Time. Architectural Infrastructure for a Gravel Pit in Spain
The Entropy, History, Time Studio will investigate three concurrent processes of time in a unique setting where these contexts converge. The site, a gravel pit…
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Tibet Contemporary: Building in the Himalayas
It is in Tibet that we can rediscover the inextricable relationship between architecture and landscape, the coherence between human settlement and nature, the simultaneous existence…
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A Bank for Burbank and Other L.A. Stories
Something funny is happening in L.A. Everywhere, resolution is lowered not heightened. Joints are butted, not mitered. Gaps are shimmed, not sculpted. Finish is dulled,…
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People in Motion
For ages, people have been in motion: Survival. Economical transactions. Religious expansions. Wars. Colorizations. Rural exodus. Slavery. Gold Rush. Great explorations. Grand tour. Tourism. Circulation…
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Northern Light
There is an endemic problem surrounding the fate of 20th century iconic buildings. They were once masterpieces with progressive vision, but over the past five…
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Idiom, Identity, Id
Arguably, the best architecture today originates intuitively, from deeply felt impulses rather than from the preconceptions, habits and the rules that are always and necessarily…
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Rethinking Haussmann: The Function of a 21st Century Multi-Story Residential Building
Farshid Moussavi, Ricardo Solar
As citizens, we can blame developers of building housing for maximum profit and our governments for investing too little on building affordable housing. But is…
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The Monument
Emanuel Christ, Christoph Gantenbein
"Monuments are human landmarks which men have created as symbols for their ideals, for their aims, and for their actions. They are intended to outlive…
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$2,000 Home
What can $2,000 buy in today’s world?a gucci hand baga yohji yamamoto fall winter coata boston-dhaka-boston flighta college coursea used…
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The Frugal Palazzo
Kersten Geers, David Van Severen
The 26th incarnation of Architecture Without Content brings us to Seattle via Florence and New York. Arguably the second most important housing typology innovation on…
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Rotterdam Study Abroad Studio Option: Countryside
The Fall 2017 Rotterdam Studio is part of a long-term effort to document and speculate on radical changes shaping the countryside, which will culminate in…
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Tokyo Study Abroad Option Studio: Transforming Omishima into a Beautiful Japanese Garden
Omishima is an island in Seto Inland Sea with the population of 6,000 people. Thirteen hamlets are scattered along the coast and the island is…
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Re-Tooling Metropolis II: LA!
Los Angeles has long captured the imaginations of designers and urbanists and theorists for its embodiment of everything characteristic of the twentieth-century metropolis, and for…
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The Anatomy of an Island
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
‘In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth.’ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, 1850 The Anatomy of an…
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Excavating Space and Nature in Tokyo
This studio encourages students to reflect on the qualities of hidden nature and culture underlying the metropolis program, and how these factors influence physical space.
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Civic Spaces in an Age of Hyper-Complexity: From Protest to Reverie
As civic spaces must now address manifold demands, more innovative and potent tools are necessary for their design. This elective studio will explore a range…
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The Unfinished City. Envisioning 21st Urban Ideals in Tallinn’s Largest Soviet-era Housing District
Eliel Saarinen’s 1913 Masterplan for Grand Tallinn proposed a bold expansion of the city to the east, occupying an underdeveloped area that has become known…
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Refugees in the Rust Belt
Today, there are over 65 million refugees worldwide—the highest number of displaced persons ever recorded. In the design community, most of the efforts to help…
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Robots In & Out of Buildings
New forms of mobility are currently being developed for the transport of people and goods. From autonomous container ships and trucks, to autonomous buses and…
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Phantom Coast: Transforming San Francisco’s Eastern Waterfront
"Every city is full of ghosts, and learning to see some of them is one of the arts of becoming a true local."– Rebecca…